Doctor Lawyer

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Doctor Lawyer

닥터로이어 (Dakteo Roieo) · 2022 · South Korea

WriterJang Hong-cheol

DirectorLee Yong-seok, Lee Dong-hyeon

Episodes16 eps · ~60 min each

Where to Watch✅ Disney+, Hulu

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Binge Time16h 0m

AiredJun 3 – Jul 23, 2022

GenreMedical · Legal · Crime

Content Rating15+

MBCDisney+Hulu

Medical MalpracticeCourtroom RevengeOrgan Transplant MysteryCorporate CorruptionLegal Drama

One glance, one verdict — everything you need is right here.

A surgeon-turned-lawyer, the VIP who unknowingly benefited from his downfall, and the prosecutor caught in between.

So Ji-sub

Han Yi-han

Lead

Shin Sung-rok

Jayden Lee

Lead

Im Soo-hyang

Geum Seok-yeong

Lead

Lee Ju-bin

Lim Yu-na

Supporting

Lee Kyung-young

Goo Jin-gi

Supporting

Lee Dong-ha

Goo Hyun-seong

Supporting

Woo Hyun-ju

Pyo Eun-sil

Supporting

Kim Ho-jung

Jo Jung-hyun

Supporting

Choi Deok-moon

Lee Do-hyung

Supporting

Kim Hyeong-mook

Park Ki-tae

Supporting

Lee Seung-wook

Choi Yo-sub

Supporting

Nam Myung-ryeol

Lim Tae-moon

Supporting

Episode-by-episode, spoiler-light — a refresher, not a rewatch.

EP 01

The Transplant Before the Fall

Jun 3, 2022

Han Yi-han proposes to Geum Seok-yeong between shifts, then walks straight into a heart transplant for her brother Seok-ju — a surgery he pulls off with the effortless confidence of a man who’s never lost a patient he cared about this much. Rival surgeon Goo Hyun-seong stews over losing the department chief title to him, and hospital director Goo Jin-gi rewards Yi-han’s loyalty with an envelope of cash and a second job: a secretive, unscheduled transplant for a patient whose name never gets said out loud.

EP 02

The Trial Begins

Jun 4, 2022

Seok-ju doesn’t survive the transplant, and within days Yi-han goes from grieving future brother-in-law to accused murderer, the hospital turning the surgery that should have saved a life into the case that ends his career. Seok-yeong watches the system she trusted close ranks against the man she was about to marry, and Yi-han loses his medical license before he even fully understands what he’s being punished for.

EP 03

Five Years, One Client

Jun 10, 2022

Five years on, Yi-han resurfaces as a lawyer instead of a surgeon, taking the case of Park Ki-tae — his old colleague, on trial for a child’s death he insists was never his fault. Across town, Jayden Lee, a polished executive fresh off a flight from the US, watches a robot-surgery demonstration at Banseok University Medical Center with the interest of a man who already knows more than he’s letting on.

EP 04

A Convenient Silence

Jun 11, 2022

Ki-tae is murdered in detention just as he’s about to walk free, killed by an inmate who happens to be the ex-husband of the nurse who assisted Seok-ju’s surgery — a coincidence Yi-han refuses to accept. He announces he’ll represent Banseok’s malpractice victims pro bono, and Seok-yeong, seeing her ex-fiancé in a courtroom instead of an OR for the first time, starts to grasp exactly how much has changed.

EP 05

Ghost Surgery

Jun 17, 2022

Idol trainee So-yeon walks into Yi-han’s law office with a case that sounds impossible: she lost her singing voice to a surgery she says was performed by someone other than the doctor she’d consented to. Banseok’s in-house fixer Pyo Eun-sil moves fast to bury the claim, and the pattern Yi-han’s been circling — a hospital that treats patients as interchangeable — finally gets a name attached to it.

EP 06

The Ghost Comes Forward

Jun 18, 2022

Choi Yo-sub, the surgeon who actually operated on So-yeon, breaks his silence and testifies that Banseok’s director forced him into a procedure he knew was too risky for the tumor’s location. The nerve damage that cost her voice wasn’t an accident — it was a corner cut under pressure, and it’s the first time someone inside the hospital has told the truth in open court.

EP 07

Face to Face

Jun 24, 2022

Yi-han confirms he can operate on Jun-hwan, the desperately ill son of a mother running out of options, but the more pressing collision is personal. This is the first time Yi-han has stood in the same room as Goo Jin-gi since the night that ended his career, and neither man says what he’s actually thinking.

EP 08

Running Out of Time

Jun 25, 2022

Jung-hyun has been holding out for a better option, but her son’s condition leaves her no room left to wait — she asks Yi-han to operate, fully aware of what it means to trust the same hospital that destroyed him with the surgeon it tried to erase. It’s a small scene built on a large risk, and it’s not entirely clear yet whether trusting him is the right call.

EP 09

What Yo-sub Owes

Jul 1, 2022

Yi-han operates on Jun-hwan with Choi Yo-sub scrubbed in beside him — the same doctor whose testimony blew up Banseok’s cover-up now redeeming himself with steady hands in the one place he still knows how to help. The surgery succeeds, but elsewhere a quieter betrayal unfolds: Hyuk-chul breaks a promise that was never going to hold.

