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(Episode 11)

Isn't that why I said it's a request?

Please just help me until we lure Boss Jang out

We are from the Left Police Bureau

There is a secret plan to capture the rebel Jang Sung-Baek...

so give you as many soldiers as you want?

All right. How many soldiers do you need?

If possible, I would like two groups of soldiers...

but several soldiers would be fine

From this moment on, just pretend to be rebels

Huh? Quiet!

You idiots!

Like me

we will use the accent of my hometown

So what I'm saying is...

take off the soldier uniforms you're wearing now

and change into something...

that makes you look like a rebel

Got it?

Yes, sir

Got it?!

Yes, sir!

Dismissed!

Sit!

Stand!

Sit! Stand!

What is this?!

Stand! Stand!

Just scare them

And yell and scream so they think we're viscious rebels

Keep this in mind

The boss you serve is Jang Sung-Baek's younger sister, OK?

Got it?

What is this?

I...

never wrote that letter

They used my seal...

and wrote the words

Who would have had the audacity to do this?!

Chae-Ohk is acting like a rebel

She's using it as bait to lure out Jang Sung-Baek

I will take care of everything in the capital city

Head to Baek-chun

The people you and I suspect

are all prominent figures so they are hard to approach

However, if you can capture Jang Sung-Baek

the case can be solved in one breath

The safety of the King and the stability of the country

are resting on your shoulders

They think our camp is in the Myul-Ahk area

so all their troops are focused there

It was just perfect for us

to attack the Myul-Ahk country side

It's not only that either

Some guys have become rebels and are impersonating you down south

As the days go by

they'll get more and more off track

Even some woman is pretending to be

Boss Jang's younger sister

The price of fame, I guess

What did you just say?

Umm...

What's the matter?

Did you say she claims to be my sister?

Yes

Where is she?

Let me verify

I will go myself

Fools!

Anyone here?

Who dares to impersonate our Boss's younger sister...

and run around like rebels?!

You!

Brothers!

Long time no see

That jerk!

Long time no see, Boss Jang

You are vicious

I learned it from you

Cast aside your sword

You scoundrels!

Try shooting me, jerks!

This whole place will blow up

Shoot me, you idiots!

That ignorant fool!

I said shoot me, you idiots!

Shoot me!

I said we shouldn't...

point our swords at each other again

If one of us dies...

Sheathe your sword

I do not want to kill you

If our relationship requires us to see blood...

then I will have to...

cut that relation now

Move aside!

My lord

Are you...

Jang Sung-Baek?

I will kill him with my own hands

You are a servant girl awaiting administrative punishment

Officer Baek, take her away!

My lord!

Please don't interfere

I am... Capital city Left Police Bureau Commander...

Hwangbo Yoon

You are the Police commander

who is said to have no equal in all of Korea

You are the Police commander

who is said to have no equal in all of Korea

That sword...

The blood of Commander Joh Chi-Oh

and hundreds of soldiers...

must be stained onto it

This sword...

holds the anger of the people

Those hundreds of young lives...

are they not the sons of the people?

Cast aside your sword

This sword of a leader

will go with me to the grave

The man who holds the sword of a leader...

was... manipulated by his feelings for a damo?

The sword of the man who opposes heaven...

does not follow its master

If the people are not of heaven...

then I will...

destroy heaven as well

Rebel... You sure seem like

a student of Hwang Hyun-Ki, the traitor

You still remember my teacher?

You are so ignorant

Your teacher as well...

did not achieve anything while he was alive

The Training General Jung Hong-Du...

Commander Joh Chi-Oh...

and all the dead soldiers...

My sword...

will fight in place of...

the pain of those people

I will not take your life right now but...

this place

will be the grave...

for the white sword you carry

Draw your sword

Draw your sword!

I am...

going to give into one of my unspoken wishes

No one interfere!

This is what I wanted

I got him! I got him!

Are you happy?

Why are you yelling when you didn't do anything right! You dogs!

Stop!

I said not to interfere!

