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Father, the Daughter You Threw Away Is Queen

Ep. 5 · Don't Use Her as Bait

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Recap (black band). — That night in the alley, a man in black knelt before Mujin. — Your Majesty.
Title card · establishing shot — Ep. 5 · Don't Use Her as Bait
(new · hands) The mouth of a rice sack is opened and sand, not rice, pours out in a single stream. No faces, no dialogue. / (new) The alley, wide. Muyeong kneeling and Yi Heon standing before him — a night with only the two of them. — a dry hiss There were only the two of them in the alley.
Muyeong lifting his head. Only the last word is startled. / Yi Heon. The beggar's manner is gone — the broad, clear voice of a king. — Muyeong: "Your Majesty, what are you doing here? A marriage?" Yi Heon: "A hundred sacks of rice for the soldiers. The trail of the theft ended at the Yun house."
(memory · new) Dawn at a border camp. Before starving soldiers a rice sack is cut open with a blade, and sand pours out instead of rice. / (memory · new) The king himself was standing in that camp — Yi Heon looking down at the sand on the snow. — Last winter, the northern border. While the soldiers starved, a hundred sacks of rice arrived as sand. The king went to the border himself before any petition had even reached him.
(memory · new · hands) The end of a delivery document — a signature mark beside the red official seal. / Muyeong asking, matter-of-fact. — At the end of the delivery paper for a hundred sacks of sand was the Yun house's mark. Muyeong: "Shall the woman be investigated as well?"
Yi Heon from the front. One word at a time — an order. — Yi Heon: "Do not use her as bait."
Yi Heon glancing back toward the door of the thatched house. His voice drops again — a grain of dry laughter. / (new) Muyeong left alone. He looks once toward the house and withdraws into the shadows. — Yi Heon: "…The marriage was unforeseen." Muyeong asked nothing more. From that night, one more pair of eyes watched the house.
(new) Outside the thatched house. A faint lamp behind the door lattice. / Inside. Yeonhwa asleep sitting up with her sewing in her arms. A covered bowl of rice on the table.
(hands) The cover comes off the bowl. From rice already halved, another share has been set aside. / Yi Heon taking a spoonful. A face that could be a smile or an ache. — Half each, she said. What was not on a king's table was in this bowl.
(new) He sets down the spoon and looks across at the sleeping Yeonhwa. / He lays his own bedding over her shoulders. His hand stops for a moment. — She took me for a beggar and halved her food. Had she known I was king, she would not have shared.
(new) Yi Heon sitting against the opposite wall, watching the lamp. He does not sleep. / (new) Inside the capital. Lanterns before a high tiled gate. The private house of the Minister of War. — The investigation begins tomorrow. For tonight, let me be only the man guarding this room. The same night, in the capital.
The same night, the study of a great house. Only the flames of the brazier and Taesik's hand held before it — no book in frame. / Min Chi-gyeom's face for the first time. Gentle and courteous, a smile in the voice. — The same night. The private house of Min Chi-gyeom, Minister of War. a rush of flame Min Chi-gyeom. Doyun's father. Min Chi-gyeom: "Burn it before the king catches the scent."
Taesik standing before him. Sweat. Not the voice from the top of the steps in Eps. 1–3. / (new · hands) Min Chi-gyeom's hand setting down a teacup. The air in the room changes. — Taesik: "My own ledger is burned, but… my dead wife kept a separate one…" His dead wife's ledger — at those words the air in the room changed.
Min Chi-gyeom's eyes narrow. / Taesik swallowing. Quietly. — Min Chi-gyeom: "Where is it?" Taesik: "…In my eldest girl's bundle." It was the first sentence in which a father sold his daughter.
Min Chi-gyeom from the front. At his quietest, the smile unchanged. Behind him, the henchman seen from the back. — Min Chi-gyeom: "Bring it. By any means."
(new) The henchman bows and leaves through the door — only his back. Outside it is night. / (new · hard cut, 1 second) The room in the thatched house. The bundle beside the sleeping Yeonhwa. Through the knot, the corner of the navy ledger shows. No faces. — That night the henchman went out to buy men. The thing they wanted was lying beside a sleeping woman.
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