Tale of the Nine Tailed (2020) s01e08 Episode Script

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TALE OF THE NINE TAILED
No.
Don't look.
LEE YEON
Put these on and look in the mirror.
What you've been curious about
will be there.
There are times when rain is necessary.
For nature, for farmers,
and for us.
Why are you looking at me like that?
Time flows at different speeds
for you and me.
You haven't changed at all
since the time I first saw you.
Are you afraid?
Of the life, aging, illness and death
you experience as a human?
I am afraid.
I'm not afraid of aging,
illness and death.
But how will you endure
long days without me
all by yourself?
That's what I'm afraid of.
Time doesn't stop,
even if I try to hold on to it.
I caught time.
I can live happily even after you're gone.
You heartless thing.
So please get rid of that damn bow
and live long.
Be an old woman with gray hair
and a bent back,
so I can be put off by you.
Promise me that you still wouldn't change.
If I betray you…
If you do?
Shoot me.
Your Highness!
I mean, milady.
Where have you been?
We've been looking for you.
Do I have to tell you every time
I go to the restroom too?
-How embarrassing!
-You got a message from the palace.
You've been told to go to the palace now.
-What?
-Please get changed first.
Who dares to?
Who dares to tell a king's daughter
abandoned by the king to come and go?
It's the king's order.
Did you say it's the king's order?
Please do not hesitate, and go.
His Majesty is badly ill.
You've grown so big.
You have grown so weak.
How's life outside the palace?
My eyes were stinging.
Your eyes…
were stinging?
Because smoke is filling the streets.
At first, I thought it was smoke
from cooking rice, but it wasn't.
It was smoke from people burning
their families who died of starvation.
Your people.
The country…
is in chaos.
I thought the country was in chaos,
but that wasn't true either.
Only the king's mentality is in chaos.
Because something wicked
has taken over the king's body.
I should've killed you from the beginning.
So you're the Imoogi.
You were the only one who recognized me
in this big palace, then and now.
Come out.
I said, come out of that body!
Why aren't you shouting out for people,
like that time?
Go ahead and shoot.
This body will die anyway.
It's not a bad idea
for your foolish father to die
in his child's hands, whom he saved.
Don't play any tricks!
Why do you think
you were banished from the palace?
Because…
you took Father's body
and controlled his mind--
Your father chose to do so!
What?
You're a sacrifice offered to me
since you were born.
Your father gave me this body to save you!
Bring me the mountain god.
If you do, I'll let your father go.
As long as I'm inside him, your father…
will die in three days.
All right.
I'll give you Lee Yeon.
However,
a mountain god belongs to the mountains.
He can't leave the mountains he rules.
What?
Let go of my father…
and come with me.
I will give you…
my body.
Let's rid him from the palace first.
And I must trust Lee Yeon
to take care of the rest.
This woman is nothing to me.
No way…
Are you thinking that you lured me
by using her as bait?
Don't you think that I lured you
by using this woman as bait?
Please don't kill me!
To be honest, I don't want to die!
You promised me
that you wouldn't change
until the day you die.
-Lee Yeon…
-Come out!
Did you see it?
Answer me. Did you see it?
Look at me, please.
What on earth did you see?
I…
I was killed in my previous life.
You…
killed me.
To catch the Imoogi,
from the beginning.
Lee Yeon.
You used me…
as a sacrifice.
Was it…
really you?
It was me.
Saving me so many times,
and that first love you couldn't forget
for hundreds of years…
Right.
I killed you.
I killed you with my own hands.
Why?
Do you wish to repeat
that tragedy of the past?
Either you…
or that girl will die.
That's just how I am.
Is that all?
You stayed by my side
and shook up my heart,
and all you can say is that?
Make an excuse, at least!
Please.
It was just cost-efficient.
It was like saving many
by sacrificing one person.
I'm a mountain god, you know.
But why…
am I so heartbroken?
Why was I only worried about you
until the moment I got killed by you,
and why am I…
shedding these damn tears because of you?
Don't get the wrong idea.
That emotion you're feeling isn't yours.
Don't act like you became that maiden
just because you experienced
your previous life.
You bastard.
Right.
Don't give your heart to a bastard.
Don't make that mistake in this life,
especially.
That's the way to live long.
Cooking is complete.
CHAPTER 8: REINCARNATION
Water Snail Bride, I want some liquor.
The most expensive in this restaurant.
When will that bastard grow up?
