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Episode 6
You scared me!
Sir!
Are you all right, sir?
Poison? He's been poisoned!
Is anyone there? Please help me!
There's a dead man here! Please help me!
Help! Is anyone there?
A girl was loitering around Lady Jang's residence?
Yes. They brought her because she seemed suspicious.
Find out who she is and what she knows about the incident.
- Do you understand? - Yes, sir!
We've been ordered to find out who she is and then get rid of her.
Yes, sir!
There's no one in the vicinity, right?
Please! Please!
- Let's go inside! - Yes, sir!
The girl isn't here!
- The window is open! She's run away! - Go after her!
- What's going on? - The girl escaped.
What were you doing? Can't you even guard a little girl?
Please forgive us!
Go get her! Go and get her!
Patrol Station
- Sir! Sir! - What is it?
- A man is dead over there! - What?
Hurry!
This is the place! A corpse is in there!
What's this? There's nothing here!
That can't be!
What corpse are you talking about?
No, there was one here! The chime maker was killed!
So where is the corpse? There isn't anything here!
Those men must have taken him away! Look here, the blood...!
...isn't here!
How can this be?
Are you playing games with the police?
Playing games? Why would I do such a thing?
Sir, since you're here, can you just look around a little?
You wench, do you want to be beaten?
No, please forgive me, sir!
B...but...!
- Is His Excellency inside? - Yes, sir.
- What? A little girl? - Yes.
- But we don't know where she works... - You fool!
Are you giving excuses?
Please forgive me, Your Excellency!
If that girl works for Lady Jang, then we're finished!
I don't think that's the case. She was seen loitering...
Then does she work for us?
She's not one of ours, so how can you be sure she's not theirs?
Find the girl! Turn the Palace upside down if you have to!
Yes, your Excellency.
Please forgive me, Your Majesty. Things have gotten complicated...
Will you be able to find the girl? (Myeongseong Dowager Queen)
What?
There are hundreds of female slaves like her in the Palace.
We will try our best, but I don't think it will be easy.
Make preparations. I will go to Lady Jang's residence.
What? To Lady Jang?
- Your Majesty! - We cannot forfeit our plans because of a slave.
I need to find out what Lady Jang knows.
You will use all your efforts to find that girl.
- Do you understand? - Yes, Your Majesty!
The capital is full of the rumors, My Lady!
They're saying that you're the cause of the Omen of Discordance!
How can they say this is because of you!
The more outrageous thing is that the people agree with the rumors!
The Dowager Queen knows very well that the people respond well to these childish antics.
I have much to learn from her.
My Lady! How can you say such things?
My Lady, the Dowager Queen is here.
- Escort her in. - Yes, my Lady.
Welcome, Your Majesty.
We have some fragrant chrysanthemum tea.
- Bring some tea. - I am not here to drink tea with you.
I doubt you have the time either.
Yes, Your Majesty. I will have the tea sent back.
The Palace is noisy because of the omen of discordance earlier today.
But you seem so calm even though you are the cause.
Forgive me, Your Majesty, but I am merely a court lady.
So?
How can a lowly girl like myself be the cause of such a great incident?
A meteorite has fallen into the Palace and the nation has lost its melody.
Everyone believes that these evil omens are the result of your entry into the Palace.
You are the only one who disagrees.
What a brazen girl you are.
Even if you thought you weren't, you should at least pretend to be remorseful.
Forgive me, Your Majesty, but isn't it cowardly to be remorseful without fault?
It's just as cowardly as being confident even though you committed a crime.
Shameless hussy!
How dare she be so brazen?
Do not let her trouble you, Your Majesty.
It is her lowly upbringing.
In any case, I'm certain she doesn't know anything yet.
If she did, she would have boldly tried to figure out my plans.
But she was trying hard to figure out what I was thinking.
So who is that female slave?
Something has gone wrong for her.
What?
It is now past midnight.
If she's still up at this hour, she is either worried or excited.
