1 00:00:06,006 --> 00:00:08,008 [tense music playing] 2 00:00:17,851 --> 00:00:19,602 -[Gu-cheon pants] -Gu-cheon. 3 00:00:21,646 --> 00:00:22,856 Are you all right? 4 00:00:23,940 --> 00:00:28,361 There was a reason why the Crown Prince had lured the plague spirits right to us. 5 00:00:29,863 --> 00:00:33,074 A great calamity is about to befall the entire palace. 6 00:00:40,123 --> 00:00:42,125 -[Queen breathes shakily] -[music fades] 7 00:00:45,211 --> 00:00:47,630 -[unsettling music playing] -[murmuring] 8 00:01:20,914 --> 00:01:24,876 [man 1] I apologize, Your Majesty, that seat belongs to… 9 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:30,882 [unsettling music intensifies] 10 00:01:44,562 --> 00:01:47,107 [Queen] As you well know, His Majesty's life 11 00:01:47,899 --> 00:01:50,485 currently stands in grave peril. 12 00:01:51,069 --> 00:01:53,154 Your Majesty, that is just not true. 13 00:01:53,238 --> 00:01:56,491 I know that the spirit still wishes to kill the King. 14 00:01:58,743 --> 00:02:02,372 I arrived here already knowing that, Chief Royal Secretary. 15 00:02:03,957 --> 00:02:08,962 There is no one else but me who can take his place on this empty throne. 16 00:02:09,629 --> 00:02:11,714 I am the only one. 17 00:02:12,966 --> 00:02:17,512 It is only I who can save the abundance altar 18 00:02:17,595 --> 00:02:18,972 and the Jongmyo Shrine! 19 00:02:19,055 --> 00:02:20,849 I will save it all! 20 00:02:20,932 --> 00:02:23,101 -Mark my every word! -[staff slams] 21 00:02:23,768 --> 00:02:25,228 I alone 22 00:02:26,646 --> 00:02:28,439 will protect it all. 23 00:02:28,523 --> 00:02:31,192 -I alone will protect it all. -[staff slams] 24 00:02:32,152 --> 00:02:33,403 I must… 25 00:02:33,486 --> 00:02:35,613 [music swells] 26 00:02:35,697 --> 00:02:37,574 -[man 2] Left State Councillor. -Councillor. 27 00:02:39,534 --> 00:02:41,619 -[Queen gasping] -[man 2] Councillor! 28 00:02:42,328 --> 00:02:44,414 -[man 3] Councillor. -[man 2] What is happening to him? 29 00:02:44,497 --> 00:02:46,291 Left State Councillor. 30 00:02:46,374 --> 00:02:48,376 [gasps, groans] 31 00:02:50,044 --> 00:02:51,713 [spectral scream] 32 00:02:51,796 --> 00:02:53,798 -[women screaming] -[tense music playing] 33 00:02:57,302 --> 00:02:58,344 [blade rasps] 34 00:03:03,433 --> 00:03:05,435 [screaming continues] 35 00:03:12,066 --> 00:03:14,068 [tense music swells] 36 00:03:16,738 --> 00:03:18,740 [spectral screams] 37 00:03:18,823 --> 00:03:20,325 [spectral whispering] 38 00:03:33,213 --> 00:03:39,135 THE EAST PALACE 39 00:03:39,219 --> 00:03:41,262 [Saeng-gang muffled] Do you believe what happened in the palace 40 00:03:41,346 --> 00:03:43,139 is tied to the Crown Prince? 41 00:03:44,682 --> 00:03:45,934 Gu-cheon? 42 00:03:47,143 --> 00:03:48,144 [clearly] Gu-cheon. 43 00:03:48,228 --> 00:03:50,230 [Gu-cheon breathes deeply] 44 00:03:51,481 --> 00:03:53,524 Sorry, what did you just say? 45 00:03:54,776 --> 00:03:58,321 That the palace feels off right now. You don't look any better either. 46 00:03:59,948 --> 00:04:01,115 [Gu-cheon sighs] 47 00:04:02,033 --> 00:04:04,577 It's because the Crown Prince has grown stronger. 48 00:04:08,206 --> 00:04:10,124 That is why I must seal him in here. 49 00:04:10,208 --> 00:04:13,002 Seal him? Without sending him to the afterlife? 50 00:04:13,086 --> 00:04:14,837 That will be impossible to do now. 51 00:04:14,921 --> 00:04:17,465 Once the plague spirits' souls are devoured, they'll be entangled. 52 00:04:19,717 --> 00:04:21,010 Oh, for heaven's sake. 53 00:04:21,761 --> 00:04:24,264 Don't look at me as though I'm about to die. 54 00:04:27,558 --> 00:04:29,435 You should stop frowning. It makes you look ugly. 55 00:04:29,519 --> 00:04:32,605 You haven't looked yourself since you acquired the gwi-mae's eyes. 56 00:04:33,940 --> 00:04:35,650 Just like the well gwi-mae, you will become-- 57 00:04:35,733 --> 00:04:37,068 Are you afraid that if I do this, 58 00:04:37,151 --> 00:04:39,612 I'll lose my mind and kill someone out there? 59 00:04:42,865 --> 00:04:44,659 That will not happen. 60 00:04:44,742 --> 00:04:45,743 [gentle music playing] 61 00:04:45,827 --> 00:04:49,998 Sealing is a more useful method, making it simpler to destroy them. 62 00:04:50,581 --> 00:04:52,417 All I have to do is seal him in here. 63 00:04:54,252 --> 00:04:55,628 And that will work? 64 00:04:56,170 --> 00:04:58,631 The appeasement rite will be very helpful. 65 00:05:00,967 --> 00:05:03,761 If we soothe the souls of the plague spirits, 66 00:05:03,845 --> 00:05:05,930 we can weaken the Crown Prince's powers. 67 00:05:08,391 --> 00:05:10,601 I will walk you back to your quarters. Let us go together. 