Moon River
Episode 3
Iljimae in a Fury
- Come on!
- Let's go. - Go!
- Yes, Sir!
I should go and find out if this is true. If it's not, I can come back.
Iljimae!
Hurry! Get on the boat!
Are you getting on or not?
Move!
- Master? - Iljimae!
- Wait! - Get on quickly!
Wait a minute. He's my martial arts teacher.
He has a sword. He definitely came to kill you!
Get on!
Yes. I should go.
To the place where I was born, to my mother.
We got him. Let's go!
You can't do that!
- Get on the ship! - Move! Move!
Move! Hurry!
Hurry! Hurry!
Hurry!
Iljimae!
Mo Ran is ill.
Mo Ran?
Is there a problem with Miss Mo Ran? What don't you like about her?
She could have married anyone she wanted,
but she insisted on getting engaged with you.
Why are you running away?
Please tell her...
to forget me... to marry someone better, and live happily.
Even if I have to live as a farmhand,
I would rather live in my mother's and father's country.
Iljimae bit his lips as he severed his ties of 16 years.
But things don't always end up
the way you would expect.
When the boy got on the ship,
he thought his ties with Qing were over.
But time will travel like the heavy seas,
and find him again with those ties.
Iljimae retraced Monk Yeol Gong's route
and went back
to Jemulpo Port of Joseon.
Home for the first time,
everything about Joseon was fascinating to him.
This is half off. 1 nyang. Come and see!
Wang Hweng Bo used Iljimae as his alibi and continued spying.
Samjeondo, the place Wang Hweng Bo selected to gather spies...
...will later be the place that Joseon surrenders to Qing.
Maybe, that was Wang Hweng Bo's idea too.
The spies came up with their plan and went their separate ways.
Let's have some fun!
- Who's this guy? - This guy?
He walks funny.
Why do you walk like that? You walk sideways.
It doesn't matter how I walk. I'm in Hanyang.
I walk faster sideways.
This bastard's from Qing.
What did you say?!
I walk like this because I kick too much.
I get very angry when anyone calls me 'bastard'!
Let's go, Iljimae.
Get...get him!
Rather than being covert, as a spy should, Wang Hweng Bo
chose only to walk through crowded, busy streets, for some reason.
Could the spy GPS navigation system in his brain be broken?
Pretending to be Iljimae's city tour guide,
Wang Hweng Bo turned right at
500m of Gwanghwamun Gate...
and walked another 700m
until he arrived at Anguk-dong...
or Iljimae's father Kim Jung Hwan's house.
Goodbye.
Is this Minister Kim Jung Hwan's house?
- Yes, but why? - Is someone dead?
The Madam, of course.
The Madam? Is my grandmother dead?
We have a problem.
Iljimae follow me.
- Wait... - Don't ask questions.
Decide for yourself! I won't answer any of your questions.
Hurry up!
Could Iljimae have known...
that the only person who would have welcomed him was now dead?
Iljimae.
Wait here.
- Why? I want to go, too. - No way.
If you show up all too suddenly, they might deny you out of shock.
I'll go and talk to them first.
Then... take this.
If this is really from Grandmother, they'll believe you.
This is Joseon money. Buy something to eat.
You can spend it all.
Iljimae had no idea that Wang Hweng Bo
had paid for the best room in the city
to make sure he stays there.
This is the room.
Thanks.
Excited about seeing his father...
Iljimae was fascinated by the view of his hometown.
At the time, Wang Hweng Bo was...
Aiya! How could you leave us like that? Aiya! How could you leave us?
Come here!
- Yes? - What's that sound?
What the...
It's probably a hungry beggar. Give him some drinks.
Yes, Sir.
Aiya! How could you leave us like that?
What do you think you're doing here?
Eat this and go away!
I want better food.
What the...
My people love good food.
Why you! Do you know whose house this is?
- Get him out of here! - Yes, Sir!
Get the police! Hurry!
- Understand? - Yes, Sir!
A Qing is making a huge commotion
at Minister Kim's house.
