Chicago Med (2015) s11e17 Episode Script
Altered States
1
You know, I started to volunteer
at the suicide hotline.
- I want to die.
- Gio.
You did everything you can.
You can't save everybody.
When we met at that juvenile facility,
you thought that I gave up on you.
I'd do almost anything
to turn back the clock.
I'm trying to protect you.
This from the man who spent
years preaching non-judgment
I almost lost you, okay?
You cut me some slack!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Sage has filed a complaint against you.
Sharon, nothing happened.
I have to go through
the motions of processing this.
- This is unbelievable.
- Okay.
What are you not telling me?
What's that supposed to mean,
not tell
you don't believe me. No, no.
You don't believe me.
- Daniel, wait a minute.
[HYPERVENTILATING]
Stay with me.
Just focus on me.
That's it.
We're gonna help you.
Your daughter's on her way.
How long was he down?
An hour, maybe two.
Trauma 3 is open.
250 CCs of 3% saline
to reduce intracranial pressure,
1 gram of Keppra
for seizure prophylaxis.
I'm on it.
Dr. Lenox, he's losing consciousness.
Oh, whoa, whoa! Hey, stay with me.
I need you so stay with me.
- Let's start a trauma workup.
- Yeah.
What do we got?
42-year-old male fell headfirst
off his roof taking down
Christmas lights.
Smacked his head on the concrete.
I'm thinking he's got a bleed.
Yeah, so am I. His pupils are blown.
No gag reflex, no cough.
No brain stem reflexes.
He's brain dead.
Yeah, let's do a CT to confirm.
And keep him on the vent
until his daughter gets here.
- God.
I mean, it's already April.
He should have kept the
lights up till next year.
Sharon, have you seen Daniel?
He's not answering his phone.
I got a 20-year-old who just
confessed to shooting JFK.
On the bright side, he knows
his American history, at least.
I think Daniel's probably
somewhere cooling off.
I'd give him his space.
- Really? What happened?
- We had a pretty bad argument.
Oh. What about?
He accused me of not having his back.
Well, that doesn't sound like Daniel.
Exactly.
That's why I'm worried.
[EERIE MUSIC]
♪
[MUMBLES INDISTINCTLY]
Mom.
What's going on?
What are we doing here?
Oh, come on.
If you're asking the question,
you already know the answer.
Mom, I'm not dead, like you.
Mm, maybe not yet.
And I'm not dying either.
For God's sake, I'm having a dream.
And I just
I just don't know why we're
we're here.
Listen, I know you think
this is all about
that poor kid you killed.
What was his name?
Gio, who finally got up
the courage to reach out
for help and then had the terrible luck
to have you answer the phone.
When did you become so cruel?
Did somebody do something
to you so terrible
that it made you feel so small
that for the rest of your life,
the only way you could
feel good about yourself
is if you were making
somebody else feel miserable,
especially your kids?
Oh, Danny, you poor thing.
There you are, huffing and puffing,
and you still don't get it, do you?
- Get what?
- Why we're here!
The answer, my darling, is,
this is where it all started, isn't it?
This is where it happened,
right over there.
♪
Daniel.
Daniel? Daniel, can you hear me?
Sharon?
Daniel.
Daniel.
Daniel, are you okay?
♪
Dean, I just found Daniel unconscious
on the floor in his office.
I think he may be having a stroke.
Can you please come up here?
Daniel.
Daniel, can you hear me?
It's Sharon, Daniel.
How is he?
There's no movement on his right side,
in and out of consciousness.
Heart rate 110. BP 160/90.
I've already activated code stroke.
How long has he been down?
Sharon spoke to him
about three hours ago.
You're thinking TPA?
His timeline does fall within
the 4 1/2-hour treatment window.
If we're lucky, the TPA could break down
the clot before it does permanent damage
to Daniel's brain.
Same page, Dr. Ripley.
All right, let's confirm with the CTs,
and we'll take it from there.
Anna.
Hey.
Is Dad alive?
Yes, but we think he's having a stroke.
Is he gonna die?
I won't lie to you, Anna.
It's very serious.
But Dr. Archer took him for imaging
so we can know exactly the extent
of what we're dealing with.
We had a big fight today.