68 00:05:10,685 --> 00:05:12,937 No need to. Do I look ill to you? 69 00:05:17,233 --> 00:05:18,776 Yes, because you are. 70 00:05:20,486 --> 00:05:21,571 [door opens] 71 00:05:22,780 --> 00:05:23,740 [gentle music continues] 72 00:05:23,823 --> 00:05:25,533 It all comes down to this. 73 00:05:25,616 --> 00:05:27,618 By tonight, this will all end. 74 00:05:28,119 --> 00:05:31,289 That's right. Whether it becomes porridge or rice. 75 00:05:33,791 --> 00:05:36,753 What will you do when this is over and you leave the palace? 76 00:05:36,836 --> 00:05:38,254 [Gu-cheon] Hmm… 77 00:05:38,338 --> 00:05:40,048 Get dead drunk, I suppose. 78 00:05:40,131 --> 00:05:42,216 -And sleep for three or four days. -[chuckles] 79 00:05:42,967 --> 00:05:44,802 [Saeng-gang] No, I didn't mean like that. 80 00:05:45,511 --> 00:05:47,013 How do you wanna live? 81 00:05:47,638 --> 00:05:49,515 What do you wanna do with your life? 82 00:05:52,060 --> 00:05:53,686 I've never thought about it. 83 00:05:54,645 --> 00:05:56,230 But I will return to the temple. 84 00:05:56,314 --> 00:05:58,441 [Saeng-gang chuckles] Really? 85 00:05:58,524 --> 00:06:02,111 You said you hated the head monk there, and yet you wanna go back? 86 00:06:02,862 --> 00:06:07,492 The thing is, about 2,000 yards to the southeast of the temple, 87 00:06:07,575 --> 00:06:10,161 there's a river that runs along a sheer cliff. 88 00:06:11,496 --> 00:06:12,789 Right near there… 89 00:06:15,458 --> 00:06:17,126 is where my mother died. 90 00:06:20,296 --> 00:06:23,257 So even in death, I cannot leave the temple. 91 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:29,305 I truly am sorry. 92 00:06:29,389 --> 00:06:31,224 [music fades] 93 00:06:34,727 --> 00:06:36,979 In order to solve this case, I, uh… 94 00:06:38,398 --> 00:06:41,526 -I pulled someone in who didn't-- -You're only now beating that drum? 95 00:06:41,609 --> 00:06:42,860 After using me? 96 00:06:42,944 --> 00:06:44,320 [Saeng-gang scoffs] 97 00:06:44,404 --> 00:06:48,866 You have such a talent for telling someone the meanest, most hurtful things. 98 00:06:49,367 --> 00:06:51,786 And after working up the courage to be honest with you… 99 00:06:52,286 --> 00:06:53,496 [unsettling music playing] 100 00:06:53,579 --> 00:06:59,502 [distorted spectral voice] Tonight, it will be you who dies. 101 00:06:59,585 --> 00:07:02,880 The one who failed to die with his mother. 102 00:07:02,964 --> 00:07:05,758 The one who should not be allowed to live. 103 00:07:05,842 --> 00:07:08,761 The one who is neither man nor spirit. 104 00:07:08,845 --> 00:07:11,931 Tonight, it will be you who dies. 105 00:07:12,014 --> 00:07:18,104 [distorted] Tonight, it will be you who dies. 106 00:07:19,147 --> 00:07:24,152 The one who must die alongside his mother 107 00:07:24,235 --> 00:07:28,823 will be the one to die tonight. 108 00:07:35,329 --> 00:07:37,999 What did the emaciated gwi-mae just say? 109 00:07:41,919 --> 00:07:48,468 [shaman] ♪ Turtle, turtle ♪ 110 00:07:48,968 --> 00:07:54,557 ♪ Poke your head out ♪ 111 00:07:55,141 --> 00:08:00,313 ♪ If you do not ♪ 112 00:08:00,813 --> 00:08:06,360 ♪ I will roast you and eat you up ♪ 113 00:08:06,861 --> 00:08:08,446 [Saeng-gang] Is it almost done? 114 00:08:09,155 --> 00:08:11,616 The ritual will begin at the Hour of the Ox. 115 00:08:12,116 --> 00:08:13,576 [Gu-cheon] It's nearly ready. 116 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:16,162 [clatter, scraping] 117 00:08:33,721 --> 00:08:35,389 I have been thinking. 118 00:08:37,808 --> 00:08:40,937 I shall go with you to that realm to help you. 119 00:08:41,687 --> 00:08:43,689 [gentle music playing] 120 00:08:44,982 --> 00:08:47,276 Have I not constantly told you 121 00:08:47,777 --> 00:08:49,987 that if you go in there, you will die? 122 00:08:50,905 --> 00:08:52,698 Don't even consider it. 123 00:08:58,871 --> 00:08:59,956 [Gu-cheon blows air] 124 00:09:02,041 --> 00:09:03,543 [Gu-cheon sighs] It's all set. 125 00:09:05,294 --> 00:09:06,587 I'll get going now. 126 00:09:07,088 --> 00:09:08,506 Wait a moment. 127 00:09:15,221 --> 00:09:16,264 Drink this 128 00:09:17,139 --> 00:09:19,100 so your yang energy is replenished. 129 00:09:19,183 --> 00:09:20,643 The ingredients are valuable. 130 00:09:22,603 --> 00:09:25,523 Good heavens. You didn't have to do this now. 131 00:09:29,735 --> 00:09:32,321 You should've given it to me sooner. 132 00:09:34,407 --> 00:09:37,368 Ugh. This medicine is so bitter. [coughs] 133 00:09:39,745 --> 00:09:41,831 Is there anything I can do to help? 134 00:09:45,626 --> 00:09:46,919 I'm sorry, no. 135 00:09:48,504 --> 00:09:49,839 Princess. 136 00:09:49,922 --> 00:09:52,758 The Crown Prince is after you as well. Don't forget that. 137 00:09:54,677 --> 00:09:56,554 So keep yourself hidden away. 138 00:10:05,605 --> 00:10:06,772 [music fades] 139 00:10:06,856 --> 00:10:07,815 What is wrong? 