Doc (US) (2025) s02e15 Episode Script

I had a car accident.
Lost a lot of my memory.
[AMY] Previously on Doc
I found a lump, so I went in
to get a mammogram.
Dr. Joan Ridley will be out of the
office tomorrow for a conference.
Word's she's sick,
and she's trying to hide it.
Are you asking
if Dr. Larsen was vindictive?
- We have a play here.
- Absolutely.
- Convince Nora you love her!
- I don't!
Stop fighting!
It's only been a few months
and she lives in Chicago.
[AMY] I had a memory.
You cheated on me.
- Who was she?
- It was Nora.
Okay, gentlemen, there's the turn.
There's your flush draw.
Check.
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
Check.
Hundred.
I fold.
- It's too rich for my blood.
- Whatcha got there, Bobby Ho?
You holdin' aces or reppin'
a flush draw?
Pay to see, my friend.
You know what?
I think I will.
Here comes the river.
I check.
Sorry, stud. Gotta go all in.
[WHISTLING]
Ooh.
- Uh-oh now.
- Could be bluffing.
[LAUGHTER]
Oh, I know you are.
[CHUCKLES]
[CLEARING THROAT]
Let's see 'em, fellas.
I called you.
Ace, King high.
Pair of nines takes the pot.
Pair of nines against that draw?
You knew! You knew I was bluffing!
Hey, can't tell
about the tell, my friend.
You know, I heard
you were slippin' but, uh,
well, at least I can say I was the
one who put you out of your misery.
[ALL SHOUTING]
- Hey.
- Morning.
Sorry I got in so late.
You were already asleep
and I didn't want to wake you.
[SOFT MUSIC]
Sorry.
- You okay?
- I
I found out that Michael
was cheating on me.
With Nora.
Um, did That came out in therapy?
No, I had a memory.
I'm sorry. That's that's a lot.
I am so livid, I
Look, I mean, you're gonna
feel that way for a while.
But I'm here, okay?
[BREATHING DEEPLY]
Whatever you need.
[DEEP BREATHING]
[KATIE] Hey, Dad.
Hey, sweetheart. How'd you sleep?
Uh, okay, I guess.
How was therapy?
Therapy's complicated.
You know that.
That's not an answer.
I guess I'd just say that
she and I are working
through some things,
and we'll get there.
Right.
I'm gonna get ready for school.
Katie never said anything
to him all these years?
Apparently not.
Your brain fed you this now
because it's what
you needed to help her.
She never wanted me to remember this.
I think maybe
I should just leave it alone.
She had a panic attack
because she thinks
she blew up your marriage.
And it's hitting her now because
Nora just left
and it feels like
it's happening all over again.
Tell her what you remembered.
Get it all out in the open with Michael,
or it'll only get worse for Katie.
I spoke to surgical oncology,
they can fit you in at noon.
So just text me
when you get here,
- I'll meet you down there, okay?
- I will Thank you.
Don't need to thank me, Rach.
- Jake?
- Yeah.
Please don't tell anyone about this.
Of course.
- But I'm not fighting anyone now.
- Here for a consult?
Dr. Heller, meet Bobby Ho,
world-class poker player.
On the worst downswing of his life.
He's convinced he's got a tell
and it must be neurological.
Okay. Why the restraints?
Well, he flipped over a poker table
and assaulted one of the other players.
We got him on a 72-hour hold.
Hey, it's better than County.
[SCOFFING]
I don't know what's happening to me.
I'm not sleeping.
All I do is obsess about
what I'm doing wrong.
I mean, it sounds like
you're under a lot of pressure.
You don't get it.
I'm the Clooney of cool.
And right now,
even if I sniff Casamigos,
I fall off that motorcycle.
It's a good metaphor.
Well, he's also Aaron Judge
who can't hit a Little League pitcher.
I'm sure this all seems
like small potatoes to you,
but I got one year of community college.
Failed out 'cause I was doing
the only thing I was ever good at.
Nine years
I spent learning how to control
every hand gesture,
facial expression, emotion, and now
If I don't have mastery
of poker, I got nothing.
No house payment,
no money for kids' schools.
I'm melting down, man.
- We need more information.
- Yeah.
Oh, here comes Julie. She'll know.
Clear out then. We don't want to
make it obvious.
- Let me know what you find out.
- Good morning!
