Dae Wang Sejong (2008): Season 1, Episode 28 - Episode #1.28 - full transcript
You're a butcher's son after all.
You must learn to make small
sacrifices for greater cause.
Hundreds of lives are in your hands.
Do you think Prince Choongnyeong
can carry out this execution?
He has to.
What will happen if he does not?
Check!
Proceed with the execution!
There is no pleasure if
winning comes too easy.
Are you that afraid to put
a little blood on your hands?
Your cowardice will cost the
lives of hundreds of people.
What are you waiting for?
Execute all of the prisoners!
Wait!
I'll do it.
I'll kill this man.
But not now.
I won't play this game with you.
We haven't earned the right
to punish this man yet.
The Royal House of Joseon must first
apologize for the brutal purging of the
Wangs in 1394, console the survivors,
and offer reasonable reparations.
Do you know what
you're doing right now?
You're denying the legitimacy
of the Royal House of Joseon.
I'm trying to settle our
shameful past and start a new.
- Here!
- Here!
I concur!
If we take anyone's life lightly,
whoever that might be,
the Royal House no longer
have a reason to exist.
Please urge the King.
We must approach the rebels with
an open heart and reason with them.
And if the rebels do not stop their
violent acts despite our sincere
display of contrition, then we would
be justified in punishing this man.
If they were reasonable men that
would agree to such proposal,
they would never have taken
a Royal Prince hostage.
The Royal House will not
make deals of the rebels.
Your Highness!
What are you waiting for?
Remove the audacious prince
that defied the King's command
and proceed with the execution!
Aye!
No!
Let go of me!
Stop!
Let go!
Small sacrifices are to be expected.
What did you say?
Muby and the others are doing what?
It's the rebels!
Stop them!
Your Highness!
Royal House of Goryeo will
save the people from the slaughterer!
What's this?
It's sulfur.
Creating a smokescreen with sulfur?
Minister of Defense and his
men should be here by now.
One step forward and one stop back.
Persistent bastards...
Hold your men back at the sign of defeat.
Let's get you out of here.
Who made this decision?
This could be a trap!
There is no time, Uncle.
Ilji...
You fool...
How could you let the
boy talk you into this?
How can a man who lets his friend
die attempt to change the world?
Uncle!
Uncle!
Seeing you again was enough.
Stop this foolishness
and get out of here now.
Sire!
I'm going to rest now, but you and the
comrades still have a long road ahead.
Uncle!
Uncle!
Uncle!
Your Highness.
Uncle!
Uncle!
Uncle!
Uncle...
Now for the final move...
Open up a retreat path for them an
appropriate time and go after them.
That's the quickest way to wipe them out.
Wipe out the rebels!
Attack!
I'm sorry.
Just go and take the master to safety!
But...
We'll have to clear out of Mt. Inwang.
I got you covered so get out of here!
Attack!
Master!
You must go now, Master.
They're coming after us!
Why didn't you carry out the execution?
Why won't you ask how
many citizens died?
Rebels are not citizens of this state.
Merely twenty years ago, those who
sought to bring down Goryeo and
erect Joseon were the rebels.
How dare you!
Joseon is a violent state that murdered
Jeong Mongju, killed off the scholars
of Dumundong, slaughter the surviving
royals in cold blood, and even killed
fellow revolutionaries at the
slightest sign of noncompliance!
How dare you deny the legitimacy
of Joseon and defend the rebels!
And you're a Royal Prince of Joseon?
I will not be a Royal Prince.
I forfeit my royal status
as of this moment today.
If we can't reflect on our past mistakes
and continue to rule with violence,
if that is the very fabric of
Joseon that won't change,
I refuse to continue
living as its Royal prince.
Very well.
Your wish will be granted.
Take him away.
Banish Choongnyeong to the
northern states immediately!
Yes, Your Majesty.
Why did you take such a foolish risk?
To save your uncle?
No, sire.
I wanted to show the people
that we're here.
