Post by TheBo on Jan 12, 2012 12:59:52 GMT -5
Ep.60 –
To Repeat: Members of DS+2, San’s special cadre of guards, are Officer Suh (head guard), Officer Kang (second head guard, the archer), and Officer Park (Dae-su)
Hong’s men beat the bushes for escapees and find some torn cloth. Song-yeon stumbles through the street with the injured Mr X, not knowing he’s actually her "dead" brother. She goes to Uncle’s house and begs help from Aunt Mak-soon. The doctor who treats Mr X wants to report him, but Song pretends she knows him and “it’s not an arrow wound.” Mak-soon worries Song will get herself into trouble.
At the palace, San questions Hong about his orders to hunt the escapees into the ground since the “dangerous assassins” didn’t even fight the guards who were intent on killing them. “They had those guns!” says Hong. Hong fires the poor sot who reported this to San, and when D-S and Kang protest, he tells everyone San is on a need-to-know basis and then seeks to separate Officer Suh from D-S and Kang by giving him money “for his wounds” and promoting him. Suh is now his “secret agent.”
Dowager Hye, relieved that Hong is doing his job again, urges Queen Hyeoui to hasten concubine selection. Q-H feels this is indelicate, but Hye insists. [Oh-oh – Hong Monster alert.] Lady Kim wonders if Hyeoui will try to bring in Song again. Also, Lord Jang, despite pressure being off the Norons, is sure that Hong will be more ruthless and powerful than ever.
Hong asks San to grant Won Bin’s last wish and “continue her line” by allowing her to posthumously adopt the eldest son (named “Dam”) of San’s brother Prince Eun-un. San will consider it. Hong has already consulted with Tebi Mamah, who discusses this idea with Sir Choi and wants him to support it; he is puzzled. She reveals she wants Hong to become head Noron so they can stand behind him and get everything they want. Hong has some ginseng meant for Hyeoui confiscated for himself. Searches in the market and at Dowahseo alarm both Song and Sir Min (Jang’s turncoat).
One of the half-nobles brags to San about his archery skill, and since his target work clearly sucks, San scolds him for lying and then tells him he’s been appointed head envoy to Qing because he met with the “White Tower Gang” to criticize Chosun’s policies toward Qing. San also is sending the W-T Gang--embarrassed not to have recognized him. He jokes about his “bad habit” of concealing his identity.
San wants them to bring back all Qing inventions and all western inventions the Qing have, because Chosun needs new ideas, but one man avers that San is treating men with new thoughts as “traitors and insurgents.” San doesn’t know who he means. It turns out Hong arrested a bunch of Catholics.
At the tribunal, D-S and Kang wonder where Suh is. They are summoned by San, who has been thinking about the captured men and Hong for some time. He wants them to quietly investigate Hong’s activities (for his own good of course) and expresses doubts about the Catholic “traitors”—why didn’t they use their guns to resist arrest? D-S and Kang agree to investigate (naturally—he is the king).
Hong continues torturing the Catholics for their filthy teachings and assassination attempt, which they deny. He is pitiless. [Yes, this is dripping with irony in light of the Inquisition.] He’s got Officer Suh preparing to round up all Catholics. It’s a purge. Suh even arrests drunks who speak out against Hong’s policies.
Song nurses her brother, who wakes up alarmed. He insists to leave, but first tells her his sad tale of lost family. Even though she then tells him the same tale for herself, she does not realize who he is and then offers to help him so he can survive and meet his sister one day. But when she takes his cross to his friend, she learns his name: Sung Song-wook! The friend, who thought she knew, shows her the painting of their parents (with everyone’s names on it) she’d left in Wook’s swaddling clothes. She runs home.
But Officer Suh, who has earlier told Hong about the doctor who treated Wook-ah, tells Dae-su that Song is in deep doody. Hong stops Song in the street, Mak-soon in tow, and says he knows all but assumes Song doesn’t know she’s harboring a dangerous fugitive.
San, dressed like a common noble, is taking one of his rambles outside the palace, accompanied by Mr Nam. He investigates the merchant monopolies. He also sees a man handing out free food; he’s a freed slave whose ex-master gave all his goods to feed the poor. And that master is Lord Yang—the one now arrested for trying to kill San.
Uncle finds out about Song, scolds Mak-soon for giving her up and goes to tell Mr Nam that Song is at the tribunal. San is shocked to hear the news.
* * *
I guess the White Tower Club/Gang is separate from the captured Catholics, huh. My error.
