Post by TheBo on Jul 9, 2011 10:56:52 GMT -5
Ep.14 (Sun 7/10):
San is very upset by Princess’s involvement in his deposement and his father’s death, but Eun. Nam tells him to buck up, he has to take action now. Princess and Minister Han discuss the letter he received, which contains details of their whole conspiracy. They suspect a traitor in their ranks. Han thinks the person will report them; Princess says they would have already, they must have something else in mind, and sends for her adoptive son Jeong.
Jeong is meeting with scribe Hong, who informs the Secretary that he is refusing the position he’s been offered and tells him he’d rather work for San. Jeong hopes he won’t have to destroy San and his “branches,” and Hong hopes Jeong will go easy on him if he does.
When she visits Yeong-jo, the queen is upset that the king is worried he may have made a mistake and been fooled about Sado, as he was as today with the trial. She tries to reassure him that just because everyone feels sad about Sado doesn’t mean he was innocent.
At Princess’s place, Jeong reads the letter and scolds Han for leading the author right to him and Princess. He points out it must have been San. Han tells him he also sent a messenger “from Princess” to warn the soldiers they had hidden after being routed from Lower Hill. Jeong sends his own steward to the new hideout, while San’s guard follows Han’s steward. San gives a letter to the head guard to get the official Capital Army to go after the rebel army.
At the rebel camp, they receive, in quick succession, (a) notice from Han to leave, (b) notice that the Capital Army has arrived, and (c) a bunch of flaming arrows to the stomach. Big big big fight. The leaders of the rebels arm themselves with guns, but they are ordered (I think by Jeong’s steward) to go to “the other place,” and if they are about to be captured, they are to take their own lives. These men lead a small group away from the fighting.
San’s guards report that the camp was wiped out and they’ve arrested Han’s steward. San tells them to take the weapons and steward to the office of securities. Nam wants San to push for the jugular and expose the entire conspiracy.
Jeong reassures Minister Han that he’ll take care of everything for him and not to worry or hide (right). Then Jeong tells Princess he has a plan.
San learns from Sir Chae that the dead artist and forged charter evidence were found near the encampment. He bemoans his fate, for being crown prince and for having to report his own aunt for trying to kill him. Sir Chae points out that everyone, to the lowest commoner, has some terrible fate to deal with, and that San should not bemoan his. Neither should he hesitate to report criminals and traitors, no matter who they are.
San takes the captain of the Capital Army to report to Yeong-jo about the encampment, the forged charters, dead artist and confession of Minister Han’s steward to Han’s involvement. He is dismissed, and Yeong-jo demands to know the accomplices as Han could not do it alone. He is shocked when San apologetically points the finger at Princess (Yeong-jo’s daughter). San tells him about how he tricked Han with the letter and how Han immediately went to her house and sent a letter to the rebels from there.
Princess Hwaran is announced. When Yeong-jo doesn’t ask her to come in, she barges in anyway and makes an “emergency report” that Minister Han is behind a conspiracy to kill San. I know that, says Yeong-jo, but how did you know? Why did Han go to your house last night? Are you his accomplice? She acts guilty but declaims her innocence and says Han came to her to confess and try to get her to help him out of friendship. Yeong-jo and San don’t believe her, and San is told to fetch Minister Han for personal kingly interrogation. Princess is told if she’s lying, she’ll never be forgiven.
At Minister Han’s house, Uncle sees him being arrested. While Dae-su and Song learn from Mr. Lee that Song won’t be fired because the artists all profited by her ceremonial painting, Uncle runs up and reports the news about Minister Han. Happy, happy.
Jeong secretly visits Minister Han, who is delighted to see him until he learns he’s going to be the fall guy. As Jeong leaves the security office, Eunuch Nam accidentally sees him and runs off, very worried, to report the visit to San. Nam theorizes he was there on Princess’s behalf, plotting with Han.
Ladies Hye (San’s mom) and Hyeoui (his wife) receive a report about Min. Han and Princess and are very upset.
Yeong-jo interrogates Han in front of a lot of worried ministers. He tells him if he tells the truth, he will have a more merciful death, and then demands to know why he visited Princess. Y-J states Princess’s version of the story, and Han laughs. “She’s not the only one I conspired with! Everyone standing up there with you is a traitor! I’m not going to take the fall!” When the others say “it’s a conspiracy” (false testimony), Han starts naming names, including Jeong. Then he laughs like a loon.
