At the burning hospital, Su-Jeong tells the kid that she will save his brother in Doctor X: Mafia in White episode 2. She runs into the burning hospital. Su-Jeong wakes up from the nightmare. She lies in her bed. She takes the teddy bear that the kid held. The teddy bear was burned.
In Seung-Gwon’s office at the hospital, Sun-Ae reports it to Seung-Gwon that the Pediatric Oncology Ward was built because of the guy’s donation. He thinks Gwang-Cheol is sick. But they earned Tens of billions won. They don’t have to win the big spender’s heart. She says the Expansion Project for the Surgical Clinic has been put on hold. The Foundation doesn’t give an answer. He asks her to organize the donation records over the years.
He thinks Gwang-Cheol can undergo preoperative chemotherapy. He asks Yun-Sik why does Gwang-Cheol want to have surgery first? Yun-Sik says the patient insists on doing so. The patient said he must have kept a clear head. Seung-Gwon asks Yun-Sik can he handle it?
The girl Ju-Hui gets on the bus. The old lady tries to hand over an egg to Ju-Hui. She guesses she’s sick. She asks her to treat her as her grandma. Su-Jeong reaches out her hand to the egg. She says she can eat it. So the old lady gives the egg to Su-Jeong.
Gwang-Cheol arrives at the hospital when the people are protesting. Gwang-Cheol asks Seong-Gyu is he a cancer patient? Seong-Gyu says yes. Gwang-Cheol says nobody believes him. He pretended to be sick to avoid the supervision. He pretended to pass out to delay his court appearance. It turns out that he’s really sick. He cannot manage to stand, but those guys are having a huge argument there.
Seong-Gyu reminds Gwang-Cheol that excessive stress can worsen his condition. Yun-Sik is not only a skilled surgeon, he’s quite knowledgeable about treatment and postoperative care. Gwang-Cheol wants to go to Pediatric Oncology Ward that he donated. He was very busy because of the lawsuit, he didn’t show off well. He heard that there was a plaque with his name.
Su-Jeong carries Ju-Hui to run to Seong-Gyu. She tells him that she needs the wheelchair. She throws Gwang-Cheol out of the wheelchair. She lets Ju-Hui sit in the wheelchair. She runs away with the girl. Seong-Gyu goes to chase Su-Jeong. Gwang-Cheol is about to lose his temper. But he sees the protesters outside.
Seong-Gyu fails to catch Su-Jeong at the elevator. She takes over the stethoscope from the doctor. She checks Ju-Hui’s chest with the stethoscope. She finds out that she doesn’t have a pneumothorax. Ju-Hui tells Su-Jeong her name. She has type 1 diabetes. Su-Jeong asks the doctor to get Ju-Hui’s medical records. Seong-Gyu carries Gwang-Cheol in the lobby. Gwang-Cheol wants to know Su-Jeong’s name.
In the doctors’ office, Heung-Gon laughs when he watches Gwang-Cheol’s footage. Seong-Gyu doesn’t want to be Su-Jeong’s colleague. Heung-Gon says they have no choice. Because Seung-Gwon has decided it. And they’re short-staffed. Heung-Gon suggests that Seong-Gyu should go to take revenge. So Su-Jeong cannot focus.
Heung-Gon and Seong-Gyu make some noise. But they find out that Su-Jeong is wearing earphones. Heung-Gon tells Seong-Gyu that he should help Yun-Sik in the surgery. It’s way too conspicuous if he gets in operating room. If he goes to help, Yun-Sik will think he doesn’t believe his surgical skills. But with Seong-Gyu’s qualifications, it’s just right that he goes to be an assistant.
Yun-Sik was chosen because he showed Gwang-Cheol his care when at the dinner table. Gwang-Cheol was very happy. He wanted Yun-Sik to be his attending physician. Gwang-Cheol knows the doctors here want to perform the surgery for him. So he chose one who was easy to manage. Yun-Sik couldn’t reject it.
Yun-Sik shows up. He gets Tae-Gyeong to put the papers on Su-Jeong’s desk. He wants Su-Jeong to help him write his paper. She takes out her contract. She claims that she doesn’t do the job. He says he has no space to put the papers. She leaves the office.
