At the waterfall, Yun Ha uses her shaman magic to make the sacred flower grow. Somewhere down the river, Sadam's body patiently waits under water. Has anyone mentioned his creepy theme music? As the CGI flower blooms, Yun Ha smiles in triumph. But then the brand on the back of her neck starts to glow, emitting an evil red mist that infuses itself in the purple flower.
Back at the palace, the Queen is nursing the still-unconscious Prince Rin. Minister Park Soo Jong visits with his young daughter, Soo Ryun. He is soooo trying to hook these two young kids up. Queen Dowager Pain-In-The-Butt quickly puts an end to any matchmaking. When he's not trying to marry off his daughter to royalty, Soo Jong is snooping around the special forces known at the BiJang and what exactly is going on around the treasury.
As King Hae Jong anxiously awaits to hear how the flower-growing is going, he's entertained by cute Do Ha. (That's an awful wig you're forced to wear, kid, but I still want to squeeze your cheeks so bad!) She notices the embroidered bracelet around his wrist. The king, explaining his wife made it, takes it off to show the little girl. Sang Hun comes up to announce the shaman has returned. In his eagerness to get back to the village, Hae Jong accidentally drops the bracelet. Do Ha picks it up, intending to give it back to the king, but she never gets the chance.
Hae Jong is waiting alone in his tent when Yun Ha comes in to present him with the flower in a box. The king thanks her profusely for helping him and his son. He opens the box to look at the flower and that's when The Change begins. With a strange glint in his eye, Hae Jong grabs Yun Ha into an embrace. Yo, she ain't fightin' it. He then plants the World's Most Uncomfortable Kiss on her. King Kickass Can't Kiss.
Meanwhile at the palace, Rin wakes up. So he didn't need the sacred flower after all?
King Kickass and GatMan return to the palace late at night. The petrified dragon is hidden underneath drapery. The king and his men are taking a side gate as they're heading for the secret Night Watchmen headquarters. Some palace soldiers, not recognizing these late arrivals, stop the entourage and start asking questions. Hae Jong kills the head guard and orders his men to get rid of the other two palace guards. When Sang Hun tries to defend the guards for simply doing their duty, the king coldly replies, "I wasn't asking for your opinion."
Now that the king is back, the Queen Dowager wants to get on with having Rin formally recognized as the Crown Prince. Queen Min has come to welcome her husband home. She stops to thank one of the soldiers for safely guarding the king and having a successful mission. It's all innocent, but the possessed Hae Jong starts dropping barbs that his wife acts like a loose woman.
Hearing that his father is back, Rin pulls himself up out of his sickbed to go make his greetings. As he and Eunuch Song are walking along, Rin spots a whiff of one of those spooky smoke bombs that attacked before. Eunuch Song sees nothing, though. Rin shrugs it off and assumes he was seeing things.
During court, Hae Jong rips Minister Park a new one, behaviour that everyone notes is not like the king. Rin comes running up to welcome his father home. He has his bug cage with him, reminding Hae Jong he promised to fix it when he returned. The king coldly tells Rin to stop acting like a child, especially since the crown prince ceremony is coming up. Rin can't understand why his loving father is so distant and dictorial.
That night at the Mago village, Yun Ha and Do Ha are sitting outside watching the stars. The older sister confesses that she has done something bad and so is no longer a shaman. She hands over her bell bracelet to Do Ha. From out of the darkness come two of Sadam's men. They drag Yun Ha away to a cave where Sadam is recovering.
He reminds Yun Ha that they had a deal. Since he helped her (I guess in casting a spell on the king so she could seduce him), Sadam demands the shaman use all her powers to heal him. Using the brand on the back of her neck, he starts sucking Yun Ha's powers out. He sucks a little too much out and Yun Ha collapses.
Our dynamic duo go to the basement where the stone snake is being kept. Sang Hun warns the king that they don't know if the dragon is truly dead or not, so keeping it in the basement under the palace is not a good idea. Hae Jong basically says, "Deal with it. I'm keeping it here." While the king isn't looking, GatMan takes out his Exorcist-O-Meter. Just as Sang Hun feared, the gadget indicates the king is possessed.
Sang Hun reports to the head Watchman whose name I didn't catch. The old man says they can't do much right now as the crown prince ceremony is tomorrow. For the moment all Sang Hun can do is strengthen the spells on the walls to keep out evil.
Everyone is dressed to the nines for the ceremony. Young Rin is marched out before the court. Minister Park is about to start the proceedings when the king abruptly goes off script. Hae Jong has Rin's beloved (ick) rhinoceros beetle, Gab, brought out. To prove he will no longer act like a child, Rin is supposed to kill the bug. Hae Jong even puts his hand over the boy's to help squish Gab. Rin cries that he doesn't want to kill the beetle as it was a gift from the king.
Disgusted with Rin's disobedience, Hae Jong brandishes a sword and starts to swing. Valiant Eunuch Song throws his body over his charge, taking the deadly blow instead. The king throws down the sword and declares the ceremony is over.
That night out in the garden, Rin releases Gab in order to save the little (well, big) bug. The Queen Dowager happens upon him and asks Rin if he's sad because he didn't get to be crown prince. Rin cries he's sad because of what happened to Eunuch Song. Queen Dowager Pain-In-The-Butt brutally explains that's what eunuchs are for, to be killed, so stop crying over the man.
Rin pleads with his grandmother to send doctors to the king. Queen Dowager quickly hushes the boy up. Even though everyone can tell
to actually say the king is sick is tantamount to treason and can get you killed.
Standing in the shadows overhearing all this is Prince Smirk. Just to make sure you realize Gi San is evil, the boy steps on poor Gab the Beetle.
Hae Jong (whoa, who put all that guyliner on him?) is awakened by the voices in his head. They're telling him to kill the queen who is sleeping beside him. He starts to reach for her throat when, shew, she wakes up and catches him. Why is she sleeping in the same bed with him after he just tried to kill their son?!?
The next morning Rin comes to his father to apologize for yesterday's debacle. Only Prince Smirk has already been there, tattling to Dad about what he heard last night. Hae Jong accuses Rin of sedition and questions whether the boy is actually his or not. Queen Min (using her superhuman DramaKorean hearing) storms into the room to confront her husband. Of course Rin is Hae Jong's son! How can he say such a thing? Hae Jong won't let it go and announces he's going to have Min thoroughly investigated to see just how many men she's been with and who is Rin's real father.
Back at the Mago village, they've found evidence that Yun Ha was killed by a wild beast. Young Do Ha doesn't believe it and swears she'll find her sister and catch the bad man who took Yun Ha away.
That night, one of Sadam's men has snuck into the palace and released a couple of spooky smoke bombs. King Hae Jong, with only a lone eunuch in attendance, is hanging out with the sacred flower when he sees the smoke bombs coming into the room. The eunuch sees nothing. Hae Jong starts hollering for the Night Watchmen to come and protect him.
They're already on their way, although they're having to battle their way (non-lethally) through the palace guards to get to the king. Sang Hun finds the bleeding eunuch on the floor. The (dying?) man says the king is armed and dangerous and heading for Prince Rin's apartments.
Hae Jong is killing everybody left and right. In Fight or Flight reaction, Rin has chosen the third option of just standing there like an idiot while his crazed father comes closer and closer. Possessed Hae Jong is about to strike his son down when thankfully Sang Hun swoops in and deflects the blow. He has to fight his king off without actually drawing his own sword, as that would be super duper treasonous. Hae Jong's eyes bug out as GatMan begs King Kickass to fight off the possessing ghost.
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