On the outside, she was scolding me, but her eyes were seeking something else.
She was trying to find out if I knew something.
What do you think that is, My Lady?
Yes, I'm curious about that too.
What's making her nervous is going to be what saves me.
I'm a slave at the Bureau of Music. I'm back from running errands.
- You may enter. - Yes, sir.
Move aside! Move aside!
- Let's go! - Yes, sir!
The Omen of Discordance is the foreshadowing of a nation's ruin and collapse.
The capricious Lady Jang Ok-Jung is returning to the Palace.
Heaven is showing its wrath by dropping a meteorite and causing musical disharmony.
The Omen of Discordance appeared before the ruin of the Great State of Balhae.
Great misfortune will fall upon our nation, and...
So the State Tribunal was unable to find out anything?
Please forgive me, Your Majesty!
- Same with the Office of the Inspector-General? - We deserve to die, Your Majesty!
But you all came here to tell me that?
To tell me, No. We couldn't. We were unable to?
Did you think I wouldn't understand if you told me once?
Please forgive us, Your Majesty!
I don't need your remorse!
You're right. This is a bad omen.
How dare they devise this plan to create fear?
This is truly an omen of ruin!
You will all go out and bring the true evil omens before me!
You will report to me by the hour.
And if any of you return to me with "I don't know", you better resign right now.
Do you hear me?
Please forgive us, Your Majesty!
What are you doing there? I told you to leave!
Yes, Your Majesty.
What is the level of disturbance in the capital?
Rumors of civil war has spread quickly.
The people are worried and restless.
I will leave the Palace and see for myself.
- Make preparations! - Yes, Your Majesty.
Now, everyone line up!
The nation is going to be ruined!
- What are you doing? - How dare you!
The people are clamoring to buy rice at rumors of civil war and unrest.
The capital is in chaos in the span of one day!
In a few days, this may escalate into a riot!
Uncle, what do you think about giving up Lady Jang?
What?
If we don't find out the culprit behind this, there will be a stigma on Lady Jang.
It will be impossible to put a stop to the people's agitation regarding her.
- We can't do that! - Uncle!
The wealthy middle-class supports Lady Jang.
Don't you understand? We need that money to stay in power!
We have to protect Lady Jang at all costs.
That is the only way the South Faction will survive.
The Dowager Queen is behind this.
We must reveal that.
But how?
We have no way to figure out how the disharmony happened.
Stone chimes
- Wh...what? - You scared me!
How can you jump on me like that?
I didn't jump up on you! I've been calling you for a while!
You were?
Where's your head?
Who uses a broom on the wood fence?
Yes, you're right.
What's wrong with you today and yesterday? (Young Dal)
Did something happen?
You know...
Actually, I have to tell you something.
What? The chime-maker is dead? And he was murdered?
Yes, I saw it with my own eyes! But the corpse disappeared without a trace!
I don't know who did it, but it must have been someone from the Palace.
They took me from the Palace.
If that's true, are you sure you should be here?
- What? - They took you from the Palace!
What if they come back for you?
Yes, that's true.
You should run away! What are you still doing here?
Why should I run away when I've done nothing wrong?
I don't want to run away again.
- Again? - It's more obvious if I run!
They don't know who I am, but if I disappear, they'll know!
Come to think of it, you're right.
You're really smart sometimes.
I am a little...
How can something like this happen? Yesterday the whole Palace was in chaos!
It really must be an evil omen.
That may not be true.
What?
The Omen of Discordance may not be an evil omen from Heaven.
It may be the work of people.
Should we be in here?
- I'm scared, Dong Yi! - Aren't you curious at all?
These chimes... They may hold the secret of the discordance!
Really?
These chimes are what all the other instruments tune themselves against.
If the chimes are out of tune, then so would all the other instruments.
The Bureau treats these chimes like they're treasures.
That's true, but...
Someone must have done something to these chimes in order to get to Lady Jang!
Maybe that's why they killed the chime-maker! Oh my goodness, it fits perfectly!
