Post by ajk on Dec 23, 2008 14:49:49 GMT -5
(Note: Thanks to member simisteve for alerting me to two scenes that were deleted from the prime-time Chicago airing of this episode. I’ve inserted information about the two scenes in italics below.)
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Sejong is trying to walk through Youngsil's workroom and stumbles over a pile of stuff, falling to the ground. He says the room is too dark to see well, but it's not that dark at all. Gradually his eyesight clears and he can see okay again. These are temporary episodes--but they're lasting longer. He worries again about completing the writing system before he goes completely blind.
At Jingwan Temple: Jeong Inji and one of the Buddhist monks are in a temple storeroom. Ha Wiji and Park Pengnyeong come in. Inji asks them what they're doing there. Ha comes up with some pretext for borrowing one of the books stored against the back wall of the room, but really he's in there trying to find a secret entrance to what he suspects is a secret room for writing system research. He surreptitiously taps around on the walls and in one place thinks he hears a hollow space.
The two scholars report back to Choi Manli that they believe they've found the secret room.
"Tell me what I can do." Youngsil offers, but Sejong says, "You'd be shocked if you knew what I am thinking."
The next day: Choi Haesan is told by Youngsil what the king was thinking. "You must be kidding. Do what to a human body?"
Turns out, Sejong wants to have a human body dissected in order to better understand how different speech sounds are produced. He tells his scholar group, "Make this happen. I don't have a lot of time left."
Haesan won't go along with it. Cutting up a body, that's going too far.
Prince Jinyang tells Sung Sammun and Shin Sukju that dissection is fundamentally against Confucian principles. But the two will support it, because they've put in so much work on the project and at this point they'll do whatever is necessary to complete it.
Youngsil tells Choi Haesan that he supports it. He reminds Haesan that Haesan's father kept all of his scientific records in Chinese script, and Haesan apparently can't (or couldn't) read Chinese because he was unable to read the records. (Note: For more information on Choi Muson see the "Choi Haesan's father" thread towards the bottom of this board.) Haesan concedes, "I didn't know if what my father left behind was bleep or gold" (and the bleep wasn't really a bleep. No kidding!). He also concedes that it would certainly help improve safety and reduce injuries if written instructions could be distributed with the new Joseon weapons when they're deployed. Haesan had been dead-set against a dissection, but now he's thinking it over.
Later, at the temple, Haesan is spotted by Park Pengnyeong, who's surprised to see that Haesan isn't drunk and surly any more like he's been ever since Youngsil's flogging. He wonders why the change of attitude, and then snottily offers to buy Haesan a drink. Not funny: "Get back to your studies, kid!" But Park suspiciously wonders what's going on.
Nighttime: Jeong Changson is reporting to Haishou that Choi Haesan has been visiting the temple often lately. Haishou mulls this over and then asks Jeong for a drawing of the temple grounds.
Prince Hyang asks Gim Jongsuh about how frequently Hui Hui enter the country. ("Hui Hui" refers to what today are called Uyghurs, the Muslim people who live mainly in the westernmost part of China.) Hyang wants to know if a Hui Hui physician can be found. What an odd request!
Choi Manli has found out about the request somehow and is trying to understand it. Is the king suddenly sicker? Choi summons the royal physician and tries to find out from him. But the physician, remembering back to Sejong's order not to tell anyone about the seriousness of his illness under threat of death, answers that "His majesty's illness is nothing new." So Choi asks him about the Hui Hui physician, and this comes as a complete surprise to him.
Jinyang is arguing with crown prince Hyang, protesting the dissection, but Hyang tells him to get it done. Hyang has located a Hui Hui physician and tells his brother to go see him. But Jinyang refuses and says he'll fight against this. At that moment Choi Manli barges in, accompanied by the royal physician, and demands an explanation about the Hui Hui physician. Iif it's not to treat the king, then what? The royal physician chimes in that "Hui Hui are beastly people who cut up the human body without any medical knowledge." A-ha; so that's it--Sejong wants one of their physicians because they know how to dissect. "Renounce this idea, your majesty," Choi says, although not knowing why one of their physicians is being sought (and not realizing that the royal physician hit on the very reason). "We cannot seek advice from those who do not share our beliefs."
Sejong decides that it might be best to simply drop the whole thing, since Choi Manli is intent on digging into it.
Jinyang gives Choi Manli a good scolding for his impudence. But Choi isn't rattled and even tells the prince, "You need someone like me." Huh?
