Post by ajk on Apr 20, 2012 20:42:53 GMT -5
We're in the desert town where Deokman lives. It's the day after we were last there. We see Deokman and Chilsuk. A lively place; lots of street entertainment and general bustle. Chilsuk wants the girl to deliver on her promise of her making an introduction so he can get a job. She looks around the street marketplace, spots her friend Cartan, takes Chilsuk to him and makes the introduction. Cartan receives him warmly, hugs him--and then grabs his butt. Chilsuk isn't too pleased with that (Maybe he doesn't like to get behind in his work!), but Deokman assures him it's a homeland-style greeting and Cartan finds him "Quite a well-kept specimen!" Then the other five traders show up; apparently they're ready to sneak out with whatever it is they've acquired. Deokman leads them all away, just as a company of soldiers shows up for some unknown reason.
She takes them to a secluded side yard next to Sohwa's inn and shows them what look like ordinary bricks, hidden under a covering of hay. But they're not clay--they're tea! Tea bricks. (My understanding was that she was simply going to help the traders out of the city, but now we see she's doing much more.) They look exactly like real bricks, but they're softer and easy to turn into drinkable tea. Great idea; big smiles all around...for about two seconds. Then soldiers come streaming into the yard, armed with a tip that tea is being smuggled here. Uh-oh.
Soldiers have also come into the inn, for the same reason. They're ransacking the place.
Back outside Deokman has surreptitiously taken out of her pocket the crystal magnifier she was given last night. She's trying to set fire to the hay (Won't the smell give it away?). And it works; the hay starts to burn like crazy. But the soldiers just get angry and take the whole bunch of them into custody.
Inside the feudal lord's estate: Everybody is in a big wooden cage. Sohwa's having some sort of medical problem and doesn't look good at all. She tells Cartan, "In my childhood, there was this immense fire, and according to the physicians, it gravely damaged her lungs." Chilsuk hears this, but it doesn't appear to click. Not yet. Anyway, now even the sight of a fire can set off Sohwa's respiratory trouble.
The lord (now identified as Lord Yang) is told that Deokman "eliminated all evidence by setting fire to it." Yang wants them punished. The whole group is brought before him. "Behead them!" And the first few of them are promptly taken to the guillotines. Deokman runs forward to Yang's feet and confesses. "All you need is to behead me!" There are some dialect issues--the lord speaks Cantonese; Deokman is speaking Mandarin--so Cartan starts to interpret. "She said she was responsible for it all, that she made the brick tea, so all you need to do is to punish her." Why did you do it?, Yang demands. Her slightly undiplomatic answer: "It is because it makes no sense." Yang's eyes widen with anger, but she proceeds to lecture him about the long journey that traders make to get here and the unfairness of sending them away with nothing. Cartan is desperately trying to shut her up, to no avail. Yang is furious: "Are you questioning my judgment?!" She answers, "A man who has no time for his people should have no time to ascend to the throne as well!" She says she read this in a book, and then plows right on: "He might mobilize troops and let intimidation dictate his policies, but he shall never become a hero for the ages." Amazed at her brashness, Yang gets out of his chair and kneels with Deokman. He pulls out the two jade "death" coins we saw before. "Choose one." For the life or death of the whole group. "You lowly slattern dare to question my legacy as a ruler?! Let us see your dexterity, and the providence you are blessed with." Come on, kid, don't be dense like the last guy; you know it's gotta be a fix...She's staring at the coins...."Choose! Now!"...still staring...and then, in a scared voice, "Show me. How do I know whether they are not the same?!" Good, kid...but Yang won't. "That is for your destiny to decide. Choose!" Just then, to the side, Sohwa starts deliriously mumbling, "Sire...My apologies. Sire..." Which Chilsuk hears, and that one doesn't pass by him, we can see. But anyway..."Do it!" So with a trembling hand, Deokman reaches for the coins, slowly grasps one with a closed fist...and then swallows it! Oh, that's very good. Now Yang is left with the other one, which of course is a death-coin. And he has to show it. The whole group rejoices, of course. Of course, Yang could just as easily behead them all for her recklessness, or just make them all wait until Deokman poops the thing out, so Deokman falls back at his feet and begs for their lives. "Why did you swallow that?" "I suddenly felt...that it could save me." Which is a good answer; much better than I-don't-trust-you. "Were you not daunted by me?!" "I was." Another good answer, which satisfies Yang's ego. He seems less impressed than mildly amused by it all, but whatever, he orders everybody released. Deokman runs to her mother, who's still gasping but is a little better now. Chilsuk is looking at the two of them, and now something's stirring in his head, we can see it.
