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[Previously]
Go to the West, kill Shadow and find his pipe.
Didn't you pick up an interesting document last night?
Nothing will come...
...or performing a search and seizure.
Shin Heung Bok must have left a message in that book.
Did you find it?
Give it to me.
I am not going to give it to you, Your Majesty.
Eliminate Kang Pil Je...
...and bring me the *Maengui.
[Maengui: Secret Document]
What is your sin?
With my own hands...
...I threw Shin Heung Bok's body into the Royal Well.
[Episode 9]
What is the result of your examination?
Your Highness...
...I am here to arrest the criminal.
Take him.
No.
He is not the one...
...to be arrested.
It is you, Your Highness.
Your Highness.
I am arresting you...
...as a suspect in the murder of Kang Pil Je.
Suspect?
You are talking nonsense!
Something isn't right.
The prince is not the criminal.
The king wants...
...to find the truth through *Gook Chung.
[Gook Chung: Suspect interrogation]
What do you mean by Gook Chung?
Are you saying that the king wants to interrogate the prince?
Of course, minister.
What are you all doing?
Arrest the prince.
No.
There is no need for *Oh Ra.
[Oh Ra: Red rope formerly used for binding criminals]
Your Highness!
Did you say murder?
How could the prince be a murderer?
I do not know the details of this case, Your Highness.
What interesting fight were you talking about?
What did you do to the prince?
It won't be fun if I tell you already.
Hey.
Park Moon Soo.
I am Kim Taek.
Even though you try your hardest...
...you are no match for me.
Gook Chung?
The prince is being interrogated for murder?
What is going on?
I am trying to find out.
If you have time to find out...
...then go see the king right now.
You should go stop the king.
Don't you know that...
...if the prince goes through Gook Chung...
...it will lower his status?
Anyway...
...you should go back now, Your Highness.
Nothing will change even if you are here.
Who is Kang Pil Je?
A government official at Donggoong Jeon.
[Donggoong Jeon: The palace where the Crown Prince stays]
Last night...
...were you at Kang Pil Je's house?
Yes, Your Majesty.
What was the reason?
There was something I needed to find out.
What was it you were looking for?
I asked you what you were looking for.
That is...
Answer me!
What was it that you wanted to find out from Kang Pil Je?
I wanted to find the mastermind.
What do you mean?
The person who ordered...
...the deaths of Shin Heung Bok, Heo Jung Woon and Chun Seung Sae.
So...
...did you find out?
Who is the mastermind?
It is you, minister.
It was you who ordered Kang Pil Je...
...to kill Shin Heung Bok, Heo Jung Woon and Chun Seung Sae.
Your Highness.
Then you killed Kang Pil Je too...
...because you no longer had a use for him. You cut him out.
What are you talking about?
Why would he kill them all?
If it is not him, is it you?
How dare you...
I am asking you if you are the mastermind, father.
What is your reason?
What is your reason for suspecting your own father?
Is this not the reason?
You wanted to hide the disgusting truth...
...written in this document.
What is this?
Why can't you answer me now?
What was that you wanted to find out from Kang Pil Je?
Why are you not answering me?
I cannot tell you that.
You can't tell me?
What is the reason?
What is the reason that you cannot tell me?
Did Kang Pil Je say he couldn't tell you anything...
...like you are doing now?
Is that why...
...you used such Goshin on him?
[Goshin: Torture]
That is not what happened.
Did he still not answer you...
...even after the torture?
Is that why...
...you killed Kang Pil Je?
No, that is not true.
Why are you lying when I have all the evidence?
What evidence do you mean?
Han Yoon!
Yes, Your Majesty.
Show him.
Right away.
Do you know who this knife belongs to?
Who does it belong to?
That knife is...
...mine.
I will ask you again.
What was your reason for going to Kang Pil Je's house?
Was it...
...to kill him?
No.
I did not kill him.
How long will you try to cover the sky...
...with the palm of your hand?
- Father. - Hey!
Put him in prison right now!
Don't ever...
...let him out...
...until he...
...confesses the truth.
Hey, Kang Pil Je!
Your Majesty.
You should get some rest.
Yes.
I should.
I will bring the doctor.
No, don't.
I have...
...somewhere to go.
Your Highness.
What should we do now?
Even though he is guilty...
...how could we lock him in prison?
I will go Joochung.
[Joochung: To ask the king a favor]
No.
I will go to the Royal Investigation Bureau.
Everyone should be equal...
...before the law.
Neither the king...
...myself nor you should be an exception.
I am just sad that...
