The Pitt S2E13 7PM - Who Will Survive
- Marielle Bokor
- 6 hours ago
- 22 min read
Listen, 7pm is a good time to be at home, in your pj’s, with a pizza and a good show after work (unless you work in an industry where it’s go time). Right now though, we’re in a situation where everyone’s been working since...well, forever ago, and are now entering the second hour of a holiday nightshift. No one’s having fun. Not the patients who did a few bumps and assaulted a nurse, not the guy who blew himself into a garage, not really anyone. And not the doctors of The Pitt, either.
Robby’s gone full Toby Maguire in Spiderman 3 emo with a hint of evil, Dana’s literally had it up to here (gestures to the outer atmosphere of the planet) and Hashimi came in on this day only to witness …well, what has she seen. The point is, Happy Fourth. Now let’s see what catastrophes can still befall our cast and crew here, and hope everyone gets out of it alive.
Did I just doom us?
Recap of the Recap:
We start all the way back with Digby at a time when Dana was mostly calm.
Then we flash back to Hashimi calling her psychiatrist after her first encounter of Baby Jane Doe.
Duke and Robby get a quick flash.
Then we cut to Jerk Robby being his jerkiest - first yelling at McKay for being outside doing street team stuff and then at Mohan for having a panic attack because of her mommy issues. I’m never not gonna want to one punch him for that.
Then we’ve got Robby yelling at ICE. At least that was a good place for that anger.
Then we’re with our diabetic dad, and when he left the ER even after the social workers tried to cost cut. As most of us well know, a few thousand knocked off a few thousand dollar bill is great, sure, but doesn’t mean you had that other few thousand lying around. Mohan promised she’d get him everything he needs at home, and as far as we know, Abbot helped pay for it to be Uber’d out there.
Then a quick cut to him as a “new” patient who fell off a catwalk at a warehouse. And now, we’re in the present.
7PM:
Diabetic Dad - Orlando Diaz. Mohan’s the only one who knew him of the people in the room, so she tells them that he’d left AMA and we find out he went back to work ( of course) and had a fall from that catwalk. No one saw him, they just couldn’t raise him on the radio and found him after. He’s in a bad way.
Night shift says they’ll take it from there, but Mohan says she’ll stay. Robby backs her, says “continuity of care” and assigns everyone else out. Surgery is hanging around, and note he has a skull fracture. One of the night doctors asks what some of his stats indicate but she shoves it off saying she’s trying to treat the patient, and Garcia fills in the info - he’s got the Cushing’s reflex from intracranial pressure. He needs to go to ct right away. Outside the room they ask if there’s any family to notify and she says “wife and three kids.”
Meanwhile, night staff is asking if there’s a card to sign or any cake for Robby. There’s not, and this greatly disturbs them. No cake is kinda shitty. We see Emma wandering around so she didn’t go home. Santos is talking to someone about a patient who got hurt while raiding a restaurant, so I think we have an ICE agent patient. That oughta be interesting.
Langdon drives by the same guy, Grus, and asks if he knows the nighttime drill. Meanwhile Whit is helping a new intern, and introduces her to dragon lady, who doesn’t care. I heavily dislike her. Abot shows up ready for his shift, and Dana tells him about the ICE raid and that Jesse was arrested - well, detained, for assaulting an officer.
Meanwhile, the new intern meets Hashimi, who greets her in Armenian, much to her surprise, but hey, at least we didn’t leave dragon lady as the welcome wagon. Meanwhile, dragon lady’s breathing fire cuz they’re speaking a language she doesn’t understand. Typical.
Dana gets everyone’s attention to address the elephant in the room. Which one? There’s a whole herd if you ask me.
Ok, it’s the ICE elephant. She mentions that Jesse tried to intervene when a fed was handling his patient and both he and the patient were taken away by ICE. Someone asks if he punched the guy and they say no. He put out his hand to stop him. We hear a mumble “it was a little more than that” and I suspect that was dragon lady. Or was it McKay? Holy shit. Weird. They tell them they’ll update them every 12 hours but ask them not to feed the rumor mill. She also addresses Emma’s assault and reminds everyone of code hula hoop and keeping a path to the door clear.