I wonder why an Oranke* showed up there? (*barbarian)
On my way here I ran into a man who speaks the Oranke language.
Is that the man who showed up at Minister Kim's house?
I don't know. The man I saw went to Changdeokgung Palace.
That's where the records room is.
Something's strange.
- What's the matter? - I'll get him.
You should report this to the Commander and inspect the records room.
I think the Oranke secret agents are here.
Secret agents? You mean spies?
They're trying to confuse us.
Leave ten men with me, and you take the rest.
- Hurry. - Yes, Sir.
- Are you there? - Yes, Sir.
Let's go!
Is anyone hurt?
Where's the man who created this commotion?
He's not here. He got away!
- Where did he go? - Towards Palpan-dong.
Go after him. We must find him.
Yes, Sir!
The political powers of Joseon
were divided between the Juhwapa,
who wanted to acknowledge the growing Qing
and the Cheokhwapa, who wanted to stay loyal to Ming.
As a result, Joseon couldn't keep up with changing times
which gave Qing an opportunity to attack!
Gu Ja Myeong suspected that Qing would soon start sending spies to prepare a war.
He formed a special troop to guard the secret government documents held in the records room.
The Qing spies who only relied on Wang Hweng Bo and Joseon's troubled times
had no other choice.
One ate poison and coughed up blood.
One set fire to a house and burned to death.
And one jumped head first to his death onto a dry creek bed.
My goodness! Look at the blood!
One even attacked his own pressure point and killed himself.
The spies died cruelly by their own hands making sure they would never be questioned.
Wang Hweng Bo was the only spy left to capture alive.
Move!
Get him!
Stop him!
Get him!
Stop right there!
Arrest him!
- Yes, Sir! - I don't like being arrested.
You're like a dayfly attacking a tiger.
Or was it a puppy? Joseon proverbs are too hard.
I never knew there were smart people like you in Joseon.
Are you the one who ruined our plan?
I want to see how good you are.
Why don't the two of us fight?
- How dare you... - Surrender peacefully if you want to spare your life.
I don't want to.
Let's see who dies on this spot.
Tell me what your name is.
You must be a small fry, too.
You're going to die soon. Why bother asking for his name?
Capture him alive if you can.
It's a girl.
What happened to the men in Joseon?
I can't believe I'm fighting a girl.
You'd be dead by now, if it weren't for the Chief's order.
You asked for our names, right?
I'm the Left Police Department's Damo Su Ryeon...
and this is Head Chief, Gu Ja Myeong.
That's enough. Take him away!
So, the spies were rounded up like that,
but due to the bloodshed they left in broad daylight in the middle of the streets,
many civilians were affected badly.
Naturally, the people of Hanyang now harbored resentment towards Qing.
Iljimae, who stayed in the inn all day long, had no idea.
Can... I ask you a question?
Hey! This punk's an Oranke, too!
Let's beat him up!
You're in for a treat.
Why are you doing this?
Doing what, punk?
Why you...
You wretch!
How dare you beat up your elders!
Don't you know the rules of etiquette?
You guys are the ones who...
You? You? You call me 'you'?
You wretch!
Don't you have parents?
It's hard to remove the complexity of the word 'you' when referring to the other party.
It's a common and uncommon word, both at the same time.
A young person shouldn't forget their manners when speaking to an elder,
it's basic that he behave according to the rules of etiquette.
How is it that you haven't practiced that at all?
Ah..., why are the heavens refusing to teach you their ways?
You wretch!
I rebuke you on behalf of the heavens.
Understand?
Bae Seon Dal, touched by his own words, forgot what a good fighter the boy was.
Their first encounter was very, very unpleasant.
- From the way he's dressed, he looks like a Qing. - Qing?
- He might have something to do with that spy. Let's take him in for now. - Alright.
- Freeze! - What...?
- Let's go! - Get going!
Hey! Hey!
I didn't do anything wrong.
Hey! Hey!
Be quiet. That won't make them let you go.
Screaming won't do you any good. Just take it easy.