Morning.
Dare I ask about your cowboy?
Well, he's not mine.
But he's pretty good.
So, Dr. Ridley's out again today?
- Another conference.
- Any idea which one?
ACOG.
- Huh.
- Weird, right?
What's she doing with a bunch of OBGYNs?
Hmm.
Diane, I am Dr. Larsen,
I have the report from the ER,
but I'd like to hear
from you what happened.
I've been on and off with liver problems
the last few years, but this morning,
just this stomach pain
came out of nowhere.
- You're her daughter?
- Granddaughter.
[LAUGHING]
Her and my mom were both
really young when they had kids.
So, ER doc said it was a clot?
That it cut off blood flow?
That's right. We have you on a
heparin drip to prevent future clotting,
but I'm afraid your ALT and AS
are over 400.
That's high, right?
It means that the liver damage
is near total and irreversible.
And because a thrombectomy
wasn't possible,
a transplant is your only other option.
[EXHALING DEEPLY]
Hey. Hey, we'll get through this, Nana.
Just like everything else.
How does it work? The transplant?
Well, we need to find you
a suitable donor
off the national database,
which is called UNOS.
Sometimes we get lucky
and we get a good match quickly.
- Other times
- Well, what if I donate?
Uh
You can just take a piece, right?
- Livers regenerate?
- It's not quite that simple.
- There's gotta be risks.
- Yes.
Diabetes, hypertension,
and inflammatory disease.
Not to mention the surgery itself
- I don't care about that.
- No, let her talk, Lily.
I'm sure you've heard about
people donating bone marrow,
or even a kidney, but this is different.
There's extensive blood loss
and weeks-long recovery.
All completely acceptable to me
No. This is not an option.
Hey, we can at least
talk about it, right?
Parents sacrifice for their children,
not the other way around.
And I mean it, Lily.
Don't push this.
[LAWYER] In your packets,
you'll find the details of what
is a hefty payout for Dr. Miller,
with attendant NDAs
and writ of prohibition,
barring further litigation.
So, this will put the whole
episode behind us once and for all?
It will.
I just can't.
I have to give this a chance.
Michael? Are we boring you?
No, but clearly my opinion
had no sway here.
Well, we don't want this dragging out,
and we don't want it going to court.
Let's bring them in.
[DOOR OPENING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
I think you'll find everything in
line with our last conversation.
Westside's insurance will cover
the settlement to the Dixon family.
Dr. Miller waives all rights
against the hospital in perpetuity
in exchange for a $500,000
severance package.
Just needs Dr. Miller's signature.
[UNEASY MUSIC]
Is there a problem with the settlement?
No, but circumstances have changed.
For Dr. Miller and for the hospital.
We're looking to go
in a different direction now.
The last time we were here,
Katie brought up the fact that
you were looking at apartments
and that she felt you were
giving up on her father.
Yes, I remember. Quite clearly.
You seem a bit agitated about that?
It turns out that maybe
I wasn't the one who gave up.
Can you explain more?
Katie took her father's phone
and discovered that he has
been seeing another woman.
I only showed her
because I thought it might
make her be nice to him,
but she can't do it.
It's too late.
Katie, it was already too late
when you showed me those texts.
And what does Michael say about this?
- He doesn't know about it.
- Any of it?
Any of it.
Well, don't you think you
should try to talk to him?
There's nothing to talk about.
I-I'm sorry, but I'm moving out.
I am not leaving you, but I can't
I cannot stay in that house anymore.
It's the best thing that I can do
for our family right now.
Hey! How's it going today?
Dad said therapy was complicated.
Looked pretty wigged out.
No, no. Everything's fine.
- Really?
- Yeah.
I mean,
there's a few things to work out but
'Cause now it feels like there's
something you're both not saying.
How about we have
dinner tonight, just us?
7:30 at my place.
- Just us?
- Yeah.
What's wrong with that?
I don't know. I guess I'll find out.
Dr. Larsen, I just spoke to the nurse,
and my grandmother's platelets
are decreasing, which is bad.
I know. I've contacted UNOS to
try to get her moved up the list.
And?
It's still gonna take some time.
We have to wait for her
to be in dire shape,
but by then her chance
of success plummets.
It's a bit of a Catch-22
with so few donors
and so many people needing organs.
Then I'm sure you'll agree
you have to test me.