Royal Palace, Seorabeol: "Sire. May you renounce such utterances!" A state council meeting, and King Jinpyeong doesn't look happy. We realize he isn't. Doesn't want to be king any more. He's proposed stepping down from the throne in favor of his predecessor Jinji's oldest son Kim Yongsu. Yongsu, we learn, has married Princess Cheonmyeong. The nobles want none of it; Yongsu isn't considered sacred-bone rank any more, they point out, and they also feel he hasn't done anything to be considered worthy of the throne. Just then Mishil arrives; it's an annual festival day and she's inviting the king to a Hwarang ceremony...Afterwards, outside, Misaeng is annoyed with his sister for seemingly caring so little about the situation and the king's mental state: "The Grim Reaper stole three sons from his embrace, and now nary a coherent thought graces his mind!" But Mishil isn't worried about that today. She's very calm...disturbingly calm.
Mishil arrives at the Hwarang event. Lots of activity from Hwarang of various age groups. She takes a seat next to Princess Cheonmyeong, who apparently had some supervisory role in putting the event together. Mishil puts on the phony charm, initially deferential to the princess...but then asks her point-blank if she's trying to become queen. Cheonmyeong wasn't aware of what just happened in the council meeting and has no idea what Mishil is talking about until she tells her. But Mishil presses: "How daunting you can be, Your Highness. Concocting such heinous machinations with a peaceful smile on your face." Not sure if Mishil really believes that or if it's a trick. The princess assures her that "I merely am trying to live in sincerity." But Mishil is in full cattiness mode: "Is Your Highness trying to contend with Mishil's might, by any chance? You follow your call. Just as Mishil shall follow hers." Ugh. The steamrolled Cheonmyeong is visibly mortified by the very idea of it all.
Back in Xinjiang Province: Evening, the yard next to Sohwa's inn. Cartan is surprisingly ungrateful to Deokman for risking her life on his behalf. "Your survival is what's important! What does it matter if I perish?" Deokman disagrees: My survival and yours are both important!" She claims she acted as she did because of stories of heroism in the books that Cartan had brought her. Sohwa is there and takes Cartan's side, but the other traders are simply grateful and thank her. Cartan asks where Chilsuk has gone off to. This leads Deokman to start telling them the whole story that Chilsuk had told her about his search for a child and a servant. Sohwa starts to overhear...At the same time, we see Chilsuk sneaking around inside the inn, searching Sohwa's and Deokman's living quarters. He's looking for evidence of what he now suspects...Sohwa listens as Deokman continues, and as the story plays out, a look of terror slowly comes over her...Chilsuk is still searching, and now he's found something...Now Sohwa is trembling. She grabs Deokman and pulls her inside...Chilsuk has found the cloth that the infant princess was wrapped in. And then an envelope with a word written on it: "Munno"! His eyes widen in disbelief...Sohwa is frantic: "We must flee. Quickly!" She pulls a confused Deokman up the stairs...but too late. "Sohwa." Chilsuk is standing there, and he knows. "Is this the child?" She denies it. To no avail. "You have grown remarkably." And now Deokman has put the pieces together too. Chilsuk brandishes his sword and has no thought of mercy. "Fifteen years. That is the time it took me to find you. But I can now finally return to Gyerim." The women run into a room, and lock the door, but Chilsuk breaks it open, swats aside the knife Deokman throws at him, and now converges on the cowering, trembling pair. He holds a lit candle to Sohwa's face: "It is you. The varlet who spurted out of that raging fire, embracing the child...." Deokman spots a container of flammable liquid nearby, and throws it on the candle, setting Chilsuk on fire (and parts of the room too). They run from the room as Chilsuk struggles to put himself out. They foolishly try to gather their possessions but then realize there's no time, and run downstairs through a trap door to hide. A quiet moment as they freeze while Chilsuk searches...he's almost gone but Sohwa knocks something over and blows their cover. They run back up through the trap-door ladder and slam it shut. They know a way out; they can jump out of one of the windows and onto a pile of hay. But it's the window in the room on fire, and Sohwa is literally convulsing with fear at the sight of the fire. Now Chilsuk has come up the main stairs! Deokman leaves Sohwa hidden in a corner and yells to Chilsuk, and then runs into the trap-door room to draw him away. But when she runs to the trap door to escape...it's jammed. Chilsuk cleverly jammed it when he was shut out from beneath. And now Deokman is trapped. Chilsuk heads for the room, walking past the hiding, trembling Sohwa--who suddenly hears King Jinpyeong's words in hear head from that day in the delivery room: "There is nobody but you. Protect that child for me." She spots a knife nearby...Chilsuk barges into the room, corners Deokman and puts his sword to her throat: "This is where it ends. Let us return to Gyerim." And then from behind, a sudden scream, and Sohwa charges Chilsuk and plunges the knife into him. As much stunned as anything, he falls to the ground and the pair make their escape through the now-burning halls. Downstairs, outside and away. Back inside, Chilsuk manages to stagger to his feet and pull out the knife (the pair made a mistake not grabbing the sword and finishing him off). Outside, Deokman helps her mother onto a camel and the two head off into the nighttime desert. Back inside, the locals are finally putting out the fire downstairs, and a woozy Chilsuk falls down the stairs in front of them. Whew.