The Queen is mad as hell and calling for Princess, who is outside her father’s office crying her innocence. Yeong-jo tells them to close the door in her face.
The ministers snivel and worry. The Queen meets with Sir Choi and Jeong, who wants to kill Han to shut him up. She points out the king will become even more suspicious if that happens. She says if Han names her (Queen), it’s her own problem, and to tell Princess if she can’t get Yeong-jo to forgive her, she has to die.
At Dowahseo, Mr. Lee collects some of the artists’ reward cloth for Song, because she remembered “his” painting. Song reports to the head painter, who says she’s not fired but she’d better not mess up again.
Dae-su learns scribe Hong is going to try to work for San. At San’s place, San thanks Hong for reporting the information that let him trick the conspirators. When San asks why Hong did it, he says “I did it to get on your good side.” San wonders why he’d want to court San, whose position is so precarious. Hong says he’s ambitious for power, but that he believes power should be used for good. He thinks he can do both with San.
At the prison, the guards mysteriously leave. A masked man puts out all the lights, alarming Han, who calls out for the warden. More masked men escort a veiled woman into the prison, who reveals herself to Han. He falls to his knees before the Queen. She tells him he deserves to be rewarded for his service, and that she called off any assassins. She says she’ll save his family and his oldest son won’t have to die (because Han’s a traitor), but she wants to see what he’ll do for her.
What he does is hang himself. Yeong-jo and San receive word the next day, just as Princess, who’s been kneeling in supplication, faints outside Yeong-jo’s office. San receives Han’s confession, which he wrote on cloth (with red ink or maybe blood). The confession says he gave false testimony to the king because he didn’t want to die alone. He says he did it all alone.
Princess lies in a fever. The physician reports to Yeong-jo that she’s in critical condition. Queen scolds the physician, and then Yeong-jo for letting this happen. Princess might die, and then Yeong-jo will re-live the pain he felt for Sado. Also, she might be innocent, because they have no evidence to the contrary. Queen urges him to forgive her for now.
Yeong-jo visits San and sees the confession; San apologizes. Yeong-jo says Han must have had an accomplice, but it isn’t San’s fault, and that the investigation isn’t over. They can handle Princess after they have evidence of her guilt.
Scribe Hong tells San he knew this would happen all along. He counsels San that it isn’t so bad, even if Princess is guilty, she’s not the leader so it wouldn’t profit to get her at this point. San should “hold onto their tail” (Princess) so he can find the main culprits later and clean up the court.
The Queen counsels Princess to suck up to San until she gets a chance to get back at him. So Princess and Jeong meet San, as they are leaving the palace grounds, and Princess apologizes for her “foolishness” and promises she’s loyal to him. San asks why she framed his father, her own brother. She says that’s absurd, but if anyone did kill her brother, it must have been because he drew his sword at them first.
Uncle happily putters around his new art supply house. Sponsor Lee’s obscene art dealer comes in and buys all the brushes, which he then presents to Lee in apology (who accepts). Then Mr. Lee learns Song has received a royal visit. Song is given clothing by a court lady and told the prince is asking to see her at the palace. Song’s friends are thrilled to see her go; Cho-bi feels slighted.
At Uncle’s house, Dae-su has received a suit of fine clothes and is being fetched by San’s eunuchs. Uncle wants to know why he’s not invited, and Dae-su says he’ll report Uncle’s complaints and cowardice. Uncle responds by choking D-S with his own hat strings.
Song and D-S head to the palace. San tells them they’ll get a monetary reward, which they say they don’t want, but San says it’s good PR (showing he rewards those who help the crown). Also, they receive personal gifts. Dae-su receives San’s good-luck archery thimble for good luck on the military exam, and Song receives some kind of art box for “practicing art”—which she says she can’t do. San scolds her, who says she can't? Dae-su is escorted to the military practice grounds by Eunuch Nam.
When asked what she wants to see, Song doesn’t have any wishes, so San shows her his Chinese art book, which was made by a woman. He says the Chinese allow women to be artists, and that he believes Song is destined to be one, too. He says he wants to change the outdated rules about what women can do, and asks her to become an artist at Dowahseo. Then he takes her hand and offers words of encouragement just as his wife comes around the corner. San and Song are embarrassed when Hyeoui speaks.
