Han Sang Gong and Jang-Geum finally realize who each other is. Jang-Geum asks Han if she is indeed the friend of her mother, the one and only friend and confidant that her deceased mother had in the palace. The friend who had such distinguished cooking skills. Han states yes and asks Jang-Geum if her mother is indeed the one who ate wild strawberried in her deathbed. The one who taught her daughter how to cook and fetch water, and Jang-Geum replies yes. Han thanks Myung-Ee aloud, then thanks Jang-Geum, and embraces her. Han Sang Gong shows Jang-Geum the place where Jang-Geum’s mother practiced cooking. Where she hide when she got in trouble. Jang-Geum laughs when she finds out her mother got into trouble like she always does. The two come to the topic of Jang-Geum’s mother and Han Sang Gong asks Jang-Geum the details of her mother’s death. Jang-Geum tells Han there were soldiers who came after them and her mother said it was better to be caught by the soldiers than to end up in someone else’s hands so Myung-Ee and Jang-Geum were captured by the soldiers and on their way to the palace when men dressed in bandit attire shot arrows toward them to kill them. Jang-Geum’s mother Myung-Ee died from the arrow wounds.