Episode 10
Stop!
Don't move or I'll shoot.
Keum Seok-ho...
Apprehend him!
Stand back!
Will you abandon the pistol or the girl?
Make your choice.
It would be wise for you to abandon both.
Go on!
I thought you were avoiding me because people would
look askance at you for associating with someone like me.
It's more disgraceful to have engaged in an affair with
a married man than to be selling your country.
Seok-ho's unharmed, he's safe, isn't he?
If I'd wanted to,
I could have shot him to death on the spot.
And I wanted to kill him seeing the two of you together!
Watch what you say!
Watch what you do!
You're too good for a brute like me to even behold.
Slowly, no matter how long it takes...
No... you don't even have to come to me.
Just don't be like that with him.
Next time, I won't hold back.
Thank you.
Who...
I don't know how to thank you.
Thank you.
Sir! Someone broke into my house! Please help me! Sir!
She's Seok-ho's wife.
I asked her to help around the clinic as she could use the income.
Thank you.
Nurse Lee.
Yes, Doctor.
Excuse me.
That's my job.
You don't need to wash my uniform.
Thank you, but please don't do it from now on.
I want to do it.
Please don't refuse.
I am well enough to write now.
Hopefully, you are safely back at the clinic.
I'm sorry for not having told you that I was married earlier.
My brother died from an illness and my wife was his fiance.
I couldn't disobey my parents devastated by his death.
And I've never regretted till now.
But I've met you and it seems like I'm a different person now.
Thinking back, I was happy in hiding.
I long for the days when the paper was everything to me.
I long for you.
And I love you.
Don't worry about me and be well.
I'll write again.
Seok-ho.
Dr. Ghenji asked for you.
What is your relationship to him?
I'm sorry?
Are you family? His wife?
No, I'm not.
Only family are allowed to visit anti-Japanese activists.
Just a minute will do.
I just need to give this to him.
I'm telling you it isn't allowed.
Next.
- Name, please. - Park Dong-keun.
I needed to give something to him.
Would you do it for me instead?
My husband will be pleased.
Don't go.
- What is your relationship? - I'm his wife.
We promised to meet here.
I ran a little late.
Please.
Have you been well?
Yes.
It must be harsh for you in there.
Are you all right?
Sorry to worry you.
No, I'm relieved to see your face.
When I'm alone, I can't stop thinking. It's like war inside me.
Here are some changes of clothing.
Please tell me if you need anything.
The book you mentioned last time has been released.
I wanted to read it.
Have you read all of it?
Yes.
It's like you said.
The protagonist is depicted in one sentence.
His suffering is related seamlessly rendering it more realistic.
Thank you.
I was able to read it first thanks to your recommendation.
I will leave it for you.
You underwent an ordeal on my account. I'm sorry.
I thanked her.
She's remarkable even to a woman like me.
Your time's up.
Please don't worry about me and take care of yourself.
I'll come again.
Thank you for allowing me to see him with you.
I'm the one who's grateful.
All I know is cooking and cleaning.
What you gave him, I couldn't even think of something like that.
He was very pleased.
Can I ask you a favor?
Can you teach me how to read?
I'm sorry?
It's so embarrassing I couldn't even tell anyone.
Please teach me the alphabet.
Dear Seok-ho, I received your letter.
It must be oppressive to be incarcerated.
Can you teach me how to read?
It's so embarrassing I couldn't even tell anyone.
Why me of all people?
I'm not embarrassed in front of you.
If I don't learn from you now,
I never will.
It must have been difficult for you to ask.
Let's give it a try.
? plus ? is da.
? and ? forms dya.
? and ? is deo.
? plus ? is dyeo.
?and ? plus? is young.
?and ?plus ? forms sook.
Young-sook.
You have a very nice name.
That's what my husband said to me when we first met.
''You have a very nice name.''
That was the first time when we were alone.
But I began by lying to him.
You don't have to marry me.
Don't feel obligated.
Then l'll be off.
It's raining.
If it's uncomfortable for you,
I'll leave.
Just stay there by my side.
We'll grow accustomed to each other someday.
It's Young-sook.
I'm sorry?
That's my name.
You have a very nice name.
His telling me to stay by him
in the drizzling rain drenched my heart.
I've never forgotten what he said to me that day.
I think it's etched into my heart.
I'm rambling needlessly...
You look ill-at-ease.
What if you go to Shanghai with us?
As I've told you before,
we urgently need a medical missionary.
Patient Record
Faith, Hope, Love...
What are you doing?
Huh?
Is your stomach feeling better?
You're too young to brashly abandon this world like that...
It's not as if I was dying to do that...
Who'd have guessed that Ae-hwa,the incomparable courtesan of Kyungsung,
would drink cyanide?
The thing that's beyond one's control is that right there.
Is Ghenji-san in?
He's making a housecall.
A housecall?
You should now be able to read basic text.
Tell me if there's a storybook you'd like to read.
It's my gift.
Thank you.
There's one thing I'd like to read first.
To have the honor of victory confiscated from us
and handed to the Japanese...
I heard today that l'll be released soon.
I hope that day arrives soon.
