3 YEARS AGO
JAPANESE FORCES
JOSEON FORCES
SANGJU
This will bring the dead back to life?
This plant?
Yes, it will, my lord.
The plant's essence...
when injected in the glabella of the deceased,
will revive the body as a monster that hungers for the flesh of the living.
However, if the corpse is decayed...
or if the center of the brain has already been damaged,
resurrection is impossible.
[foreboding music]
[soldier 1] The Japanese have us surrounded.
Sangju is all that stands in Gyeongsang Province.
I heard the Japanese have reached the Unpo Wetland.
Well, if that's true, then Sangju is done for.
Oh, wait.
-Does that mean we're-- -[shushes]
[gasps]
[crow squawking]
[foreboding music]
[squawks]
[crows squawking]
BASED ON THE KINGDOM OF THE GODS BY YLAB
[opening theme music]
[snarls]
[distant snarling]
[suspenseful music]
[snarling]
[tense music]
How are they out in daylight?
Prepare weapons, take your positions.
[blows horn]
It won't catch fire!
[screeches]
[screams]
[man screams]
Burn them now!
Get to the raft!
-Get the rest out of the water! Hurry! -Go! Go!
Come on! Push!
[shrieks]
That's it! Push!
Run! Go, run!
[tense music]
Yah! Yah!
THE CITADEL OF SANGJU
The infected are coming! They're awake!
[man] Master!
The monsters are at Byeongseong Stream!
BYEONGSEONG STREAM
[men screaming]
[tense music]
We can't hold out much longer, sir!
Use the cannons! Fire!
[pants]
-[soldier 1] Bring more arrows! Hurry! -[soldier 2] Here! Take it!
Push them back!
If you let them break through, we're all dead!
[soldier 1] Yes, sir!
[yells in pain]
-[gasping] -[yells]
Sir!
We cannot fight them any longer!
Your Highness, we have to flee.
[tense music]
THE CITADEL OF SANGJU
That's the citadel. They are falling back.
Ready the rope ladders, now!
[suspenseful music]
[whimpers]
-Oh, no. -[men gasp in fright]
[all gasp in fright]
[man 1] He's been bit!
No...
It's a small bite.
It will be okay.
[pants]
Please.
No, please!
[yells]
Please! Help!
Help! Help!
[man 3] What do we do now?
Sangju's our only option.
If we can make it, there's a path.
What if those monsters are there, too?
Do you want to stay here and freeze?
BYEONGSEONG STREAM
THE CITADEL OF SANGJU
[indistinct shouting]
-Help us! -Hurry up!
Grab the ladder!
-The infected are here! -[gasps]
[snarling]
[men screaming]
[suspenseful music]
[panting]
[Deok-soong] The infected got throughÂ Byeongseong Stream.
Your Highness, I know of a passageway.
Built during the war, on the north branch of the stream.
Let's hurry. Protect His Highness!
We must go now!
[tense music]
HONGCHI GATE
It's locked! We're trapped!
[man straining]
Damn it!
Form a blockade now!
[indistinct shouting]
[snarling]
They're coming!
They're here!
-[man 2] Get in formation! -[man 3] Hurry! Hurry! Get ready!
[yelling]
[screeches]
Make way!
You must hurry!
Out of the way!
Sir! Your Highness!
The gate is open!
-Prepare, Your Highness! -Prepare to run!
Your Highness!
-Go! -Go, go, go! It's open!
Come on, go!
[strains]
-Get inside! Go! -No!
What's the matter?
You can't.
[foreboding music]
[snarling]
Guard and protect my Lord Ahn! Now go!
[Mu-yeong] We must keep moving.
Sorry.
[man] Your Highness.
[indistinct chatter]
What's wrong with you?
I thought Your Highness said they retreated at daybreak.
I am at a loss.
They return to corpses in the sun.
There must be a reason.
[foreboding music]
[infected snarling echoes]
Why they're here...
makes no difference.
[foreboding music]
[snarling]
[grunting]
[Beom-pal] Seo-bi! Seo-bi, help me!
Please! Seo-bi!
Seo-bi! [grunting]
[both grunting]
[whimpering]
[gasps, pants]
[gasps]
[snarling]
Oh. Wait, wait. The sun is out.
Why are they still moving around?
It's the cold. The resurrection plant prefers it.
[pants]
If they are at all alike,
then sunlight is not what they are afraid of.
They only fear high temperatures.
But now that it's winter, it stays cold even with the sun.
They will never cease now.
[sighs]
Their numbers have stayed the same since their attack yesterday.
[stammers] So... so?
That means they are the only monsters nearby.
If there were more, they would have attacked us.
Even if those are the only monsters around here,
the citadel will surely have hundreds!
