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Lucia hasn’t got her keys.  She and Marcelo meet outside the apartment building. She asks to see a photo of dead brother Federico.
Daniela returns to Milagros’ apartment really late and comes up with another dumb, “I got lost” excuse.
Lucia walks into Marc’s room and smells Nora’s perfume on all the pillows and sheets.  She goes nuts, but Marc and she realize it’s her sick sister’s way of threatening to/ or pretending to be two-timing Lucia with her fiancé again.  This time Lucia doesn’t fall for it and will make sure Nora hears about it!
Rafaela mentions to Marc that Dani is beginning to pull away from Millie’s clutches and becoming more independent.
Nora notices as Rebecca returns home late with blood on one of her hands and questions her mother about that.  Becca growls that she cut herself.
While Alonso is napping in Sarah’s bedroom, Sarah gets a desperate call from Ricardo Marquez asking for her to come over and tend to his huge knife wound.  Sarah knows better than to risk her career for this shyster and tells him it’s after hours and to go to the emergency room instead.  Click.  He calls up the only dumb broad he can take advantage of, namely Daniela, and persuades her to come over and help him instead.
Meanwhile Letty gets home and is disgusted to find out that Lucia’s daddy is sleeping up in Sarah’s bed. She lends her cell phone to Sarah so Sarah can let Lucia know.
Teresa, the housekeeper notes that Lalo is waiting outside on the front lawn and did not ring the bell before entering.  He explains the gate was open and he was hoping to speak to Sr. Alonso about the drunken row Amador Zuñiga caused at the plant earlier in the day.  Terry informs Lalo that he’s not in and they haven’t seen him for the past few days.  They make plans to attend a wedding (Magdalena’s I believe).—Or at least he asked her out for Sunday and she told him those were her plans for Friday.
At the same time, Mags is telling Nazario that she cannot understand how three sisters with the same exact upbringing could have a been so different.  Becca is the rotten apple in the family barrel and she spoiled both her sister’s and her lives, not to mention Lucia’s, to this point.  Mags thinks her parents would die all over again if they knew what kind of monster Becca had become.  “--And gawd knows what other tricks she has up her sleeve!”

Lucia gets home late and tries knocking on her aunt’s door but with no response—except for snide and sneaky little Nora, who asks how Lucia’s time with Marc went.  Lucia says it went great and that she needn’t worry about returning the extra set of apartment keys since Marc’s changing the lock now.  (Pow! Splat! Splish!)
Dani leaves the apartment after lying again to Millie about going to see the police lieutenant for some more testimony about her murdered cousin, Ligia.  Millie tells her to wait while she changes and she’ll go with Dani since it’s so late at night.  Dani eventually tells her she doesn’t have time to wait and leaves alone.  She gets to Ric’s place and rather than going to the hospital, he explains he cannot and she must help him tend the wound there.  (I’d say this guy has been to this kind of round up a few times and was fully prepared to stitch it even…..)
At the same time, Marc is picking up his room after playing sheetscapades with Lucia when he notes that his daddy’s pistol is missing.  NORA!!  It had to be nutty Nora who took it when she snuck into his apartment earlier in the day.  He calls Lucia to warn her and then races over there to confront her and to get it back.
Ric won’t let Dani take him to the hospital.  He lies and spins one about how the thieves that attacked him also took his wallet and so he has no way of paying the hospital now, anyway.  She offers to pay, but he refuses.  She gives in and does what she can.
Back in Nora’s room, the little sociopathic pain in the ass, insists she hasn’t got the gun and has no idea where it could be.  Becca rushes in to protect her sick little baby chick again, but this time realizes her daughter cannot be pushed into an admission (like mother like daughter) Once those two leave, Nora smiles knowingly and tells Mama thanks for backing her up.  Becca isn’t buying it but won’t push it, either.  She admits this finally to Lucia.
The next morning, there’s a hubbub between Alonso and Becca because he didn’t come home for the night.  He admits to Lucia, who knows where and why he was there, that it doesn’t matter to him what Becca thinks of his spending the night out.
Rodrigo mentions to Sergio that Letty stopped by to visit but left when he told her that Serg was out with Gloria.