140 00:10:10,901 --> 00:10:12,278 Earlier today, 141 00:10:13,529 --> 00:10:15,740 I may have gone to see my grandmother. 142 00:10:15,823 --> 00:10:17,241 Why did you go there? 143 00:10:17,908 --> 00:10:19,910 You made her seem like your enemy. 144 00:10:20,953 --> 00:10:22,955 [ominous music playing] 145 00:10:38,471 --> 00:10:41,515 It will take half a day for you to wake up after this. 146 00:10:41,599 --> 00:10:42,975 [Gu-cheon breathes shakily] 147 00:10:47,021 --> 00:10:49,315 [labored breathing] Why? 148 00:10:51,025 --> 00:10:53,778 -Why? -I don't know. I honestly don't. 149 00:10:54,695 --> 00:10:57,573 The moment I heard the gwi-mae mention that you would meet your end, 150 00:10:57,657 --> 00:10:59,950 my body moved before I was able to stop. 151 00:11:00,034 --> 00:11:02,828 [Gu-cheon breathing shakily] 152 00:11:04,747 --> 00:11:06,666 [panting] 153 00:11:06,749 --> 00:11:11,253 You are the only one in this palace I can trust and rely on. That is why… 154 00:11:13,673 --> 00:11:16,133 I will make sure you don't meet your end tonight. 155 00:11:17,051 --> 00:11:19,053 [labored breathing] 156 00:11:21,055 --> 00:11:23,599 [Saeng-gang] I will save you, even if that means 157 00:11:24,308 --> 00:11:26,560 sacrificing my own life for yours. 158 00:11:30,898 --> 00:11:32,525 [music intensifies] 159 00:11:41,867 --> 00:11:44,203 Thank you for always protecting me. 160 00:11:52,294 --> 00:11:54,130 So from now on, 161 00:11:55,548 --> 00:11:57,675 I will take your place in this battle. 162 00:12:00,469 --> 00:12:02,471 [dark music playing] 163 00:12:23,701 --> 00:12:26,495 [Iksang] The appeasement rite will begin soon. 164 00:12:26,579 --> 00:12:29,248 It seems the shaman has a strategy. 165 00:12:43,471 --> 00:12:45,473 [dark music continues] 166 00:13:26,722 --> 00:13:28,849 -[King coughs] -Your Majesty. 167 00:13:29,642 --> 00:13:31,310 Do not make a scene. 168 00:13:40,069 --> 00:13:41,320 [rattling] 169 00:13:44,573 --> 00:13:47,117 -[wind whistling] -[spectral voice echoing] 170 00:13:47,201 --> 00:13:48,452 [panicked murmuring] 171 00:13:49,829 --> 00:13:51,997 I know the Crown Prince is here. 172 00:14:01,423 --> 00:14:03,425 [spectral voice echoing] 173 00:14:08,597 --> 00:14:10,599 [dark tense music playing] 174 00:14:29,618 --> 00:14:30,953 [music intensifies] 175 00:14:50,014 --> 00:14:52,516 [sizzling] 176 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:54,602 [music subsides] 177 00:15:00,566 --> 00:15:03,235 So you did become an ak-gwi after all, brother. 178 00:15:03,736 --> 00:15:04,862 [intriguing music playing] 179 00:15:04,945 --> 00:15:06,989 Do not think of interfering. 180 00:15:07,656 --> 00:15:09,950 All of that bitterness you must be feeling. 181 00:15:10,784 --> 00:15:12,453 I understand it myself. 182 00:15:13,621 --> 00:15:16,749 A man who was killed by his own father, it's only natural you'd feel that way. 183 00:15:16,832 --> 00:15:18,250 -[rumbling] -[Saeng-gang gasps] 184 00:15:18,334 --> 00:15:20,336 -[snarling] -[gasps] 185 00:15:21,003 --> 00:15:22,463 [Saeng-gang] Brother, stop! 186 00:15:26,216 --> 00:15:29,094 He abandoned me for hearing the voices of spirits, too, 187 00:15:30,346 --> 00:15:32,431 and my mother died because of him, brother! 188 00:15:32,514 --> 00:15:35,267 I hate Father as much as you do! Look at me! 189 00:15:36,226 --> 00:15:38,479 [tense dramatic music playing] 190 00:15:38,562 --> 00:15:39,939 [groans] 191 00:15:40,773 --> 00:15:42,858 [coughing, grunts] 192 00:15:43,359 --> 00:15:45,527 -I told you not to interfere. -[Saeng-gang gasps] 193 00:15:49,615 --> 00:15:51,450 [music swells] 194 00:15:51,533 --> 00:15:54,495 -[Saeng-gang grunts, gasps] -[music subsides] 195 00:15:57,539 --> 00:16:00,292 -[Saeng-gang pants] -[tense music playing] 196 00:16:03,337 --> 00:16:05,339 [tense percussive music playing] 197 00:16:07,716 --> 00:16:09,843 [distant spectral screams] 198 00:16:09,927 --> 00:16:11,387 [squelching] 199 00:16:20,688 --> 00:16:21,814 [Saeng-gang gasps] 200 00:16:23,315 --> 00:16:24,984 [Saeng-gang grunts, groans] 201 00:16:27,111 --> 00:16:28,195 [groans] 202 00:16:28,779 --> 00:16:31,156 -[music intensifies] -[shaman breathing heavily] 203 00:16:45,504 --> 00:16:47,172 [groans] 204 00:16:51,969 --> 00:16:53,971 [dramatic percussive music playing] 205 00:16:55,305 --> 00:16:56,640 [squelching] 206 00:17:02,438 --> 00:17:03,814 [groans, grunts] 207 00:17:03,897 --> 00:17:06,692 -[music subsides] -[spectral voice echoes] 208 00:17:07,276 --> 00:17:08,402 [Gu-cheon pants] 209 00:17:08,485 --> 00:17:10,487 [somber music playing] 210 00:17:24,001 --> 00:17:25,544 [breathing shakily] 211 00:17:27,421 --> 00:17:29,590 [strained, labored breathing] 212 00:17:32,676 --> 00:17:33,969 [Gu-cheon