How do you suppose we survive the journey back?
If we go up the stream, they should not follow.
Since they cannot cross the water, we should head up this mountain.
It's far safer than returning to the citadel.
Seo... Seo-bi. Up the mountain?
Where will we go?
Did you not tell me once before
that the Haewon Cho Clan is able to guarantee your safety?
We will go to Mungyeong Saejae.
[Beom-pal gasps]
Wait, Seo-bi...
-[distant snarling] -[whimpers]
SUNGRYE GATE
[foreboding music]
[indistinct chatter]
[man] I heard a rumor that a plague is upon us.
There's been sightings of ghosts.
ROYAL COMMANDERY DIVISION
Due to urgent matters, the Chief State Councilor has left for Mungyeong Saejae.
Now what is it that requires my absence from the State Council?
What do I have to see?
This matter is of great importance.
I requested your presence to see it for yourself.
All right. What is this?
[commander] Last night, we found these women outside the north gate.
According to the autopsy, one of the women had only just given birth.
The baby we found with her
had been strangled to death prior to our discovery.
Is the culprit detained?
[commander] They said the woman uttered something peculiar before she died.
She claimed the people in her village did this to her and her child,
and that they would kill every last one remaining.
Those were her final words.
Where is this village?
[door closes]
Outside the north gate of Samgye-dong, Naeseonjae.
"Naeseonjae"? You're sure of it?
Yes, it's the private residence...
and current home of the Queen's family.
[crows squawking]
[foreboding music]
[jingling]
[woman] The Royal Commandery Division knows about Naeseonjae.
We must seek immediate assistance from the Chief State Councilor.
We cannot tell my father.
We must keep this secret.
My father must never know.
[foreboding music]
When I give birth to a prince...
the Royal Commandery, nor anyone else,
will not be able to challenge me.
[snarls]
[ominous music]
Before the crescent moon sets,
prepare a ritual table.
That day...
the goddess of childbirth will bless you with a prince.
THE WALLS OF MUNGYEONG SAEJAE
[crows squawking]
He had a jade ornament of the Haewon Cho Clan,
so that is why we let him in past the gates.
[gasps] Uncle!
CHEONGSUDANG
[whimpers]
It is I, your only nephew, Beom-pal.
A strange disease spread on my first day as magistrate in Dongnae.
I barely escaped to here with my own life.
Please, grant me shelter.
I see.
I appointed you magistrate of Dongnae.
And yet, it appears all you've managed thus far...
is protecting your pathetic life!
Uncle, I'm not sure I understand.
Dongnae was placed in your care.
What were you doing, exactly, while the Crown Prince...
under your nose murdered the commander of the Royal Army in Dongnae?
Wait, wait. Do you mean... that Beom-il is dead?
I wasn't aware.
I promise, I wasn't aware!
Please believe me! I did not know!
You should be grateful...
that Haewon Cho blood flows within you.
[whimpers]
That man is Dongnae's magistrate...
and Haewon Cho Clan's only heir.
See that he is treated accordingly.
[Hak-ju sighs]
And what of the woman behind you?
The thing is,
she is a nurse who worked for the physician, Dr. Lee Seung-hui.
I would not be alive if it were not for her.
Dr. Lee Seung-hui, the physician?
Is that true?
Yes, my lord.
See to it that she has accommodations as well.
[ominous music]
THE CITADEL OF SANGJU
[snarling]
[foreboding music]
[dog whimpers]
-[distant snarling] -[all gasp, whimper]
[snarling, screeching]
Even with careful rationing...
the food will only last five more days.
With this many refugees, there's not enough.
In that case, each morning, hand out food to every last one.
You're correct to ration,
but the people should not starve.
This is not the disease we know of.
Things were not like this three years ago.
They only ate flesh of humans.
Bites did not lead to infection,
and the infected did not rise during sunlight.
He's hiding something.
Lord Cho Hak-ju knows more about the disease.
He has deceived you...
and all of us, my lord.
What are you trying to say?
I feel...
we are paying for the decision we made back then.
This is our punishment.
You have regrets?
My lord.
I have no regrets at all.
Three years ago, Sangju...
and Gyeongsang were spared.
If given the choice,
I would not change a single act.
My apologies.
I have forgotten my place for the moment.
I will join the others and ensure the citadel's security.
[wind whistling]
Your Highness.
I overheard Lord Ahn Hyeon...
say an odd thing to one of his men.
They spoke as if...
they already know many things about this disease.
And it seems Lord Cho Hak-ju is implicated as well.
Your Highness.
I believe it best to leave this place.
I will escort you, Your Highness.
You will be much safer...
back through the passage and up the north branch.
Why are you sharing this information with me?
Sir?