Stop!

Gak-Chool, put those down

Shut up! Let's all die together

Escape quickly!

Gak-Chool!

Gak-Chool!

Escape quickly!

Shoot!

I'm hit

Gak-Chool, get on your horse!

Brother...

my daughter... Yang-Soon...

please...

take care of her for me

I don't want to go

Yang-Soon needs me...

so I don't want to go

Yang-Soon...

You should have sent a message earlier

We didn't have an escort

Sir!

We must capture them

Men, let's go!

Brother Noh...

Are you really dead?

Don't hate me so much...

I truly didn't want to see this

When I die...

then...

I'll be a really good friend to you

I'm sorry

I'm really sorry

This wasn't supposed to happen

Rest in peace

I will lure them

Please escape quickly!

Soo-Myung, accompany him

Stop right there!

Move aside!

I will...

no longer hold back

Don't do anything foolish. Grab on!

I will not beg for my life!

You can't even endure a moment of shame...

so how...

will you kill me?!

Hurry!

Did our lord...

come here by chance?

What are you talking about?

Weren't you following him?

I didn't look after him

I shouldn't have gone in front

What the heck happened?

Did he fall off of his horse?

- I'll go back and find him - Are you set on dying?!

We'll search the area... Inform them

in Hansung about what happened

It's more urgent to find our lord!

Are you that afraid of those soldiers?

You think I'm afraid?

Gak-Chool did not give his life for us to go back and be killed

Gak-Chool died and we lived

Living like this...

is harder than dying

And if we throw away our lives...

we'll be killing Gak-Chool another time

Believe in our lord

He can take care of himself

We'll handle things here

Hurry and inform Magistrate Choi

Hurry!

How did it go?

We shouldn't have followed them

Those jerks got away from us

We should have followed them immediately

How about Chae-Ohk?

Wasn't she with you?

She followed after

but I did not see her

She pursued Jang Sung-Baek

Chae-Ohk...

she'll take him down in the end

What are you waiting for?

Take my life

You may leave

Yes, Your Majesty!

This is the offer...

the foreign powers are proposing

They will forbid all smuggling...

pay taxes ten times the current rate...

and they will pay 1000 pieces of gold

and 10,000 pounds of tin the first month of every year...

This is the request of the powers from Dae-Ma Island

Your Highness

I advised you to permit Dae-Ma Island people to do business with Pu-san

But requesting to bring ships right up to our capital city

It seems a little suspicious

Please do not permit it

I agree as well

On the other hand

Dae-Ma Island wants to trade more than six times each month

They are short on rice

so they are offering us a lot

to open up business with us in the capital

Minister

If we bring in foreign powers

and trouble arises

how do you propose to handle things?

They must keep their mother ship far at sea and send in small ships

Those people fear us like gods since...

we beat them before

under General Lee Jong-Mu during the reign of King Tae-Jong

If we give them a hole to breathe through with trade

there is no reason for them to refuse

Your Highness!

If you are still concerned...

I will choose the soldiers to watch the foreigners

and personally watch over them

I understand the weight of making a decision like this

but for the country's wealth

you must bear in mind actual profits!

Though there may be profits

If foreign powers come in and out

maintaining order within the capital will not be a simple task

What do you think, Left Police Chief?

If regulation is very thorough...

I believe the Minister's words have merit

However...

I believe it would be better to make a decision after...

informally managing dealings for a year first

As the Police Chief said, let's monitor things for one year

Minister, you will temporarily handle the foreigners in Kyung-sang province

I will...

put all of my effort into it

I dropped by Kyung-sang province

to see all the military camps

so I've been away from my post for a long time

I heard foreign powers caused a lot of trouble there

Is that still the case?

Since they have nothing

would they have any reason to pillage each other?

We must...

get rid of the ringleaders down there

The complaints of the people is no small matter

Your Highness!

If you are still concerned...

I will choose the soldiers to watch the foreigners

and personally watch over them

Have you just returned, lord?

What is the matter?

