MONDAY ON KILL ME HEAL ME - EPISODE 17 ON JOY PRIME @6:AM

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Discovering that Ri-jin’s name used to be Cha Do-hyun shakes Do-hyun to his core. Now he understands that he was given Ri-jin’s place on the family register, which allowed Seungjin Group to erase all traces of the girl who lived in the basement.

Do-hyun clutches Se-gi’s stuffed bear to his chest and wails, helpless in the face of this terrible truth. At the family restaurant, Ri-jin also breaks down after finding the photo of her younger self with the woman she thought was Do-hyun’s mother.

Ri-on and their parents come rushing in and hold Ri-jin while she cries, lost in the rush of memories. She’s completely lost to the present, not reacting to her parents’ words, so Ri-on goes to get a sedative.

We flash back to twenty-one years ago, with little Ri-jin (I’ll continue to use their current names to keep things simple) playing on a swing. Her mother scolds her for taking chances, but she doesn’t stay mad for long. A man arrives at the edge of the park; it’s Do-hyun’s grandfather, then-chairman of Seungjin.

He has come to America to convince Seo-yeon to take the reins of Seungjin Group. Joon-pyo has run away, presumably for good, and there is no one as capable as Seo-yeon to take over the company.

Seo-yeon wants nothing to do with the company, but Grandpa plays on her weak point: her daughter’s future. Seo-yeon is dead broke, and her daughter will always face scorn for being born out of wedlock. Grandpa offers her a future as the heir of Seungjin Group, as long as Seo-yeon places her on Joon-pyo’s family register.



Grandma Seo welcomes Seo-yeon into the house under the impression that Ri-jin is Joon-pyo’s child. She cheers up noticeably after seeing Ri-jin, though she wonders where Joon-pyo is, and why he’s not here to see how well his daughter has grown.

Joon-pyo is in hiding with little Do-hyun, living under an assumed identity. He tells Do-hyun that hiding your name can help you live freely, which is what he wants to do in life. His idea of happiness is sailing around in a boat of his own, doing whatever takes his fancy and not getting scolded for it.

Do-hyun promises to buy his father that boat. When he does, they will name it the “Perry Park.”

Do-hyun’s mom badgers Joon-pyo to beg for forgiveness from his family, so that Do-hyun can be placed on the family register. Joon-pyo says he cut all ties, but Mom leaves him with an ultimatum: If he wants to do right by his son, he will return to Seungjin Group.

Accordingly, Joon-pyo takes Do-hyun back to Seoul, promising that Mom will join them soon. This results in the homecoming scene we saw before, when Joon-pyo returns to find Seo-yeon already living in the main residence, with a child he knows can’t be his own.

The chairman won’t allow Joon-pyo’s son to be added to the register, since Seo-yeon’s child is already listed there. Out in the hallway, Grandma Seo hears that Ri-jin isn’t actually her son’s daughter. Gah, the web is getting so tangled!



The children introduce themselves as Cha Do-hyun and Cha Joon-young, and they seem to take to each other immediately. They jump on a trampoline in the yard, laughing as if they don’t have a care in the world.

In the present, Grandma Seo learns that someone has leaked the news of Joon-pyo’s coma, which weakens her position considerably in the eyes of the world. Grandma asks Do-hyun’s mother if she was responsible for this, which she firmly denies.

But no sooner does Grandma leave to do damage control than Mom calls Ki-joon’s father to commend him for putting her information to good use. She reminds him of his promise to place Do-hyun in control of some of Seungjin’s subsidiaries.

Ki-joon overhears the phone conversation between his father and Do-hyun’s mother. He’s curious about what deal is so important that it requires giving away important subsidiaries of Seungjin Group, and to Do-hyun’s mother at that. Dad says he doesn’t need to know, and should simply benefit from the results.

Grandma Seo stalks through the company hallway, icily ignoring Ki-joon’s father outside the elevator. When she reaches her office, however, she finds Chae-yeon waiting for her.