Lily, your grandmother is my patient
and she has been very clear
that she doesn't want that.
She's like my mother.
Do you understand that?
She raised me since
my mom died when I was three.
I'm sure this is very hard,
but for what it's worth,
I wouldn't let my own daughter
do this for me.
Please just run the tests.
If I'm not a match,
it'll be a moot point.
But if I am, I'll be her only option.
Then you can let me figure out
what's right with her.
We've always maintained that Dr. Larsen
created a hostile work environment.
You've always tried to rebut that.
Since that time,
we've seen an upstanding
police officer take hostages
because he was so angry
at her treatment of him.
This is preposterous.
And now, what's emerged
is that a doctor on her staff
has committed suicide because
he was wrongfully terminated.
Brian Clark resigned because
he had a gambling problem.
And then you hired his daughter,
who was subsequently arrested
for cyber attacks on the hospital
because she was so angry at
Dr. Larsen's treatment of her father.
As Dr. Hamda just indicated,
our internal investigation
showed that this is
If you're going to cite your
own internal investigation,
perhaps you'd be open
to full disclosure?
What do you want, Marcia?
My client would like to waive all
rights to his settlement package
in exchange for a three-year contract
wherein he retains his
credentials here at Westside.
You want your job back?
Given Dr. Hamda's
inherent conflict of interest,
perhaps it would be best
if he recused himself?
[SCOFFING]
Michael.
[UNEASY MUSIC]
[CLEARING THROAT]
So, your CT scan's negative.
Bloodwork's clean, EKG normal.
There's gotta be other tests.
Of course there are,
but I may have a better idea.
- Is that Bobby Ho?
- He used to be.
Dude, you can't still be bummin'
about that bad beat in Reno.
What bad beat?
World Series of Poker. Semifinals.
Pocket Queens goes down
to an inside straight draw on the river.
- That was painful.
- Hmm.
Any relationship
between that incident and your symptoms?
I don't get the yips, Dr. Walker.
I lost the tournament because
that guy figured out my tell,
and the slide began from there.
I am here to help, especially if it
means sitting next to the legend.
Seven-card stud, Peter.
Absolutely no pun intended.
No, no. It's gotta be Hold 'Em.
Same game he plays.
This is gonna be rockin'!
But you can't simulate a game like this.
Playing for cotton balls?
It's the emotional stakes that matter.
One-time buy-in for 30 cotton balls.
Peter will be very upset
if he has to leave his idol
and go back to work.
And you well,
if you can't beat us,
that's abject humiliation, right?
[INTRIGUING MUSIC]
[BOBBY] Raise three.
I'm out.
- Call.
- Fold.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC CONTINUES]
- Bet five.
- Classic Ho C-bet.
Guy gets aggressive early and often.
Are you actually a doctor?
- [GINA LAUGHING]
- Spicy! I call.
Fold.
[SHARP INHALE]
Bet seven.
[CHUCKLES] Can't scare me.
Okay.
[PETER] Six on the river. Bobby?
I'm all in.
Wow. All in on the first hand.
Careful, Peter, you call, you walk.
Yeah.
Live to fight another day.
Pair of sixes.
Oh, my God, you are the king!
Actually, I think he just got lucky.
- Peter's a pigeon.
- Come on, I'm a hawk.
What's going on?
Do you see it?
Dilated pupils?
I uh, that wasn't on the game tape.
Yeah, it's subtle,
but the players you're up against
would definitely notice it.
Ever feel your heart racing?
Sweaty palms?
Of course.
My blood's definitely
pumping during games.
But yeah, the other day
driving to the casino,
my hands got kind of clammy.
Pheochromocytoma?
That could explain him
flipping the table.
And my tell, right?
This means you guys figured it out?
We'd have to do an endoscopy
to look for ectopic lesions.
She's hypotensive and tachy.
Let's push fluids, but hydrate gently
and monitor for edema.
Lily's getting married in a few months.
Any way you think you could
keep me around 'til then?
I have to tell you,
I tested her
and she's an excellent match.
You tested her when I said no?
She begged, and I haven't
even told her the results yet.
Well, there's no way in hell
I am putting her in that kind of danger.
No way!
Why don't I bring her in here and
It's my fault that I have this!
[DIANE BREATHING DEEPLY]
I've I've been a drunk
since I was 15.
