The King's remaining convoy stops in the road where the landslide had happened. The Queen's car nowhere in sight, King Anand commands his men to look for them. Actually, this would be the only thing the King would be doing for the rest of the episode, lol.
Further down the landslide is the fatally injured Queen Isabel with Princess Areeyah in her arms. The culprit, responsible for the bombing previously, approaches them and takes out a dagger. Obviously the guy was supposed to kill them both and not just put them in danger. While the mother whimpers for the safety of ther baby, our guy thinks twice. Typical guilty conscience scene. Anyway we know he's not going to do it because of the endless teasers with the grown Princess Areeyah/Mikay.
We're now transferred to a hut somewhere in the forest. Culprit guy now talks to Yin, Behati's handmaid, without the mysterious black cloak/hood/whatever unlike earlier. He tells her that he's done "the task" and she praises and pays him for it. She tells him that he should remember how he had played a huge role for the "betterment of the kingdom" and that he should immediately burn the hut after the rain wanes. She was about to exit when she suddenly hears a baby's cry. Good job hiding the baby, culprit guy. Now she's going to have you kill it.
Finally, the King finds his wife, and he holds her lifeless in his arms. Soon enough, he realizes his baby princess is nowhere near and commands his men to continue looking for her.
Back to the hut, Yin tells culprit guy off for not finishing his job thoroughly. He hands her the baby and challenges her to do it herself if she could. "I've participated enough," he says as he storms off. As expected, she tries to stab the poor little baby but couldn't. Honestly, where's this coming from? Where were your conscience earlier?
So Yin heads home and shouts to her own maid. Interesting, royal maids have their own attendants. Anyway, they talk in English which makes us assume that her attendant is a foreigner - which, quite frankly, is hard to tell since they're all Filipinos playing, er, Yangdoners(?) and Filipinos all the same. Anyway royal handmaid asks Esme (the Filipino attendant) regarding her previous request to go back to her country. The maid replies with of course, she still wants to, and Yin tells her to go and that she will pay for everything with extra and with one condition: to bring the baby with her and to never come back. Yin's sudden approval and the unusual condition arouses Esme's curiosity. Yin brushes her off and tells her to just do as she's told, but Esme now thinks twice because she doesn't want to get caught. However, Yin convinces her by playing the don't-you-miss-your-daughter-back-home card and Esme finally agrees. Immediately Esme is escorted to a private plane and is sent back to the Philippines.
Back in the palace, the king stares at the royal family portrait in deep thought. He recalls his dead wife and calls out for his missing daughter in tears. Later, he spreads his wife's ashes in the river that runs through the whole kingdom and vows to never stop looking for their child. Looking from afar is Ashi Behati.
Esme has arrived in the Philippines and her daughter greets her in surprise. She also asks who the baby is, but Esme denies her a reply.
Meanwhile, the King's officials apologize for not finding the princess in the forest. They infer that the baby must've been taken away by wild animals that night. The King, however, does not waver and still believes that his daughter is still alive. He travels to a temple in the mountains to clear his mind.
Unfortunately, the monks cannot fathom where the princess could be and they think that his daughter had already died. One monk consoles the King that the princess will be back, just like all things in this world that is resurrected. Okay, so much for encouragement, guys.
Back in the Philippines, Esme phones Madam Yin from a public telephone for her remaining luggage. She is quickly dismissed by Madam Yin's new maid while the latter listens in quietly.
Not too far away is Esme's daughter, Vicky, playing with little Areeyah, and is quickly enticed by balloons. Nearby, Dino (Dominic Ochoa) talks on his fone confirming a job offer while buying mangoes for his pregnant wife. Vicky carries little Areeyah and follows the balloon seller. Suddenly, a bomb explosion occurs in the area and separates the two kids. Esme panics and finds Vicky first, who was crying and apologizing for losing the other little girl. They look for her together amidst the panic and calls out for her. They haven't named her yet so they call out to her as "baby." Hahaha, no wonder you can't find her.
Anyway, Dino, the man on his fone earlier, does, while another explosion injures Esme. Dino carries little Areeyah to safety and Esme sees them. She tries to reach out to little Areeyah as her consciousness drifts away.
In Yangdon, Ashi Behati rewards Madam Yin the piece of land that the latter's been asking for, in return of her services and loyalty to their family. She reminds her that she will continue to receive such rewards if she remains loyal to Behati.
Back in the Philippines, Dino has taken the child home. He ponders that if not for the baby he might have died. It certainly didn't look that way, though? Anyway, he inquires at the police station if anyone's been looking for a lost child. The officer says no and suggests that the child be taken to DSWD.
A follow up to the police officer's suggestion earlier, a social worker checks up on little Areeyah and updates Dino on the state of orphanages. Not a lot of kids get adopted these days, she says, which makes Dino decide to adopt the child instead. His wife, Stella, disagrees but he argues that he feels the child will bring them good luck as it did to him. His wife argues back that they wouldn't have enough resources to care for three children; Dino replies that he snagged a new job anyway.
Meanwhile, Dasho Kencho updates Ashi Behati on the farmers' welfares that hasn't been taken care of lately. Behati asks why the King hasn't been attending to his duties and reminds Kencho that as a member of the Drukpah, they have the power to relieve the King of his throne. Dasho Kencho vehemently declines; he reminds Behati the she shouldn't have disloyal thoughts especially to the King. Good job, Kencho. How did he end up with such an evil woman for a wife, I wonder?
Anyway, Behati substitutes for Dasho Kencho in a council meeting. The King's absence was also noticed as of late since the tragic incident. Behati says that the King's condition lately has been unstable ever since. She suggests that the Drukpah should intervene, but she is cut off by the angry King - "What for? That I be dethroned?"
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