Bridal Mask
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Episode 17
Lee Kang To is sticking close to the commander.
Don't shoot recklessly.
Cover me.
No.
Stay still.
Step on it. Go!
Yes sir.
Lee Kang To! Hand the commander to us.
No!
Abe! Kakawa! Get them!
If it weren't for you I would have been in trouble.
What happened?
We were ambushed.
You don't know how worried I was, thinking we might lose Damsari.
How did the punks know to attack?
I should have foreseen that they would be watching the way to the prison.
They are very fast.
I'm sorry, Captain.
Don't worry, the rats will be caught.
Put Damsari in the car.
Lieutenant Sato, stay here and take care of this.
Abe, Kakawa. Get Damsari.
Yes sir.
- The orders for his execution. - Don't need it.
Aren't you going to the prison?
Captain.
We are going back to Jongro Station.
Did you get permission from the chief?
Sato Hiroshi.
Are you so caught up in your love for a traitor's daughter, you can't recognize your superior?
As an imperial officer, I can't forgive you for your mistake.
Captain, you shouldn't cross the line as an imperial officer.
Damsari's transfer was ordered by the chief.
Abe. Kakawa.
Take care of matters here.
Yes sir.
Let's go.
Captain.
- Put him in the interrogation cell. - Yes sir.
Captain, will you be all right?
Make sure Lee Kang To doesn't come in contact with Damsari.
Also...
Oh Mok Dan?
Quickly, so no one sees.
Yes.
Come in.
While transporting Damsari to Seodaemun Prison,
we were attacked by Damsari's gang.
Fortunately we prevented his escape.
But the nine officers escorting him were all killed.
What?
What is worrying, is that they still have a lot of ammunition and explosives.
What are you talking about?
They have explosives?
The day before the Unification Commemoration Ceremony,
those punks stole from the Jongro Station armory.
What?
After this, do we really have to publicly execute Damsari?
Many people will gather.
What will you do if Damsari's gang sets off explosives to rescue him?
Public execution?
Didn't you approve this?
Captain Kimura brought Damsari back to the station.
That punk!
Send for Captain Kimura!
A captain ignores my words?
When I said we can't publicly execute him?!
Lieutenant Sato, put this punk in a holding cell now!
I command the arrest of Kimura Shunji of the rank of captain,
for ignoring the command of a superior.
At once!
I risked everything to catch Gaksital.
If you arrest me, do you think I will give up?
Is your fate above the governor general's fate?
Lieutenant Sato, what are you doing?
Throw this arrogant punk into a holding cell now!
Yes sir.
Sato Hiroshi, stay out of this.
Until you approve the public execution, I won't take a step from here.
Sato Hiroshi!
Let's go.
This is Konno Goji.
Chief Konno!
Let's execute the terrorist and traitor Mok Damsari before the Joseon people.
Your Excellency, are you serious?
If the League of Nations finds out about this, then Japan's reason for annexing Joseon,
namely to modernize a barbarian country, would become a joke.
A public execution?
Your Excellency, Japan is a country governed by the rule of law!
Do you think I would order a public execution without any preparation for such reactions?!
Stop talking back and do as you are told.
Your Excellency... Your Excellency?
A mere captain puts the chief of police in his place?
Even Chief Kimura got dismissed. Who is behind Shunji's power?
Sato Hiroshi, take these handcuffs off.
In five days, at Gyeongseong Police Station, Damsari will be executed.
Thank you for your approval, Chief.
I yelled at them, but Chief Konno's words are right.
The Manchuria we established is being criticized as
a puppet government by the League of Nations.
If the foreign press finds out about this...
Your Excellency, isn't the League of Nations always on the side of the more powerful?
Well, of course.
Honestly, I want to personally rip out the bones and flesh of the punk,
who bombed the Unification Commemoration Ceremony, and kill him.
However, I can't.
So don't worry and leave it to the Joseon advisors.
You called for me?
Sit.
Why were you in such a rush to transfer Damsari?
According to the evidence, and seeing that Damsari's gang tried to kill you,
I'm sure you aren't working with Damsari.
But, your timing was perfect.
You rushed the transfer, and Damsari's group attacked you?
I find it suspicious, so I'm talking to you.
I heard you telling the chief that Damsari should be publicly executed.
Like the chief, I hold a different opinion.
Since the governor-general announced the new law,
there has been a lot of discontent among the Joseon people.
If there is civil unrest or rebellion, how would you handle it?
Is that the only reason you did that?
I didn't want Mok Dan to see that.
How could I let her see her father being killed in front of all those people?
So even though you knew he would be killed as soon as he got to the prison, you rushed it?
You know too, no matter how much the governor-general rushes to execute him,
there should be a trial for his crimes.
We need to at least let him stand another trial.
You are going to execute him because he is already sentenced to death?
My thoughts are different from yours and the chief's.
Damsari is the poison strong enough not only to get rid of Gaksital
and the independence movement, but also the rumors that are spreading.
Do you mean that I should throw away the poison in the sewer?