But there's no mention
of alcoholism in your chart.
I got sober 24 years ago.
I never told any of my doctors.
Why not?
There are parts of my past
that I never wanted Lily to know about.
I had my daughter Nina when I was 17.
You'd think having a baby
would shake some sense into me.
When she turned 14,
I figured I'd give her a beer.
That way I wouldn't have to drink alone.
Pretty soon, she was just like me.
Except when she had Lily,
she actually tried hard to be better.
For a while, she was.
She even hit the meetings.
One night, she calls me
wasted.
Asked me if I'm sober.
Can I come get her?
I said yes.
I passed out with a bottle in my hand.
An hour later,
her car was wrapped
around a telephone pole.
[AMY SIGHS]
Lily knows how her mother died.
But not why.
And not that I killed her.
- Oh, Diane, I'm so sorry.
- Don't be.
And don't ever ask me
to take anything from that girl again.
I have already taken enough.
[SIGHS]
[TV PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND]
[GLASS SHATTERING]
[LAUGHTER ON TV]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[MUSIC SWELLS]
[GLASS BREAKING]
[WOMAN ON TV]
Guess we'll have to start over!
[AMY LAUGHING, THEN SOBBING]
The transplant
has a high probability of success
with this level of compatibility.
Matches on five of six
HLA markers, absolutely.
How's the donor's health?
She's young, she should recover well.
Minimal synthetic function,
sky-high enzymes.
Patient can't wait.
So what's the hold-up?
She doesn't think
that she deserves a second chance.
So far, she has refused the transplant.
- Alcoholic?
- Yeah, it runs in the family.
And the donor would be
her granddaughter.
With that family history,
living with half a liver's
a real gamble.
She doesn't know.
The patient told me in confidence,
so I can't disclose it.
And the granddaughter,
she won't back down.
I'm not taking out
that young woman's liver
unless she's going in with open eyes.
And I won't ask
any of my surgeons to do it either.
Dr. Ridley's not at ACOG.
She didn't even register.
And I checked the other conferences.
Chicago, Dallas
she registered but no show.
So those were just a cover story.
I don't know, but what if we
check to see if she's a patient here?
You'd have to put in your code.
She'd see it. Everyone would.
But if she's operating on
people when she shouldn't be
You want to go to HR or Dr. Hamda
with nothing but conjecture?
Hey, it was my idea.
I am a naive intern,
you are bucking for chief resident.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC]
No record.
No labs. No scans?
She knows all the specialists
in the building,
why would she go somewhere else?
This should help you feel better,
but the results of
the latest bone marrow biopsy
show effects on all three blood lineages
plus a strong autoimmune component.
Not exactly the news I was hoping for.
I suggest you reach out to Ethan.
Get a support system in place.
I'm not using this to thaw
the freeze between us.
You know, in my experience,
even estranged families
need transparency
when it comes to illness.
He'll be angry you hid it,
and you'll regret not calling him.
I'm not going into triage mode just yet.
It's progressing quickly, Joan.
And you certainly can't maintain
a high-leverage, high-stress job.
Ron, I think you're forgetting
who you're talking to.
- Joan
- There are things we can do
to keep me on my feet.
So let's do them.
[SIGHING]
Tell me this is a play for more money.
I want to be a doctor.
And I'm not pulling
my kids out of school
to move to Des Moines.
No one else in Minneapolis
will hire you?
Well, what are you saying?
When people call you?
I haven't breathed
a word of this to anyone,
as per our agreement.
No one will touch me
with a ten-foot pole, Michael.
[MICHAEL] Everyone here
knows what you did.
You'll walk in a pariah.
You've never lied about
anything important?
When you were desperate?
The only thing that I love
more than being a doctor
is my family.
And I'm doing what I have to for them.
Well, there's nothing here,
Dr. Walker. No tumor.
You're sure?
Mm, there's a benign cyst
on the wall of his duodenum,
but doesn't need to come out.
Can you remove it anyway?
You're already in there,
and it'll only take you two minutes.
[SCOFFS] One minute.
But what's the point?
Just trust me.
Hey.
- It's gonna be okay.
- You can't know that.
Mia usually takes my word for it.
It's gonna be okay?
That is your big move?
Well, I mean,
I usually supplement it
with a promise of ice cream.