Tae-Gyeong tries to go to chase Su-Jeong. But Seong-Gyu stops Tae-Gyeong. He asks him to keep an eye on Su-Jeong. Tae-Gyeong says he’s still an intern. He needs to study. Seong-Gyu reveals he helped several professors while he studied. Tae-Gyeong just needs to keep an eye on a mad dog. They call Su-Jeong mad dog after the surgery. Tae-Gyeong tells Seong-Gyu that he’s a brown-noser.
In the ward, Gwang-Cheol wants to see the mad dog. He reminds Seung-Gwon that a lot of people will be happy if he dies. So they must save his life.
At the cafe, Tae-Gyeong buys Su-Jeong the desserts. She takes out her wallet. She says she’s broke. She spent all her allowance that Hui-Suk gave to her. Hui-Suk only gives Su-Jeong 100,000 won every month. Su-Jeong owes a lot of money. If she doesn’t listen to Hui-Suk, she will be in trouble. Hui-Suk beat Su-Jeong because of pocket money yesterday.
Ju-Hui fights Gwang-Cheol in the lobby after he said that her mother and her aunt were pitiful. Su-Jeong takes Gwang-Cheol away. Ju-Hui is bleeding. She realizes that Gwang-Cheol was right when her mother and her aunt chase her. Su-Jeong comes back. She tells Tae-Gyeong that she parked Gwang-Cheol. At the parking lot, Gwang-Cheol sits in his wheelchair. He yells.
In the ward, Ju-Hui’s mother gives yogurt to Tae-Gyeong and Su-Jeong. Tae-Gyeong and Su-Jeong leave the ward. Won-Jin mentions Ju-Hui has type 1 diabetes and Pancreatoblastoma. It’s a very rare illness.
Su-Jeong runs to the cafeteria. She begins to eat. Tae-Gyeong finds her. He asks her what was she doing before they went to the cafe? She says she saw that the patient was feeling dizzy in the hallway. She let her go to the ENT department. She has Meniere disease. The doctor Geun-Sik thinks Su-Jeong knows nothing about Meniere. Seong-Gyu tells Su-Jeong that the patient planned to see an internist. But she lies on the couch at the ENT department. She had a checkup, and she has Meniere.
Su-Jeong says it’s not a problem. Geun-Sik blames her for interfering with diagnoses made by other departments. But Sang-Myun doesn’t need Su-Jeong to apologize to him. Because the patient thanked him.
Heung-Gon asks Su-Jeong why did she do it in the hallway? She goes to take pork chops. Seong-Gyu asks Tae-Gyeong where was he? But Tae-Gyeong thinks Su-Jeong did nothing wrong. Heung-Gon points out that Su-Jeong crossed the line. She bought trouble to take back her office desk. Won-Jin gets angry after knowing Heung-Gon drove Su-Jeong out of the office. She thinks he shouldn’t do that. Because he’s not a kid.
Seong-Gyu realizes that Su-Jeong was very calculating. Tae-Gyeong notices that the woman messes her hair to get more pork chops.
The doctors have a meeting for Gwang-Cheol. Yun-Sik says Gwang-Cheol has Pancreatic Cancer. He wants to perform a surgery for Gwang-Cheol. Su-Jeong goes against it. She thinks the cancer cells may have invaded arteries and veins in the superior mesentery. He says it cannot change anything. The patient refuses to accept chemotherapy. He will try his best to keep the arteries in the mesentery. She says she can cut off the arteries. She won’t fail.
Seung-Gwon tells the doctors that Su-Jeong will perform Ju-Hui’s surgery. Yun-Sik persuades Seung-Gwon that Ju-Hui is very important to his case report. But Seung-Gwon doesn’t change his mind.
Su-Jeong returns home. Hui-Suk asks Su-Jeong not to get into trouble. But Woong-Gu doesn’t believe that Su-Jeong can hold it in with her temper. Mi-Kyung tells Su-Jeong that the girl will die if she lets Yun-Sik do it. The guy climbs to the position with currying favor with his boss. The doctors in the hospital depend on dignity, prestige, and authority. Without these, they’re not doctors. Hui-Suk knocks over dominoes. She says it’s their turn to show up when those things disappear.