Abot takes over the talk to discuss downtime and plans but then it’s uptime, and the computers are back. Everyone breaks out in applause but the buzzkill Abot (kidding, he’s fine!) says everything from the last 5 hours has to be scanned into record. So there’s still a lot of busy manual labor to be doing. Even worse news, this falls on the day shift, cuz it’s their stuff. They either dont’ know this is procedure or forgot or wanted to forget so naturally, everyone’s upset. I mean, I get it. But I guess that’s how you get two extra episodes these days.
Emma comes up to Dana and asks if they can go on rounds. I think Dana needs her more than Emma needs Dana.
Everyone’s in with diabetic dad and Mateo brings results. His blood sugar is ok, potssium ok, and he’s doing a little better. There’s a lot of reasons he could’ve passed out and I think Mohan knows which one it is but she’s not saying, and they settle on "it's really hot and he’s probably dehydrated”
Next we visit Oliver - who - I don’t recall what his deal was. I think he’s the other kidney guy, not the English patient. 90 percent of the entire staff is looking over him now and Hashimi asks if he’s ok. Ah yes, this is missed dialysis guy and his son. He had a pulmonary edema after missing dialysis and the closest dialysis center to him had just closed so he hadn’t been in a while. As of this writing, we’ve got a hospital nearby that’s not paying its people and care is getting neglected so don’t think this sort of thing is fiction. His son is named Mason.
Hashimi takes everyone over to Digby. Oh, everyone’s here cuz it’s night shift rounds, I’m a moron. He’s gonna get good care for his arm. Dana stops in to see if he got enough to eat. This is a feel good ending at least. I hope.
We get a new girl we didn’t see with a tweaked knee from doing sick tricks on a skateboard, maybe? She’s covered. Outside, Rounds end. Dana gives Emma a steel bowl, and takes her along to Digby. She greets him and asks if he’d like to get cleaned up a little bit. He seems wary of it, because he did get the shower earlier but is this an elaborate ploy to play that maggot arm one more time?
Oh, or not. They’re offering a shave and a haircut. I wouldn’t have blamed anyone if they did bring that out again though. I’m just saying. It was quality effects.
Perlah’s out being amazing and working the board, and a police officer breezes by with a coffee and tells her to stay safe. She returns the thought. But she’s not just any cop - she’s the one that came in with Mohan’s diabetic dad, Orlando. She asks if she noticed anything about the fall but Cary, our new police officer friend - like a break in the railing or security cameras. Those are sorta specific questions…but Cary doesn’t spill any tea here and what is Mohan thinking or doing at this point?
Baby Jane Doe is first on the patient list, and they give night shift her story. She’s about to be placed but she’s got friends in night shift too se we switch off her.
BH-1’s psych hold danger to self is the mother of our heat stroke kid. Hashimi explains the whole ordeal, including that she walked out into traffic.
Just then a kid comes in who’s wheezing with no response to albuterol. So he’s obviously asthmatic regularly, and when asked the mom says so, but that it’s never been this bad. He’s not getting enough air, and using extra muscles trying to pull air. He doesn’t look as bad as all that means he is. But the nurses know. Langdon’s got him and they’re doing continuous nebulizers, epi and all the things to try to help. He’s also on a few other asthma meds (said a person also on those meds) and when they ask why he discontinued them recently, she says it’s because he lost his Medicaid.
This particular patient is one I relate to, as I’ve actually had to purchase Montekulast (an asthma preventative) on my own dime with no insurance before, and I can remember just how expensive it is. The life of no insurance often means no preventative care, which leads to more severe problems in the long run, people. I’ve lived it and you’re seeing it on screen now.
