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BASED ON THE KINGDOM OF THE GODS BY YLAB

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[opening theme music]

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[snarls]

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[suspenseful music]

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[breathing anxiously]

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[gasps quietly]

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[guard grunts]

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[gasps]

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[tense music]

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[gasps]

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Sir.

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Uh...

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Highness,

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I know I've committed a grave error,

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but I must thank you for your forgiveness.

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But you have done this once already.

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The cookies and the pomegranates.

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What else was there?

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It's so hard to remember.
You've stolen so many things from me.

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Highness, I deserve
to be executed for touching your table.

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However, I beg you,
please take pity on my wife.

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She worked many hours as a seamstress
supporting me,

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until I was finally able
to pass the exam at 40.

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My wife is pregnant,

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and is struggling
with morning sickness.

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She needs nourishment,

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and I am unable to provide that for her.

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It's tearing me apart.

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I know it's wrong to steal, but I hope
you understand it was for my wife.

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Sir, I'm begging you for your mercy.

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So then,

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do you truly take them home to your wife?

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Yes, Highness.

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I would never lie to His Highness
about anything.

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Is your wife in good health?

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Yes, my wife is well.

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[sighs]

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From now on...

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you should probably taste it first.

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[stammers]
What do you mean by that, sir?

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Am I allowed...

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Are you saying I can keep taking things
back to my wife?

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[sighs]

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[Chang] Let's say that I am,
what would I get in return?

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[Mu-yeong]
I would gladly offer anything I have

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in service of His Highness.

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I want your loyalty.

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That is my duty as your personal guard,
Your Highness.

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Of course, I would be loyal.

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No matter what comes or the circumstances,

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I want you at my side.

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Do you think you can do that?

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Yes, Highness.

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I can certainly do that.

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No matter the cost
or what I might stand to lose,

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I will stay at Your Highness' side
at all times.

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[somber music]

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[scoffs]

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Sir.

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We have to keep moving.

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Your Highness told us
that Cho Hak-ju must be destroyed.

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We still believe in that cause.

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HANYANG

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[man] Open the gate!

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The Chief State Councilor has arrived!
Open the gate!

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He's in critical condition.

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-We must act quickly to save him.
-[gasps]

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Uncle, are you all right?

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Seo-bi, what on earth do we do?

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I'm willing to do anything.
Just tell me what to do.

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Those medicines won't work.

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Traditional medicine
won't treat the cause.

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So we should just sit here
and let him die?

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What caused this was a bite
from the plague victims.

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Paying attention to the symptoms

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will help us learn
how to cure the disease.

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-We just have to be objective.
-[breathing anxiously]

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The creatures lose all reason.

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They seem to only care about where
they're getting their next meal.

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We've learned that
they hate water and fire.

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They seem to be nothing but beasts.

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[snarling]

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[stammering]
Seo-bi!

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[Seo-bi] The stream that saved us
wasn't even that deep,

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but the plague victims
were still unwilling to cross it.

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Burning heat scares them off.

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But water...

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Why would water?

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What is it that makes them hate it?

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[foreboding music]

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[groaning weakly]

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Will this work? Are you sure it will help?

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You know as much as I do.

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There aren't a whole lot of options
available to us at the moment.

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[Beom-pal stammering in alarm]

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[Beom-pal shrieking]

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[Beom-pa] Seo-bi,
something doesn't seem right.

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Anyone! We need help
with my uncle right now!

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Just a moment!

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[tense music]

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Oh!

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[breathing heavily]

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[bell ringing]

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What is that?

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Finally, our prince.

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It seems our dark days are over.

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Her Majesty has given us a prince!

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[council laughing]

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This is wonderful!

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[councilor 2] Wonderful!

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[wailing]

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[ominous music]

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[councilor] Your Majesty!

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Congratulations are in order
for the birth of a healthy prince!

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[all] Congratulations!

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[councilor] What a glorious day
for our kingdom.

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Please accept our well wishes.

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[menacing music]

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HANYANG

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NAESEONJAE

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Quickly.

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We need to finish the job before dawn.

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Looks like Your Highness' guard
was right.

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Look at them.

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They're definitely pregnant.

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[woman shrieking, groaning]

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[woman screams]

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[whimpering]

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This one is still alive.

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What are you trying to tell us?

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A murder took place
at the family residence of Her Majesty?