Shall I open a bottle
of single-malt whiskey?
Don't serve any liquor.
It looks like a disaster
is going to take place today.
Did she see it?
So she saw her previous life.
What did she say?
Hey, tell me.
I won't sleep tonight
because I'm so curious.
Lee Rang.
What?
What do you want to be when you're reborn?
What nonsense are you talking?
Tell me.
I don't really care about
what I want to be,
but if I have to choose one,
a Dokdo humpback shrimp, perhaps?
I like its face,
with its awesome whiskers.
It's luxurious in its existence.
If I'm born again,
I wish to live as a human, just once.
What a pathetic wish.
I wish my life could be full
of the first and last things.
The first footstep, the first picnic…
the first love.
Why are you being so pathetic?
It just seems like it's been long since
I talked about my thoughts with you.
Are you sick or something?
Did you lose your mind
after having a fight with that woman?
The Imoogi…
-Where is it now?
-You think I'll tell you?
I knew you'd say that.
So that's your choice.
SNAIL BRIDE
Want a game?
We used to play it together all the time.
It's not fun to play it with you.
You've never won against me,
not even once.
Are you playing or not?
Got you!
Yeon, why is the sky blue?
I don't know. I didn't color it blue.
Then why do owls hoot?
I don't know. I didn't make them hoot.
Why do rosebays taste sweet?
Why do flowers only bloom in the spring?
-Be quiet!
-Why did you hit me?
Why are you so curious
about everything, you little pea?
I just like listening to your voice.
That move is too hasty.
I told you to throw out the tail.
I told you not to fill in
empty spots unnecessarily.
I won!
I won again!
What a shame.
You're quite good, kid.
I'm not a kid.
Running like that won't do.
It worked! It worked!
It's hard to raise a kid.
You're slow.
Again.
You think it's weird too, right?
How could you win against me every time
with your terrible skills?
Shut up.
I lost to you on purpose.
There was no exception, not even once.
I said, shut up.
I'm not going to lose to you anymore.
I called you over to say this.
Hey, stop right there.
If you leave now,
you and I will be over for real.
I'm sorry.
Sorry?
What are you sorry about
after all this time?
About saving you when you were
abandoned by your human mother.
If I didn't save you, at least
we wouldn't have met as brothers.
Mom?
Go away! Let go!
Mom!
Mom!
Are you that thing?
The thing that's born
between my father and a human?
Are you a fox too?
I came to see because
I heard my father's offspring is here,
but you're not that great.
And you don't seem to have
the will to live.
I came here for nothing. I'm leaving.
That-- That's still alive.
It's a Starving Demon.
Even if you kill it, it doesn't die.
The grudge of those who died of starvation
is more tenacious than you think.
And I like that one better
than someone who gives up easily.
Whether you live as a human or a fox,
it's your choice.
But remember this, kid:
There's no salvation for those
who don't save themselves.
Wait for me!
Wait for me, my brother.
My brother.
I'll wait for you here.
Here? All day long?
I'm an expert in waiting
more than anything else.
I can sit here not only for 24 hours,
but also 24 years if I need to.
You'll live longer than me.
Would you like some? You don't look well.
No, thanks, for today.
Human souls smell so disgusting
every time I eat them.
And their memories flow in unnecessarily
and give us nightmares.
Still, we're alive
thanks to borrowing their life spans.
Me, and you too, Lord Lee Rang.
Why ground cherries, of all things?
They're gross.
They say ground cherries resemble
the shape of the souls the most.
Is the Imoogi home? Let me see its face.
I'm afraid you can't at this moment.
If it's been freeloading until now,
shouldn't it say hi to me
and repay me too?
If it doesn't,
it's nothing but a sly snake.
-You can talk with me.
-I don't want to.
I'm afraid that a precious guest
may get hurt.
What?
I've been playing along with you
the way you wanted.
Do you really think I'm a puppet?
-You're smiling?
-Let him go, please.
Are you the Imoogi?
Nice to meet you.
I wanted to meet you too.
What's with you?
You weren't answering
my texts and calls, so…
I have something to discuss.
It's about the puppy you brought.
Is it dead?
That's not why.
You know…
it has no name.
Just give it any name.
No. Names are the identities
of our animal friends.
Then you can give it a nice,
well-chosen name.
But you're its mommy.
Mommy?
Yes, mommy.
Anastasia. Name him that.
Anastasia?
What a pretty name.
It fits, though the doggy is a male.
Of course.
