At Dannoura, Yoshitsune and his troops finally destroy the Heike family. With Otoku, who has come to Dannoura from Kyoto, Yoshitsune recalls the memories of Kiyomori and looks back at the rise and fall of the Heike clan as well as his younger days. Realizing again that he himself is the very person who ruined the Heike family, Yoshitsune expresses his mixed feelings toward Kiyomori to Otoku. Meanwhile, Yoshitsune hears from one of his retainers that Yoshiko is alive together with the Heike family members who survived. As a commander of the Genji troops, Yoshitsune sees Munemori and his son Kiyomune first, instead of seeing his half-sister. When he meets Tokuko, the emperor’s mother, Yoshitsune asks her whereabouts of the emperor and the sword that is one of the three sacred imperial treasures. Tokuko replies that both have gone under the sea with Tokiko. Finally, Yoshitsune sees Yoshiko and offers living together in Kyoto, but....
壇ノ浦で、ついに平家を討ち滅ぼした義経（滝沢秀明）。しかし、戦いを終えた義経の胸中には、ただむなしさだけが漂っていた。義経は、再会したお徳（白石加代子）と共に亡き清盛（渡哲也）をしのび、平家一族の栄枯盛衰を顧みる。そんな中、義経は佐藤忠信（海東健）からの報告で、助かった平家一族の中に能子（後藤真希）がいることを知る。能子と再会した義経は、「京で一緒に暮らそう」と能子に提案するが…。