Sarah goes to the records department and persuades the clerk there to look up whatever he can find on Adriana’s two visits the same day to the hospital the day she died from the fall.

Dani is still at Ric’s place.  She opens the door to leave and there are the two cops investigating Ligia’s death outside the door about to knock.  They push their way in and begin asking Ric why Rebeca Gaxiola is so eager to see Ricardo behind bars.  “—There has to be a reason why the woman would want you held.  What did you do to her? Why would the woman want you sentenced and put in prison.  What is it???”  Ric gets angry and loses it.  He shows his knife wound to the police detective.  “—She’s the one who should be sent to jail!  She came here last night wanting to kill me with a knife!

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With blood smearing one cheek and tears coursing down the other, Do-hyun finally remembers that Ri-jin was with him in the basement. He struggles to stay conscious while his memories—not to mention Mom’s thugs—assault him, finally recalling the promise he made Ri-jin as a child: “Remember. 10:00pm—the time we promised to meet.” Overwhelmed, he sinks to his knees and then collapses on the ground.

Ri-jin is trapped inside the building, tormented by her own memories. Outside, Do-hyun forces himself to his feet once again, pushing himself past the limits of his battered body. He stumbles towards the thugs, but his attempts to fight are easily repulsed. The bad guys proceed to beat the shit out of him. Again.

Mom hears from her thugs about the guy who followed them, unaware that it’s her precious son. She tells them to retreat for now, to avoid getting caught by the police. The leader relays the orders to his henchmen, who are busy repeatedly kicking a prone Do-hyun in the ribs. Ouch.

Ri-jin struggles with the locked door, which triggers recollections of being trapped in the basement. She starts to hyperventilate and rummages through the shelves for a plastic bag, showing great presence of mind in the midst of her panic attack.

The door opens, and Ri-jin’s mind jumps immediately to when Do-hyun’s father would enter the basement. She runs to a pile of boxes and huddles behind them, burying her head in her arms. In voiceover we hear Do-hyun as a child, apologizing for being late.



Ri-jin turns around to look, and sure enough it’s Cha Do-hyun who enters the kitchen, looking like he’s been through a war zone. Ri-jin rushes over to him, asking about his injuries. “I’m sorry… I’m late,” Do-hyun says, echoing the words he spoke as a child. He collapses once more (is that three times in eight minutes? Poor guy).

Ri-on and Chief Ahn arrive at the hideout at the same time. Chief Ahn grabs Ri-on by the collar, demanding to know who he really is, but their confrontation is interrupted by Ri-jin’s distressed cries. They hurry inside, where Ri-jin tells them to call an ambulance.

Ri-jin stays by Do-hyun’s side as paramedics rush him to the emergency room, even giving orders to the other doctor. He’s all like, “Wait… aren’t you supposed to be at Johns Hopkins?”, but Ri-jin is in no mood for chitchat.

Ri-on finds his sister waiting in the hall for news of Do-hyun’s condition. He hands her a restorative drink and tries to get her to rest at home, but Ri-jin won’t budge until Do-hyun regains his senses. Ri-on gets upset because Ri-jin only worries about Do-hyun, ignoring his concern for her. He chucks his drink in the trash and storms off.

In the hallway, Chief Ahn learns that the villa where Ri-jin was taken is registered under “that person’s” name, and orders his informant to find the leader of the kidnappers. Ri-on overhears the call and demands to know who owns the villa, but Chief Ahn says that he can’t share information that isn’t confirmed.

“Then I’ll confirm it for myself,” Ri-on replies. “But if it’s who I think it is, I don’t know what I’ll end up doing.” He leaves Chief Ahn with that warning and calls his friend on the police force to ask him to investigate.