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Perhaps I was not clear enough.

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Seven pregnant women and female infants

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were found dead at Her Majesty's estate.

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We still don't know who has committed
this cruel act or why.

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What we do know...

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is the crime is connected
to the Queen's Palace,

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and that the culprit was most likely
searching for a male.

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Are you implying

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that the Queen took a baby from a commoner

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to fool us into believing
she birthed a prince?

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I have never heard such nonsense!

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Such a thought itself is insolent!

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If there's any truth to this,

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it will destroy this country.

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The head of the Royal Commandery
went there to discover the truth.

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[foreboding music]

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[councilor]
Welcome, Chief State Councilor.

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I wasn't aware that you returned
from Mungyeong Saejae.

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Where is your evidence?

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I ask again, where is your evidence?

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You had no proof

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when you barged
into the Office of Royal Delivery,

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and while she was in the pain of labor.

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He defiled the space

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where even His Majesty cannot trespass.

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Attacking the royal family with smears
while threatening national security.

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I see no other option
but to behead the Royal Commander.

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Lord Cho.

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This is unprecedented.

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We could never behead
such a high-ranking officer.

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One officer is not enough!

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The training commander
in Mungyeong Saejae...

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along with the soldiers

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for joining the traitor, Chang,
should also be beheaded!

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Lord Cho, that is preposterous.

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Think about what you are saying.

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Those are our soldiers!

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Why would they ally themselves with him?

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The reasons are never important.

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When will you realize
these men are against you?

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And we must punish them with a swift hand

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so that justice may return
just as quickly.

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They want to join hands with a traitor.

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That makes the rest of them the same.

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We'll behead their families
and relatives...

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and their wives' families and relatives.

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And their mothers' families as well,
to set an example.

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We cannot simply kill these people.
Not without a proper investigation.

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[councilors gasp]

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For our national security,
it must be done.

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Are there any objections?

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[soldier] Gather all the families.
Do not let anyone escape.

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[panicked voices, screaming]

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[soldier] Quiet!

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[gasps]

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Stop this at once!
Do you even know where you are?

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[both scream]

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[guard 1] Come!

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[guard 2] Move it!

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Get up!

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[man whimpering]

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Come on, we should hurry.

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What made them guilty of treason?

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The people and soldiers
in Mungyeong Saejae aren't traitors.

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You know that better than anyone, my lord.

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Watch what you say. Are you not aware
of how scary my uncle is?

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[indistinct chatter]

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[girl] Daddy!

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Daddy!

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Daddy!

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Daddy?

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Daddy...

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Daddy...

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-[soldier 3] Shut up!
-Let's get out of here.

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Did you need to buy herbs?
The apothecary is over that way.

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I can get them alone.

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Why don't you go to the house?
Please, you should go on without me.

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[women whimpering]

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[gasps]

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[suspenseful music]

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[sighs]

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SCHOLARLY INSTITUTION
NEAR THE CITADEL OF HANYANG

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THOSE WHO TRESPASS ON THE INSTITUTION
WILL BE PUT TO DEATH

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[breathing heavily]

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[weakly]
They took...

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They took my baby.

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[somber music]

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[woman sighs]

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How is her condition?

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She's out of the critical stages.

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She doesn't seem
like she can handle the shock.

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Highness, may I ask how you know her?

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She is Mu-yeong's wife.

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[sighs]

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Is it true Cho Hak-ju has recovered?

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And what is this?

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This worm is the disease.

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Just below the bloom, these white spots,

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those are eggs from this worm.

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If a person were to ingest this flower,

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the eggs would hatch
and turn them into a monster.

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What about how to stop it?

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Are we any closer to finding a cure?

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We must save those in Sangju.

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I'm sorry, Your Highness, but it will be
a while before I can cure it.

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[sighs]

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Chaos in such a tiny package.

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It's taken countless lives,

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nearly destroyed the Gyeongsang Province,

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and has brought the entire kingdom
to its knees.

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All from a worm.

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Are you all right, Your Majesty?

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I know you have some injuries.

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Dongnae would've been difficult
for anyone.

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There are plenty others
that have suffered worse.

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And even more will be hurt
by the end of this.

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I will put a stop to it.

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[sighs]

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To do that,

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I need you to do something first.

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My lord.

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[gasps]

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What kind of herb did you need
that it took you this long to get it?