Do-hyun is still in his apartment, calmer now after coming to terms with the truth of his name. He has learned that there was a request to change Cha Do-hyun’s gender as listed on the registry from female to male, and suspects that this is the role his grandmother played in the events of twenty-one years ago.



Chae-yeon has come to Grandma Seo to propose a deal: Her family’s shares in exchange for Grandma supporting her relationship with Do-hyun. Chae-yeon also asks that Grandma give Do-hyun real power once she strengthens her position, and pointedly requests that Grandma be the only in-law relation that she will have in marriage.

Do-hyun is exercising when Chief Ahn tells him about the news article outing Joon-pyo’s coma. Chief Ahn wants to know whether he’ll go to Grandma Seo, since even though she’s been dealt a serious blow she’s not the type to ask for help. Isn’t Do-hyun worried that Ki-joon’s family might take over Seungjin Group?

“That can’t happen,” Do-hyun declares. He’s going to make Seungjin Group his, no matter what. But he wants to let Grandma Seo stew in her own mess a while longer, so that she’ll be desperate enough to come looking for him first.

Chief Ahn delivers a photograph of the staff members who worked in the Seungjin mansion on the day of the fire. Do-hyun looks through their faces and recognizes Ri-jin’s mother, whom he met before while pretending to be Perry Park.

Ri-jin’s family has called Dr. Seok to check on her, and he reassures them that she’s physically healthy. But he asks if anything happened recently to give her a shock, and Dad just says that getting fired from her job as “that chaebol’s physician” upset her. In her own way, says Dad, Ri-jin took a lot of pride in that job.

After seeing the picture, Do-hyun surmises that it was Ri-jin’s mother who rescued her from the fire all those years ago. Chief Ahn asks if he recognizes anyone in the picture, but a call comes in from Dr. Seok before Do-hyun can explain.



Dr. Seok tells Do-hyun about Ri-jin’s collapse. Although he didn’t tell the family, he guesses that Ri-jin was reacting to the stress of suddenly recalling a memory. “Are you two recovering your lost memories one by one?” he asks. Dr. Seok wonders if the two of them are tangled up in something dangerous.

Do-hyun only cares about Ri-jin and whether she’s okay. Dr. Seok assures him that she’s healthy, but the danger only really surfaces after she wakes up. She may experience “Repetition Compulsion,” which is a psychological phenomenon in which trauma victims reenact events from their past (there are different ways in which this can happen, but two of them happen to be sequential nightmares and hallucinations).



Ri-jin finally wakes up with Mom sitting by her bedside. On the verge of tears, Mom says that if things were going to be so hard for her, Ri-jin should have come to her instead of crying alone.

Seeming calmer now, Ri-jin reveals that she remembers that Mom saved her from the fire, and that her name used to be Do-hyun. But the knowledge only leaves her with more questions, specifically why she and Do-hyun had their names taken from them.

Ri-jin reassures Mom that she likes her name, and that she was always grateful her parents gave it to her and accepted her into the family. But she also liked Do-hyun’s name (not to mention the man she thought it belonged to). “What do I call him now?” she asks, beginning to cry.

Do-hyun throws up in his bathroom, tormented by the guilt brought on by his memories. He thinks back to when he first introduced himself to Ri-jin as Cha Do-hyun, only now those words carry a very different meaning.

A stress headache is triggered, and Do-hyun staggers to his study to find medicine. But in his medicine drawer he finds a message from Ri-jin, telling him to watch the video she left if he needs medicine.

Do-hyun puts the flash drive into his computer and calls up the video that Ri-jin made. She makes a hilarious mic-testing noise and addresses the camera: “Are you watching, Cha Do-hyun? Are you listening, Cha Do-hyun?”



In the video, Ri-jin scolds Do-hyun for relying on medicine to deal with his issues instead of overcoming everything with her, the way he promised. He said he would replace all his bad memories with good memories, which is one of the reasons Ri-jin wanted to ride the Snowflake Train with Do-hyun.

