(All people, organizations, locations, and incidents...)
(in this drama are fictitious.)
It makes a pair with the needle whose colour has changed.
In that case, was the stiletto needle...
Was Yoo Se Yeob the one who used it?
What is the matter?
Sin Woo?
I will come by again.
Why did Yoo Hoo Myung...
hold onto the needle that caused...
the former king's death until the moment he died?
(Strike)
The wound on Yoo Hoo Myung's head.
It was not caused by a fall from a horse.
Was it not an accident but murder?
- There are plants! - Get them all.
- Come on. - Hurry up.
There are so many.
What is that?
Boys, look at this. I found honey.
- Wow, it looks tasty. - It looks nice.
- We can eat it later. - Okay.
(House of the Drunken Moon)
Be gentle.
Well?
What patient calls a physician to a gisaeng's house?
A physician should come to wherever the patient calls.
You complain too much for your status.
You arrogant punk.
You humiliated me...
in Gye Ji Han's presence.
Unless you want to watch your back for the rest of your life,
you should do as I say.
No.
What is wrong with you?
Are you really a dunce?
Or are you actually being loyal?
Do you know what the Gye Ji Han you trust so much is like?
I do.
He loves his drink and money even more so.
That is what you could call "cute."
He was called "Mad Murderer."
He cut someone open during the war.
He even fed someone a poisonous herb.
You speak the truth so well.
Gye Ji Han is out of his mind.
He cares nothing for a human life.
Gye Ji Han. Get rid of him...
and take over the clinic.
Do that, and I will be your benefactor.
I do not want to take over Gyesoo Clinic,
nor do I need a benefactor.
Why you... Do you know how valuable that plot of land is?
It is a waste for a clinic.
Gye Ji Han is a lost cause,
but should not you at least keep your head on straight?
He has made up his mind.
He fed someone a poisonous herb? That is nonsense.
Plague!
- The plague is going around! - Stop it.
We must flee.
Plague!
There is a plague!
- Plague! - Go inside.
- Come inside. - Will you help me?
What is the matter? Is he mentally unstable?
It is the plague.
We lost our children to it,
and now he loses his mind whenever he hears the word.
Yes, the plague. A plague is spreading.
I am a physician. Let me take a look.
He will not lose his mind for good, will he?
Look. I have blisters.
Will you please help me?
Look.
Help me.
Please help my husband.
Help my husband.
- Come on! - I will pay.
- Give me something. - Anything will do.
- Give us a cure. - Please!
- We want medicine. - Help us!
- A plague is spreading. - Pack so we can leave.
(Gyesoo Clinic)
Give us something to help!
We need medicine!
What should we do?
I think a plague is spreading.
I already saw someone with blisters.
I suspected as much when people started to swarm in.
I will boil Jeonggisan and Hwangsosan.
Eun Woo, inform your father and the royal inspector.
Okay.
No!
Will you please help us?
Do something, will you?
If you have blisters, stand over here.
If you do not, stand over there.
Yes.
What? A plague?
Are you sure?
Yes. Patients are flocking to the clinic.
I have not heard of an outbreak in other regions.
We must block the roads to prevent the spread...
to adjacent towns and Hanyang.
Yes, we should.
We will come up with a plan.
Please prepare preventive medicine and give it out.
Okay. We must hurry.
The distribution of the medicine should be focused on Sorak Village.
We must secure the medicinal herbs in other towns too.
I told you. We have nothing left!
People are dying.
You do not have any honeysuckle or indigo pulverata Levis?
What do you mean?
Even if I want to give you some,
I cannot for there is none left.
Then give me Chinese skullcap and gold thread. I will take all of it.
Those are gone too. They bought all of it.
Who?
Sir, please help us!
How could you not have any medicinal ingredients left?
- We need the ingredients! - This is truly frustrating.
Move it, will you?
It is the storage room at the very end.
If anything is missing,
you fools will pay for it with your lives!
The honeysuckle flowers...
will make me rich!
Who is the brazen scoundrel that dared to hit me in the head?