-What are you looking at?
-Just because
I thought that
you're that very Yoo-ri I thought.
If you look at me like that one more time,
you are going to be blind forever.
I don't care how your life has been.
I also don't care about the purpose
you approached me for.
I will show you that the world
isn't just full of evil intentions.
I will make you
regret what you just said.
I'll wait for it.
-I'm really going to kill you!
-See you later.
I thought you were still a kid.
You must've eaten a lot during the time.
Could you please give us a minute?
-But…
-It's okay.
What are you so sad about?
-What?
-You're heartbroken, badly.
Shut your mouth.
Is it because of your brother?
I can see it with my eyes.
Hell is in your heart.
You're even more disgusting
than I thought.
Don't you think we're alike?
I personally hate those that shed skin.
Listen carefully.
Whatever your purpose is,
I'm going to follow my own pace now.
I can't wait anymore.
So you want to kill that woman?
I don't think that's a good idea.
What's the reason?
Because she's a sacrifice
offered to me from the beginning.
She will be my bride.
Happy promotion to you!
Oh, thank you, thank you.
-Are you nuts?
-That's what I want to say.
Ji-ah, Mr. Choi got promoted
to department head.
He didn't do anything.
Why did he get promoted?
Just say you're envious if you are,
you jerk.
The higher-ups don't know you use most
of your work hours for self-development.
Billiards hall, gym, karaoke--
Hey! I went to a karaoke only once,
on the day I got divorced.
-He sang "She's Gone."
-Hey! Damn you.
Anybody want some cake?
Why the long face?
-I'm not.
-Yes, you are.
I've been working with you
for a long time.
Did you fight with your boyfriend?
Make up with him.
You'll never date again
if you break up with that man.
Wake up!
Aside from being young,
you're not really good enough for him.
What do you mean?
Why are you breaking her spirit
when she said nothing?
But I'm right. I told the truth.
We're the only ones who can criticize her!
Where have you been?
We've been looking for you.
You've been wandering around,
acting arrogant, and look at you, huh?
Did you find the item?
Yes, just now.
What is it?
Previous life.
Want a hug?
-Get lost.
-Thank goodness.
Thankfully,
you're the usual Lord Lee Yeon.
I made you some fried tofu rice balls.
You couldn't eat or sleep, could you?
No, thanks.
Just one.
It's so delicious, sweet and tangy!
I'm not a kindergartner.
Oh, look!
Go ahead.
So you can protect and fight.
By the way,
why didn't you tell Producer Nam
that it's a misunderstanding?
You could've told her
that what she saw wasn't everything.
Everything's starting again.
If the past were to repeat itself…
then I have to be
even a worse bastard to Ji-ah.
You're afraid, aren't you?
Because Producer Nam might try
to protect you rather than herself.
Like Lady Ah-eum did.
Are you sure you won't regret it?
No.
But you'd still just protect her
from a distance?
Yeah.
-After waiting for such a long time?
-Yeah.
Are you serious?
It's my decision.
Please keep on watching.
The fried tofu sushi is good.
I'm coming with you.
It's okay. I know this doctor personally.
-What about your meal?
-You go first.
Mister!
Mister.
-Why do you ignore me?
-Because I don't want to say hi to you.
I've been waiting for you
a long, long time.
Why would you wait for me?
I thought about my future dream.
When I was six,
I wanted to be a triceratops.
But when I turned seven,
being an Internet café owner
looked really, really awesome.
But then I turned eight, and--
-Get to the point.
-I want to be like you when I grow up.
Handsome, brave, and with superpowers!
You and I are different from the roots.
-Why?
-Because I'm the one who hits.
That face.
You must've been beaten up, huh?
At school? Or at home?
No.
Whether you live beating up
or getting beaten up, it's your choice…
but someone said
there's no salvation for those
who don't save themselves.
I heard they're half-brothers,
but they must be much closer.
I'm touched.
A cracked soul smells so fragrant.
How about testing it?
To see if he will be another weakness
of Lee Yeon's?
How?
A guest is coming.
Wow, that's-- Give them to me.
What are you doing? Take them.
-Here.
-Thank you.
-Thank you.
-Thank you.
This is…
The Japanese apricot smells so good.
It's organic Japanese apricot from Hadong.
Hadong. No wonder.
I covered a story on the Hadong
Japanese Apricot Blossom Festival.
-That was when…
-Ma'am.
The petals of the Japanese
apricot blossoms fell like snow…
I'll take you there sometime. Yeah.