I wanted the people that
are groaning under tyranny
and oppression to know that
they have us behind them.
I see.
You may go.
You shouldn't have provoked the King.
This would never have happened
if you did as the King and I asked
and stayed out of state affairs.
I'm sorry, Mother...
Go far away.
And...
Don't ever come back.
Please be well.
Have a few thick quilts ready.
Don't forget to have them
filled with plenty of cotton.
Your Highness...
Spring may be around the corner,
but the northern states are still cold.
Don't focus on Mt. Inwang alone.
Send the troops to Mt. Bugak as well.
Envoys are arriving starting tomorrow.
Yes, I know.
I'm surprised, Minister Hwang.
I was told you were one of
the scholars of Dumundong.
Yes, I am.
If you were determined to die
for Goryeo at one time,
you should be moved by
Choongnyeong's words today.
But instead you're focused on capturing the
rebels ignoring Choongnyeong completely.
Forgive me, but may I be alone?
I have a lot of thinking to do regarding
protocol in reception of the envoys.
Why did you give up?
It could've been your chance to make
up to your peers of Dumundong.
After all, you're an expert negotiator.
Do you know how I became
an expert negotiator?
By never engaging in a fight I can't win.
You don't think the rebels will go for it?
No, because I know
I can't defeat the King.
I do not agree with the King's ways.
But I am powerless to defeat him.
And I do not have the ability
to silence the theory
that violence is necessary
evil for future peace.
That is why I wagered everything on you.
You, Your Highness, are going to be
the first King since the founding of
Joseon who did not undergo
the usurpation process.
I beg you to be a benevolent ruler
so not to allow history stained with
bloody revenge to be repeated.
Did you wish to see me?
How much military
provisions do we have left?
What is the meaning of this?
What are you thinking?
This is quite pathetic for final
gift to offer to my comrades.
But at least this will get you
through the next few weeks.
Master.
Avoid the enemy and get yourselves
out of this mountain before daybreak.
This is my last order as your leader.
And give up the revolution?
I can't push my comrades
into the jaws of death.
What is the meaning of this?
You might have been the one
who started this revolution,
but it's not up to you to end it.
I will not forget your loyalty
to the Royal House.
We're not Royals, is that it?
So it's okay for us not to
feel guilty for being alive?
Do you think we're here simply because
we once served the Royal House?
You think we took part in this cause
out of duty to our old masters?
Is that what you thought of us all along?
Leave him alone.
Shut up!
Be clear on this.
We have not been risking our lives for
revival of Goryeo's Royal House alone.
We've been fighting for a world
without tyranny and oppression!
We may never achieve that goal,
but let us die fighting for our dream.
We the revolutionary army of
Goryeo vow to fight to the death
against tyranny and oppression
of the Royal House of Joseon.
You... you...
What are you doing here?
I wanted to say my last
goodbye to an old friend.
Last goodbye?
Give this to Prince Choongnyeong.
But only after he has reached the north.
His life will be endangered
if you give it to him sooner.
Hyun...
Huh?
Wang Hyun.
That's my real name.
Thanks for everything.
I thought I knew you well.
"A grand ambition is hiding
behind his secret studies"
"Why would he study so hard
if he has no ambitions?"
There was always that presumption
when I dealt with you.
And for that reason,
I never really liked you.
But now I am all confused.
Can I visit you sometime?
I think I can finally open up and share
my thoughts with you over a drink.
Prince Choongnyeong just
left the city, Your Majesty.
Chief Gang is escorting him, so
please do not be overly concerned.
You may leave.
Your Highness!
Your Highness!
Let me through!
I have to talk to the prince!
He's in danger!
Your Highness!
Your Highness...
What is that?
Isn't that a Royal gown?
Is that supposed to be the King?
On the eleventh day of March,
butcher Yi Bangwon will be executed
the name of the people by
the revolutionary army of Goryeo!
Clear the way!
Step back!
They dare attempt to kill the King?
Why are the rebels still running loose?