Yes, this is Captain Kimura.
We moved her here as you ordered.
All right, I'll go there now. Don't go anywhere and guard her.
Shunji definitely took Mok Dan out.
He disobeyed Chief Konno's order, and now he is sneaking people out of the holding cell?
Since when did Kimura Shunji become so powerful?
Shunji, who is behind you?
Move!
Is this Asuka Hotel?
Connect me to Suite 501.
Esther, are you okay?
Just now, I brought back your father, who had been on his way to the prison.
The governor-general wants him executed immediately.
So he was going to be executed as soon as he arrived at the prison.
Because Lee Kang To rushed to transfer him,
I suffered a bit; but fortunately, I was able to bring him back.
Lee Kang To?
Though he knew Father would be executed, he rushed the transfer?
By any chance, do you believe that Kang To loves you?
Am I crazy?
Chief Konno and Kang To want to find out many things from Damsari.
If you continue to be in jail, your father will eventually open his mouth.
To stick to your principles as you watch your child dying...
You heard it too, the sound of your father crying.
For the sake of your father and yourself, the only thing I can do is this.
Please don't try to run away and stay here.
That's the only way to help your father.
I'll do my best to block his execution. Please believe me, all right?
Believe you?
Do you know how my mom was treated by men wearing the same uniform as yours?
When I was seven, I climbed over the police wall after my mom, when she was dragged away.
In order to get my mother to reveal my father's location to them,
they beat her all night. And when she passed out, they splashed water on her.
They hung her on a well rope, then trapped her in a well.
In view of my mother, who was being held captive in that well,
the bastards who tied me up to hang and laughingly threatened to drop me in...
were beasts wearing the same uniform as you.
And you want me to believe you?
Listen.
Esther, for you, to protect you, to rescue you, I put on the imperial uniform.
You know that Gaksital killed my hyung.
If I just catch Gaksital, I can take off the imperial uniform right away!
I want to take it off and teach kids, I really want to live like that!
Please.
There is nothing I want from you.
After seeing you say you would go into the nail cage,
I decided not to ask you who Gaksital is.
I just want you to be safe, and for you to be by my side.
Can't you do that?
When my father is in jail, at this moment probably getting beaten up by a Japanese punk,
you want me to just sit here?
Am I... your plaything?
Takeda!
Handcuff her!
Don't let her take one step out of this room! Guard her closely.
Yes sir.
Put more guards on duty.
Understood.
In this moment of crisis, he is hiding a girl?
What do you want?
When you publicly execute Damsari, there may be a second attack.
His Excellency the Governor-General, is extremely concerned.
Something like that won't happen.
Captain Kimura, you are constantly losing Gaksital.
This time you must be certain. I will not tolerate any more mistakes.
I will not tolerate any more mistakes from myself.
Good.
Now, can we talk about something personal?
Since your plan has failed, you need to give me back the fish I caught.
Don't rashly declare that my plan has failed.
In the trap you set, instead of Gaksital, didn't Lee Kang To get caught?
From the beginning, the trap was meant for Lee Kang To.
So, do you have proof that Lee Kang To is Gaksital?
Just the fact that Lee Kang To isn't Gaksital makes the trap worthwhile.
Fine.
Nevertheless, I want the fish I caught returned.
Why are you being so stubborn about that girl?
Because you, Captain Kimura, still care for that girl in your heart.
Kishokai's rising star is blinded by a Joseon girl?
Shouldn't I at least assist, Captain Kimura?
Ueno Rie. If you touch one hair on that girl's head,
you will die by my hands.
What did you say?
I'm warning you. Don't touch Oh Mok Dan.
Foolish punk.
Because of one Joseon girl, you are going to ruin the great plan?
Great plan?
Ah. The plan to rule the Far East and the Pacific Ocean?
Are you fighting for that?
Isn't that why you are putting your life on the line?
You are such a pitiful woman.
Did Lala approach me for a reason?
I know he is my boss, but he hits me?
Just because he has connections...
Hey, Oh Mok Dan.
This girl...
Don't move!
Really, this girl!
Takeda!
You almost lost her.
Stand by.
Yes sir.
What?
I understand.
Keep watching him.
Captain.
I've been told that Lee Kang To is with Oh Mok Dan.
What?
You said you would help my father escape.
I'm crazy, I placed my trust in your words.
Devil! Demon! I believed a cannibal who hunts and eats freedom fighters?
Crazy! I'm crazy!
You are a Joseon person.
How can you take advantage of a person's heart when she is trapped in an animal's cage,
and only wants to survive?
I... you... I thought you died.
You...
If there was the smallest chance you were alive,
I would have recognized you sooner.
Boon, don't you recognize me?
That knife... The person who gave you that knife, Young...
Don't you recognize me?
Father, can't we take her with us?
Why a knife?
No, it's mine!
My knife, my knife!
Wait here. I'll be back.
Boon Yi!
Boon Yi.
Hyung!
Boon Yi! Boon Yi!
