"(Episode 48)" "I don't know why he's trying to implicate me in this... but he shouldn't do such thing" "And I heard that he told you... that I had forged the written will?" "What loser could forge a dead person's document?" "!" "I couldn't even have thought of it!" "I don't know what the will says... but could the dying person have written down lies?" "He probably wrote with the conscience of a dying person" "How could he...?" "!" "What's going on?" "His life was in jeopardy so we hid him for a while" "His life in jeopardy?" "He is the only person who knows everything about the sulfur duck case" "When I had visited his house to ask him to disclose the truth" "I found an assassin there so I followed him, but I lost him" "An assassin?" "Who could've sent an assassin to him?" "Probably people who are afraid of the truth" "Then why did you hide him rather than reporting it to the police?" "I'm sorry to say this but it's because of me" "I needed some time to prepare myself to pay for the crime" "So I asked him for more time" "You see!" "Didn't I tell you that it was a forged document?" "What's this about?" "!" "I'm asking you a question!" "Actually..." "the head lady instigated..." "You see!" "What did I tell you?" "!" "That girl is crazy!" "Never!" "I've never done such thing!" "How dare you lie in this place?" "!" "Lady Choi, be quiet!" "This is a setup!" "So "the thief turns on the master with a club"" "As you know now from observing everything... it's clear Lady Choi made this up and the sulfur duck case was caused... by the grudges of the kitchen ladies just as I had told you" "Repent and tell the truth!" "Sir!" "You shouldn't be saying such words!" "What?" "!" "It is something both of you have done" "What?" "!" "What are you talking about?" "Choi Pan-Sul, the brother of the head lady plotted it first so the Royal Physician and I blamed the kitchen... for our misdiagnosis, when it was being investigated..." "Sir Oh who was the head of investigations at the time... kept silent even though he knew about it and... charged Sir Jo with treason in the process" "You rascal!" "What are you babbling about as a misdiagnosing physician?" "!" "Do you expect to keep your life?" "Sir Min is scheming to implicate me into Lady Choi's crime... that's why he hid him to plot against me" "Everything was Lady Choi's doing and I only followed... the order of the King to administer with justice with fairness" "That's not so, sir!" "This happened because the physician lady..." "Jang-Geum still hates me from that last event" "That's why she's trying to implicate me into Sir Oh's crime" "What?" "!" "Didn't I tell you that..." "I wasn't even in the palace when that happened" "Everyone knows that!" "Isn't that right, sir?" "Isn't that right, Lady Min?" "You heard what Lady Han said!" "Isn't that right?" "Why can't you speak?" "Though you weren't in the palace when it happened you were here when we were checking the ducks" "Why you...?" "!" "You're still lying!" "Lying to the end!" "You only have to tell what happened" "Who is she?" "The labor girl in the kitchen at the time" "She's the one who sampled the duck dish" "Tell us." "Was Lady Choi in the palace at the time?" "Yes... she was in the palace" "When they called for me I saw the head lady and Lady Yoon" "And Lady Yoon quietly called for me later... and gave me a King's dish that I've never tasted before" "And she gave me a letter to deliver to the head lady who was testing... the duck dishes, so I only..." "You rascal!" "Do you know where you're right now?" "!" "Tell the truth!" "Just because Lady Yoon has died it doesn't mean the truth is hidden!" "The heaven and earth know this!" "This is a setup to get rid of me!" "How could I be in the palace?" "!" "Who could've freed me that Lady Han had tied me in the Guesthouse?" "Didn't I free you?" "Did Lady Park make a decision?" "Yes" "Why didn't she come herself?" "She has said, as a criminal already I will now enter the Song-Duk Temple" "And she has given me all of them" "What did she give you?" "It was delivered secretly to Lady Choi... who was at the place where they tested the duck on Hong" "She told her to give it to Hong and... you'll find who wrote it by reading the name on the last line" "And the person who was in charge of the investigation is Sir Oh" "The head lady, and Sir Oh please tell the truth now" "I don't know!" "I know nothing of this!" "I was only doing my work I didn't know anything!" "Everything was done by Lady Choi!" "Oh, no!" "It's a setup!" "It's a setup!" "Jang-Geum