Sit down and wait.
I didn't do anything wrong. Why was I arrested?
Because you're an Oranke.
What?
- They locked me up because of that? - Your spies killed a lot of people.
That's why people are angry.
Just calm down.
- They're here. - Good job.
Get in there.
All that torture, and he still hasn't said a word.
- I don't think he's mute, though. - Geez...
Let's go.
Ajusshi... ajusshi!
Ajusshi.
What happened to you?
Ajusshi.
Have you met my father?
What... what happened to my grandmother's gift?
Tell me ajusshi!
Ajusshi! Ajusshi!
Stop asking questions!
How could you ask me questions at a time like this?
I don't know your father.
It's not my concern.
Ajusshi.
Who's your father?
Minister Kim Jung Hwan.
Please help me.
Please take me to his house.
I have proof that I'm his son.
Proof? Do you have it with you?
You see...
I gave it to Wang Hweng Bo,
but he won't tell me what he did with it.
I'm telling the truth.
You should interrogate him. He'll tell you.
Making him talk won't be easy.
Oh! Here.
What's this?
A letter from my mother.
Your mother?
She wrote this before she left my father's house.
I heard that she became a gisaeng by the name of 'Baek Mae'.
Did you just say, Baek Mae?
Yes.
Gu Ja Myeong found a piece to an old puzzle.
- Hey. - 16 years ago on that night...
Who are you?
What do you do that you're walking around past curfew?
Then, what about you?
I'm an officer from the police bureau.
Stop right there!
Stop!
Who's there?
- Shine the light. - Yes, Sir.
You witnessed firsthand, a suspicious man handing her something?
- Well... - Then...
Why were you there on your day off?
I was lying in ambush to find the jewelry thief who's been stealing personal ornaments recently....
Chief, we've brought in Baek Mae.
- Lock her up in prison for now! - Yes, Sir.
Chief...
I'm sure she has connections with the jewelry thief.
Interrogate her.
- Chief... - I don't want to hear it!
If the jewelry thief isn't caught, it's my neck!
Go and interrogate at once!
There's been a thief on the loose,
stealing jewelry.
This is not stolen.
If he's not the thief, who is he, and where does he live?
That's none of your business.
I have to know!
He's not a thief.
Trust me.
Why are you protecting him?
If you don't tell me who he is...
you'll get in trouble.
I can't tell you. I can't.
- That's enough. You can go outside. - Chief...
What are you doing?!
- Tie her up! - Yes, Sir.
What happened?
She really is something!
I twisted her legs because she refused to talk and she fainted.
The leg-screw torture?
My baby...
As long as you grow up well in that household,
as long as you're safe,
it's okay...
if your mother dies.
I don't have to tell you...
what this talented investigator did to save the woman he loves.
After much interrogation...
he had the final key that could prove Baek Mae's innocence.
Listen very carefully.
You can be set free, if you can tell me just one thing.
I found out that,
you used to be a prominent family's slave.
Also,
there are rumours that you gave birth to a child.
In conclusion,
you've been defiled and kicked out by your master.
Your master's family gave you that jewelry.
Isn't that right?
Did you learn how to make up stories at the police bureau?
You need to prove that you don't have any connection with the jewelry thieves.
That's how you can go free.
Where's your master's house? I must go and confirm the truth.
That story is not about me.
You're afraid this may cause harm to your baby,
I know.
I said, it's not my story!
You'll be found guilty if you can't tell them where you got the jewelry.
You'll get 30 lashes for hiding stolen goods.
If you get lashed in your condition, you might die.
Die?
If anything,
I might as well...
What happened? Were you right?
She won't admit it.
I told you so! She hid the stolen goods!
I'll take care of everything. Stop wasting your time and forget about her.
Chief!
Minister Kim Jung Hwan was almost robbed last night.
Minister Kim Jung Hwan?!
I think it's the jewelry thief.
The thief?
Where's the thief?
We tied him up on the tree in the backyard.
I'd like to see the face of that thief.
