The Pitt Season 2, Episode 10: 4 pm - Nearing The End

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We're back, and there's only a few more hours in this shift. Will Robby leave? Will Langdon be ok? What about Baby Jane Doe?

Well, we won't know until we know. For now though:

Recap of the recap:

Dana and the retired clerk return. Oh yeah, cuz still no internet. I have to say the retired clerk lacks the charm of Dana, but she's pretty good at what she does.

Becca, Mel's sister, has pain in her abdomen-ish area.

Roxie is dying, and McKay’s in with her.

Sigmoid volvulous. I forget who that is and why. I feel like they've never showed it but realistically I think it's just happening whenever I look away to type this.

“Not good enough nepo baby, you fucked up.” Oof, I remembered that without the recap. That stung.

And, there's a waterslide collapse at a park on 4th of July? Oooooooh it’s gonna be crazy. They’re all coming to us!

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Meanwhile, back in the present:

Dana is rallying the troops with Robby, and they're trying to set up for our waterpark collapse. There are two victims so far, both coming by helicopter - so that's not going to be a small trauma.

Ogilvie is called on to go to the roof. Obvious snub to Langdon, again. But I mean, are we going to act surprised?

McKay’s in with Roxie, whose parents are in there. She explains that she can increase her morphine drip, but it could slow her breathing or cause her to lose consciousness. We know from previous conversations, she's well aware of this, and everyone's on the same page about what was ultimately her choice - to die in the hospital and not at home.

Javadi leaves, visibly upset, and McKay goes after her. She talks her down a little bit, and says it’s a gift of love to spare her sons.  Javadi's feeling guilty because while they have very little time together, she wants less time with her parents - but McKay reassures her that that's normal at this stage in life and given her situation, and sweetie, yes, it's ok. You're trying to keep yourself sane.

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Langdon is with Hashimi, and they're talking about the incoming helicopter traumas. Santos is going to be assisting Langdon now, and she for one, is not looking forward to it

Babynurse is scared, and honestly, we feel ya. This is a big ol' clusterfluff.

Dr. Mohan’s mom is on the line, saying she really needs to talk. Mohan requests that the nurse tell her i’m not available.

Ogilvie, meanwhile, is on the roof with Robby waiting on the birds.

He asks how this first shift has gone. Surprisingly, Ogilvie said it was a lot already, and revealed that he worked in another ER and saw some stuff, but this place is relentless. He says it’s not healthy for anybody how crazy it is at the Pitt, and I mean, you're pretty smart, kid. In the interim, our trauma's come in by helicopter and someone actually gave him a human leg. He scuttles in once he receives it, and looks a little bit shellshocked.

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Dana’s asking for runners. They’re gonna get em from the gift shop. This sounds sorta like a bad idea, but when you think about the fact they're just basically couriers, it can work. Mohan and Joy are headed to triage, and after Dana denies everyone smoke breaks, she tells Mohan she’s gotta sign something - a nicotine patch prescription. I guess everyone has to make sacrifices to get through this.

Back with the helicopter injury, Ogilvie's in the background of the trauma room and he's

still holding the leg. She- by which I mean the person whose leg it is - thinks she broke her leg. Ogilvie wants to tell her that it's far worse than that, but Robby snaps at him to "keep his fucking mouth shut."

Jeez, Robby. Maybe we can work on our delivery?

Whit asks if her belly hurts.

"No asshole, it's my leg."

I know it's kinda mean to Whit, and he frequently gets the short end of the stick, but it's a one-liner I'm gonna chuckle at for a long time. And I mean, it's true.

Ogilvie’s now actively freaking out about holding a human leg, so Whittaker tells him to take some deep breaths before he's also in the running for being called Crash.

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In a different OR, Hashimi has the other heli'd in victim. He's a 42 year old male who took a 20 foot fall when the waterslide collapsed. They're trying to work on him but he's solely focused on where his son is. We find out he's got blunt chest trauma and a hand injury. Santos is suited up an doing what looks like a damn good job, but Langdon is also on this one.

This guy's son is seven, and why does it seem like no one is listening to what he's saying? It seems incongruous with the general attitude of this staff. Langdon and Santos are arguing over him instead, and Hashimi actually stands up for Langdon. They're waiting for CT and an X-ray and are working on handling his hand injury, which is a degloving. Please do not google that if you don't know what it is, and trust me when I say you'll find out later on.