In the doctors’ office, Heung-Gon complains that Su-Jeong was blinded by ambition. Seong-Gyu asks Tae-Gyeong to make sure that Su-Jeong will go to the Internal Medicine Department to apologize tomorrow. He and Heung-Gon leave the office.
The next day, Tae-Gyeong and Su-Jeong meet Ju-Hui and her family. Ju-Hui’s aunt Yeong-Ju wants to know why the doctor was changed. She wants to experienced doctor to come back. Tae-Gyeong promises Yeong-Ju that Su-Jeong is outstanding. But Ju-Hui doesn’t believe it. She doesn’t want to have the surgery. She knows she cannot go to college even if she survives. She checked it, and she knows she’s over.
She takes the agreement when Yeong-Ju wants to sign it. She complains it to her mother and her aunt that the classmates thought she was a drug user. But now she has a cancer. Her mother has to sit in wheelchair. She thinks she’s tired when she takes care of her. She tells Yeong-Ju that she shouldn’t take care of her and her mother. But Yeong-Ju says it’s her business. Ju-Hui expresses that she wants to die.
Su-Jeong tells Ju-Hui that people will die in the end. So she shouldn’t be anxious. She will die within one month if she doesn’t have the surgery. She will die after 100 years, if she has the surgery. She lets her make a choice.
Su-Jeong and Tae-Gyeong run into Yun-Sik in the lobby. Yun-Sik says he can perform the surgery for Ju-Hui. But Seung-Gwon sympathized with him, and he helped him lighten the burden. But she persuades him to switch places with her. He wants to know the reason. She says he cannot do it with his skills. He’s so stubborn, but he doesn’t have the talent. Seong-Gyu is furious to tell Su-Jeong that he heard it when she walks away.
At Hui-Suk’s house, Hui-Suk prepares a table full of food. Mi-Kyung wants to eat it. But Hui-Suk asks Su-Jeong to come to eat. Woong-Gu guesses Su-Jeong is going through the surgical procedure in her brain. Mi-Kyung agrees with what he said. Su-Jeong likes to perform surgeries more than eating. Mi-Kyung and Woong-Gu try to take all the eggs. Hui-Suk stops them. She tells the two that one egg per person. She takes an egg for Su-Jeong.
Hui-Suk asks Woong-Gu and Mi-Kyung why don’t they go home? They resolve three meals here. Woong-Gu asks her what day is today? She cooked braised pork ribs. She asks him not to touch the pork ribs.
Yun-Sik is working in his office. He’s eating exquisite food. He remembers Seung-Gwon let Su-Jeong perform the surgery for Ju-Hui. The food doesn’t taste as good anymore.
Hui-Suk knocks at the door of Su-Jeong’s room. Su-Jeong doesn’t open the door. So Hui-Suk puts the food at the door. She leaves. Su-Jeong lies in the bed. She finds a way to cure Ju-Hui.
The next day at the hospital, Yun-Sik is performing the surgery for Gwang-Cheol in the operating room. He finds out that the patient’s blood vessels are surrounded by the tumor. He decides to close his abdomen. Heung-Gon reminds Yun-Sik that Gwang-Cheol isn’t an ordinary patient. Seung-Gwon disallows Yun-Sik to close the abdomen. Yun-Sik points out that it’s bad for the patient if they continue to do resection.
Seung-Gwon tells Yun-Sik that he can only say something after he tries his best. Yun-Sik offers to contact Gwang-Cheol’s family. Heung-Gon reveals Gwang-Cheol’s family doesn’t come. Everyone is waiting for the guy’s death.
In the waiting room, Yeong-Ju finds a letter from the bag of Ju-Hui’s mother. The letter was written by Ju-Hui. In Ju-Hui’s operating room, Su-Jeong is performing a surgery for Ju-Hui. Seung-Gwon calls Tae-Gyeong. He asks him to let Su-Jeong come to number one operating room. But Tae-Gyeong refuses to do it. Su-Jeong takes over the phone from the guy. She tells Seung-Gwon that she will come over.