They epi him in the thigh and ..we’re out with Abot and McKay. McKay is giving crazy eyes while …faxing? I mean, inconvenient sure, but that was a strange little vignette. No matter though, as we’re on to other stuff, and McKay’s picked up the Armenian intern from earlier and they’re with a lady who’s got liver function issues and is in fact already turning yellow, so it’s surprising on some level that they even ask if she noticed. It’s noticeable. She’s been bronzing, and I guess that’s a good reason you might not have noticed. Our intern, who’s a Cali girl, giggles a little and asks which bronzer, adding that some bronzers can have chemicals that cause strange reactions, but it’s dha and sugar beets. I mean, word, but those could cause their own issues too perhaps? Maybe I just like guessing medical diagnoses too much.
She asks why her liver’s inflamed, and that’s kind of the better question. There’s a lot of possibilities, which honestly, I didn’t suspect. She’s a very “clean” lifestyle sort, and is disgusted at the thought of Tylenol - she’s also vegan. I suspect there’s something in that that’s a clue.
Things are going up on the computers, but slowly, with Digby being the newest addition. If it’s chronological Duke’s got a while. Speaking of, he’s on Robby’s mind, and Robby’s on the phone finding out where he is. Some more urgent CTs have again come up, if you recall, and Robby, being irrational these days, is pissed because of Duke. He asks if they can get to him next, and we have no idea if they agree. Perlah just realisticallyt ells him it could be hours.
Meanwhile, Dana’s needling Robby about the time and Robby’s loose ends. He hits back with a comment about Dana working til sunrise, then about her getting to to go the extra mile when they accuse everyone else of being martyrs and she doesn’t counter. She looks a little sorry. But still mad. Valid.
Robby gets called over to Orlando, because his new injuries are pretty severe. Mohan snaps at everyone when she’s called on to figure out the next steps, and we’re back over to our asthmatic with Langdon and his crew.
Emma’s with Digby shaving his face, and they seem to be getting along. I feel apprehensive though, because it’s been just hours since her attack and she’s again alone with a patient. It’s understandable maybe, but also, Digby has been nothing but kind up to this point, but I think that’s probably the point.
Santos runs in towards the scanning and bumps into Whit, sending papers everywhere. She’s flustered but Whit says they had to be sorted before they got scanned anyway. Santos asks for Joy but they find out she left at 6. She recommends tapping Ogilvie for help, but he’s in with the kidney stone. Santos asks if he’ll be by tonight and he says he will after he goes to check in at Robby’s house, and they share another weird moment between each other while they both realize they are actually friends. I hope. They have an equally awkward conversation about how often or not often he could be at Robby’s or Santos’ based on what she might maybe want that I just want to put them in a room for two hours to stop being weird and talk about it.
Upstairs, Javadi’s with Orlando. A neuro’s on the case - division chief - and she’s consulting. He needs an EVD. She throws a bunch of jargon out which Javadi’s struggling to hang with. Robby explains it in the background but to be honest I”m not going to try to sum up because I’m still not hanging.
The division chief asks for someone to scrub up and help,and Samira say she’s good. Robby pushes her and says she should lend a hand, but she still tries to refuse. “I said I’m good” and Javadi also turns it down, but then she gets recognized, because of course the division chief knows her mother. Oh no. “She was a resident. You were in utero” is always fun to hear at your job.
She turns her down when she gets invited again to participate and Robby’s in disbelief. She goes to leave the room and Robby follows - she’s the chief of neurosurgery. She’s kind of a legend. Javadi’s squirming. Robby is really pushing and asks if it’s about the volvulus slipup and if it is to basically get over it. She takes the scrubs. O-kay.
Langdon, Hashimi, and most everyone else from day are with our asthma patient. Hashimi has an idea for some sort of mesh that might help but only if they get it in less than two minutes. Robby comes in and Hashimi ducks out. Is she avoiding him now?