...a wise prince like you...
...would be considered a suspect.
Then...
...can you prove my innocence?
I am counting on you.
A knife?
How was the prince's knife used in the murder?
Someone must have stolen it to set up the prince.
I think...
...there is a spy amongst us.
There is no one who could do that in Donggoong Jeon.
Think about it again.
Has anyone been suspicious recently?
No, there couldn't be...
No way.
What are you doing?
I was told that the prince was having a hard time falling asleep...
...and he asked for the lights to be kept on.
You may continue.
Where is Deuk Geum?
We don't know.
She said she would take some rest at home because she wasn't well.
[The prison at the Royal Investigation Bureau]
Your Highness.
Help me...
Open it up.
Please give me your royal robes.
As a criminal...
...you are not entitled to them, Your Highness.
You will get out of here.
I will make sure of it.
Send the letter...
...to Joonggoong Jeon.
[Joonggoong Jeon: The palace where the queen stays]
Yes, Your Highness.
Disloyal vassals make the king blind...
...to the whole country in distress.
Now there is only one way to save the country.
A wise vassal should stand up...
...and make a wise man the king...
...so we can make a firm resolution.
Let's sign the Maengui.
If we can make our country stronger by crowning a new king...
...killing the present king would not be a sin.
This is all for our country, so it will not be a sin.
For the greater good...
...we are doing the right thing.
We will be acknowledged...
...by history.
So...
Minister Kim Taek.
The only signature I recognize...
...is Minister Kim Taek's.
Then who are...
...all these people?
Are they....
...all from the Old Learning Faction?
Who is the king that they tried...
...to crown?
Was it my father?
Does he...
...know the truth behind this story?
[The location of Kyung Jong's ancestral tablet]
Brother.
Now I think about it...
...I have never...
...called you brother before.
You were the great king...
...that nobody dared to look at.
That's the king you were.
You're still looking at me...
...like that.
Thirty years...
You were only king for four years...
...but I have lived...
...in these royal robes for thirty.
I have forsaken all kinds of delicacies.
I have never slept more than two hours.
I saved the time I would spend sleeping and eating...
...and spent that time...
...on my civilians...
...and my country.
I took...
...this royal cloth and became king...
...to do all that.
Beside that...
...I have not known greed.
So why...
...are you...
...looking at me like that?
What did I do wrong?
What is that look...
...you're giving me?
Why?
What is your problem?
Inform him I am here.
I need to see the king.
He is not here.
What do you mean he's not here?
What are you talking about?
After the interrogation...
...he went to the ancestral tablet.
I see.
Then inform me when he returns.
Yes, Your Highness.
Minister.
I've received word the king has returned.
Really?
Your Majesty.
Right Minister Park Moon Soo is here to see you.
His Majesty says to return.
Your Majesty.
Someone has come with a message from the princess.
His Majesty says to send them back.
The queen has sent a message.
Why are you talking so much when I said to send them back?
What did you say?
Right after he came back...
...he went to see Sookui Moon?
I heard that His Majesty is returning messages from everywhere.
At such a time...
It can't be.
She can't be pregnant...
...at a time like this.
You look stressed, Your Majesty.
Is it true...
...that the prince killed someone?
If it is true, what is going to happen?
He will not...
...stay the crown prince.
Then do you plan...
...on leaving the position empty?
I can't...
...do that.
Why...
Why did you not reveal the truth about Park Moon Soo?
I can't be certain he's the criminal.
What do you mean?
A witness said he hired Na Chul Joo..
...and we found a book in his office that went...
...missing from a crime scene.
What is it, Your Highness?
He even confessed to you that he was guilty.
Throwing Shin Heung Bok's body into the Royal Well...
Yes?
That is the sin he confessed.
If my teacher killed Shin Heung Bok and threw him in the Royal Well...
...why would the Old Learning Faction make a murder look like suicide?
They wouldn't do that for him.
If what he confessed is true...
...he wants the same thing we do.
He didn't want Shin Heung Bok's murder to be closed.
"Kill Kang Pil Je and bring me his smoke pipe?"
So...
...are you saying that wasn't a request for a murder?
Find out what Na Chul Joo is doing.
Then we'll know if it was an assassination or not.
Yes, Your Highness.
Government Official.
Yes, Your Highness.
Let us keep between you and me...
...what my teacher confessed to us.
Yes, Your Highness.
Open up.
Why did the prince just accept his imprisonment...
...when he has such good cards in his hand?
What do you mean?
Isn't the biggest one...