How could you buy all the medicinal herbs in this situation?
Do not mess with people's lives.
That is rich coming from you.
You mess with people's lives all the time.
You crazy quack, Gye Ji Han.
Enough of your nonsense.
I will buy them from you for exactly how much you paid.
Hand them over.
You and your nonsense.
Obviously, I cannot sell them for the same price.
We will start with a fivefold increase.
What do you say? Can you afford it?
You thief!
You quack and murderer!
Fine. I shall hand them over...
if you hand over Gyesoo Clinic.
Is that what you are after?
Do you think I would let that happen?
Sure, fine.
Then go eat some corn...
while you watch people die off.
What are you doing?
You must not do this.
You little... How dare you!
Here, a fly.
This fly was buzzing around you, so I caught it for you.
Oh, dear.
I will find a different source.
Let us go. That scoundrel.
Yes, my lord.
Do not waste your time.
Just bring me the land certificate for Gyesoo Clinic!
Here.
There is no more.
This will not do.
Everyone, meet me inside.
We must get our hands...
on all the fever-reducing ingredients we can find.
Hence, we will go...
to Im Soon Man's storage tonight and get all the medicinal herbs.
Jang Gun.
Hide the land certificate.
Will you hand the clinic over to Im Soon Man?
You cannot do that! I will not allow it!
We will have nowhere to go!
Who said I would hand the clinic over? Not a chance.
We will just get the medicinal herbs.
Father, have you lost your mind? Are you running a fever?
Do you not know what he is capable of? He will not hand them over.
Physician Gye, did you not have enough of his antics?
Come to your senses.
I must say, you are a lot more naive...
than you seem.
Let us rob his storage!
Let us go clear out his storage.
Jang Gun can do it too.
I am in!
No way.
Right?
We will go there and get everything in his storage.
Tonight!
Hangover soup!
That scoundrel likes to drink.
Every night, when the curfew bell rings,
he gets a bottle of liquor and hangover soup delivered to him.
Hangover soup!
That is when we will raid his storage.
(Liquor)
What is it?
Hangover soup.
It is the soup from Namhansanseong.
Oh, for Lord Im?
Take it to the kitchen.
It smells delicious.
Is this expensive?
Of course, it is. It has abalone in it.
I will give you a bowl each.
Would you spread the good word about it?
Sure thing!
Here.
Let me pour you some rice wine first.
- What? Rice wine? - Rice wine? Oh, my.
We had a break-in!
The storage is empty!
We got everything stolen!
Thieves!
Catch the thieves!
- Catch the thieves! - Oh, dear. Hurry and get them!
Thieves!
Catch the thieves!
What?
What happened?
My herbs.
My medicinal herbs. Where did it all go?
I had to jump through hoops to get them!
These rats.
These darned thieves!
The thieves ran away.
You fool. You do not have time to waste your breath!
Go after them!
Come on.
Oh, okay.
- Stop! - Get them!
- Stop right there! - Stop!
- Go after them! - Get them!
- Go after them! - Go!
You must catch the thieves no matter what!
- Do you understand? - Yes, my lord. Oh, dear.
Hurry!
- Move it! - Yes, my lord.
Go after them!
We got everything.
Okay, good.
All right.
I am paying him more than the market price.
Let us go!
Eun Woo.
- Stop! - Get them!
- Catch the thieves! - Hurry!
Hey, come on.
Careful. Make sure they do not get mixed up.
Yes, my lord.
Hurry.
We are back.
Oh, hey!
Did anything bad happen?
He can be brutal regarding his possessions.
It sounds like you were worried about me.
As if I would ever be worried about you.
Look at this.
He had this in storage.
Is this not...
hangsacho?
Correct. It is a rare herb,
but he managed to have some in storage.
It will work wonders on measles.
Let us render them into pills to give out tomorrow.
Sure.
Chin up.
Here you go.
You thieves.
I am sure you stole my herbs.
We do not appreciate nonsense so early in the morning.
Just look at yourself.
Are you that scared of the plague?
Get in line and receive a pill, then.