Nighttime: Several soldiers are carrying the body of a murder victim. The investigation is done and they're taking the body out to be disposed of. Choi Haesan happens to be there, dressed incognito, and offers to take it off their hands and give it a funeral as an act of mercy. Youngsil comes upon the scene too; he's dressed incognito and has been looking for a body himself (even though he really shouldn't be out in public at all, and Choi tells him that). Just then the victim's wife and family come running and start weeping over the body. Obviously they're going to take it for burial themselves. Youngsil complains that it's really tough to get a body because they don't just dump it out unless it was an execution for high treason, and that just doesn't happen any more. They observe the irony of their difficulty being caused by Sejong's success in government.
Then another body is brought out, the body of a plague victim. The soldiers tell Haesan he can have that one if he wants it, which he all-too-joyfully does. Youngsil helps Haesan load the body onto a cart. But as they load it, Dongchang agents that have been tailing Choi recognize Youngsil. They rush back to Haishou, and confirm that it was indeed Youngsil, using the picture that Poongae drew earlier. BINGO! At this point, nothing else matters to Haishou...he must capture or kill Youngsil!
Ha Wiji and Park Pengnyeong, who are still still watching the temple for Choi Manli, spot Gang Hui, who is bringing a big box to the temple. They follow, and when no one is looking, they dash in, look in the box and see the dead body. They run out, presumably back to Choi with the news.
Still talking, Choi Manli tells Jinyang that these are troublesome times and will require a new king to restore peace. And I believe you are the only choice. Jinyang doesn't buy it: "Are you trying to soften me up? You're fishing for something you can use against the king." But Choi arrogantly tells him, "I do not need you to get the information I need. I'm trying to tell you that I can give you the throne." "Do you know that that is high treason?" "It would be called loyalty if you acquire the throne." "I will forget I heard this." But you won't turn me in, Choi says, and you know why not? It's because of "the thirst you feel right here" (touching Jinyang's chest); a thirst for the power you can never get as a junior prince. (The same thing that frustrated the young prince Choongnyeong.) Jinyang actually shouts, "I told you once before not to second-guess me!" Choi backs off but says, "My doors will always be open for you. Knock when you're ready to face the truth. And I will gladly be your servant."
Kneeling, face to the ground, the royal physician humbly turns down Sejong's request to do a dissection of the body that has been brought in.
Hyang tells Youngsil that Choi Manli is probably having the Hui Hui physician watched. So Youngsil offers to go to the physician himself, because everyone thinks he's dead and won't recognize him. (Not one part of that makes sense.) Hyang is terribly uncomfortable asking Youngsil to do such a thing, especially with Youngsil's legs still weak from the flogging. He tells Youngsil, "Do you know that I love you and look up to you like a father?" Youngsil, surprisingly comfortable with the prince's statement, tells him, "Of course I do. I also have a father whom I love and respect." (Referring to Choi Haesan.)
Haishou has been given a map of the temple complex. Out of the blue, he concludes that Youngsil is alive and is being hidden in the temple. (Where did he get that? Not clear at all.)
Choi Manli has come to the same conclusion. (Don't know where Choi got that, either.) We'll watch carefully, Choi says, and will act when the Hui Hui physician arrives at the temple. This will be the end of Sejong, he thinks, and will kill the writing system project.
Back with Sejong and the royal physician: The physician says that he couldn't possibly dissect this body because the man died of an infectious disease, and cutting it open could spread the disease.
Haishou identifies where he thinks Youngsil's hideout is, in one of the outlying temple buildings. (He's wrong, but it appears he's close.) Poongae is with him, and is concerned about what might happen.
Yi Sunji is in Youngsil's cave workroom (so he knows about Youngsil too). When Choi Haesan returns to the room, Sunji gives him Youngsil's message that he went to summon the Hui Hui physician by himself.
Sejong has pretty much given up on the dissection. "It was an extreme idea. We will look for another way," he tells Haesan. But Haesan offers to find another body. "Don't give up, your majesty. Jang Youngsil and I will do everything we can to help...We really do need a writing system that's easy to learn and understand." So Haesan has become convinced.
Nighttime: Poongae, alone, is running and jumps over a wall, but then suddenly he's surrounded by Haishou and several of his men. "Just as I thought--you were the traitor. Kill him!" Poongae fires two wrist-knives simultaneously and strikes down two of the men, then runs to a horse and makes a break for it. But Haishou calmly pulls out a bow and two arrows, and hits Poongae square in the back with both shots. His men suggest going after Poongae, but Haishou isn't concerned: "I got him in a fatal spot. He won't last long."
