Kong, Phiwit: Phiwit comes out, goes mute

Feeble Mum gets a double-dose of bad news in the Channel 5 soap, Tomorrow, I’ll Still Love You.

Phiwit has come out to Kong’s Mum, declaring in a double-whammy that he is brother-in-law of the woman who killed her daughter; and that he is gay and loves her son.

Kong’s Mum takes the news poorly, as you can imagine.

‘How can you come here? Even if Kong accepts you, I can’t!’ she says upon hearing the brother-in-law news.

Reason abandons her altogether when Phiwit declares seconds later that he loves Kong and will never leave him.

‘So...you’re...you’re...! she gasps.

Yes, dear. Gay.

Mum gets faint, falls back on chair, starts to scream, and tells Phiwit to clear off. Fat ladyboy helper and her whippersnapper-sidekick try to hustle him away.

That was Wednesday’s episode. By last night’s episode, relations between Mum and Phiwit have improved.

Mum entrusts Phiwit to Kong’s care, but under the guise of a different person. Kong, as we know, has lost his eyesight. He has also banished Phiwit from his presence, as he doesn’t want to burden him with his blindness.

Mum introduces Phiwit to her son as ‘Sak’, a carer she has hired to look after him.

‘He has hardly any Thai,’ she says, meaning that to maintain this pretense, Phiwit will have to be mute.

Later, she explains to Phiwit that she is trying to protect her son from getting hurt.

Phiwit is grateful, and doesn’t seem to mind the fact that he will never be able to talk to his boyfriend again.

Earlier, Phiwit turns up at Kong’s place. The household help tries to stop him getting in.

Meanwhile, Kong, who has lost his eyesight, is grasping around for the telephone but comes across an up-ended knife which some clumsy person has left, just where he can do himself harm.

Mum comes down the stairs, spots the knife, calls out. Phiwit makes a heroic dive to get it out of his boyfriend's way but ends up getting cut himself. Kong hears him exclaim in pain, and demands to know who else is present.

Mum spins a lie, and introduces Phiwit to her son as carer Sak. In the picture, she is guiding Sak’s hand to Kong’s own, so they can meet.

In their final scene, Kong shows Sak his pyjama top. He has done it up the wrong way, because he can’t see. 'I don’t imagine there’s anyone who wants to help me with this,’ he jokes.

Sak – oops, Phiwit – does it up for him again, because he loves him.

Kong grabs his hand and guides it to Phiwit’s face. Moment of danger...will he recognise this face as that of his banished gay lover?

The moment passes without incident. If Kong knows that it's really Phiwit standing in front of him, he doesn't let on.

Phiwit puts Kong to bed, but lingers in the bedroom a while, thinking about what could have been.

A preview of the next episode on Monday shows Kong taking a swing at Phiwit.

By then, the secret is out. Kong knows ‘Sak’ is not his new carer at all, but really his gay lover, whom he had banished. ‘Get away from me! Leave!’ he says.

Watch Wednesday’s coming-out scene here. Last night’s drama unfolds here, and here. The preview for Monday’s episode is here. Mercifully, the series ends next week.