groans, grunts] 213 00:17:37,222 --> 00:17:40,017 [breathing shakily] 214 00:17:57,534 --> 00:17:58,577 [King sighs] 215 00:18:00,913 --> 00:18:02,581 -[squelching] -[Saeng-gang groans] 216 00:18:03,457 --> 00:18:04,958 [Crown Prince sighs] 217 00:18:05,042 --> 00:18:06,251 [Saeng-gang groans] 218 00:18:08,087 --> 00:18:09,213 [Saeng-gang coughs] 219 00:18:09,797 --> 00:18:11,090 [wind whistles] 220 00:18:13,425 --> 00:18:15,385 -[Saeng-gang winces] -[blade rasps] 221 00:18:16,261 --> 00:18:17,304 [groans] 222 00:18:18,597 --> 00:18:19,640 [pants] 223 00:18:33,362 --> 00:18:34,530 [Saeng-gang groans] 224 00:18:37,825 --> 00:18:40,244 [Saeng-gang groaning] 225 00:18:40,327 --> 00:18:41,954 -[squelching] -[gasps] 226 00:18:48,877 --> 00:18:49,962 [groans] 227 00:18:50,879 --> 00:18:53,173 [grunts, groans] 228 00:18:54,216 --> 00:18:55,425 [gasps] 229 00:18:56,510 --> 00:18:58,762 [labored breathing] 230 00:19:03,100 --> 00:19:05,769 [Saeng-gang] I will make sure you don't meet your end tonight. 231 00:19:06,812 --> 00:19:10,357 Even if that means sacrificing my own life for yours. 232 00:19:19,283 --> 00:19:20,951 [exhales shakily] 233 00:19:21,702 --> 00:19:22,744 [sniffles] 234 00:19:22,828 --> 00:19:24,079 [breathes shakily] 235 00:19:25,539 --> 00:19:26,665 [clatter] 236 00:19:28,458 --> 00:19:30,043 [whimpers] 237 00:19:36,008 --> 00:19:38,177 [whimpers, purrs] 238 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:41,221 [whimpering continues] 239 00:19:43,223 --> 00:19:44,975 Are you telling me not to do it? 240 00:19:46,393 --> 00:19:48,103 [squeaks] 241 00:19:53,150 --> 00:19:54,359 [Gu-cheon sighs] 242 00:19:55,777 --> 00:19:58,655 This is the only way I'm able to save the Princess. 243 00:20:02,159 --> 00:20:03,243 [squeaks] 244 00:20:03,327 --> 00:20:05,329 [Gu-cheon] She was willing to risk her life for me, 245 00:20:06,788 --> 00:20:08,290 so I must answer that resolve. 246 00:20:15,547 --> 00:20:17,174 -[slicing] -[Gu-cheon groans] 247 00:20:20,010 --> 00:20:21,178 [Gu-cheon gasps] 248 00:20:26,058 --> 00:20:28,060 [Saeng-gang breathing heavily] 249 00:20:29,436 --> 00:20:30,520 [inhales sharply] 250 00:20:30,604 --> 00:20:32,606 [solemn music playing] 251 00:20:43,533 --> 00:20:45,535 [solemn music continues] 252 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:00,842 [music intensifies] 253 00:21:10,143 --> 00:21:11,645 [King] Humans 254 00:21:12,688 --> 00:21:16,358 advance towards death from the moment they are born. 255 00:21:19,111 --> 00:21:21,363 No matter what one's status is, 256 00:21:21,863 --> 00:21:24,116 or what kind of person they are, 257 00:21:25,158 --> 00:21:26,743 none of it matters. 258 00:21:31,123 --> 00:21:35,419 At the end of every fate, death is equal to all. 259 00:21:36,336 --> 00:21:38,839 So there is no reason to grieve 260 00:21:38,922 --> 00:21:40,841 or feel wronged by it. 261 00:21:53,312 --> 00:21:56,023 -[unsettling music playing] -[distant jingling] 262 00:22:10,787 --> 00:22:12,789 [distant snarling] 263 00:22:20,547 --> 00:22:22,549 [snarling] 264 00:22:24,968 --> 00:22:26,970 [water splashes gently] 265 00:22:42,069 --> 00:22:44,071 [unsettling music continues] 266 00:22:54,706 --> 00:22:58,210 [snarl resonating] 267 00:23:00,837 --> 00:23:03,548 [Gu-cheon] So this is why the palace reeks of yin energy. 268 00:23:04,841 --> 00:23:06,593 Was all of this you, 269 00:23:07,677 --> 00:23:09,054 Supreme Gwi-mae? 270 00:23:09,971 --> 00:23:11,973 [eerie sound resonates] 271 00:23:12,599 --> 00:23:16,561 I will comply with what you are asking. 272 00:23:16,645 --> 00:23:17,771 In return, 273 00:23:18,980 --> 00:23:20,982 I request the power you hold 274 00:23:22,401 --> 00:23:24,277 so I can save the Princess. 275 00:23:25,695 --> 00:23:28,657 [low growl resonating] 276 00:23:36,206 --> 00:23:39,459 -[unsettling music grows] -[spectral voices whispering] 277 00:23:56,059 --> 00:23:58,812 [growling resonating] 278 00:23:59,938 --> 00:24:04,067 [spectral voice echoing] 279 00:24:17,289 --> 00:24:21,543 [spectral voice echoing] 280 00:24:21,626 --> 00:24:23,837 -[groans] -[spectral screaming] 281 00:24:27,090 --> 00:24:29,092 [chain rattles] 282 00:24:30,010 --> 00:24:32,012 [epic rock music playing] 283 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,852 -[Gu-cheon grunts] -[howls] 284 00:24:39,519 --> 00:24:41,938 -[spectral screaming] -[Crown Prince groans] 285 00:24:42,856 --> 00:24:44,649 [squelching] 286 00:24:44,733 --> 00:24:46,234 [spectral screams] 287 00:24:49,279 --> 00:24:50,405 [Crown Prince grunts] 288 00:24:51,740 --> 00:24:53,200 [Gu-cheon grunts] 289 00:24:54,326 --> 00:24:56,411 [grunting] 290 00:25:04,377 --> 00:25:07,214 [both grunt, groan] 291 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:24,606 [Crown Prince