The Pitt: Season 2, Episode 12 : 6pm - We Gotta Get Out of This Place
- Marielle Bokor
- 12 minutes ago
- 24 min read
Ok, well, I’m late again because, you know, major convention we had to cover in my city (look for all THAT coverage here) but also, I’m worried about this one.
Here we go regardless, though. Let’s start that recap recap.
Recap of a recap:
We’re with Duke and Robby and he’s talking about the CT scan we later find out resulted in at least one profanity from Robby.
Then we cut to Santos and Langdon, the part where she says only three people know he stole drugs from the hospital and stay out of her way, and we see that Hashimi was juuuust closeby enough to hear everything. This could be catastrophic for more than just Langdon.
Then, we go all the way back to diabetic dad. Remember him? He ended up leaving AMA - if they still call it that, because even though the hospital tried to save him money, unless it was going to be free it was still going to be a huge financial burden for him even to just be out of work. That’s the sad reality for a lot of people in this country - I’ve been there myself. She’s asking if he’ll at least stay 4 more hours to get out of the danger zone, and since we know he didn’t, I’m assuming this recap’s eluding to the danger catching up with him. Which.sucks.
Now we see Langdon with the heat stroke kid and his mom, for a quick moment, before seeing the intake of the guy who assaulted Emma. I did not need to get this amped up in a recap. Ugh. Here we go.
6 pm:
Horrible gasping noises. We know it’s Emma. Man, this is brutal. He’s grunting and she’s just gasping for air. Dana hears it from the nurse’s station and takes off running.
We don’t stay with her though, because Robby’s in with Donnie and Baby Jane Doe. Robby thanks Donnie for watching over the kiddo, and they start a conversation before they notice all the commotion and running. He takes off running when they say it’s a Code Hula Hoop. Dana lets Robby know that she gave him a shot to settle him down. He asks about the bloody nose and she says he slipped. Robby and the rest check on Emma, who’s breathing and clearly traumatized. Perlah’s examining Emma, obviously super rattled.
Whit’s looking for Oggy, and Mohan says they let him scrub in on the kidney stone guy. Whit makes a disparaging remark about day one students while Joy’s standing right there. Not par for his course. He corrects and says she’s doing great. She asks for a selfie, cuz he’s a legend, apparently? They call him Phantom of the Pitt because he secretly lived at the hospital for months.
Old clerk fields a red phone call, and it’s med command, so that’s probably new traumas incoming. Mohan realizes something’s off and asks where all the nurses are. Santos tells them that there was a Code Hula Hoop, and since Mohan’s unfamiliar with the term, fills her in. The new nurse, Emma was attacked. Whit asks if she is ok, and Santos says she thinks so, but we don’t really know much other than she was standing and breathing yet, so I’m still concerned.
Every security guy is restraining belligerent golfer. They assure everyone else they’ve got him, and I don’t doubt it. They check in on Emma again who says she’s ok. Robby asks a breathless Dana what happened and she says that the guy attacked Emma and she gave him a shot. Robby presses though, and asked when he slipped - before or after the shot.
I mean, I think we all know the answer, and I get why he’s asking on one level, but at the same time…if no one brought up the pop quiz, don’t ask about it. She says “before” and Emma backs her up, saying she didn’t see what happened. She gave him 4 mg Versed. Robby asks where she got the order and she said she had it and was on her way to waste it when shit went down. He frowns and tells her that now this guy’s amped up on alcohol and Versed and has head trauma, so he’ll now need a CT to rule out intracranial bleeding and a fracture.
Dana’s looking at him like you look at a stranger, and I think we all thought he’d have her back too. Dana pushes back with “Would you rather it be Emma” and he tells her they need to be done here and pass the patient off. She tells Emma she’s not going to continue in this case, and Robby says it’s his ER and he makes those decisions. He said pass it off. She tells Robby off, telling him that if he thinks she’s going to put anyone on her staff in danger with that asshole, he’d better give his fucking head a shake. Damn. I’ve never seen anyone go this hard on Robby.
Mohan, who’d been standing by, says there’s an MVA incoming, and Robby shrinks back and heads off to that.