[CHUCKLING]
[PHONE VIBRATING]
[RACHEL SIGHS]
Go ahead. You should take that.
Yeah, one sec.
Hey, you hanging in there?
Yeah. But I've got a bit of a
complicated patient situation,
and with Joan out,
protocol says
I come to you for sign-off.
Um, I'm in Radiology right now
with a patient but,
listen, you make the call
and I'll back you, okay?
Uh, great. Thanks.
Yeah, you got it.
Uh, Lily, I'm glad I ran into you.
Hematology has your results.
They should be in your patient portal.
Wait, what did they say?
Am I a viable candidate?
Unfortunately,
I'm only allowed to share
your HLA profile with you.
I can't reveal how it compares
to your grandmother's.
Oh, my God, this is absurd.
She refused disclosure.
I'm sure you can understand
my hands are tied.
She refused?
Because I'm a match.
Talk to her.
Tell her everything she means to you.
Okay.
Hey!
- I'm okay, Mom. Really.
- How long have you been here?
Ten minutes. I texted you as
soon as I heard she was here.
Can I see her chart?
- Amy, it's a panic attack.
- Did you have chest pain?
EKG's clean. We can run an echo
if you're really concerned
about a cardiac event.
- We're not.
- Oh, is that your unilateral decision?
- Mom, please don't.
- You're making it worse.
I'll have a nurse come back
in to take those electrodes off.
[AMY SIGHS]
What were you doing at the hospital?
I-I came to see you.
I got to the lobby
and I started feeling dizzy
and short of breath.
Whatever you said to her
this morning alarmed her,
so she came to ask
what you wanted to talk about.
All I said was that
I wanted to have dinner.
It's fine, Mom,
I-I probably overreacted.
I'm just worked up.
Okay, then. Should we
get those stickies off?
Maybe we should step out.
[MICHAEL] We'll be right back.
Let's move her
to a private room for now.
- What are you doing?
- Did you tell her?
Before we've even had a chance to talk?
Oh, you think I want to
make you the bad guy?
That's what you're afraid of?
- Well, did you?
- No! I didn't.
Your role as Mr. Clean
is safe and sound.
You hadn't touched me
in almost two years.
Not even a hand on my shoulder!
I was devastated and alone.
I don't want to hear this, Michael!
Yeah? Well, you're gonna hear it!
It was less than three months
and we only met twice.
She was living in Chicago,
and the instant you showed
any sign of drifting back to me,
I cut it off with her,
because I still loved you
and wanted to save our marriage.
Four days later,
you packed your bags and left
without even saying a word to me.
Last night was literally the
first time you told me you knew.
What does that say to you, Amy?
Who finds out their spouse
is having an affair
and doesn't even bother
to confront them?
That's how cut off you were!
And after I left,
you just picked up again with Nora?
No.
I was in despair.
Didn't even call her for over a year.
But you married her.
She was kind,
and she helped me pick up the pieces.
And now you've gone
and shattered them all over again!
Do you have any idea
how hard it's been for me
these last few months?
Everyone else is knowing more
about my life than I do,
and people feeding me these
curated pieces of my history?
That is not what I am doing.
You made me believe
that I was the only one responsible!
I begged you
to fill in the blanks, Michael!
Until last night, I had no idea
this had anything to do with
the end of our marriage!
Sure, I guess that's what
you'll tell yourself
so you can hold onto your
precious moral high ground.
I don't give a damn
about moral high ground!
You know, I've gotten pretty
used to people hiding in the tall grass,
but I never thought
you would be one of them.
But maybe you've changed
just as much as I have.
Only you don't want to admit it.
I'm gonna go talk to our daughter now.
Alone.
Katie, I need to tell you something.
It's gonna be hard to hear.
I had a memory
of you telling me about Dad's affair.
You didn't say anything to him, did you?
No.
But I think that this is
what's been causing your panic attacks.
Okay, but
he'll never forgive me
if he knows I'm the reason you left.
I left because
because a bomb went off in
our marriage when Danny died.
If anything, having you
gave me something to hold onto.
You don't even remember.
I know myself well enough to know
the depth of my love for you.
From the day you were born.
And I know that secrets make you sick.
This one's been sitting
on your chest for a long time.
It's time for you to breathe again.
[GENTLE MUSIC]
This isn't where you're gonna
make your first move, is it?
I got more game than that.
