Post by TheBo on Jul 30, 2011 6:52:29 GMT -5
The king is in critical condition, and the physician attempts to treat his high fever. Princess finds out her meds made things worse and demands to visit Yeong-jo. Hong visits the man who advised him about the efficacy of the medicine in the first place, and the man asks for an exact description of Y-J’s condition.
San tells the doctor to stop treating Yeong-jo with this medicine and to make something else. Princess rushes in and begs him to continue her treatment. They argue. She insists the reason he’s got the fever is because he’s recovering from the illness and toxins are being released from his body. San, confused, asks the physician’s advice; the man says it’s possible, but there’s no guaranty. San wants to stop the treatment, but Princess begs a continuance for one more day, on pain of her own life. Ladies Hye and Hyeoui receive word of the situation, too.
San receives a report from Hong, who says his source gave him much the same info as Princess’s claims. San wonders if Yeong-jo is actually recovering, and notes that the physician doesn’t know what to do at this point, anyway. Sir Chae advises that the treatment is gambling, and if they don’t stop it now, San is also in danger.
While San ponders the situation, the Norons fight among themselves. The Queen tells Jeong to get the rebel army ready in case of Y-J’s death, and Princess refuses to leave the palace. San orders the medicine to be administered again, and Princess hears word of this but refuses to go home.
The palace guards and soldiers are on alert for a rebellion if Y-J dies. Dae-su returns to his post. The Norons worry about their own lives. The doctor and pharmacists concoct potions of the special ginseng. The ladies of the palace stare silently into space in their quarters or, in Princess’s case, outside the king’s residence. Night falls. Sir Chae, Eunuch Nam and scribe Hong can’t find anything out; Hong thinks the medicine came too late to be effective.
In Yeong-jo’s chambers, the old man’s eyelids flutter as his breathing becomes more labored. San orders the medicine to be discontinued. He takes a fresh cloth to lay on his grandfather’s forehead, and as he takes off the previous one he notices the cloth is still cold. The physician comes running when summoned; he confirms the fever is broken, Y-J seems to be recovering. Princess and the Queen meet, and Princess is given the credit for saving them all.
San’s advisors try to give him credit for the save, but he insists it’s all on Princess. Still, they assure him he was the one. San tells Hong to supervise the pharmacy until Y-J recovers completely. On his way out, Hong and Jeong meet, noting that this is probably the last time they’ll have a common goal or wish each other well. As Hong leaves, Sir Choi asks Jeong if that’s the guy who’s strategizing for San. “He’s young,” says Choi. Jeong says he may be young, but even if we can’t get him to our side, we should get him the heck away from San’s.
San waits with Yeong-jo. The doctor wants San to get some sleep, but San refuses. Yeong-jo remonstrates, thrilling San with the fact that he’s conscious. Y-J and San have a nice moment. San returns to his quarters, exhausted. Yeong-jo, stronger, sits up and drinks his own medicine.
At Dowahseo, everyone is overworked. The screens are not done for Hyeoui, so head artist Park asks artist Tak to show Song how to do it. Tak is insulted, Song scared. Elsewhere, sponsor Lee is having trouble with his chosen “successor” in the dirty picture business, who doesn’t understand why he gets so many assignments for portraits and strange instructions to make the women look like they’re naked, even though clothed. The damo gossip that Mr. Lee is acting oddly since he “almost died,” and so is Cho-bi.
Cho-bi brings a gift to Uncle’s house. She fondles Dae-su’s weapons lying on the porch and his clothing drying on the line. He arrives, then recognizes her and thanks her for the medicine she sent. He politely gives her credit for his quick recovery, and she takes that to heart. At Dowahseo, Song’s friend tells her that Cho-bi’s gone ga-ga over Dae-su, but Song, distracted, does not hear this.
Song runs out to painter Tak and volunteers to do the screen. Tak doesn’t like it, but nobody else has time including him. He expresses his prejudices against Damos painting, but tells her she has three days to paint Buddha-hand citrons. The painter Jeong summoned earlier about Song sees her talking to Tak. In a quiet room, Song commences the painting.
The Queen visits San in his office. She apologizes for being against San, because she was so worried about the king. Now she’s relieved that he recovered, due to the medicine, and wants to discuss bringing Princess back to the palace as a reward. San weakly argues, but Queenie carries the conversation.
Eun. Nam is greatly upset by Princess’s return, but Hong points out that they have no choice. San tells Nam he’d endure much more to have saved Yeong-jo.
Princess shows up all happy, with her stuff. Hyeoui and Lady Kim see her from afar and discuss her return. At Lady Hye’s quarters, she and her father learn of Princess’s return and worry about it.
