[Part 2] Joseon Gunman Episode 13 Recap That’s when Sang-chu runs in with the police officers in tow, and they take over. Choi is presented as the criminal operating under Lord Kim’s directive, and when Yoon-kang orders him to tell the full truth, Choi dully agrees. Officer Moon pauses to reassure Yoon-kang that all will be set to rights in the morning, and off they go. Hye-won looks quite lost, but she thanks Yoon-kang earnestly for sparing her father’s life. As the officers arrive at the station, they run into a high court official, who inquires as to the situation. He lets them pass, but he and Choi exchange a meaningful look that does not bode well for our good guys. The next day, Yoon-kang returns to the dock where he was once shot, thinking of his father’s wrongful death. With the end now in sight (…or is it), he tells his father to rest in peace now. This is where Soo-in finds him, relieved to see him safe and sound. As she did three years ago, she rushes into his arms, and they embrace there on the dock. But as suspected, Choi changes his tune with the light of day. Now he says blankly that all of Yoon-kang’s accusations are false, and that he’s not the gunman, and that he knows no Lord Kim, and that any confession extracted from him was under duress and therefore meaningless. Officer Moon fumes, knowing this is an act, but he can’t prove that he’s lying. Furthermore, he finds the high court officers at his door demanding to take over the case from the police, and they take custody of Choi. Minister Kim has been busy pulling strings, and since the high court is under the Sugu faction’s thumb, Choi is in safer hands there. Lord Kim muses that he ought to have gotten rid of Choi earlier, before he became a complication, but for now decides to first free him from trouble. Lord Kim is shocked to hear of Yoon-kang’s identity as the meddler, and orders him to be dealt with immediately. Soo-in can’t believe that Hye-won’s father was the criminal, after all the time she’d spent around him. Yoon-kang says that he couldn’t bring himself to kill the man in front of his daughter, because it felt too much like he would be perpetrating the same injustice he’d suffered. He’s still torn over that decision, but Soo-in takes his hand comfortingly and assures him that he did the right thing. Furthermore, they would have no proof clearing his father’s name if he hadn’t let Choi live. Soo-in looks out at the water and muses that she’d cried so much, sitting here alone, “But now I am not alone. I am with you.” She entreats him to only look ahead now, at the happy days to come. Gack, I’m certainly not one to rain on their parade, but I just want to yell at them not to be too happy yet… But they can’t know that, so they retrieve Yeon-ha from the temple and bring her back home, and the whole way there Yeon-ha marvels that it’s like a dream she doesn’t want to wake from. Hye-won is waiting at the gate when they arrive, and she apologizes to Yoon-kang on behalf of her father. She is deeply stricken, but Yoon-kang tells her firmly that she has no reason to apologize—but even so, this is not something that can be solved by an apology. He turns her away. Hanjo’s merchant family welcomes Yeon-ha into their midst happily (and oh my, Kanemaru’s speaking Korean now! I hope that takes us interesting places soon). But it’s a short-lived cheer, because officials sent from the high court arrive to arrest Yoon-kang for the murder of two ministers. Yoon-kang is confused that his name hasn’t been cleared yet, but as he’s being dragged away he tells his ladies not to worry, and that he will return soon. He encounters Choi Won-shin on the way, who has the gall to smirk and say that you should always take opportunities when you have them. Wow, that’s douchey; he may as well be saying neener neener. Okay, sympathy over. The matter is put before the king, who is now caught between the two warring factions. Minister Kim accuses Yoon-kang of killing ministers, while the king’s faction argues that the true criminal is Choi Won-shin. Both sides insist that there’s no evidence supporting the accusations. Gojong declares that the investigation will unearth the truth, but since the high court under Minister Kim has demonstrated nothing other than brutal torture, he appoints one of his officials to take over. It’s a blow to Minister Kim, but on the other hand, the official, Min Yeong-ik, had been bribed by Choi to secure Minister Kim’s reinstatement, so for right now I can’t tell whose side he benefits.
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 05:38:51 +0000
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