Why? What? What? Why?
You never covered a story on
the Japanese Apricot Blossom Festival.
What brings you here?
Isn't it obvious why I came
to a restaurant? I came to eat.
And your cooking skills
are the best of all, of course.
Leave.
Even if I have tons of leftover rice
and rats come to eat it,
I've got none to give you.
You little witch.
Did you bury your sense of fear
in a kimchi pot
for being a widow for hundreds of years?
Or did you forget who I am?
How can I forget you?
I lost my one and only husband to you.
Oh, Bride. Water Snail Bride.
You still miss that idiotic farmer?
Why did you do that?
Everyone leaves with trauma
that they can't tell anyone.
I just triggered your husband's trauma,
like I always did.
You should blame his weak mentality
for being trapped in it
and being unable to return.
Why? Why did it have to be him?
The correct question is
why it had to be you.
What?
You know,
I hate those like you.
The main characters of famous folk tales.
No one around me
can even remember my name well.
Are you okay?
Want me to help?
-It's none of your business.
-Oh, how is it none of my business?
Hey, old woman.
If you don't like the service here,
go to a different restaurant, okay?
Customers being tyrannical
is on the news these days!
What's the thing
that you're most afraid of?
You can't get on airplanes.
What?
Why is this jerk here?
Leave, now.
I'll see you again if I pass by.
Is she
a shaman?
Can you tell by looking at me
that I have aerophobia?
It's the anniversary
of your son's death today, right?
So you do remember.
Where's the old hag?
I'm sure she's stuck somewhere,
being hysterical.
Since your son passed away,
you both have been living
with blades in your hearts.
I'm sure that's why
she has been stricter with you.
Yes.
I've heard it so many times
my ears are bleeding.
"That thing called love
will escape through your fingers
like sand,
but all of you risk your life for it
too easily."
Because if you kill yourself…
you can't be reincarnated.
Like my son, Bok-gil.
I'd like to ask you a favor.
From now on,
I'm going to do everything I can.
So I can live, and she can live too.
I'm sorry, Mother.
If you're sorry, why did you die?
-How are you?
-Fine, as you can see.
Oh, so you did quit drinking.
You look healthy and alive.
I really wish my son would care for me
as much as you do, Ji-ah.
What are you digging into this time,
Producer Nam?
Do you think our current lives
are our first lives?
I'm talking about previous life.
Previous life?
I'd like to do some case studies.
I heard many kids around the world claim
that they remember their previous lives.
Well, those are just claims so far.
But aside from approving that…
BOY WHO REMEMBERS PREVIOUS LIFE
SOLVES MURDER CASE
A Syrian boy who remembers
his previous life?
The case where he claimed
he was a man named Muhammad
in his previous life
since he was four years old.
He found the house he lived at in his
previous life in a city he's never been,
and he even pointed out
the neighbor who killed him.
Interesting.
May I borrow this?
By the way,
why "previous life," of all things?
Well, I'm trying to make a living,
and I ran out of items too.
Why?
She asked me the same thing
in that very chair.
Who did?
Your mom.
What?
I collected those materials
with your mother.
But my mom's a surgeon. Why did she?
Don't you remember anything?
Remember what?
When you were nine years old,
you got hypnosis therapy
because your mom asked for it.
Do you believe in past lives?
Yes, I do.
Why?
There's this thing called déjà vu.
Like when someone
you never met before seems familiar
or an unfamiliar place seems like home.
You felt like that before?
At the Palace of Versailles,
when I went backpacking to Paris.
-Come on!
-What about you?
Whether I believe it or not,
I wish that Samsara didn't exist at all.
-Why?
-It's so hard to live a life already,
so what if I'm born as a mosquito
in my next life?
Then I'll be born
as mosquito-killing incense.
Don't be too obsessed with me
after holding hands once.
NEUROPSYCHIATRY CLINIC
What you're curious about
might be in there.
Which team are you on?
Can I see your ID, please?
NAM JI-AH'S HYPNOSIS THERAPY
Go into a deeper place.
Slowly.
Very slowly.
You look down, and there's a door.
Want to open it?
No.
It's okay.
-I don't want to open it.
-Why don't you want to open it?
I think something scary might pop out.
Then me and your mom
will teach it a lesson.
Open the door.
You went inside, didn't you?
What do you see?
People. They're wearing hanbok.
But it's so funny.
What could be so funny?
What are they doing?
