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Father, the Daughter You Threw Away Is Queen

Ep. 11 · My Mother Was Locked In

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Recap (black band). — The wedding put off, the ledger shown. Yeonhwa sent for Sol-i, who had been at her mother's side.
Title card · establishing shot — Ep. 11 · My Mother Was Locked In
(new) Before the garrison gate. Sol-i, brought by Muyeong, hesitates at the threshold. / (new) Sol-i seeing Yeonhwa from the doorway of the room. Her eyes widen and she bites her lip. — Sol-i, brought by Muyeong, hesitated a long while at the door. The one who in Ep. 1 followed behind her, calling her my lady.
A room at the garrison. At the sight of the ledger Sol-i speaks before she has even sat down. Fast and breathless. / The hand offering a cushion stops. A whisper — one word. — Sol-i. The Yun servant who worked with her mother. Sol-i: "Your mother, my lady — she was shut in until the day she died." Yeonhwa: "Shut in?"
Sol-i checking the door. The second sentence is smaller still. / (new · hands) Yeonhwa's hand going still on the ledger. — Sol-i: "In the storehouse. Three days she couldn't come out." Three days.
(memory · new) The Yun storehouse. A wooden door with a heavy bar across it. Young Sol-i's hands pushing a bowl of water under the gap. / (memory · new) Outside the storehouse door at night. Faint light leaking under the door. No one is there. — The storehouse. The spring my mother died. From inside the storehouse there was no sound at all.
Sol-i with her hands together. Frightened and trembling — looking at her own hands. / (new) Yeonhwa listening. She looks at Sol-i's hands. — Sol-i: "I brought the water. He wouldn't let us open the door." Where was I then?
Yeonhwa sitting down. She looks at the empty doorway, not the ledger. Her voice breaks after the pause. No tears. / (memory · new) In front of that storehouse door. Young Yeonhwa's back as she reaches for the door, stops and turns away. — Yeonhwa: "Father said… Mother did not want to see me." Yeonhwa: "So I turned away at the door." If I had opened that door. If I had not believed him.
(memory · new) Young Yeonhwa's back as she crosses the yard and moves away. The storehouse behind her. / Sol-i reaching out, hesitating. Yeonhwa takes her hand first. Sol-i — loud and clear for the first time. — That was the last of my mother. Sol-i: "It wasn't your fault, my lady."
(new · hands) Two hands clasped — a white sleeve and a hemp sleeve. / Sol-i repeating an order she heard herself. Small but distinct — the second sentence is a witness's voice. — Sol-i: "He said to act as if we'd seen nothing about the stolen rice. I heard him."
(new) Yi Heon listening from one side of the room, never interrupting. / The door opens and Chaeryeong comes in with a Yun servant (seen from behind). She tries to pull Sol-i up by the wrist. — Yi Heon did not interrupt once. The testimony was Yeonhwa's. Even after her father was taken, the hands and feet of the Yun house still moved. Chaeryeong: "She's our servant. I'm taking her."
(new) Chaeryeong's face. That same smile, even in the garrison. / Yeonhwa lifts Chaeryeong's hand off Sol-i's wrist and stands between them. Low and slow, one word at a time. — Chaeryeong was smiling here too. Yeonhwa: "Sol-i is not your property."
Muyeong pushes Chaeryeong and the servant out of the door and closes it. / (new) Outside the closed door. Chaeryeong and the servant standing in the yard, seen from behind; Muyeong on guard at the door. — clack The door closed. Chaeryeong was left in the yard.
Sol-i holding her own wrist. Shrinking — after the pause she is barely audible. / (new · hands) Yeonhwa's hand closing around Sol-i's wrist. — Sol-i: "He said he'd kill me too if I told… I was frightened."
Still holding Sol-i's hand, Yeonhwa turns her head toward Yi Heon in the same room (out of focus). She calls him "Your Majesty" for the first time — low and slow, a decision. — Yeonhwa: "Your Majesty, I will see my father. Sol-i as well." Chaeryeong was outside the door and did not hear the title.
(new) Yi Heon. He nods once. — The king nodded once.
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