The next day: Sohwa and Deokman are in the desert, literally in the middle of nowhere. They've been going non-stop, and finally the camel is exhausted and will go no further. It sits, and Sohwa falls off. She's in bad shape. Deokman helps her to her feet and they head for a cave nearby, but Sohwa can't walk very far. Leave me, she says, but Deokman will have none of that, and actually starts to carry her mother on her back. Strong little thing, isn't she? (At least the stunt person is.)
Back inside the not-badly-damaged inn: Cartan and two of his friends have tended to Chilsuk, who wakes up with a bandage over his eyes. "The physician said you might have hurt your eyes in the fire. You might lose your eyesight, so he said to rest here for the time being." And Cartan wants an explanation: "It looked to me as if those two were running away from you. How can you explain that?" Chilsuk lies: "There was a misunderstanding. I must find Deokman and bring her back to her father." Cartan tells him he couldn't leave even if he wanted to because a desert storm is coming. Chilsuk ignores that advice, but gets Cartan to tell him that the pair were headed for Dunhuang.
Chilsuk is on horseback, out in the desert. Shows no ill effects from his knife wound (Seriously?), nor from his possible vision problem.
Sohwa and Deokman are in the cave, a small fire keeping them warm. Sohwa keeps telling Deokman to go to Rome and leave her. Deokman has another idea: Gyerim. "You said we are from Gyerim." Sohwa forbids it outright. But Deokman is getting tired of all the mystery. "What is wrong with Chilsuk Ajeosshi, and what is all this? Why can't we go to Gyerim?" Sohwa answers her cryptically: "It is what your father wishes." The response surprises her: "Munno? Gukseon...This Munno is my father?" How does she know about Munno? Turns out, that envelope we saw earlier, she saw it once. No, Sohwa answers, it's not Munno. Then Deokman pulls out the much-traveled little dagger--Jinheung's dagger. "You said my father gave you this. So he gave you just this, and abandoned the both of us?!" She's getting angry and frustrated. Sowha tries to calm her: "Your father never abandoned you...You saved him." But this makes no sense to her and only frustrates her more. "Parents sacrifice themselves to protect their children. Like you...You did that for me." As in, the story that Chilsuk told her about the cave fire long ago, and yesterday stabbing Chilsuk amidst the flames. She's angrier, more frustrated, sad that she can't do more for her mother, and in the next moment defiant that she will take care of her and get them both to safety. And then cries into her mother's arms.
Chilsuk has come across the camel. And sees footsteps in the sand leading away from it. Now he's hot on their trail, scrambling among all of the nearby rocks...He finds an empty cave. Goes into it and finds a dying fire...and just then a brief skittering sound. It's Sowha. He chases her through the rock formations--she can really scoot when she puts her mind to it, gotta give her that--and even as he closes on her, he can't catch her because now his knife wound is hurting and bleeding (Thank you!). And now she puts some distance between them....