has fabricated this against me!" "It's all her fabrication!" "Sir, listening and seeing all the evidence, the head physician is right" "We can't prove any more than this" "We're going to tell this to the King and wait for his order" "Detain Lady Choi under the supervision of eunuchs... and put Sir Oh under house arrest" "Hey!" "Detain me?" "!" "I've done nothing wrong!" "I am innocent!" "Why you...?" "!" "I will not forgive you!" "I won't forgive you!" "I'm not going to end up like this!" "They don't know my family I won't go away like this!" "Your Majesty, please appoint a judge and punish them for treason" "And you should disclose everything so such thing won't happen again" "Your Majesty, it hasn't been long since the court has known peace" "Many people will get hurt if you do that" "I believe it's best for the police to take care of the situation" "Your Majesty, please understand..." "Your Majesty, please understand..." "Listen." "I'm appointing the Left Prime Minister as the judge... so let the truth be known and severely punish the criminals" "Your grace is immeasurable Your Majesty" "Take Sir Oh into custody" "Seize all of merchant Choi's assets" "Arrest the head lady and all other criminals!" "Tie-up the criminal!" "Sir... please allow me to walk out of the kitchen at least" "Release her" "Sir!" "My Lord..." "Father..." "Return to the house" "Sir!" "My Lord..." "Father..." "Open the door" "You, this way." "You, that way" "Let's go this way!" "What are you doing?" "Why aren't you leaving?" "!" "What are you doing?" "!" "Start rowing!" "Hurry!" "Hurry!" "You're so noisy!" "You aren't going to say you don't know me, are you?" "Where do you think you're going?" "Stay right there!" "Let go!" "You should at least pay me the overdue balance!" "Let go!" "Let go!" "Let's go" "What did I tell you?" "I told you he'd try to run away like this" "Thank you for your help" "I'll send you the report of expenses later" "Sure, make sure you get enough" "Enough..." "I only followed the order of King so I have nothing to do with this" "Unless ignorance is a crime how can I be charged with anything?" "Sir!" "Listen, how could you do this just because we have different opinions?" "Other criminals are here with you" "As a person who held a high office stop lying for your name's sake" "What?" "!" "We found that you've diverted the funds through the fields of..." "Sung-Gyun College as a paid high official of the court" "And you gave merchant Choi Pan-Sul the monopoly over important products that come into the court and you've been paid with land" "It was under your son's and grandson's name" "But that has nothing to do with this!" "Sir!" "Just the fact that you've secretly traded with the enemy state... is more than enough to charge you with crime" "Secret trade with an enemy...?" "!" "Are you going to deny this too?" "Please keep your decency!" "Sir..." "What is it?" "The head lady has disappeared" "What are you saying?" "We locked her up so how could she disappear?" "We didn't think she would run away so we sent her to the restroom..." "Find her immediately She couldn't have gone far" "Yes, sir" "She's not far away You get to Mapo port" "You, Mu-Ak-Jae and you, Kwang port" "Move quickly!" "There's still time..." "There is..." "Madam!" "You're here, please let me meet the King's Mother" "Even if I have to go away, I'd like to see her before I go." "Please..." "Here, keep this" "Please help me see the King's Mother and I'll take care of the rest" "Hurry..." "Hurry" "What?" "I'm feeling guilty giving them... responsibility of protecting the Crown Prince... so what more does she want to say by meeting me?" "Tell the police and get her arrested!" "Right now!" "Yes, Your Majesty" "Go to the police immediately" "What?" "!" "King's Mother is very angry She told me to report to the police but I came to you because of our past friendship" "Please go to the police yourself I'm headed to the eunuchs right now" "Lady Kim!" "Lady Kim!" "Ma... madam!" "Be quiet!" "Ho... how did you get...?" "You go out quietly from here and tell the attendant lady of the King" "Excuse me?" "I must be presented to the King" "Just tell her that" "But right now..." "Hurry!" "What are you doing?" "Go tell her right now!" "How rude..." "When I get my power back, you'll be the first one to go" "Our family can't end like this and I'm won't be the one ending it!" "No way!" "No way!" "I must think... think... what must I do... think what must I do" "Lady Choi is in the storage room" "Are you sure?" "Yes, Madam" "Madam, what