Ri-jin is waiting by Do-hyun’s hospital bed when Dr. Seok comes looking for her. He reminds her of her promise to have a consultation with him, and takes Ri-jin away while Do-hyun sleeps. But Do-hyun wakes seconds after they leave the room.

Ri-jin relates her feeling of déjà vu while trapped in the villa. She’s now certain that she plays a part in Do-hyun’s repressed memories, and she’s determined to regain her own forgotten past to help him heal.

Dr. Seok confirms that Ri-jin is really doing this for Do-hyun’s sake and not her own, and the camera pans to show us Do-hyun listening outside the office door. He hears Ri-jin say how they promised to fight together from now on, whether it was a fear of basements or anything else.



Do-hyun goes to the roof of the hospital and looks out over the city, the picture of Ri-jin as a child clasped in his hand. Ri-jin sees him and assumes it’s Yo-sub trying to kill himself again, so she pulls him away from the edge and scolds him for breaking the promise he made her.

“If you want to die, then die,” Ri-jin says. “But die tomorrow.” And if tomorrow he still wants to die, she says, then push it to the next day, and the next and the next. A day will come when he’ll be glad he held on. Do-hyun promises her he won’t die, because there’s something he has to do first—someone he has to protect.

Ri-jin hugs Do-hyun tightly, sobbing that this is the first time she realized how reassuring the words “I won’t die” actually are. With the picture of child Ri-jin still in his hand, Do-hyun can’t bring himself to return Ri-jin’s embrace.

Walking through the hospital lobby, Do-hyun asks Ri-jin to stop trying to recover her memories. She is living well and has many people who love her—Do-hyun doesn’t want her to suffer just to help him.

Ri-jin reminds him that it’s likely she was Se-gi’s first love, which means she could be Do-hyun’s as well. There could be wonderful memories that Ri-jin would recover along with the bad ones, and Do-hyun shouldn’t give up just because he’s scared.

But Do-hyun knows exactly how not-wonderful Ri-jin’s memories would be, and he can’t hold back his tears. He pulls Ri-jin into a hug, leaving her confused about what she said exactly that affected him so much.

Ri-jin’s mother visits a Buddhist temple, the final resting place of her old friend Min Seo-yeon (Ri-jin’s biological mother). A flashback shows Seo-yeon calling Mom twenty-one years ago, begging her to save her daughter. She promised to pick Ri-jin up in a few days, but must have died in the car crash before she could. In the present, Mom scolds Seo-yeon gently for passing on without keeping her promise. She tears up as she says how well Ri-jin has grown up.

Just outside the temple entrance is a thug in a suit, who calls Ki-joon’s dad to confirm that he’s discovered the identity of the person who raised Seo-yeon’s child. Dad reminds him to move carefully, and Ki-joon observes that something big must be happening if Dad is mobilizing his troops. Dad says he’s simply aiming for his opponent’s weakness, which he must take advantage of before his own is exposed.



Ki-joon’s mother takes Chae-yeon out to lunch to scold her (politely, of course) for being seen drunk in public with Cha Do-hyun. She doesn’t make a big deal out of it, saying that she trusts Chae-yeon not to make another mistake like this. “How can you trust me when I don’t trust myself?” Chae-yeon asks. She stands up, pays her respects, and excuses herself like a boss.

Chae-yeon’s mother gets a call from Ki-joon’s mother, who is not happy about what just went down. But Chae-yeon’s mom fires back, saying her daughter is every bit as great as Ki-joon and they should just break off the engagement.

Chae-yeon returns her engagement ring to Ki-joon. She says there is someone else she wants to have, and it’s wrong to play with Ki-joon’s heart like this. He demands to know why she’s started worrying about him now, and Chae-yeon only apologizes and takes her leave. Ki-joon chucks the ring away, cursing Do-hyun.

Ri-on brings some things to Ri-jin at the hospital, but she’s already on her way to Do-hyun’s house. Then Ri-on gets a call from his detective friend, who has discovered the owner of the villa where Ri-jin’s kidnappers went.

