Post by ajk on Mar 20, 2020 3:22:30 GMT -5
Nighttime: The central army has set up its base camp in Mungyeong where Cho Hak-ju is. Nonetheless, the prince and his companions have a surprisingly easy time scaling the walls of Cho’s compound and getting in. Not far away, Seo-bi is awakened by bustling activity and ends up following soldiers going into a dark building, where she finds metal restraints that look like, well like a zombie had been kept chained up. But the restraints are empty.
The prince manages to make it to Cho’s residence and goes inside, but his companions outside are suddenly surrounded and a whole bunch of muskets are pointed at them. And someone unseen bolts the door shut behind the prince. A very angry confrontation ensues between Cho and Ahn Hyeon, each calling the other a traitor. Inside, well, now we know who was in those restraints. It was the king. Turned loose to destroy his son.
Ahn proclaims to all of the soldiers present that the king is dead and that the prince gets the throne now. He defiantly heads inside to help the prince, so Cho orders his musketmen to shoot...but none of them shoots. Shows us how respected Ahn is. Then Cho takes a sword and kills one of his own men and the rest get the message, and in seconds Ahn is riddled with gunshots. He falls, but not before opening the front door and revealing that the prince has killed his zombie father. Ahn dies, with his last breath proclaiming the prince the new and rightful king. Cho orders the entire group arrested as traitors.
The defense minister is continuing to investigate the bizarre discovery of murdered young women found just outside the capital, in the queen’s home village. He realizes that this could cause friction with the Cho clan but says the crime has to be investigated....
...so the Royal Commandery leader and his men head to the queen’s village of Naeseonjae. But before they arrive we see a lot of activity there; some large boxes being taken out into the countryside. And by the time the men get there, it looks like there’s nothing or nobody to be found. But first they spots some blood on a floor...and then what looks like a freshly dug grave...and then servants carrying one of those large boxes as they try to get away undetected. And by the time the search is finished, seven pregnant women and their babies have been gathered—all murdered. And here’s something odd—the girl babies were all strangled but the one boy baby was untouched. Apparently he was stillborn. The investigators conclude that whoever did this, “they were looking for a son among these women.” Then suddenly the sound of a horn pierces the darkness. It’s the horn that announces that the king is dead. Cho has sent word to the capital that the prince killed his father.
Now the state council—or at least those who are in the capital—are meeting to plan the king’s funeral and figure out how to find an heir. But they’re interrupted by the news of the queen going into labor.
At the queen’s palace, the royal physician has arrived. But what is there for him to do? We know the queen isn’t really pregnant.
The defense minister wants the investigation continued, in secrecy but in haste.
The prince is imprisoned in a storage shed. Seo-bi manages to use Beom-pal’s magistrate pass to get in to treat his wounds. Then the prince starts writing something with his finger on the ground for her to see (rather than speak it for the nearby guards to hear).
“We were set up. Someone told them.” Yeah let’s get to that. Because the soldiers at Mungyeong seemed totally prepared for the prince’s group’s arrival, and Yeong-sin and his companions can see the obvious. But Yeong-sin has something else on his mind. Vengeance for his family, he says. And adds, “They will pay for Lord Ahn Hyeon’s death,” he tells his companions. Hmmm, is he related to Ahn?
The next morning: Preparations are being made for the trip back to Hanyang. The “traitors” are to be gathered and transported there for trial. But look at this; they attack the guards who come to move them and attempt a daring escape! Yeong-sin even manages to grab a musket and get off a shot at Cho Hak-ju...which fails to kill him only because one of Cho’s men happens to step into the line of fire at the last second and absorb the fatal shot. Yeong-sin is overpowered before he can shoot again, and the escape fails. It seems like it’s all over for the rebel effort...but in an incredible moment of timing, a zombie runs into the compound. And not just any zombie...it’s Ahn Hyeon! His body had been taken just outside of the compound and given a respectful burial...but what the heck? He’s had no contact with zombies that would cause this....
A flashback from Ahn’s dying moments from the night before: Ahn tells the prince to turn him into a zombie. “It’s the only way to reveal the truth,” he says...then we see Seo-bi standing near Ahn’s body the following day, and she’s holding her cutting of the Resurrection Plant. Obviously this is what the prince wrote on the ground—use it on Ahn.
