This article contains major spoilers for the ending of Mask Girl Season 1 Episode 7.
Netflix K-Drama Mask Girl is a genre-blending semi-anthological thriller, one that isn’t afraid to pile on twist after twist as it gradually reveals a bigger, interlocking picture of revenge, identity, murder, and… cosmetic surgery.
The plot revolves around Kim Mo-mi, a young woman who always dreamed of becoming famous but was dissuaded by the cruel words of her mother and her peers insisting she was ugly. As an adult, Mo-mi has a boring accounting job by day, but by night she dons a mask and lives a double life as a masked cam girl.
Things start to go seriously wrong for Mo-mi after her streaming account is suspended following a nudity fumble, and one of her co-workers, fellow outcast Oh-nam, takes an unhealthy interest in her alter-ego. After intervening when a fan tries to force himself on Mo-mi, Oh-nam commits murder and then rapes Mo-mi. In retaliation, though, she kills and dismembers him, before disappearing.
Mask Girl Season 1 Ending Explained
How does Chun-ae die?
This turn of events brings Oh-nam’s mother Kyung-ja into proceedings, who begins trying to track down Mo-mi with the “help” of her friend Chun-ae. Mo-mi and Chun-ae murder the latter’s boyfriend and go on the run, but in a subsequent struggle, Kyung-ja shoots Chun-ae. Chun-ae is able to save Mo-mi’s life but then expires, so Mo-mi puts her body in the car with Kyung-ja and dumps it in the river.
Mo-mi is later arrested as the serial-killing Mask Girl and sentenced to life in prison.
Does Mo-mi have a child?
As we learn throughout the series Mo-mi became pregnant with Oh-nam’s child and left the kid, a daughter, in the care of her estranged mother.
Mi-mo, the daughter, grew up without understanding her parentage, and became a loner thanks to a lack of affection and constantly moving schools after her mother’s identity as Mask Girl was revealed.
At the same time, Mo-mi languishes in prison, securing her safety, but is later tormented by news of her daughter’s worsening violence. After an escape attempt and a stint in solitary, she turns to religion and later discovers that the orchestrator of her torment is an older Kyung-ja, having survived the car being dumped in the lake and reinvented herself through plastic surgery.
Kyung-ja reveals that she has been targeting Mi-mo in order to get revenge on Mo-mi. It was she who revealed details about her past and pushed her to violence, and it’s also her who took Mi-mo in after she ran away. The whole thing has been a deliberate orchestration to enact revenge on Mo-mi.
Does Mo-mi die?
After Kyung-ja takes Mi-mo hostage to lure out Mo-mi, the latter is able to escape from prison and come to the rescue. However, she loses her own life in the process.
After escaping, Mo-mi is able to track Kyung-ja down with her mother and Mi-mo’s friend Ye-chun. Kyung-ja stabs Mo-mi’s mother to death during the rescue effort. Mo-mi is able to overpower Kyung-ja, but when she heads outside she finds herself surrounded by the police. She surrenders, but a vengeful Kyung-ja emerges with a gun and tries to shoot Mi-mo to cause Mo-mi as much pain as possible. Mo-mi shields her daughter with her own body and dies in her arms.
Mask Girl ends with Mi-mo temporarily living with Ye-chun’s parents. She has softened on other people and tearfully watches her mother’s childhood videos, trying to connect with her in the only way she still can.
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