Post by TheBo on Jul 17, 2011 9:58:44 GMT -5
Ep.15:
Hyeoui recognizes Song from making the sweets (at H’s parents’ house) for San. Song is embarrassed for not knowing her at the time. As Song is escorted from the palace, Hyeoui’s chief lady attendant (Lady Kim) regards her suspiciously and makes her feel uncomfortable. At his rooms, San tells Hyeoui that Song is someone who helped him and that she is a friend from childhood. Later, Hyeoui has to scold Lady Kim, who is suspicious of San and Song because “he takes no interest in the court ladies but took her to his private study.”
Dae-su, in the meantime, is nearly sent to jail by San’s guards, until they find out he’s the one who helped with San’s problem. (They’ve become loyal to San.) They tease Dae-su about his military prowess and taking the military exam.
Lady Hye-gyeong (San’s mom) takes medicine to Princess, who apparently thinks she’s being poisoned but drinks it. Then Lady Hye tells her this is the exact medicine her husband took in his agony under the king’s anger before he died. Lady Hye tells her if any other conspirators confess to Princess, she is to tell them Lady Hye doesn’t know what she’s capable of doing to such a person, so they’d better be careful because she has no intention of losing her son in vain as she did her innocent husband. When Hye leaves, Princess shows her anger at being threatened.
Then Lady Hye visits the king, who is surprised as she’s never asked for an audience before. Later, the Queen’s lady reports to her that Hye asked Yeong-jo to support San so he wouldn’t be framed again. Queen asks for Sir Choi (Minister of Personnel).
Later, Hye’s relatives ask her why she visited the king, because she’s stepping on the court officers’ toes. She tells them she’s kept quiet for long enough; she’s not going to trust them to protect San but will do it herself.
Queen meets with Sir Choi and says everyone will listen to Hye because she usually doesn’t say anything, and that Hye’s uncle should shut her up for the Queen. Also, she asks when the secret army will be rebuilt. Choi says he sent the men to infiltrate the capital police force instead, as a secret army can be discovered. Pleased by his initiative and wisdom, Queen tells him that for now, he’s in charge of matters.
Choi meets Jeong and tells him that Jeong and Princess should lay low until they can be rehabilitated to the court. Jeong asks if he speaks for the Queen, but Choi says it’s his own decision, and that the Norons need Jeong so he should go along with it for greater things later.
Yeong-jo counsels San on the nature of politics and asks what San will do. San says he’ll lay low until he figures out who is behind what. Yeong-jo approves. In a variation on the old adage, he tells San to keep his enemies close and keep his allies close to his enemies (to advise him what to do about them).
As San watches his guards train, he gets a list from scribe Hong of men, hired by Jeong, that San should fire. Hong also asks San about Dae-su. He thinks Dae-su’s a great fighter, but won’t be able to memorize the books and pass the exam. He thinks San should hire him anyway. But San doesn’t want to show favoritism. He asks Hong how he could help Dae-su pass. Hong says, “Most people just cheat.” San challenges Hong to find a way to get Dae-su to pass without cheating. He says he’ll get his other men to be loyal to him, so this is Hong’s assignment.
Hong finds Dae-su at the cram school and scolds him for wasting his time on memorizing books. He tutors Dae-su on the “point” of those books, and gives him some mnemonic devices to memorize with. However, Dae-su can’t remember the mnemonics. Hong calls him an idiot, but welcomes the challenge to his intellect.
At guard training, San challenges his men to an arrow shoot, and teases them by saying he’s only going to require 20 rounds from them. The men enthusiastically go to the shoot, because they’ve been training and feel confident. They do well and are praised.
At Dowahseo, Sponsor Lee feels he needs an assistant in his obscene painting business. While teaching portrait drawing, he tries to recruit a new student. Another student is doing a bad job, but when Song absentmindedly comments, he flares up at her and she apologizes. While washing up the paints, Song remembers San’s words about her painting and reviews some of the lesson she heard that day.