Do-hyun hears from Chief Ahn, who has also confirmed without a doubt that it was Do-hyun’s mom who orchestrated the kidnapping. He wants to confront her immediately, but on his way to check out of the hospital he gets a call from Ri-on.

They meet in the hallway, and Ri-on grabs Do-hyun by collar and slams him against the wall. Ri-on is near the limits of his self-control, screaming that Do-hyun should never have created more ties with Ri-jin. Do-hyun remembers what Ri-on told Se-gi, about having no right to be with Ri-jin because he’s a son of Seungjin Group. Tears spring to Do-hyun’s eyes. “Why did you ignore my warning?” Ri-on cries. “Why? Why? WHY?”

Ri-jin stops by Do-hyun’s apartment to pick up some of his clothes. She finds the box of toys that Se-gi bought for their date, including the pop-up clown and the evil dancing monkey. She smiles as she recalls how Se-gi tried so hard to impress her.

The toy train sparks a different set of memories—Ri-jin hears a child’s voice promising to meet her every day at the same time. Ri-jin stares at the empty room and sees a child playing with a toy train, though it’s not yet clear to her that it’s an actual memory.

A call comes from Dad who wants Ri-jin to stop by the restaurant to check on Mom. She overworked on the weekend, but she doesn’t want to go to the hospital, so Dad asks Ri-jin to swing by and give her an IV. Ri-jin leaves at once.

Ri-on meets with Do-hyun and explains everything about his past with Ri-jin. He always tried to allay her fears and explain away her nightmares, but now Ri-jin is seeing flashes of her past more frequently after meeting Do-hyun.

Ri-jin will be in danger from people who fear her existence, and her memories will make her miserable if she discovers them. For those reasons, Ri-on asks Do-hyun to send Ri-jin away. She won’t listen to her brother anymore, but she might listen to Do-hyun.

With his head bowed, Ri-on begs Do-hyun to help. Do-hyun agrees, but asks for a single favor in return.



Ri-jin hooks up an IV for her mother and scolds her for not taking care of herself. Ri-jin boasts that she doesn’t make house calls for just anyone, so Mom had better listen. Mom jokes back, wondering where Ri-jin inherited her looks and poise, but the oblique reference to Ri-jin’s real parents turns the mood somber.

“Aren’t you curious about your real family?” Ri-jin’s mom asks. But Ri-jin says that she is content to find out later. Ri-on overhears from the doorway, and in voiceover he asks Do-hyun not to take away Ri-jin or his family’s happiness.

Speaking of taking away happiness, Do-hyun’s mom arrives at his apartment. She asks Chief Ahn why Do-hyun called her out, and the chief replies that it’s probably for the exact reason she fears.



Mom apologizes to Do-hyun, saying that she went too far. She insists that she wasn’t really kidnapping Ri-jin, just investigating to figure out why she approached Do-hyun.

Do-hyun reveals that Ri-jin has no memories of her past, so Mom’s attempts to find out how much she knows are useless. Mom is instantly relieved, which disgusts Do-hyun even further. “Are you even human?!” he demands. He asks if she has the right to call herself someone’s mother after acting this way.

Grandma Seo sits next to Joon-pyo’s bed and scolds him for running away for six years, then staying in a coma for the next twenty. She thinks back to twenty-one years ago, when Joon-pyo finally returned to the house with Do-hyun in tow.

In the past, Grandma Seo greets Joon-pyo just like a mother happy to be reunited with her son (and not the Mistress of Evil we know her to be), but she is put off when Joon-pyo requests that his son be added to the family register. Then Seo-yeon appears, with a daughter that Joon-pyo doesn’t recognize. The adults are tense and wary, but the children share shy smiles.

Back in the present, Grandma Seo reflects that if only her husband hadn’t brought Seo-yeon back to the house, if only “that child” had really been Joon-pyo’s, this whole tragedy would never have happened. Now she doesn’t know where to begin to start straightening things out (unplugging Joon-pyo’s respirator might be a good place to start, honestly).