[Saececk: The practice of illegally publishing and lending books]
...the girl from the *Saececk place?
What will happen...
...if he's just forming a plan in prison?
We may just lose this fight.
That girl is the real problem.
He's in prison?
Yes, I saw him going in just now.
How could this happen?
Something is wrong.
First, I need to see the boss.
I'm going instead of you.
I know that even if I stop you...
...you won't listen to me, but...
...the prince...
...who tried so hard to find the truth...
...has ended up like this.
I couldn't be more worried.
I need to see the boss myself.
I told you I'll find out what to do.
Alright.
You can go then.
You better stay here.
Go to Right Government Official Choi Ji Bong's house...
...and catch that girl.
Yes, sir.
What did it say?
He said the girl from Saececk place is at Choi Ji Bong's house...
...so we should go kill her now.
Do it yourself.
Stab your neck...
...with that knife right now.
Your Highness.
Why are you hesitating?
This is hardly enough for someone...
...who couldn't protect the prince.
Please forgive me.
Forgive me, Your Highness!
You still want to live?
Then...
...it is not impossible.
Tell me how Shin Heung Bok died...
...and what is going on inside the prince's palace.
Give me all the details you know.
Kill yourself or tell me everything!
Which side you are going to choose?
Decide!
Everything started...
...when a girl named Ji Dam...
...committed Bum Gual.
[Bum Gual: Coming inside the palace without permission]
The girl who did Bum Gual.
The girl you are guessing...
...must be her.
Seo Ji Dam.
What is it?
What brings you all the way here, sir?
I came here to see Na Chul Joo.
Na Chul Joo.
He is...
He disappeared last night.
He disappeared?
Well.
Something bad must have happened to him.
This wouldn't happen if he weren't injured.
Injured by who?
If we knew, we wouldn't be here like this.
We should go there already and kill them all.
Calm down.
I need to go back and talk to your daughter first.
I need to find out if...
...she know anything about Na Chul Joo's actions last night.
Ji Dam.
Where is Ji Dam?
What happened here?
Masked people came and took her.
Mr. Government Official!
Ji Dam.
What's happened to my daughter?
Who would take her?
I will find out what happened, so you should wait.
Sir.
You must save my daughter.
I can't live without her.
Your Highness...
Don't make that face.
This is something I should go through a hundred times.
Why must it be you, Your Highness?
Don't make that face, teacher.
I know my sin is great...
...and heavy.
I know you started this for the truth.
Follow that truth.
We need to find the truth for our innocent people.
For the truth...
...I can stay here. It's nothing hard.
Don't worry too much.
For my sin...
For this heavy sin...
...I will be punished after I find the truth...
...and after I get you out of this prison.
Please trust me and wait here, Your Highness.
[Capital Bureau Official Jo Jae Ho's office]
Bring me the results of the investigation.
I need to see them myself.
I sent them to the Royal Investigation Bureau.
However...
...I left out some evidence that might work against you.
What are you talking about?
You said you were sure the prince...
...wasn't the criminal.
What was your reason?
It could only be either that...
...you are too loyal to the crown prince...
...or...
He must know the criminal.
The criminal you know is...
...the owner of this piece of cloth?
Last night...
...why didn't you kill me?
Because we're friends.
You still...
...don't have other friends?
I don't know anything about that.
What about this then?
What is this?
This is the Bi Mang Rok...
...of the artist Jung Soo Gyum who died five years ago.
[Bi Mang Rok: Diary]
Kang Pil Je discovered the truth through this diary...
...and suggested a deal to us.
We were going to accept it.
But we couldn't get the Maengui.
That's because...
...someone killed him...
...and stole the document.
I think the person who took it...
...was you.
- What are you talking about? - If that's not true...
...how were you so certain...
...that the prince is innocent?
I won't ask anything about you or the person you hired...
...so...
...give us...
...the document.
He isn't a criminal either.
The killer is someone else.
We are not interested in...
...catching the real criminal.
The prince is in prison!
He is only suffering before his father.
If the father has no legitimacy...
...the son is...
...the same.
They can't be the royal family.
What is that you want, minister?
That document...
Do you have it?
If I say I have it...
...are you going to bring...
...the king and the prince down with it?
Then what?
Are you going to select someone new to be king?
What are you talking about?
If that's not the case...
...why would you drag the prince into all this?
I said I had no intention of doing that!
Then...
...you should take care of your people first.
They only believe in their passion.
They are doing whatever they want...
...and we very well may repeat a miserable past this way.
If the reason...
...you want to have that document...
...is not to have a world ruled by the Young Learning Faction...