Jeong, having learned about the Damo that helped San, “runs into” her at a shop where she’s trying to get the book by the Chinese female artist. Jeong tells her of another rare book shop where she should go. He tries to get her to tell where she got the rare book she has in her hands (San gave it to her).
Unfortunately, Hyeoui’s Lady KIm has a man spying on Song, and he reports that he saw Song talking with Jeong. She’s suspicious that Song knows so many higher-ups, and thinks Song is a spy for Princess; she says so to Hyeoui.
San bonds with his men by training with them. The ministers come by and their natural interpretation is he’s doing the wrong thing. He should be studying. Later, San is summoned before the Court to comment on the exam essay question (seems to be a general exam to recruit scholars as well as military). Since San is going to have these men working for him for much longer than will Yeong-jo (worried looks from ministers all round), what does he think the question should be? San says it should ask how to reform the corrupt court administrative offices. He points out some abuses that are taking place due to politics and favoritism and says they’ll receive harsh criticisms and good ideas from the up-and-comers. Yeong-jo agrees and asks what everyone else thinks. He smirks at their uncomfortable silence and praises San for knowing what’s important.
At Uncle’s house, Song is preparing some “brain food” for Dae-su, who’s been studying hard. D-S runs out of the house screaming in frustration. Sir Hong comes in and lays out one of his aphorisms (“So, you’re ‘crazy as a pig,’ huh?”) and gives D-S some practice exam questions to memorize. They discuss them, and then Dae-su asks why he can’t just cheat. Hong tells him not this time; the test is for Hong, too. Later, San and Eunuch Nam discuss Dae-su’s progress.
The day of the exam arrives, and damo/painter teams are assigned to the various exams. At the military exam, Cho-bi sees Dae-su and is captivated by him. The Prince is announced. Dae-su does very well at the fighting, and when he makes a victory sign to Song, Cho-bi learns of their connection. She’s pleased.
Scribe Hong learns he guessed right on the military questions (about formations). Unfortunately, Dae-su had studied all the questions except the one that was given on the exam. He wrote something, but it wasn’t good enough. Hong intimates that he’ll get Dae-su in by hook or by crook.
San receives the bad news from Nam that D-S missed the top group by 4 or 5 points. He’s disappointed, but worried about D-S, despondent at Uncle’s house.
Meanwhile, Hong reports cheating (exam question leakage) to the exam office. The man looks uncomfortable but demands to know who cheated and how. Hong names the cheaters and the officer who leaked the question to them. The man says he still can’t do anything without proof, as the list was already sent to personnel. Hong slaps down a letter of confession from the officer who leaked. The man still won’t investigate, so Hong asks if he’s refusing a direct order from San (because Hong was “asked to look for cheaters”).
At Dowahseo, Cho-bi sidles up to Song to find out about Dae-su. She also tells Song the exam results have been posted. Song goes to look at the list, even though Uncle thinks he must not have passed. Dae-su is drinking and picking fights at the tavern. Song scolds him, in case he gets taken off the list—he passed! Uncle, Song and Dae-su go look at the list. They’re all excited and tearful, and the crowd applauds Dae-su.
At San’s office, Hong shows up and is greeted happily by San, until San learns that Dae-su actually passed. Hong explains he used the prince’s name in vain, but did not abuse it. Since San told him Dae-su could not cheat, he extrapolated that into an order to catch cheaters. He got Dae-su to pass lawfully (a nearly impossible task), and in the process found some lawbreakers (cheaters). “Ain’t I great?” he exults, and San laughs.
The new guard recruits, including Dae-su, nervously await their assignments. They are called out to receive their certificates directly from San’s hand (an unusual procedure), and the prince tells each man that he trusts him. Dae-su is called up, and he and San add a little verbiage to the formula and grin at each other foolishly. Sir Chae is a bit rattled by this, but Eun. Nam is delighted and San beams.