grunts] 292 00:25:27,776 --> 00:25:29,236 [Crown Prince grunts, gasps] 293 00:25:29,319 --> 00:25:30,820 [spectral scream] 294 00:25:31,696 --> 00:25:33,114 [pants] 295 00:25:43,124 --> 00:25:44,417 [spectral screaming] 296 00:25:46,211 --> 00:25:48,463 [spectral voices echoing] 297 00:25:48,547 --> 00:25:50,549 [squelching] 298 00:25:52,300 --> 00:25:54,177 [rumbling] 299 00:26:06,481 --> 00:26:08,483 [epic dramatic music playing] 300 00:26:10,652 --> 00:26:13,321 [spectral growling, screaming] 301 00:26:17,993 --> 00:26:20,287 [Gu-cheon grunts] 302 00:26:20,370 --> 00:26:21,580 [music intensifies] 303 00:26:26,793 --> 00:26:28,795 [both grunting] 304 00:26:31,715 --> 00:26:32,591 [grunts] 305 00:26:32,674 --> 00:26:34,259 [spectral growling] 306 00:26:41,891 --> 00:26:43,935 [music intensifies] 307 00:26:48,231 --> 00:26:49,691 [both grunt] 308 00:26:55,614 --> 00:26:57,198 -[spectral growl] -[Gu-cheon grunts] 309 00:26:59,117 --> 00:27:01,077 [grunts, groans] 310 00:27:02,078 --> 00:27:03,079 [Gu-cheon grunts] 311 00:27:06,958 --> 00:27:08,960 [music swells dramatically] 312 00:27:18,345 --> 00:27:20,472 -[music subsides] -How much longer, Your Majesty? 313 00:27:20,555 --> 00:27:22,265 End this! [echoes] 314 00:27:23,892 --> 00:27:25,143 [Gu-cheon grunts] 315 00:27:39,282 --> 00:27:43,453 [King] I, the sovereign, placed you, the powerless, before the blade 316 00:27:43,536 --> 00:27:45,747 in an attempt to stop the plague. 317 00:27:47,916 --> 00:27:50,001 Without your consent, 318 00:27:51,044 --> 00:27:53,171 I tore apart your fates. 319 00:27:55,757 --> 00:27:58,718 -And yet, I was unable to stop anything. -[Gu-cheon grunts] 320 00:27:59,552 --> 00:28:01,596 [King] All that reaches me now 321 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,432 are your cries, filled with rage and grief. 322 00:28:09,437 --> 00:28:11,690 This sin won't be washed away. 323 00:28:15,485 --> 00:28:16,653 It can't. 324 00:28:16,736 --> 00:28:19,239 [Gu-cheon gasps, groans] 325 00:28:19,322 --> 00:28:22,826 [King] These words are not spoken in the hope of forgiveness. 326 00:28:22,909 --> 00:28:24,327 [pensive music playing] 327 00:28:24,411 --> 00:28:26,287 If you wish to… 328 00:28:29,999 --> 00:28:33,044 you may take my life this very instant. 329 00:28:36,589 --> 00:28:39,008 But if life is still granted to me, 330 00:28:40,510 --> 00:28:43,138 those remaining after your deaths, 331 00:28:44,222 --> 00:28:45,515 the parents, 332 00:28:46,182 --> 00:28:47,517 the siblings, 333 00:28:48,393 --> 00:28:49,644 the children, 334 00:28:49,728 --> 00:28:51,688 every stranded family… 335 00:28:54,399 --> 00:28:56,443 I will care for each one. 336 00:28:56,526 --> 00:28:58,528 [poignant string music playing] 337 00:29:01,281 --> 00:29:04,784 I do this as a promise for the people of my nation. 338 00:29:04,868 --> 00:29:07,746 [spectral screams] 339 00:29:13,668 --> 00:29:16,296 [King] And as for this sin that I could not repay in this life, 340 00:29:17,505 --> 00:29:20,675 I will repay again and again in the afterlife. 341 00:29:23,887 --> 00:29:26,389 So let go of your resentment… 342 00:29:30,185 --> 00:29:31,686 and move on. 343 00:29:32,937 --> 00:29:35,356 [Crown Prince groans, coughs] 344 00:29:39,652 --> 00:29:42,113 [King] Lay down your ties to this world… 345 00:29:44,783 --> 00:29:46,284 and depart now… 346 00:29:50,205 --> 00:29:51,790 for the other side. 347 00:29:52,791 --> 00:29:54,793 [spectral groaning] 348 00:29:54,876 --> 00:29:56,836 [poignant string music continues] 349 00:30:19,484 --> 00:30:21,986 [coughs, pants] 350 00:30:33,206 --> 00:30:34,374 [Gu-cheon sighs] 351 00:30:34,916 --> 00:30:38,127 I waited for the plague spirits to depart. 352 00:30:38,211 --> 00:30:40,213 [chain rattles] 353 00:30:41,589 --> 00:30:43,591 [tense dramatic music playing] 354 00:30:50,098 --> 00:30:51,933 [Gu-cheon grunts] 355 00:30:54,143 --> 00:30:56,145 [music intensifies] 356 00:30:56,229 --> 00:30:58,231 [both grunting] 357 00:31:03,695 --> 00:31:05,697 [both grunting] 358 00:31:14,205 --> 00:31:15,331 [straining] 359 00:31:15,415 --> 00:31:17,208 [both grunting] 360 00:31:28,136 --> 00:31:30,138 -[Gu-cheon grunts] -[Crown Prince gasps] 361 00:31:32,974 --> 00:31:34,058 [grunts] 362 00:31:35,935 --> 00:31:36,978 [Crown Prince moans] 363 00:31:37,770 --> 00:31:39,772 [dramatic music playing] 364 00:31:51,242 --> 00:31:53,786 [Crown Prince groans] 365 00:31:55,538 --> 00:31:58,625 [labored] It cannot end like this. It mustn't. 366 00:32:07,634 --> 00:32:08,760 [groans] 367 00:32:11,554 --> 00:32:14,140 Is your wish to kill your father so important? 368 00:32:15,934 --> 00:32:17,018 As for me… 369 00:32:19,312 --> 00:32:21,481 I suffered my whole life constantly believing 370 00:32:21,564 --> 00:32:23,399 that I killed my own mother. 