Mohan wants her mom to fuck off, I guess. She's still getting texts. But I have to wonder, if it's THIS persistent this episode, maybe she should check in case it's an actual emergency. She fights off a broken leg guy and person who needs the bathroom. She’s not being a great doctor right now, and probably needs to take a breather if she’s gonna keep working. There's just no time.

Now we're in triage. Everyone’s hot, they’re calling for a Helen Torres. I need better Spanish comprehension because I could glean a lot more from it but Duolingo progress is not quick.

Helen comes in and she’s limping and wincing. Mohan is in with her. She's had this leg pain for the past week.

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Princess stops in to say her mom is calling over and over, and Mohan is obviously thrown off. She snaps at Princess, which instantly makes me a little mad at her, but only until you realize she's sweating profusely and looks like she's gonna puke. Even her patient Helen asks if she's ok. Joy's here, echoing that sentiment and telling her to sit down, but she books it for triage for some reason.

Lucky for us, Joy's not taking no for an answer, so she follows Mohan out with a wheelchair and demands she "get in the fucking chair!" I know I said I didn't like Joy much before, but she's just gained a million points with me, and she's wheeling Mohan in now.

Guy we'll now call deglove guy elaborates on what happened. He was trying to hold on to his son when the slide collapsed and his ring got stuck. Of all the horrible things to happen when something else horrible is happening. Garcia's back (Surgery, I've been calling her, but I'm learning more names! Go me!) She and Langdon trade insults for fun, but this is yet another person with whom Santos has tension.

So, you say you don't know what degloving is. Well, here it is, in HD. Wish you hadn't seen that, right?

As they're treating deglove guy, Langdon asks which tendon was tested, Santos says it’s a med student question. Maybe let's not be petty?

Hashimi steps in with "We're a teaching hospital" and that's how Langdon gets an answer from Santos.

Garcia takes this moment to point out there's no sign of tension, at least not tension pneumo in an obvious jab at Santos, but like, it's only half funny because why are you ghosting her? KISS!

Langdon finally tells Dana our patient is missing his son Zack. I'm sure I'm wrong but it seems in this moment like not even she is paying that  much attention to it.

Joy is running down the hall screaming for help with Mohan, who can't breathe.

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This leaves us with Whit who's at the helm of our lady with the lost leg.

An almost comically giant nurse comes in. Park the Shark. He's new. Anyway, he's very familiar with amputations and a little abrasive, but he's checking our leg out for reattachment possibility and it's looking good.

Mohan’s not doin’ hot. They ask for Robby, concerned that she's having a heart attack, and Robby rushes in. He wants to send up some labs. He asks if she might be pregnant and she doesn't want to answer, initially. Eating/hydrating? He's firing off questions at her pretty quick, but I guess we can let that slide. She's still not doing well.  

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And then. Then Robby asks if 'this is a panic attack because of your mommy' and if she needs to go home.

Ho-ly.

He's not done though, and tells everyone they suck, basically, and to go home. Hashimi's there with major side eye, but she's not saying anything yet.

If you wanted me not to like you at all anymore, Robby, you're pretty close, because that was awful.

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Langdon is back with Becca who's upset that he's been gone a long time. Understandable, but this is also a major crisis in the ER, so. He apologizes anyway and has brought with him all the juice a hospital could have. Honestly, giving me a bunch of juice for a long wait would probably be apology enough for me, too. She's got two pills to take for an infection and asks him to mash it up and put it in her OJ. He does, and mentions that Mel will be worried. Looking out for both sisters. I love it. He also tells Becca that she doesn't have to disclose her diagnosis to Mel, and that he won't, either unless she asks him to. And it's HIPAA, sure, but he's also being a bro.

Dana comes in to ask him to go to Trauma 2, and Becca says "don't say you'll be a few minutes when we know you won't" basically. I like their relationship, too.

Javadi and McKay are with Roxie, whose young son is snuggled up on her. He wants to stay, but she gently tells him that he can't, but that they'll always be connected. It's too much for Javadi and she exits the room again, where the older son is standing. McKay asks if he wants to go in, but he says simply "Cancer sucks."

I mean, yeah. That's the truth.

He doesn’t want to go in, and she says he doesn’t have to, and no one will make him.

She does tell him he might wish he’d said goodbye if he doesn’t go in though. 

Fair to say, I think.

Donnie and Robby are in with Ogilvie and Whit and our amputation and we’re asking about Mohan. He says to focus, and that she's fine, but is she really fine after that kind of tongue lashing?

Robby tells the patient that she’s nerve blocked, she was on a collapsed slide..and before he tells her about the leg, she sees them working on it. She asks if they cut it off and they reassure her they didn't. She's confused and combative, and I can't blame her still, but she finally says she wants them to put it back on which is the consent they've been shouting over her to get. Yay!