Do-hyun gives his mother one last chance to atone for her greed: She can pack everything and leave for America with him. Mom isn’t even willing to consider giving up now, when they’re so close to the finish line.

Do-hyun explains that he can never be Seungjin Group’s successor, because he has D.I.D. He tries to get his mother to understand how her greed, her sins and her husband’s, made him this way. Mom’s only thought is that he can’t let anyone know, or else he’ll lose his chance to own Seungjin Group.

“I’ve finally figured out how to end your insatiable greed,” Do-hyun says. He’s going to reveal his illness to Seungjin Group, to the whole world, thereby ending all possibility of Mom gaining prestige through her son. Do-hyun asks Mom once again if she’s willing to leave for America with him.

Ri-on drives Ri-jin to Do-hyun’s apartment. He suggests that Mom’s sickness is because of her shock that Ri-jin knows she was adopted, and asks why Ri-jin is suddenly so determined to recover her memories.

Ri-jin says that she thinks it is the right time, and she is strong enough to look back on her past without crumbling. Ri-on wants to know if her new determination is because of Do-hyun, and Ri-jin says it’s possible, but she won’t say for sure.

They see Do-hyun waiting in front of his apartment, sitting in a folding chair and looking morose. Ri-jin wonders what he’s doing here when he should still be in the hospital.



Ri-jin asks Do-hyun if he was waiting for her, laughing that her dog Ri-na does the same thing. She holds out her hand like she would for her dog, and pets Do-hyun’s head. He plays along, but he looks like he’s on the edge of tears.

We see a flashback of Do-hyun’s conversation with Ri-on, when he promised to send Ri-jin away. His condition was that he spend one final day with her—Do-hyun wants to make Ri-jin smile brightly just once, since he’s always been the one relying on her.

Do-hyun asks Ri-jin if she will go with him on the Snowflake Train, since he wants to make up for cancelling their trip before. Ri-jin immediately agrees and starts dancing for joy, seemingly unaware of Do-hyun’s inner turmoil.

Once more we cut back to Do-hyun and Ri-on’s conversation, with both men crying buckets. “Far in the future,” Do-hyun tells Ri-on, “when Ri-jin doesn’t feel anything even if she thinks of me, and if she happens to be hurt by her past, tell her this: It’s not because you did something wrong, or because you don’t have the right to be loved, that you were abused.”

Ri-jin does have the right to be loved, Do-hyun insists. So she should forget about the past that’s never done her any good, and live her life while being loved. In the present, Ri-jin beams happily at Do-hyun, and he smiles sadly back.

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“Footstool,” calls Choongwongoon, and Gil-dong turns around to find his enemy regrettably alive and well. Behind Choongwongoon, Mori steps into view, and we see in a flashback that he vowed to make Gil-dong regret keeping him alive.

The bandits are shocked and disgusted at the sight of Choongwongoon, who claims that he’s a new person now. Keeping his composure, Choongwongoon calmly threatens to change Gil-dong into a new person as well. As he leaves, Gil-dong greets Mori, who gives him a sinister smile before following his new master.



Ga-ryung awaits Gil-dong’s return and wanders outside her home in anticipation. Mori trails her, and just as he follows her into a neighboring home, she comes out carrying a rock, ready to fight as she demands to know why he’s following her. She recognizes him as Heotaehak’s former minion, and she warns him not to touch her orabeoni. He doesn’t take her seriously, though he finds her attitude to be quite unusual. She has more fighting words, but she drops them and the rock when she sees Gil-dong arriving with his entourage.

She follows them into the house, but they ignore her and solemnly walk into the room. Eop-san explains that they have something important to discuss but doesn’t disclose any details, so no one hears her when she shares that she just saw Mori.

