BASED ON THE KINGDOM OF THE GODS BY YLAB
[opening theme music]
[snarls]
SCHOLARLY INSTITUTION NEAR THE CITADEL OF HANYANG
When dawn hits...
all of your families will be executed.
The bureau will make sure of it.
Because of your service to me.
Will you remain loyal with that knowledge?
Everything is at risk.
Can you continue to fight?
[foreboding music]
PATIENT JOURNAL
[indistinct chatter]
[child whimpering]
Please! Let him go! Stop it!
[officer] Get back!
[woman 1] No!
[sobbing, wailing]
[woman 2] Please...
I don't wanna go, I don't wanna go, please
[crying] Father!
[muffled crying]
[tense music]
Put me down.
[man 1] This country has already suffered much.
Cho Hak-ju's death was only the latest.
We should postpone the executions.
Her Majesty made it very clear
these executions must be carried out on time.
The Minister of War has a point.
Some of the soldiers' families are of noble origin.
These executions should wait
until we know the truth behind this.
This order has come straight from Her Majesty.
This is a royal command.
[man 2] Sir, please step outside for a moment.
What on earth is going on here?
I am here to make a confession.
The traitor, Prince Chang,
and soldiers from the Military Training Corps
are waiting for backup outside Hanyang at Yeonggi Academy.
Now that I've given you this information...
I ask you to spare my family.
[ominous music]
It seems as though my father was correct.
Chang is a traitor.
With every move, he digs his own grave.
[tense music]
[guard 1] Fire!
Why aren't there screams?
[inhales deeply]
Oh, it's empty, sir!
[guard 2] There's no one here either.
It must have been a trap to lure soldiers away from Hanyang.
Those bastards.
SEO YEONG-GO
LEE CHANG
[guard] The Crown Prince is here!
[stirring music]
[guard 2] Gather up the rest of our men! Seal off the gates!
[man] Yah!
NORTH GATE, CITADEL OF HANYANG
[guard] The Crown Prince is here!
He's at the gate.
How many soldiers do we have left in the Police Bureau?
Only a few dozen men left at best, my lord.
Many left with the palace guards.
Assemble the remaining soldiers.
We'll need backup. Ask the Minister of War for assistance.
[prisoners whimpering, sobbing]
[woman] Please...
Please spare us.
ROYAL COMMANDERY
"Good people of Joseon.
These individuals claim to be loyal,
yet they cannot condemn the traitor, Chang.
To make matters worse,
they joined hands with our public enemy in pursuit of their own selfish greed.
Thus, all families of those sympathetic shall be beheaded when--"
[prisoners sobbing, wailing loudly]
Please, I don't wanna die!
"This is an order.
Beheaded..."
[wailing]
[sobbing inconsolably]
"...shall be..."
[sighs]
I can't do this.
Head of the commandery or not,
nobody should do this.
[gasps] Your Highness.
You made the right choice.
Sir, it's you.
Yes.
And I will return to my rightful place.
Will you join with me?
Your Highness, the Royal Commandery is at your side.
Untie these people now.
They are guilty of nothing!
[relieved chatter]
Give me a sword.
I want to aid you if I can.
Hello, my lord. The traitors are at the execution site.
My lord, what is the meaning of this?
-Restrain all the guards! -[officers] Sir!
[foreboding music]
JINSEON GATE
I'm quite confused.
Why is Chang making his way to the palace?
What happened to all the soldiers we stationed out there?
It appears the majority of them defected,
including our Royal Commandery.
[court lady] The gates are sealed.
Not even the palace guards are allowed access to the citadel.
[breathing anxiously]
Your Majesty.
We should escape while we still have time.
[ominous music]
I will go to the Main Hall.
I need to prepare...
to welcome my son.
[court lady] Your Majesty...
[tense music]
PATIENT JOURNAL
This cannot be.
That patient journal once belonged to Doctor Lee Seung-hui,
the former royal physician.
Everything recorded within it is true.
[sighs] What should I do?
Are you here with an errand from the Prince?
The Haewon Cho Clan are very dangerous.
His Highness...
will like you to show that you are different from them.
[sighs forcefully]
We have successfully quelled the soldiers. The police have been contained.
And now, I will escort you to the palace.
The Crown Prince is on his way to the palace.
[man] Wait. What does that mean?
The Prince is back? Did you say he is coming?
Let him out.
[keys jangling]
[key turns, door opens]
It's over.
The Haewon Cho Clan's rule has come to its end.
[councilor] Highness!
Oh, please spare our lives, sir.
You should understand, Cho Hak-ju gave us the orders,
told us they were from Her Majesty and we had no choice but to follow them.
[ministers] Please have mercy on us, Your Highness.
Highness, we are all so happy to serve under you from now on.
