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Xiang Ying is having the same dream over and over: she’s a child, about five years old, and she’s walking in the city alone, looking for Ryo.  After having that dream again she talks about it to Ryo, and he tells her to tell Doc during her check up.  When Xiang Ying arrives at the hospital, Doc is sleeping.  When she comes in and he wakes up, he mistakenly takes her for Kaori, and tells Xiang Ying about the time that Kaori was a nurse there.  Ryo is late picking Xiang Ying up, and in the meantime she has fallen asleep.  She is still having the same dream, but now she’s found Ryo.  Only, he has a shotwound and is dying.  Panicking, Xiang Ying is triying to call people to help him, but she can’t touch them.  Then she succeeds in grabbing someone’s hand, and the woman goes and check on Ryo.  Xiang Ying sees it’s Kaori.  In her sleep, she calls out Kaori’s name, and both Ryo and Doc are very surprised.  The next scene Xiang Ying sees is Kaori making breakfast for her brother, Makimura Hideyuki, who is a detective.  They are having an arguement about Kaori studying to be a nurse, but then Kaori goes off to the hospital.  There she is taking care of Ryo, who is still unconscious.  Her brother is there too, and he doesn’t trust Ryo, because all his papers are fake, but Kaori tells him as long as Ryo’s wounded her brother can’t take him away.  Doc later tells Makimura that the reason Kaori became a nurse isn’t because of him, but for him.  Upon hearing that, he goes to Kaori and tells her that her cooking has become very good.  During the night Ryo gains consciousness and he breaks a bottle to have a weapon.  Xiang Ying then realizes that he’s just like her when she just arrived in Shinjuku.  Kaori comes to check on Ryo and first it seems she didn’t notice he’s awake, but then she turns around and tells him to open his eyes.  As she is bending over him, Ryo picks up the broken bottle…

And they leave us with a cliffhanger!  I hate it when they do that  Anyway, I really liked this episode, seeing more about Kaori and Ryo’s meeting.  I guess Xiang Ying will also learn more about Kaori upon seeing this dream (actually Kaori’s memories), but I feel sorry for her she can only watch and not participate.