Now we’re with Santos, Langdon, and deglove guy.

They cut the ring off and he asks if it can be saved, which Santos takes as the time to joke "the finger or the ring?"

Not cool. Langdon asks them to be careful with the ring for him.

They argue again about what can be done for the collapsed lung, and land on something called thoravent but I'm super annoyed that there's this much argument between them.

Dana basic trains her runners and tells them to hydrate. This is gonna be an eye opening experience for them, but at least they have Dana to help them out. Turns out she's also trying ot locate deglove guy's kid, and the potential bad news is that one adult and one child around Zack's age died on site. I really, really hope it wasn't Zack, but it's terrible regardless.

Dana's obviously upset, about charts, the kid, and more. The nicotine patches come through right in time - and they weren't for the clerk - they were for her in the clerk's name. When Javadi asks if that's insurance fraud she says "Put me in jail, I need a vacation." Honestly.

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Oh.my.god.

Javadi’s mom is here, in person, to actually confront her about missing the sigmoid volvulus which i still don't know who it is or what it is. She explains herself, but what gives this mom the right to come down when she’s working on other patients and risk their lives by lecturing her about something else? Pisses me off.

Robby sees it happening from the background. He’s already on a fucking warpath, let’s see what happens. She’s saying the practitioners upstairs are better than seat of your pants ER. Fuck you then, too. Dana says Robby should talk to the two of them, but he doesn't move. He tells her Mohan went down, and of course not only does she already know, but she says she saw the pep talk. He says Mohan'll be fine, but her head's not in the game, and she backs off, which...I did not expect. Gonna trust her for now.

Back with deglove guy, Santos is getting coached through the trochar thing, and still being belligerent. Garcia's supervising and she's sick of her shit enough to say "apparently decency and decorum need to be reintroduced to the R2 curriculum" and honestly? Appropriate use of snark, at a very appropriate time. I'm sick of it too.

Out in the nurse's station, Joy asks for a break on account of her coworker almost dying but Dana slaps her on the back and tells her to get back out there. Robby asks about the drunk fireworks kid, but we get no progress on that story. Baby Jane Doe ( they said the thing!) is up for foster placement soon, maybe? They joke she'll get placed when they can drive. We'll see who's right.

Langdon asks if Louie’s been picked up but he hasn’t and is still in viewing. These stories were mostly wrapped up drama wise but in reality, they'd very much be ongoing like this, so it's a nice nod.

Incoming: 8 year old, fell off slide from 8 feet, neck trauma. Is this the kid? He was supposed to be 8 but could they be wrong? Possible laryngeal fracture. Is it Zack? I'm asking, but so is deglove guy, who's out roaming because he heard. It is not Zack, the dad confirms, and that hits like a lead balloon.

They've got to do something called a slash trach to him to save him, and Hashimi's got the knife. It's life or death. Hashimi looks like she's frozen but then she makes the cut confidently. She's got this. Whit is also familiar with this rather unusual procedure and let's stop to talk about that for a second. Whittaker knows his shit. His personality means he gets treated like a little kid, but in reality, he's an insanely good doctor. And, I think they saved this kid. Whit asks Hashy (can I call her Hashy?) if she's done this before and she says it's her first one. Go team!

Garcia (Surgery, if you recall) is rather aggressive, and says they'll have to take him upstairs and 'clean up their mess' but Hashimi just says "Or you can thank me for saving his life" and honestly? You could use some decorum too, Garcy.

Ogilvie, meanwhile, is back with his English teacher and his stone. I think the resemblance to his father is softening him, and he gives him a book to read while he waits for meds and discharge.

I think they're bonding.

Out in triage, a tattooed older man is cutting the line, saying he's here for Robby, and apparently they were expecting him. I feel a little annoyed by this, and suspicious. But he's a VIP apparently so...he gets in.

Meanwhile, Mel and an attorney are in the elevator. Our attorney says it was the most unprofessional deposition she’s ever witnessed. But it didn’t go as badly as she thought. Mel rebuts with "They're trying to make me look incompetent" but that's literally what they're trying to do, and it's not working, if you listen to the attorney. She says she doesn't have a lot of money, and the attorney reassures her again that even if she was found guilty, that's what insurance is for, the hospital has you, and it wouldn't be your money. Mel, I wish I could help you feel better - I promise this wasn't you.

Had she been grounded in that moment, McKay runs into her first and flusters her right out of it.