Upstairs, our legend is with Javadi, and they’re just not even measuring before they cut into the skull. Robby asks - in the middle of all this - about Garcia working with Hashimi at the VA. Let’s not do that now, eh? Javadi’s gonna get the drill. She doesn’t want it, but our legend says it’s fine because there’s a safety stop. So now e’re drilling into Orlando’s skull. I have all the anxiety and she has more.
Dana pops in with Digby and Emma, his shave is finished, and he’s maybe getting a haircut. He doesn’t want it, but Dana convinces him and he shares he hasn’t had a haircut since his daughter’s wedding a few years back. We find out they know where he is and they live in his house, so that seems like a lot of relevant back story we never had.
Back in it’s not rocket surgery, it’s rocket surgery, and Javadi’s at the helm. We’re waiting for a pop when we …I can’t even pretend this is normal. Hyperventilating.
Cut to Mohan, where we’re finding out that Orlando has the highest possible likelihood of survival for his condition, which isn’t as good as it sounds. A third of patients die, and another large percentage have long term disabilities. She’s obviously not taking this news well, but we’re done here for the moment, because
Javadi hears a pop. Which is goooood? Eesh. I mean, we’re in full on brain surgery here. It’s good there’s a supervisor but she’s sure letting Javadi take the wheel a lot. She’s actually doing the thing though, so props.
McKay’s with Santos and Whit asking them how scanning is going. They’re basically dying of tired, which makes all the sense. They fill her in on Abot’s new patient, the jaundice lady. Santos guesses it’s a hepatitis. Whit asks if it’s Tylenol, she rules it out, and then goes for “does she eat polar bear liver” because it can cause Vitamin A toxicity but she doesn’t eat meat or fish so it can’t be either, can it? Still, that’s getting warmer, I feel like. McKay asks Santos to go take a look. “You have a way of figuring out the weird stuff” she says and before Santos can complain more, Whit says “Take the compliment.” Good advice, though I feel like he was warmer than she was.
Our asthma patient is doing better. They ask how he renews his meds, and she says in cash at a clinic for about 400 a month and King is incredulous it could be that much. But it do.
Back in with Orlando, and they’re still all up ins. There’s a level involved, a thick tube going through his head, and…I guess that’s some way to calculate something about brain fluid. Mohan says the first troponin is working but they need a second MRI to rule out something. Robby asks her to step out for a minute. I’m raising all my eyebrows. She’s immediately defending herself, and telling him she did everything she could to make him stay. Hey, that’s not on you. But he’s not there for that, he’s there to …ask questions about Hashimi and her work with her at the VA? Come on man, read the room. The amount of fucked up decisions Robby’s been making the last three hours boils my brain. He’s asking if she had lapses in focus or attention, and she mentions the zone out over Baby Jane Doe early in the morning. I mean, ok, that’s weird but I don’t want him to have ammo he can be reckless with.
In with our yellow lady, and no cirrhosis. She’s pissed she’s sick. She mentions how much sleep she got and McKay says she can’t remember the last time she did get 8 hours. Santos drops “Maybe you should try sleepmaxxing” and I think she’s baiting our yellow lady into revealing all the influences on her health journey. It works, and before long we find out she’s got a gaggle of naturopaths and healers. This is going places. But she doesn’t even take vitamins. She mentions food is the best medicine, and reveals she takes turmeric. A LOT. Like 3500 mg. Welp. Turns out that can cause liver failure.
Back with Dana and Emma, and he’s got a fresh haircut. And he’s crying. I hope it’s a good cry. He can’t remember the last time he looked like this. Emma says he looks totally different and accidentally provokes a crisis. “Then how will they find me?” Dana’s there to reassure him that they know his voice and his face and they know where he hangs out. Emma chimes in to ask if his daughter danced with him at the wedding,and he says she did. She says that if that’s true, then his daughter will never forget him, and he’s tearing up again. Oh, thank you for not making him a throwaway, The Pitt.
Robby tracks down Hashimi and starts in on her, telling her she seems like she was hesitating with the asthma patient when recommending Aerogen, and pretends he wonders if she was having second thoughts. Or maybe he does wonder. Still, not liking this train we’re on. She says no, she was just thinking about hte best treatment plan for hte patient.
