Post by TheBo on Mar 4, 2012 5:31:07 GMT -5
Ep.73-
One day Song/Ui Bin leaves her son playing in the yard while she fetches paints for him, but he disappears, she can’t find him and no one is around to help her. Then, she runs into his palace, where the boy dies in her arms--measles. In the night, she wakes up calling his name and weeps over his necklace from King Yeong-jo. [This appears to be a dream sequence, showing what happened and her reliving it in her sleep.]
San is broken up, too. Dowager Hye is nearly inconsolable. Lady Kim criticizes Ui Bin to Queen Hyeoui for being so calm, but Q-H points out she has to for the unborn child she is now carrying. However, Ui Bin mysteriously refuses to be examined by palace medical personnel. She sends for Dae-su and asks him, as a personal favor, to fetch an outside physician, ask no questions and tell no one about it. He is doubtful, but does so.
In the meantime, Mr Jung has completed experiments in brickmaking that, he assures San, will revolutionize their fort-building capabilities. San, still suspicious of Tebi M’s agents who might try to spy on the tomb/new capital activities, sends Officers Kang and Suh to protect the librarian ministers & Jung on their way to Suwon.
Ui Bin consults privately with the outside physician. She suspects she has liver cancer. Greatly upset, he confirms her diagnosis, and it’s in an advanced stage, too. However, they do have treatments. She says she’ll refuse all treatments because they will kill the baby and demands to know if she can survive until her child is born. “If heaven is merciful and the disease does not spread, you may be able to survive. But the pain may be unbearable for you.” After he leaves, Ui Bin swears to her unborn child that, for its sake, she’ll bear the pain, which she’s already experiencing.
Mr Jung’s experiments succeed—he makes unbreakable bricks. They crosscheck brickmakers for the work, but Off Suh espies the two Dragon Guards who were last seen rifling San’s quarters. [Yes, the birthmark again. And again, could we possibly be more obvious?] They discover Jung’s papers have been rifled, then catch up with the spies and extract information leading them to Tebi Mamah’s secret compound, where Sir Min barely escapes being captured by the Dragons. T-M and Sir Choi are worried sick that San will do something to them now. Lord Jang interrogates Choi, who feigns ignorance of Min’s activities.
Ui Bin gets permission from Hyeoui and D-Hye to live outside the palace until her baby is born, ostensibly because she’s in mourning for dead Prince Hyang. She is on her way to her brother when D-S, having gotten the doctor to tell him the diagnosis, rushes to San’s office and tells him what’s really going on. San sends the Dragons after Ui Bin and they force her to return. San wants her to get medical care, but she explains she can never give up a child again, and besides, she had a dream the day Hyang died and he told her he could come back. She’s convinced this child will actually be Hyang. San swears he’ll never let her die.
Word gets out. At Dowahseo, amid general breast-beating, Mr Lee wants a leave of absence so he can “do something” for Song. San fires all Ui Bin’s physicians and sends out a call for anyone—anyone—who can cure liver cancer. He drives the physicians to find a cure, but the terrified doctor tells San that it’s probably too late for her.
Ui Bin implores Dowager Hye to help her save her baby, as she knows she herself is beyond help. Next day, she refuses the doctor with her tonic, but San arrives and takes it in for her. He beseeches her to drink it, says he can’t live a day without her and she promised to stay with him forever. She begs him not to suffer for her sake, and he begs her to live for his. Just miserable crying and horrible shate.
One day Song/Ui Bin leaves her son playing in the yard while she fetches paints for him, but he disappears, she can’t find him and no one is around to help her. Then, she runs into his palace, where the boy dies in her arms--measles. In the night, she wakes up calling his name and weeps over his necklace from King Yeong-jo. [This appears to be a dream sequence, showing what happened and her reliving it in her sleep.]
San is broken up, too. Dowager Hye is nearly inconsolable. Lady Kim criticizes Ui Bin to Queen Hyeoui for being so calm, but Q-H points out she has to for the unborn child she is now carrying. However, Ui Bin mysteriously refuses to be examined by palace medical personnel. She sends for Dae-su and asks him, as a personal favor, to fetch an outside physician, ask no questions and tell no one about it. He is doubtful, but does so.
In the meantime, Mr Jung has completed experiments in brickmaking that, he assures San, will revolutionize their fort-building capabilities. San, still suspicious of Tebi M’s agents who might try to spy on the tomb/new capital activities, sends Officers Kang and Suh to protect the librarian ministers & Jung on their way to Suwon.
Ui Bin consults privately with the outside physician. She suspects she has liver cancer. Greatly upset, he confirms her diagnosis, and it’s in an advanced stage, too. However, they do have treatments. She says she’ll refuse all treatments because they will kill the baby and demands to know if she can survive until her child is born. “If heaven is merciful and the disease does not spread, you may be able to survive. But the pain may be unbearable for you.” After he leaves, Ui Bin swears to her unborn child that, for its sake, she’ll bear the pain, which she’s already experiencing.
Mr Jung’s experiments succeed—he makes unbreakable bricks. They crosscheck brickmakers for the work, but Off Suh espies the two Dragon Guards who were last seen rifling San’s quarters. [Yes, the birthmark again. And again, could we possibly be more obvious?] They discover Jung’s papers have been rifled, then catch up with the spies and extract information leading them to Tebi Mamah’s secret compound, where Sir Min barely escapes being captured by the Dragons. T-M and Sir Choi are worried sick that San will do something to them now. Lord Jang interrogates Choi, who feigns ignorance of Min’s activities.
Ui Bin gets permission from Hyeoui and D-Hye to live outside the palace until her baby is born, ostensibly because she’s in mourning for dead Prince Hyang. She is on her way to her brother when D-S, having gotten the doctor to tell him the diagnosis, rushes to San’s office and tells him what’s really going on. San sends the Dragons after Ui Bin and they force her to return. San wants her to get medical care, but she explains she can never give up a child again, and besides, she had a dream the day Hyang died and he told her he could come back. She’s convinced this child will actually be Hyang. San swears he’ll never let her die.
Word gets out. At Dowahseo, amid general breast-beating, Mr Lee wants a leave of absence so he can “do something” for Song. San fires all Ui Bin’s physicians and sends out a call for anyone—anyone—who can cure liver cancer. He drives the physicians to find a cure, but the terrified doctor tells San that it’s probably too late for her.
Ui Bin implores Dowager Hye to help her save her baby, as she knows she herself is beyond help. Next day, she refuses the doctor with her tonic, but San arrives and takes it in for her. He beseeches her to drink it, says he can’t live a day without her and she promised to stay with him forever. She begs him not to suffer for her sake, and he begs her to live for his. Just miserable crying and horrible shate.