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My lord...

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I must ask a favor.

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[ominous music]

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You wish to work

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as Her Majesty's physician?

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This woman was the one
who saved you, Uncle.

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She deserves a reward.

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I ask that you consider her request.

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I was planning to visit Her Majesty
to honor the Prince.

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Perhaps you should come.

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[sighs sharply]

266
00:19:46,310 --> 00:19:48,061
THE QUEEN'S PALACE, INNER ROOM

267
00:19:49,938 --> 00:19:51,398
-[baby coos]
-Hm.

268
00:19:52,649 --> 00:19:53,817
[court lady] Your Majesty.

269
00:19:54,318 --> 00:19:57,196
The Chief State Councilor is here
for an audience.

270
00:20:02,492 --> 00:20:03,869
You may let him in.

271
00:20:03,952 --> 00:20:05,829
[tense music]

272
00:20:13,003 --> 00:20:14,213
[door closes]

273
00:20:22,346 --> 00:20:25,349
I was so concerned
after hearing that you had fallen ill.

274
00:20:26,141 --> 00:20:27,643
Have you made a full recovery?

275
00:20:28,977 --> 00:20:31,688
And Saejae,
did things go smoothly for you?

276
00:20:43,909 --> 00:20:45,494
It's my little prince.

277
00:20:45,869 --> 00:20:49,623
Look at him. He's so healthy and bright.

278
00:20:51,291 --> 00:20:52,626
We have him now.

279
00:21:00,634 --> 00:21:03,804
I heard you'll be executing
all the soldiers and their families.

280
00:21:04,763 --> 00:21:05,973
It was a wise choice.

281
00:21:06,056 --> 00:21:09,393
No men loyal to you would ever side
with the Crown Prince.

282
00:21:09,476 --> 00:21:11,311
It is beyond comprehension.

283
00:21:13,563 --> 00:21:14,606
They're the bait.

284
00:21:16,108 --> 00:21:18,652
The means for me to draw Chang
out of hiding.

285
00:21:24,408 --> 00:21:27,327
There is another
who has committed a grave sin...

286
00:21:28,829 --> 00:21:30,372
and who should die.

287
00:21:33,083 --> 00:21:35,085
[ominous music]

288
00:21:39,381 --> 00:21:40,299
[sighs]

289
00:21:47,306 --> 00:21:48,932
The woman in the next room...

290
00:21:50,559 --> 00:21:52,644
she is a skilled physician
in her own right.

291
00:21:53,186 --> 00:21:55,564
I am greatly concerned
by the physical toll

292
00:21:55,647 --> 00:21:57,357
that birth has taken on you.

293
00:21:57,441 --> 00:21:59,735
I would like her to examine your pulse.

294
00:22:01,987 --> 00:22:05,532
What would I stand to gain from a commoner
looking after my health?

295
00:22:07,576 --> 00:22:09,077
Why do you wait?

296
00:22:10,787 --> 00:22:12,956
Her pulse needs to be examined.

297
00:22:14,458 --> 00:22:15,625
Father, stop.

298
00:22:16,418 --> 00:22:18,086
[foreboding music]

299
00:22:24,843 --> 00:22:25,969
[sighs]

300
00:22:27,054 --> 00:22:27,888
[gasps]

301
00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:32,184
[breathing anxiously]

302
00:22:34,770 --> 00:22:36,646
I am done repeating myself!

303
00:22:43,070 --> 00:22:44,863
If you have nothing to hide,

304
00:22:46,865 --> 00:22:48,325
then let her take your pulse.

305
00:23:13,058 --> 00:23:14,101
[sighs]

306
00:23:19,773 --> 00:23:21,066
What did you find?

307
00:23:22,025 --> 00:23:23,568
No rough pulse.

308
00:23:24,528 --> 00:23:26,113
Her heart is beating normally.

309
00:23:26,780 --> 00:23:28,740
And what does that mean, exactly?

310
00:23:29,991 --> 00:23:32,202
[breathing anxiously]

311
00:23:36,248 --> 00:23:37,666
That baby...

312
00:23:38,834 --> 00:23:41,378
is not Her Majesty's child.

313
00:23:44,214 --> 00:23:45,799
When did you plan this?

314
00:23:52,764 --> 00:23:54,433
Explain what's going on.