- Are you writing a suspense novel? - Sir!
Come here!
How dare you? Come here!
Dong Yi, are you really going to be like this?
- Are you going to cause trouble? - Trouble? No, it's not like that!
I heard everything! How dare you pretend otherwise!
- You heard everything? - Yes, I heard your entire conversation!
I first thought you were having a little dalliance.
But now the chime-master is dead and the omen of discordance is what?
But sir, all of it is true! We should report it to the Tribunal!
- If the chimes were the problem, then... - Be quiet!
Silly thing, do you think the officials are blind?
The chimes were the first thing we looked at!
- What? - Out of tune, my ass!
The chimes were in perfect tune!
Is that true?
Do you think I'm joking with you?
But the men who killed the chime-maker were talking about Lady Jang.
I'm sure they had something to do with the omen of discordance!
Fine, let's just imagine that you really did see a dead body.
But you said the body disappeared.
Yes, it did.
So how will you report it?
Couldn't we ask the Tribunal officials to investigate?
- I saw things and heard them talk! - Stupid thing!
Come to your senses!
I'm speaking with you because I'm a nice person.
Who will believe a lowly slave like you?
Who will believe you?
Do you think you will be treated like a human being because you're treated well here?
Come to your senses!
You're just a slave!
Stop hanging around with her and talking about strange things!
Practice your daegum! It's making strange sounds!
Forgive me, sir!
Dong Yi...
I'm fine. He was right about everything.
Who will believe a lowly slave like you?
Who will believe you?
My Father... My Father...
He was framed, sir.
He died an unjust death..
Please let me go, sir.
- If you help me this once... - Go.
Go.
It's only this once.
I won't let a criminal's daughter escape again.
So don't ever let me see you again.
Yes, the Police Chief didn't believe me either.
No one believed Father, Older brother, or myself.
His Majesty is coming to the Police Bureau?
Yes, sir.
He is coming on his way to peruse the situation outside of the Palace.
I can't believe it! I'm going to get to see His Majesty's face!
I'm shaking in my boots, sir!
- Why are you so excited? - What?
You don't know your own station.
When will you ever do your duties properly!
- What is he talking about? - You...!
You're just a lieutenant. Why would you be allowed near His Majesty?
- Does that mean I can't go? - Of course!
I can't even go!
What discrimination!
The Right Police Bureau is focusing on finding those who put up the posters.
The Left Police Bureau is working with the Prefecture in order to control the sky-rocketing price for rice.
The important thing now is to calm the people down.
- You must put in your best efforts. - Yes, Your Majesty.
Last night, I ordered all the commanders to focus their efforts on finding the culprit.
What has the Police Bureau found out?
Your faces tell me you have found nothing.
The Tribunal, the Inspector-General Office, and the Police are all useless!
Please forgive me, Your Majesty,
but I think the Tribunal and the Inspector-General Office is being inefficient.
- Inefficient? - Yes.
I heard that Officer Yang searched the Bureau of Music.
But I think that's the wrong approach.
Rather than searching the things that are there,
perhaps they should be searching for things that aren't there?
Search for things that aren't there?
That sounds plausible.
What exactly do you mean?
- What? - Tell me, what should they be looking for?
For...forgive me, Your Majesty, but...
This wasn't your idea, wasn't it?
Who is it? Whose idea is it?
Speak up. Your King commands you!
It was I, Your Majesty.
What is your name and position?
I am Police Chief Suh Yong Gi.
Fine, Chief Suh. What made you say this?
When the musical discord first happened,
I heard that the Bureau, its musicians, and even their houses were searched.
But it is my opinion that another approach is needed.
If this was the work of a person, then they will have hid the evidence.
That is why we must focus on what is missing from the Bureau.
Then what is missing?
Your Majesty...
This is the patrol record of the Okryu-dong district.
Someone reported seeing a chime-maker's dead body near Mt. Samhak.
- A chime-maker? - Yes.
But the body wasn't there, and so the guards didn't make a report.