Ilchung reports that Choongwongoon had been released from exile about half a year ago and has been roaming from village to village assuming the role of a scholar. We see Choongwongoon educating the villagers about the duty of scholars to educate the people. He’s viewed as an upright scholar by the people, but Gil-dong knows better as he laughs and says that people don’t change easily.



That night, Gil-dong and Segul locate Choongwongoon’s home, and they’re surprised to see that the former royal now lives in very humble home. Gil-dong announces his entrance and tries to provoke Choongwongoon by giving him taffy (eating “yeot” symbolizes a big fat middle finger), but the man has changed. Choongwongoon keeps his cool and vows to see Gil-dong kneel in front of him. Gil-dong disparages his words and leaves, pulling Choongwongoon’s wrapped temper at the seams.

After the meeting with Choongwongoon, the bandits are relieved to hear that the former royal doesn’t seem to know about Gil-dong’s involvement to get revenge for the people. Soboori warns everyone to watch their mouths and tells Ilchung to be more selective with the pleas they accept. But Gil-dong is more curious about Choongwongoon’s transformation. He presumes that he couldn’t have done it on his own, so someone must be behind him.

Choongwongoon asks Scholar Song to meet with Gil-dong to witness the wickedness for himself. Taking the suggestion, Scholar Song walks through the village marketplace and purposely bumps his shoulder with Gil-dong, who immediately apologizes to the scholar. Scholar Song gives him a long look before going on this way, but he sends a spy to observe Gil-dong during his gibang job. He comes up empty, and Scholar Song is convinced that Gil-dong is just an innocent gibang worker.

Choongwongoon insists that there’s more to Gil-dong, but Scholar Song reminds him that he’s a respected scholar with an honorable reputation now. If he starts to make accusations that he was framed, he’ll be perceived as a corrupt royal once more. Scholar Song asks him to be patient and help him with an important issue, and he will return the favor. Choongwongoon asks what the important issue is, and Scholar Song responds: “There’s a big thief in our nation.”



Scholar Song tells Jeong-hak about the big thief, who’s rumored to severely injure anyone he meets. In tracking down this thief, Scholar Song has found that all the people associated with the thief have been interrogated about a murder case. He warns Jeong-hak that these thieves aren’t your typical gangsters and may have a grander scheme against Joseon. He challenges his student to make his teacher proud.

Jeong-hak starts his investigation with the interrogated nobles. With Scholar Song listening secretly behind the bookshelf, Jeong-hak asks each suspect about their encounter with a thief. They all describe the thief differently: one was big, one was small, and one had very angry eyes, sharp enough to pierce someone. For further investigation, Jeong-hak brings in a villager and asks about the rumors surrounding this mysterious thief, and the villager explains that by asking for the “Great Elder,” one can resolve unfair treatment that the nation can’t even solve.



One of the elderly interrogated nobles, Kim Deok-hyung, returns to the gibang and insists on meeting Gil-dong. He warns Gil-dong about the reinvestigation by the judge and promises to keep the secret of the Great Elder. He thanks Gil-dong profusely for resolving his daughter’s murder, which was committed by his son-in-law. He says that he’s come to meet the Great Elder one last time and claims that he will feel no regret if he dies now.

At night, Gil-dong dreams about his father and the shaman, who both warn him about his menacing fate. He wakes up in cold sweat, since these dreams seem to forewarn him about something.

Gil-dong decides that he’ll save Kim Deok-hyung from jail, but Soboori and Ilchung seem reluctant. He reminds them that they have connections with the king, and he plans on creating a headpiece gift for Nok-soo, who he’s heard is favored by the king.



Gil-hyun returns from his travels outside the palace and brings with him grim news about the sudden disappearances of entire families. But before he can show the king a map of the disappeared families, Nok-soo enters the king’s quarters. The king tells Gil-hyun to rest from his travels, turning his attention to Nok-soo instead.

