While Jin is treating patients in the brothel, Nokaze takes the opportunity to ask Saki if the young woman still has the note the geisha sent her. She advises Saki not to show it to him and just tear it up. Saki asks forthrightly if Nokaze has feelings for the doctor. Nokaze laughs the idea off, saying Jin is just like any other man she has dealings with. That's when she sees that Jin is done with his patient and has overheard what she said. Both act as if nothing happened.
As Jin and Saki are walking back home they hear a town crier announcing to the news that Choshu has attacked a foreign warship.
Ogata Kouan tells his subordinate, Yamada, to keep the news from Jin about the penicillin factory being wrecked. Ogata coughs up more blood.
Kiichi comes running to Jin for help. A young woman has been splashed with hot oil, severely burning her neck. After examining her, Jin explains to her parents that he can to do a skin graft. (Again I have to ask: is this something a neurosurgeon would know how to do?) He goes to Ogata to put in a request for a large amount of penicillin. While Yamada looks alarmed, Ogata calmly replies that they'll get it to him as fast as they can. He also asks if he and an associate can watch the medical procedure.
While Jin and Saki are performing the surgery, a message arrives telling of the penicillin factory being on fire. Jin, realizing how this loss will affect his patient, begins to lose his cool. It is Saki, calmly dabbing his sweaty forehead and remarking on the humid weather, that brings him back down.
Ogata rushes back to the school to find the entire factory is a loss. Yamada had bravely/recklessly run into the burning building and was able to save only one bowl of the medicine. Jin and Saki attempt to make the medicine themselves but it is not going well.
Tachibana gives his near-sighted girlfriend some atrociously ugly glasses. As he's leaving the red light district he is stopped by Nokaze. She warns him to be careful of this girl.
It continues to rain. Ogata continues to cough.
Jin comes home to find he has been sent a package. There's a jar of penicillin and a letter saying this comes from Yamada. It is enough of the medicine to help cure the young woman. Later, Jin begins to wonder how so much penicillin was made in such short a time since the factory burnt down. He goes to confront Saburi, who folds like an accordion. He takes Jin to a soy sauce warehouse where a new penicillin factory has been set up in secret. The associate Ogata had with him during the skin graft is Hamaguchi, the head of a family of successful soy sauce makers. Using the one batch Yamada was able to save, combined with the experience of the soy sauce makers, the ball is on the roll again. It is Hamaguchi who tells Jin that he had better hurry and say thanks to Ogata as the old doctor is suffering from consumption.
Jin runs to Ogata's side and asks to examine the elderly man. Ogata allows him to but both men know it is really too late. The two share a tearful moment, and I am quite upset as well. I like Ogata. I like everyone in this drama.
After Ogata passes away, Jin decides to build a hospital that will bring together the best of Western and Eastern medicine. He hangs a sign up outside of the Tachibana home and addresses his cohorts (Saki, Yamada, Saburi, etc.) to work with him on this. They're all enthusiastic, yet young Tachibana has a strange expression on his face. What's up with that?
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