Ri-jin goes on to apologize for hesitating and denying her feelings. Now she will say it directly, and she asks Do-hyun not to be shocked at what she has to say: “I like you.”

Knowing what he does now, watching this video is the purest torture for Do-hyun. Tears stream down his face and he punches the desk repeatedly, unable to do anything for the woman he loves.



Ri-on finds Ri-jin in her room and gets mad at her for avoiding her family. Mom is cooking up a storm to comfort her and Dad’s heart is breaking for his beloved daughter, but Ri-jin insists on suffering alone.

Ri-on reminds her that he wants a sister who fights back, and says that if she won’t do that, she isn’t his sister. “Don’t be like that,” Ri-jin cries, holding him back. She says that with Ri-on by her side, she was never fearful as a child. The only thing she ever feared was him not being her brother.

After Ri-jin apologizes, Ri-on makes her promise to eat enough and tell the family when she’s having a hard time. She thanks him wholeheartedly for being her brother, and he leads her out of her room in search of food.

Ri-jin and Ri-on take their dog for a run along the river, racing each other and laughing for the first time in a while. Ri-jin tugs on Ri-on’s hood and hops on his back, and when the siblings are exhausted they lie down next to each other in an open field.

Without speaking, the two carry on a complete conversation. Ri-jin tells Ri-on how grateful she is that he was willing to share their parents’ love, which otherwise would have been his alone. Ri-on teases her for being so corny, but turns serious when he thanks her for loving him.

Alone in his apartment, Do-hyun picks himself back up after the emotional blow of Ri-jin’s video. He dresses in work clothes and heads outside, only to be intercepted by an important visitor rolling up in a fancy car.

Grandma Seo rolls down the window and tells Do-hyun to get in. He knows what she wants, however, and says that she’s awfully haughty for someone who needs his help. In return for his cooperation, she offers to tell him the whole truth about what happened on the day of the fire twenty-one years ago.

Do-hyun rides with Grandma to the hospital where Dad is still deep in his coma. She asks Do-hyun to promise that after learning the truth, he will return to Seungjin Group. Do-hyun merely promises to consider it, after he hears what Grandma has to say. She begins her story of the day of the fire, which started out as the happiest day of her son’s life.



Joon-pyo plays the gracious host, welcoming guests to Seungjin Group’s party. Among the guests are Ki-joon’s parents, looking slightly disgruntled, and Chae-yeon’s outspoken mother.

Grandma Seo goes into the kitchen to give last-minute instructions to the catering staff, which includes Ri-jin’s mother (not her biological one, who by this point already died in the car crash).

After Grandma leaves, little Do-hyun comes in and asks for more food. He shovels snacks into a plastic bag and takes what the cook gives him, saying he would prefer to carry it himself. After he leaves, Ri-jin’s mom talks to a gossipy coworker about the complicated Seungjin family tree, fishing for information about Ri-jin.



Do-hyun’s mother preps him for his introduction to society, since the world did not know he was living there until today. She reminds him to work hard and inherit Seungjin Group so that she can live openly as the lady of the house.

Joon-pyo addresses the assembled guests. He thanks them for being there and announces that he has a son who will follow him as Seungjin Group’s successor. The rumors start to fly immediately.

Ki-joon’s mother gossips with some other high-society ladies about this news, and the mysterious circumstances surrounding the former chairman’s death. It’s pretty clear, after all, who benefited the most from the tragedy.

Little Do-hyun sneaks through the hallway to reach the basement, but he’s stopped by Ri-jin’s mom, who asks him where the basement is. Just then Dad enters the hallway, and Do-hyun ducks away to avoid notice. When Dad sees that Do-hyun isn’t in his room, he marches immediately to the door that leads to the basement… luckily, Ri-jin’s mother was watching from around a corner.