Pay more for the herbs!
I have the faintest idea as to what you are saying,
but maybe I should file a report on your behalf...
regarding the hoarded herbs that were stolen.
Or maybe I should write an appeal to His Majesty.
Why you... Darn it!
Get away from me.
Shoo!
I will soon have you removed from this village.
You wait and see.
Good grief.
Not even a tiger would be bothered to eat him.
Is this all we have?
Out of the herbs we have,
we made 4-Geun worth of pills, so we will have 2 nyang more.
I hope this works for now.
Good job, both of you.
Right.
Goodness.
Give it here. You already had one.
Darn.
Unbelievable.
Having more will not make you any better.
How are your blisters?
Physician Gye, you must see this.
The pills seem to be working.
We should find more hangsacho.
I see. His blisters have weakened in colour.
If this is measles, scabs should be forming by now.
But those purple blisters...
No, it cannot be. This has to be a coincidence.
All the dansacho was burned years ago.
Please help.
Please do not let my brother die.
Please help him.
Here. Let me see him.
Let me see.
Young girl, were you with him all this time?
And you are not sick?
The disease did not spread to someone in close proximity?
Then...
We must move the sick to the mountain hut right away.
Hesitating increases the chance of the disease reaching Hanyang.
You will be held accountable.
It is why the sick are currently in quarantine.
We are not certain of the disease...
or if it is one that can cause an epidemic.
The medicine we are administering is effective.
We need time in order to have answers.
The sick are worried about being abandoned in the woods.
Are you suggesting we let them live among us...
and bring on a mass death?
Around 8 or 9 out of 10 will die once they catch the disease.
Whether they die here or at the mountain hut...
is no different.
We should at least keep the healthy safe.
Physician Gye, what are your thoughts?
You are right, Royal Inspector Cho.
Physician Gye.
If this is not the plague,
the sick will recover even at the mountain hut.
But if this is the plague,
quarantining them at a mountain hut would save the entire village.
What? The last thing I expected was for you to say what is right.
I disagree. It is a rash decision.
One of the patients died.
See?
The treatments were working, you said?
Bury those who are dead...
and drag the sick to the mountain hut right away!
Yes, my lord.
A mountain hut in Surit Village...
has been vacated for those sick with the plague.
Right this instant,
the sick will make their way there.
- But... - Right now?
So you can torch the place?
Please do not send us there.
But my honey will soon be ready to harvest.
You have been commanded.
Anyone who disobeys...
will be punished by the law.
- No... - You cannot do this.
Take them away!
- No! - Do not take us.
- Please. - Do not do this.
(Gyesoo Clinic)
Please have mercy!
Please wait.
Can you release him for a moment?
What are your thoughts?
The hangsacho must not be a cure.
Will I die soon?
What do you mean the medicine is not effective?
Do not think that for I will not give up.
We will find a cure for you.
You liars.
I know you will only leave us to die.
And you call yourselves physicians?
What if this disease was truly brought on by dansacho?
You cold-blooded...
("Haedongboncho")
What do you think you are doing?
My mentor, I deeply apologize.
Jeon Kyu Hyung deceived the people...
by claiming to treat leprosy with dansacho.
After resigning from the Medical Office,
he came out here to farm dansacho.
Every record he had on it...
must be burned down to the last page.
No one...
should ever know about this poisonous herb.
("Haedongboncho")
The plague was reported,
and the Second State Councillor will soon find out.
He and his people must believe it to be the plague.
Once they connect the illness to dansacho,
they will destroy the village and its people.
If it is because of dansacho,
half a day after they die,
the bodies swell...
and purple blisters form.
What are you doing?
Step aside! There is no time for this!
What has been on your mind all day?
If you think it is something other than a plague...
If you followed me here to talk nonsense,
get lost!
Then why are you doing this?
All the patients in the mountain huts will die.
You must know that!
What do you know? What could you know?
What do I not know?
Tell me so we can solve this together.
You go around at night like this,
which is why people gossip and call you mad!
It is something you must not know.
Step aside.
Come with me.