How did you find out about this?
I read all the patrol records everyday.
- You read all of them? - It may be a prank.
And if it's true, his death may have no connection to the music discord.
But if it is connected, then this would be our first clue.
Yes, that's right, Your Majesty.
Find the person who reported this and go and investigate this incident.
If this is true, then the corpse will be somewhere in Mt. Samhak.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Wait.
Are you the late Chief State Councilor Suh Jung Ho's son?
Yes, I am, Your Majesty.
Is that so?
- Leave no stone unturned! - Yes, sir!
- Sir! Sir! - Move out of the way!
- Sir! - So who was it that made the report?
It appears it will be difficult to find out.
- What? - She was a young girl.
They thought she was playing a joke and didn't even ask her who she was!
- It was a girl who found the body? - Yes.
Dong Yi!
Where are you, Dong Yi?
- I sent Dong Yi on an errand. - An errand?
Yes, I left my music at home.
Is that true? She's not off investigating the dead body?
You said yourself it was nonsense!
But that Dong Yi is so persistent!
In any case, she always makes me worry!
Her entire being makes me worry!
I need to go to the chime-maker's house. Please help me, sir!
- Dong Yi! - A man is dead.
And if this was the work of man, then Lady Jang is being blamed needlessly!
Why does it matter whether or not she's being blamed or not?
- It matters to me. - What?
I'm not certain about this, but she might be the lady I've been looking for!
The lady who helped you when you were young?
Yes. That's why I have to meet her.
I have to ask her if she's the same lady from six years ago!
I hope she hurries back.
Sir, may I ask you something?
Where is the chime-maker's house?
- It's that house over there. - Thank you!
I'm here!
- Did you find all of them? - Yes, sir!
Let's go!
Those men...!
- Take them! - Yes, sir!
- Be careful! - I'm sorry!
The Police is investigating last night's incident.
Go back and make sure there is no evidence.
Come back at 7pm.
- We'll leave the capital by boat. - Yes, sir!
This is...!
What's wrong, Your Majesty?
Turn the horses around. I have to go somewhere.
Your Majesty, it's late. We should head back...
- I don't think I can sleep. - But Your Majesty...!
It's on the way back anyway.
It won't take long, so stop nagging me.
It should be here somewhere.
- Is this it? - Yes.
Oh no!
- Is this where the body was found? - Yes.
There is no evidence left.
I'll stay here. Go outside and have a look.
You two stay here. You, come with me.
This looks like rock salt.
What's going on outside?
Who are these men?
Be quiet!
What do you doing? Hide!
Hey, someone is coming. Come outside.
Who are you?
What?
Who are you and why are you loitering around here?
Then who are you?
Who goes there?
We must protect His Majesty!
- This is the time! Let's go! - What do you mean?
Do you want to die? Come with me!
Run faster!
- You'll be caught, sir! - Let's go slowly!
I've never run before.
What? You've never run before?
That's right...
I know you're a nobleman but still...!
This is far enough. We've run a long way already.
It's not a long way! They're just right down from here!
I can't run anymore! What's going on here anyway?
Is this an assassination attempt?
What?
Assassination attempt?
That's only for the King!
By the way, who are you?
- What? - Who are you and why were you there?
That's something I was curious about too!
Who are you...
That...!
I was looking for that? Did you find it in the hut?
Why do you ask that?
Here.
That's the same rock salt!
- You know what this is? - Yes, this is a rock made of salt.
- A rock made of salt? - Yes, it looks like stone, but it's made of salt.
If it touches water, it melts.
But this has to be imported from China and it is very expensive.
Why is it doing here...?
I don't know either. It was on the dead body too.
Those men were trying to hide it, so it must be very important.
In any case, we have to leave! Hurry!
Wait! Did you just say dead body?
What? Yes.
Then you were the one who saw the chime-maker's body...?
How... how did you know that?
Who are you? Are you...
...a police officer?
Yes, that's right. I'm an Officer of the Prefecture!