As Gil-hyun looks over the maps of the disappeared families, he’s called over by Jeong-hak, who tells him about the troubles with the thief. He explains how there have been unresolved murder cases about a man killing his wife, with the man being released without punishment. Gil-hyun finds a problem with those morals, but Jeong-hak doesn’t find an issue with them. He’s more troubled that these laws differ from village to village and claims that a man punishing his wife is moral by his standards.



Before Gil-hyun can argue, Jeong-hak spots his mother from afar. She turns around and calls out to him as Soo-hak, and suddenly, Gil-hyun realizes who he’s befriended. He recognizes Madam Jo and Soo-hak’s names, and the childhood memories begin to return.

In his room, Jeong-hak belittles the elderly man, Kim Deok-hyung, and compares him to the slaves in his childhood. He criticizes them for not knowing their place, and Gil-hyun can no longer take the disgusting elitism in the room. He runs out and begins to throw up, thinking back to all the painful memories of his family.

Meanwhile, Gil-dong approves of the headpiece for Nok-soo and continues to think about methods to release Kim Deok-hyung, who claimed in the trial that he injured his son-in-law for killing his daughter. But because of his age, no one is likely to believe those claims.



Ga-ryung interrupts his thoughts and worriedly mentions rumors about the man who supposedly killed his wife. At first, Gil-dong assumes that Ga-ryung wants him to stay out of the case, but she unexpectedly asks him to get involved and help the wife’s father. From what she’s heard, the husband spread untrue rumors about the wife’s jealousy and adultery to justify his murder. That gives Gil-dong an idea, and he thanks Ga-ryung before discussing his plans with the clan.

Gil-dong reasons that they cannot verify the accusations about adultery with the dead wife, but they have a similar case they can connect this with: the late dethroned queen, who was also the king’s mother. Gil-dong says that if they can properly frame this case as one mirroring the dethroned queen’s death, then they can evoke sympathy from the king.

When Gil-dong delivers the headpiece to Eunuch Kim, he asks for a favor. So in the evening, the king is escorted to the gibang to supposedly listen to the beautiful voice of a musician. But that’s not all he hears: In the next room, Yonggae, Ilchung, and Segul read from a script about the woman who was killed by her husband.



They compare this murder to the murder of the dethroned queen in graphic detail, which effectively enrages the king. They go on to announce their assumption that a murder of a wife by the husband is justified by the former king’s actions. Brimming with anger, the king barges into the room only to leave in silent rage.

Eunuch Kim stays behind to confront Gil-dong about this unacceptable conversation about the queen. He begins the conversation with a flying kick (woah), and he expresses his discontent with the manipulative conversation. Gil-dong explains that the conversation about the dethroned queen was a vehicle to show how unjust the laws are. Even a lowly person like him can see that a husband murdering his wife is a punishable deed, and he trusts that the king knows this as well.

The palace maids clean the musician troupe’s room, and one of the palace maids says that she hopes to make a lot of money to help her mother. The other maid admits that she’s an orphan, and so we’ve identified older Eorini (Jung Da-bin). The palace maid friend picks up Wolhamae’s instrument and begins to strum it, but she’s soon scolded by Wolhamae for playing the instrument without permission. Nok-soo looks unconcerned, and she even asks the ladies if they want to learn.

Wolhamae’s scolding is cut short by Eunuch Kim, who requests her comical story services to uplift the king’s mood. But she must avoid the word “mother,” since the king is mourning and yearning for his mother.

The king does get a few laughs out of Wolhamae’s comical taboo story game, and she later reveals to Nok-soo that she was nervous about her performance. She explains that the king’s dampened moods are because of his mother, and Nok-soo enters the room to attempt to console him.

Nok-soo is gentle with the fragile king and begins by pouring him a cup of alcohol. She begins to sing, but her song has everything to do with longing for one’s mother. He turns to her as she sings the sorrowful song, and he begins to tear up.

They look at each other with sad eyes as she finishes her song, and the kings tells her that he will no longer wait for her heart. He pulls her into an impassioned kiss, and the night fades to black.