is it?" "What is it?" "OK!" "I'll meet the King myself!" "I'll die before him if I have to..." "I gave you more than enough chances" "What chance?" "Chance to die?" "No, a chance to keep your honor" "A chance to go away with honor" "Honor?" "What?" "Just what has made you like this?" "Why did you do such things... that put you in this kind of danger and wretchedness?" "Just what has made you like this?" "It's wealth, power, and my household!" "Are they more important than yourself?" "Are they more important than your life and honor?" "Have you ever thought about how your name would stay in this palace?" "If you win, I will be dishonored;" "if I win, my name will be honored" "That's wealth." "That's power Those without power don't know!" "That's why I'm not letting go of my hand of power" "That's why I'm helping you to release your clenched hand" "For once, open up that clenched fist which you think is wealth and power" "In it you'll only find the blood and tears of innocent people... instead of wealth and power" "That's your hand" "The King has already made the decision so all of Choi Pan-Sul's assets have been seized and Choi Pan-Sul" "Sir Oh Kyum-Ho and Keum-Young have been arrested" "If you don't go to the police..." "Keum-Young will be charged with everything" "Lady Han falsely accused herself of a crime in order to save me" "I believe you'll be like her at least in that way" "I believe there is at least one thing that's similar between us" "Please turn yourself in" "Keum..." "Keum-Young... is innocent" "You should've just reported it, why did you come here?" "I know..." "Madam, should I go tell them?" "Please don't" "Why?" "She'll turn herself in" "I wish she'd turn herself in" "It's you!" "It's you!" "No" "It is you!" "Myeong, myself... and Jang-Geum..." "you drove us to death!" "No." "You brought to yourselves to it" "Lady Choi!" "I told you many times already!" "You had to do such detestable thing?" "!" "I cannot forgive you You should've kept it to yourself but you had to tell the taster lady, didn't you?" "I don't know why it was you who had to witness it that day" "And that wasn't enough... you had to send your own daughter to the palace... how stubborn of you" "I resented it a hundred no, a thousand times" "I wished you'd never seen it..." "How I wished you and I wouldn't run into another over that" "How I wished..." "If I was born as Park Myeong and you as Choi Sung-Geum... would we have been different?" "If you or Baek-Yeong were born in my family... would you still have been that free?" "I'm really curious So I had no choice..." "So I came back to you, since my evil ways started with you" "Though I made Baek-Yeong leave, she had become the highest lady... and she had a chance to irritate me she even found joy with your daughter so she probably left without regrets" "But you never had the chance to say a thing you died because of trusting me someone you never expected" "If I have to kneel before someone, it's you" "I ask you for forgiveness" "Forgive me for coming from such family" "Forgive me for not being able to free myself from my family" "Forgive my aunt for making me do such things... and the aunt before that... and... the aunt before that..." "and the aunt before... and the rest of my family who used them" "Would you?" "You can't?" "No?" "That's why I'm headed to the police not to ask for forgiveness but to try to save the last hope of my family... to try to save Keum-Young" "Just as you had saved one to send her to me" "I'm going to do the same" "I'm not going to give up on this fight" "It's OK." "Come down" "It's not scary." "Hurry!" "I'm tired!" "My arms are hurting" "Just jump down!" "What are you doing?" "Come down quickly!" "Let go of the tie first and come down!" "I'm scared..." "I can't..." "Then we'll catch you." "How about it?" "It won't hurt a bit." "If you keep hanging there you'll get hurt" "It won't hurt!" "Then I'm going to let go..." "OK." "One, two, three" "We're not sure if she was running away or if it was a suicide... but we found her body at Mt." "Dong-In" "What is it?" "That's the place where my mother's tomb is" "After hearing what happened to her I feel somewhat sad for her..." "Me, too, if she committed suicide..." "What are you saying right now?" "You know who made Lady Jung and Lady Han to suffer..." "Did you forget already?" "She's the one who made our madams and Jang-Geum suffer" "She even did the same to her subordinate Young-Ro" "It's right for her to die this way... paying for what she has