Yoon left, leaving Chae-Ok on the field. Lady Nan-Hee approaches Chae-Ok. Lady Nan-Hee tells her that what Yoon had did was for her sake, and she should apologize to him. Chae-Ok tells Nan-Hee to speed up her marriage with Yoon so she can finally rest at ease.
The police is notified of another murder case. The victim was one of the police and it was determined that the victim was poisoned. During the funeral, as Chae-Ok was about to burn the last clothes worn by the victim, she found out something strange. The corpse was found on a mountain but there was a fish odor and salty taste on his shoes. The police was probably murdered on the nearest port to Mt. Ae-oh-gae and then dumped there. Chae-Ok borrowed ginseng roots from Byung-Taek to use as a bait to lure the murderers.
Chae-Ok and Officer Baek Jo-Wan disguised as merchants and set up a root stand. While other customers are ogling at the ginseng (the rare kind) a man carrying his ill mother asked for a root though he doesn't have enough money. The other customers begin to question if the roots are real. Sung-Baek (in disguise) pretends to be a blind root-expert and testified the roots are real. The potential customers were surprised and Sung-Baek steals a root and escapes (to give it to the man with an ill mother). Chae-Ok runs after them. The mother told his son to return the root. Chae-Ok offers to sell it for 1/100 of their asking price. Sung-Baek and Soo-Myung witness the scene, and Sung-Baek tells her that Chae-Ok is a damo. The suspects show up at Chae-Ok and Baek Jo-Wan's stand, and gives them a huge amount of money to order large quantities of the root.
Meanwhile, Sung-Baek met up with a fellow conspirator to discuss the rebellion. Trapped in an inn with the suspects surveiling them, Baek Jo-Wan wants to inform Yoon about their progress but Chae-Ok insists on them acting alone for now. They wait for the suspects till it was nighttime already. Chae-Ok asks Baek Jo-Wan if he could try to look for her brother and mother one more time. Baek Jo-Wan tells her to forget because he tried several times before and couldn't find them. Baek Jo-Wan sleeps, as Chae-Ok thinks of her past. Ma Chook Ji and Ta-bak-nyu arrive to steal money. They arrive at Chae-Ok's room, unbeknownst to them that it was Chae-Ok. Chae-Ok catches them and saw it's the same thief. Just then, the suspects arrive with their knives around them. Chae-Ok bluffs to the suspects and asks them to let his "brother" ( Baek Jo-Wan ) go and fetch more roots that they have in stock. Yoon was then informed of what happened to Chae-Ok.
While imprisoned in the suspect's hideout, Chae-Ok unbounds herself and looks around for clues on the murder. Chae-Ok was knocked unconscious by one of the suspects. The suspects hangs Chae-Ok by the tree to ask her identity. Chae-Ok doesn't budge and the leader ordered to kill Chae-Ok. One of the suspects decided to rape Chae-Ok first and unbounds her feet. Chae-Ok got free and killed the suspects. The police force arrived. Chae-Ok seizes the evidence for the rebellion, and Won-Hae passed it to Yoon. Yoon throws the evidence away and yells at them for acting without his permission. Chae-Ok tells him that they had no choice and had to act fast. Yoon suspends Chae-Ok from the police force. Chae-Ok gives Yoon her damo badge and states that indeed, she will. Yoon and the police force searched the town for suspects and captures an important rebel, Noh Gak-Chul. Back at the police station, Yoon asks Baek for Chae-Ok's badge. Yoon goes outside Chae-Ok's room and remembers their childhood days. Yoon asks Chae-Ok if she is inside her room. Chae-Ok was just packing her things and opened the door. Yoon tells her how when he was younger, people called him bastard more often than his name.. How he just addressed his father as "father" for the first time after 24 years he was born, then his father passed away. He had many regrets for not understanding his father's love. Yoon asks Chae-Ok if she has ever felt this way. Chae-Ok tells him she doesn't have a clue on what he's trying to say. Yoon further says that with half of him a noble, and half a slave, he did not feel like a person. Even though he wear clothes, speak the same language and ate the same as the people around him were, he was unlike his father and brother. No one allowed him to be himself, he was neither above or below a pig or a dog. Chae-Ok said that she was the one who is like a pig and a dog. Yoon asks her if she still remembers how she was when they first met 15 years ago. Yoon further tells that for that child, he couldn't do anything. Chae-Ok disagrees and tells him he did a lot for that child. Yoon tells her he wanted to see her live like a person, but when he tries to hold on to her she leaves. Why doesn't she understand the danger of acting alone, and he doesn't wish her to leave. Chae-Ok tells him she's sorry for not being able to assist him. Yoon tells her if she really is concerned for his sake, then she should just follow his lead in the future, and extends his hand to give Chae-Ok her badge. Chae-Ok doesn't wish to add more trouble to him, and would rather leave. Yoon tells her if she left it would be the end for the two of them. Chae-Ok starts to tell him that she would gladly leave if that will benefit him when Yoon cuts her off and tells her to leave if she insists. Chae-Ok went back inside her room to weep, while Yoon stands outside her room and holding back his tears. Sung-Baek then learns that one of his comrades has been captured by the police, and begins to plan a rescue operation. One of the conspirators with him, Magistrate Choi is strongly against it, saying that it would be better to sacrifice Noh-Gak-Chul. Sung-Baek strongly refused.
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