...but to have a strong country...
...then you should think of a way to save...
...the innocent prince first!
Your child...
I will let you have it in San Sill Chung.
[San Sill Chung: A place specifically for the queen and princess to give birth]
Did you say San Sill Chung?
Court Lady Min.
Take care of that today.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Did you say San Sill Chung?
How could Sookui Moon give birth at San Sill Chung?
That can't be happening, Your Highness.
The only people who can give birth at San Sill Chung...
...are you and the queen, Your Highness.
I am afraid...
...what you have been worrying about is coming true.
Does the king really want...
...the prince to lose his position?
What do you mean by San Sill Chung?
You really don't know my intention?
How far...
...are you trying to go, Your Majesty?
You have already put the prince in prison.
It is you who put the prince in prison.
You put him through interrogation...
...risked his position...
...and put him in prison.
You are the one who can get him out of prison too.
Park Moon Soo!
It's all you.
If you waste your time here like this...
...the future you wanted to make...
...might disappear.
Do you like...
...the power that comes with being king that much?
You can't do this...
How could you use your own son...
...to avoid your situation and win a political fight?
That is also...
...your fault.
Why did you push me to the very end?
Why did you make me a bad father?
Can you...
...give me...
...the Maengui back now?
Surrender already.
Just bring me the document...
...and let's bring the prince back too.
You cannot release him...
...unless you catch the real criminal...
...because you've already put him through interrogation.
The real criminal...
We can make one.
What do you mean?
Did you say Na Chul Joo before?
I mean the swordsman you hired.
We can make him the criminal...
...and end all this.
Even though he is only a swordsman...
...we can't make an innocent man a criminal.
We never know when he might die...
...in a sword fight anyway.
A man like that dying for the prince...
It's honorable for him.
The swordsmen...
Those who live as swordsmen...
...are also your civilians.
When did I say they weren't?
For a greater goal...
...we sometimes have to sacrifice someone.
If you can't do that...
...you can't see the bigger picture.
We cannot come...
...to an agreement.
Are you saying you still won't return it?
Yes, Your Majesty.
Then...
...you will lose your student...
...and...
...I will lose my son.
Are you coming from seeing the king?
That interesting document...
You haven't given it to him yet, right?
If you give it to the king...
...this won't end with the prince.
What do you mean by that?
Where do you think I heard...
...that you are holding the Maengui?
No way...
If you don't want to lose Na Chul Joo as well...
...then chose wisely.
What did you just say?
Kidnapped?
Are you saying that Ji Dam was kidnapped?
If you have any clue as to who did it...
...please tell me, minister.
I need to save Ji Dam as soon as possible.
If she gets hurt, the prince will be heartbroken.
You know better than I do.
Minister!
You already made up your mind?
Na Chul Joo and Seo Ji Dam!
Give them back!
I can't do that for free.
I will give you one day.
If you don't bring both of them back by tomorrow...
...the world will find out about the document.
You are coming at me strongly already.
You think I can't do it?
If you do not comply by tomorrow...
...you and the rest of the Old Learning Faction...
...will die in interrogation.
What is the plan?
I am trying to come up with one.
Your Highness.
Right Government Official.
I need to get out of here.
I need to make a way out.
Find out about everyone on that paper.
Gap Jin Nyun?
What...
...is this?
It is a copy from Shin Heung Bok's book.
I think these are all aliases.
Do you have anything more, Your Highness?
Don't ask me anything...
...just find out who they are.
The criminal...
...must be one of them.
Hwe Woon...
Isn't that Minister Kim Taek's pen name?
Dana is...
...Min Jin Won.
Min Jin Won?
He is Min Baek Sang's father.
Then...
...Gyul Il...
...I think...
...must be Left Government Official Kim Sang Ro.
Minister Kim Taek, Min Baek Sang...
...and Kim Sang Ro.
That's the same list of people...
...who reacted quickly when you told them...
...to bring back Min Woo Seob.
It is the same list of people...
...who tried to cover up Shin Heung Bok's murder.
They are the masterminds behind these murders.
Do whatever it takes to search all three of their houses.
Ji Dam...
...must be there somewhere.
Yes, Your Highness.
Bring all our government officials to Donggoong Jeon right now.
But how...
Ji Dam was kidnapped.
We need to stop this before she becomes the next victim.
Why are you hesitating?
Bring them here now.
That is...
Park...
Park Moon Soo said what?
Park Moon Soo usually take care of things carefully.
He won't make a move like that.
He seemed out of control.
But we don't even have the girl.