Lee Kang To is the one who caught my father so that he got a death sentence.
That Lee Kang To is Young Master?
The one who wants to catch freedom fighters, Imperial Police Officer Lee Kang To,
is the young master I have been waiting for?
To catch Gaksital, caught me and tortured me... that Lee Kang To...
who made me stand in the square and tried to kill me, that Lee Kang To?
The one who said he would find me if I stayed alive, that Young Master?
How?
How could you be Young Master?
It's a lie, right?
Tell me it's a lie!
Young Master, how could you turn out to be a person like you?
I... Young Master... I thought he was Gaksital.
The one who saves Joseon people...
I thought he was Gaksital.
The devil who hunts freedom fighters is Young Master?
- Listen to me. - Get out!
Get out now!
How terribly I have lived, I painfully realize now.
I said get out!
Boon Yi, believe me.
I really tried to help your father escape.
There is no time. Please tell me where I can meet the comrades.
Tell me.
I said get out!
Sato Hiroshi, didn't you hear her ask you to get out?
Count.
Since you are going to a meeting I think you should look more serious. Change into this.
Even the weather is gloomy. Why is there an emergency meeting?
You are Governor-General's advisor.
Governor-General needs your advice.
What advice?
It's not as if I have a lot of money or power.
What? What?
How could you say such horrible things?
Being on the privy council is the highest position a Joseon person can get.
Can't you tell by the composition of the members?
All of them are high ranking and important people who have influence in Joseon.
Influence? Well, I am influential.
Whether they are in Gyeongseong or in rural areas, every punk who farts
is going crazy because they want an advisor.
Aigoo... When you know so well.
Don't tremble or be nervous.
Don't doze off, all right?
Honey honey. Don't go anywhere and stay home.
I'll be right back.
Go!
His Excellency the Governor-General is entering.
Today's topic is how we will unify Japan and Joseon.
This has been a problem since the annexation twenty years ago.
We hope all the advisors will speak freely.
I think we need to get rid of ethnic discrimination more than anything.
Instead of treating people like second class citizens,
Joseon people need to be treated like Japanese people.
Something that is more important than that, is that all Joseon people,
need to have the spirit of the Japanese, Your Excellency.
That's right.
The writer, Yi Kwang Su, says the Joseon people must possess the Japanese spirit and mentality,
to the point where Japanese blood flows out,
when a Joseon person is pricked with a needle.
In order to do that, first...
You need to ban the stupid language that the Joseon people use.
They need to speak Japanese, Your Excellency.
President Park!
The more important issue is, people being swayed by Gaksital and Damsari...
Who dares to agree with traitors?
If there are Joseon people who do that, they should be shot without mercy.
Right!
That's it.
Now, I suggest that Damsari, who disrupted the Unification Commemoration and tried to blow it up,
should be publicly executed, Your Excellency.
I agree with Count Lee.
I second the idea.
Public execution?
How can the peaceful nation of Japan do such a barbaric act in Gyeongseong?
Do you think that makes sense?
Your Excellency! In getting rid of the evil-doing rebels,
we avoid sacrificing innocent citizens, Your Excellency.
Yes, this is the proper way to handle this crisis.
We recommend the public execution of Mok Damsari.
We agree.
Your Excellency, please make your decision.
If it's what all the advisors want,
for the sake of maintaining public peace and order,
in order to establish the Joseon people's consciousness of the law,
use this opportunity to make an example of him, as a warning.
Thank you, Your Excellency.
Abe.
Nothing happened.
Go out.
Lieutenant. You're not allowed into this interrogation cell.
All right, I understand. I will go out.
On the road to the prison,
I saw you save my comrade from getting killed.
Even though you are acting as a Japanese dog, you are also a Joseon person.
In four days, at Gyeongseong Station, you will be publicly executed.
I promised Boon Yi I would help you escape.
But I can't do it alone.
Please tell me where your comrades are.
Even if you went there, do you think my comrades would believe you?
Leave that to me.
While trying to rescue you, one more person was killed.
So that that death is not in vain, I want to save you.
Please tell me where your comrades are.
Don't plan anything impossible.
I can no longer watch young people die trying to save me.
They aren't dying in vain.
As you told me, they are breaking a boulder with eggs.
[Public Execution of Persistent Brutal Criminal Mok Damsari]
Gaksital.
[Geumhwa Pavilion]
Captain Kimura still has that girl in his heart. Are you saying you didn't know?
That can't be so.
These days Kimura Shunji is handling things better than Kenji.
How can you be so oblivious?
Captain Kimura has no interest in conquering this continent or the Far East.
The only thing that makes his heart burn is the Joseon girl.
Then, are you telling me to kill her?
On the contrary...
It is I who will kill that girl.
You should just watch your son who will go crazy once she is dead.
Understood.
Stay seated.
You shall watch her die here, in person.
Sister.
I told you we would meet again.
Chief Kimura.
Tell your son,
power is what one must risk one's life for, not love, which can change at any time.
Katsuyama, kill her.
Run away! Now!