Ivresse alcoolique

Ivresse alcoolique appears in two sharply different settings: Cassiopée drinks heavily during a gathering with friends, while Jungkook arrives home profoundly intoxicated on two separate occasions. In the first, the condition unsettles a planned evening of calm; in the later scenes, it becomes part of a more serious rupture, visible in Jungkook’s collapse, bloody fists, and the empty whiskey bottle beside him.

Episodes and visible signs

Before the verdict, Jungkook and Shelby Anderson Barnum host friends for a quiet evening meant to offer a temporary respite. Cassiopée has been drinking repeatedly despite Dorcas’s efforts to keep alcohol away from her. Dorcas eventually gives up, and Jungkook removes the bottle from the coffee table. Namjoon notices that Cassiopée is nodding off; she denies it, though her intoxication is apparent to those around her.

A separate episode unfolds at Jungkook and Shelby Anderson Barnum’s home. Jungkook is hours late, and Shelby has not eaten because she is worried: she thinks he would have contacted her if he had an unexpected delay or plans with Noah. After watching films and checking her phone without finding a message from him, she hears a key at the front door. The door does not open; when she goes to investigate, Jungkook’s body drops at her feet.

Jungkook’s intoxication and its effects

Shelby recognizes alcohol on Jungkook’s breath and sees that he can barely answer her. She has never seen him so drunk, not even when they were in Ellensburg: he has fallen onto the floor and is unable to get himself up. She helps him to the living room, locks the entrance, and turns on the light. His eyes are empty and his expression closed; then she notices that his fists are bloody. His intoxication therefore arrives alongside signs of a physical altercation, although the immediate account does not explain what happened to him.

In another Los Angeles scene, Shelby returns home expecting Jungkook to be hostile. He is asleep on a sofa with a nearly finished bottle of whiskey in his hand; the bottle is, in fact, empty. His face remains drawn with anger even in sleep, his brow furrowed and jaw tightening. Shelby recalls that she has not bought whiskey since they arrived in Los Angeles. She takes the bottle from his hand and throws it away, unable to bear what she sees. She then retrieves a suitcase from the dressing room, packs some belongings, and leaves it by the entrance. The intoxication has become not only a condition she observes but a crisis affecting their shared home and relationship.

Recurrence and significance

The episodes distinguish Cassiopée’s heavy drinking in a social setting from Jungkook’s solitary, damaging intoxication. In Cassiopée’s case, friends try to limit her access to alcohol, and the evening’s attempt at reassurance and companionship is interrupted by her growing impairment. Jungkook’s scenes instead emphasize the cost of his absence, the bodily evidence of violence, and Shelby’s alarm at seeing him beyond his previous limits.

The repeated drinking does not, by itself, establish a diagnosis or explain Jungkook’s conduct. The narrative gives concrete signs—the missed return, the fall, the bloodied hands, the empty bottle—and shows how Shelby responds, first by caring for him and later by removing the bottle and preparing to leave. By placing these signs in the home, the story makes intoxication a breach of the safety and communication the couple depend on, rather than merely a private excess.