Hyeoui recognizes Song from making the sweets (at H’s parents’ house) for San. Song is embarrassed for not knowing her at the time. As Song is escorted from the palace, Hyeoui’s chief lady attendant (Lady Kim) regards her suspiciously and makes her feel uncomfortable. At his rooms, San tells Hyeoui that Song is someone who helped him and that she is a friend from childhood. Later, Hyeoui has to scold Lady Kim, who is suspicious of San and Song because “he takes no interest in the court ladies but took her to his private study.”
Dae-su, in the meantime, is nearly sent to jail by San’s guards, until they find out he’s the one who helped with San’s problem. (They’ve become loyal to San.) They tease Dae-su about his military prowess and taking the military exam.
Lady Hye-gyeong (San’s mom) takes medicine to Princess, who apparently thinks she’s being poisoned but drinks it. Then Lady Hye tells her this is the exact medicine her husband took in his agony under the king’s anger before he died. Lady Hye tells her if any other conspirators confess to Princess, she is to tell them Lady Hye doesn’t know what she’s capable of doing to such a person, so they’d better be careful because she has no intention of losing her son in vain as she did her innocent husband. When Hye leaves, Princess shows her anger at being threatened.
Then Lady Hye visits the king, who is surprised as she’s never asked for an audience before. Later, the Queen’s lady reports to her that Hye asked Yeong-jo to support San so he wouldn’t be framed again. Queen asks for Sir Choi (Minister of Personnel).
Later, Hye’s relatives ask her why she visited the king, because she’s stepping on the court officers’ toes. She tells them she’s kept quiet for long enough; she’s not going to trust them to protect San but will do it herself.
Queen meets with Sir Choi and says everyone will listen to Hye because she usually doesn’t say anything, and that Hye’s uncle should shut her up for the Queen. Also, she asks when the secret army will be rebuilt. Choi says he sent the men to infiltrate the capital police force instead, as a secret army can be discovered. Pleased by his initiative and wisdom, Queen tells him that for now, he’s in charge of matters.
Choi meets Jeong and tells him that Jeong and Princess should lay low until they can be rehabilitated to the court. Jeong asks if he speaks for the Queen, but Choi says it’s his own decision, and that the Norons need Jeong so he should go along with it for greater things later.
Yeong-jo counsels San on the nature of politics and asks what San will do. San says he’ll lay low until he figures out who is behind what. Yeong-jo approves. In a variation on the old adage, he tells San to keep his enemies close and keep his allies close to his enemies (to advise him what to do about them).
As San watches his guards train, he gets a list from scribe Hong of men, hired by Jeong, that San should fire. Hong also asks San about Dae-su. He thinks Dae-su’s a great fighter, but won’t be able to memorize the books and pass the exam. He thinks San should hire him anyway. But San doesn’t want to show favoritism. He asks Hong how he could help Dae-su pass. Hong says, “Most people just cheat.” San challenges Hong to find a way to get Dae-su to pass without cheating. He says he’ll get his other men to be loyal to him, so this is Hong’s assignment.
Hong finds Dae-su at the cram school and scolds him for wasting his time on memorizing books. He tutors Dae-su on the “point” of those books, and gives him some mnemonic devices to memorize with. However, Dae-su can’t remember the mnemonics. Hong calls him an idiot, but welcomes the challenge to his intellect.
At guard training, San challenges his men to an arrow shoot, and teases them by saying he’s only going to require 20 rounds from them. The men enthusiastically go to the shoot, because they’ve been training and feel confident. They do well and are praised.
At Dowahseo, Sponsor Lee feels he needs an assistant in his obscene painting business. While teaching portrait drawing, he tries to recruit a new student. Another student is doing a bad job, but when Song absentmindedly comments, he flares up at her and she apologizes. While washing up the paints, Song remembers San’s words about her painting and reviews some of the lesson she heard that day.