Do-hyun finds Ri-jin in the basement and apologizes for being late. He tells her to pack everything and run away with him. They’ll take the train, he says, and go far away. Ri-jin’s face lights up when she hears about the train, and they rush to the door. But when it opens, Do-hyun’s father stands there with a blood-chilling expression.



Do-hyun immediately starts to beg forgiveness, but Dad shoves him out of the basement and shuts the door. Do-hyun cries and pounds on the door in vain.

In the present, Grandma Seo tells Do-hyun how she left the party to search for Joon-pyo. But on the way, she saw someone setting the fire. And the person who set that fire… was none other than Do-hyun.

Grandma Seo yells that Do-hyun is responsible for her son being in a coma, while Do-hyun grabs the railing on the bed for support. She explains how she had no choice but to cover everything up, or else people would find out about her son’s weakness and, even worse, what happened in the basement.

Do-hyun leaves the hospital room, the present melding with his memories. He remembers pounding against the closed door, when Se-gi’s voice floats across his mind, offering to take on the burden that is too much for him. He looks down at a tin of “New Century” matches (Shin Se-gi means “New Century”). His tears stop, and his expression grows fixed and cold.

We see little Se-gi in his first appearance ever, dragging a canister of oil all the way down the steps to the basement room. He coats the floor with gasoline and tosses a match, watching the flames begin to roar. In voiceover, Se-gi says that he was the one to save the child. Collapsed in the hallway outside his father’s hospital room, Do-hyun’s fingers tap the floor in a way that spells trouble…

At the restaurant a little later, Ri-jin goes outside and finds Se-gi waiting for her. “I’m sorry I’m late,” he says, and holds out his hand.

MONDAY ON REBEL - EPISODE 19 ON JOY PRIME @ 8: AM

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Gil-hyun matches up the locations of the family disappearances and the Hong Hero appearances while Scholar Song angrily scolds Choongwongoon for losing the Hengrok (“heng” meaning “actions” + “rok” meaning “record” = “Record of Actions”).

Gil-hyun reveals his findings to an elder minister and reports that the common thread among the disappeared families is that they were accused of defying social order. He requests to investigate this further outside the palace and catch the Hong Hero based on his projections from the map. The minister finds this coincidence strange and agrees to help Gil-hyun with this request.



Gil-dong happily reunites with his band of Hong Heroes after embarking on their own investigations of the Sugwidan (the elite group vowing to protect values). At their rendezvous, they pile up the copies of the Hengrok from all the Sugwidan households. All Sugwidan elites seemed to fear the “Geoin,” but didn’t know anything about them. Ilchung wonders what about the name coded in each of the books, and the rest of the gang is even more clueless. To answer Ilchung’s question, we’re shown Scholar Song’s full name in hanja, which is then coded into the Hengrok.

Yeonsangun paints a picture of himself, and Nok-soo admires his work. He tells her that this is how he views himself, and he wonders how others view him. Eunuch Kim enters the room, and Yeonsangun asks to bestow on Nok-soo the title of royal concubine. Eunuch Kim begins to explain the ranking of the royal concubines, but Nok-soo pays no attention to this and simply asks for a taste of the watermelons from Ming.

When Nok-soo leaves the king’s quarters, she’s met with Eunuch Kim and asks him why he didn’t reveal her identity to the king. He responds to her with gratitude for comforting the king from his deep longing for his late mother, calling her by the title of a royal concubine. She praises him for being a loyal servant and looks pleased by his acquiescence.

The king asks his court to import Chinese watermelons for the royal banquet, but he’s met with tense silence. A brave minister speaks up that the watermelons from Joseon taste similar, and that such imports are unnecessary in this time of severe drought and famine. The people are begging for food on the streets, and villages are overrun with thieves. The king seems tired of the talk of thieves and the Hong Hero and abandons his excessive order in such dire circumstances.