- Is it them? - Yes.
But Gu Ja Myeong already knew this beggar.
He's the beggar who received the ornament from Baek Mae.
You're the beggar.
Officer! I'm not a thief.
Honest! I'm not a thief. I was only trying to find my baby,
but he tricked me into this.
He asked me where I got the ornament.
That's all.
I'm innocent!
Are you sure you can go home by yourself?
Can I ask...
you one last question?
Your master took advantage of you
and sent you to a gisaeng house after you gave birth.
Who's your master?
Not that again. I thought we were done talking about that.
I only want to know the truth.
That won't be necessary.
Besides, there's nothing you can do about it.
In this world, slaves are not treated like human beings.
Even if what you say is true...
it's not a crime for a nobleman to defile his slave, take her child away, and kick her out.
You can't even punish him and give me back my child.
What are you trying to do?
Gu Ja Myeong's guilt and despair over not being able to do anything for the woman he loves...
is what drove him to become Head Chief of the bureau in such a short time.
But he would've done something about it...
if he had known that he wouldn't see her for over 20 years.
16 years later...
Baek Mae's son appeared before him.
Let's go.
Excuse me?
Let's go to Minister Kim's house.
Let's go and see if he really is your father.
Thank you.
I...
What's wrong?
I've heard that etiquette is very strict here.
What if I get kicked out for not minding my manners?
Don't worry.
Etiquette is important,
but he won't kick out his own son over that.
Tell my father that someone wishes to speak with him.
Yes, Sir.
Wait here. I'll go and talk to my father.
Kim Jun Seo was Kim Jung Hwan's eldest son and Iljimae's half-brother.
At one glance, he felt an irresistible force.
Did you say that your name is Gu Ja Myeong?
Yes, Your Excellency.
Don't you have better things to do at the bureau?
I can't believe you
brought an Oranke here
to tell me he's my son.
Don't you have more important things to be going on with?
Take him away.
Sir,
then...
shall I bring the person in question to verify everything?
What are you talking about?
Who is that?
Do you know a gisaeng named Baek Mae?
- She used to be a slave at this house. - You wretch!
I don't know how you got to where you are, but you're just a commoner!
How dare you say that to a nobleman!
Take him away!
I can't go back like this.
I've sinned against my adoptive parents
to find my real parents in this land.
How could you abandon your son not once, but twice?
You're not my son.
Look at me in the eye!
Look at me in the eye and tell me that I'm not your son.
If you really are not my father, I'll leave.
You are not my son.
I don't know why I came here.
Maybe he's not your father.
I saw his eyes.
He was looking at me,
but he couldn't look me in the eye.
Maybe it's his last strand of conscience.
He's my father.
But not anymore.
Baek Mae... Baek Mae...
We used to have a lot of people here.
Is it that Baek Mae?
Oh, Her. You mean this Baek Mae?
She couldn't fit in with the other girls.
I know that, too.
- Where did she go? - Well...
She said she was going back to her hometown.
Her hometown? Can you find out where that is?
Hold on.
Gu Ja Myeong could still remember Baek Mae, vividly, the day she left the gibang*. (*gisaeng house)
If only he had stopped her.
Or if he had, at least, asked her where she was going.
So many if's lingered on in his heart, torturing him.
I hope that helps.
Thanks.
Let me know if you find anything else about her.
Take care.
Iljimae.
Let's go.
It tortured Gu Ja Myeong to know
that he couldn't help Baek Mae or her son.
Despite how Gu Ja Myeong felt,
Iljimae was overcome with betrayal and anguish.
Hey, look...
I'm dying to know.
Did you meet your father?
What happened? Tell me.
Did you meet him, or not?
How come no one's talking?
Why, you're crying?
I'm not going to stay here.
What?
- Carry on. - Bye.
Guys! Get up and eat.
This is a special treat from the Chief.
Are you guys dead or something?
Maybe they're really dead.
A finishing touch!
Hey, wait.
What are we going to do with Iljimae?
I talked to the Captain.