That's to be determined.
I emailed Dr. Ridley hours ago.
She always responds right away
unless she's in surgery.
I think we've gotta talk to Dr. Hamda.
And say what?
We think she's playing hooky?
We gotta do something.
Well, I guess we could
try and get into her office,
do some quick recon.
Shift change is at 6:00.
Meet me at the nurses' station at 5:58.
We cannot afford for this
Dixon lawsuit to go public
and that's exactly what will happen
if Richard doesn't cooperate
with the settlement.
Is anyone even considering
what it'll say about our culture
if we ask people to work side by
side with him after what he did?
You're worried about Amy.
Come on, Lisa.
I'm worried about everyone.
Well, I've heard you complaining.
What I haven't heard is a solution.
He wants to be a doctor
and stay in Minneapolis for his family.
Can't you make some calls?
We could even pay his salary
for a year or two.
Wherever he lands,
they can have him for free.
Now that's creative.
I had to go to the ER for a bit.
Where's Lily? Did you talk to her?
[SNORTING]
Yeah, we talked.
She just couldn't let it go.
On and on about how I saved her
when her mother died,
how it was her turn to save me.
So I told her the truth.
She couldn't get out of here
fast enough.
Hey, I have a delivery here,
but I'm gonna need to see some ID.
- For what?
- A bottle of vodka.
To a hospital?
[UNEASY MUSIC]
No! No!
Get out! Now!
What are you doing?
I tried three different apps,
I didn't know which one
was gonna come through.
No! Stop it!
Lily loves you and she is
gonna come back here,
and what do I tell her when she does?
That UNOS kicked you
off the list for this?
That you just washed your best
chance of survival down the drain?
You really think I deserve to live?
I don't know.
But Lily deserves for you to live!
So you'll excuse me
if I'm not gonna let you sit here
and wallow in self-pity instead of
[MONITOR BEEPING]
Diane?
Diane.
[MACHINES BEEPING RAPIDLY]
I need some help in here!
Code Blue!
I'm talking candles and dinner and sex,
for the first time in two years.
And I thought, okay,
there's a chance, maybe.
And then I found out
he was cheating on me.
With Nate.
So, he's gay now?
It was code for some tramp in Chicago.
He met her at a conference
that I was supposed to be at.
Guess you should've gone, huh?
I couldn't even look at him.
And then I tried and I
I thought
God, I'm so stupid.
Feelings are difficult.
It's why people drink.
I don't want
any feelings ever again.
Come on now.
[SOFT PIANO PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND]
You're hot.
[BARTENDER MOANING]
[AMY BREATHING HEAVILY]
So, so stupid.
[BREATHING SLOWING DOWN]
I'll get you a cab.
The alcohol caused a heart arrhythmia.
We're still trying to assess
how much damage it did.
Without a liver transplant,
it's unlikely that
she will last the week.
[GASPING] This is all my fault.
- No.
- Yes, yes.
All these years she carried
the shame of that secret,
and still she stayed on
the wagon and showed up for me,
but but the minute
she opens up, I turn on her.
And now I
how do I live with myself if she dies?
Now you know how I feel.
Hey, Nana! Hey!
[DIANE LAUGHING WEAKLY]
She's stabilized and there was
no long-term damage
to her other vital organs.
But she just crashed
because of alcohol intake!
She has been sober for 24 years.
This was a relapse
in an extremely vulnerable moment.
You can try to convince UNOS
to relist her
after she's been sober for three months.
She won't last the week.
You're asking me
to put a healthy liver into that woman.
When there are viable candidates
who won't squander
such a valuable resource.
She won't squander it.
And you know that how?
Because her granddaughter will
be cutting open her body to save her.
And she won't betray that trust.
Flush.
[SIGHS]
Full house!
Oh! He's back! He's back!
I see order has been
restored in the universe.
Thanks to you and that surgeon.
It's like a feral monkey's off my back.
And the dilated pupil's gone completely.
How would you know, Peter?
You didn't even catch it the first time.
- Ooh!
- [PETER] Okay. Okay!
Dr. Walker?
[ALL LAUGHING]
So, uh
Bobby's chart says you removed
an enteric duplication mass.
We did.
Okay, but that wouldn't
have caused his tell
or any of his other behaviors.
I know that.
Okay, so why does he think it did?