I long for you.
I love you.
I-long-for-you.
I-love-you.
Move!
Where's Nurse Lee?
Can't you hear me?
I don't know.
What would you know?
Nurse Lee is planning to go to China.
She's surreptitiously making preparations!
You're just anticipating your husband's release.
But after that?
What about afterwards?
What did you do all these years without even having a child?
You should've had children to keep him from going astray!
You think your husband's some hallowed freedom fighter,
but he's just a crumb blinded by love!
Do you feel inferior to him?
Does he make you feel small?
What?
You knew.
Do I still look like that even to a woman like you?
That's right.
So stop harassing my husband!
Who do you think you are to mention children? You louse!
Why, you!
The gall!
Like husband like wife!
Why, you...
Such a disgrace in broad daylight!
How can a fellow countryman do that to a woman of Chosun?
Your lofty husband's head is bursting with thoughts Nurse Lee!
That's enough!
Miss.
Let her go.
All right. I'll do as you say.
Do you think I'll just sit idle and watch you leave?
I won't let whatever he wants alone,
whether it be work or women.
Brace yourselves.
Thank you.
Are you all right?
I thought it was suffocating to live without being able to read.
I thought it made me feel more lonely.
Why did you teach me how to read?
Why are you making me even lonelier?
I wasn't able to see you for just a few days,
but it seemed like ages.
How can it be like this?
It is the same with me.
Only if we'd met a little earlier...
I met you too late and I'm sorry to you for that.
I met my wife too early and I'm sorry to her for that.
But that will not force me to surrender my love.
Would you like to leave with me?
You must be hungry.
Enjoy.
What about yourself?
I already ate.
I ate unusually early today. I didn't know you'd come.
Go on.
Um...
Will you be working at the paper again right away?
Probably.
To tell you the truth...
I'm going to work at the China bureau.
Must you leave?
I want to go.
Would you like to come out and have dinner tonight?
We've never had a meal together outside.
Come.
My dearly beloved...
Having learned to read, I am writing to you first.
Being able to write is wonderful
since I can express my innermost thoughts.
Daemin Ilbo must pass rigorous inspection by the Japanese
Imperial Government in order to print its daily.
It is regrettable for me, as well.
Go ahead.
What are you doing?
Oh, China.
You expunged the Japanese flag.
Now you want to go to China
and galvanize the independence movement?
Is that so? Really, Mr. Patriot?
Reporter Park, I've got a hot scoop for you:
A beautiful nurse and a married reporter elope to China.
Sir, the readership these days can't get enough of this sort of stuff.
The paper will sell like hotcakes.
You don't know what Lee Jung-im means to me.
Since the day I was born I've never looked at another woman.
But you obliterated it all overnight, my dreams,
my ambitions, everything!
You did!
China? You're not setting foot
out of Kyunsung without my permission. Understand?
Don't leave out a single corner!
I know I should talk to my husband instead of you.
l am well aware of that, but...
Even after living together for ten years,
I lack self-assurance to hold him back.
That's why I came to you.
I can't hold him back.
But I still want to remain by his side.
I've grown so accustomed to him that I don't think
I can live if not by his side.
Please help me to make that happen.
I'm sorry.
I can't fold my feelings for him.
I fold it only to have it spring back out again and again.
The more I fold, the more resilient it grows, like rubber.
You're the one who should be helping me. We're...
I haven't done anything for my husband.
I can't end it like this.
Is this your umbrella?
No, it isn't.
Hey, it's raining!
Thanks for the drinks.
Go on. Goodbye.
Sir.
Huh? Who are you?
Oh, the reporter's wife.
I'm sorry about the other day at the clinic.
I've got something to discuss with you.
The wife is nothing like her husband.
Hold on for a minute.
Sir, are you all right?
Where do you live?
Some ways from here.
Since it's raining, I'll see you home.
What do you have to say?
I think my husband's going to Shanghai with the nurse.
So?
I think we feel the same about it.
That's right.
Our situation is identical.
Don't worry.
As long as Tamura's live,
he won't be able to set foot out of Chosun.
You just keep an eye on him.
I'm sorry, sir.
I think he's got something up his sleeve.
If he's apprehended this time, he won't be released so easily.
No, what if I arrange it so that he never sees the light of day again?
That's that, but were you very
lonely while your husband was in prison?
Weren't you even more lonely after he was released?
Yes, I grew lonelier when he was released.
Yes,I understand.
I...
The loneliness was so unbearable that I wanted to die...
They're hurt!
They're dying!
Doctor,emergency patients!
Tamura-san!
Take his blood pressure.
Get ready for surgery.
Young-sook!
Get the defibrillator ready.
Scalpel.
I wouldn't have been
able to ever get married had it not been for you.
Thank you for marrying me.
Sorry for not having borne your child.
I never saw you so happy.
That is why I can leave you in joy.
For all these years I cherished
your words from then, asking me to just stay by your side.
I loved you, my steadfast husband of ten years.
I won't be coming back to Chosun.
Don't be sorry to anyone anymore.
All we did was love. All of us.
We will be together in our next lives.
Take care of yourself.
Push! One more time.