Still nighttime: Outside (apparently just outside the temple complex), Jachi gives Choi Haesan some money; maybe that will help acquire a body. But just then, a dying Poongae comes crawling through the brush almost at their feet. "Jang Youngsil..." Poongae says with great difficulty; "his life is in danger...I took a shortcut. They'll be coming through this road at any moment. Take Jang Youngsil to safety." Haesan knows that Youngsil was leaving to summon the physician, and runs down the road to see if he can stop him.
Youngsil is on a horse, alone. Haishou and his men come upon him and surround him. He dismounts and tries to escape through the woods, but he can't run well because of his legs. They chase after him. He hides behind some rocks...they approach the rocks and Haishou draws his sword...BOOM! Explosions suddenly light up the woods. A bunch of them. Choi Haesan is throwing bombs at the soldiers. "There! After him!" The squad goes chasing after Haesan, which gives Youngsil time to escape. But as they surround Haesan, Youngsil not only doesn't escape but goes back towards where Haesan is surrounded. Still trying to give Youngsil time to flee, Haesan charges at Haishou, who delivers a fatal blow with a sword to the midsection. Youngsil can only watch, stunned, as Haesan falls. Then the squad turns around and surrounds Youngsil. Haishou raises his sword to kill him...and the sword flies from his hand, knocked out by a thrown object. It's Gang Hui and a squad of Joseonese. They charge in and attack the squad, making short work of them. And Gang strikes down Haishou with stunning ease, and that's the end of Haishou.
Youngsil rushes to Haesan, who's thinking only of Youngsil as he lays there: "Thank goodness your hands are all right. Thank you--I had a good life because you were here." Youngsil won't have that and tells him to hang in there, but no. "It's too late, kid. Give his majesty a message for me. Tell him that I might be useful to him one last time when I'm dead. That I'd like to contribute to creating our own writing that's easy to learn. Tell him not to forget the promise he made me." And as that bleeping awful pop ballad starts up again and ruins the honest tragedy of the moment (and that bleep isn't a bleep either, that's how much I can't stand the thing), Haesan dies. A sad, difficult event--the loss of a loyal and talented subject and a good person too.
"I cannot accept," Sejong tells Youngsil. "I don't deserve this great loyalty." We suspect that Haesan wanted his body to be used for the dissection.
Hwang Hee is alone in a conference room; Jo Malseng, Meng Sasung and Yi Chun enter. They're all absorbing the news of Choi's death. However...Jo raises another issue: "I don't mean to be callous, but it's Haishou's death that we should be worried about right now. He came to Joseon as a diplomatic envoy. This could potentially lead to huge diplomatic trouble." (GREAT point; sound thinking.) "We'll just have to pray that one man lives," he says. Wonder what that means.
Poongae is being tended to by Jachi. (So he's the one man, but not sure how his survival would erase the controversy.) He's unconscious and we don't expect anything more, but to Jachi's (and our) great surprise, he manages to regain consciousness. He's weak, but it looks like he might just survive after all.
Jo Malseng goes to Choi Manli's home and tells him that Choi Haesan was killed by Haishou. "And it's on you to remedy this situation." How's that? "You must know who Haishou's informant was on our side. Find a way to clean up this mess without causing a diplomatic row." (Oh, I like this a whole lot. Making Choi do the dirty work himself, what a deviously clever idea.)
As Gim Mun and Jeong Changson watch from a distance, we see the Hui Hui physician brought into Jingwan Temple. He's accompanied by, of all people, Gim Jongsuh! How in the world did Gim get involved in this? Hyang had mentioned it to him earlier, but we haven't even seen him since then. Gim brings the physician to a surprised and baffled Sejong. Why did Gim do this, especially since he doesn't even know why the physician was needed in the first place? "Your love of the people, your majesty. It's that love that infinitely connects us to you. And when we see that love, we don't need to ask any questions. We just know what we have to do, your majesty." (Give this guy a raise! What a great subject he is. The king he reveres needs something and he comes through. Doesn't even want an explanation.) Youngsil is there too, and gently tells Sejong, "It's time to accept my father's loyalty, your majesty."
Haesan's body is laid down on a cloth-covered table. As the physician prepares for the dissection, we hear Sejong's thoughts: "I will not forget your loyalty. And I will return your loyalty by creating a writing system and improving the quality of our people's lives." He touches Haesan's hand, a final gesture of respect, and then tells the physician, "Let us begin."