San is very upset by Princess’s involvement in his deposement and his father’s death, but Eun. Nam tells him to buck up, he has to take action now. Princess and Minister Han discuss the letter he received, which contains details of their whole conspiracy. They suspect a traitor in their ranks. Han thinks the person will report them; Princess says they would have already, they must have something else in mind, and sends for her adoptive son Jeong.
Jeong is meeting with scribe Hong, who informs the Secretary that he is refusing the position he’s been offered and tells him he’d rather work for San. Jeong hopes he won’t have to destroy San and his “branches,” and Hong hopes Jeong will go easy on him if he does.
When she visits Yeong-jo, the queen is upset that the king is worried he may have made a mistake and been fooled about Sado, as he was as today with the trial. She tries to reassure him that just because everyone feels sad about Sado doesn’t mean he was innocent.
At Princess’s place, Jeong reads the letter and scolds Han for leading the author right to him and Princess. He points out it must have been San. Han tells him he also sent a messenger “from Princess” to warn the soldiers they had hidden after being routed from Lower Hill. Jeong sends his own steward to the new hideout, while San’s guard follows Han’s steward. San gives a letter to the head guard to get the official Capital Army to go after the rebel army.
At the rebel camp, they receive, in quick succession, (a) notice from Han to leave, (b) notice that the Capital Army has arrived, and (c) a bunch of flaming arrows to the stomach. Big big big fight. The leaders of the rebels arm themselves with guns, but they are ordered (I think by Jeong’s steward) to go to “the other place,” and if they are about to be captured, they are to take their own lives. These men lead a small group away from the fighting.
San’s guards report that the camp was wiped out and they’ve arrested Han’s steward. San tells them to take the weapons and steward to the office of securities. Nam wants San to push for the jugular and expose the entire conspiracy.
Jeong reassures Minister Han that he’ll take care of everything for him and not to worry or hide (right). Then Jeong tells Princess he has a plan.
San learns from Sir Chae that the dead artist and forged charter evidence were found near the encampment. He bemoans his fate, for being crown prince and for having to report his own aunt for trying to kill him. Sir Chae points out that everyone, to the lowest commoner, has some terrible fate to deal with, and that San should not bemoan his. Neither should he hesitate to report criminals and traitors, no matter who they are.
San takes the captain of the Capital Army to report to Yeong-jo about the encampment, the forged charters, dead artist and confession of Minister Han’s steward to Han’s involvement. He is dismissed, and Yeong-jo demands to know the accomplices as Han could not do it alone. He is shocked when San apologetically points the finger at Princess (Yeong-jo’s daughter). San tells him about how he tricked Han with the letter and how Han immediately went to her house and sent a letter to the rebels from there.
Princess Hwaran is announced. When Yeong-jo doesn’t ask her to come in, she barges in anyway and makes an “emergency report” that Minister Han is behind a conspiracy to kill San. I know that, says Yeong-jo, but how did you know? Why did Han go to your house last night? Are you his accomplice? She acts guilty but declaims her innocence and says Han came to her to confess and try to get her to help him out of friendship. Yeong-jo and San don’t believe her, and San is told to fetch Minister Han for personal kingly interrogation. Princess is told if she’s lying, she’ll never be forgiven.
At Minister Han’s house, Uncle sees him being arrested. While Dae-su and Song learn from Mr. Lee that Song won’t be fired because the artists all profited by her ceremonial painting, Uncle runs up and reports the news about Minister Han. Happy, happy.
Jeong secretly visits Minister Han, who is delighted to see him until he learns he’s going to be the fall guy. As Jeong leaves the security office, Eunuch Nam accidentally sees him and runs off, very worried, to report the visit to San. Nam theorizes he was there on Princess’s behalf, plotting with Han.
Ladies Hye (San’s mom) and Hyeoui (his wife) receive a report about Min. Han and Princess and are very upset.
Yeong-jo interrogates Han in front of a lot of worried ministers. He tells him if he tells the truth, he will have a more merciful death, and then demands to know why he visited Princess. Y-J states Princess’s version of the story, and Han laughs. “She’s not the only one I conspired with! Everyone standing up there with you is a traitor! I’m not going to take the fall!” When the others say “it’s a conspiracy” (false testimony), Han starts naming names, including Jeong. Then he laughs like a loon.