Help me cure the patients who still have a chance.
Do you think you are great...
and can cure any and all patients?
You arrogant fool.
No. I just think we should at least be with the sick.
What could be worse than dying without being seen by a physician?
Fine!
So you sat with the sick as they trembled.
Did you save any?
You stepped out of line and got in the way,
and never even saved a life!
All you do is talk!
Move! I have no time for you!
It is purple.
And this shape...
It is not a plague.
It is dansacho.
What is he hiding from us?
You are in the way. Move.
Will you stop wiping the table?
Why do you do this yourself?
Why are you here this early?
I am here to see Physician Gye.
To discuss the patients in the mountain hut.
Father, come on out! The royal inspector is here.
I will go to the hut.
- Let me. - Young Master.
What got into you?
Once you go, you can only leave a corpse.
What? Will you burn the hut down before anyone can leave?
Even so, I will go.
I will not abandon my patients.
What an admirable physician you are.
Do as you wish.
Sir. He is speaking nonsense out of passion and temper.
What are you up to?
Is this about last night?
A physician should not abandon...
his patients.
They all said you need not go,
but you are darn stubborn.
Why do you have to be the one to volunteer?
Put this down and return to the clinic.
Young Master.
I am not going to my death.
This is beef jerky.
You must eat well to beat the plague.
You are giving me jerky?
What a rare occurrence.
I will remember it forever.
I have something to give the physician.
He cannot treat patients without it.
Are you okay with that?
(Do not pass)
Eun Woo.
Physician Yoo.
You do not look well. You are working too hard.
Eun Woo. The blisters that appear on the infected are different...
from anything I have seen or read about.
It could be a completely different plague.
What?
Go to Surit Village where the first cases occurred...
and look into it.
I will do that. Please look after yourself as well.
You too.
What is it?
I think you should read this first.
(Report)
A plague?
Purple blisters?
My lord.
Allow us to burn down the mountain huts in Sorak Village.
The symptoms...
could be those of a dansacho addiction.
Did we not burn the remaining plants?
Some could have sprouted without us knowing.
It is just a precaution,
but I believe you must tread carefully.
You should have destroyed it all completely.
You should not have left a single leaf or a stray seed.
Wait, child.
Why are you running away? I will not harm you.
Let me go. I am not sick.
You must be hungry.
Eat this.
Are you the only one who is not sick in Surit Village?
What did you and others eat before everyone fell ill?
Medicinal herbs and seasoned vegetables...
Right, we also harvested honey and sold it to other villages.
Honey?
Do you have more of those cookies?
I will give you some honey. Let us exchange them.
Physician Gye.
Lady Seo.
The infected have been put under quarantine.
How come more people are getting infected?
I do not understand either.
I visited Surit Village earlier in the day.
Do you happen to recognize this flower?
A boy gave me honey made with pollen from that flower,
so I had some.
But I have a mild headache now.
Lady Seo, take some hyangsosan at once.
Why...
What is the matter?
Physician Yoo.
Excuse me. Are you all right?
We will all die.
We are all going to die! We are dying.
You fool. Shut your mouth!
You piece of...
Stop.
Break it up!
Come on. Stop.
This is...
You lunatic.
You talked as though you would save everyone in the world.
Is this all you can do? Come on!
How did you get in here?
I am not a fool like you.
I can come in here if I want to.
Why are you in such a daze when you should be treating the sick?
How could you call yourself a physician?
There is nothing I can do.
I am treating them with medicine, but it is progressing rapidly.
Get your act together!
I thought you were a skilled physician. Is this all you can do?
You went out to look for strange herbs when I told you not to.
You were so full of yourself.
Yet you are not doing anything when your skills are needed?
You are clearly a dunce.
You must save them.
Do not give up. You must find a cure!
If it were something I could find,
I would even cross the fiery pit of death.
The moment you give up, you lose your patients.
You must believe that they can be cured for them to get better.
Lady Seo now has those blisters too.
Are you sure?
When did it happen?
Today.
You said you would even cross the fiery pit of death.