...heading to a small oasis where Deokman is getting water. She yells, "Run away! Run away! Now!" And heads towards her daughter, but stumbles and falls, and rolls across the sand--right into a sinkhole that opens up above her. Deokman runs to her as she sinks up to her waist. Tries to pull her out by hand, no luck. Takes a small rope she has with her and lassos Sohwa with it, and starts to pull her out. But now the sinkhole threatens to swallow Deokman too. So Sohwa pulls out Jinheung's dagger, and starts to cut the rope and sacrifice herself to save her daughter. Deokman screams in protest, but Sohwa again orders her to run away. It's all academic now, though, because now Chilsuk is upon them.
She takes them to a secluded side yard next to Sohwa's inn and shows them what look like ordinary bricks, hidden under a covering of hay. But they're not clay--they're tea! Tea bricks. (My understanding was that she was simply going to help the traders out of the city, but now we see she's doing much more.) They look exactly like real bricks, but they're softer and easy to turn into drinkable tea. Great idea; big smiles all around...for about two seconds. Then soldiers come streaming into the yard, armed with a tip that tea is being smuggled here. Uh-oh.
Soldiers have also come into the inn, for the same reason. They're ransacking the place.
Back outside Deokman has surreptitiously taken out of her pocket the crystal magnifier she was given last night. She's trying to set fire to the hay (Won't the smell give it away?). And it works; the hay starts to burn like crazy. But the soldiers just get angry and take the whole bunch of them into custody.
Inside the feudal lord's estate: Everybody is in a big wooden cage. Sohwa's having some sort of medical problem and doesn't look good at all. She tells Cartan, "In my childhood, there was this immense fire, and according to the physicians, it gravely damaged her lungs." Chilsuk hears this, but it doesn't appear to click. Not yet. Anyway, now even the sight of a fire can set off Sohwa's respiratory trouble.
The lord (now identified as Lord Yang) is told that Deokman "eliminated all evidence by setting fire to it." Yang wants them punished. The whole group is brought before him. "Behead them!" And the first few of them are promptly taken to the guillotines. Deokman runs forward to Yang's feet and confesses. "All you need is to behead me!" There are some dialect issues--the lord speaks Cantonese; Deokman is speaking Mandarin--so Cartan starts to interpret. "She said she was responsible for it all, that she made the brick tea, so all you need to do is to punish her." Why did you do it?, Yang demands. Her slightly undiplomatic answer: "It is because it makes no sense." Yang's eyes widen with anger, but she proceeds to lecture him about the long journey that traders make to get here and the unfairness of sending them away with nothing. Cartan is desperately trying to shut her up, to no avail. Yang is furious: "Are you questioning my judgment?!" She answers, "A man who has no time for his people should have no time to ascend to the throne as well!" She says she read this in a book, and then plows right on: "He might mobilize troops and let intimidation dictate his policies, but he shall never become a hero for the ages." Amazed at her brashness, Yang gets out of his chair and kneels with Deokman. He pulls out the two jade "death" coins we saw before. "Choose one." For the life or death of the whole group. "You lowly slattern dare to question my legacy as a ruler?! Let us see your dexterity, and the providence you are blessed with." Come on, kid, don't be dense like the last guy; you know it's gotta be a fix...She's staring at the coins...."Choose! Now!"...still staring...and then, in a scared voice, "Show me. How do I know whether they are not the same?!" Good, kid...but Yang won't. "That is for your destiny to decide. Choose!" Just then, to the side, Sohwa starts deliriously mumbling, "Sire...My apologies. Sire..." Which Chilsuk hears, and that one doesn't pass by him, we can see. But anyway..."Do it!" So with a trembling hand, Deokman reaches for the coins, slowly grasps one with a closed fist...and then swallows it! Oh, that's very good. Now Yang is left with the other one, which of course is a death-coin. And he has to show it. The whole group rejoices, of course. Of course, Yang could just as easily behead them all for her recklessness, or just make them all wait until Deokman poops the thing out, so Deokman falls back at his feet and begs for their lives. "Why did you swallow that?" "I suddenly felt...that it could save me." Which is a good answer; much better than I-don't-trust-you. "Were you not daunted by me?!" "I was." Another good answer, which satisfies Yang's ego. He seems less impressed than mildly amused by it all, but whatever, he orders everybody released. Deokman runs to her mother, who's still gasping but is a little better now. Chilsuk is looking at the two of them, and now something's stirring in his head, we can see it.