315
00:23:54,850 --> 00:23:59,521
Sir, the cubit and pregnancy pulse
are not present at all.

316
00:23:59,604 --> 00:24:01,606
[Beom-il] Does that mean
Her Majesty lost the baby?

317
00:24:01,690 --> 00:24:04,151
[whimpers]
Please punish us.

318
00:24:04,693 --> 00:24:05,527
[sighs]

319
00:24:06,361 --> 00:24:07,446
I thought we told you

320
00:24:07,529 --> 00:24:10,157
-to take care of Her Majesty?
-[both gasp, whimper]

321
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:14,119
We apologize, but the thoroughfare
and conception vessels are too weak.

322
00:24:14,202 --> 00:24:16,204
We tried every remedy
we could think of,

323
00:24:16,288 --> 00:24:18,498
but nothing has been successful, my lord.

324
00:24:19,249 --> 00:24:21,626
[Beom-il] Is conceiving one child...

325
00:24:22,085 --> 00:24:24,254
-really that difficult?
-[physicians whimpering]

326
00:24:24,713 --> 00:24:27,090
I will have no issue bearing your child.

327
00:24:31,887 --> 00:24:33,597
I am ready to give him an heir

328
00:24:34,014 --> 00:24:35,265
and it will be a boy.

329
00:24:35,682 --> 00:24:37,350
[male royal physician whimpering]

330
00:24:38,685 --> 00:24:41,021
You would dare consider
faking a pregnancy?

331
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,816
How would you go about fooling
all the eyes and ears of the palace?

332
00:24:45,233 --> 00:24:47,235
Forget this preposterous idea.

333
00:24:47,861 --> 00:24:51,072
Focus on your health.
You need to conceive.

334
00:24:52,657 --> 00:24:55,410
His Majesty is well over 50 years old.

335
00:24:55,952 --> 00:24:58,497
What if he were to pass on
before I got pregnant?

336
00:25:00,373 --> 00:25:01,833
So you'll just stand aside...

337
00:25:02,334 --> 00:25:03,460
like a dog?

338
00:25:06,421 --> 00:25:09,090
Watching the prince that you despise
ascend to the throne?

339
00:25:09,174 --> 00:25:10,967
[ominous music]

340
00:25:14,804 --> 00:25:17,974
Not even the King himself can touch me
when I am with child.

341
00:25:18,225 --> 00:25:20,894
Working out a solution
wouldn't be that difficult.

342
00:25:22,771 --> 00:25:25,607
We'd need to swear everyone
in my service to secrecy.

343
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:28,610
And what of our father?

344
00:25:30,195 --> 00:25:32,447
It will not have our blood in its veins.

345
00:25:33,323 --> 00:25:35,116
He would never accept such a thing.

346
00:25:35,534 --> 00:25:36,701
Of course.

347
00:25:39,287 --> 00:25:41,373
We will keep it a secret from him too.

348
00:25:43,708 --> 00:25:45,126
What if he finds out?

349
00:25:49,714 --> 00:25:52,384
You have cursed me with this
since you were a girl.

350
00:25:52,467 --> 00:25:54,719
You were gifted at birth
with a wicked cunning,

351
00:25:54,803 --> 00:25:56,805
but you have always been foolish.

352
00:25:57,639 --> 00:25:59,516
And now it has brought us this,

353
00:25:59,599 --> 00:26:02,310
putting everything
we struggled for at risk.

354
00:26:03,228 --> 00:26:05,772
The Haewon Cho Clan
is on the brink of its demise.

355
00:26:05,855 --> 00:26:08,483
You're wrong.
I was the one who protected us.

356
00:26:08,567 --> 00:26:10,485
What can you protect with a commoner child

357
00:26:10,569 --> 00:26:12,404
that does not even know its own mother?

358
00:26:14,656 --> 00:26:16,658
I do not want that for my country.

359
00:26:17,534 --> 00:26:18,994
I will not have any of it.

360
00:26:20,370 --> 00:26:21,621
What now?

361
00:26:22,998 --> 00:26:25,208
Will you take back what you did to Chang

362
00:26:25,667 --> 00:26:27,627
all because you don't like this baby?

363
00:26:29,754 --> 00:26:31,548
Prince Noseong was exiled.

364
00:26:33,425 --> 00:26:35,468
But his children are alive
on Ganghwa Island.

