Ae Shin ran over to him and hugged him. “I’ve already learned every word starting with ‘H’.” She says. When she lets go, Eugene jokes around that she studies english too diligently. She then says that they should move to a different location just in case the medicine shop owner comes back soon. She orders her servants to come in, and she introduces them to Eugene as her left and right hand. Ae Shin leaves for a second, and EUgene jokes and asks Haengrang if he’s the right hand, but he denies and says Haman daek is the right hand. They threaten that if they come to harm Ae Shin they would throw hands. During the silence, Ae Shin finally walks in with her disguised outfit to break the silence. Eugene and Ae Shin leave and squeeze into a rickshaw together, and as the rickshaw was moving, it hit a little bump and Ae Shin automatically puts her arm in front of Eugene to stop him from jerking forward, and they both laugh which breaks the silence between the two. Eugene questions where they were going, but Ae Shin hasn’t thought that far, and Eugene recommends his hotel room. They make their way into the hotel room, and Ae Shin assumes that there were a lot of valuable items in here, and Eugene flirts that he let another valuable item into his room.
Ae Shin walks around and finds the music box, and she asks what it was. Eugene explained what it was, and opened it up. He says it plays a folk tune called “Greensleeves.” He asks if she likes the tune, and she responds saying that she expected more of a cheerful tune but that it was awfully sad. She asks if there was a story behind this music box, and Eugene starts his story. “When I first came to America, I was hungry, cold, afraid. I knew no one there. Everything hurt, but when I was walking around town, I stopped to this upsetting tune in a shop. I remember crying heavily.” She asks if he’s heard it recently, and he responds saying that he only recently listened to the song since he heard someone was hurt. He referred to Ae Shin being shot in the leg.
Eugene asks if she trusts Dong Mae, and she admits she does, because he’s indebted to her. She explains she saved him during his youth.
Eugene isn’t satisfied that Ae Shin trusts Dong Mae, but she assures him that she will be the one to shoot Dong Mae the next time she sees him in her disguise.
They start a conversation about the Righteous Army, and Ae Shin admits whenever she thinks about death she embarks on another insurrection, and that’s why she shoots quickly and accurately and leaves quickly. She said the Righteous Army Soldiers all need each other, and she also admits she’s afraid of death, but thinks this is the right path.
With Dong Mae, him and his gang were walking by and saw a familiar lowborn man. They stop and block him from his way up, and he asks what they wanted. Dong Mae leaned forward and said, “I’m sure we’ve met somewhere, sir.” The man looks up and claims he was mistaken. Him and his gang grab the mysterious guy and dragged him into an alley.
They drew out their swords and made an X in front of his throat. Dong Mae sat in front of him and leaned in front of him. The man was a Righteous Army Soldier, and he demanded Dong Mae to just kill him. Before they do, Dong Mae asks why the Army members fight to die rather than to live. He answers that there was nothing left for us in Joseon, everything here was owned by other countries, from Russia to Japan to US to England, France- but all he could do was fight for what was left.
Dong Mae asks if there were people better than him in Joseon, but the soldiers refused to speak about his comrades. With that, he grabbed those knives that were two inches away from his throat, and tried to kill himself. Dong Mae grabs him and then pushes him onto the ground. “Are you out of your mind?!” He yells. The soldiers says that they will just have the same answer as himself. Dong Mae orders them to drag him away, and they do so.
Ae Shin was outside at the US Embassy, waiting for Eugene, when Domi comes up and asks who she was. Ae Shin jokingly takes it offensive and explains he was the second person to not recognize who she is, and coincidentally Eugene then walks out from the corner, and tries to hide his smile from seeing Ae Shin. He welcomes her in and asks her if she’s here to return his music box, but she jokes that the music box was an excuse for another time.
She asks him to translate something to english, and pulls out her notebook. She pushes it forwards and it says something in Korean. It read “I missed you” but Eugene, who ran away at 9, was a slave, did not know how to read Korean. He laughed and said, “It’s so easy that I shouldn’t even be able to translate it.” Ae Shin did not feel or seem satisfied at all, and as Eugene saw that, he used his fellow soldiers as an excuse and greeted them. Eugene mumbles something and walks away. Ae Shin smirks and starts to giggle, assuming he couldn’t read Korean.