After the meeting, Eunuch Kim urges the king not to be mad at the ministers. But the king says that he’s not mad; he’s perplexed. He’s always wondered how the ministers viewed him, and after experiencing their nagging, he can finally understand how they view him. Hmm, curious.



Scholar Song hands Jeong-hak a list of people that Gil-dong is bound to visit. When Jeong-hak asks more about the list, Scholar Song dismisses his question and orders him to solely focus on catching Gil-dong, who is now a mortal enemy.

Deputy Governor Eom scolds Jeong-hak for assembling troops to catch the thieves without his permission, but Jeong-hak has leverage, knowing that he has some connection with Gil-dong. He warns Deputy Governor Eom that any attempt to stop him will serve as evidence of the deputy governor’s connection with Gil-dong.

Of the three leftover locations, Jeong-hak deploys his troops to Sookang while Gil-hyun wonders where to go first. Gil-dong and his bandits choose Goodam first, and they seem optimistic that they will find something there.

But when they arrive, Keutsae reports that the Sugwidan member passed away. They turn to leave, but they notice a crowd forcibly led by soldiers. Gil-dong pulls a man aside to ask what’s going on, and the man explains that they’re delivering the jade to Hanyang from their local jade mine. But their travels interrupt their farming, and they may not be able to sow their season’s crops.

The man continues on with the crowd, and Gil-dong seethes at the annoying whines and whimpers of injustice. Gil-dong goes rogue again and surveys an emotional scene in the village. A mother cries that the elite had requested delivery of ripe fruit as tribute, but it had rotted en route, and the punishment landed on her son. The soldiers come out to forcibly quiet her cries of injustice, but Gil-dong stops one from beating the mother and throws him away with a little too much strength. The bandits are surrounded and end up tied up in a jail cell.

As the bandits complain and giggle (and fart) in their close proximity, Gil-dong wonders about the nature of social hierarchy and order. He’s always been told that masters should act like masters and slaves should act like slaves, but is that the absolute truth?

At the palace, Nok-soo apologizes to the king about her watermelon request causing trouble in the court. But Yeonsangun is more grateful for the clarity he gained from the request. He’s always been told to act like an heir to the throne, a prince, or a king, and the ministers preached that ministers should act like ministers — men like men, and women like women. But he questions whether such roles are a given fact.

Gil-dong says that they all eat, sleep, and poop, so what’s the real difference? King or servant, master or slave, man or woman, aren’t they all human? He asks his hyungnims about his thought, and they laugh at his nonsense. They can’t even fathom being considered the same as the king.



Yeonsangun accuses the nobles for enforcing the social hierarchy and order for the sake of their convenience and makes the same claim as Gil-dong: master or slave, man or woman, they’re all the same. But he deviates from Gil-dong’s epiphany by concluding that all these people can be grouped into one: the king’s slaves. Upon this conclusion, Yeonsangun seems amused that these slaves dared to criticize the king about his request for watermelon. He seems ready to shed some blood.

Gil-dong shakes the complicated thoughts out of his head and gets to business. With his mighty strength, he easily breaks the handcuffs and kicks open the jail cell. He casually looks back to ask whether the rest of the bandits are coming along, but they’re obviously still tied together and remind him that he needs to untie them too. Ha.

The bandits want to flee the site without getting wrapped up with the government there, but Gil-dong has other plans. They dress up as royal inspectors and interrupt the magistrate’s punishment of the villagers. Yonggae plays the role of the royal inspector and is hilariously bad at it, but the gullible magistrate follows along. Yonggae scolds the magistrate for enforcing such excessive tribute taxes on the villagers, and the magistrate acknowledges the excessive dues. But he claims to be following orders from the king, who’s preparing a banquet with the finest goods.

After hearing of this banquet, Gil-dong tells the magistrate that they will be taking the stored goods and adds that he should blame the Hong Hero for the lost goods. That way, the magistrate and the villagers will both survive. So the magistrate and the soldiers get tied up with the classic “Hong” mark on a hat, and the goods are then distributed to the villagers. They tell them to blame the Hong Hero, and they agree to do so with gratitude.

