Chief Koo walks in Tae Soo's interview and swivels the spotlight back onto himself. Still suspicious of her father's death, Soo Yeon tries to find out more about the slush funds generated from the Africa Hospital project her uncle, Director Yoon, had operated. She even looks for the truck driver responsible for the accident but finds out he had left the country. Meanwhile, Hwang Hyun Gi, the patient saved by Tae Soo and Soo Yeon, starts to bleed profusely while being transferred.
‘환자를 위한 수술인가, 나를 위한 수술인가?’
수연과 함께 결국 환자를 살려내는 태수.
수연은 태산을 지키겠다는 다짐 하에 현일에게 선전포고를 한다.
한편, 석한은 유력 대선후보의 수술을 집도하라는 현일의 제안을 받아들이는데..