This is the report from the Yeon-Chun officers

after they took care of the village of lepers

The autopsies on the 56 corpses

have finally been completed

All the corpses were pierced through the front and back

Why are you here?

Are you here...

to protect me? Father...

Still no word about Chae-Ohk?

You dare you

Supervisor Ahn

See me for a moment

All 56 dead bodies...

were consistently murdered by swords

They all died of massive blood loss and hemorhage

I have read...

many autopsy reports over my father's shoulder but I have...

never seen a case where everyone was stabbed all the way through the back

Our bodies are made up of flesh and bones...

it is difficult for a sword to pierce all the way through

These killers knew specific combat techniques

I also suspect that they are

trained warriors, but...

Korean sword techniques are unique

Since Koreans expect to face opponents from all four directions...

even if one stabs or slices

there is no time to make as deep wounds as these

Chinese sword technique is somewhat similar to Korean

Then...?

Japanese sword techniques

are entirely different. They hardly pay attention to their sides or rear

They only focus on killing the opponent they are facing

A long time ago, Kim Cheh-Geon wrote a book

about the art of Japanese swordsmanship

In Japan, most of the people who died in war...

were stabbed all the way through the abdomen

The whole mountainside is covered with soldiers searching for Boss Jang

It is too late even to send Kato

Are you going to abandon him or save him?

Haven't I already answered that?!

Send our men

to the valley

It is dangerous to send them now

Did you not say that we spent ten years building a foundation there?

This is not a case of saving only one base

My lord...

the eyes around us are watching fiercely

I know that

I will take care of it

The bullet went all the way through...

and the arrow missed the bone

It's broken

I'm going to set your ankle

Don't worry about it

I said, don't worry about it!

You are the first person...

who has made me see...

blood on my lips and still live

You will be the last

I'm not doing this because I like it

You should bite down on something

What do you plan to do now?

We have to get out

Why...

did you save me?

What would you have done?

I did not think

Just my instincts

You didn't find her?

Shoot!

There's no trace of her. She could be

in the sky or underground

Shoot!

She would have come back if she caught him

Why is she causing so much trouble?

Take a look, look at all the walking I did

Look at these huge blisters

You idiot!

Shut up!

Since she has not come back yet

she and Jang Sung-Baek must be together

If she caught him or lost him, she would be back already

I think she probably...

got into a struggle with him

She was probably captured

Officer Lee

Shhh!

I am being apathetic

She'd be lucky to be alive

You may be right...

but she is most likely not dead

He could have killed her...

many times already

What are you saying?

Why would that man

just let her live?

That's right

The commander's words are definitely right

These ignorant fools

you'd only get slapped by old widows

What did you say?

I have the same thoughts as well

They know...

each other well by now

He couldn't just kill her like that

He wouldn't, isn't that right?

Well, but if not...

let's at least find Chae-Ohk's corpse

You should go back to the capital now

How can you say such a thing?

I'm Mah Chuk-Ji of the common class now

If you deny my duty, then I'm like a man with small genitals

I promised that damo that I would be loyal to her

I don't even know if she's alive...

Do you think I can stretch out my feet and sleep?

Even if I go back...

I want to see her once for sure before I do

He told you to go back!

I'm not going back!

I can't go back!

How dare you stick your chin in his face!

And another thing...

if you interrupt one more time when I'm talking to the commander...

then I'll gouge both your eyes out and let you die

Got it?!

OK

How can they abuse a commoner like that and get away with it?

Those jerks

What's going on?

We thought they would withdraw back to their base

but they've lit torches and are combing the grounds

I think they will do that all night

Keep watch until you can't hear them moving anymore

We don't know when... our brother will signal us

Yes, sir!

They say that...

Gak-Chool's corpse... is going to be sent to the capital...

His head will be displayed in the streets

Isn't that how they handle things?

Those dogs!

It was my fault

I reprimanded Gak-Chool

I told him to calm down

To think about it one more time

But I was wrong

Gak-Chool...

didn't think about himself

He only thought about our boss and us

I was wrong

How many soldiers

are left in their base camp?