- Really? - I'm here to investigate the dead body.
So tell me. What happened here last night?
And where did you get that rock?
If I tell you, will you believe me?
I'm just a lowly slave at the Bureau of Music.
Will you believe what I tell you?
What? The hut at Mt. Samhak was compromised?
Yes.
Fortunately we got rid of everyone, but the Police were searching the area.
We were unable to move the body.
Are you sure it's hidden well?
Please don't worry. They will never find it.
Nothing must be revealed! Not even a single strand of hair!
Yes, Excellency!
What did you find out?
The Police are searching Mt. Samhak, but they haven't found anything yet.
Is that so?
We need to find a solution to this issue.
This is clearly an omen of evil sent by the Heavens!
There will not be a solution on earth.
But Mother...
Lady Jang must be sent out of the Palace again.
That is Heaven's will.
My Lady, if nothing turns up, you may never be able to come back.
You may be right. Things have gotten bigger than expected.
You shouldn't be so calm about this!
Do I appear calm to you?
I am glad it appears so.
It's that house. The men went into that house!
It's close to 7pm.
That's the time they will meet, so they'll be here.
I'll keep watch over here. You go and get the Prefecture officers!
- Keep watch alone? - Yes!
I'll do whatever it takes to stop them, so hurry!
But you're just a girl. How will you do this?
It's a little embarrassing, but people call me Poongsan.
- Poongsan? - Yes.
The Poongsan Hunting Dog! Once I bite, I never let go!
- What? - So hurry!
They're going to get away! Hurry!
All right then.
He can't get rid of those!
Sir!
You should have looked around first! And I put my trust in you!
Why are you back here? Where are the officers?
Don't worry. I asked a passerby to deliver the message.
- A passerby? - Yes!
Wh...what's wrong?
- A passerby? - That's right!
- Someone asked to see me? - Yes, it is this man.
- What is it? - This...
This is the Imperial Dispatch Seal! (The King's seal used to call for soldiers)
What are you doing with this?
Some nobleman gave it to me and told me to come here and ask for you.
Tell me! What did His Majesty tell you!
I think this is the lowest point in the wall.
Yes, you're right.
Aren't you going to climb over it?
Are you telling me to climb over this wall?
Who else would do it?
I've never climbed over a wall before!
What? Other noblemen climb over walls to escape from studying!
What's wrong with you?
The walls where I studied were too high.
I see. Of course they were.
I'll climb over the wall. Can you bend over for a while?
Wh...what? Bend over? Me?
I've never climbed over a wall before!
So is it the wall or the ground? You have to choose one, sir!
- Hey, I... - We're going to lose all the evidence!
The criminals are right there in front of you! How can you think about your own pride?
Sir!
All right! I'll do it.
Can't you do it quickly?
Fine!
Sir! Raise yourself!
There they are! They haven't gotten rid of them yet!
- I'll go get them. - No!
- I'll go. - I'll just do it.
I said I will!
You're a girl and I'm a man! These things are done by men!
Who goes there!
What is this? Who are you?
- Move aside! - What?
You won't live, but if you move aside now, I will allow you an easy death.
- What did you say? - Insolent fool! Do you know who I am?
Did you hear me? I said move aside!
Be quiet!
Don't just sit there! Hurry!
Wait wait!
- What happened? - They went that way!
Take this rock to the Police Bureau.
- What about you, sir? - I'm going to divert them.
- What? - So stay here and then run! Got it?
- No! I'm going with you! - What?
We came here together. I can't escape alone!
Why are you so stubborn?
But...!
This... this isn't the first time you've ever held a sword, is it?
I've held a sword before, but I've never been in a real fight before.
What? You're an officer but you can't fight?
Who are you?
Who are you and why have you stolen the rock salt?
- Get them! - Yes, sir!
- When I strike, run! - Sir!
I command you as your King!
What?
Do you understand the enormity of your actions?
I am the King!
What?
You are pointing your swords towards the King of this nation!
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