GUARDIAN REWATCH – Episode 26

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Beginning of episode: Shen Wei's flat has been torched.
Ending of episode: Da Qing regains his memories, and Lao Li kneels in apology.

Important scenes/developments:

• Shen Wei's flat is arsonated, so he and Zhao Yunlan retreat across the hall...
• ...where they work on the couch together (domestic! adorable!); Shen Wei cuts up oranges and watches Zhao Yunlan sleep. ♥ ♥ ♥
• Wang Xiangyang has found another recruit.
• Lin Jing and Sha Ya have a morning date, and Lin Jing overhears Da Ji's husband plotting to kill Da Ji.
• Da Ji's husband stages a romantic anniversary dinner during which he poisons Da Ji.
• Sha Ya's gig; Lin Jing has brought Zhu Hong for moral support.
• Da Ji's husband (and his girlfriend?) are arrested for fraud.
• Lin Jing puts on a slide show about Da Ji, and no one pays attention.
• Chu Shuzhi and Guo Changcheng investigate Bai Suxia's accident.
• Lin Jing and Cong Bo research Da Ji, and Da Qing vaguely recognises her.
• Da Qing wears a terrible suit and goes undercover as Da Ji's blind date.
• The cats go for a walk and argue, and Da Ji starts choking Da Qing; Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei show up to watch.
• Zhao Yunlan intervenes in the choking, Da Ji attacks him instead, and Shen Wei accidentally kills her.
• Zhao Yunlan presents the evidence linking the Merit Brush cases to Bai Suxia and Wang Xiangyang.
• Da Qing absolves Shen Wei of Da Ji's death and quotes the Envoy from 10k years ago.
• Da Ji wakes up, knocks Da Qing out and escapes.
• Da Qing asks Dr Cheng for more memory treatment, but it doesn't work.
• Da Ji finds Da Qing and takes him for a tour of Memory Lane, which triggers some old memories incl. that she died saving his life.
• Everyone at the SID teases Da Qing about his "girlfriend".
• Da Ji attacks Lao Li, then knocks Da Qing out and kidnaps him.
• Da Ji tells Da Qing about his past with Lao Li.
• The rest of the SID search for Da Qing.
• Da Ji and Da Qing argue, but Lao Li intervenes and comes clean to Da Qing.
• Da Qing blocks Da Ji's attack of Lao Li and gets the rest of his memories back.
• Lao Li kneels in apology.

( Thoughts )

Discussion starters:

• What's your favourite scene in this episode? Your favourite line?


• How does Da Qing feel about Da Ji? What do you think of her? How about Sha Ya and Lin Jing?


• Dr Cheng says to Da Qing, "I am quite curious. At your young age, how come you have so many memories so deeply buried? You come across like an experienced old man." It doesn't sound to me like she'd connecting this to Zu Ma's condition -- why not?


• What did Team Merit Brush need Da Ji for? Does the Merit Brush, under Wang Xiangyang's control, feed on revenge energy? Or is using other people's revenge part of Wang Xiangyang's covering his tracks? Or something else?


• What Da Qing says the people at the SID "laugh when they're in love, cry when they're in pain," it echoes Da Ji's, "Smile when happy, cry when sad. That's what we cats are really like." Do you think Da Qing is saying the SID are like cats? Or that everyone's just people?


• Do you think Shen Wei is worried about what else Da Qing might have remembered and what he might say to Zhao Yunlan?


• How much do you think Shen Wei lost in the fire? Most importantly, when they arrive at the SID the next morning, is he wearing Zhao Yunlan's underwear?

Let’s talk about episode 26!
Come and talk about this episode – anything from favourite scenes or lines of dialogue to notes/questions about continuity or translation, most gorgeous (or angsty) smile, or anything else that strikes your fancy! And share links to your own and/or others’ episode-related meta, picspams, and fanworks, new or old!