And to assist you, we have already disarmed all of the palace guards.
Please, would you like to come inside?
[tense music]
You are finally here.
You've been away for too long.
Come here and pay respect to your mother.
You are not my mother.
[chuckles]
You deny your filial duties?
I'm disappointed.
Give up the throne.
It does not and will never belong to you.
And by doing this, you believe the people will serve you instead?
They won't.
You're a demon.
A criminal that decapitated his own father with his bare hands.
This throne belongs...
to my son, the heir to the King.
This child...
how do we know he truly is the son of the King?
Why were pregnant women found gathered and buried
outside your manor at Naeseonjae?
What events led to Your Majesty killing those women and children?
I'm afraid that Minister Ho has a point.
I, too, have been harboring my own doubts about this.
We must place all of the physicians and the court ladies
under arrest posthaste,
so the truth of this matter may be found.
You doubt my child?
You dare question he's the son of the King?
I am here not because I care for the throne
nor to oust you for being a member of the clan
that you were simply born into.
The throne has responsibilities you will never understand!
"The people of this land regard food as a god,
and the King must serve his people as such."
You have neglected your responsibility.
[ominous music]
Make your decision.
[chuckles]
Will you step down of your own accord?
Or do we need to drag you off of there like a dog?
So your father wasn't enough?
You would murder your mother and newborn brother?
I welcome you to.
I won't leave the throne.
Try pulling if you must but I won't move!
Your Highness does not need to dirty his hands with her blood.
Do not concern yourself.
I will bring the seal
and make her issue a royal edict to announce your enthronement.
[councilor 2] I will accompany him.
[Queen sighs in amusement]
It's the Second and Third State Councilors.
They're making their way here for the royal seal.
[sighs]
[breathing heavily]
[infected snarling]
[panting]
[ominous music]
[hissing, snarling]
-[lock clicking] -[door opens]
[snarling]
-[court lady screams] -[gasps]
[court lady groans, splutters]
[gasps]
[distant screaming]
[Seo-bi whimpering]
Is anyone here?
You're too fast, good sir.
[grunts in annoyance]
[ominous music]
[Seo-bi groaning]
[sighs]
[breathing heavily]
[tense music]
[panicked shouting, screaming]
[infected snarling]
[women screaming]
[growls]
[snarling]
[roars]
[Third State Councillor] Any news on the royal seal?
-[Second State councilor yells in fright] -[snarling]
[Third State Councilor] Councilor! Councilor!
-Stay away! -[snarling]
-Get back! Oh! Oh, get back! -[banging, crashing]
I don't want to... I don't want to... Oh!
I'm so sorry, I have to do this!
[snarling]
[Third State Councilor screaming]
Stay away!
Stay away! Stay away!
[snarling]
Open the door!
Help! Open the door!
[gasps]
[Third State Councilor whimpering]
Help!
[screams]
[distant screaming]
[gasps]
[clamoring in distance]
[shouting, screaming in distance]
You...
What in God's name have you done?
If the throne cannot be mine,
well, then...
no one can have it.
[man screaming in distance]
[screaming in distance]
[in panic] The plague is here!
[baby coos]
[Seo-bi] The plague is here!
The plague is here. It's spreading at the Queen's Palace.
[woman screams in distance]
[breathing anxiously]
Shut and barricade all the palace gates, now!
HEUNGHWA GATE
SUNGJEONG GATE
My lord, what is happening?
How did the sickness make it here?
How they're here is not important.
We have no time.
Regardless if they're officers or noblemen,
you must destroy the head!
Put an arrow between their eyes!
Every single person who has contracted this needs to die!
Understood?
[guards] Sir!
Highness.
[women screaming]
[snarling]
Don't let them bite you!
[distant screaming]
[woman screaming]
-[shouting, screaming continues] -[gasps]
[screaming]
We need to get you out of here! Let's go! Hurry!
[door clattering]
Someone's in here.
[groans]
[sighs]
I said someone's in here.
[door splintering]
[snarling]
[whimpers]
[stirring music]
[gasping]
-[infected snarling] -[gasps]
[stirring music]
YEONGYEONG GATE
Here. You take the portraits.
[yells in fright]
[infected snarling]
[whimpering]
[sorrowful music]
[man screams]
[menacing music]
[shrieks]
Is that it? Are they gone?
[gasps]
[silence]
People aren't screaming.
The screams have stopped.
What's going on?
Do you think they got it under control?
[menacing music]
Please! Please! You must go!
Get out of here! Go!
-[snarling, screeching] -[groaning]
There are too many. They're breaking the gate!
Sir, let's go!
[Beom-pal whimpering]
[crows cawing]
[gasps in fright]
[breathing anxiously]
[thumping, banging]
[panting]
[closing theme music]