We're doing the best we can.
My men have become
beasts themselves searching
the mountains day and night!
Your men are slacking off.
How could that hideous object
appear in the city otherwise?
- What?
- Stop.
This argument is pointless.
We must devise a plan to stop them.
Do we need a special plan?
Just place enough guards in
the palace to keep them out.
What if this is a diversion?
Envoys are arriving every day
for the Great Hunting Ceremony.
And the date the rebels have chosen
is one day before the grand event.
What could this mean?
You mean it could be a ploy
meant to throw us off?
You mean the palace
may not be the target?
They have attacked foreign envoys before.
The might be trying to sabotage
the entire national event.
We all know that the stadium is a hundred
times easier to access than the palace.
We can't let that happen.
The country will be
humiliated beyond repair.
Disperse and dispatch troops to a
the palace, the stadium and all of
the foreign ambassadors'
accommodations for now.
Double your efforts to
ferret out the rebels as well.
I'll need ten of me to do all this work!
Dispersion of military forces...
What if that is what the rebels are after?
Disperse the troops as thinly as
possible and attack the palace...
What are the odds that they will
succeed in slipping into the palace?
Slip into the palace?
He could've been killed outside?
That means someone could've
slipped into the palace!
We are everywhere in places
where you would least expect us.
How did they enter the palace?
Minister Hwang...?
Could there be a secret entrance
to the palace we don't know about?
Get me all of the archives
we have from the city planner
and Office of Palace Constructions.
What is this?
Why is there such a huge
discrepancy between the material
cost breakdown and the work details?
This one here has the material
records and the labor records,
but it doesn't indicate
what they worked on.
Who was in charge of the
construction office at the time?
Get me that man at once!
The man who was in charge is
no longer with us.
He was my grandfather's most
trusted eunuch named Gim Sahaeng.
Gim Sahaeng?
Wasn't he killed trying to protect
Crown Prince Bangseok during
during the first strife of the princes?
In essence, he died in the hands
of the current King.
I did not want to do it this way.
I didn't want us to enter the
palace through the passageway
Gim Sahaeng told me about.
I wanted us to make a grand
entrance through the cheering crowd
marching through Gwanghwa
Gate and Heunglae Gate...
and proudly place the flag of
Goryeo outside the main palace.
I truly believed that day would come...
All of the royal concubines and
the princes have been evacuated,
but the Queen insists on staying behind.
I'm sure she did...
I will go to Her Majesty and
attempt to persuade her.
My lack of virtue is making
your job very difficult...
I am at fault...
All of this will be over soon.
Don't be overly concerned.
Are you here again?
I have to see the Princess!
I have to talk to her!
How many times do I have to tell you?
She went to a temple to pray
the day the Prince left the city.
Then tell me which temple!
What's the commotion?
You must be mistaken.
Eunuch Um Jachi would never
do anything to harm the Prince.
Forget what you saw.
But my princess...
I don't want Eunuch Um getting
hurt for being seen with a rebel.
I don't want the Prince to lose the
only faithful servant he has right now.
But there is always a possibility.
Please at least send someone and
confirm that His Highness is safe.
I beg you.
If heaven forbid anything
should happen to the Prince,
I have no way of returning the
great kindness he granted me.
Keep alert and protect the Prince,
you got that?
Yes, sir!
Protect me?
Guard me, you mean.
Is this all right?
Is it all right for
the Chief of Palace Guards to be away
from the King at such time of uncertainty?
I do not make the decisions, Your Highness.
My only duty is to follow the King's orders.
How many more days do we have to go?
At least ten.
I already told you.
I wonder if everything
is okay at the palace.
You want to know what's
going on at the palace?
Pardon?
Why did you meet with rebel Jeon Ilji?
Are you one of them?
What are you saying?
By the time you read this letter...
I am likely to be dead and gone.
If I'm lucky, I would have taken
your father Yi Bangwon with me.
Stop them!