Langdon meets her there too though, and you can see the calm return a little. Until he says he can't tell her Becca's diagnosis, because Mel has to tell her, and Santos gives her a stack of clipboards because, welcome back, she's got all her patients to check on.

Langdon, now off to the side with Dana, is saying that he wants a full burial for Louie and he can pay for it. Dana talks him down from that, but he’s thinking about a gofundme anyway. She says that he can't do this for every unhoused person, but he's stuck on the idea, and says louie was a good guy who deserves dignity. He's earnest about this, and Dana rightfully tosses this information in a pointed manner, at that, to Robby, and asks if he heard all that. Did you hear it, bitch? (Ok, the terrible attitude is rubbing off on me here, my apologies.)

Donnie is in with Duke, Robby comes in, and they’re old friends. They make a million stupid jokes back and forth and it turns out he's a motorcycle mechanic. Or y'know, a bike whisperer, of sorts, and that's how they met. He's been riding hard and doing alcohol and drugs and he's here cuz he's been hoarse for months and Robby is smelling an undiagnosed problem. They nose scope him, which for some reason seems less gross than it is cool, and though he pushes back, he eventually concedes, and they're off. Nothing's weird, so they order a chest x-ray in case of tumors.

Duke starts to bitch about the cost but Robby cuts him off, tells him it's covered under Medicare and that he's getting the golden workup, like it or not. This is the Robby that should be present in the ER, and I'm a little more confident we can get back there. Come back, cool Robby.

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Garcia and Santos finally meet up in a hallway somewhere, and Santos asks if they're ok.

The question seems surprising to Garcia, and she asks why she'd even be asking.

Santos says it's because she ripped her a new one earlier with Langdon, but there's more to it than that.

Still, that's what they'll talk about. Garcia says that the Santos thing isn't cool - this isn't a middle school, he owned up to it, and she needs to get over it. I thought maybe, coming from someone she wants to be in good with, this would hit, but she doubles down and says he should've been fired. Garcia says it's not because she ratted out Langdon that she's a pariah, it's because she can't work well with anyone, and if she still has beef with Langdon she should just tell him. Santos tries to fire up a big rant about "but he did this" and Garcia says it's fine if they hang out, have sex and eat ramen in bed but she is not doing THIS, and she needs to get a therapist. I mean, again, ouch, but she's not wrong.

Ogilvie and Javadi meet outside a room, and Joy calls Javadi Dr. J. Ogilvie didn’t know, but now he does. No good can come from this.

Robby’s back.

Slash trach is doing well in pre-op.

Hashimi tracks Robby down and tells him she needs to talk to him in private.

So, yeah. Someone had to do it.

She asks what all that was with Samira (Mohan) and Robby's just doubling down. He says that she's only having a panic attack because of personal baggage that shouldn't be brought to the ER and that the ER isn't for the faint of heart and I really, really want to punch him in the nose right now because this is EXACTLY what Whittaker talked him down from and he's now acting like Mohan shouldn't be in this career, what? Ok, my level of liking Robby has dropped to an all time low.

"And what do you need to do to get some basic empathy back?"

Hashimi with the actual question. Good job. No notes. Robby doesn't really have a comeback for that now, does he?

“Something that gives me hope this place won’t go to shit while I'm gone”

Oh ok, he does have a comeback, and...I mean, were I to be able to punch through the TV without breaking it. Fuck you, sir.

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In much better news with a new fave for me, Emma, aka Babynurse, has found the slide dad’s kid

Whaaat? Turns out she sent a bunch of info and the pd has him? Oh my god good job babynurse.

Mel and Becca meet up, and Becca's bored.

She says she’s feeling better, and asks what the meds were for. Becca does say she wants to share with Mel and sends her out. She tells her sister she has a UTI. Ok, that's not crazy. 

Mel says it can happen for lots of reasons and starts listing every single possibility, but Becca knows that and is trying to say something else.

That something else? That she's having sex. She has a boyfriend. His name is Adam.

Mel is NOT ready for this info, and handles it much the way you'd think.  

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Elsewhere, Robby’s checking on Samira

She’s fine, and he apologizes, kinda, for being tough on her. She corrects him and says he was being a dick, and he seems to take it in stride, but proceeds to spoil the apology by saying she needs to stop feeling sorry for herself and he's kinda still a dick.

McKay’s in with Roxie. Javadi is too. She’s going through what she might be feeling. She asks the husband to go out but he won't.

She pushes the meds.

End of episode.

Dang.

What could happen next. I'm not sure I want to know. See you next time.