Poker's a confidence game, Jake.
Sometimes you just gotta tell
people what they need to hear.
So you just bluffed
a professional poker player?
If that doesn't cure him,
he knows where to find me.
I know you don't want what I'm offering,
but we're out of time
and I'm not ready to let you go.
Listen to me.
Watching you take the world by storm,
it's the only thing
I've ever been proud of.
You can't ask me
to risk my life's work.
[LILY LAUGHING SADLY]
What if I had another way?
It's called a domino transplant.
Lily would donate a kidney, not a liver.
The donation itself is
a much safer procedure,
and given your specific family history,
the long-term risks
would be much lower for Lily.
But she doesn't need my kidney.
No, but Annabelle Sutton does.
And her brother Justin
is just as eager as you are
to do whatever it takes to save her.
Including a living partial lung donation
to David Sheridan.
So, you donate to a stranger,
and then their loved one
donates to another stranger,
and everyone pays it forward
until Diane gets the liver she needs.
It might not be as good a match,
but it'll be good enough.
Listen to me, Nana.
I am your life's work
and you made me strong
and powerful and fierce with agency.
And now it's time to let me
be who you made me.
Okay.
[CHUCKLING SOFTLY]
[DRIVER] Here we are.
Lady, you're home.
Ugh. No, I'm not.
This is the address you gave me.
Yeah, I don't live here anymore.
Take me to Second and Nokomis, please.
Okay.
[MELANCHOLIC MUSIC]
When I saw you on your phone
in the driveway that day,
I knew something was wrong.
But I shouldn't have
looked at your phone,
and I never should have said anything.
I thought I was helping.
I thought Mom would realize
and come back to you,
but then she left.
And it was my fault.
None of this is your fault.
What happened to our marriage
it was already over
before you found this out.
That's what Mom said, too.
Because it's true.
When a relationship
falls apart, people
you reach for things
to make it hurt less.
I reached for work, and
your father reached for someone else.
The way you looked at me
after I told you.
You just stopped caring.
I should've done better.
For you and for your father.
I know I can't tell you
because obviously
I don't remember, but
leaving both of you
that must've broken me.
[SOFT MUSIC]
It's a good thing you told me
what she was gonna say beforehand.
I never would've been able to
handle it the right way for her
if I got blindsided with that.
I don't think you should
ever tell her it was Nora.
There's no reason to pile more onto her.
We had a night
when you came back to me.
There was daylight.
The next day, that's when
I broke it off with Nora.
On the phone, in the driveway.
That's what Katie saw.
And then she came and told me
because she didn't understand
what she saw.
It must've been then
because a few days later,
you were gone without a word.
We we can never tell her.
We could've made it, Amy.
[SOFT MUSIC]
[DOOR OPENING]
Hey, I'll take you home.
I just heard from the transplant team.
The last organ came through.
She's ready.
[DIANE BREATHING DEEPLY]
It's gonna be fine, Nana.
And Mom would be proud of us.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
I'll see you soon.
[SIGHS]
Dr. Ridley left some forms for me?
I haven't seen anything.
I'll just take a peek in her office.
Be my guest. I'm outta here.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC]
[WOMAN ON PA] Our visiting
hours will end in ten minutes.
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
Dr. Coleman.
Oh, I never replied.
Sorry, the conference was insufferable.
Oh, no worries. I wanted to ask
[IMPERCEPTIBLE]
Cardiothoracic
Well, Ortho's
super-muscular if that's
[IMPERCEPTIBLE]
unpack all this tonight, do we?
- Thank you, Dr. Ridley.
- Good night, Dr. Coleman.
Good night.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
I found a case of pre-filled syringes
for a sub-Q immune modulator.
She has an autoimmune disease
and she's hiding it.
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
You wanted to see me?
I gather Michael didn't tell you
that Richard Miller was here
today with his lawyer.
No, he didn't. Sorry I missed it.
Unfortunately, they used the chaos
from the Brian Clark situation
to their advantage.
How so?
He turned down the Dixon
settlement and demanded his job back.
[SCOFFS] He's got a lot of nerve.
He's got more than that.
He's got leverage.
You gave in?
It's your behavior
that forced our hand, Amy.
You created this.
So, I suggest you find
a way to work with him.
Because he starts tomorrow.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[CLOSING THEME MUSIC PLAYING]