He accepts it but asks if there’s anything else he should know and she says no.
Robby gets on the phone to ask about Duke, who’s apparently in the scanner now. So, cool. Progress. He asks Abot if anything’s new upstairs. Perlah asks everyone at the nurse’s station if they should take up a collection for Jesse for bail, and Langdon says they don’t usually set it til after a holiday, and the collective group realizes he’s likely to be in all weekend.
King pops out of a trauma room to tell Robby that Grady’s worse - much worse. And I’m like, who’s Grady? Asthma kid? Oh yeah, yep. He’s tiring, and they need to intubate. This just sucks so much. Or they were going to, but he has a collapsed lung. Apparently if your lungs try too hard, they can eventually burst. They cut a little hole in him and suddenly he’s breathing. Cool trick.
Robby is back to Mohan who just really doesn’t want to be around him, and yet. He says it’s a good thing our legend, Dr. Conley, was there and they should try to find him a neuro-critical bed and all I’m thinking is how much more things will cost him now. Ugh. She barely responds, but Duke is back so Robby splits off.
Duke’s made friends with his nurse Vivi and is about to teach her how to ride motorcycles. Perlah heads up to Mohan to let her know that Orlando’s wife is here, and she leaps towards the doors to meet her. She has no idea how bad things are, and is still in uniform having come from work. Man. She has food for him, and no idea what’s coming. Oh man. Mohan and Robby are trying to let her know what to expect, and it’s brutal. He can’t be independent at home for at least a year. It’s devastating given what we already know. This poor woman and her family. Poor Orlando. That’s not even worst case, because he could need round the clock nursing for severe disability. You can see the light go out of her eyes even more than when she walked in and saw him with all the tubes and the stapled head.
She turns to Mohan and asks “You let him leave?”
Oh no. She says that she told him to stay, and Robby says he was competent and knew the risks. “We honored his decision to leave.” “Even if it was a stupid one?”
Yeah. Even then. Mohan says again, “I tried to stop him” but it’s not helping. How could it? Still, it’s not her fault.
Elsewhere, King pops into the break room and asks Langdon if he’s ok. He says he’s ok, he jus t isn’t sure if he’s ready to be back. “Of course you are” she says without even blinking. That’s the kind of support everyone needs. He’s obsessed with his mistake of almost intubating the asthmatic kid, but he didn’t, and they caught it. She tells him about her deposition, and how all the lawyers questions made her feel like a bad doctor, but that we don’t always get everything right the first time, and assures him that he would’ve caught the collapsed lung. He mentions Robby being all over him but King reminds him he’s leaving for 3 months. She admits she doens’t want Robby or him to leave. “That which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” and they bond over Nietzche. Which is what I love about them.
Outside, Santos and Whit are scanning. They’ve got a thick file, which turns out to be Oggy’s. His english patient. Who didn’t make it, and died on the table 40 minutes ago. They can tell it’s something that was missed that killed him and if the computers weren’t down, they both think he’d be alive. That sucks. Our intern stops in and wants help with a teenager with jewelry magnets. Whit asks them to find someone else because they are trying to get off the clock in a more grumpy manner than I think we’ve ever seen him, but again, valid, especially coming off that news. He can’t escape it though, as Santos already “took one for the team” so he’s off.
McKay and the intern turn their attention to the labs for our yellow lady. Her liver’s taken a beating but it’s not dead yet, so, yay? She’s getting told to cut out the turmeric and being admitted for monitoring. Mystery solved? We’ll see. McKay can’t get “sleepmaxxing” out of her head, and asks her how she comes up with these things. Santos reveals that she just thnks of the stupidest thing the person could’ve done and assumes they did it. I mean, it’s a solid tactic.
McKay’s taken aback by Santos’ lack of empathy, but Santos merely doubles down on how people as dumb as her basically pay the bills.