Did you really mean it?
Yes, of course.
Is there something you know?
Please tell me.
I have seen the same symptoms before.
Is it true?
Then how come you have not said anything all this time?
If it is the same disease, those infected are bound to die.
How come? Is there no cure?
There is, but it is practically useless.
Why?
It is an herb called samaecho, but it is extremely poisonous.
It is so deadly that it could kill you.
"Haedongboncho."
(It does not grow well in Joseon's soil.)
Samaecho.
"It does not grow well in Joseon's soil."
"It died a month after it sprouted."
(It died a month after it sprouted.)
Did you read "Haedongboncho?"
I found a medical textbook I had not seen before, so I read it.
Also, it is the link between you and my father.
There is no way he knows how it is connected to dansacho.
If samaecho can cure this disease,
I will find it.
It does not grow in Joseon.
You are wrong. There is something you missed.
Look. "We turned the soil over."
"We found a cool, moist, and windy spot..."
"that fits all the conditions that it likes and planted it again."
That means...
they grew the plant somewhere.
(Samaecho)
I do not know what it was about,
but there was a map hidden inside the book.
There was a hidden map?
Yes.
I will find it no matter what.
I will find it and save people.
A high altitude.
Where cool, dry winds blow.
I will find it no matter what.
I have been ordered to burn down the huts along with Yoo Se Yeob.
We are ready. We await your orders, sir.
Okay.
Eun Woo.
You cannot enter this place.
I told you to stay away.
What are you trying to do here?
Do not tell me that you will burn this place down.
It is none of your business.
Return to the clinic at once.
I have contracted the plague too.
What?
Is it true?
So I will go in there with the others who are also sick.
If you set the place on fire, you will kill me as well.
No, Eun Woo. I cannot let you enter this place.
Return to the clinic at once to receive treatment.
Leave now!
What is going on here?
Why are you here? Where is Physician Yoo?
He is a useless physician who cannot even perform acupuncture.
It is why I sent him out to find the herb...
that would cure this illness.
How dare you violate a national command.
Anyone who disobeys my orders...
will be beheaded.
Await further instructions.
This is the final location.
Please...
Please.
All hope is lost.
Where did you go leaving the sick behind?
I did not abandon anyone.
I am returning from my search to find the cure.
Did I not warn you that you could only leave the hut in death?
Defiance will not be tolerated.
I can cure the sick.
If you are to off me,
do so after I render these herbs.
I beg of you.
The herbs will be delivered.
However, this is where your body will lie.
Why?
Why is this necessary?
It is not because I disobeyed your order.
Is there another reason as to why you must kill me?
This is not personal.
You must die...
for the stability of this nation...
and the royal family.
Do you not hear how preposterous that is?
What am I, anyway?
I am sorry.
You have a fever.
And blisters have formed.
Such nonsense...
You have the plague.
Royal Inspector Cho.
Royal Inspector Cho!
The mountain hut will be burned down!
Reckless, I see.
I am carrying out a royal command,
so step aside!
Are you saying that His Majesty...
ordered the sick to be locked in a hut...
and burned with the illness?
That is utter nonsense.
Utter nonsense?
Imprison those who defy.
Starting with him.
I will not treat and protect...
the patients who seek me out.
Harm them in any way,
and I will shed blood.
You will die with us all!
Devoted, I see.
Are you that willing to die?
Sure. Kill me already!
No, do not harm my father.
Such morons.
Arrest them all!
Lock arms.
Do not dare.
Hold your ground.
Let go of me!
- Do not waste time. - You...
Darn you all!
Fine.
- Hold your ground. - I will burn the place down myself.
Move!
Stop!
Stop what you are doing.
Dunce, is that you?
I have the cure. We can save everyone.
Royal Inspector Cho?
Explain yourself!
The royal inspector is also sick.
Move him inside so that he can be treated.
You... How dare you.
You...
Are we good?
Again with the gloating. Head on, then.
Physician Gye.
Father, this is the cure.
We can save everyone!
Do not touch that.
No one is to touch the herb until instructed.
