She was stiff and cold in my arms.
Then the doll blinked.
Then the doll blinked.
Hana is an architect and single mother who tries to move on with her love life by dating Ken, a nurse. But Ken hides a dark secret, and, as we learn later on, so does Hana.
Tropes featured in this episode:
- Asshole Victim: Hana may be crazy, but considering that Ken is a serial killer, no tears are dropped when she murders him for learning about her secret.
- Convenient Miscarriage: Hana miscarried all of her children, driving her to insanity enough that she has been pretending to care for a baby doll for the past nine months.
- Foreshadowing: Hana saying that she has been a mother for "six months and a week", as well as her admitting that she kept miscarrying her children.
- Fourth-Date Marriage: Ken asks to move in with Hana on their second date. When she refuses, he calls her a bitch, which, predictably, only serves to drive her away.
- He Knows Too Much: Hana murders Ken because he learned that she has been caring a doll all this time. Ken even offers not to reveal her secret, but she still kills him.
- He-Man Woman Hater: Ken seems to have a pathological dislike of women, feeling that no matter how sincere and loving they are, they will never be good mothers.
- Honey Trap: Ken lures women to bed him so he can kill them while they are vulnerable.
- Insane Equals Violent: Played straight with Ken, averted with Hana. While she does keep a doll and talk to it as her baby, she has a healthy friendship with her coworkers, and only kills Ken in self-defense.
- In the Back: Hana stabs Ken from behind with scissors.
- Lonely Doll Girl: Hana. After her last miscarriage, Hana has been keeping a doll in the crib, talking about it as though it is her baby girl, Iris.
- Parental Abandonment: Ken never knew his father, and was neglected and eventually abandoned by his mother.
- Serial Killer: Ken kills women who have just given birth, as he thinks that none of them are fit to be mothers.
- Stalker without a Crush: Ken pesters Hana down after she rejected his advances, as she unwittingly escaped from becoming his victim.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Ken kills mothers whom he believes are bad under the belief that their babies will be better off raised in orphanages.