We’re back together with Langdon and the heatstroke kid’s case, and Ms. Azurmendi, his mom, is asking if she killed her son. King says no - he’s recovering in pediatric ICU, and Langdon assures her they’re going to come back and check on her. The husband apparently has arrived, and went straight upstairs to the son. Langdon says “really” with some inferred interest, but Hashimi waves him off jumping to conclusions saying that he might just want to see his child first.
She’s not through kicking ass and taking names though, so she corners Robby and asks if they can talk. Privately. He makes a joke about people talking, and she…doesn’t care. This is not gonna be good for him, I don’t think. She chuckles and carries on. He asks what this is about - she says that she’s gonna recommend 2 attendings at one time in the department. She says it’s not healthy for there to be only one person on, and she’s worried about what she witnessed with some of the staff. She mentions that it’s like fight night with Santos and Langdon on his first day back and Robby mentions that Santos was the one who turned him in for taking drugs.
“I’m sorry, WHAT?” - an uncharacteristically huge reaction from Hashimi. She did NOT know he was taking drugs from the ED, nor that Santos was his reporter. Robby doesn’t even answer the question, and only defends the entirety of the ED saying that it’s the best of the best, up there with the best in the nation, and it’s going to be hers to fuck up, so “don’t fuck it up.”
I think you maybe just did, Robby, and perhaps you should’ve answered that.
Hashimi’s outside with her jaw dropped, and yeah, i mean, fair.
In the ambulance bay, Javadi’s uploading her ICE video, and the old clerk is smoking. Javadi mentions that you can’t smoke out there and our old clerk ignores it. The thing about this clerk is, she’s got all the chops of Dana with none of the charm. She asks how old Javadi is and when she answers that she’ll be 21 next Tuesday, she scoffs and says “some kind of idiot savant”
Nice. Javadi’s on the warpath and retorts “We don’t use those terms anymore. It’s derogatory.” But dragon lady clerk is ready for it with a nice “You Millenials bruise easy” and when Javadi comes back with “Actually, I’m Gen Z” she scoffs again and says “even worse” taking another drag on her cigarette. I mean, you don’t have to be a dragon lady. And you’re not even supposed to be here. She says something about how she was stripping to get through school, and calls her a snowflake and Javadi just disengages. Probably the best move at this point.
Whit comes out, and he’s talking to Amy, his girlfriend/situationship/maybenot (?) about being later than he thought, when a truck squeals in to the ambulance bay, and a kid pops out of the driver’s seat saying his dad can’t breathe. His name is Oliver, and he’s spitting up pink liquid, so that’s probably not great. Whit gets him and hoists him out of the car. Before long he’s on a stretcher. He’s apparently in renal failure and missed his last dialysis.
Emma’s attacker’s on his way to CT, and Dana says Emma needs a workup, so she asks McKay to do the full workup and help her make a statement to the police. Emma really doesn’t want to do it but even Robby tells her it’s something she should do. Dana says not to worry though, that she’ll be with her for the police report.
Robby says “her guy” just bumped his guy for CT, and Dana’s incredulous that he’s calling Emma’s attacker “her guy.” He says Duke’s gonna chew him out and he’s never going to get out of here, and Dana says he should tell it to someone who cares.
This time Robby doesn’t let it go, and says she should care, because if he has a force inflicted injury from a sedative, and before he gets to finish she says “if someone else uses force to stop an assault they’re a hero but if a nurse does it they’re punished.”
He presses her on the Versed and asks how she just happened to have a Versed in her pocket. She says it was from the medics, and repeats that she was on her way to have someone sign off on wasting it when she saw Emma being choked. “Anything else, Nancy Drew?” she asks, and starts to walk away. He asks where she’s going and she says “Taking a pee, or do I need your permission for that too now.”
Man, your attending and your head nurse fighting is bad news, and Robby’s not really functioning properly. Maybe two attendings isn’t a bad idea, Hashy.
Dana heads to the restroom in the stormiest of ways one possibly could, checks for feet under the stalls, and has her meltdown. Honestly, I can’t really feel anything but sympathy for her. She saved Emma, and her job’s on the line, and I can’t help but think she used the tools available to her in the moment to do the saving.
Robby takes us back with Whit and Javadi and our new kidney patient, who they’re debating intubating. Whit says there’s a ton of B lines and I’m not sure if that’s bad. They’re using this as a teaching moment and it seemed everyone was fine but Hashimi is harsh with Langdon for trying to answer and tosses questions to Javadi instead. Oh wait, this is kidney guy from outside. He couldn’t get his dialysis at his normal place because the hospital shut down. “Yeah they sure did” Robby laments before heading out to Dana, who does not want to see or talk to him.