Capture the audience hall within one
hour and take Yi Bangwon's head!
Open the gate!
You must learn to make small
sacrifices for greater cause.
Hundreds of lives are in your hands.
Do you think Prince Choongnyeong
can carry out this execution?
He has to.
What will happen if he does not?
Check!
Proceed with the execution!
There is no pleasure if
winning comes too easy.
Are you that afraid to put
a little blood on your hands?
Your cowardice will cost the
lives of hundreds of people.
What are you waiting for?
Execute all of the prisoners!
Wait!
I'll do it.
I'll kill this man.
But not now.
I won't play this game with you.
We haven't earned the right
to punish this man yet.
The Royal House of Joseon must first
apologize for the brutal purging of the
Wangs in 1394, console the survivors,
and offer reasonable reparations.
Do you know what
you're doing right now?
You're denying the legitimacy
of the Royal House of Joseon.
I'm trying to settle our
shameful past and start a new.
- Here!
- Here!
I concur!
If we take anyone's life lightly,
whoever that might be,
the Royal House no longer
have a reason to exist.
Please urge the King.
We must approach the rebels with
an open heart and reason with them.
And if the rebels do not stop their
violent acts despite our sincere
display of contrition, then we would
be justified in punishing this man.
If they were reasonable men that
would agree to such proposal,
they would never have taken
a Royal Prince hostage.
The Royal House will not
make deals of the rebels.
Your Highness!
What are you waiting for?
Remove the audacious prince
that defied the King's command
and proceed with the execution!
Aye!
No!
Let go of me!
Stop!
Let go!
Small sacrifices are to be expected.
What did you say?
Muby and the others are doing what?
It's the rebels!
Stop them!
Your Highness!
Royal House of Goryeo will
save the people from the slaughterer!
What's this?
It's sulfur.
Creating a smokescreen with sulfur?
Minister of Defense and his
men should be here by now.
One step forward and one stop back.
Persistent bastards...
Hold your men back at the sign of defeat.
Let's get you out of here.
Who made this decision?
This could be a trap!
There is no time, Uncle.
Ilji...
You fool...
How could you let the
boy talk you into this?
How can a man who lets his friend
die attempt to change the world?
Uncle!
Uncle!
Seeing you again was enough.
Stop this foolishness
and get out of here now.
Sire!
I'm going to rest now, but you and the
comrades still have a long road ahead.
Uncle!
Uncle!
Uncle!
Your Highness.
Uncle!
Uncle!
Uncle!
Uncle...
Now for the final move...
Open up a retreat path for them an
appropriate time and go after them.
That's the quickest way to wipe them out.
Wipe out the rebels!
Attack!
I'm sorry.
Just go and take the master to safety!
But...
We'll have to clear out of Mt. Inwang.
I got you covered so get out of here!
Attack!
Master!
You must go now, Master.
They're coming after us!
Why didn't you carry out the execution?
Why won't you ask how
many citizens died?
Rebels are not citizens of this state.
Merely twenty years ago, those who
sought to bring down Goryeo and
erect Joseon were the rebels.
How dare you!
Joseon is a violent state that murdered
Jeong Mongju, killed off the scholars
of Dumundong, slaughter the surviving
royals in cold blood, and even killed
fellow revolutionaries at the
slightest sign of noncompliance!
How dare you deny the legitimacy
of Joseon and defend the rebels!
And you're a Royal Prince of Joseon?
I will not be a Royal Prince.
I forfeit my royal status
as of this moment today.
If we can't reflect on our past mistakes
and continue to rule with violence,
if that is the very fabric of
Joseon that won't change,
I refuse to continue
living as its Royal prince.
Very well.
Your wish will be granted.
Take him away.
Banish Choongnyeong to the
northern states immediately!
Yes, Your Majesty.
Why did you take such a foolish risk?
To save your uncle?
No, sire.
I wanted to show the people
that we're here.
I wanted the people that
are groaning under tyranny
and oppression to know that
they have us behind them.