Lady Eun Woo?
Now tell me.
How is that plant used?
It is not a plague.
This illness. Is it caused by the herb called dansacho?
Its antidote is samaecho,
and the symptoms of the current plague.
Dansacho could be the only cause.
Am I right?
Yes.
It is poisonous,
but it is also the only cure for leprosy.
Dansacho got mixed in...
with the vegetables and honey the children gathered.
That is how they all got sick.
Thank you.
My old master used to live in Surit Village.
That is where we studied dansacho,
and where my master completed writing "Haedongboncho."
Did you find out how much samaecho is needed to cure the sick?
My master...
was murdered by someone.
I survived because I was a coward and hid behind a tree.
My excuse...
was that...
I needed to survive to spread my master's knowledge.
That is why...
I can do nothing but drink now.
They are scary people. Do you understand?
One wrong move and we all die.
Who did such a thing?
I will tell you if we get out alive.
That is why...
you must never mention dansacho.
Just pretend samaecho is the cure to the plague.
Very well. Tell me what must be done and how much we must use.
Eun Woo is very ill.
The only way to know is to test it on people.
You...
Spit it out. Even a small amount can be deadly.
Dansacho is more deadly when dried than when freshly picked,
and samaecho works as a cure once blisters have formed.
You crazy...
Here. Eat this, quick!
Stay with me. Yoo Se Yeob!
Yoo Se Yeob, snap out of it!
Yoo Se Yeob.
Yoo Se Yeob! Wake up!
Young Master. You are awake.
Man Bok. What happened?
Stay still.
Good. This is good.
How is this good?
You had a fever all night.
My gosh.
Your blisters had gone,
but you did not wake up.
I thought you would not wake for good and...
Eun Woo. How is she?
Well, she...
Young Ma...
Eun Woo.
Physician Yoo.
Eun Woo.
Are you all right?
Can you speak and see?
Are you okay?
You look worse than she does.
You are worried about her?
Yes.
The plant you brought back cured me.
I can see,
and I feel better.
Why did you do something so rash?
You could die. I had no time to think.
Why did you save me?
When I tried to kill you.
Because you are my patient.
I would like you to...
write a report...
saying it is not a plague but a sickness that does not spread.
If you say it is a plague, they will command you to burn the huts.
Save the villagers.
Why must we give up on them...
when they can be cured?
If I eat this, will it make me better?
This is what I ate to get better.
I heard you went to some island to find this.
Is that true?
Yes.
I brought back enough, so do not worry.
This was...
all it took to save us?
My gosh...
My goodness...
My poor babies who died...
If we had had this,
if there had been someone like you then,
they would not have died like that.
I am sorry.
Oh, dear...
Sorak Village's plague...
Am I right?
Yes.
Dansacho got mixed in with the vegetables...
and honey the children gathered.
That is how they all got sick.
It is an unidentified disease that is not infectious.
The medicine I gave right before we burned down the huts...
took effect right away,
so the disease is now gone from Sorak Village.
As for Physician Yoo Se Yeob,
I will take care of him as per your order,
so do not be concerned.
One says it was an unidentified disease,
and the other one says it was caused by dansacho.
Who should I believe?
Why did you try to kill me?
The late King passed away because of my foolish mistake.
I am a mere physician who was banished from the Palace.
So why?
Your father is the powerful Second State Councillor.
I do not understand why you tried to take my life.
Why?
Tell me.
Was it...
the Second State Councillor?
You did...
unsheathe your sword...
but could not actually do it.
Now,
are you going to kill me?
- Do you know this medicinal herb? - This is...
If someone poisoned the late King with dansacho,
I must uncover the truth!
This is not just about you. Everyone at the clinic...
No. Everyone in Sorak Village will be put in danger!
Was it a coincidence that Eun Woo got hurt?
It is possible that they sent another assassin.
It is my fault. I should have followed her.
You? Why?
The tiger cub got his hands on the crucial evidence...
that the late King was killed by poison?
I will not forgive anyone...
who hurts Eun Woo.
Likewise.
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