371 00:32:24,359 --> 00:32:26,444 I thought I would turn into an ak-gwi if I died, 372 00:32:26,527 --> 00:32:29,948 and I forced myself to keep on living so I wouldn't become what you are. 373 00:32:31,282 --> 00:32:35,036 Why would you go so far as to become an ak-gwi like this? 374 00:32:44,253 --> 00:32:45,380 [Crown Prince groans] 375 00:32:57,809 --> 00:32:59,811 I wanted to be King. 376 00:33:01,562 --> 00:33:04,190 But none of it matters anymore. 377 00:33:05,274 --> 00:33:08,444 If this palace will not have me as its King… 378 00:33:09,988 --> 00:33:11,781 Be it that everyone here… 379 00:33:11,864 --> 00:33:12,865 [grunting] 380 00:33:15,201 --> 00:33:17,620 …who live within these walls… 381 00:33:19,330 --> 00:33:20,206 [grunts] 382 00:33:20,289 --> 00:33:23,084 …and those beyond it will all die soon. 383 00:33:23,167 --> 00:33:25,211 [breathes shakily] 384 00:33:25,294 --> 00:33:26,963 I will kill the lot. 385 00:33:27,547 --> 00:33:28,965 [Crown Prince gasping] 386 00:33:31,009 --> 00:33:34,846 All this time, I've tried to avoid obliterating souls if I could. 387 00:33:35,513 --> 00:33:37,765 [chuckles] You cannot get rid of me. 388 00:33:38,641 --> 00:33:40,518 If you obliterate someone's soul, 389 00:33:40,601 --> 00:33:44,230 then that karma will make you an ak-gwi as well. 390 00:33:45,565 --> 00:33:46,983 [both grunt] 391 00:33:49,193 --> 00:33:51,195 -[Gu-cheon grunts] -[Crown Prince gasps] 392 00:33:53,698 --> 00:33:54,657 [blade slices] 393 00:33:55,158 --> 00:33:56,868 I have always known that. 394 00:33:57,785 --> 00:33:59,579 However, the curse won't break, 395 00:33:59,662 --> 00:34:01,873 and the Princess will die if I don't kill you. 396 00:34:01,956 --> 00:34:03,583 [gasping] 397 00:34:03,666 --> 00:34:06,044 From the moment I met Mother Gwi-mae, 398 00:34:06,669 --> 00:34:08,838 I was ready to become an ak-gwi! 399 00:34:08,921 --> 00:34:11,007 -[Crown Prince gasping] -[Gu-cheon grunts] 400 00:34:17,138 --> 00:34:19,057 [groaning, gasping] 401 00:34:19,140 --> 00:34:21,142 [music intensifies] 402 00:34:34,822 --> 00:34:36,616 [music subsides] 403 00:34:37,825 --> 00:34:39,619 [stirring ethereal music playing] 404 00:35:04,060 --> 00:35:06,270 It is finally over. 405 00:35:06,354 --> 00:35:07,605 [music subsides] 406 00:35:07,688 --> 00:35:09,690 [flame roars] 407 00:35:14,153 --> 00:35:16,155 [dark ethereal music playing] 408 00:35:31,003 --> 00:35:33,005 [groaning] 409 00:35:33,589 --> 00:35:34,465 [grunts] 410 00:35:35,007 --> 00:35:37,009 [groaning] 411 00:35:46,978 --> 00:35:48,229 [King] Chief Eunuch Kim! 412 00:35:51,983 --> 00:35:52,817 Your… 413 00:36:05,788 --> 00:36:07,915 Gu-cheon! 414 00:36:07,999 --> 00:36:10,001 [spectral screaming] 415 00:36:39,739 --> 00:36:41,240 [chain rattles] 416 00:36:58,507 --> 00:37:00,509 [poignant music playing] 417 00:37:18,819 --> 00:37:21,656 I will give you all the yang energy I have left to give. 418 00:37:28,412 --> 00:37:29,872 So you can go back. 419 00:37:59,318 --> 00:38:00,778 [spectral scream] 420 00:38:01,487 --> 00:38:03,364 [dark ethereal music playing] 421 00:38:03,447 --> 00:38:05,199 [breathing heavily] 422 00:38:14,709 --> 00:38:16,669 [panting] 423 00:38:26,053 --> 00:38:28,306 No. Gu-cheon, wake up, please. 424 00:38:28,389 --> 00:38:30,057 -[melancholy music playing] -Gu-cheon. 425 00:38:39,608 --> 00:38:40,776 [breathing heavily] 426 00:38:44,196 --> 00:38:45,489 [Saeng-gang] Take my yang energy. 427 00:38:46,073 --> 00:38:47,408 Please take it. 428 00:38:50,661 --> 00:38:52,747 You cannot die like this. 429 00:38:53,622 --> 00:38:55,124 I will not let you go. 430 00:38:56,459 --> 00:38:57,418 Don't die. 431 00:38:59,337 --> 00:39:00,421 Don't die. 432 00:39:02,548 --> 00:39:03,507 Gu-cheon. 433 00:39:10,723 --> 00:39:12,683 I believe that is enough. 434 00:39:14,810 --> 00:39:15,853 [chain rattling] 435 00:39:19,648 --> 00:39:21,650 [distant growl] 436 00:39:30,409 --> 00:39:31,911 Since this is it, 437 00:39:33,037 --> 00:39:34,997 why don't we have some fun? 438 00:39:35,581 --> 00:39:39,001 If my soul is just going to be devoured by a gwi-mae, then I would rather… 439 00:39:54,934 --> 00:39:56,936 [music fades] 440 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:02,775 [man] Your Majesty. 441 00:40:02,858 --> 00:40:05,986 There have been no further reports of plague victims. 442 00:40:06,070 --> 00:40:08,906 The appeasement rites have all concluded without incident, 443 00:40:09,490 --> 00:40:13,035 and the public sentiment has already recovered dramatically. 444 00:40:13,119 --> 00:40:14,578 I understand. 445 00:40:15,788 --> 00:40:17,248 You may be dismissed. 446 00:40:24,922 --> 00:40:26,173 [Chief Eunuch] Your Majesty. 