Jang-Geum gets taken away for her accused crime. The other maids tell the medicine woman if it wasn't for Jang-Geum treating the foreign general, they all would have died.
The mayor of Jeju Island and Min Jung-Ho return to Han-Yang city to give the palace generals an update on the recent attacks. Right Prime Minister Oh sees Min Jung-Ho and wonders what he’s up to. The mayor reports that he did all the work and a medicine maid should be punished for betraying the nation. Min Jung-Ho goes to see his superior to tell him the account by the mayor is incorrect. Not only was the mayor missing during the attack, the slave Jang-Geum contributed to the palace by saving the citizens of Jeju Island.
In the punishment department, the official announces Jang-Geum’s crime. Min Jung-Ho arrives with proof that Jang-Geum played an important factor in helping him defeat the foreigners. Min Jung-Ho asks the official to put the matter on hold for the time being. Min Jung-Ho goes to see Oh and demands that Jang-Geum be released and mentions that the mayor was missing during the action. Oh insists that it was still wrong for Jang-Geum to save the foreign general no matter what. If she hadn’t saved him the general would’ve died and an army without a general would not have been successful in their attack.