Hunter with a Scalpel – K-drama Episode 15 Recap & Review
Episode 15 of Hunter with a Scalpel begins with a flashback to the past. We see that even after Jo-kyun pushes her, Eun-seo is injured but alive! Jo-kyun tries to drag her to the edge of the cliff but Se-eun stands in his way. Eun-seo uses the opportunity to push Jo-kyun instead and he goes over the cliff, falling all the way down to the rocks.
At present, Se-hyun visits Jung-hyun in his hospital room and asks to help with the investigation but he says she's done enough. Jung-hyun then gets a call from Chang-jin which sends him rushing to the police station. Director Kim Jin-rae is still not convinced that Se-hyun isn't the serial killer. Jung-hyun tries to convince him to go after Jo-kyun.
Elsewhere, Jo-kyun calls Se-eun inside the van. The next thing we see is Jo-kyun walking out with her bloody uniform. The detectives receive the package of clothes at the police station and send it to the forensic lab, where Dr Cheon accepts it.
She takes the clothes to Yang Joon-kyung and then calls her out for delaying the investigation on purpose. She threatens to reveal the truth about the Nam Seung-hyeop case which sends Joon-kyung rushing to see Kim Myung-kwan. But she realises that he's promoting someone else over her despite promising her the position. This seems to be enough to change Joon-kyung's mind and she doesn't tell Kim about Dr Cheon's threats.
Jung-hyun informs Se-hyun about the clothes. She then reveals that Jo-kyun came to the hospital and threatened Se-eun. She insists on going out and looking for Se-eun but Jung-hyun forbids it. He even tells the guards not to let Se-hyun out of the room.
A flashback then shows Se-eun and Eun-seo trekking through the woods after Jo-kyun's fall over the cliff. But Eun-seo is weak from her head injury and she soon collapses and passes away.
At present, Se-hyun continues to feel guilty about Se-eun. A nurse brings a bouquet of flowers, saying someone dropped them off. In the accompanying envelope, Se-hyun finds a clue from her father with an address.
The detectives look for Se-eun around the site where the clothes were found but to no avail. The forensic team then informs them that the blood on her clothes was adult blood, which means Se-eun could still be alive!
We then see Jo-kyun leave his white truck and drag a large blue drum through the woods. Presumably, Se-eun is inside it. At the hospital, Se-hyun creates a distraction and sneaks out in a nurse's uniform, taking some drugs with her on the way.
Soon, the detectives meet the woman at the grocery store who had sold Se-eun some bread. She gives them a direction which leads them to Jo-kyun's hideout. Inside is the dead body of the journalist from earlier.
Meanwhile, Jo-kyun meets with the man who's arranging his passage on the ship. He says there's only one ticket available and not two as Jo-kyun had requested. When the man refuses to help, Jo-kyun kills him as well in order to 'make space' for him and Se-hyun.
In a final scene, we see the blue drum in the middle of a forest with little Se-eun desperately crying out for help.
The Episode Review
Hunter with a Scalpel Episode 15 continues the chase for Jo-kyun. Se-hyun's decision not to tell the detectives when he came to visit her is still a point of confusion. That was the perfect opportunity to get him but she doesn't even try. And now everybody is running helter-skelter trying to find him. If you can move past that, this one is a fairly engaging penultimate episode.
Jo-kyun is fixated on getting Se-hyun to come with him but that also seems like the thing that will bring him down. Se-eun is very much alive but being stuck in that drum in the middle of nowhere is almost a worse fate. As Jung-hyun and Se-hyun rush to save her, the question of her survival remains. There are still a few gaps in the past as well, particularly around Eun-seo's mother, Lee Jung-mi. Here's hoping the finale offers up some answers.
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