Post by ajk on Apr 10, 2020 23:15:06 GMT -5
The prince is addressing the soldiers who have aligned with him. Your families will be executed in a few hours, he tells them. Will you still be loyal to me?
Families are being led to the execution site. Even little children. A horrible, pathetic sight.
But now a debate among the ministers about whether or not this is wise. Maybe it should be postponed to give time to investigate further? The debate is interrupted by someone who betrays the prince’s location to the ministers. He’s asking for his family to be spared.
The entire military force in the capital rushes out of the central city and to the location...and finds no one there. They realize it was a ruse, to lure the soldiers away from the central city.
And now here come the prince and his soldiers, rushing a city gate entrance, then taking over every gate and sealing the soldiers out. Pretty darned clever!
At the execution ground, Beom-il is reading the execution order out loud. He’s the new royal commandery head so this is his job. But as he looks around and realizes the magnitude of what’s happening, he falters. “I can’t do this,” he realizes. “Nobody should do this.” His hesitation makes all the difference because the prince’s force arrives just in time. And to our surprise, Beom-il pledges the commandery’s loyalty to the prince! Everyone is untied and freed, and the able-bodied men start asking for swords.
The defense minister is doing the same thing, pretty much—ordering that guards be subdued and then pledging loyalty to the prince. “The police have been contained,” he tells the prince, and offers to personally escort him to the palace. Ministers start falling at the prince’s feet and begging forgiveness, and word starts to get around that the Haewon Cho clan is finished. Everyone heads to the council hall...
...to confront the queen, who’s sitting on the royal throne with “her” baby. An angry confrontation puts the queen on the defensive, about her baby’s legitimacy and her right to sit where she’s sitting. “I won’t leave the throne!” she shouts angrily. And they don’t physically force her off, which is understandable but which might be a mistake. Instead the second and third state councilors head to the queen’s palace to retrieve the royal seal and force the queen to issue an edict enthroning the prince.
Seo-bi is still bound and blindfolded in that jail cell underneath the queen’s palace with plague zombies all around. Eventually she wears down her ropes until they break...and luckily finds her cell key in front of the cell. But as she flees to safety, she finds that plague zombies from the jail have been turned loose and are attacking everyone! This was the queen’s order, incredibly. And pretty quickly the third councilor gets attacked and becomes a plague zombie, and then he zombifies the second councilor.
And the commotion from all of this can be heard at the main palace. The queen tells the horrified crown prince, “If I can’t have the throne, well, then no one can have it.”
Seo-bi reaches the council hall and runs to the prince. “The plague is here! It’s spreading at the queen’s palace!” The prince immediately orders the city gates shut and everyone with the disease killed, noble or commoner. Good decision; it will at least contain the immediate problem—hopefully. Aim for the head, he orders everyone.
But wow there are already a lot of plague zombies—this is spreading fast. Yikes!
At the queen’s palace, the two zombie councilors have managed to impale themselves on the same sword. Soldiers rush in to rescue everyone in the building, and with an epic-spectacular shot the commander manages to pierce both councilors’ heads with a single arrow. Outside zombies are being slaughtered all over the palace grounds—they’re pretty easy to kill, but wow they just keep coming and coming. Eventually, though, they stop coming...and nobody’s hearing any more screaming. Is that it? Did they kill all of them? Nooooo.....Here comes another big wave, and this one gets the defense minister. This wave is big enough that the prince and everyone with him decides to flee to safer ground. They head to an inner courtyard, and then into the council hall, where the queen is still sitting there...and now zombies are at the walls.
Families are being led to the execution site. Even little children. A horrible, pathetic sight.
But now a debate among the ministers about whether or not this is wise. Maybe it should be postponed to give time to investigate further? The debate is interrupted by someone who betrays the prince’s location to the ministers. He’s asking for his family to be spared.
The entire military force in the capital rushes out of the central city and to the location...and finds no one there. They realize it was a ruse, to lure the soldiers away from the central city.
And now here come the prince and his soldiers, rushing a city gate entrance, then taking over every gate and sealing the soldiers out. Pretty darned clever!
At the execution ground, Beom-il is reading the execution order out loud. He’s the new royal commandery head so this is his job. But as he looks around and realizes the magnitude of what’s happening, he falters. “I can’t do this,” he realizes. “Nobody should do this.” His hesitation makes all the difference because the prince’s force arrives just in time. And to our surprise, Beom-il pledges the commandery’s loyalty to the prince! Everyone is untied and freed, and the able-bodied men start asking for swords.
The defense minister is doing the same thing, pretty much—ordering that guards be subdued and then pledging loyalty to the prince. “The police have been contained,” he tells the prince, and offers to personally escort him to the palace. Ministers start falling at the prince’s feet and begging forgiveness, and word starts to get around that the Haewon Cho clan is finished. Everyone heads to the council hall...
...to confront the queen, who’s sitting on the royal throne with “her” baby. An angry confrontation puts the queen on the defensive, about her baby’s legitimacy and her right to sit where she’s sitting. “I won’t leave the throne!” she shouts angrily. And they don’t physically force her off, which is understandable but which might be a mistake. Instead the second and third state councilors head to the queen’s palace to retrieve the royal seal and force the queen to issue an edict enthroning the prince.
Seo-bi is still bound and blindfolded in that jail cell underneath the queen’s palace with plague zombies all around. Eventually she wears down her ropes until they break...and luckily finds her cell key in front of the cell. But as she flees to safety, she finds that plague zombies from the jail have been turned loose and are attacking everyone! This was the queen’s order, incredibly. And pretty quickly the third councilor gets attacked and becomes a plague zombie, and then he zombifies the second councilor.
And the commotion from all of this can be heard at the main palace. The queen tells the horrified crown prince, “If I can’t have the throne, well, then no one can have it.”
Seo-bi reaches the council hall and runs to the prince. “The plague is here! It’s spreading at the queen’s palace!” The prince immediately orders the city gates shut and everyone with the disease killed, noble or commoner. Good decision; it will at least contain the immediate problem—hopefully. Aim for the head, he orders everyone.
But wow there are already a lot of plague zombies—this is spreading fast. Yikes!
At the queen’s palace, the two zombie councilors have managed to impale themselves on the same sword. Soldiers rush in to rescue everyone in the building, and with an epic-spectacular shot the commander manages to pierce both councilors’ heads with a single arrow. Outside zombies are being slaughtered all over the palace grounds—they’re pretty easy to kill, but wow they just keep coming and coming. Eventually, though, they stop coming...and nobody’s hearing any more screaming. Is that it? Did they kill all of them? Nooooo.....Here comes another big wave, and this one gets the defense minister. This wave is big enough that the prince and everyone with him decides to flee to safer ground. They head to an inner courtyard, and then into the council hall, where the queen is still sitting there...and now zombies are at the walls.