Since he has no charges, release him and bring him to me.
Yes, Sir.
- We have a problem. - What is it?
Three of the prisoners have escaped!
They knocked down the guard who gave them breakfast and ran away.
- Did you find anything? - No.
- Those weasels! Let's go. - Yes, Sir.
- You go that way. Hurry. - Yes, Sir.
Are you thinking of going back to Yodong?
So I can be caught and killed?
This wouldn't have happened, if you hadn't lured me into this.
What are you going to do now?
No one in this world wants me.
I'm on my own now.
I have to travel 1,500 li and go back to my country.
Let's part ways. Goodbye.
Hey.
Since you helped me escape, I'll tell you something.
Did you know that a beggar found you and raised you?
I met him.
His name is Geol Chi.
Geol Chi?
- Geol Chi? - Yes.
He's from Hakgol of Geoje Island.
Maybe he knows where your mother is.
I'm going now.
Hakgol of Geoje Island?
Wait!
Hakgol of Geoje Island? How do I get there?
Take the boat at Dongraepo Port.
Who is that thief, anyways?
In order to find out, we have to go back 16 years again.
My baby!
- My baby...Wait! - Oh, no! Go away!
Right after Iljimae left for Qing, Geol Chi was out of his mind with worry.
Wait!
- Have you seen my baby? - You're mad!
My baby!
How would I know where your baby is?
Poor man...
My baby!
My baby...
Wait.
Wait!
Let me ask you a question.
Have you seen a monk with a baby?
He's a really cute baby. Have you seen him?
I don't know what you're talking about.
A monk with a baby?
I don't know what you're talking about.
Hey there. Tell me what happened.
What happened?
You mean you went to his house?
What do you mean?
The rich family that gave you diapers.
I followed the lady into her room.
Okay. Show me where that is.
Why?
I need to talk to her.
Do you know that old lady?
Huh?
Yes, yes.
Okay. Let's go.
Hold on.
Let's have a drink and wait until night time.
I can't let people see me.
Geol Chi was tricked into being that thief's guide.
Wait! Wait!
Wait!
I don't belong here.
He's a thief, but I'm innocent. Let me go!
You've been tricked, but you're still an accomplice!
You have to stay here until the trial.
I can't believe this!
I can't stay here because of my baby!
I have to find my baby! Let me go!
That's how the thief knew the story of Iljimae and Geol Chi.
Despite Iljimae's efforts to help him escape...
...the thief was the first out of the three to get caught.
It wasn't meant to be.
- Take him away! - Yes, Sir.
Let's go!
There are only two more left. Find Wang Hweng Bo first.
Make a facial composite and find him!
Watch out for the northern route.
Yes, Sir!
Are you ready?
Yes, Sir.
I'll go to the ends of the earth if that's what it takes to find him.
So where was Iljimae at the time?
He was at Swejukgol, trying to think
of a way to go to Geoje Island to find Geol Chi.
People are evil.
My father abandoned his own son.
The man who walks sideways used me.
My adoptive parents sent people to kill me.
Iljimae became an escaped prisoner in a foreign homeland.
There wasn't much this 16 year-old boy could do for survival.
With his swiftness from martial arts training, he stole chickens every night.
He slept in a cave and harbored resentment...
towards the people who did this to him.
The boy was turning into a wild animal!
Meanwhile at the village...
The people thought that weasels and wildcats
were eating the chickens every night.
But...
What's wrong?
Geez, look at this.
The gate's open again. I can't believe this!
I don't think it's the weasels.
Maybe it's Sun Bae from next door...
The people started accusing each other...
but they only ended up fighting amongst themselves.
Meanwhile, the real thief in question...
Let me go. I said, let go!
Who are you? You appeared out of nowhere like a ghost.
That's what I want to ask you.
Why did you run away?
I didn't run away. You're the one who chased after me!
What?
Return of Iljimae ~ Volume 4 Iljimae in Love
Are you embarrassed?
Iljimae.
Look at me.
Stupid.
Don't miss tomorrow's episode!