He asks to continue they’re conversation but she says she’s got an ED to run, but he begs. Authoritatively. But to his credit he listens. Emma got attacked twice, they took another nurse, and she’s done with this shit. I mean, fair. Robby says she’s not acting herself, and Dana’s quick answer is “That makes two of us” which frustrates Robby, who, acting out instead of acting right, says “Do you have something you want to say?” instead of realizing he might need an attitude adjustment of sorts too, and someone’s got to get to him. She confronts him about basically inviting death and not caring if he dies. He says it’s about the motorcycle and she says it’s about everything. They’re about to launch into it when Perlah interrupts to say that Duke’s insisting on leaving and the MVA is here. So another chance for Robby to get dropkicked eludes us.
Mohan and King are at the bedside of our new MVA, an older woman in a lot of pain. She’s got a whole list of conditions, but seems rather ok after a minute seeing her. When they ask what happened though, her husband (maybe) says she “walked into the car” and she stops everything and says “you hit me.” So this is about to be interesting. She’s claiming he backed right into her, but he says he wasn’t even moving. King and Mohan basically put that shit off til later and tell them they’re in good hands for now.
Robby’s with Duke, and he’s pissed because he feels he’s getting doctored, not friended. Well, I’m not sure your friend is very good at either now, but you need a CT scan, Duke, and while you thoroughly creep me out since I remember you from Buffy, in this case, let’s get that done.Robby’s trying to say everything comes with a lesson, just chill, but he’s lost all his charisma and Duke is insistent. But Robby’s still MORE insistent, if not charming anymore. He basically says sit the fuck down, and wait, and Duke does it.
Mohan and King are examining our MVA closely, They’re also disagreeing on if she needs a hip CT, which she ends up getting. Mohan goes over and tries to convince the husband to let her examine him “unofficially.”
She stethescopes him, and then asks him to take his shoes off. King’s not sure where she’s going with this, and I’m not either. When Mohan takes the shoes off you can tell he’s rather purpley in the feet. He passes it off as needing a pedicure, but Mohan suggests a Romberg test, and now we get to learn what that is…right?
It’s a balance evaluation. He sort of agrees while I think he’s thinking of protesting but we’re back in with kidney patient and everyone’s arguing about him. They’re going to bloodlet him? Ok. We love the odd procedures here.
McKay is with Emma and she, in fact, is stethescoping her. No evidence of injury, and Emma’s perky, saying she’s had it way worse with her brothers. Dana tries to send her home, but Emma asks to stay. Dana agrees if she stays with Donnie and reiterates that she needs to make a police report, and it feels a little too much like it’s for her and not Emma.
Santos has a big grumpy guy in with her that thinks he broke his collarbone. Match made in heaven. She goes to check in with him thinking it’s a baby with diaper rash and perturbed it’s him. Meanwhile, when she can’t help without first going somewhere else, he’s just as perturbed and shouts “This place sucks” to which Santos then responds “Yeah. Try working here.”
Robby caught that, because of course he did, and thanks her for her hard work on patient satisfaction scores, but it’s not like he’s been making friends and influencing people this shift. She mentions the mismatched chart. Dana’s pushing people to take more people in faster for triage, and we’ve got another big trauma.
Dante, blunt trauma from fireworks explosion in a storage unit. No burns, he got thrown into a rolled down garage door. He thinks he’s dying. He can’t hear on one side. His ears are ringing badly. Robby calls McKay in with him. “4 Doctors. I knew this was bad.” I mean, that is a good sign. And it does seem bad. Overall it’s not seeming horrible, bloody though he is. They’re about to look at his “head lac” though. And it’s a flap. And Joy’s lookin’ pekid. I mean, mee too. It’s through the galea. I’m not sure what that is. But hey, Joy just got blasted with blood too, so her day’s just getting better. They need faster Raney sutures and a CT, so Duke’s bumped again, and a grumpy Robby moves in with Oliver.