Yeong-jo receives Princess’s visit, with the Queen looking on. When Princess inquires after Y-J’s health, at first he can‘t seem to answer, but when the Queen prompts him, he thanks Princess, who cries. The Queen tells her the day is too joyful for tears and asks Y-J to take P’s hand, which she does. Queen sighs with relief.
In Queen’s quarters, Choi and Queen praise Princess and Jeong for saving the king and the Norons’ bacon, as well. Outside, Princess notes that they all ignored her when she was kicked out, but now they praise her with empty phrases. She tells Jeong she’s “dying” to do something now she’s back at the palace.
At Lady Hye’s place, Princess pays a visit. She announces that she only took two packets of Lady Hye’s bitter medicine, so she’s returning it for Lady Hye’s own use. To P’s surprise, Lady Hye seems amused. She says she’ll take the medicine, but probably won’t find it bitter, as she tasted bitterness in spades thanks to Princess years ago. Hye says, I’ll keep these on hand for your use later. You’ll probably need them soon.
At Yeong-jo’s office, he demands to know why San didn’t do anything about his edict. San naturally doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Yeong-jo calls for his eunuch to get the secretariat (to whom he gave the edict). The eunuch first informs the Queen of this fact. The Queen and Sir Choi consult, and she walks over to Yeong-jo’s office, edict in hand.
Yeong-jo asks her to leave as he has important business. She lays down the edict and tells Y-J that she knows the contents, revealing them to a surprised San. She says she did it out of loyalty to San and the court. Yeong-jo is furious and doubts she can have an explanation. She says he fell unconscious after issuing the edict, and she was afraid the ministers would attack San when they found out, when San did not have Yeong-jo’s protection. So she hid the edict to prevent chaos and protect San.
Yeong-jo says even so, she has no business meddling in affairs of state. San says, please don’t scold her, you’d have to take it back anyway now that you are better. Yeong-jo: “Nothing doing, I’m still going to do it.” San and Queen are shocked and protest. Yeong-jo says the thing will be published and announced today, so call the ministers and officers together for a meeting.
Outside, San begs Y-J to reconsider. The king tells him he’s done a good job governing the last few days, he’ll do fine. San still protests that he’s not ready to rule. Y-J says, if you’ve got time to bicker with me, you’ve got time to study up on how you’re going to do this. Don’t come to the meeting, Y-J says, I’ll have to shout those guys down on your behalf. The queen looks on from nearby, concerned.
At the court, the ministers and officers rush in, in a tizzy. Hong sees them going in. Eunuch Nam greets him and, naturally (as a staff person), already knows the news and advises Hong to visit San. Hong is shocked but refuses to go to San right away. Sir Choi and Jeong, coming in, are already trying to think of ways to stop the regency. In the court, Yeong-jo announces the edict. The ministers ask him not to do it since he’s healthy now. Y-J insists he’s still sick, ok? He tells them their petitions and pleas will make no difference, tomorrow San will be regent and they’d better help him out.
Outside his palace, his ministers continue to stage protests. Y-J tells Sir Chae they are foolish, for he already told them that wouldn’t work. Sir Chae points out that San will have a hard time obeying the order, too, and asks why Y-Js doing it. Y-J says he realized his own mortality and wants to test San for his new role as king. He needs to guide San and help him be a good king.
The Queen tells Sir Choi that the king is adamant about this, so they’ll have to take drastic action. She calls a meeting. Until she arrives, the conspirators discuss boycotting any meetings presided over by San. The Queen says that’s not a good idea; rather, they should go along with the regency but make San look totally incompetent and unable to rule. After all, they “did it before with Sado.”
So, Lady Hye and Lady Hyeoui discuss the situation. Lady Hye remembers that Sado lost the king’s favor during his[u/] regency. She is worried. Hyeoui tries to ease her worries, but she’s still apprehensive.
At Yeong-jo’s office, he asks San what they should do in tomorrow’s court meeting. San still argues that he can’t do it. Y-J is disgusted and says if you want to be a sage king as you promised your father, then you’d better get on the ball. San shouldn’t spit in the face of this opportunity to learn what he needs to do in order to rule. If he doesn’t want to get eaten alive the next day, he’d better study all night. He says, don’t govern to please me or the ministers, but rather, to show what you want to get done.
San calls for Hong, who is at the pharmacy, to come to him at the library. Hong reports on the king’s treatments, then San comments that Hong is acting strange. He didn’t rush to San’s side and give a lot of advice to him. Hong remarks that San told him (Hong) he had a lot of ambition, and tells San he sees ambition in San, too. Hong doesn’t know what that ambition is, but he sees that San knows this is his first opportunity to do something about it.