What if that was our last conversation?
Shh, mm-mm.
We're gonna take this
one step at a time, okay?
Can I see him?
Soon, I promise.
Come.
And we are at the clot.
All right, you're up, Dr. Ripley.
Applying negative pressure.
No, his clot's too firm. Damn it.
Aspiration technique isn't working.
What if we pivot?
Advance the microcatheter past the clot
and deploy a stent retriever across it.
It's a smart idea,
almost as if I'd thought of it.
[MONITORS BEEPING]
[EERIE MUSIC]
♪
I said I never wanted to see you again.
I know you did. I know you did.
But I don't I have no idea
what's going on here.
But this was not my idea.
I promise you that.
Okay, well, say what you're gonna say.
Get out with it.
Make it quick and get the hell out.
After all, it's what
you're best at, isn't it?
Look, I feel terrible about that.
I do.
I think about it all the time.
But, look, I have some really good news.
In about 20 years, we meet again,
and we we work together.
Yeah. Get this.
You become a doctor, Mitch.
- What?
- Yeah.
Had nothing to do with me.
And don't worry.
You really ripped me a new one.
But, you know, we
we hash it out.
- Wait, wait.
Wait, wait, wait.
Do I actually forgive you?
Yeah. Oh, we become friends.
I don't believe you.
Believe it, man.
Yeah, it happened.
You look at your stuff.
You deal with it. You get it together.
It's actually one of the
proudest moments of my life.
It still is.
My stuff.
Do you even hear yourself?
You're so full of it.
What did I say?
What, you say that it's no thanks to you
out of one side of your mouth,
and then you go
and tell me that you're proud
of me out of the other?
You always find some way to take credit,
like I'm your kid or something.
You did it just today.
How do you know that?
Wait, do you actually think that I'm me?
I'm you, pal.
This is just
a conversation with yourself.
It's all just a nostalgia tour,
and you're playing the hits
in this case,
forcing me to confront
my abandonment issues
only to abandon me here yourself.
Okay, look, I didn't abandon you.
My rotation ended.
I couldn't handle it differently.
There it is. Denial.
What, you you need another hug?
[CHUCKLES] You are such a fraud.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[GAS HISSING]
[COUGHING]
We performed a mechanical thrombectomy.
It's where a microcatheter is threaded
into his middle cerebral artery
to manually remove the clot.
Did it work?
It was an especially large clot.
We got some of it, but not enough
to reestablish adequate blood flow
to the ischemic area of his brain.
So what are our options, Dr. Abrams?
Well, we have two.
We could raise his blood pressure
and just wait and see.
Best case scenario is
he wakes up completely fine.
Worst case, he has permanent,
irreversible deficits
that mean a feeding tube
and possibly a ventilator
for the rest of his life.
So then what's the other option?
A direct bypass craniotomy.
I make an incision in his head
and connect the cortical
intracranial artery
directly to his
superficial temporal artery,
completely bypassing the blockage.
So we're talking about brain surgery?
Yes. Not as scary as it sounds.
It would definitively
restore blood flow.
I sense a "but" coming.
The TPA Dr. Archer and I
administered to break down
the clot also puts your father
at a much higher risk
of hemorrhagic complications
during surgery.
- This all sounds like a lot.
- Yeah.
I'm still here because
Dr. Archer took a risk
while I was on that table,
but unfortunately,
there are no guarantees.
Well, I'll call Robin
and see what she thinks.
Uh, this is awkward.
I'm afraid it isn't up to you.
That decision lies with Daniel's
medical power of attorney.
Isn't that me and Robin?
That privilege belongs to Ms. Goodwin.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Me?
Doris, have you seen Dean?
He's got his phone turned off.
- You don't know.
- Know what? [CHUCKLES]
Dr. Charles had a stroke.
Dr. Archer, Abrams, and Ripley
are taking care of him now.
Wha uh well, how bad is it?
It's pretty bad.
Dr. Asher, you ready?
Ready for what?
To onboard your substitute
before you go on maternity leave.
Wait, um [CHUCKLES]
- You you hired someone?
- I did.
But I was planning to work
close to my due date,
which is still weeks away.
So what's the rush?
You, of all people, should know
babies don't always abide by due dates.
