"Hunter with a Scalpel" is an authentic crime thriller with psycho-horror suspense that depicts the past of a prominent female forensic investigator suffering from antisocial personality disorder and the process in which the shadow of the father she killed threatens her honor and life. Adapted from a novel with the same title "Hunter with a Scalpel" (메스를 든 사냥꾼) by Choi Yi Do (최이도).