翔东大学的事务局长小园洋平于家中遇害，富士见署刑警星野尚人（林遣都饰）赶往现场，在对客厅进行勘察后，怀疑与妻子分居的小园还与其他女性进行交往。调查发现，翔东大学国际社会学系的讲师谷村夏帆（高梨临饰）是个为了出人头地不择手段的女人，她于半年前开始与手握人事大权的小园搞婚外恋。

小园被杀后，夏帆作为嫌疑人被逮捕。警局总部草草结案，将夏帆定为杀人犯；这一举动让星野察觉不对，他觉得夏帆有可能是被人诬陷了。

另一边，记者丸山奏太（佐藤隆太饰）收到了一封匿名邮件，内容有关被害人出轨一事；他察觉到有人在引导案件舆论，于是选择了独自进行调查。

刑警、嫌疑人、记者。这三人各自受个人问题所扰，却又因利益关系一致走到了一起。他们共同出谋划策，一层层掀开幕后黑手的神秘面纱，一步步向真相靠近。真凶究竟是谁呢？人类的“恶意”背后所隐藏的，令人震惊的真相即将揭露！

日劇《MALICE》於 2023 年夏季開播，本劇由村上正典、菊川誠、本間美由紀共同執導，山岡潤平、武井彩共同編劇，主要演員包括林遣都、高梨臨、佐藤隆太、一之瀨颯等，劇情描述富士見警署刑事「星野尚人」捲入了一場棘手的案件，被害者「小園洋平」在自家客廳遭人刺殺，最高嫌疑人即小園的外遇對象「谷村夏帆」，因家中發現凶器而遭到逮捕。在此期間，星野對警方上層草率的調查方針感到不安，並漸漸意識到夏帆可能被某人陷害…。

Kozono Yohei, secretary general of Shoto University, was found stabbed to death in his home. Hoshino Naoto, a detective at Fujimi Police Station, rushes to the scene and sees the scene of the murder in the living room. Tanimura Kaho, a lecturer at Shoto University's Department of International Studies, is trying to get ahead in life at any cost, and has been having an affair with Kozono, who holds the right to personnel affairs, for half a year. Kozono is murdered, and Kaho is arrested as a murderer. On the other hand, reporter Maruyama Sota receives information about the affair via anonymous email, and realizes that someone is trying to manipulate the impression of the incident, and begins his own investigation. In the midst of this, Hoshino feels uncomfortable with the investigative policy of the upper-level police, which concludes that Kaho is the culprit in a half-baked investigation, and eventually realizes that Kaho may have been framed by someone.

翔東大学の事務局長・小園洋平が自宅で刺殺体で発見された。富士見署刑事・星野尚人は、殺害現場であるリビングの様子を見て別の女の影を感じる。半年前から人事権を持つ小園と不倫関係にあった国際社会学部の講師・谷村夏帆は殺人犯として逮捕されるが…。

어느 대학의 사무국장이 살해된 살인사건의 담당형사와, 살인사건 용의자로 지목된 여성, 그리고 특종을 노리는 주간지 기자가 "진범"을 추적하는 휴먼 서스펜스 드라마