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Sejong is trying to walk through Youngsil's workroom and stumbles over a pile of stuff, falling to the ground. He says the room is too dark to see well, but it's not that dark at all. Gradually his eyesight clears and he can see okay again. These are temporary episodes--but they're lasting longer. He worries again about completing the writing system before he goes completely blind.
At Jingwan Temple: Jeong Inji and one of the Buddhist monks are in a temple storeroom. Ha Wiji and Park Pengnyeong come in. Inji asks them what they're doing there. Ha comes up with some pretext for borrowing one of the books stored against the back wall of the room, but really he's in there trying to find a secret entrance to what he suspects is a secret room for writing system research. He surreptitiously taps around on the walls and in one place thinks he hears a hollow space.
The two scholars report back to Choi Manli that they believe they've found the secret room.
"Tell me what I can do." Youngsil offers, but Sejong says, "You'd be shocked if you knew what I am thinking."
The next day: Choi Haesan is told by Youngsil what the king was thinking. "You must be kidding. Do what to a human body?"
Turns out, Sejong wants to have a human body dissected in order to better understand how different speech sounds are produced. He tells his scholar group, "Make this happen. I don't have a lot of time left."
Haesan won't go along with it. Cutting up a body, that's going too far.
Prince Jinyang tells Sung Sammun and Shin Sukju that dissection is fundamentally against Confucian principles. But the two will support it, because they've put in so much work on the project and at this point they'll do whatever is necessary to complete it.
Youngsil tells Choi Haesan that he supports it. He reminds Haesan that Haesan's father kept all of his scientific records in Chinese script, and Haesan apparently can't (or couldn't) read Chinese because he was unable to read the records. (Note: For more information on Choi Muson see the "Choi Haesan's father" thread towards the bottom of this board.) Haesan concedes, "I didn't know if what my father left behind was bleep or gold" (and the bleep wasn't really a bleep. No kidding!). He also concedes that it would certainly help improve safety and reduce injuries if written instructions could be distributed with the new Joseon weapons when they're deployed. Haesan had been dead-set against a dissection, but now he's thinking it over.
Later, at the temple, Haesan is spotted by Park Pengnyeong, who's surprised to see that Haesan isn't drunk and surly any more like he's been ever since Youngsil's flogging. He wonders why the change of attitude, and then snottily offers to buy Haesan a drink. Not funny: "Get back to your studies, kid!" But Park suspiciously wonders what's going on.
Nighttime: Jeong Changson is reporting to Haishou that Choi Haesan has been visiting the temple often lately. Haishou mulls this over and then asks Jeong for a drawing of the temple grounds.
Prince Hyang asks Gim Jongsuh about how frequently Hui Hui enter the country. ("Hui Hui" refers to what today are called Uyghurs, the Muslim people who live mainly in the westernmost part of China.) Hyang wants to know if a Hui Hui physician can be found. What an odd request!
Choi Manli has found out about the request somehow and is trying to understand it. Is the king suddenly sicker? Choi summons the royal physician and tries to find out from him. But the physician, remembering back to Sejong's order not to tell anyone about the seriousness of his illness under threat of death, answers that "His majesty's illness is nothing new." So Choi asks him about the Hui Hui physician, and this comes as a complete surprise to him.
Jinyang is arguing with crown prince Hyang, protesting the dissection, but Hyang tells him to get it done. Hyang has located a Hui Hui physician and tells his brother to go see him. But Jinyang refuses and says he'll fight against this. At that moment Choi Manli barges in, accompanied by the royal physician, and demands an explanation about the Hui Hui physician. Iif it's not to treat the king, then what? The royal physician chimes in that "Hui Hui are beastly people who cut up the human body without any medical knowledge." A-ha; so that's it--Sejong wants one of their physicians because they know how to dissect. "Renounce this idea, your majesty," Choi says, although not knowing why one of their physicians is being sought (and not realizing that the royal physician hit on the very reason). "We cannot seek advice from those who do not share our beliefs."
Sejong decides that it might be best to simply drop the whole thing, since Choi Manli is intent on digging into it.
Jinyang gives Choi Manli a good scolding for his impudence. But Choi isn't rattled and even tells the prince, "You need someone like me." Huh?