Did Cho Hak-ju command you to?
Sir.
Lord Ahn Hyeon told me...
that the palace guards knew I was en route to here.
Was that your doing?
So, then...
are you trying to sow doubt between...
Lord Ahn and I right now?
Your Highness.
You assume you cannot trust me now?
I left everything, my pregnant wife,
I left my family to follow you.
I've come all the way to Gyeongsang for you.
And even now, you still do not trust me?
[man] Fire!
Fire over there!
Fire!
[man] Bring more water here!
[wailing]
[man 2] It's breaking!
It's no use!
[wailing, gasping]
[pants]
The food.
Were you able to save any of the food inside?
No, sir. I'm sorry.
This was your watch! What were you doing?
How could you let this happen on your guard?
We don't know, sir.
All of a sudden, there was an explosion, and--
You fool!
Do you know how valuable that warehouse was?
The lives of everyone here depended on the food that was inside!
[guard] I'm sorry.
It's all my fault.
-[crowd gasping] -You should die!
[man] It was me!
I left it alone.
[indistinct chatter]
I did this.
The fault...
it's mine.
I couldn't let my child starve to death,
so I just tried to take some rice.
[tearfully] I didn't know this would happen.
I dropped my lamp.
I dropped it by accident.
[sobs]
I'm sorry!
Do it.
Just kill me. [sobs]
[somber music]
What does it matter?
We're going to die.
Whether we starve to death...
or get eaten by those monsters,
we're all going to die.
MUNGYEONG SAEJAE
[Seo-bi sighs]
Do you really think you can use that to stop this disease?
There's always a way to stop it, no matter how severe the disease is.
And this one is no different.
If I study this plant's properties,
I am sure I can find a way to put an end to this disease.
As long as we stay in Mungyeong Saejae,
we should be safe.
[sighs heavily]
There are still people alive in the citadel of Sangju.
We have to save those people.
Right. His Highness...
[Hak-ju] What is that in your hand?
[Seo-bi gasps]
[guard] Hand it over, now!
Do you know what this plant is?
[sighs]
It brings the dead to life.
It's called the resurrection plant.
This plant's behind...
It's behind this outbreak.
And how do you know this?
[gasps]
I first learned of this through this nurse.
Go on, then. Tell them how you know.
[breathing shakily]
"The resurrection plant was used to bring the dead King back to life.
This plant is the cause of this disease."
Is that what Lee Seung-hui told you?
Oh, what do you mean by that?
What do you mean... "The dead King"?
[breathing shakily] Please have mercy.
The only reason I found that plant is because read about it
in his patient journal.
You read his patient journal?
Then you must also know...
how to raise the dead back to life.
"If you mash the resurrection plant, put it on a needle,
and insert it deep into the glabella,
in two hours' time, the dead will return to life.
That's what he wrote in his journal.
I will take that girl to Hanyang as well.
Make preparations.
[guard] Yes, my lord.
Hanyang? When? What for?
There is still unfinished... work to do.
When it is done...
I will return to Hanyang and meet the future prince.
SANGJU, LORD AHN HYEON'S RESIDENCE
[Ann-hyeon] Wait.
What did you say?
I will go to Mungyeong Saejae.
Your Highness.
Those monsters are everywhere.
Mungyeong Saejae will be impossible to reach.
To save our people, I must go.
I will require your best men.
[foreboding music]
I will lead the way, Your Highness.
Let's go.
[snarling]
[suspenseful music]
[somber music]
Extinguish your torches.
[tense music]
The north branch is very close to the passageway.
The monsters fear water, so if we cross the river,
we should be able to escape them.
Even if you cross the north branch,
Mungyeong Saejae will not be easy to enter.
The Five Armies will be guarding the gates.
The number of soldiers has dropped to a mere tenth
due to the war three years ago.
There are 5,000 elite soldiers in Hanyang alone.
But even for Cho Hak-ju...
it will be difficult to send all those men.
At most, the number...
cannot be more than 2,500,
less than half the available force.
That is not many to guard all the gates of Gyeongsang.
They would be undermanned.
I agree.
If they are guarding every gate,
Mungyeong Saejae could have no more...
than 500 men.
It would not be possible
to guard all of Mungyeong Saejae's walls with that number.
The northwest section of the first gate is built very high.
Functionally, it requires little defense.
The amount of men on guard would be few.
WEST SIDE, SOUTH SIDE
Well, then, once you're in Mungyeong Saejae,
what is Your Highness' plan?
Cho Hak-ju...
will die by my sword.
For his shameless disregard of the people,
and for his traitorous attempt to steal the throne,
I will punish him and reclaim my place.
I will end this disease and save our people from starvation.
And I will survive...
and create a new world.
[closing theme music]