...Zombie Ahn spots Cho and charges. “Put an arrow in his head!”, Cho orders...but through a combination of Ahn's weirdly cognizant ducking and protecting his head, and some sorry marksmanship by both archers and musketmen, Ahn doesn’t get the fatal head blow. Through a cloud of musket-fire smoke, Ahn suddenly emerges and launches himself upon Cho-and bites.
The prince manages to make it to Cho’s residence and goes inside, but his companions outside are suddenly surrounded and a whole bunch of muskets are pointed at them. And someone unseen bolts the door shut behind the prince. A very angry confrontation ensues between Cho and Ahn Hyeon, each calling the other a traitor. Inside, well, now we know who was in those restraints. It was the king. Turned loose to destroy his son.
Ahn proclaims to all of the soldiers present that the king is dead and that the prince gets the throne now. He defiantly heads inside to help the prince, so Cho orders his musketmen to shoot...but none of them shoots. Shows us how respected Ahn is. Then Cho takes a sword and kills one of his own men and the rest get the message, and in seconds Ahn is riddled with gunshots. He falls, but not before opening the front door and revealing that the prince has killed his zombie father. Ahn dies, with his last breath proclaiming the prince the new and rightful king. Cho orders the entire group arrested as traitors.
The defense minister is continuing to investigate the bizarre discovery of murdered young women found just outside the capital, in the queen’s home village. He realizes that this could cause friction with the Cho clan but says the crime has to be investigated....
...so the Royal Commandery leader and his men head to the queen’s village of Naeseonjae. But before they arrive we see a lot of activity there; some large boxes being taken out into the countryside. And by the time the men get there, it looks like there’s nothing or nobody to be found. But first they spots some blood on a floor...and then what looks like a freshly dug grave...and then servants carrying one of those large boxes as they try to get away undetected. And by the time the search is finished, seven pregnant women and their babies have been gathered—all murdered. And here’s something odd—the girl babies were all strangled but the one boy baby was untouched. Apparently he was stillborn. The investigators conclude that whoever did this, “they were looking for a son among these women.” Then suddenly the sound of a horn pierces the darkness. It’s the horn that announces that the king is dead. Cho has sent word to the capital that the prince killed his father.
Now the state council—or at least those who are in the capital—are meeting to plan the king’s funeral and figure out how to find an heir. But they’re interrupted by the news of the queen going into labor.
At the queen’s palace, the royal physician has arrived. But what is there for him to do? We know the queen isn’t really pregnant.
The defense minister wants the investigation continued, in secrecy but in haste.
The prince is imprisoned in a storage shed. Seo-bi manages to use Beom-pal’s magistrate pass to get in to treat his wounds. Then the prince starts writing something with his finger on the ground for her to see (rather than speak it for the nearby guards to hear).
“We were set up. Someone told them.” Yeah let’s get to that. Because the soldiers at Mungyeong seemed totally prepared for the prince’s group’s arrival, and Yeong-sin and his companions can see the obvious. But Yeong-sin has something else on his mind. Vengeance for his family, he says. And adds, “They will pay for Lord Ahn Hyeon’s death,” he tells his companions. Hmmm, is he related to Ahn?
The next morning: Preparations are being made for the trip back to Hanyang. The “traitors” are to be gathered and transported there for trial. But look at this; they attack the guards who come to move them and attempt a daring escape! Yeong-sin even manages to grab a musket and get off a shot at Cho Hak-ju...which fails to kill him only because one of Cho’s men happens to step into the line of fire at the last second and absorb the fatal shot. Yeong-sin is overpowered before he can shoot again, and the escape fails. It seems like it’s all over for the rebel effort...but in an incredible moment of timing, a zombie runs into the compound. And not just any zombie...it’s Ahn Hyeon! His body had been taken just outside of the compound and given a respectful burial...but what the heck? He’s had no contact with zombies that would cause this....
A flashback from Ahn’s dying moments from the night before: Ahn tells the prince to turn him into a zombie. “It’s the only way to reveal the truth,” he says...then we see Seo-bi standing near Ahn’s body the following day, and she’s holding her cutting of the Resurrection Plant. Obviously this is what the prince wrote on the ground—use it on Ahn.
...Zombie Ahn spots Cho and charges. “Put an arrow in his head!”, Cho orders...but through a combination of Ahn's weirdly cognizant ducking and protecting his head, and some sorry marksmanship by both archers and musketmen, Ahn doesn’t get the fatal head blow. Through a cloud of musket-fire smoke, Ahn suddenly emerges and launches himself upon Cho-and bites.
