Choi Young confessed that he was bribed and the king sentenced him to one year of hard labor, but he escapes and run away with the High Doctor..meanwhile the king's uncle, who is trying to become king, announces to Court Lady Choi(choi young's aunt) that the papers which High Doctor used for copying her notebook were filled with poison and that after some days without an antidote she will die.
최영은 수뢰죄 누명에 폭발을 하지만. 자신이 공민의 개혁정책에 발목을 잡고 있다는 현실을 깨닫는다.
그리고 공민이 은수와 기철 사이에서 고민하는 것을 알게 된 즉시 결단을 내린다.
최영은 은수를 찾아가 함께 궁을 떠나자고 말한다.