EP 10

The Auction House

Jul 2, 2022

Su-nae’s boyfriend Jin-woo enters Yi-han’s orbit, tangled up in a family already under threat, while Jayden turns up at an auction house competing for something he wants badly enough to show his hand. Little gets resolved here, but the episode spends its runtime carefully setting pieces in motion for what’s coming.

EP 11

Taken

Jul 8, 2022

Yi-han discovers that Su-nae has been drugged and taken hostage by Goo Jin-gi, confirmation that the chairman’s reach extends well past hospital walls and into outright abduction once his position is threatened. In the boardroom, Jayden and Lim Yu-na go public with the truth about a shady R&D drug deal to win the board over — a smaller victory that will still cost them allies they need later.

EP 12

No Domestic Precedent

Jul 9, 2022

Su-nae’s transplant turns into the season’s most technical set piece: her body starts rejecting Jin-woo’s donated lung mid-surgery, and Yi-han improvises a backup no one’s tried in Korea before, grafting a section of Jin-woo’s remaining healthy lung to save her. It’s intercut with Lim Tae-moon and Yoon Mi-sun’s final debate before their election and Jayden quietly striking a deal with Lee Do-hyung in a gambling den — three different gambles, all playing out at once.

EP 13

The Footage

Jul 15, 2022

Yi-han pulls Yoon-seok out of the Gukkwang Gang’s grip just in time, but the episode’s real weapon is video: footage surfaces showing Goo Jin-gi personally killing Do-hyung, and it gets played in open hearing for the board, the press, and the audience alike to see. For a man who’s spent the whole season staying just out of frame, it’s the first time Jin-gi is caught directly doing his own dirty work.

EP 14

The Pen

Jul 16, 2022

Jin-gi and Yoon Mi-sun are finally arrested, and the win should feel bigger than it does — Yi-han is still chasing one unanswered question, the identity of the VIP patient who received Seok-ju’s heart five years ago. A fountain pen found on Do-hyung’s body, expensive and out of place, becomes the thread he can’t stop pulling.

EP 15

Someone Yi-han Knows

Jul 22, 2022

The pen leads Yi-han to a conclusion he can barely say out loud: Jayden is the VIP who received Seok-ju’s heart, which means the ally he’s spent the back half of the season working alongside has been living with a stolen truth the whole time. The reveal lands right as Jin-gi’s trial opens, and someone nobody expected walks into the courtroom to make it worse.

EP 16

What’s Left to Settle

Jul 23, 2022

Jayden gets his revenge the same way it was given to him, poisoning Jin-gi with a slow, fatal dose and watching him die able to say only his son Hyun-seong’s name. Hyun-seong, consumed by grief and rage, stabs Jayden at the airport before he can leave the country, and it’s Yi-han who ends up operating to save the life of the man who spent the season unknowingly carrying his fiancée’s brother’s heart. Jayden survives to tell Yi-han he never knew where his new heart came from, and to apologize to Seok-yeong on his behalf — a debt he can’t actually pay off from a hospital bed. Yi-han’s retrial clears him completely, and his colleagues at the law office plan to celebrate a win he never should have needed; he visits Jayden in prison anyway, and when Hyun-seong pleads for leniency on Jayden’s behalf, Jayden turns it down and chooses to serve his full sentence — the closest thing this story has to atonement that isn’t just talk.

Everything the finale means, spoilers and all.

Who really had Seok-ju’s heart Jayden Lee — the polished, mysterious executive who’s spent the season a half-step ahead of everyone — turns out to be the VIP patient who received Seok-ju’s heart the night Yi-han’s career ended. He never knew where it came from. Goo Jin-gi arranged the transplant off the books to save an investor worth protecting, then let Yi-han take the fall for a death nobody outside that operating room understood.

The reveal reframes five years of Yi-han’s assumptions about who owed him the truth. Jayden wasn’t hiding evidence — he was the last person in the building who genuinely didn’t know what he’d been given, which makes Jin-gi’s cover-up even more calculated: he weaponized an innocent man’s gratitude to keep his own crime buried.

Jayden’s revenge, and what it costs him Once the truth is out, Jayden poisons Jin-gi with the same slow-acting drug once used against him, engineering a death cruel enough to match what was taken from him — Jin-gi dies able to say only his son Hyun-seong’s name. Hyun-seong retaliates by stabbing Jayden at the airport, and Yi-han, the surgeon Jin-gi tried to erase, is the one who operates to save the life of the man who unknowingly carried his fiancée’s brother’s heart.

It’s a finale that refuses a clean villain-victim split until the very end — Jayden spends the episode both getting his revenge and receiving Yi-han’s mercy, and the show is explicit that those two things aren’t in tension with each other.

The KDW verdict Yi-han’s retrial clears his name completely, but Doctor Lawyer’s smartest choice is what it does with Jayden afterward — offered leniency, he turns it down and serves his sentence in full, refusing to let a stolen heart buy him an easy ending. It’s a finale earned less by plot twists than by every character finally being honest about what they owe each other.