Jeong, having learned about the Damo that helped San, “runs into” her at a shop where she’s trying to get the book by the Chinese female artist. Jeong tells her of another rare book shop where she should go. He tries to get her to tell where she got the rare book she has in her hands (San gave it to her).
Unfortunately, Hyeoui’s Lady KIm has a man spying on Song, and he reports that he saw Song talking with Jeong. She’s suspicious that Song knows so many higher-ups, and thinks Song is a spy for Princess; she says so to Hyeoui.
San bonds with his men by training with them. The ministers come by and their natural interpretation is he’s doing the wrong thing. He should be studying. Later, San is summoned before the Court to comment on the exam essay question (seems to be a general exam to recruit scholars as well as military). Since San is going to have these men working for him for much longer than will Yeong-jo (worried looks from ministers all round), what does he think the question should be? San says it should ask how to reform the corrupt court administrative offices. He points out some abuses that are taking place due to politics and favoritism and says they’ll receive harsh criticisms and good ideas from the up-and-comers. Yeong-jo agrees and asks what everyone else thinks. He smirks at their uncomfortable silence and praises San for knowing what’s important.
At Uncle’s house, Song is preparing some “brain food” for Dae-su, who’s been studying hard. D-S runs out of the house screaming in frustration. Sir Hong comes in and lays out one of his aphorisms (“So, you’re ‘crazy as a pig,’ huh?”) and gives D-S some practice exam questions to memorize. They discuss them, and then Dae-su asks why he can’t just cheat. Hong tells him not this time; the test is for Hong, too. Later, San and Eunuch Nam discuss Dae-su’s progress.
The day of the exam arrives, and damo/painter teams are assigned to the various exams. At the military exam, Cho-bi sees Dae-su and is captivated by him. The Prince is announced. Dae-su does very well at the fighting, and when he makes a victory sign to Song, Cho-bi learns of their connection. She’s pleased.
Scribe Hong learns he guessed right on the military questions (about formations). Unfortunately, Dae-su had studied all the questions except the one that was given on the exam. He wrote something, but it wasn’t good enough. Hong intimates that he’ll get Dae-su in by hook or by crook.
San receives the bad news from Nam that D-S missed the top group by 4 or 5 points. He’s disappointed, but worried about D-S, despondent at Uncle’s house.
Meanwhile, Hong reports cheating (exam question leakage) to the exam office. The man looks uncomfortable but demands to know who cheated and how. Hong names the cheaters and the officer who leaked the question to them. The man says he still can’t do anything without proof, as the list was already sent to personnel. Hong slaps down a letter of confession from the officer who leaked. The man still won’t investigate, so Hong asks if he’s refusing a direct order from San (because Hong was “asked to look for cheaters”).
At Dowahseo, Cho-bi sidles up to Song to find out about Dae-su. She also tells Song the exam results have been posted. Song goes to look at the list, even though Uncle thinks he must not have passed. Dae-su is drinking and picking fights at the tavern. Song scolds him, in case he gets taken off the list—he passed! Uncle, Song and Dae-su go look at the list. They’re all excited and tearful, and the crowd applauds Dae-su.
At San’s office, Hong shows up and is greeted happily by San, until San learns that Dae-su actually passed. Hong explains he used the prince’s name in vain, but did not abuse it. Since San told him Dae-su could not cheat, he extrapolated that into an order to catch cheaters. He got Dae-su to pass lawfully (a nearly impossible task), and in the process found some lawbreakers (cheaters). “Ain’t I great?” he exults, and San laughs.
The new guard recruits, including Dae-su, nervously await their assignments. They are called out to receive their certificates directly from San’s hand (an unusual procedure), and the prince tells each man that he trusts him. Dae-su is called up, and he and San add a little verbiage to the formula and grin at each other foolishly. Sir Chae is a bit rattled by this, but Eun. Nam is delighted and San beams.