-They're lying down.
-Why are they lying down?
Because…
they all got killed.
Ji-ah, can you hear me?
Ji-ah.
Shut your mouth.
It's so noisy I can't sleep.
Why did you wake me up? It's not time yet.
You're Ji-ah, aren't you?
I am that kid, and I'm not her too.
What-- What are you?
Can you give me some water?
The water tastes great.
I was born in a snake cave
in the leap month of a leap year.
The grave of plague patients.
That place where the living and the dead
were squirming together
was the Hell of Eternal Pain on land.
One day, from that cave,
a beast in the form of a human
walked out of it.
What did humans call it?
Yes. Imoogi.
By the way, where's the mountain ghost?
I have to find him.
"Do not eat or drink here."
"The one who leaves last
should turn off the editor."
So you're there, huh?
Ji-ah, what are you doing here?
I was watching some materials. Why?
I'll clean it for you.
Excuse me.
I'm not buying.
Come on.
You don't have to buy it,
so taste it at least, handsome young man.
Old woman, can't you read?
By the way, what's the thing
that you're most afraid of?
Solicitors like you.
Come on. That's not true.
Get lost.
I saw it!
Gatekeeper, open the gate
I have no key, so I can't
Which gate should I enter through?
Through Dongdaemun Gate
Gatekeeper, open the gate
I have no key, so I can't
Which gate should I enter through?
Through Seodaemun Gate
And it's this damn disgusting house.
I got terribly drunk.
Illegitimate child!
That's the illegitimate child of a fox!
That brat made all the livestock
in the village die!
I'm sure he ate their livers!
-Yeah!
-Kill him! Kill him!
Die! Die! Die! Die!
-Die! Die!
-You bastard!
Die! Die!
Go away!
How…
On that day…
Mom was watching everything.
You…
should not have been born.
I did everything I could to eliminate you
from my womb.
I boiled poisonous plants and drank it,
rolled down a hill,
and--
and pounded my belly on a rock,
but you were so tough and tenacious,
like a beast…
How could you survive
even being beaten up by those men!
You…
are a monster, my baby.
Let's go. Come with me!
Don't touch me!
It's…
not a dream?
Is this the Forest of Starving Demons?
Starving Demons.
I will not die. Never.
Because in this timing…
I'm sorry…
about saving you when you were
abandoned by your human mother.
Lee Yeon…
isn't coming to save me anymore.
LEE YEON
I need you, Lee Yeon.
Young lady,
try this.
It's a free service.
Okay.
By the way, did they change the lady
coming to our company?
I haven't seen you before.
Because today's the day
of a special event.
An event?
You'll find out soon too.
Young lady,
what is it that you're most afraid of?
Is it Fox Hill?
Ma'am!
Gatekeeper, open the gate
I have no key, so I can't
Which gate should I enter through?
Through Dongdaemun Gate
Here. A birthday present!
FOX HILL
Fox Hill…
And it turned out to be
the Forest of Starving Demons.
-You…
-You have my sympathy.
This is like the worst level
of a video game.
Did you do this?
For your information,
if you die here, you die for real.
I'm going to tear you apart.
Want me to tell you something
even funnier?
I'm now going to tell this news
to your brother.
Don't be so excited.
Your brother's girlfriend
is in a similar situation.
Dad! Dad!
Dad, can't you hear me?
Stop the car!
Mom!
Dad, I said stop the car!
Dad! Stop the car!
Say that again.
You have two doors here.
One leads to your brother,
and the other leads to your girlfriend.
What would you like to choose?
The third one.
I want to break your neck.
Go ahead.
If you break the rules,
those two can't come out, forever.
The Imoogi sent you, didn't it?
Well, let's say it's cooperation.
Old woman.
Wait.
I'll pay you back for this properly
soon enough.
You need to hurry.
Neither of them has much time.
Mom! Dad! Stop the car!
Stop the car!
Stop it!
I knew it.
He only cares about that woman.
Hey! Kid!
Lee Yeon?
I heard you criticizing me just now!
Get off me!
You need to learn
that this is not a place to be grouchy.
TALE OF THE NINE TAILED
Can I save both of them from this hell?
I was at work until a moment ago.
Don't be scared and think.
What are you most afraid of?
Being abandoned.
-I--
-No!
I never abandoned you.
Yeon went there by knowing it.
By knowing what he's dealing with.
You're not alone. I trust you, Lee Yeon.
I hope my choice isn't wrong.