I forgot about the brother, and couldn’t remember anything about it until the guy showed her the painting. That brought it back. Power of art…
To Repeat: Members of DS+2, San’s special cadre of guards, are Officer Suh (head guard), Officer Kang (second head guard, the archer), and Officer Park (Dae-su)
Hong’s men beat the bushes for escapees and find some torn cloth. Song-yeon stumbles through the street with the injured Mr X, not knowing he’s actually her "dead" brother. She goes to Uncle’s house and begs help from Aunt Mak-soon. The doctor who treats Mr X wants to report him, but Song pretends she knows him and “it’s not an arrow wound.” Mak-soon worries Song will get herself into trouble.
At the palace, San questions Hong about his orders to hunt the escapees into the ground since the “dangerous assassins” didn’t even fight the guards who were intent on killing them. “They had those guns!” says Hong. Hong fires the poor sot who reported this to San, and when D-S and Kang protest, he tells everyone San is on a need-to-know basis and then seeks to separate Officer Suh from D-S and Kang by giving him money “for his wounds” and promoting him. Suh is now his “secret agent.”
Dowager Hye, relieved that Hong is doing his job again, urges Queen Hyeoui to hasten concubine selection. Q-H feels this is indelicate, but Hye insists. [Oh-oh – Hong Monster alert.] Lady Kim wonders if Hyeoui will try to bring in Song again. Also, Lord Jang, despite pressure being off the Norons, is sure that Hong will be more ruthless and powerful than ever.
Hong asks San to grant Won Bin’s last wish and “continue her line” by allowing her to posthumously adopt the eldest son (named “Dam”) of San’s brother Prince Eun-un. San will consider it. Hong has already consulted with Tebi Mamah, who discusses this idea with Sir Choi and wants him to support it; he is puzzled. She reveals she wants Hong to become head Noron so they can stand behind him and get everything they want. Hong has some ginseng meant for Hyeoui confiscated for himself. Searches in the market and at Dowahseo alarm both Song and Sir Min (Jang’s turncoat).
One of the half-nobles brags to San about his archery skill, and since his target work clearly sucks, San scolds him for lying and then tells him he’s been appointed head envoy to Qing because he met with the “White Tower Gang” to criticize Chosun’s policies toward Qing. San also is sending the W-T Gang--embarrassed not to have recognized him. He jokes about his “bad habit” of concealing his identity.
San wants them to bring back all Qing inventions and all western inventions the Qing have, because Chosun needs new ideas, but one man avers that San is treating men with new thoughts as “traitors and insurgents.” San doesn’t know who he means. It turns out Hong arrested a bunch of Catholics.
At the tribunal, D-S and Kang wonder where Suh is. They are summoned by San, who has been thinking about the captured men and Hong for some time. He wants them to quietly investigate Hong’s activities (for his own good of course) and expresses doubts about the Catholic “traitors”—why didn’t they use their guns to resist arrest? D-S and Kang agree to investigate (naturally—he is the king).
Hong continues torturing the Catholics for their filthy teachings and assassination attempt, which they deny. He is pitiless. [Yes, this is dripping with irony in light of the Inquisition.] He’s got Officer Suh preparing to round up all Catholics. It’s a purge. Suh even arrests drunks who speak out against Hong’s policies.
Song nurses her brother, who wakes up alarmed. He insists to leave, but first tells her his sad tale of lost family. Even though she then tells him the same tale for herself, she does not realize who he is and then offers to help him so he can survive and meet his sister one day. But when she takes his cross to his friend, she learns his name: Sung Song-wook! The friend, who thought she knew, shows her the painting of their parents (with everyone’s names on it) she’d left in Wook’s swaddling clothes. She runs home.
But Officer Suh, who has earlier told Hong about the doctor who treated Wook-ah, tells Dae-su that Song is in deep doody. Hong stops Song in the street, Mak-soon in tow, and says he knows all but assumes Song doesn’t know she’s harboring a dangerous fugitive.
San, dressed like a common noble, is taking one of his rambles outside the palace, accompanied by Mr Nam. He investigates the merchant monopolies. He also sees a man handing out free food; he’s a freed slave whose ex-master gave all his goods to feed the poor. And that master is Lord Yang—the one now arrested for trying to kill San.
Uncle finds out about Song, scolds Mak-soon for giving her up and goes to tell Mr Nam that Song is at the tribunal. San is shocked to hear the news.
* * *
I guess the White Tower Club/Gang is separate from the captured Catholics, huh. My error.
I forgot about the brother, and couldn’t remember anything about it until the guy showed her the painting. That brought it back. Power of art…