The court meeting starts, but San is still sitting in the library. Y-J, antsy, is about to send out a search party when San announces his own arrival.
San tells the doctor to stop treating Yeong-jo with this medicine and to make something else. Princess rushes in and begs him to continue her treatment. They argue. She insists the reason he’s got the fever is because he’s recovering from the illness and toxins are being released from his body. San, confused, asks the physician’s advice; the man says it’s possible, but there’s no guaranty. San wants to stop the treatment, but Princess begs a continuance for one more day, on pain of her own life. Ladies Hye and Hyeoui receive word of the situation, too.
San receives a report from Hong, who says his source gave him much the same info as Princess’s claims. San wonders if Yeong-jo is actually recovering, and notes that the physician doesn’t know what to do at this point, anyway. Sir Chae advises that the treatment is gambling, and if they don’t stop it now, San is also in danger.
While San ponders the situation, the Norons fight among themselves. The Queen tells Jeong to get the rebel army ready in case of Y-J’s death, and Princess refuses to leave the palace. San orders the medicine to be administered again, and Princess hears word of this but refuses to go home.
The palace guards and soldiers are on alert for a rebellion if Y-J dies. Dae-su returns to his post. The Norons worry about their own lives. The doctor and pharmacists concoct potions of the special ginseng. The ladies of the palace stare silently into space in their quarters or, in Princess’s case, outside the king’s residence. Night falls. Sir Chae, Eunuch Nam and scribe Hong can’t find anything out; Hong thinks the medicine came too late to be effective.
In Yeong-jo’s chambers, the old man’s eyelids flutter as his breathing becomes more labored. San orders the medicine to be discontinued. He takes a fresh cloth to lay on his grandfather’s forehead, and as he takes off the previous one he notices the cloth is still cold. The physician comes running when summoned; he confirms the fever is broken, Y-J seems to be recovering. Princess and the Queen meet, and Princess is given the credit for saving them all.
San’s advisors try to give him credit for the save, but he insists it’s all on Princess. Still, they assure him he was the one. San tells Hong to supervise the pharmacy until Y-J recovers completely. On his way out, Hong and Jeong meet, noting that this is probably the last time they’ll have a common goal or wish each other well. As Hong leaves, Sir Choi asks Jeong if that’s the guy who’s strategizing for San. “He’s young,” says Choi. Jeong says he may be young, but even if we can’t get him to our side, we should get him the heck away from San’s.
San waits with Yeong-jo. The doctor wants San to get some sleep, but San refuses. Yeong-jo remonstrates, thrilling San with the fact that he’s conscious. Y-J and San have a nice moment. San returns to his quarters, exhausted. Yeong-jo, stronger, sits up and drinks his own medicine.
At Dowahseo, everyone is overworked. The screens are not done for Hyeoui, so head artist Park asks artist Tak to show Song how to do it. Tak is insulted, Song scared. Elsewhere, sponsor Lee is having trouble with his chosen “successor” in the dirty picture business, who doesn’t understand why he gets so many assignments for portraits and strange instructions to make the women look like they’re naked, even though clothed. The damo gossip that Mr. Lee is acting oddly since he “almost died,” and so is Cho-bi.
Cho-bi brings a gift to Uncle’s house. She fondles Dae-su’s weapons lying on the porch and his clothing drying on the line. He arrives, then recognizes her and thanks her for the medicine she sent. He politely gives her credit for his quick recovery, and she takes that to heart. At Dowahseo, Song’s friend tells her that Cho-bi’s gone ga-ga over Dae-su, but Song, distracted, does not hear this.
Song runs out to painter Tak and volunteers to do the screen. Tak doesn’t like it, but nobody else has time including him. He expresses his prejudices against Damos painting, but tells her she has three days to paint Buddha-hand citrons. The painter Jeong summoned earlier about Song sees her talking to Tak. In a quiet room, Song commences the painting.
The Queen visits San in his office. She apologizes for being against San, because she was so worried about the king. Now she’s relieved that he recovered, due to the medicine, and wants to discuss bringing Princess back to the palace as a reward. San weakly argues, but Queenie carries the conversation.
Eun. Nam is greatly upset by Princess’s return, but Hong points out that they have no choice. San tells Nam he’d endure much more to have saved Yeong-jo.
Princess shows up all happy, with her stuff. Hyeoui and Lady Kim see her from afar and discuss her return. At Lady Hye’s quarters, she and her father learn of Princess’s return and worry about it.