He’s kidney guy, by the way. They’re still fighting over when to talk and when to let the students do it, and I’m not sure why Hashimi’s decided to take this route with Langdon, but he’s sure. I’m sure too, and I hoped she wouldn’t just do that. Langdon decides to chase her down, which I think I might too. Outside King and Mohan talk about the shoe thing and she says she learned it in another job at a podiatrist’s.
Dana rings her bell and tells everyone to get moving because it’s the 11th hour and that doesn’t mean slow down. McKay and Hashimi chat at the nurse’s station and McKay presses Hashimi to speculate on if it was an accident that our heatstroke boy got left in the car or not. Hashimi asks if it matters, and McKay actually answers the question - not as a doctor, but as a mom, yeah. Hashimi still doesn’t answer directly, saying sometimes she doesn’t know if motherhood made her more understanding or judgemental. Did we know she was a mother? I don’t know that I recalled.
Behind them, a few loved ones are here for their various traumas - we’ve got brother to explosion and daughter to car accident, so Dana sets Monica, our dragon lady clerk, to get them reunited. Princess says she’s sneaking out and Dana tells her to have fun. Princess tells Dana not to stay out too late, and I’d rather she take that advice.
Meanwhile, McKay is in with a severely sunburned girl that looks vaguely familiar. And while she is, one of the orderlies (is that a thing now) brings in Roxie’s quilt. She’s obviously shaken by it - because she wasn’t there, and is looking for a place to put it until she can return it. Langdon notices and talks to her about it, and she admits that seeing two little boys say goodbye to their mom makes her want to cry. Langdon tells her to go ahead and cry and she says she can’t even remember the last time that she did, even if she wanted to.
Elsewhere, Mohan is telling our new MVA’s daughter that her mom’s going to be fine, and also trying to dig for some information. She lets her know gently that her father had an unsteady gate, and she brushes it off as just another thing wrong with him in his old age. She pushes back and asks about assisted living options, but she says her parents refuse to even talk about it. This is a way more common problem than people realize. Mohan breaks it to her father that he may need to take another driving test to be able to drive again, as they are mandated to report things that would affect his driving (which I didn’t know) and also tell him, when he inquires about his wife, that they may need a temp move to an assisted living facility since he has limitations that won’t allow him to care for her how she needs. There’s literally no good way to break this to someone, and unsurprisingly, he’s distraught, and his daughter doesn’t look too far behind.
The dad asks how temporary, and they answer 3-6 months. His only response: Kill me now. Ok, well, this is an uphill battle. King tries to soften the blow by saying it’s not the same as it was- the facilities are nice and you get your own apartment. She mentions her sister lives in one. He’s not buying it. His daughter asks what happens if he falls? She knows it’s needed but she’s having trouble figuring out how to get it done. If you haven’t faced this, you may one day, and trust me when I say: it’s tough. I feel for her.
Santos comes to fetch Robby in the hallway because scalp guy is back from CT and they’re prepping him. He was about to go in with Duke but waves through the window and takes off again. Duke will not be pleased.
Dana put McKay with our babynurse attacker, and Santos asks if she’s ok. “Physically, yes” is the answer. Then he brings up the chat with Langdon. He says she needs to play nice now that he’s back and she says “until he relapses” and Robby warns her that she’s becoming a good doctor and not to let old conflict get in the way. Sage advice from someone who needs to do a lot of soul searching right now himself. He also says he wants everyone to see the trauma counsellor while he’s gone.
Back with our scalp flap guy, they’re irritating it so we can get a good view of it again. They decide they should keep him overnight despite everything looking mostly under control. Garcia’s on the case, and Robby and her spar in a friendly manner for a bit.
Langdon meets up with a still very out of sorts Dana, who’s been looking for Jesse. She says they’ve probably got him in an ICE detention center, but she doesn’t really know and they told her she shouldn’t hold her breath. Just then, babynurse’s evil golf attacker rolls by, and Langdon asks Dana about it. She says she’s peachy. Langdon says she did what she had to do with that guy, and she gives him a “from your lips” and I hope God hears that.
Nothing’s back on him yet. Robby’s in with scalp guy, and he’s recounting his adventure while his head flap gets stapled back on. Robby looks weary of it, and lets him know his brother is in the family room waiting for him just as Joy lets an “oops” escape her lips, obviously upsetting the guy. I mean, that’s the last thing you want to hear, and Santos takes her aside immediately to remind her that’s a word you don’t say in front of patients. It looked like it was cuz a staple sunk in but what do I know?
