05-07-2025
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Hunter with a Scalpel – K-drama Episode 10 Recap & Review
Episode 10
Episode 10 of Hunter with a Scalpel begins with Eun-seo reading out a story to little Se-eun. Suddenly, Mr Choi walks in and tells Eun-seo off for seeing Se-eun despite him telling her not to. He drags Eun-seo out and locks Se-eun inside. At present, Se-hyun breaks down in tears after her conversation with Jung-hyun, where he asked her about Eun-seo.
Meanwhile, Chang-jin and the others have found the bloody mess at Kwon Hyung-jo's house. They find pancuronium as well as a scalpel with SSH on it — Se-hyun's scalpel.
Se-hyun then gets a call from the hospital and is informed that her mother isn't well. She goes there and is told that her mother is stable now. She then remembers how her mother was the one who gave her the scalpel with her initials as a gift, reminding Se-hyun that she's a good person.
At the police station, the entire team discusses their suspicions about Se-hyun. Things get dire for her when a call from the NFS's Dr Cheon (Se-hyun's colleague) confirms that the scalpel found is very similar to hers.
Another flashback shows Eun-seo continuing to read the story to Se-eun from outside the room. She then promises to throw Se-eun a birthday party without their father finding out. At present, Se-hyun finds an old notebook of hers kept under her mother's pillow. It's got her old drawings as well as a receipt for the cleaning agent and cleaning brush in the name of Seo Won-hee.
The police learn about Se-hyun's mother being at the nursing home and rush over there. However, Se-hyun is able to slip away undetected. After learning about how her mother has been in the hospital for five years, Jung-hyun and Chang-jin decide to go to Haryong (where Se-hyun used to live with her father).
The other two cops go to Se-hyun's house, where they find some bloody remains in a blue bucket sitting in her bathroom. Jung-hyun and Chang-jin find Se-hyun's old place in Haryong, including all the red paint spilt across the floor on the inside. Among the red footprints there, Jung-hyun recognises Choi Min-guk's footprints due to the limp in his left foot.
Meanwhile, Se-hyun tries to avoid the cops in Yongcheon. She then finally reaches her destination — the laundry shop. She enters and attacks her father, leading to a fight between the two. Unfortunately, he gets the better of her and injects her with pancuronium.
The Episode Review
Hunter with a Scalpel Episode 10 offers quite a thrilling ride! Se-hyun is in a pickle and Choi Min-guk's web is slowly tightening around her. The police are officially on her tail and even Jung-hyun seems conflicted about her. As a result, tensions are high and Se-hyun's every move feels precarious, which makes for an edge-of-the-seat watch. The flashbacks add a touch of sentimentality as well, prompting more mystery around Eun-seo's fate. There's also the mystery about Se-hyun's mother, who must be an adoptive one, as we saw her biological mother die.
Despite everything, Se-hyun's actions don't feel very well thought out, particularly compared to her father's meticulous preparation in framing her for the murders. Barging into his shop to attack him seems like a terrible move but here's hoping that she has something more up her sleeve in the coming episodes!
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