She tries to get out of the operating room. Tae-Gyeong stops her. He asks her is she going to give up the patient? He figures she does it because Ju-Hui isn’t a vip. Because she comes from a poor family with a member who has a disability? She says priority. He thinks she wants to make a name for herself. He didn’t believe it when other doctors blamed her for chasing fame and fortune. But how can she do this? She ignores him, and she runs out of the operating room.
Su-Jeong gets in number one operating room. Yun-Sik is surprised after he saw her. Seung-Gwon tells Yun-Sik that he called Su-Jeong. Yun-Sik is furious to blame Seung-Gwon for doing it. Su-Jeong says she takes over the surgery. Seong-Gyu wonders who is in charge of number five operating room. She tells him that he can go to the operating room if he worries about it. He blames her for abandoning the patient.
Seung-Gwon comforts Seong-Gyu that Heung-Gon is on the way to the operating room. Su-Jeong changes the surgery plan. She summons Won-Jin. Heung-Gon reaches number five operating room. He’s surprised that Su-Jeong completed the surgery within one hour.
In number one operating room, Su-Jeong tells the people that they’re going to take Great Saphenous Vein from the patient’s groin. Then they cut the whole Pancreatic Cancer. It includes arteries and veins in the superior mesentery. Using Great Saphenous Vein to rebuild the arteries.
She admits it to Yun-Sik that she wants to use the patient as a practice run. He yells at her. She shouldn’t take the risk. If she fails, the patient will die. Seung-Gwon asks Yun-Sik to listen to Su-Jeong. He states Su-Jeong has never set foot in the operating room.
Su-Jeong completes the surgery. She asks Yun-Sik to make sure that the patient isn’t bleeding. He should do it if he wants to be accepted as a professor. Hui-Suk tells Seung-Gwon that the cost of two surgeries is double. She promises him that nobody will know the case. But he needs to pay in cash. She will come back soon.
Seung-Gwon walks into the locker room. Yun-Sik apologizes to Seung-Gwon. Seung-Gwon mentions Yun-Sik’s first idea was to give up. From that moment on, he has left the operating room. Yun-Sik claims that he didn’t leave. He volunteered to stay to be an assistant. Until the surgery ended. He wanted to do something. He felt humiliated. He couldn’t climb over the high wall. But he hung in there. He will continue to hang in there. He will gain a foothold in the hospital and make all his dreams come true.
Heung-Gon and Seong-Gyu overhear it. Heung-Gon says Yun-Sik is tacky and corny. Although Yun-Sik’s skills aren’t good, he did a good job. Tae-Gyeong asks Heung-Gon and Seong-Gyu about Su-Jeong. Seong-Gyu reminds Tae-Gyeong that Su-Jeong wouldn’t come to the men’s locker room. Heung-Gon reveals Su-Jeong planned to perform the two surgeries at the same time. Tae-Gyeong is shocked. He runs out of the locker room.
Su-Jeong brings yogurt to Ju-Hui when the girl is sleeping in her ward. She notices her letter on the table. Ju-Hui thanks her mother and her aunt in her letter. Su-Jeong goes to the bathhouse to take a bath. Hui-Suk makes grilled meat.
The next day in Seung-Gwon’s office, Sun-Ae gives some money to Hui-Suk. Hui-Suk leaves Seung-Gwon’s office. She counts the money. She sees the news that Gwang-Cheol is arrested after he left the hospital. She thinks he paid the price. She wants to see how long he will live.
In the doctors’ office, Heung-Gon wants to look into the surgical procedure that Su-Jeong used. He thinks what’s important is the meaning that she performed the surgery for her ambition.
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Seung-Gwon and Yun-Sik run into Su-Jeong in the lobby. Seung-Gwon asks Su-Jeong why doesn’t she stay in the office. She reveals those Brown-Nosers kicked her out of the office. It’s fine that she stays here. He tells her that he has given the surgical fees to Hui-Suk. The surgeries were very hard. He thanks her. She says it’s not hard. He stops her when she tries to leave.
In the doctors’ office, Seong-Gyu finds the procedure that Su-Jeong used. But the patient passed away after two months. In the lobby, Seung-Gwon tells Su-Jeong that she’s bound to stumble at some point. She figures he has stumbled. Heung-Gon and Seong-Gyu recognize Su-Jeong from the photo. She’s Doctor X.