Joy comes back, and resumes stapling, while Robby says fireworks should be left to the professionals. Apparently, scalp guy actually is one though, license and all. Robby’s just crawling out of his skin, and he mentions amor fati, and Santos responds with “more like memento mori” and I worry about them both.
When they raise the bed, our scalp guy is far less jocular, and they remind him of his sternum fracture and how laughing or sneezing will now be immensely painful. FUn.
Hashimi is in with kidney guy and he’s doing a little better but his potassium is really high. Langdon lets him know that he saved his dad’s life, because his dad’s only talking about how speedy he drove and not to tell his mom. He mentions that there’s no ER anywhere near him anymore and Hashimi lets him know he’ll need to stay a few hours.Whit tries to get him to go out to eat, bujt he wants to stay in with his dad. Whit thanks him for saving his dad, which strikes me as a little odd, even for someone as overly nice as him.
Javadi and him head out and Javadi asks if he’s still thinking of doing rural emergency medicine, and he says he’s not thinking, doing. Meanwhile, Mateo comes in for the night shift. He hugs Dana and ribs our Influencer Dr. J. Mateo tries to entice her to the night shift in the ER. Just then, results come back on Emma’s attacker, and Dana snatches them and walks away.
In with our attacker, McKay’s sitting with her arms crossed listening to him deny everything. He’s saying he doesn’t remember choking her and he would never do something like that, but, I mean, we all saw it. Dana slams the paperwork with the lab results on the door so hard that it’s a genuine jumpscare, and even McKay’s saying Dana’s coming in too hot when she goes out to take a look.
She asks what he’s saying. McKay says he’s in shock and doesn’t remember anything. Says he was drinking, things got hazy and he blacked out. She buys it zero. McKay says maybe it’s better if he doesn’t remember what happened, and McKay heads back in with him for the results.
CT was negative for a skull fracture and intracranial bleeding, but he tested positive for alcohol. Cool, knew that. But the new information - he also tested positive for cocaine. He suddenly changes from his innocent little lamb of a non-rememberer and says “that’s a good thing for you and the blonde nurse then isn’t it” and I mean, this week’s punch goes to him for sure.
He admits he did a few bumps but seems nonchalant about it. McKay explains that when you mix alcohol and cocaine it creates a new psychoactive molecule that’s more toxic and potent than cocaine that can lead to everything from paranoia to psychosis. He asks what happens now, and she says they observe him for a while, and he gives a statement to the police. I’m not really feeling so easy with how this goes down and what it means for McKay and Dana, and oh man, I’m getting full on malevolent vibes from this one.
Meanwhile, several pirates look on as one of them gets stitched up. Apparently, he got bayonet..ted. Doesn’t seem super bad. Maybe they’re Revolutionary War re-enactors, in fact. I just saw pirates. Either way. Bayonetted.
Our historic re-enactors (not pirates) explain that the triangular shaped bayonets of the day were designed to leave wounds that were hard to stitch up, but this is Donnie and we’ve seen his prowess here. He’s as confident as I am, and says they never met him. Langdon’s sweeping in now, so let’s see what that’s about.
He’s …a fan? He recognizes them as workers at the fort he used to go to as a kid. He reassures them that Donnie’s the best and they’re gonna be fine.
King and Mohan return to talk to our MvA lady and the news is mostly good. She’s got a hairline fracture but no hip fracture or internal bleeding. She’s gotta be off her feet for about 6-8 weeks. They’re ecstatic, and on board with going home and him taking care of her. Her daughter insists that’s not going to work, but they’re absolutely adamant they don’t want strangers at the house and this is giving me PTSD. She explains they’re helpers not strangers but they still don’t want to do it. Mohan tries to bring up assisted living but that’s even more upsetting. Her daughter asks if her dad can get her on and off the toilet, dress her, or get her up the stairs. He’s grasping at straws and asks her to move in but she says she can’t with work and the kids, and he just says “no, no no!” getting more and more upset. Outside the room they tell her they’ll help support her again.