done" "Madam... madam..." "This is the order of the King!" "Criminal Oh Kyum-Ho is let go from office and exiled to Huksan Island" "Criminal Park Bu-Kyum is discharged from office and exiled to Jeju" "Criminal Choi Pan-Sul will receive 20 floggings... and sent to a mine in Hamkyung as a laborer" "Criminal Choi Keum-Young have her position taken away" "Criminal Jung Yoon-Su will be discharged from office... and forbidden to practice medicine anymore" "Criminal Park Yeul-Yee will be discharged from office... and forbidden to practice medicine anymore" "Sir?" "Check him!" "Sa-Ryun, go to the pharmacy and get Jang-Geum" "I have something to give you" "The letter your mother left you..." "Aunt asked me to burn it but I didn't" "That's me..." "I can't be fully devoted to my family and yet I don't have my own ways" "I have no perfect confidence and I have no sense of self-accusation" "I have no perfect talent and I have no perfect diligence" "I've never received perfect love and I've never given perfect love" "I'm sorry" "That's all I can say to you" "If we meet in our next lives speak anything but those words" "Honey... honey..." "Everyone, may I get your attention!" "What is today?" "It's when the swallow starts to build its nest... and shortly after the flowers blossomed" "Then what is today?" "What is today?" "It's the day Jang-Geum can start relax and sleep well!" "Jang-Geum wasn't able to go to sleep because my wife bothered her so much" "And Lady Choi made her very anxious!" "And she was sick of Sir Oh and her nerves were wrecked" "What are you saying?" "What is good for wrecked nerves?" "It is ginseng!" "What are you saying?" "I filled the stomach of chicken with ginseng along with dates and rice..." "What?" "This soup warms the cold person, and cools the hot person and ladies and gentlemen can have stronger bladders!" "You were opposed to her at first but you're rejoicing more than I do" "Right, I did oppose her because it's a very difficult thing to do... and I was afraid she might turn out to become like one of them" "But Jang-Geum didn't follow their ways" "I know..." "She's remarkable indeed" "Yes... though I told her to accomplish the two, I expect this" "Sir, we've made some pancakes for you Is there anything else you need?" "No, we're fine" "It's not so exciting here with Jang-Geum" "When will she come back?" "It's not time for her to be back yet" "I don't know why I miss her so much today" "Since finding out my chronic disease is no small achievement... and you also uncovered many shameful things" "I should give you a reward" "Your Majesty..." "Don't be hesitant to receive it since you deserve it" "Grant Jang-Geum with 77 bushels of rice 77 bushels of beans and 3 lbs of ginseng" "Yes, Your Majesty" "Your grace is immeasurable Your Majesty" "You said you had a wish, didn't you?" "Yes, Your Majesty" "Tell me your wish" "You said you came into the palace for that." "It's alright" "Go ahead and tell us" "I'm sorry to tell you this but I have three wishes." "May I tell them all?" "Three?" "Yes, Your Majesty" "Sure, go ahead" "Please restore the status of Lady Han who died an unfair death" "Of course, we should do that" "Isn't that right, Queen?" "Yes, Your Majesty" "And please restore my mother's status as well" "Your mother?" "Yes." "Actually, my mother was a court lady in the Royal Kitchen" "But how?" "She was punished by rules... after she was falsely charged for being intimate with a man when she witnessed someone put something harmful... in a dish of In-Su King's Mother when she was a kitchen lady" "What?" "!" "What?" "!" "To whom?" "The Highest Kitchen Lady... but my mother managed to survive and lived long enough to have me and when they found out that she was still alive..." "So that's why Lady Choi threatened you" "Yes." "Though she did violate the rule of staying virgin as a court lady... she has suffered undeserved death" "OK." "How could I blame her for that in such a situation?" "We shouldn't have court ladies settling such matters... their own that way anymore" "Yes, Your Majesty." "I'll put more work in managing the court ladies" "OK." "You have one more wish to tell me." "What is it?" "Your Majesty, it is..." "So who became the Highest Kitchen Lady?" "I'm not sure either, who would it be?" "That's Jang-Geum, right?" "Isn't she a physician lady?" "Yes... she used to massage us" "What happened?" "What happened?" "Greet her." "She's the new Highest Lady of the Kitchen" "We're going to prepare the King's table" "Go back to your stations and start