![]() Minister Shin orders his men after him, but the instant Ha Sun is through the gate it slams shut, cutting him off from his soldiers. Then, someone walks past an open gate alone - Ha Sun. Strangely, the gates are wide open and the courtyard empty, so Minister Shin halts the soldiers and looks around suspiciously. In the dark of night, Minister Shin leads the rebel soldiers to the palace gates and orders them to kill the tyrant king. Ha Sun argues that the people in the palace are his people too, so he can’t just abandon them to save himself. The problem is that the rebels have almost ten times the number of soldiers as Ha Sun, so Moo-young suggests that he smuggle Ha Sun and So-woon out of the palace. Both Moo-young and Eunuch Jo advise Ha Sun to have him come to the capital to protect him, but Ha Sun says that people will be killed if Aisin Gurun attacks. General Kang asks whether he should bring his men to the capital or prepare to fight at the border. Ha Sun receives a message that the border situation has turned dangerous and Aisin Gurun may attack, since they never received Minister Lee’s peace letter. The queen dowager thinks a moment, then gives him permission to invade the palace and remove the clown from the throne. He says that she hasn’t been officially deposed yet, so she’s still of higher status than the king, and can order him to dethrone the traitor clown. Minister Shin says he’s already rewarded them to offset the drop in morale, and he asks if she still thinks they need a valid cause for rebellion. She meets with Minister Shin, upset about how things went this morning, because when Prince Jin-pyung dies his soldiers will be demotivated. She says that he’d have lived a long life if he hasn’t been greedy for the throne, but she tells him in a cold voice that she’ll make good use of his soldiers, and give the throne to Lord Younghwa instead. Prince Jin-pyung is in bad shape from his gut wound, but he tries to act like it’s nothing when the queen dowager visits him. Monk Jung Saeng agrees that Minister Lee wouldn’t want them to die for nothing. ![]() Jong-rim and Jae-gu, who got to take the civil service exam because of Minister Lee, offer to help Ho-geol get revenge, but Ho-geol says they’ll only lose their lives. Woon-shim is allowed to say goodbye, and she sobs that she thought they would finally be together. He cries again as Ho-geol accompanies Minister Lee’s body out of the palace and past the rebel soldiers, then the gates are closed again. He stands before Minister Lee’s casket one last time, remembering his friend saying that he taught him about the importance of trust and bowing to him as his king. She decides to let Ha Sun pay tribute to Minister Lee, so he allows Minister Shin and Prince Jin-pyung to leave the palace. In addition, he’ll kill Minister Shin and Prince Jin-pyung for what happened at the assembly. He says that if she refuses, he’ll hang Minister Lee’s body at the gates for the people to see, and then they’ll know that she caused this rebellion without justification. Ha Sun sends a letter to the queen dowager asking her to halt her men for one day so he can pay proper respects to Minister Lee. He begs Ha Sun to let him send Minister Lee to his people, but Moo-young warns Ha Sun that opening the gates right now is too dangerous with the rebels right outside. Minister Lee’s body is taken into the palace, where Ho-geol sobs over him. Minister Shin takes advantage of the confusion to try to sneak Prince Jin-pyung out of the palace, but they’re stopped at the gates. He reaches up a hand for Ha Sun to grasp, then he dies, leaving Ha Sun wracked with grief. Ha Sun doesn’t want to disrespect his loyal friend that way, and Minister Lee says it makes him feel joyful to hear Ha Sun call him that. He gasps for Ha Sun to hang his body above the castle gates after he dies, to show that the criminal was brought to justice. He asks why Minister Lee did such a reckless thing, and Minister Lee apologizes for not keeping his promise never to leave him. Guards run to close the palace gates and protect the queen, but Ha Sun only has eyes for the dying Minister Lee. He falls to the ground, and although Moo-young tries to hold Ha Sun back, he breaks away and runs to cradle Minister Lee’s head in his arms. Ha Sun watches, horrified, as Minister Lee grabs a sword from a guard and runs Prince Jin-pyung through, taking several sword wounds in the back himself. But he’s not finished surprising us yet, as he contemplates a decision that could change the future of the entire nation. It’s time for our clown to sink or swim on his own, and one wrong move could mean his death and the death of everyone he cares about. 114 MaAugThe Crowned Clown: Episode 16 (Final) by LollyPip
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