Robby’s finally in with Duke, who’s still there and more or less calm. He still wants out, but Robby reassures him he’s doing his best, it’s a traffic jam and he’s next up. Duke presses him about why he HAS to start the ride tonight, and he’s just saying he ‘has a schedule’ and has places to go and people to see. It’s bullshit Duke calls wordlessly and he admits “i just want to get out of here.” Duke says he’s worried that if he doens’t get out now he won’t get out at all and observes that ‘this place is like quicksand’ and Robby shows an obvious tell of distress…right before Joy comes in to say something’s not right with fireworks guy. Uh oh.
Robby ditches Duke again, and Robby brushes it off, but tells him to stay put. Meanwhile, phones are ringing off the hook and things are beeping and we're back with our fireworks guy who’s having decidedly less fun. He can’t breath, his oxygen sats are bad, His brother says “I thought you said he was gonna be ok” and Robby’s just got “Things change” for him. Blah. Robby stops acknowledging him and calls for Perlah to get him out. She manages to talk him into a breathing exercise and a seat and goes back in to tend to the patient. Santos is scrubbed up for an ‘antical’ approach to drain the blood around his heart, our new main problem.
Garcia’s back and getting ready tot take him up for surgery. Garcia actually gives Santos (Trinity, she says) and Robby props for saving him. Good call.
King and Mohan are consulting with the clinical pharmacist to see if they can get to the bottom of our MVA husband’s instability and a few meds might cause this. He’s on a lot of meds that could cause this stuff.
Robby and Santos pass each other, and he tells her to start getting ready to get out and hand off for night shift, while she gives him the least enthusiastic ‘Via con Dios or whatever’ possible. She seems particularly upset he’s leaving, and he actually notices.
King and Mohan present their findings and say that several of his meds may be contributing to his poor health. He doesn’t like the maybe. They push back, as none of the meds are critical. Nevertheless he says run it by the family. He also mentions that he knows Mohan’s looking for a specialty and he recommends geriatrics, as she seems to have a knack and there’s usually an opening. I’m not sure how she’ll take this. It seems a little insulting the way he says she has a predisposition to the pace. You kinda suck still, don’t you Robby.
Robby asks dragon lady if she saw Dana, and she says she thinks she went out for a smoke, so he books it outside. She is there with a cigarette and she looks like she’s not gonna talk. He’s pushing her for what “really happened” in there and saying she could lose her nursing license. He guesses she had the Versed dosed up for Doug Driscoll, her own attacker, since she had been attacked, and had been carrying it since. She stands by what she did and says that she did exactly what she needed to do and a young nurse gets to go home because of her. She says she can have McKay sign the Versed order if he won’t. Robby says he’s not saying he won’t. Well, he yells it, and then says he’ll sign an extra so she can have one while he’s gone.
He’s still super heated. “It’s not like I’m against nurse safety. I’m trying to advocate for your caution, because you’re the one who’s supposed to be running this place when I’m gone, not roaming the halls like some vigilante.”
Yikes. But Dana doesn’t sit on this shit. “It’s always do as I say not as I do. What is wrong with you today?”
He has a list. Samira’s missed triple-a, Mel and Ellis’ deposition, McKay’s in the park, fucking Langdon- and Dana stops him.
“At some point you and Langdon gotta work this out.” she yells at him, but he’s already yelling “I don’t want him here” over her. “He made a mistake and he paid for it.” “Did he? Did he go to jail? Because I let him commit a crime, what does that make me” “Human!”
Robby insists someone could’ve died, but Dana just says “Somebody’s always dying” and Robby’s pissed she’s making jokes. She says Langdon didn’t kill anybody, and Robby chimes in with “that we know of” and Dana’s had it. He saved a lot of lives that we do know of, she reminds him. He made a mistake, and he’s your guy, she says. Kids disappoint us sometimes, she says. She says he’s taking it personally but it’s on Langdon.
Robby asks how he can leave with everything like this and Dana’s got no sympathy. First you can’t stay, now you can’t go, which is it?”
He insists he is going but he wishes he left it better than it is. She calls his BS and says this is what they do every day and every night and he’s being precious about it, basically. She reminds him the place survived without Adamson, without her, and will survive without him, and he looks genuinely mad, and hurt. She's already gone though.
Inside, Mohan and King are explaining that the meds could be impacting the father, and if he goes off of them he may find he’s able to do more, and they can perhaps stay at home. They ask for more info and King starts to let them know that they can do it with PT, and an at home nurse that visits a few times a week and personal shoppers. Our MVA patient says that sounds expensive, and she’s right, it is, but King’s right there to let her know that Medicare covers it and there’s assistance beyond that, too.