Royal Palace, Seorabeol: "Sire. May you renounce such utterances!" A state council meeting, and King Jinpyeong doesn't look happy. We realize he isn't. Doesn't want to be king any more. He's proposed stepping down from the throne in favor of his predecessor Jinji's oldest son Kim Yongsu. Yongsu, we learn, has married Princess Cheonmyeong. The nobles want none of it; Yongsu isn't considered sacred-bone rank any more, they point out, and they also feel he hasn't done anything to be considered worthy of the throne. Just then Mishil arrives; it's an annual festival day and she's inviting the king to a Hwarang ceremony...Afterwards, outside, Misaeng is annoyed with his sister for seemingly caring so little about the situation and the king's mental state: "The Grim Reaper stole three sons from his embrace, and now nary a coherent thought graces his mind!" But Mishil isn't worried about that today. She's very calm...disturbingly calm.
Mishil arrives at the Hwarang event. Lots of activity from Hwarang of various age groups. She takes a seat next to Princess Cheonmyeong, who apparently had some supervisory role in putting the event together. Mishil puts on the phony charm, initially deferential to the princess...but then asks her point-blank if she's trying to become queen. Cheonmyeong wasn't aware of what just happened in the council meeting and has no idea what Mishil is talking about until she tells her. But Mishil presses: "How daunting you can be, Your Highness. Concocting such heinous machinations with a peaceful smile on your face." Not sure if Mishil really believes that or if it's a trick. The princess assures her that "I merely am trying to live in sincerity." But Mishil is in full cattiness mode: "Is Your Highness trying to contend with Mishil's might, by any chance? You follow your call. Just as Mishil shall follow hers." Ugh. The steamrolled Cheonmyeong is visibly mortified by the very idea of it all.
Back in Xinjiang Province: Evening, the yard next to Sohwa's inn. Cartan is surprisingly ungrateful to Deokman for risking her life on his behalf. "Your survival is what's important! What does it matter if I perish?" Deokman disagrees: My survival and yours are both important!" She claims she acted as she did because of stories of heroism in the books that Cartan had brought her. Sohwa is there and takes Cartan's side, but the other traders are simply grateful and thank her. Cartan asks where Chilsuk has gone off to. This leads Deokman to start telling them the whole story that Chilsuk had told her about his search for a child and a servant. Sohwa starts to overhear...At the same time, we see Chilsuk sneaking around inside the inn, searching Sohwa's and Deokman's living quarters. He's looking for evidence of what he now suspects...Sohwa listens as Deokman continues, and as the story plays out, a look of terror slowly comes over her...Chilsuk is still searching, and now he's found something...Now Sohwa is trembling. She grabs Deokman and pulls her inside...Chilsuk has found the cloth that the infant princess was wrapped in. And then an envelope with a word written on it: "Munno"! His eyes widen in disbelief...Sohwa is frantic: "We must flee. Quickly!" She pulls a confused Deokman up the stairs...but too late. "Sohwa." Chilsuk is standing there, and he knows. "Is this the child?" She denies it. To no avail. "You have grown remarkably." And now Deokman has put the pieces together too. Chilsuk brandishes his sword and has no thought of mercy. "Fifteen years. That is the time it took me to find you. But I can now finally return to Gyerim." The women run into a room, and lock the door, but Chilsuk breaks it open, swats aside the knife Deokman throws at him, and now converges on the cowering, trembling pair. He holds a lit candle to Sohwa's face: "It is you. The varlet who spurted out of that raging fire, embracing the child...." Deokman spots a container of flammable liquid nearby, and throws it on the candle, setting Chilsuk on fire (and parts of the room too). They run from the room as Chilsuk struggles to put himself out. They foolishly try to gather their possessions but then realize there's no time, and run downstairs through a trap door to hide. A quiet moment as they freeze while Chilsuk searches...he's almost gone but Sohwa knocks something over and blows their cover. They run back up through the trap-door ladder and slam it shut. They know a way out; they can jump out of one of the windows and onto a pile of hay. But it's the window in the room on fire, and Sohwa is literally convulsing with fear at the sight of the fire. Now Chilsuk has come up the main stairs! Deokman leaves Sohwa hidden in a corner and yells to Chilsuk, and then runs into the trap-door room to draw him away. But when she runs to the trap door to escape...it's jammed. Chilsuk cleverly jammed it when he was shut out from beneath. And now Deokman is trapped. Chilsuk heads for the room, walking past the hiding, trembling Sohwa--who suddenly hears King Jinpyeong's words in hear head from that day in the delivery room: "There is nobody but you. Protect that child for me." She spots a knife nearby...Chilsuk barges into the room, corners Deokman and puts his sword to her throat: "This is where it ends. Let us return to Gyerim." And then from behind, a sudden scream, and Sohwa charges Chilsuk and plunges the knife into him. As much stunned as anything, he falls to the ground and the pair make their escape through the now-burning halls. Downstairs, outside and away. Back inside, Chilsuk manages to stagger to his feet and pull out the knife (the pair made a mistake not grabbing the sword and finishing him off). Outside, Deokman helps her mother onto a camel and the two head off into the nighttime desert. Back inside, the locals are finally putting out the fire downstairs, and a woozy Chilsuk falls down the stairs in front of them. Whew.