447 00:40:27,466 --> 00:40:30,344 All of the strange occurrences that happened here 448 00:40:31,303 --> 00:40:33,139 have finally disappeared. 449 00:40:36,225 --> 00:40:38,227 [stirring music playing] 450 00:40:46,735 --> 00:40:47,736 [Sukbin] Let us go. 451 00:40:59,999 --> 00:41:01,000 [Chief Eunuch] However, 452 00:41:02,084 --> 00:41:03,711 it is said that the Queen Dowager, 453 00:41:03,794 --> 00:41:05,880 who has withdrawn to her private residence, 454 00:41:05,963 --> 00:41:08,132 is no longer of sound mind. 455 00:41:08,215 --> 00:41:09,550 [chuckles] 456 00:41:16,348 --> 00:41:18,476 [King] And how is Prince Iksang? 457 00:41:23,481 --> 00:41:25,399 [Chief Eunuch] He is being discreetly investigated 458 00:41:25,483 --> 00:41:28,277 for summoning shamans and using them to commit sorcery 459 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,363 to harm you and the royal family, Your Majesty. 460 00:41:34,617 --> 00:41:35,743 Very well, then. 461 00:41:36,619 --> 00:41:37,953 You may be dismissed. 462 00:41:39,788 --> 00:41:41,457 It has been three days. 463 00:41:45,211 --> 00:41:47,379 [music fades] 464 00:41:50,883 --> 00:41:52,051 Princess. 465 00:41:54,887 --> 00:41:58,307 Should we not give up now and lay Gu-cheon to rest? 466 00:42:01,393 --> 00:42:03,062 [Ji-yul sobs] 467 00:42:03,145 --> 00:42:05,314 Last time, we thought he was dead as well. 468 00:42:06,357 --> 00:42:07,900 Yet he survived that. 469 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,611 Even if it is Gu-cheon… 470 00:42:13,989 --> 00:42:18,369 Everyone is saying he is dead, are they not? 471 00:42:18,953 --> 00:42:20,996 [Ji-yul crying] 472 00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:22,540 You can stop crying. 473 00:42:25,042 --> 00:42:26,001 He is not dead. 474 00:42:26,085 --> 00:42:27,878 [crying continues] 475 00:42:34,635 --> 00:42:35,886 [door opens] 476 00:42:37,805 --> 00:42:38,889 [door closes] 477 00:42:40,266 --> 00:42:41,600 See what you've done? 478 00:42:43,936 --> 00:42:45,521 You've even made her cry. 479 00:42:46,897 --> 00:42:51,277 So please stop boiling inside, and return to yourself at once. 480 00:42:57,116 --> 00:42:59,618 If you cannot find your way back to me, 481 00:43:01,620 --> 00:43:05,124 ring the bell so that I can come and find you myself. 482 00:43:05,708 --> 00:43:07,459 [breathing shakily] 483 00:43:13,340 --> 00:43:14,967 -[clatter] -[gasps] 484 00:43:17,970 --> 00:43:19,471 [Ggeomeoksali squeaks] 485 00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:23,642 [pensive music playing] 486 00:43:24,685 --> 00:43:25,894 Ggeomeoksali. 487 00:43:27,104 --> 00:43:30,190 That is a special one. It's a Ggeomeoksali. 488 00:43:30,274 --> 00:43:33,485 It latches to the living, not a place, and completely depletes their yang. 489 00:43:34,194 --> 00:43:35,946 The living, not a place. 490 00:43:38,407 --> 00:43:39,325 [gasps] 491 00:43:39,408 --> 00:43:41,035 He is alive. 492 00:43:42,786 --> 00:43:44,830 [breathing heavily] 493 00:43:55,591 --> 00:43:58,636 [Gu-cheon] About 2,000 yards to the southeast of the temple, 494 00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:01,138 there's a river that runs along a sheer cliff. 495 00:44:04,266 --> 00:44:05,601 Right near there 496 00:44:06,685 --> 00:44:08,062 is where my mother died. 497 00:44:08,145 --> 00:44:09,688 [breathing heavily] 498 00:44:09,772 --> 00:44:12,608 [Gu-cheon] So even in death, I cannot leave the temple. 499 00:44:14,693 --> 00:44:16,320 [breathes heavily] 500 00:44:27,748 --> 00:44:28,749 Please… 501 00:44:30,042 --> 00:44:32,044 [breathes shakily] 502 00:44:38,717 --> 00:44:40,719 [music fades] 503 00:44:41,261 --> 00:44:42,429 [bell jingling] 504 00:44:42,513 --> 00:44:43,597 [gasps gently] 505 00:44:45,724 --> 00:44:47,643 -[bell jingles] -[gasps] 506 00:44:48,894 --> 00:44:50,896 [gasps, sniffles] 507 00:44:53,524 --> 00:44:54,775 I knew you would be here. 508 00:44:57,861 --> 00:44:59,863 [breathing heavily] 509 00:45:04,493 --> 00:45:06,245 It's all in the past now. 510 00:45:09,248 --> 00:45:11,500 You can leave the palace if you'd like. 511 00:45:13,293 --> 00:45:15,003 [voice breaks] You can escape now. 512 00:45:15,796 --> 00:45:17,131 [sobs] So please, 513 00:45:18,507 --> 00:45:20,259 do not stay here alone! 514 00:45:22,261 --> 00:45:23,804 Come back with me. 515 00:45:26,432 --> 00:45:29,601 You once told me you were living without purpose, unable to die. 516 00:45:30,102 --> 00:45:30,978 Then live. 517 00:45:33,021 --> 00:45:35,691 You can live like a spirit still among us. 518 00:45:37,234 --> 00:45:38,235 Just live! 519 00:45:42,156 --> 00:45:44,032 Are you listening to me at all? 520 00:45:45,617 --> 00:45:46,618 [sobs] 521 00:45:47,453 --> 00:45:48,954 [crying] 522 00:45:59,757 --> 00:46:01,759 [poignant music playing] 523 00:46:14,897 --> 00:46:17,357 Apparently, your life mattered more than anything, Gu-Cheon. 