Dr. Lovell's references were glowing.
- I'm sorry, Dr. Lovell?
- Yeah.
She's waiting for you.
The cat with Eugene Levy eyebrows?
You two already know each other?
Yeah, I guess you could say that.
Oh.
You know, I'm just as surprised
as you are that your father gave me
medical power of attorney.
I know. It's totally fine.
I would have said no if he'd asked me.
Why?
Because that should be
a family decision.
Yeah, but you are family.
I mean, you've always been
Auntie Sharon to me and Robin.
And then you and Dad have been friends
since before I was even born.
I mean, Dad loves people,
but there's only a few
that he really, truly trusts.
But I know that he trusts you.
That's nice of you to say,
but I'm not so sure he would
What? What's wrong?
You know, let's just focus on deciding
what's best for your father together.
Dad's mind is everything to him.
If he doesn't have that, he's not Dad.
I think we do the surgery.
Me too.
So call your sister.
See if she agrees before
we let Dr. Abrams know.
Is there something
you're not telling me?
[SIGHS] Well.
I guess the apple
didn't fall far from the tree.
I also had an argument with your father.
It was bad.
Dad went full Grandma on you, didn't he?
- [EXHALES]
- Yeah.
He has a little of her in him.
She pops out when he gets really angry.
Well, it left me unsettled.
So I went to his office
so we could talk it out,
and that's when I found him.
You know, he's gonna apologize,
like, 20 times when he wakes up.
[CHUCKLES] I know.
But either way, when he does,
we're gonna have a very
serious discussion
about his anger issues.
You're damn right we will.
[SNIFFLES]
[SIGHS]
[SIGHS] Bruh, that was sick!
If you mean a pregnant woman
with a gangrenous
diabetic foot, then yes, that was sick.
Yeah, I mean, she had max aura.
Not gonna lie.
Kacy, can you call Podiatry,
get them down here
- to do a consult on Treatment 4?
- Yeah, sure can.
Also, Dr. Archer wanted you to know
he's joining Dr. Abrams in surgery.
- For Dr. Charles?
- Yeah.
I remember Dr. Archer.
How is baby zaddy?
- You two low-key nesting?
- They don't live together.
Oh, it's giving situationship.
Okay, not not together.
There's no ship at all.
- So messy, I love it.
- Okay, uh, Kacy.
Oh, we got a woman in 6
complaining about painful sex.
Not the good kind. Sorry.
Okay, Summer, so you are
having abdominal discomfort
and painful intercourse?
I've narrowed it down to really bad gas
or ovarian cancer.
Based on what?
A TikTok rabbit hole.
I feel like I just went
to medical school.
I would stay off the internet
when it comes to health.
- It is full of disinformation.
- Right.
All right,
I would like to start an exam.
Is that okay with you?
Okay, just lean back a little bit.
[CLEARS THROAT]
Okay.
[SIGHS]
My algorithm's all medicine too.
Really? Do you follow Dr. Oscar?
You know, he's the neurosurgeon
whose background is
Always inexplicably a rainforest.
- Yes! Yeah.
- Oh.
- He has the coolest stories.
- Yeah, he does.
I saw in your chart
that you had a pap smear
about two weeks ago.
Yeah, I had my annual
with my regular OB/GYN
when she inserted my IUD.
Okay, well, we'll follow up on that.
In the meantime,
I will start your pelvic exam.
Okay, just scooch down a little bit.
Actually, can she do it?
Of course. Yeah.
Thank you.
[SIGHS] Awesome sauce.
- How are we doing, Marty?
- All systems go.
Patient is under deep propofol sedation.
BP 120/69.
Heart rate 71.
What are we waiting for?
- [SIGHS]
- All right.
Making an incision along
the lateral branch of the SGA.
[MONITORS BEEPING]
Huh.
Oh.
Hi, honey.
You're in big trouble, Daddy.
I am? What'd I do?
Oh, look who arrived just in time
to be absolutely no help at all.
Told you!
You promised to be home
in time to get Robin up
and off to school, but instead,
surprise, surprise,
you decided to hang around
at work and, surprise, surprise,
didn't bother to call.
You never, ever did.
- Not even once.
- I got this.