The Queen is mad as hell and calling for Princess, who is outside her father’s office crying her innocence. Yeong-jo tells them to close the door in her face.
The ministers snivel and worry. The Queen meets with Sir Choi and Jeong, who wants to kill Han to shut him up. She points out the king will become even more suspicious if that happens. She says if Han names her (Queen), it’s her own problem, and to tell Princess if she can’t get Yeong-jo to forgive her, she has to die.
At Dowahseo, Mr. Lee collects some of the artists’ reward cloth for Song, because she remembered “his” painting. Song reports to the head painter, who says she’s not fired but she’d better not mess up again.
Dae-su learns scribe Hong is going to try to work for San. At San’s place, San thanks Hong for reporting the information that let him trick the conspirators. When San asks why Hong did it, he says “I did it to get on your good side.” San wonders why he’d want to court San, whose position is so precarious. Hong says he’s ambitious for power, but that he believes power should be used for good. He thinks he can do both with San.
At the prison, the guards mysteriously leave. A masked man puts out all the lights, alarming Han, who calls out for the warden. More masked men escort a veiled woman into the prison, who reveals herself to Han. He falls to his knees before the Queen. She tells him he deserves to be rewarded for his service, and that she called off any assassins. She says she’ll save his family and his oldest son won’t have to die (because Han’s a traitor), but she wants to see what he’ll do for her.
What he does is hang himself. Yeong-jo and San receive word the next day, just as Princess, who’s been kneeling in supplication, faints outside Yeong-jo’s office. San receives Han’s confession, which he wrote on cloth (with red ink or maybe blood). The confession says he gave false testimony to the king because he didn’t want to die alone. He says he did it all alone.
Princess lies in a fever. The physician reports to Yeong-jo that she’s in critical condition. Queen scolds the physician, and then Yeong-jo for letting this happen. Princess might die, and then Yeong-jo will re-live the pain he felt for Sado. Also, she might be innocent, because they have no evidence to the contrary. Queen urges him to forgive her for now.
Yeong-jo visits San and sees the confession; San apologizes. Yeong-jo says Han must have had an accomplice, but it isn’t San’s fault, and that the investigation isn’t over. They can handle Princess after they have evidence of her guilt.
Scribe Hong tells San he knew this would happen all along. He counsels San that it isn’t so bad, even if Princess is guilty, she’s not the leader so it wouldn’t profit to get her at this point. San should “hold onto their tail” (Princess) so he can find the main culprits later and clean up the court.
The Queen counsels Princess to suck up to San until she gets a chance to get back at him. So Princess and Jeong meet San, as they are leaving the palace grounds, and Princess apologizes for her “foolishness” and promises she’s loyal to him. San asks why she framed his father, her own brother. She says that’s absurd, but if anyone did kill her brother, it must have been because he drew his sword at them first.
Uncle happily putters around his new art supply house. Sponsor Lee’s obscene art dealer comes in and buys all the brushes, which he then presents to Lee in apology (who accepts). Then Mr. Lee learns Song has received a royal visit. Song is given clothing by a court lady and told the prince is asking to see her at the palace. Song’s friends are thrilled to see her go; Cho-bi feels slighted.
At Uncle’s house, Dae-su has received a suit of fine clothes and is being fetched by San’s eunuchs. Uncle wants to know why he’s not invited, and Dae-su says he’ll report Uncle’s complaints and cowardice. Uncle responds by choking D-S with his own hat strings.
Song and D-S head to the palace. San tells them they’ll get a monetary reward, which they say they don’t want, but San says it’s good PR (showing he rewards those who help the crown). Also, they receive personal gifts. Dae-su receives San’s good-luck archery thimble for good luck on the military exam, and Song receives some kind of art box for “practicing art”—which she says she can’t do. San scolds her, who says she can't? Dae-su is escorted to the military practice grounds by Eunuch Nam.
When asked what she wants to see, Song doesn’t have any wishes, so San shows her his Chinese art book, which was made by a woman. He says the Chinese allow women to be artists, and that he believes Song is destined to be one, too. He says he wants to change the outdated rules about what women can do, and asks her to become an artist at Dowahseo. Then he takes her hand and offers words of encouragement just as his wife comes around the corner. San and Song are embarrassed when Hyeoui speaks.