Jeong-hak and his investigation team arrive at the Goodam village, and they find the storage rooms empty. When they ask the magistrate, he blames the Hong Hero, and the villagers follow suit and mislead the group in a random direction. They don’t find any tracks of the Hong Hero, and Mori realizes with a smirk that they’ve been fooled by the lying villagers.

Gil-hyun arrives at the village and asks a villager if the Hong Hero raided the government goods and hurt the people. The villager stoically claims that the Hong Hero is not that type of thief, adding that Gil-hyun wouldn’t understand. Gil-hyun looks confused.

The villager meets with his friends at a village eatery, and they rejoice in their encounter with the Hong Hero. The older brother scholar (Gil-dong had avenged his younger brother’s injuries) overhears the joyful conversation as the villager describes his encounter. He had asked Gil-dong why he helped them, and Gil-dong stopped himself before slyly giving the villager a thumbs up and saying, “It’s my choice.” Ah, the classic Amogae line.



Rumors about the Hong Hero are abuzz in the villages, and we see Madam Jo overhearing conversations curiously, the father Kim Deok-hyung passing by with a knowing smile, Wolhamae voicing her wishes to meet this handsome hero, and Ga-ryung proudly smiling at the news of her husband. She returns home and writes about the tale of the Hong Hero, starting with the story of Amogae.

Gil-hyun returns to the palace and tells the elder minister that his presumptions were correct — the Hong Hero is visiting the locations of the disappearances. He asks to report these findings to the king, but the elder minister says that the king has no interest in such matters. He’s only interested in entertainment right now.

Nok-soo enters the musicians’ quarters, and the ladies now bow to her, since she’s been named a royal concubine. She tells the ladies that if they can make the king happy, they too can be promoted like her. She says this while smiling directly at the jealous musician who had once confronted her.

Nok-soo then turns to the palace maids and asks our two Eorini candidates about their interest in becoming palace musicians. Before our doe-eyed Eorini can object, her friend speaks for both of them and says that they are interested. The ambitious Eorini starts out with her dance, and Wolhamae praises her for her improvement. Next, doe-eyed Eorini steps up and says that she will sing. She sings the joyful song of her village in Ikhwari but with such a sorrowful tone that she begins to cry. Nok-soo asks why she’s crying, but she doesn’t know.



Afterward, the palace maid friend asks her why she was crying. Doe-eyed Eorini doesn’t know why, and her friend finds that strange. The friend expresses her hopes to become a musician and earn great trinkets for her mother. Doe-eyed Eorini says that her mother must be happy to have a daughter like her, and the friend admits that her mother isn’t her birth mother, which only deepens our Eorini identity mystery.

At the palace banquet, the king toasts to the ministers while Gil-hyun watches the king reveling in his extravagance. After the toast, the king tells Nok-soo to observe the ministers and asks her what she sees. She sycophantically responds that all she sees are the king’s slaves, and the king approves of her response.

The king watches one minister in particular by the name of Lee Se-jwa, who was rumored to have watched and confirmed his mother’s death. He tells Nok-soo that these ministers still smile so brightly in front of him after killing his mother. He summons Lee Se-jwa up to receive a glass of alcohol from him, and the minister is honored by this gesture. The king’s smile quickly turns sinister, and we see fear light in Nok-soo’s eyes.

Gil-hyun reports to Scholar Song about the Hong Hero who’s praised by the commoners and the king who lives without criticism. He says the the king is also human, but Scholar Song projects his perspective that they are not people. Scholar Song clarifies that they are simply players trying to earn the king’s power through commodities, so Gil-hyun should not think with such a sentimental lens.



Madam Jo helps Choongwongoon get up from his bed, and she looks determined to capture Gil-dong. She says she has one card up her sleeve that she hasn’t used yet. She doesn’t own the physical object, but she remembers exactly what it was. If the king refuses to order Gil-dong’s capture, she intends to play her card to ensure that Gil-dong is caught.