I'm taking you to school, honey.
I will take her to school,
and you will go back to sleep.
- And I'm sorry.
- Sleep? Is that a joke?
Come on, baby.
I'm an hour late for work.
There you are.
- Sue.
- Anna's in the car.
I don't want her to hear what
I'm about to say, so I'll
I'll cut right to the point.
Oh, crap, I remember this.
Yeah, well, I'm not surprised.
This was the time I meant it.
Because nothing can compete
with your fancy job
where you get to be oh, so important
and everyone adores you.
After all, all we are is your family.
Look, nothing was ever
more important to me
than you and Anna, and you know that.
I have to cut my hours.
I have for the thousandth time
Yeah, but it never made a difference.
What happens with
the next clinical emergency?
The next nervous breakdown?
The next suicide attempt?
You will never let anyone else handle it
because that is not who you are.
Stop fighting!
[SOMBER MUSIC]
Oh, honey, honey.
It's okay, honey. Don't be sad.
Don't be sad.
Anna banana, you are gonna see Daddy
all the time, all the time.
And we're gonna have
so much fun, aren't we?
- Mm-hmm.
- [SPEAKING SPANISH]
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Lucia.
[SPEAKING SPANISH]
Spanish was never my strong suit.
Honey, come on, you know that.
You have learned nothing.
You said it would be different with us.
You said it a thousand times.
I really, really wanted it to be.
You don't need me, Danny.
- That's not true.
- It is.
It's not true.
It is.
You don't need anyone.
♪
So I just wanted
to make sure we're cool.
Why wouldn't we be?
You were totally pissed
at me earlier about Summer.
We shouldn't be encouraging our patients
to seek medical advice on social media.
Influencers are destigmatizing
the sharing of health diagnoses,
and they're teaching patients
to advocate for themselves.
Why seek treatment from an actual doctor
when you could just
misdiagnose yourself from home?
That is an oversimplification.
- Really?
- Yes.
I mean, cancer screenings
tripled last year
after Kate Middleton posted a
video about her own diagnosis.
I think you sent Summer mixed messages.
I was trying to connect
after you dismissed her
with your buzzkill energy.
Buzzkill energy? Really?
- Dr. Asher.
- Yep.
The lab called.
Summer's test results were just posted.
Thank you.
Well, I guess we better tell her.
Mind if I take the lead?
You're the boss, until I take over.
So your labs revealed elevated
white blood cell count,
CRP, and procalcitonin.
You have PID.
Sorry, I don't know
what that stands for.
It's Pelvic Inflammatory Disease.
It's an infection
of your reproductive organs.
I guess they didn't
cover that on TikTok.
But, wait, isn't that what Dr. Lovell
suspected when she examined me?
- That's correct.
- Is it serious?
It can be, if untreated.
But we caught this in plenty of time.
Broad spectrum antibiotics
should clear this right up.
I'm just really glad that you came in.
Of course I did.
I'm not gonna self-diagnose
based on what I read online.
It's just a research tool.
I hear you. No judgment.
You sure?
How did I catch this?
The most common causes are bacteria
- from chlamydia or gonorrhea.
- What?
You tested negative for both of those.
Your PID may have come
from your IUD insertion.
In some cases, bodies can become
more vulnerable to infection.
Oh, that's a relief.
I thought you were
telling me I had an STD.
[CHUCKLES]
What's wrong?
Well, completely unrelated to the PID,
your pap smear did reveal
that you are positive
for human papillomavirus.
HPV? So I do have an STD?
Like, get me off this roller coaster.
Am I right?
It is a completely asymptomatic STI,
which your body will likely
clear in a year or two.
Oh, my God.
Girl, HPV is nothing
to be ashamed of, okay?
At least 80% of the population
will get it in their lifetime,
and one out of every three
people currently has it.
I'll be real with you, I have it.
Dr. Lovell.
It's okay. I'm going.
Hey, man.
You doing okay?
I know you and Dr. Charles
are pretty tight.
Yeah.
Yeah, uh, just
just feeling a bit useless, you know?
Yeah.
No fun on the bench, huh?
Yeah, not really what I meant.
You know, um
there's been a few times
I've been in a really bad place,
and that man in there
definitely bailed me out.