365
00:26:35,552 --> 00:26:36,386
[sighs]

366
00:26:36,469 --> 00:26:38,430
They may be distant relatives,

367
00:26:38,513 --> 00:26:40,890
but they are more suited
to the throne than him.

368
00:26:42,392 --> 00:26:43,977
As for that child...

369
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,689
I will put an end to his life tonight.

370
00:26:47,772 --> 00:26:48,773
But I will not stop there.

371
00:26:49,774 --> 00:26:51,860
Countless more will need to die.

372
00:26:52,777 --> 00:26:54,946
Your court ladies and all your physicians.

373
00:26:56,531 --> 00:26:59,492
Anyone else you might
have included in this farce.

374
00:27:00,827 --> 00:27:02,203
It would be done. 

375
00:27:03,872 --> 00:27:06,082
Nothing but a childless dowager

376
00:27:06,833 --> 00:27:08,335
locked in the West Palace.

377
00:27:09,794 --> 00:27:10,629
[coughs]

378
00:27:11,296 --> 00:27:12,505
[ominous music]

379
00:27:18,553 --> 00:27:20,722
Punished as you live out
the rest of your days.

380
00:27:22,515 --> 00:27:23,433
[coughs]

381
00:27:39,908 --> 00:27:41,284
[Beom-il] And what of our father?

382
00:27:41,618 --> 00:27:43,912
It will not have our blood in its veins.

383
00:27:43,995 --> 00:27:45,455
He would never accept such a thing.

384
00:27:46,081 --> 00:27:47,415
What if he finds out?

385
00:27:54,422 --> 00:27:55,340
[grunts]

386
00:28:01,805 --> 00:28:02,889
[splutters]

387
00:28:09,604 --> 00:28:10,438
[retches]

388
00:28:41,970 --> 00:28:43,722
Has there ever been a time
you didn't hate me?

389
00:28:46,808 --> 00:28:49,394
All for having the nerve
of being born a girl?

390
00:28:54,399 --> 00:28:56,359
I never needed your approval.

391
00:29:00,321 --> 00:29:02,866
I'm about to have everything
you ever wanted.

392
00:29:07,662 --> 00:29:09,831
I'm the most powerful Haewon Cho.

393
00:29:12,292 --> 00:29:13,710
This kingdom...

394
00:29:16,713 --> 00:29:18,590
must fall at my feet.

395
00:29:28,224 --> 00:29:30,185
[foreboding music]

396
00:29:31,561 --> 00:29:32,812
YOGEUM GATE

397
00:29:32,896 --> 00:29:34,105
[sobbing]

398
00:29:59,088 --> 00:30:04,928
[chanting]

399
00:30:05,011 --> 00:30:06,805
[men chanting]

400
00:30:06,888 --> 00:30:09,390
[man] I hear he died from the plague.

401
00:30:09,474 --> 00:30:13,228
Even the Chief State Councilor
isn't safe from it.

402
00:30:13,311 --> 00:30:14,354
[sighs]

403
00:30:14,437 --> 00:30:16,439
He was a powerful man.

404
00:30:16,523 --> 00:30:19,859
Now, he and His Majesty
have died to this disease.

405
00:30:19,943 --> 00:30:22,028
Not much hope for us, is there?

406
00:30:24,197 --> 00:30:25,907
We're all gonna die soon.

407
00:30:26,950 --> 00:30:30,328
[man chanting in distance]

408
00:30:31,454 --> 00:30:34,249
[men chanting in distance]

409
00:30:42,799 --> 00:30:44,551
[yawns]

410
00:30:45,051 --> 00:30:46,469
GANGHWA ISLAND

411
00:30:46,553 --> 00:30:49,973
Oh, it's cold.
[blows]

412
00:30:52,267 --> 00:30:54,394
Either join me or leave me alone.

413
00:30:54,477 --> 00:30:57,397
I don't like you standing
and watching me in the cold.

414
00:31:06,447 --> 00:31:07,699
It's been a few hours.

415
00:31:08,783 --> 00:31:10,952
You haven't caught a single fish,
have you?

416
00:31:12,370 --> 00:31:13,788
Are you trying to pick a fight?

417
00:31:15,874 --> 00:31:17,917
All of our food sources have gone dry.

418
00:31:18,334 --> 00:31:20,962
Same goes for the fish,
there's hardly any out there.

