Penthouse 3 was premiered after 2 months of waiting and the story is getting more twisted and unexpected (as usual!). It has been hard for me to follow the story because only one episode is released every week! So far, the story pace was quite intense starting from the beginning, and in this post I will highlight the important events in the first 2 episodes. (there will be major spoilers ahead!)
Read more: The Penthouse Season 2 Finale
Read more: The Penthouse Season 3 Teaser
Joo Dan Tae Killed Logan Lee in the Car Explosion
In Season 2, Logan Lee was attacked by an explosion when he was about to propose to Shim Su Ryeon. From the scene, there was this old man pushing a trolley from the side of the car and stopped right in front of Logan and walked away. The explosion was then sparked. Even though we have not seen any scene of ‘Logan Lee’ burnt body, but he was claimed to be dead.
In Episode 1, it was confirmed the old man was the killer, and he was actually Joo Dan Tae! But how did he escaped from the prison, it was all in his plan. He made a fighting scene with Ha Yoon Cheol which intentionally hurt himself and be sent out to the hospital. He sneaked out from the hospital and met his manager to do ‘a series of events’, including killing Logan Lee.
Joo Dan Tae got the old man mask on and put the bomb in front of Logan Lee by himself. He observed the whole process behind Shim Su Ryeon who was wailing for the death of Logan Lee. JDT is such a party pooper for romantic scenes.
Joo Dan Tae is actually NOT Joo Dan Tae
Do you remember Mr Baek who came back to Korea together with Logan Lee? In episode 1, it was revealed that the real name of Mr. Baek was actually Joo Dan Tae, while the evil JDT real identity was (vice versa) Baek Joon Ki.
The evil JDT actually killed Mr. Baek parents and run off with all his family assets and identity. This explained that all the fortune JDT had was not belong to him!
Seokrona CP is official!
Joo Seokhoon and Bae Ro Na have been getting closer from season 1 and season 2. After Bae Ro Na was attacked, Seokhoon could not hide his feeling any longer with Ro Na and now they are officially the ‘lovebirds’ in the first 2 episodes!
Shim Su Ryeon was actually supporting their relationship, as sometimes she will invite her to their penthouse and even had dinner together. But, of course, the twin sister Seok Kyung hated Bae Ro Na due to jealousy. She has been receiving 100% love from her brother before that. Even her mother get to treat Ro Na better by supporting her to go for SNU application. This made Seok Kyung to start getting ’emotional imbalance’.
Logan Lee has a twin brother :’)
I’m not sure if Park Eun-seok and Lee Ji-ah actually get double paid for acting two (or more) roles in the drama. In fact in episode 2, we were convinced that Logan Lee has another twin brother in America. This character actually brought in some controversies about racial discrimination as the twin brother, Alex Lee was portraited similar like an ‘American Black gangster’.
Well, we never know if Logan Lee actually cosplayed himself again to look like another person this time to catch the culprit who killed him. But in Episode 2, Alex flied to Korea and come straight to meet Shim Su Ryeon, claiming that she was the one who killed Logan Lee. Alex tried to stopped his ‘brother’ from going back to Korea as he needed to start taking over their family business, but Logan insisted he had to protect the woman he loved.
But still salute to Park Eun Seok for all the surprise transformation!
‘Joo Dan Tae Killing Ladies Force’ assembled
In the end of episode 1, Shim Su Ryeon and Oh Yoon Hee kidnapped Cheon Seo Jin who ‘illegally’ got away from her court charges. They brought her near to a cliff and push her down into the sea. We all thought Cheon Seo Jin was going to die, but this was all a set up.
Shim Su Ryeon arranged two divers to save Cheon Seo Jin to the shore after she was pushed from the cliff. This was all to teach a lesson for Cheon Seo Jin. Su Ryeon ‘invited’ her to make alliance to bring down Joo Dan Tae together with them. As Shim Su Ryeon lost everything because of JDT, she promised to kill him by her own hands before Yoon Hee and Seo Jin.
It is quite entertaining to see these three female leads who come together and bring the devil down, knowing the fact that all three of them once loved Joo Dan Tae. We don’t know if this alliance will stay together until the end, let us see. ๐
MyDaehan ๐ 