The father points out that every old person knows what it’s like to be young, but young people don’t know what it’s like to be old, and that’s something to really take to heart when you do interact with older people, I think.
Santos comes out of a patient room, and pockets a scalpel with a gulp just before Whit walks up to ask if she’s doing alright. I do NOT appreciate where this is going. Whit says he’s gonna keep standing there long after she asks him to leave, and I think he saw. She explains a little more of why the Langdon things upsets her - he gaslit her on her first day as a doctor and made her question her skills. She took a long time to feel comfortable and now he’s back. She says it’s like no one remembers. She says Robby was the only one who saw through all the shit but he’s going on a bullshit spirit quest. Whit asks what about Garcia, and she says basically she’s her sex stress squeeze toy and that’s it. She says she doesn’t like her, she likes getting laid, and Whit just says “That’s kinda dark.” Which it is, and I don’t honestly think that’s what she feels. It might be a fling, sure, but there’s feeling sphere. She just didn’t want to get involved with Langdon. She even suggests they be a couple, to which he remarks “That’s kinda dark.”
Santos turns the tables and confronts him about being shady about moving out on her, and he’s taken aback by it.She knows he’s gonna be squatting at Robby’s. He thought it was Santos trying to get him out of the apartment, so there’s a misunderstanding I hope works itself out right now to be hashed out. Turns out she wanted him to give him a lecture, not the keys to his house.
Whit has a moment of realization and hits her with the Oh my God. She freaks out, and realizes she’s let on that she likes him living with her. She lists complaints but she’s showed her hand. He says he’s just gonna water the plants at Robby’s and still stay at home. She calls him a fuckleberry and storms off, and Javadi congratulates him on being a pain in her ass. It was fun.
McKay’s taking a huge breath so we know she’s going in to see Emma’s attacker. He’s a smarmy asshole, and demands to know when he can get the restraints off and go home.and she’s got no patience. “You assaulted a nurse” and he’s all like “blame in on the psychoactive you told me about” but sas she points out, if you get drunk and kill someone, you still killed someone, and tells him, basically, he’s up shit creek and will be taking a ride with a cop when he’s released. To their custody. Our whiny shithead tells McKay she’s ruining his life, but like, you did that yourself, bruh.
She basically laughs at him and tells him it’s gonna take even longer given that it’s a holiday. She goes to leave but then decides to give him some info on where he can get help anyway. Which he violently throws at her while expressing his intent to sue her and the hospital for personal injury. Ok dickface, let’s see how that works out for you. She smiles and says “good luck convincing a jury’ before making her exit, and like the temper tantrum having cokehead he is, he screams at her on the way out, which gives at least one of the officers outside the room cause to give him a death glare.
Dana’s with the nursing staff and coaching everyone on what they need to do, and things seem to be ok. Hashimi’s beaming - the other hospitals settled their disputes and paid ransom and The Pitt is secure in their defenses and wanting to turn things back on. He asks what she means and she says it’s time to fly - nothing here we can’t handle in night shift - why does that seem like the wrong answer for you Robby, huh?
He’s free to go.
Just then a nurse wheels Duke by, and he’s finally getting his CT. Robby renews his promise to stay til he’s through, but he’s seeming ok with being with the very cute young nurse. A little ick there, but y’know, ok.
McKay’s there to ask if this is it, and he asks her to make sure things don’t burn down. She’s got advice for him too - she said she’s met a lot of edge chasers in different parts of her life who wanted to see how close to the end they could get, and they all found that end, and that’s the trouble. She says she's picking up on a weird vibe from him today when he tries to shrug it off.
Langdon notices Joy leaving and is stunned. She said her shift’s over and she’s not being paid to stay here anymore, quite opposite in fact and he chides her sayin that everyone does their part when they’re in disaster mode and they give time if it’s needed. She has a stat on ED burnout to bring out, and she says he needs to learn to set boundaries. She bumps into night shift and says “ good luck in there, sorry about the mess” which alarms at least one night shifter.
Mohan sees one person rolling in with night crew and recognizes him instantly - Orlando.
And we fade to black.
Nothing seems very good at all, and we’re in overtime. I guess we see what develops.
I’m a little scared.
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