The next day: Sohwa and Deokman are in the desert, literally in the middle of nowhere. They've been going non-stop, and finally the camel is exhausted and will go no further. It sits, and Sohwa falls off. She's in bad shape. Deokman helps her to her feet and they head for a cave nearby, but Sohwa can't walk very far. Leave me, she says, but Deokman will have none of that, and actually starts to carry her mother on her back. Strong little thing, isn't she? (At least the stunt person is.)
Back inside the not-badly-damaged inn: Cartan and two of his friends have tended to Chilsuk, who wakes up with a bandage over his eyes. "The physician said you might have hurt your eyes in the fire. You might lose your eyesight, so he said to rest here for the time being." And Cartan wants an explanation: "It looked to me as if those two were running away from you. How can you explain that?" Chilsuk lies: "There was a misunderstanding. I must find Deokman and bring her back to her father." Cartan tells him he couldn't leave even if he wanted to because a desert storm is coming. Chilsuk ignores that advice, but gets Cartan to tell him that the pair were headed for Dunhuang.
Chilsuk is on horseback, out in the desert. Shows no ill effects from his knife wound (Seriously?), nor from his possible vision problem.
Sohwa and Deokman are in the cave, a small fire keeping them warm. Sohwa keeps telling Deokman to go to Rome and leave her. Deokman has another idea: Gyerim. "You said we are from Gyerim." Sohwa forbids it outright. But Deokman is getting tired of all the mystery. "What is wrong with Chilsuk Ajeosshi, and what is all this? Why can't we go to Gyerim?" Sohwa answers her cryptically: "It is what your father wishes." The response surprises her: "Munno? Gukseon...This Munno is my father?" How does she know about Munno? Turns out, that envelope we saw earlier, she saw it once. No, Sohwa answers, it's not Munno. Then Deokman pulls out the much-traveled little dagger--Jinheung's dagger. "You said my father gave you this. So he gave you just this, and abandoned the both of us?!" She's getting angry and frustrated. Sowha tries to calm her: "Your father never abandoned you...You saved him." But this makes no sense to her and only frustrates her more. "Parents sacrifice themselves to protect their children. Like you...You did that for me." As in, the story that Chilsuk told her about the cave fire long ago, and yesterday stabbing Chilsuk amidst the flames. She's angrier, more frustrated, sad that she can't do more for her mother, and in the next moment defiant that she will take care of her and get them both to safety. And then cries into her mother's arms.
Chilsuk has come across the camel. And sees footsteps in the sand leading away from it. Now he's hot on their trail, scrambling among all of the nearby rocks...He finds an empty cave. Goes into it and finds a dying fire...and just then a brief skittering sound. It's Sowha. He chases her through the rock formations--she can really scoot when she puts her mind to it, gotta give her that--and even as he closes on her, he can't catch her because now his knife wound is hurting and bleeding (Thank you!). And now she puts some distance between them....
...heading to a small oasis where Deokman is getting water. She yells, "Run away! Run away! Now!" And heads towards her daughter, but stumbles and falls, and rolls across the sand--right into a sinkhole that opens up above her. Deokman runs to her as she sinks up to her waist. Tries to pull her out by hand, no luck. Takes a small rope she has with her and lassos Sohwa with it, and starts to pull her out. But now the sinkhole threatens to swallow Deokman too. So Sohwa pulls out Jinheung's dagger, and starts to cut the rope and sacrifice herself to save her daughter. Deokman screams in protest, but Sohwa again orders her to run away. It's all academic now, though, because now Chilsuk is upon them.