I see.
You may go.
You shouldn't have provoked the King.
This would never have happened
if you did as the King and I asked
and stayed out of state affairs.
I'm sorry, Mother...
Go far away.
And...
Don't ever come back.
Please be well.
Have a few thick quilts ready.
Don't forget to have them
filled with plenty of cotton.
Your Highness...
Spring may be around the corner,
but the northern states are still cold.
Don't focus on Mt. Inwang alone.
Send the troops to Mt. Bugak as well.
Envoys are arriving starting tomorrow.
Yes, I know.
I'm surprised, Minister Hwang.
I was told you were one of
the scholars of Dumundong.
Yes, I am.
If you were determined to die
for Goryeo at one time,
you should be moved by
Choongnyeong's words today.
But instead you're focused on capturing the
rebels ignoring Choongnyeong completely.
Forgive me, but may I be alone?
I have a lot of thinking to do regarding
protocol in reception of the envoys.
Why did you give up?
It could've been your chance to make
up to your peers of Dumundong.
After all, you're an expert negotiator.
Do you know how I became
an expert negotiator?
By never engaging in a fight I can't win.
You don't think the rebels will go for it?
No, because I know
I can't defeat the King.
I do not agree with the King's ways.
But I am powerless to defeat him.
And I do not have the ability
to silence the theory
that violence is necessary
evil for future peace.
That is why I wagered everything on you.
You, Your Highness, are going to be
the first King since the founding of
Joseon who did not undergo
the usurpation process.
I beg you to be a benevolent ruler
so not to allow history stained with
bloody revenge to be repeated.
Did you wish to see me?
How much military
provisions do we have left?
What is the meaning of this?
What are you thinking?
This is quite pathetic for final
gift to offer to my comrades.
But at least this will get you
through the next few weeks.
Master.
Avoid the enemy and get yourselves
out of this mountain before daybreak.
This is my last order as your leader.
And give up the revolution?
I can't push my comrades
into the jaws of death.
What is the meaning of this?
You might have been the one
who started this revolution,
but it's not up to you to end it.
I will not forget your loyalty
to the Royal House.
We're not Royals, is that it?
So it's okay for us not to
feel guilty for being alive?
Do you think we're here simply because
we once served the Royal House?
You think we took part in this cause
out of duty to our old masters?
Is that what you thought of us all along?
Leave him alone.
Shut up!
Be clear on this.
We have not been risking our lives for
revival of Goryeo's Royal House alone.
We've been fighting for a world
without tyranny and oppression!
We may never achieve that goal,
but let us die fighting for our dream.
We the revolutionary army of
Goryeo vow to fight to the death
against tyranny and oppression
of the Royal House of Joseon.
You... you...
What are you doing here?
I wanted to say my last
goodbye to an old friend.
Last goodbye?
Give this to Prince Choongnyeong.
But only after he has reached the north.
His life will be endangered
if you give it to him sooner.
Hyun...
Huh?
Wang Hyun.
That's my real name.
Thanks for everything.
I thought I knew you well.
"A grand ambition is hiding
behind his secret studies"
"Why would he study so hard
if he has no ambitions?"
There was always that presumption
when I dealt with you.
And for that reason,
I never really liked you.
But now I am all confused.
Can I visit you sometime?
I think I can finally open up and share
my thoughts with you over a drink.
Prince Choongnyeong just
left the city, Your Majesty.
Chief Gang is escorting him, so
please do not be overly concerned.
You may leave.
Your Highness!
Your Highness!
Let me through!
I have to talk to the prince!
He's in danger!
Your Highness!
Your Highness...
What is that?
Isn't that a Royal gown?
Is that supposed to be the King?
On the eleventh day of March,
butcher Yi Bangwon will be executed
the name of the people by
the revolutionary army of Goryeo!
Clear the way!
Step back!
They dare attempt to kill the King?
Why are the rebels still running loose?
We're doing the best we can.