As Eugene walks Ae Shin outside, he stops Haengrang and asks him about a medicine Haman Daek and Haengrang gave him the other day at the Medicine Shop. He explains it’s for your feet to get rid of body toxins, and he also warns Eugene never to drink the brew. He then leaves, and Eugene gags at the brew that he drinked.
Later on, Eugene goes to the Pawn Shop to pick up some stuff, and on his way back home, he runs into Lee Se Hun on his carriage. The minister looks at him and the carriage carriers run away. Eugene gives him a death stare, and then jumps off his horse.
Se Hun ordered every guard next to him to attack Eugene, and Eugene defends himself and came out with only one scratch on his chin. He grabs one of the swords and swings it onto the minister’s neck, vowing to kill him tonight. Se Hun clarifies that no american would dare kill the minister of foreign affairs of Joseon. Eugene, now angry and upset, says that he wouldn’t die of an American, he would die of a Joseon man. He then recalls his father, beaten up to death, his mother, threw himself into a well, and him, only 9 years old, running away to America.
Se Hun’s memory starts to clear to this day, and he laughs as if Eugene was making a funny joke. He then notices that this was no joke, and starts to beg for forgiveness. Eugene tells him to stop begging or he’d want to kill him right here, right now.
Later during the night, Se Hun looks around his room to find all his gold gone. He yells for his stolen wealth, and one second later there were gunshots. It was Seung Gu and Eugene’s gun, and Se Hun frantically finds a gun in his room and makes his way outside. He yells and gathers all the servants and tries to find out how to use the gun, and accidentally shoots a young servant girl. He seems to have no remorse, and blames the girl for being stupid for standing there. The other servants try to get the girl to seek treatment, but Se Hun stops them and threatens that if they didn’t call the backup forces first he would shoot them.
While this was happening, Eugene goes inside Se Hun’s room and slips a rolled up paper into his vase, a banknote.
Before the minister could shoot the other servants, Seung Gu shoots Se Hun’s arm, and cocks it to make another shot. Before he could, the Joseon Forces entered the gateway to Se Hun’s home. Minister Lee Jung Moon orders the force to search through his house to find the bank note. After the force goes into his home, Jung Moon calls Se Hun a criminal, and Se Hun denies that he has the banknote. Right at that moment, a soldier comes out with a vase, and Jung Moon smashes it onto the ground. A rolled piece of paper comes out and Jung Moon opens it up. Then, the emperor enters and Jung Moon informs him that the banknote was found in Lee Se Hun’s home. The emperor orders Jung Moon to kill him, and he does so. Seung Gu, was staring down at the emperor. He remembers that the emperor abandoned him as a teenager, and cocks the gun at him, but Eugene stops him. “I don’t know your story, but I think one traitor tonight is enough.”
The next day, Eugene waits for Ae Shin at the dock by the inn, but the river was frozen. When Ae Shin arrives, they smile at each other, but Ae Shin quickly notices the cut on this chin. She asks what happened, and Eugene lies that it was from training. He points out that she didn’t need a wherryman since the river was frozen, but Ae Shin says that they could walk together.
As they walked, Ae Shin brung up Lee Se Hun’s death, and how no one was mourning for him.
Ae Shin then asked how he ended up in the US, and seemed interested in the long backstory she was awaiting for. But Eugene explains that if she knows, they’d need to part ways. Ae Shin wonders why, but Eugene starts the story. He explains that he ran away when he was 9 and took a boat to America. Ae Shin asks why a 9 year old would run away, and he explained that it was the order from an ignobleman who ordered people to kill young Eugene, as it was good for the fellow slaves.
Ae Shin finally comes to the realization that Eugene was a SLAVE in Joseon.
Comments
GOD THE ENDING-
THE ENDING MADE ME SO ANGRY PLEASE
Okay so this episode as you can tell and if you haven’t LAUGH OUT LOUD (bye) made me really mad for some reason, the middle part when Se Hun died was funny it was such a great way to get back at the man who killed Eugene’s parents-
The ending got me so angry because it literally nerve wrecking to watch the next episode (FEW MONTHS AGO I WAS BEGGING TO WATCH THE 10TH EPISODE AND IT WAS SO NERVE WRECKING), when Ae Shin found out that Eugene was previously a low-life and not a nobleman’s son during his childhood, her reaction was so hard to look at. Her face just turned into stone, realizing who Eugene really is, and deciding if this person is trustworthy to hang around with.