Nighttime: Several soldiers are carrying the body of a murder victim. The investigation is done and they're taking the body out to be disposed of. Choi Haesan happens to be there, dressed incognito, and offers to take it off their hands and give it a funeral as an act of mercy. Youngsil comes upon the scene too; he's dressed incognito and has been looking for a body himself (even though he really shouldn't be out in public at all, and Choi tells him that). Just then the victim's wife and family come running and start weeping over the body. Obviously they're going to take it for burial themselves. Youngsil complains that it's really tough to get a body because they don't just dump it out unless it was an execution for high treason, and that just doesn't happen any more. They observe the irony of their difficulty being caused by Sejong's success in government.
Then another body is brought out, the body of a plague victim. The soldiers tell Haesan he can have that one if he wants it, which he all-too-joyfully does. Youngsil helps Haesan load the body onto a cart. But as they load it, Dongchang agents that have been tailing Choi recognize Youngsil. They rush back to Haishou, and confirm that it was indeed Youngsil, using the picture that Poongae drew earlier. BINGO! At this point, nothing else matters to Haishou...he must capture or kill Youngsil!
Ha Wiji and Park Pengnyeong, who are still still watching the temple for Choi Manli, spot Gang Hui, who is bringing a big box to the temple. They follow, and when no one is looking, they dash in, look in the box and see the dead body. They run out, presumably back to Choi with the news.
Still talking, Choi Manli tells Jinyang that these are troublesome times and will require a new king to restore peace. And I believe you are the only choice. Jinyang doesn't buy it: "Are you trying to soften me up? You're fishing for something you can use against the king." But Choi arrogantly tells him, "I do not need you to get the information I need. I'm trying to tell you that I can give you the throne." "Do you know that that is high treason?" "It would be called loyalty if you acquire the throne." "I will forget I heard this." But you won't turn me in, Choi says, and you know why not? It's because of "the thirst you feel right here" (touching Jinyang's chest); a thirst for the power you can never get as a junior prince. (The same thing that frustrated the young prince Choongnyeong.) Jinyang actually shouts, "I told you once before not to second-guess me!" Choi backs off but says, "My doors will always be open for you. Knock when you're ready to face the truth. And I will gladly be your servant."
Kneeling, face to the ground, the royal physician humbly turns down Sejong's request to do a dissection of the body that has been brought in.
Hyang tells Youngsil that Choi Manli is probably having the Hui Hui physician watched. So Youngsil offers to go to the physician himself, because everyone thinks he's dead and won't recognize him. (Not one part of that makes sense.) Hyang is terribly uncomfortable asking Youngsil to do such a thing, especially with Youngsil's legs still weak from the flogging. He tells Youngsil, "Do you know that I love you and look up to you like a father?" Youngsil, surprisingly comfortable with the prince's statement, tells him, "Of course I do. I also have a father whom I love and respect." (Referring to Choi Haesan.)
Haishou has been given a map of the temple complex. Out of the blue, he concludes that Youngsil is alive and is being hidden in the temple. (Where did he get that? Not clear at all.)
Choi Manli has come to the same conclusion. (Don't know where Choi got that, either.) We'll watch carefully, Choi says, and will act when the Hui Hui physician arrives at the temple. This will be the end of Sejong, he thinks, and will kill the writing system project.
Back with Sejong and the royal physician: The physician says that he couldn't possibly dissect this body because the man died of an infectious disease, and cutting it open could spread the disease.
Haishou identifies where he thinks Youngsil's hideout is, in one of the outlying temple buildings. (He's wrong, but it appears he's close.) Poongae is with him, and is concerned about what might happen.
Yi Sunji is in Youngsil's cave workroom (so he knows about Youngsil too). When Choi Haesan returns to the room, Sunji gives him Youngsil's message that he went to summon the Hui Hui physician by himself.
Sejong has pretty much given up on the dissection. "It was an extreme idea. We will look for another way," he tells Haesan. But Haesan offers to find another body. "Don't give up, your majesty. Jang Youngsil and I will do everything we can to help...We really do need a writing system that's easy to learn and understand." So Haesan has become convinced.
Nighttime: Poongae, alone, is running and jumps over a wall, but then suddenly he's surrounded by Haishou and several of his men. "Just as I thought--you were the traitor. Kill him!" Poongae fires two wrist-knives simultaneously and strikes down two of the men, then runs to a horse and makes a break for it. But Haishou calmly pulls out a bow and two arrows, and hits Poongae square in the back with both shots. His men suggest going after Poongae, but Haishou isn't concerned: "I got him in a fatal spot. He won't last long."
