The thread is open. .
@GB,
Go ahead and post your notes on this episode. I’m about halfway through the show. Will edit this thread, and upload my own musings later. Thanks.
pm3
The thread is open. .
@GB,
Go ahead and post your notes on this episode. I’m about halfway through the show. Will edit this thread, and upload my own musings later. Thanks.
pm3
Thanks @pkml3! I decided that I’d at least look for some free to use online apps that could turn speech to text, and I did try a few and found one simple one that works. I actually spoke of what happened and who said what in this episode and the notes did get output as a huge chunk of words.
But irony! Although it is the episode of the attempted murder during the royal wedding, it felt like nothing much happened! However I did take note of the reactions when HJ collapsed and more reactions to the investigation. I’ll just list them in the order as they came up.
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The QM was on her feet. She ordered that the King be taken away and called for the royal physician.
YA was beside himself but alert enough to stop this at once. He did not trust the palace and said: “We shall leave the palace. From this moment forth, anyone who dares to lay a hand upon my wife shall face my wrath.”
PM Min was shocked into doing nothing except call out HJ’s name, however he gathered himself after a while and gave orders for the traffic to be cleared so that the escort vehicles of the Princess could reach the hospital asap.
At the hospital, digoxin toxicity is found in HJ’s blood, in a dose that could have killed her if she had been a frequent consumer of the drug. HJ’s father slaps YA’s face and insists: “Surely you will not let this slide.” YA won’t.
Seong Tae Ju and Dae Young are shocked at Dad’s outburst and relieved that HJ is alright.
At the palace, Court Lady Im tells the Queen Mother that HJ collapsed due to toxicity.
QM: “Are you saying someone tried to poison her?” She looks shocked. (Is this shock because she did not initiate the poisoning or is it because the wrong person got poisoned?)
PM Min blames YA for not being able to keep HJ safe for even 1 day. YA demands that Min start an investigation of the palace and all persons associated with it much to the QM’s horror.
(The thought occurs to me that if she had been the one to initiate the poisoning, she might in advertently started a great deal of digging into the past deaths in the palace as well, that could uncover the truth behind Yi Hwan’s death.)
Continued…
Continued…
The staff of YA are interrogated and we find that HJ had eaten nothing except half an apple. Areum continues to look terrified and nervous.
HJ’s reaction when she found out about the toxicity from Min was that the poison had been in the wedding goblets that were accidentally switched, and that the poison had been meant for YA. She’s desperate to have him protected.
YA is questioned by the police as well, and he is fully aware that he should have been the victim because he took digoxin. He tells the investigators, “I believe I was the target. My wife doesn’t normally take that medication. She survived. However, had I taken it, I would have died. It would have been a fatal dose.”
Very suspiciously, after QM hears that YA was being questioned and that the search is on at his private residence, says to Court Lady Im: “Take care of any potential issues. Make it clean and no loose ends.”
Im: “Do not worry Your majesty.”
Continued…
Continued…
Min has the personnel files of of the attendants, and their families, their connections, changes in their assets, call history for the past month, and even the Grand Prince’s medical records. He finds out that less than 10 people accessed it recently, and among them were both her Majesty’s (meaning the QM’s??) 2 brothers.
HJ wants to look more sick than she really is, and Dae Young agrees that playing the sympathy card was a good idea. HJ leaves hospital making a show of being weak while the PR machine makes her seem like a victim to gain sympathy from the public. The QM sneers at this and launches her own attempt at PR.
QM tells her her aide that she’d take over all of HJ’s official schedule for the month: “We must present ourselves as sisters-in-law in perfect accord.” She even makes a show of coming all the way out to greet HJ when she arrives at the palace, but DY is onto it and quickly gets HJ out of the QM’s orbit.
QM’s plan to take over HJ’s public duties is confounded by YA who rejects her request to help.
Lord In Pyeong comes to visit QM. She tells him to refrain from visiting the palace for the time being: “I feel it may give rise to unnecessary misunderstanding.” He looks surprised.
IP: “Your Majesty, will do well to exercise some caution.”
QM: “Do you care to elaborate?”
IP: “I meant nothing by it. It may give rise to unnecessary misunderstanding.” (He could be warning her to restrain her actions because her past deeds could be dug up.)
PM Min receives the report that traces of digoxin had been found in the wedding goblet. He recalls that HJ had said the goblets had been switched, and interestingly Lee Areum comes into his office (likely called in by him) like she’s been expected. He stares at her and she still looks afraid and unhappy. Perhaps the villain will soon be exposed?
My conclusion for now, since it’s best to keep things simple, is that the QM is still the most suspicious and likely of the villains.
@pkml3 I’ll add on more later… it’s too late now!!! I look forward to reading you.