419
00:31:22,589 --> 00:31:23,423
[sighs]

420
00:31:23,506 --> 00:31:26,050
I'd be happy for the opportunity
to catch anything at all

421
00:31:26,134 --> 00:31:27,635
the way this week has been.

422
00:31:29,137 --> 00:31:30,388
[chuckles]

423
00:31:31,264 --> 00:31:34,809
You know, these days,
people worship food like a god.

424
00:31:35,435 --> 00:31:38,146
But that just means
this country has gone to hell.

425
00:31:38,980 --> 00:31:40,648
[chuckling]

426
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:43,526
Oh, oh!

427
00:31:43,610 --> 00:31:44,694
Oh, grab that, please!

428
00:31:44,777 --> 00:31:46,404
Oh, oh, do you have it?

429
00:31:46,487 --> 00:31:48,448
Oh, okay! Easy, easy, easy!

430
00:31:48,531 --> 00:31:50,199
Hold on. Hold on!

431
00:31:50,283 --> 00:31:51,367
Oh, let me help.

432
00:31:51,492 --> 00:31:53,161
-[grunts]
-No, no, no, don't pull.

433
00:31:53,244 --> 00:31:55,288
That's it. That's it--

434
00:31:58,416 --> 00:31:59,375
[sighs]

435
00:32:01,377 --> 00:32:02,253
Hey...

436
00:32:03,296 --> 00:32:04,464
Why did you...

437
00:32:04,547 --> 00:32:07,300
[sighs sharply]
I don't know what I did to deserve this.

438
00:32:09,761 --> 00:32:10,887
You, sir,

439
00:32:10,970 --> 00:32:12,805
I hope to never see again.

440
00:32:14,015 --> 00:32:15,266
And lost my fish.

441
00:32:16,851 --> 00:32:18,102
But why did you pull?

442
00:32:18,561 --> 00:32:19,938
I told you to hold it.

443
00:32:22,774 --> 00:32:23,608
Uncle.

444
00:32:30,823 --> 00:32:32,283
What did you call me?

445
00:32:33,284 --> 00:32:34,577
I checked my family tree.

446
00:32:35,495 --> 00:32:37,246
You would be my distant uncle.

447
00:32:39,415 --> 00:32:41,876
You're a forgotten member
of the royal family.

448
00:32:42,335 --> 00:32:43,336
Even so...

449
00:32:44,253 --> 00:32:46,589
bloodlines cannot remain hidden
for very long.

450
00:32:47,340 --> 00:32:50,218
"People have a tendency
to worship food like a god."

451
00:32:52,261 --> 00:32:53,846
Is it The Book of Han you're reading?

452
00:32:55,890 --> 00:32:57,642
"The royal bloodlines."

453
00:32:59,852 --> 00:33:01,020
What do you know?

454
00:33:02,772 --> 00:33:04,774
It doesn't matter who it belongs to.

455
00:33:05,274 --> 00:33:08,111
Your Highness, or I, or even some lowborn.

456
00:33:08,945 --> 00:33:10,905
We all bleed the same blood.

457
00:33:12,573 --> 00:33:14,909
It may have lost its meaning for you.

458
00:33:15,994 --> 00:33:17,328
In this country, though,

459
00:33:18,830 --> 00:33:20,540
it is our most important asset.

460
00:33:22,792 --> 00:33:24,419
Through the generations,

461
00:33:25,420 --> 00:33:27,088
our blood stays strong.

462
00:33:39,058 --> 00:33:41,060
[poignant music]

463
00:33:45,023 --> 00:33:47,275
Our soldiers' families
have been rounded up.

464
00:33:48,192 --> 00:33:49,569
They'll be killed tomorrow.

465
00:33:52,405 --> 00:33:53,364
Tell me...

466
00:33:54,657 --> 00:33:56,325
why are you so loyal?

467
00:33:58,494 --> 00:34:00,913
I heard about
what happened to your family.

468
00:34:03,374 --> 00:34:05,126
I know that's why you helped me.

469
00:34:05,585 --> 00:34:07,211
So that you could avenge them.

470
00:34:09,505 --> 00:34:11,591
My master and Cho Hak-ju are gone.

471
00:34:15,261 --> 00:34:17,346
Their sins will lay to rest with them.

472
00:34:20,975 --> 00:34:22,143
So why?