the preparation" "Chang-Yee, come and help me" "Yes, ma'am" "Then are you saying that Jang-Geum became the Highest Lady of Kitchen?" "For only next few days until we choose the next highest lady" "Why?" "The King has ordered for it for some reason" "So head physician lady, please rearrange the physician ladies... including Jang-Geum" "The assistant lady can recruit more people if needed" "Selecting the head physician is more urgent... than arranging the Pharmacy" "Yes, I've talked to my superior and... he told me that the pharmacy should decide  report back" "So Physician Shin can be in charge of the treatment of the King" "And Physician Jung can take charge of Sir Shin's post... at the King's Mother's and the Queen's palace" "Then how should we refer to Jang-Geum from now on?" "What do you mean?" "Her court lady status has been restored" "She's also the Highest Kitchen Lady" "Even so, at the pharmacy she's subordinate to me" "But, I don't think I could call her as a superior" "Don't worry, she wouldn't mind at all" "I did enjoy your food during the competition some time ago" "You probably haven't been able to cook for a while but your cooking skills haven't diminished at all" "I'm grateful, Your Majesty" "You must've gone through a lot of hardships and difficulties as a child but you've grown up as a smart and honorable person" "Your Majesty, I don't deserve such praise  I'm ashamed to hear it" "No, I had realized something because of you during the competition... and I've realized something great through this as well" "What's going on?" "I don't know" "What happened?" "How could you just appear like this?" "You should've given us an earlier notice or something" "Just speak casually" "How could we when you appeared like this all of sudden?" "It's all right..." "So you're the Highest Kitchen Lady from now on?" "How about being the physician lady?" "So what's your identity?" "She's the Highest Kitchen Lady until they choose a new lady" "Why?" "I heard there's a story to it" "What story?" "This fits you well too" "What story?" "I have something to do" "What is it?" "Jang-Geum, become the Highest Kitchen Lady and write down my grievances... in the book that is passed down to the Highest Kitchen Lady" "Mother..." "I miss you..." "I miss you" "Why are you doing all these by yourself?" "I kept asking many questions and they said I annoyed them... so they told me to do all of these" "I have to see how they make shapes with dried meat" "Don't rush, you shouldn't do a hasty job" "But I must get there quickly" "You can learn how to make shapes later, but if you... don't clean these right, the person who eats from it would feel bad" "And bad things can get in the food as well" "That's what sisters tell me every day, too" "How can you cook with such a quick temper?" "Hey!" "This is the kitchen where we make food" "If you run around like that we'll have dust on the food" "Have you forgotten how you were when you were young?" "Madam!" "When did I do that?" "You can't deny that" "You would've been expelled if you weren't so obedient to my words" "Everyday, you ran around dug up fireplace and broke off pine twigs from the trees" "Myeong says she doesn't know how she managed to have a child like you" "My mother did?" "Yes... she says thank you" "And I thank you as well" "Thank you, Jang-Geum" "Madam..." "I've felt guilty ever since I did that to my father" "I started to miss my mother since she left that way" "And I felt guilty" "I've felt that it was all because of me" "When the guilt and the longing to see her again would sink in my mind..." "I wanted to quit even more" "You told me you even wanted to kidnap me once, right?" "I probably wanted it more" "I remember, even though my parents were lowly class... even though they were fugitives I was happiest at the time" "The bean paste soup my mother made me was so tasty" "The trinket my father made me was so pretty" "I smiled in the blanket hearing my parents talk about me... whenever they shared their worries for me during the night" "So did you complete your work as the Highest Kitchen Lady?" "Yes, by your great grace I was able to complete it" "OK, that's good" "By the way... by the way..." "Go ahead and inquire, Your Majesty" "It was before I was enthroned... when I was at my parent's home a little girl came to me with drinks" "She didn't recognize me and she bowed to the court lady there... and asked to become a court lady" "Wasn't it you?" "You're correct, Your Majesty" "So it was you!" "It was you!" "Yes, Your Majesty"