Post by ajk on Mar 5, 2014 16:38:55 GMT -5
Park Sangchung is being held in the jail while Lee Cheom is being tortured. Park tries to take the blame for ordering Lee Cheom to write the appeal against Lee In Im; he "confesses" to making him write it (which he didn't; Lee Cheom volunteered). So then they stop torturing Lee and start torturing Park. Lee In Im wants to get him to "confess" that Jeong Meonju was the one who ordered the whole thing (which he wasn't).
Now free from house arrest, Lee goes to challenge the queen dowager for issuing the arrest order. Tells her she'll have no role in making government decisions any more--and says it with the business end of his sword pointing at her.
And now the powerful clans' private armies are surrounding the palace! On the pretext that the Japanese pirates might invade the capital (yeah, right). The scholars complain to Choi Yeong about it, but he's headed home for good. He resigned, remember.
Im Gyeongmi gets promoted to deputy commander.
Lee Seonggye is leaving Gaegyeong and headed back home, but stops to say goodbye to Jeong Meonju on the way out. Meonju is desperate to save Park Sangchung; he's sure Park will die before falsely confessing. But Lee has sobering advice for him: you'll have to let him die. "Don't act when the enemy is strong. You have to wait. If you wait you will have a chance." Even if it means Park dies? Yes. "A general at a battleground has to be cold." And will lose people in a battle; you have to accept that.
Afterwards Lee's wife warns him against getting too close to the scholars because they're not on Lee In Im's good side. But he won't have that. "The only two people who treated me as a Goryean," he tells her, "were Choi Yeong and Poeun."
Near Sojaedong: Cheonbok and no-name girl are outside the local government office, begging for father's release. Then JD shows up (here outside the village, which is what caused this mess in the first place). He's his usual arrogant self and demands that the old man be released. "I will receive the punishment," he says. So the guards give him a serious beating for being there at all, and Cheonbok has to put him on a cart and pull him home, he's so messed up. Then no-name girl learns that because the old man's offense isn't considered major, he can avoid the whipping he's supposed to get by making "a payment for atonement." (Which sounds like a bribe, of course.) And it just so happens that the weird traveler guy who wants her to be a shaman is back in the village. He tells her if she'll "become my spiritual daughter" he'll give her the money. That evening she surprises the village by bringing her father home, none the worse for wear.
All of the scholars are united in wanting to write an appeal to save Park Sangchung's life. But Mongju orders them not to! Lee Seonggye's advice is ringing in his head. We can't win this one, he tells them. Later, with Ha Ryun's help, Mongju bribes a jail guard and visits Park, and begs him to confess falsely to save his life. But Park not only won't do it, he says he's mortally wounded from the torture and won't live much longer either way. Asks Mongju to join with JD when JD returns and drive Lee out of power. "Then pour me a drink on my grave. I could wish for nothing more."
JD is trying to shake off his beating and it's not going so well. But he's still defiant as he limps around using a crutch. Then he comes across an ugly scene: Cheonbok angrily accusing the traveler guy of wanting to take his sister away and make her his mistress! When he realizes she's agreed to leave and become a shaman, he gets angry and shuns her. And the traveler guy makes him angrier by telling him his friends in the capital are being persecuted and tortured.
Mongju visits Choi Yeong at his home and begs him to come back to the court.
Now Lee Saek, the academy head, is put under house arrest. Lee is trying to force the issue. That causes all of the scholars to resign their government positions! Which gets them in hot water with the other officials and the powerful clans; lots of calls for them to be punished for disloyalty for causing this trouble during an enemy invasion.
The queen dowager has lost her scholar allies in the government; she swallows her pride and goes to Lee In Im to at least allow Choi Yeong back in the court. Fine, Lee says, but he's going to have to do something to prove his loyalty. What?
Choi returns to the capital and gets a shocking order from the QD: Arrest the scholars! He refuses, but the QD actually kneels in front of him, crying and desperate. "If the scholars are purged, you will be the only person the vice-chancellor fears. If you turn your back, who will protect the royal family and this court?" It moves him to tears. And so he takes troops and arrests all of the scholars.