Yeong-jo receives Princess’s visit, with the Queen looking on. When Princess inquires after Y-J’s health, at first he can‘t seem to answer, but when the Queen prompts him, he thanks Princess, who cries. The Queen tells her the day is too joyful for tears and asks Y-J to take P’s hand, which she does. Queen sighs with relief.
In Queen’s quarters, Choi and Queen praise Princess and Jeong for saving the king and the Norons’ bacon, as well. Outside, Princess notes that they all ignored her when she was kicked out, but now they praise her with empty phrases. She tells Jeong she’s “dying” to do something now she’s back at the palace.
At Lady Hye’s place, Princess pays a visit. She announces that she only took two packets of Lady Hye’s bitter medicine, so she’s returning it for Lady Hye’s own use. To P’s surprise, Lady Hye seems amused. She says she’ll take the medicine, but probably won’t find it bitter, as she tasted bitterness in spades thanks to Princess years ago. Hye says, I’ll keep these on hand for your use later. You’ll probably need them soon.
At Yeong-jo’s office, he demands to know why San didn’t do anything about his edict. San naturally doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Yeong-jo calls for his eunuch to get the secretariat (to whom he gave the edict). The eunuch first informs the Queen of this fact. The Queen and Sir Choi consult, and she walks over to Yeong-jo’s office, edict in hand.
Yeong-jo asks her to leave as he has important business. She lays down the edict and tells Y-J that she knows the contents, revealing them to a surprised San. She says she did it out of loyalty to San and the court. Yeong-jo is furious and doubts she can have an explanation. She says he fell unconscious after issuing the edict, and she was afraid the ministers would attack San when they found out, when San did not have Yeong-jo’s protection. So she hid the edict to prevent chaos and protect San.
Yeong-jo says even so, she has no business meddling in affairs of state. San says, please don’t scold her, you’d have to take it back anyway now that you are better. Yeong-jo: “Nothing doing, I’m still going to do it.” San and Queen are shocked and protest. Yeong-jo says the thing will be published and announced today, so call the ministers and officers together for a meeting.
Outside, San begs Y-J to reconsider. The king tells him he’s done a good job governing the last few days, he’ll do fine. San still protests that he’s not ready to rule. Y-J says, if you’ve got time to bicker with me, you’ve got time to study up on how you’re going to do this. Don’t come to the meeting, Y-J says, I’ll have to shout those guys down on your behalf. The queen looks on from nearby, concerned.
At the court, the ministers and officers rush in, in a tizzy. Hong sees them going in. Eunuch Nam greets him and, naturally (as a staff person), already knows the news and advises Hong to visit San. Hong is shocked but refuses to go to San right away. Sir Choi and Jeong, coming in, are already trying to think of ways to stop the regency. In the court, Yeong-jo announces the edict. The ministers ask him not to do it since he’s healthy now. Y-J insists he’s still sick, ok? He tells them their petitions and pleas will make no difference, tomorrow San will be regent and they’d better help him out.
Outside his palace, his ministers continue to stage protests. Y-J tells Sir Chae they are foolish, for he already told them that wouldn’t work. Sir Chae points out that San will have a hard time obeying the order, too, and asks why Y-Js doing it. Y-J says he realized his own mortality and wants to test San for his new role as king. He needs to guide San and help him be a good king.
The Queen tells Sir Choi that the king is adamant about this, so they’ll have to take drastic action. She calls a meeting. Until she arrives, the conspirators discuss boycotting any meetings presided over by San. The Queen says that’s not a good idea; rather, they should go along with the regency but make San look totally incompetent and unable to rule. After all, they “did it before with Sado.”
So, Lady Hye and Lady Hyeoui discuss the situation. Lady Hye remembers that Sado lost the king’s favor during his[u/] regency. She is worried. Hyeoui tries to ease her worries, but she’s still apprehensive.
At Yeong-jo’s office, he asks San what they should do in tomorrow’s court meeting. San still argues that he can’t do it. Y-J is disgusted and says if you want to be a sage king as you promised your father, then you’d better get on the ball. San shouldn’t spit in the face of this opportunity to learn what he needs to do in order to rule. If he doesn’t want to get eaten alive the next day, he’d better study all night. He says, don’t govern to please me or the ministers, but rather, to show what you want to get done.
San calls for Hong, who is at the pharmacy, to come to him at the library. Hong reports on the king’s treatments, then San comments that Hong is acting strange. He didn’t rush to San’s side and give a lot of advice to him. Hong remarks that San told him (Hong) he had a lot of ambition, and tells San he sees ambition in San, too. Hong doesn’t know what that ambition is, but he sees that San knows this is his first opportunity to do something about it.
The court meeting starts, but San is still sitting in the library. Y-J, antsy, is about to send out a search party when San announces his own arrival.