Court Lady Jung is about to take Jang-Geum and Geum-Young to the justice court. Court Lady Jung Sang Gong’s superior (Jae Jo Sang Goon or Head Court Lady) stops her and orders to forget the incident. Court Lady Jung Sang Goon gets suspicious something strange is going on. Right Prime Minister Oh Kyum Ho tries to fix things quiety.
Court Lady Han Sang Gong goes to Jang-Geum’s room to look for the item that Jang-Geum found. She asks Yeon-Seung to show her the place where Jang-Geum goes to practice cooking. The king asks Court Lady Jung what’s going on since everyone seems gloomy. Court Lady Han asks Jang-Geum to tell her the truth about her being in the kitchen that night.But Jang-Geum weeps telling Lady Han the last time she told a secret her parents died so she cannot say a thing.
Court Lady Han Sang Gong weeps with her.
Court Lady Han remembers the past about her best friend getting poisioned and left to die as a scapegoat and worries that Jang-Geum will die too. Court Lady Jung Sang Goon decides to lets go of the events to save the girls. Court Lady Choi Sang Goon tells Geum-Young no matter what to never ever tell anyone about the cursed sachet.
Gang Deok Gu (the wine-maker/chef-on-order who is like Jang-Geum’s father) tries to con palace guards with herbal medicine balls. He gets caught but for a different reason. The head guard tells Kang Duk Gu the prince became extremely ill after eating medicine cooked by Kang. Kam is blamed for poisioning the prince causing the child’s arms and legs to become inmobile. The royal doctors cannot find the source of poisioning and are unable to cure the prince. The King becomes extremely worried and Kang Duk Gu is doomed to die.
Jang-Geum works day and night trying to figure out the cause of the prince’s handicap and unconsciousness.