473
00:34:26,814 --> 00:34:28,649
Why are you still standing here?

474
00:34:31,110 --> 00:34:32,570
Since they've gone...

475
00:34:33,571 --> 00:34:35,490
have we gotten any meat or rice?

476
00:34:37,784 --> 00:34:40,078
Even though they're gone,
everything is the same.

477
00:34:40,411 --> 00:34:43,581
The country is a mess.
Everyone in it is starving.

478
00:34:46,959 --> 00:34:48,419
But I believe in you.

479
00:34:50,379 --> 00:34:52,840
I think you can bring about
the changes we need.

480
00:34:55,968 --> 00:34:57,178
Was I mistaken?

481
00:35:04,936 --> 00:35:07,271
Such a horrific tragedy for the nation.

482
00:35:07,730 --> 00:35:10,900
I was concerned about keeping up
with my duties as a queen.

483
00:35:10,983 --> 00:35:13,986
You are kind enough to make
the arrangements for the funeral,

484
00:35:14,070 --> 00:35:15,071
and I'm very grateful.

485
00:35:15,530 --> 00:35:19,075
I was simply doing
what was necessary of me, Your Majesty.

486
00:35:20,451 --> 00:35:24,455
Yes, but you have a kind heart
and have gone out of your way for me.

487
00:35:25,248 --> 00:35:27,500
That is why I am so fond of you, Beom-pal.

488
00:35:28,042 --> 00:35:29,460
Oh... Oh.

489
00:35:29,794 --> 00:35:30,795
That's very kind of you--

490
00:35:30,878 --> 00:35:32,588
Might I request another favor?

491
00:35:33,756 --> 00:35:37,468
My family's gone. Now that
my father and brother are no more...

492
00:35:38,970 --> 00:35:41,347
I have no one left to watch over us.

493
00:35:42,682 --> 00:35:44,100
You're being promoted.

494
00:35:44,559 --> 00:35:47,478
I'd like to appoint you as the head
of the Royal Commandery.

495
00:35:47,562 --> 00:35:50,022
You'll stay by my side
with my palace guards

496
00:35:50,106 --> 00:35:52,233
and help protect me and my prince.

497
00:35:55,236 --> 00:35:57,738
I am honored to accept these orders,
Your Majesty.

498
00:35:59,282 --> 00:36:00,283
[chuckles]

499
00:36:01,492 --> 00:36:03,619
But there is one matter
I'd like to discuss.

500
00:36:05,663 --> 00:36:07,123
Just before he passed away,

501
00:36:07,206 --> 00:36:09,250
my uncle visited Your Majesty's chambers

502
00:36:09,333 --> 00:36:12,003
with a female physician.
Would you know what happened---

503
00:36:12,086 --> 00:36:15,047
I sent her away
as I already have a physician.

504
00:36:15,548 --> 00:36:17,216
She wasn't necessary here.

505
00:36:18,718 --> 00:36:20,011
[sighs]
I see.

506
00:36:42,575 --> 00:36:44,285
[infected snarling]

507
00:36:45,077 --> 00:36:46,037
[shrieks]

508
00:36:52,460 --> 00:36:55,004
[Queen] I heard you've studied
under Lee Seung-hui.

509
00:36:55,922 --> 00:36:56,964
Is this true?

510
00:36:59,342 --> 00:37:02,220
You will do everything in your power
to learn more about the plague.

511
00:37:03,137 --> 00:37:04,889
Your teacher wasn't good enough.

512
00:37:05,681 --> 00:37:07,558
I hope you have more success.

513
00:37:12,855 --> 00:37:14,899
[snarling]

514
00:37:14,982 --> 00:37:17,109
My father had the right idea.

515
00:37:19,987 --> 00:37:21,739
These monsters are powerful.

516
00:37:22,490 --> 00:37:24,325
I can add their power to mine.

517
00:37:25,076 --> 00:37:27,578
[infected snarling]

518
00:37:31,832 --> 00:37:33,167
[gasps, whimpers]

519
00:37:35,795 --> 00:37:37,338
-[snarling]
-[gasps]

520
00:37:44,220 --> 00:37:46,264
[whimpering]

521
00:37:57,900 --> 00:37:59,777
[snarling continues]

522
00:38:07,535 --> 00:38:09,537
[closing theme music]