Evening: No-name girl goes to seek JD's forgiveness for disappointing him...but he's not there; there's only a note saying he'll be back before the next monthly check. And we see him limping furiously away from the village.
Now free from house arrest, Lee goes to challenge the queen dowager for issuing the arrest order. Tells her she'll have no role in making government decisions any more--and says it with the business end of his sword pointing at her.
And now the powerful clans' private armies are surrounding the palace! On the pretext that the Japanese pirates might invade the capital (yeah, right). The scholars complain to Choi Yeong about it, but he's headed home for good. He resigned, remember.
Im Gyeongmi gets promoted to deputy commander.
Lee Seonggye is leaving Gaegyeong and headed back home, but stops to say goodbye to Jeong Meonju on the way out. Meonju is desperate to save Park Sangchung; he's sure Park will die before falsely confessing. But Lee has sobering advice for him: you'll have to let him die. "Don't act when the enemy is strong. You have to wait. If you wait you will have a chance." Even if it means Park dies? Yes. "A general at a battleground has to be cold." And will lose people in a battle; you have to accept that.
Afterwards Lee's wife warns him against getting too close to the scholars because they're not on Lee In Im's good side. But he won't have that. "The only two people who treated me as a Goryean," he tells her, "were Choi Yeong and Poeun."
Near Sojaedong: Cheonbok and no-name girl are outside the local government office, begging for father's release. Then JD shows up (here outside the village, which is what caused this mess in the first place). He's his usual arrogant self and demands that the old man be released. "I will receive the punishment," he says. So the guards give him a serious beating for being there at all, and Cheonbok has to put him on a cart and pull him home, he's so messed up. Then no-name girl learns that because the old man's offense isn't considered major, he can avoid the whipping he's supposed to get by making "a payment for atonement." (Which sounds like a bribe, of course.) And it just so happens that the weird traveler guy who wants her to be a shaman is back in the village. He tells her if she'll "become my spiritual daughter" he'll give her the money. That evening she surprises the village by bringing her father home, none the worse for wear.
All of the scholars are united in wanting to write an appeal to save Park Sangchung's life. But Mongju orders them not to! Lee Seonggye's advice is ringing in his head. We can't win this one, he tells them. Later, with Ha Ryun's help, Mongju bribes a jail guard and visits Park, and begs him to confess falsely to save his life. But Park not only won't do it, he says he's mortally wounded from the torture and won't live much longer either way. Asks Mongju to join with JD when JD returns and drive Lee out of power. "Then pour me a drink on my grave. I could wish for nothing more."
JD is trying to shake off his beating and it's not going so well. But he's still defiant as he limps around using a crutch. Then he comes across an ugly scene: Cheonbok angrily accusing the traveler guy of wanting to take his sister away and make her his mistress! When he realizes she's agreed to leave and become a shaman, he gets angry and shuns her. And the traveler guy makes him angrier by telling him his friends in the capital are being persecuted and tortured.
Mongju visits Choi Yeong at his home and begs him to come back to the court.
Now Lee Saek, the academy head, is put under house arrest. Lee is trying to force the issue. That causes all of the scholars to resign their government positions! Which gets them in hot water with the other officials and the powerful clans; lots of calls for them to be punished for disloyalty for causing this trouble during an enemy invasion.
The queen dowager has lost her scholar allies in the government; she swallows her pride and goes to Lee In Im to at least allow Choi Yeong back in the court. Fine, Lee says, but he's going to have to do something to prove his loyalty. What?
Choi returns to the capital and gets a shocking order from the QD: Arrest the scholars! He refuses, but the QD actually kneels in front of him, crying and desperate. "If the scholars are purged, you will be the only person the vice-chancellor fears. If you turn your back, who will protect the royal family and this court?" It moves him to tears. And so he takes troops and arrests all of the scholars.
Evening: No-name girl goes to seek JD's forgiveness for disappointing him...but he's not there; there's only a note saying he'll be back before the next monthly check. And we see him limping furiously away from the village.