My men have become
beasts themselves searching
the mountains day and night!
Your men are slacking off.
How could that hideous object
appear in the city otherwise?
- What?
- Stop.
This argument is pointless.
We must devise a plan to stop them.
Do we need a special plan?
Just place enough guards in
the palace to keep them out.
What if this is a diversion?
Envoys are arriving every day
for the Great Hunting Ceremony.
And the date the rebels have chosen
is one day before the grand event.
What could this mean?
You mean it could be a ploy
meant to throw us off?
You mean the palace
may not be the target?
They have attacked foreign envoys before.
The might be trying to sabotage
the entire national event.
We all know that the stadium is a hundred
times easier to access than the palace.
We can't let that happen.
The country will be
humiliated beyond repair.
Disperse and dispatch troops to a
the palace, the stadium and all of
the foreign ambassadors'
accommodations for now.
Double your efforts to
ferret out the rebels as well.
I'll need ten of me to do all this work!
Dispersion of military forces...
What if that is what the rebels are after?
Disperse the troops as thinly as
possible and attack the palace...
What are the odds that they will
succeed in slipping into the palace?
Slip into the palace?
He could've been killed outside?
That means someone could've
slipped into the palace!
We are everywhere in places
where you would least expect us.
How did they enter the palace?
Minister Hwang...?
Could there be a secret entrance
to the palace we don't know about?
Get me all of the archives
we have from the city planner
and Office of Palace Constructions.
What is this?
Why is there such a huge
discrepancy between the material
cost breakdown and the work details?
This one here has the material
records and the labor records,
but it doesn't indicate
what they worked on.
Who was in charge of the
construction office at the time?
Get me that man at once!
The man who was in charge is
no longer with us.
He was my grandfather's most
trusted eunuch named Gim Sahaeng.
Gim Sahaeng?
Wasn't he killed trying to protect
Crown Prince Bangseok during
during the first strife of the princes?
In essence, he died in the hands
of the current King.
I did not want to do it this way.
I didn't want us to enter the
palace through the passageway
Gim Sahaeng told me about.
I wanted us to make a grand
entrance through the cheering crowd
marching through Gwanghwa
Gate and Heunglae Gate...
and proudly place the flag of
Goryeo outside the main palace.
I truly believed that day would come...
All of the royal concubines and
the princes have been evacuated,
but the Queen insists on staying behind.
I'm sure she did...
I will go to Her Majesty and
attempt to persuade her.
My lack of virtue is making
your job very difficult...
I am at fault...
All of this will be over soon.
Don't be overly concerned.
Are you here again?
I have to see the Princess!
I have to talk to her!
How many times do I have to tell you?
She went to a temple to pray
the day the Prince left the city.
Then tell me which temple!
What's the commotion?
You must be mistaken.
Eunuch Um Jachi would never
do anything to harm the Prince.
Forget what you saw.
But my princess...
I don't want Eunuch Um getting
hurt for being seen with a rebel.
I don't want the Prince to lose the
only faithful servant he has right now.
But there is always a possibility.
Please at least send someone and
confirm that His Highness is safe.
I beg you.
If heaven forbid anything
should happen to the Prince,
I have no way of returning the
great kindness he granted me.
Keep alert and protect the Prince,
you got that?
Yes, sir!
Protect me?
Guard me, you mean.
Is this all right?
Is it all right for
the Chief of Palace Guards to be away
from the King at such time of uncertainty?
I do not make the decisions, Your Highness.
My only duty is to follow the King's orders.
How many more days do we have to go?
At least ten.
I already told you.
I wonder if everything
is okay at the palace.
You want to know what's
going on at the palace?
Pardon?
Why did you meet with rebel Jeon Ilji?
Are you one of them?
What are you saying?
By the time you read this letter...
I am likely to be dead and gone.
If I'm lucky, I would have taken
your father Yi Bangwon with me.
Stop them!
Capture the audience hall within one
hour and take Yi Bangwon's head!
Open the gate!