The Twelfth Lantern – Season 3 Episode 3: Soup

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Episode summary

A shared meal brings familiar faces back to the tea house. Min-ji opens her sketchbook, and for a little while there is enough room for everyone.

Transcript

The Twelfth Lantern
Season 3 - Episode 3: Soup

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Panel 01
In the tea-house kitchen, Mi-rae stirs a pot on a portable hob while Haneul holds a dish of tofu and courgette. Both wear aprons with their red scarf ends tucked inside. Haneul's teal coat hangs on a peg.
Haneul: Is this enough?

Panel 02
Madam Oh stands by the open doorway, smiling and supporting a wicker basket of mushrooms and courgettes with both hands.
Madam Oh: Not if you're feeding us.

Panel 03
Mi-rae and Haneul exchange a smile as they make room at the worktop. Haneul holds the ingredient dish on the table, while Madam Oh lifts a courgette from her basket.
[Silent panel.]

Panel 04
Haneul tips tofu and courgette from the supported dish into the pot. Mi-rae holds the ladle and looks towards her daughter.
Mi-rae: More bowls, then.

Panel 05
Bit sits on the wooden floor beside a low table of clean bowls and looks up. His single bushy tail is intact and glows through its tip.
Bit: I'll need two.

Panel 06
Min-ji arrives in her paint-marked school jacket, holding a backpack strap and carrying a closed dark-green sketchbook at her side.
Min-ji: Have I missed lunch?

Panel 07
Haneul turns towards Min-ji with a welcoming smile. Two filled soup bowls rest on the low table; Min-ji still carries her backpack and sketchbook.
Haneul: You're just in time. How's art school?

Panel 08
Min-ji opens her dark-green sketchbook flat on a clear part of the low table while Haneul looks on. Her backpack rests behind her. The spread shows a hanok entrance and village rooftops, with a small drawing of Bit.
Min-ji: They told us to draw somewhere we know.

Panel 09
A close view of the open sketchbook shows a stone-stepped hanok entrance on the left and Cheongsan's tiled rooftops and mountains on the right. A small fox sits beside a wooden gate in the drawing. There are no written labels.
[Silent panel.]

Panel 10
Haneul smiles towards Min-ji over the open sketchbook. Min-ji looks shyly pleased, with one hand resting beside the book. The drawings retain the open stone-stepped gateway and village scene with the little fox.
Haneul: You took the whole village with you.

Panel 11
Bit sits on the floor beside the low table, ears alert as he looks up from the sketchbook. The village drawings and small fox remain visible on the open pages. His one bushy tail curves behind him, glowing through the tip.
Bit: You made me too small.

Panel 12
Mi-rae, Haneul, Madam Oh and Min-ji smile together around the low table. Each woman has tofu and courgette soup, a smaller bowl of steamed rice, a spoon and two chopsticks. The rice sits on each diner's left and the soup on her right. Three small shared dishes hold seasoned greens and carrots, cabbage kimchi and cubed radish kimchi. Min-ji's closed dark-green sketchbook rests fully on the tabletop, clear of the dishes. Bit looks up beside his own small soup bowl on the floor, his complete tail still lit.
Min-ji: You kept moving.

Panel 13
At floor level, Bit sits peacefully beside his small soup bowl while the meal continues beyond him. His whole tail rests on the wood to his right, glowing through its pointed tip and reflecting warm light on the floor.
[Silent panel.]

Panel 14
In the same position, Bit turns to look back at his tail. Its intact pointed tip has stopped glowing and no longer casts its warm reflection; the rest of his tail remains luminous. The meal continues behind him.
[Silent panel.]