Emma’s heading out with a cheerful “wasn’t so bad” and dragon lady is going to find Duke’s results. Mateo’s at the desk to let everyone know Orlando’s tucked in. When they discuss if he’s got a decent chance of recovery, Robby blurts out that he doesn’t think that’s the outcome he was hoping for. I hope that isn’t projection,but I also hope it’s not true at all in any way. Robby continues that he’s got 100k in medical debt and would’ve kept going had Dana not loudly announced Ms. Diaz’s entry into the nurse’s station area. She’s looking for the bathroom and Perlah goes off to help her find it.
Dana takes this opportunity to chide Robby for having a personal conversation in a public area, and he acknowledges that, at least. For a second, before she tries to continue,an d he waves her off.
Suddenly we’re in a room with someone I don’t think we’ve seen yet. Perhaps magnet jewelry teen? Oh yeah, that’s it. One of the jewelry pieces is stuck up her nose. Whit tells her it’s pretty serious, and if they don’t get them out quickly, it can cause the septum to collapse. She’s pissed that her friend did this to her, her friend’s terrified, and she’s not having them trying to remove it, even when Whit says he’s not using the pointy end. She’s calling his bluff that it won’t hurt, he’s not really caring and going for the kill. OK, and maybe he’s not bluffing. Tadaaaaa.
Monica’s back with results on Duke. “Fuck” he says, and Perlah looks over his shoulder, then asks if he’s got a surgeon. So that’s never fantastic.
Emma comes back in. She says Ogilvie’s out in the ambulance bay covered in blood and staring off into space. For 40 minutes. Oh no. Poor Oggy. He’s basically catatonic according to her and Robby asks for a stat page to CardioThoracic while Whit goes to check on Ogilvie.He’s like they said. He’s not okay. Not in the least. But we cut away.
Langdon and our night nurse are in with asthma boy and he’s looking a TON better. He wants to go home, but they let him know he’ll likely be here another day or two for monitoring and that he’ll be going home with a Symbicort inhaler. (That’s one of those maintenance drugs that prevent larger attacks when used regularly that you don’t always get lucky and get paid for.) It gives her a little hope, because she might be able to get back on Medicaid by then. She explains that they sent a letter to her old address that didn’t get forwarded and when she went up to get his prescription she was told his Medicaid was expired. She had been fighting for months to get re-enrolled but didn’t have the proper paperwork, especially because she’s a hairdresser who didn’t have regular income. Meanwhile Dr. SHen comes in to basically trell the kid he’s looking good and they’ve got his back. I like him. Grady thanks Langdon and the team directly. See? It’s ok.
Out with Ms. Diaz and Mohan, we’ve got our social worker, and due to Orlando’s injury, things have changed. Do we think for the better? Shen walks in and seems a little flustered by our social worker’s presence for some reason but he’s looking for Abot, who no one’s seen in a while.
The social worker’s saying that with his condition now things may be easier, and the term easier seems a little insensitive here, but let’s hear her out. Ms. Diaz also ruffles at the term easier. The social worker explains that he’ll be eligible for Medicare and Medicaid and all of his care including at home care will be covered. She’s visibly angry, probably because that doesn’t really get her her husband back the way he was, and I don’t blame her. Mohan tells her it’s not a good time but she says she wanted to reassure her about costs. Ugh.
Social worker and Robby bump into each other,and oh yeah, they’re a thing. They reflect a little, and he halfheartedly asks if she’ll go with. She says she knows better than tog et between him and his vision quest but adds a little bit about him not wanting to know her real reasons. He bats that around a little but decides not to pry and she says she hopes the whole thing isn’t about him trying to run away from her, because if so, he should just tell her to get lost. “It’s complicated” is the status we’re seeing here playing out in real life. He insists its’ really him, not her, and they hug, so…ok?
Abot busts through the hug like a jerk, but i can’t hate him for it. She teases Robby that she’ll see him next week. Abot makes an audible eyebrow raise, and Robby flips him off.