The next morning, the king asks the ministers about the case of the man murdering his wife. The minsters claim that in accordance with the law, death that results from a man’s punishment for his adulterous wife is legal. Another minister adds that scholars have also agreed that this deed is right.

Choongwongoon also lectures in the village that a woman must follow her father before she is married, her husband when she is married, and then her son when her husband dies. As he continues to draw crowds, Scholar Song talks to another scholar and identifies Choongwongoon as his biggest hope. He seems determined to show the king who really establishes the law of the nation.

Back at the palace, Yeonsangun asks if there are any other opinions on the case, and Gil-hyun voices his stance. He says that there is no way to verify the wife’s adultery after she dies, so it is unfair to make such accusations to justify a deed. He pleads for the king to reveal the true reason for the wife’s death so that these murders do not continue.



Yeonsangun orders for the father, Kim Deok-hyung, to be released, and also for the husband to be interrogated again for his crimes. He also orders the dismissal of Jeong-hak from his position as a judge, and the ministers agree to the order.

As Choongwongoon continues to proclaim his beliefs to the villagers, a group of ministers from the palace urgently pass by to relay the order. Jeong-hak is currently punishing the father Kim Deok-hyung with beatings when the ministers arrive with the order to release Kim Deok-hyung and to recapture the husband for a thorough interrogation about the murder of his wife. Jeong-hak is then dismissed from his position, and Magistrate Eom is subsequently promoted to the role of the judge.

Kim Deok-hyung is released from the interrogation, and Gil-dong waits at the entrance to greet the innocent man. Kim Deok-hyung bows to Gil-dong in gratitude, and he returns the bow with a warm smile. Magistrate Eom, now Judge Eom, tells the dismissed Jeong-hak that he intends to stop all investigations into the thieves. When Jeong-hak objects, Judge Eom kicks him as a means of petty payback.

Judge Eom runs to the gibang bearing the good news of his promotion and asks to see Gil-dong. Unfortunately, Scholar Song’s spy also witnesses this good news and reports it. Scholar Song is now convinced that Gil-dong is the Great Elder who is behind all the “theft” in the village.

Jeong-hak expresses his regret for his inability to prove his worth to Scholar Song, but he refuses to continue investigating the thieves. After he storms out, Scholar Song asks Madam Jo to repeat her story in relation to Gil-dong. She claims that Gil-dong is the bane of her existence, and he adds that he’s the thief that Jeong-hak gave up on investigating. He provokes her by asking if Jeong-hak has no intention to avenge his father’s death.

Madam Jo demands that her son follow Scholar Song’s orders. He refuses, so she erupts with anger and tells him the truth about his father’s death. She wanted to keep this a secret out of embarrassment, but she reveals to Jeong-hak that his father died in the hands of their slave, Amogae. And she reveals that Amogae’s son, Gil-dong, is the wretched thief that Jeong-hak was chasing.

Shocked at this information, Jeong-hak runs out of the room and writhes with anger, remembering his childhood enemy. He falls to his knees and begins to yell in indignation. That night, he watches Gil-dong at the Hwalbin gibang from afar. Before he leaves, he overhears Soboori and Keutsae talking about Gil-dong ignoring Eorini’s memorial day.

Following his mother’s wishes and his now-vengeful spirit, Jeong-hak formally thanks Choongwongoon for avenging his father’s death and promises to drag Gil-dong to face the mercy of Choongwongoon. Outside, Jeong-hak confides with Mori about Gil-dong, and he learns that his sister’s death is his greatest regret.

The assembled crew visits Scholar Song, and Jeong-hak proposes an alternative method to capturing Gil-dong, since they will not be able to influence the court with Judge Eom in power. He states that Gil-dong’s greatest regret is losing his sister, Eorini. That sparks a memory for Scholar Song’s spy, and we see that he had captured and saved her. In a quick flashback, young Eorini tells the spy: “My name is Eorini. Please help me meet my orabeoni.”

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