Still nighttime: Outside (apparently just outside the temple complex), Jachi gives Choi Haesan some money; maybe that will help acquire a body. But just then, a dying Poongae comes crawling through the brush almost at their feet. "Jang Youngsil..." Poongae says with great difficulty; "his life is in danger...I took a shortcut. They'll be coming through this road at any moment. Take Jang Youngsil to safety." Haesan knows that Youngsil was leaving to summon the physician, and runs down the road to see if he can stop him.
Youngsil is on a horse, alone. Haishou and his men come upon him and surround him. He dismounts and tries to escape through the woods, but he can't run well because of his legs. They chase after him. He hides behind some rocks...they approach the rocks and Haishou draws his sword...BOOM! Explosions suddenly light up the woods. A bunch of them. Choi Haesan is throwing bombs at the soldiers. "There! After him!" The squad goes chasing after Haesan, which gives Youngsil time to escape. But as they surround Haesan, Youngsil not only doesn't escape but goes back towards where Haesan is surrounded. Still trying to give Youngsil time to flee, Haesan charges at Haishou, who delivers a fatal blow with a sword to the midsection. Youngsil can only watch, stunned, as Haesan falls. Then the squad turns around and surrounds Youngsil. Haishou raises his sword to kill him...and the sword flies from his hand, knocked out by a thrown object. It's Gang Hui and a squad of Joseonese. They charge in and attack the squad, making short work of them. And Gang strikes down Haishou with stunning ease, and that's the end of Haishou.
Youngsil rushes to Haesan, who's thinking only of Youngsil as he lays there: "Thank goodness your hands are all right. Thank you--I had a good life because you were here." Youngsil won't have that and tells him to hang in there, but no. "It's too late, kid. Give his majesty a message for me. Tell him that I might be useful to him one last time when I'm dead. That I'd like to contribute to creating our own writing that's easy to learn. Tell him not to forget the promise he made me." And as that bleeping awful pop ballad starts up again and ruins the honest tragedy of the moment (and that bleep isn't a bleep either, that's how much I can't stand the thing), Haesan dies. A sad, difficult event--the loss of a loyal and talented subject and a good person too.
"I cannot accept," Sejong tells Youngsil. "I don't deserve this great loyalty." We suspect that Haesan wanted his body to be used for the dissection.
Hwang Hee is alone in a conference room; Jo Malseng, Meng Sasung and Yi Chun enter. They're all absorbing the news of Choi's death. However...Jo raises another issue: "I don't mean to be callous, but it's Haishou's death that we should be worried about right now. He came to Joseon as a diplomatic envoy. This could potentially lead to huge diplomatic trouble." (GREAT point; sound thinking.) "We'll just have to pray that one man lives," he says. Wonder what that means.
Poongae is being tended to by Jachi. (So he's the one man, but not sure how his survival would erase the controversy.) He's unconscious and we don't expect anything more, but to Jachi's (and our) great surprise, he manages to regain consciousness. He's weak, but it looks like he might just survive after all.
Jo Malseng goes to Choi Manli's home and tells him that Choi Haesan was killed by Haishou. "And it's on you to remedy this situation." How's that? "You must know who Haishou's informant was on our side. Find a way to clean up this mess without causing a diplomatic row." (Oh, I like this a whole lot. Making Choi do the dirty work himself, what a deviously clever idea.)
As Gim Mun and Jeong Changson watch from a distance, we see the Hui Hui physician brought into Jingwan Temple. He's accompanied by, of all people, Gim Jongsuh! How in the world did Gim get involved in this? Hyang had mentioned it to him earlier, but we haven't even seen him since then. Gim brings the physician to a surprised and baffled Sejong. Why did Gim do this, especially since he doesn't even know why the physician was needed in the first place? "Your love of the people, your majesty. It's that love that infinitely connects us to you. And when we see that love, we don't need to ask any questions. We just know what we have to do, your majesty." (Give this guy a raise! What a great subject he is. The king he reveres needs something and he comes through. Doesn't even want an explanation.) Youngsil is there too, and gently tells Sejong, "It's time to accept my father's loyalty, your majesty."
Haesan's body is laid down on a cloth-covered table. As the physician prepares for the dissection, we hear Sejong's thoughts: "I will not forget your loyalty. And I will return your loyalty by creating a writing system and improving the quality of our people's lives." He touches Haesan's hand, a final gesture of respect, and then tells the physician, "Let us begin."