Outside, Oggy and Whit are sitting on an ambulance and he’s recounting his gall stone that turned into a death from Season 1. He misse dit. People die. Ogilvie asks if you ever get past it, and he says no. Our boy Oggie’s not sure he can take another day like today, and honestly man, heard. He’s thinking about primary care instead, or pedes. Ogilvie agrees but says he’d be bored out of his fucking mind, and that he likes the challenge of undiagnosed illnesses and the quick decisions and life saving procedures, and he likes being there for people on the worst day of their lives. He says he thinks Ogilvie should go home, sleep on it, and then decide, but Ogilvie doesn’t want to go back in. So Whit doens’t make him, and says he’ll take his gown and take it inside. I love Whit.
Our intern stops by Digby with a smile, and then runs smack into Whit. There’s a dummy in a wheelchair but no one cares. Santos finds Whit and Santos asks where he’s been. Ogilvie ducks the question. King’s trying to shred stuff but it’s stuck. Whit tells her to kick it and she kicks it like it owes her money, and it honestly cracked me up. And Santos, and Whit.
New intern tells Dana she thinks Digby got a room upstairs, but she says “in your dreams.” Intern says there’s a different man in there and I think maybe she just doesn’t recognize him. That makes Dana smile,a nd I’m all for that.
Robby’s at a desk with a surgeon, and they’re looking at Duke’s results. It’s an aortic aneurysm. 50% one year mortality. He needs surgery stat. However, our surgeon’s not statting. He’s trying to send him to see Cardiology and Pulmonary first, and go outpatient til they can schedule it, but Robby’s insisting he’s a ticking time bomb. It’s a battle of the wills here. Also who’s this actor? He looks SO familiar. Surgeon wins out in the end and Robby punches a thing. A thing Dana’s very near to, and she snaps at him and tells him to take a walk.
One of our night shift is ringing bells for two discharges and pissing off Mohan and Perlah - before he tells them he diagnosed them with ultrasound instead of waiting for imaging. Working miracles. Turns out he’s going for an ultrasound specialization and they talk a little about how competitive it is.
Monica come sby to bitch about the shredder and Mohan’s shredding her ultrasound fellowship application. Oh no. Whit comes over to Mohan and says he’s sorry about her patient. She assumes he’s talking about Orlando and says he’s doing ok right now, but Whit then has to tell her he meant English patient. And she obviously didn’t know.Robby doesn’t know either, because he was too busy. Mohan darts away.
Dana, meanwhile is on Robby like white on rice. “First you’re shaming Samira, then McKay” and he tries to fight back with “they both needed it” but she’s not having it,and good. She tells him that’s for private conversations and brings it back around to talking about Orlando’s potential suicide in public, too,and tells him to sign out the shit that’s bugging him and get out of here. He says he can’t, and she said he needs a time out. He says “you’re not my mother” (original!) and all she says is, “you need one.”
“No, I had one. She left. I don’t need another one. I need someone who can run this place while I”m gone.”
Dana backs off immediately and apologizes, saying she didn’t know.
“Who needs to know? Who gives a fuck? Robby retorts
Dana looks him right in the face and says “I think you need a break.”
“That’s what a sabbatical is for”
She tells him to start it now and walk away but he says he needs to talk to Duke and he owes him or else he’s gonna just go out and die while he’s gone, so she says wrap it up and leave. He tells her he’s not sure Hashy can run the place, she wants two ateendings and hasn’t worked it out with Gloria. Also, he doesn’t know if Langdon is gonna relapse, if Javadi’s gonna give up, if Samira’s gonna flame out and if Dana’s gonna be ok since she’s been running around with a full syringe of Versed in her pocket.
Dana says they’ll all manage until he comes back, and Robby quickly says “Yeah, what if I don’t come back” and starts heading away.
Dana, you’re not gonna follow? Oh my god, fade to black. Because of course. So…I guess we see where this goes. Next time. The last time.