Raid...

Soldiers for the raid are coming

Let's go down the mountain...

Jang Sung-Baek

It is too dark for us

to find that man

There's no guarantee he's still on this mountain either

At this rate

the peace in this countryside may be disturbed

I will order the troops to withdraw

This is the command of the King

Do you have the document?

There was no written document

However...

capturing that man no matter what...

is His Majesty's...

firm desire... that's what I mean

There are times when a Police Commander

may have to use the excuse of a royal command...

but you must definitely take responsibility for those words

How many pounds of gun powder do we have at the base?

Is there no way out?

I thought about it a lot...

even if my leg were not broken...

I could not have reached that far

Even if we yell

it would only echo within this cave

This is a flare

If you don't shoot it up accurately...

then you and I...

will die here together

If you think...

that when we get out, I'll set you free...

you're mistaken

No one captures me...

and no one sets me free

The only thing that matters

is my own will

Who do you think will come running first?

If the troops come first...

I will die

If it's my brothers first...

you will die

However, this mountain...

is probably covered with troops searching for you and me

We are all set

Begin

It's our brother!

Who shot one off first?

It's Chae-Ohk!

No... Stop!

I said stop! Stop!

I said stop! Stop!

I said stop! Stop!

Those jerks!

What are they doing now?

What are they...

They saw it

You will live

My lord...

Why are you doing this?

Chae-Ohk showed us...

Chae-Ohk doesn't have a flare

It has to be Jang Sung-Baek!

What in the world?

If someone shot one up, it must be Jang Sung-Baek...

Who else do you think we're pursuing other than Jang Sung-Baek?!

Everyone get out of here!

Brother!

Gak-Chool...

I'm sorry

But still I'm not going to cry

When the new world comes

That day, I'll bring Yang-Soon to your grave

And I'll proudly tell her, "This is the world...

your father made"

Until then...

Until then...

I won't cry

If we can't save our boss...

we will die with him

Is it Jang Sung-Baek?

Or is it Chae-Ohk?

His Majesty's peace of mind...

and his royal power are at stake on this night

As you said, if Jang Sung-Baek shot that flare...

wouldn't that mean he fell behind?

Jang Sung-Baek is bleeding from a bullet and an arrow...

and troops have seized this mountain

That man...

is stuck. He cannot do anything

This is a chance that will not come again

I think the same

We must capture him tonight

However if the flare...

was not shot up by Jang Sung-Baek

If it were you...

in a place that was covered with troops...

would you shoot a flare?

There is no mistake that Chae-Ohk shot it

As you said, the two are together

His men as well...

have probably not left this mountain

The flare may have been Jang Sung-Baek's...

but Chae-Ohk shot it up

We have to capture him no matter what

I want Chae-Ohk to be safe...

more than anybody else... However...

even if...

there is a chance we might kill Chae-Ohk...

the one we must capture...

is Jang Sung-Baek

It is possible that another soldier shot one up by accident

You still do not understand?

Check it out immediately!

These stupid fools!

Stop them immediately!

Immediately!

They are late

They will come

They must

This is better than...

the both of us dying

Don't act all high and mighty

I told you...

that I was only one of the people of this land

You are the same

If it were another era...

you would also be one of the people...

being loved by others

What...

What I wanted to kill...

is not one of the people like you

You can't only blame the times

It's a cruel destiny

Yes...

If I killed you in the mountain camp...

If I didn't grab you as you were falling into here...

If I thought about Gak-Chool who died...

or my brothers...

this would not have happened, huh?

One must kill with the heart first...

then with the sword

Why I always... hesitated...

I still... I still...

do not know why

Are you not afraid?

I am

I am horrified by... Gak-Chool's death

and I am afraid that...

I will not see...

my brothers' faces again

More than anything...

that girl...

my poor little sister...

I lost her and could not find her

That girl...

having to live like an animal...

I fear that...

I...