How can we give him the girl if we don't have her?
Who was it...
Who kidnapped her?
This is not our first time meeting.
You and I...
...always meet dramatically.
I would apologize to you if I made you...
...uncomfortable for a second.
No.
I need to apology, Your Highness.
I made you uncomfortable last time...
...so I would say that we are even now.
Don't you know who I am?
I know who you are.
And you would talk to me this way?
You cannot kidnap innocent people like this.
It is against the law, Your Highness.
It was urgent, so I did not care to be troubled so.
Is this about the prince?
I need your confession.
Did you witness...
...a murder?
I even wrote a letter and sent it...
...to the deputy chief of Left-police Bureau, Min Woo Seob...
...but it was ignored.
Would you confess...
...the entire truth in interrogation?
Of course, Your Highness.
From now on...
...I will take care of your safety.
What do you mean?
Are you saying the princess kidnapped Ji Dam?
How much did you tell the princess?
I told her everything...
...that I know.
How could you?
You shouldn't scold him.
You know...
...Ji Dam is the only key we have...
...to save the prince.
Take her to where she will be staying.
You should arrest the former deputy chief of the Left-police Bureau, Min Woo Seob.
I need him arrested and put through interrogation.
Do you need to do that?
Min Woo Seob is Min Baek Sang's son...
...who is important to the Old Learning Faction.
If I go against the party...
...my position might become Beak Chuk Gan Doo.
[Beak Chuk Gan Doo: A position of danger]
We don't know yet that...
...your position will be Beak Chuk Gan Doo.
You may strengthen it just the same.
How did it go?
Did you find out where Ji Dam is?
I just discovered...
...she is safe with the princess.
The princess?
[Lee San: The prince's son]
Please open *Gook Chung again.
[Gook Chung: Suspect interrogation]
The prince has not committed murder.
What if he is innocent?
Please open Gook Chung again.
The prince has not committed murder.
What if he is innocent?
Please open Gook Chung again.
The prince has not committed murder.
Please open Gook Chung again, Your Majesty.
We need to find the truth.
Please open Gook Chung again.
Why is the princess doing this?
She is asking for another Gook Chung to find the truth.
The truth?
Then...
Don't you think she has the girl then?
How long is she going to do that?
I do not think she will finish any time soon, Your Majesty.
The princess has it in for me.
Please open Gook Chung again.
- She always complains. - We need to find the truth.
Now even daughter-in-law...
...and my grandson are going against me.
The princess is asking the king for a Gook Chung...
...to let Ji Dam confess?
With our three-year-old son?
Tell her to stop right now.
I'm afraid I can't, Your Highness.
- Right Government Official! - You need to get out of here first...
...and that will only be possible...
...if Ji Dam confesses that the murder was concealed.
She might become the next victim.
Don't you know that if they can't find the truth...
...after she confesses, they will make her pay for it?
Ji Dam is not the only weapon we have, Your Highness.
We are going to arrest Min Woo Seob...
...for the Gook Chung as well.
Arrest the former deputy chief of the Left-police Bureau, Min Woo Seob.
This is urgent, so ride through the night.
Yes, sir.
[Uigeumbu: police bureau]
Is that true?
Yes, sir.
This is serious, minister.
They are trying...
...to arrest Min Woo Seob.
What is going on?
Minister.
You should tell Government Official Hong to stop this.
No.
I will send my people and...
No, you don't have to.
Let them do it.
Minister.
If we just stay like this...
...we might lose both the girl and Min Woo Seob.
We should do something.
Right now...
...the Old Learning Faction might be in danger.
Please open Gook Chung again.
The prince has not committed murder.
Behave yourself well.
Don't forget that you are the prince.
How dare you?
Can't you see that Won Son is awaiting the judgment?
[Won Son: The oldest son of the prince]
But Your Highness...
Just stay back.
What do you think you are doing?
Can you not see the baby is crying?
This is no baby.
He is Won Son.
He is...
...waiting for the judgment...
...to save this country.
He is still a baby.
The prince went through the same thing...
...when he was only five years old.
Won Son is younger than that...
...but he can also learn this way.
You just won't stop until the end!
This place will be...
...the grave of me and Won Son.
[Preview]
How should I take care of Na Chul Joo?
Should we start the deal?
Answer me!
Where did you keep that document?
I will catch the real criminal.
Ji Dam.
I will come for you after I catch the criminal.
You should leave here now.
They found out about this place.
Who ordered you...
...to investigate and kill Kang Pil Je?
The person who gave me the order was...
It was me.