Gil-dong and the bandits roam around villages bringing justice to mistreated commoners under the guise of the royal inspectors, and Jeong-hak always arrives after the fact, even with more troops deployed with Minister Lee’s permission. Mori watches the villagers give conflicting directions to where the Hong Hero went, and he does not look amused by the confusing leads. The troops guard village entrances and try to catch the Hong Hero’s tail, but to no avail.



Jeong-hak receives a report of the misleading villagers and orders their capture for lying to the royal troops. Mori laughs at Jeong-hak’s flailing attempts to capture the thief and decides that he’ll move on his own from now on. Since all the villagers are on the Hong Hero’s side, there’s no way for them to capture the Hong Hero in this chase.

In the village, Eop-san’s father walks out with his cane and takes a stroll. From afar, Mori watches with a new plan in mind.

Our bandits attempt to pass through the inspection gates by cross-dressing as women, and it’s quite hilarious. The inspectors look at Gil-dong’s height with amazement and are shocked by Keutsae’s appearance, but they all somehow make it past inspection with little trouble. They laugh at their appearances, and Gil-dong vows that he won’t embark on such missions again. He promises Soboori, but we’ll see how long he goes without breaking that promise.

Minister Lee and Deputy Governor Eom report the situation on the Hong Hero to the king. Deputy Governor Eom expresses his concerns about the Hanyang office being empty due to Jeong-hak’s use of all their troops. The king acknowledges this worry and summons Gil-hyun to explain his findings.

On his way out, Deputy Governor Eom meets eyes with Gil-hyun, and they both look at each other in shock. Ah, finally. After a moment frozen in surprise, Deputy Governor Eom retreats, and Gil-hyun reports to the king, who gives him a special title to continue investigations into the Hong Hero.

Deputy Governor Eom grabs Gil-hyun on his way out and recognizes him, but Gil-hyun insists that he’s got the wrong person. As Gil-hyun scurries away from the palace, he’s trailed by the deputy governor.



A village child collects wood from the forest and spots the Manchurian barbarians headed to their village. He runs back to his village to report this to the magistrate, who orders that they report this situation immediately. But the problem is, they’ve delivered all of their horses to the palace as tribute, and they have no way to relay their need for help. At the palace, we see that the king has indeed requested all of the horses for his upcoming hunting trip, and he shows them off to Nok-soo and the other palace ladies.

The village boy offers to relay this cry for help on foot, and he runs through the hills looking for help. He rolls down the hill, right in front of the bandits’ path, and he’s nearly out of breath. He tells them about the barbarians and desperately asks for help, because without it, his whole village will die. He passes out, and Keutsae carries the child as they respond to this plea.

The bandits arrive at the scene of the barbarian pillage, and Gil-dong’s face becomes full of indignation. Without questioning their actions, the bandits enter the fight full on, saving women and children from the wrath of the pillagers. Gil-dong knocks the head pillager off of his horse, and the bandits swiftly defeat their enemy. The villagers cry out in relief and gratitude, and Gil-dong looks around at the praising villagers with confusion.

Scholar Song meets with the king to discuss the issue of the thief, but the king isn’t too worried or interested, since he’s doubtful of the rumors about the thief defeating the barbarians. Scholar Song says that the truth doesn’t matter, since the people believe that the Hong Hero saved them. The people admire the Hong Hero instead of the king. Scholar Song asserts that the Hong Hero is not stealing goods; rather, he’s stealing the heart of the people.

Looking around at the villagers, Soboori regrets that they came back, since everyone will know the Hong Hero now. Gil-dong agrees with a smile, and all the bandits look resolute. A small baby wanders through the crowd, and Gil-dong picks up the child with a smile. Meanwhile, the king seethes in his realization of the Hong Hero’s theft, juxtaposing the power of our two pillars.

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