524 00:46:17,441 --> 00:46:18,901 You told me that! 525 00:46:20,986 --> 00:46:23,572 Did you think I would be glad about what you did? 526 00:46:26,158 --> 00:46:28,202 That you met your end to save me? 527 00:46:32,164 --> 00:46:33,540 [crying] 528 00:46:47,387 --> 00:46:48,639 You bastard. 529 00:46:50,307 --> 00:46:53,727 Come back this instant, Gu-cheon, or I'll drag you out! 530 00:46:53,811 --> 00:46:57,022 [sobbing] 531 00:47:05,447 --> 00:47:06,949 [water splashing] 532 00:47:22,256 --> 00:47:24,424 [gasping] 533 00:47:24,508 --> 00:47:26,510 [bells jingling] 534 00:47:26,593 --> 00:47:28,595 [stirring music playing] 535 00:48:11,263 --> 00:48:12,472 [sobs] 536 00:48:18,186 --> 00:48:20,188 [crying] 537 00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:28,030 -[Gu-cheon moans] -[bell jingles] 538 00:48:29,781 --> 00:48:31,783 [Gu-cheon moaning] 539 00:48:39,750 --> 00:48:40,959 [Gu-cheon] You're crying again. 540 00:48:45,505 --> 00:48:47,758 -[breathing heavily] -[poignant music playing] 541 00:48:52,471 --> 00:48:54,473 [crying] 542 00:49:21,291 --> 00:49:22,793 [music fades] 543 00:49:22,876 --> 00:49:24,503 [door opens] 544 00:49:30,884 --> 00:49:33,095 So you managed to return to us. 545 00:49:35,597 --> 00:49:37,557 Have you prepared to leave here yet? 546 00:49:38,308 --> 00:49:39,685 Yes, Your Majesty. 547 00:49:42,312 --> 00:49:43,480 However, 548 00:49:45,107 --> 00:49:47,192 it's quite the send-off you have made for me. 549 00:49:51,238 --> 00:49:55,367 I take it you have no intention of letting me go easily. 550 00:49:55,867 --> 00:49:58,537 I am aware of a few matters. 551 00:50:00,831 --> 00:50:04,835 Matters that you experienced here in the palace that you shouldn't have. 552 00:50:06,378 --> 00:50:08,839 You know far too many secrets now. 553 00:50:11,174 --> 00:50:14,386 Secrets about the palace and myself. 554 00:50:20,642 --> 00:50:21,560 Stand up. 555 00:50:22,144 --> 00:50:23,145 [scoffs] 556 00:50:26,815 --> 00:50:28,942 They say one changes entering the outhouse 557 00:50:30,402 --> 00:50:32,112 and when they leave it. 558 00:50:33,572 --> 00:50:36,491 You must know, your word weighs very little, Your Majesty. 559 00:50:36,575 --> 00:50:37,868 [scoffs] 560 00:50:44,249 --> 00:50:46,251 [uneasy music playing] 561 00:50:51,131 --> 00:50:53,050 Is there something else you can see? 562 00:50:55,761 --> 00:50:57,095 I can see 563 00:50:58,346 --> 00:51:00,682 the souls of the departed King and of the countless Princes 564 00:51:00,766 --> 00:51:02,893 who will never ascend to be Kings. 565 00:51:06,646 --> 00:51:08,648 [uneasy music continues] 566 00:51:11,485 --> 00:51:13,487 [spectral voices echoing] 567 00:51:21,036 --> 00:51:22,287 You may leave. 568 00:51:22,996 --> 00:51:24,456 Are you freeing me? 569 00:51:26,625 --> 00:51:27,793 [King groans] 570 00:51:32,005 --> 00:51:33,799 Only time will tell. 571 00:51:42,891 --> 00:51:44,267 [door opens] 572 00:51:51,441 --> 00:51:52,567 [door closes] 573 00:51:56,738 --> 00:52:00,450 He won't change his mind and kill me now, will he? Mm? 574 00:52:04,663 --> 00:52:05,789 [sighs] 575 00:52:12,003 --> 00:52:13,713 [breathes deeply] 576 00:52:13,797 --> 00:52:15,549 [Saeng-gang] Why are you still standing there? 577 00:52:20,595 --> 00:52:22,722 You can't still be attached to the palace. 578 00:52:22,806 --> 00:52:23,723 [scoffs] 579 00:52:25,433 --> 00:52:26,518 Are you leaving too? 580 00:52:27,602 --> 00:52:29,271 I've decided to come with you. 581 00:52:29,354 --> 00:52:30,355 Huh? 582 00:52:31,439 --> 00:52:32,274 Why would you? 583 00:52:41,741 --> 00:52:44,578 You went out of your way to help me settle my affairs. 584 00:52:45,745 --> 00:52:47,622 It's my turn now to help you. 585 00:52:49,332 --> 00:52:50,667 Heavens above. 586 00:52:52,043 --> 00:52:53,253 [Gu-cheon sighs] 587 00:52:56,673 --> 00:52:57,924 It will be very hard. 588 00:52:58,008 --> 00:52:59,509 [intriguing music playing] 589 00:52:59,593 --> 00:53:01,970 Don't whine to me later about how hard it will be for you. 590 00:53:07,601 --> 00:53:08,560 [Saeng-gang] Let us go. 591 00:53:10,228 --> 00:53:12,105 [exciting percussive music playing] 592 00:53:12,189 --> 00:53:13,398 [Gu-cheon scoffs] 593 00:53:35,879 --> 00:53:36,963 [purrs] 594 00:53:42,886 --> 00:53:44,888 [spectral screaming] 595 00:53:48,016 --> 00:53:50,227 [eerie music stinger] 596 00:53:50,310 --> 00:53:55,232 THE EAST PALACE 597 00:53:55,315 --> 00:53:57,317 [exciting percussive music resumes] 598 00:55:44,966 --> 00:55:46,426 [music fades] 599 00:55:46,509 --> 00:55:48,511 [stirring string music playing] 600 00:56:52,117 --> 00:56:53,743 [music fades]