I know this is just the kind of thing
people say in these situations, but
it always made me think to myself
I don't know.
I mean, why couldn't my dad
have been like that?
[CHUCKLES]
What can I say?
I guess we can't all be that lucky.
Yeah.
[MONITORS BEEPING]
Not a lot of veins around the M4 vessel.
Makes it a perfect landing zone.
How's the donor vessel?
Skeletonized and ready.
All right, let's relax the brain.
I'm not talking about yours, Marty.
Optimizing CO2 and pushing mannitol.
It's anastomosis time.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- [PHONE RINGING]
- Gio?
It's me, Danny.
Suzer?
Good to know you haven't
forgotten my voice.
Never.
Where are you calling from?
Right behind you.
♪
So you think Gio is dead?
Suze, okay.
He had a gun in his hand
when he called me.
Mm-hmm.
So I got him talking,
and all of a sudden,
I realized, wait, this kid is
completely and utterly alone.
And so I asked him if he thought
it might help to talk about her.
It very quickly went sideways.
Daniel, I would have
done the same thing.
Great.
Holly would have done the same thing.
Any shrink worth their salt
would have done the same thing.
Look [SIGHS]
Gio's call clearly set you off,
and you are clearly invested
in beating yourself up
about all the people
you think you've let down.
But are you sure you're not
burying the lede here?
Aren't you leaving somebody out?
Oh, no.
That stuff's been handled.
It's me, remember?
Every time I try to get you
to talk about this,
when we were together in med school,
you were never comfortable going there.
And every time since,
you've changed the subject.
Ever occur to you that
maybe I just didn't want
to talk about it with you?
Oh, that is beneath you.
- Okay, well
- Don't be a jerk.
Look, you know what?
[SCOFFS]
I love you dearly, but you're starting
to piss me off, okay?
I'm a psychiatrist.
I have sweat decades of blood
in therapy on this topic.
You have been running
from this your entire life,
and I get it.
Anyone would be terrified
at the prospect
of confronting this.
But you and I both know if you don't,
it'll run you over.
Maybe it already has.
♪
[DOOR CLICKS]
- There you are.
- Here I am.
Any word on Dr. Charles?
He's holding his own so far.
That's something.
It's a risky procedure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, I met him when I was 16.
When you were in juvie.
Kacy filled me in.
How the hell does Kacy know?
Because Kacy knows all,
yet knows nothing.
[CHUCKLES]
Yeah, well, uh
Sully and I were about
to cross over from
petty crime to the real deal.
We stole a car.
He got away.
I didn't, and I ended up in juvie,
sitting across from Dr. Charles,
not caring what happened next.
♪
Where did you just go?
What are you doing?
I'm trying to help.
Sex isn't a cure-all, Caitlin.
I've found that it is.
Really?
Because it kind of feels
like a distraction
from a real conversation.
I don't do death, Mitch.
What does that even mean?
It means I'm trying
to meet you halfway here.
Well, it's not enough.
[DOOR THUDS]
[SIGHS]
I really think you should reconsider
Dr. Lovell as my replacement.
[SIGHS] She's your substitute.
She is not a good fit.
Is there any particular reason?
She's borderline unprofessional.
She she relies too much
on social media.
She called a patient "bruh"
and another patient "chat."
She talks non-stop, and honestly,
her manner is driving me insane.
Well, as you know, Dr. Asher,
not everyone is a fan of my manner,
but I don't think
this is about Dr. Lovell.
- I think it's about you.
- What? What do you mean?
You have avoided any discussion
of your maternity leave for months.
You clearly have
personal issues at play here.
But know this.
You will go on leave next month,
and Dr. Lovell will be
covering your position
until you return. Thank you.
[DOOR SLAMS]
[TOILET FLUSHING]
[SIGHS]
I'm I'm sorry you heard all that.
It's all good, chat.
Look, Dr. Lenox was right.
This this wasn't about you.
Oh, I know it wasn't.
I do think that you try
too hard to sound
young and hip with your patients.
What do you want me to do?
I am young and hip.
You shared a personal
medical fact with Summer.
That's universally pretty frowned upon.
But it put her at ease, didn't it?
As opposed to your clinical approach,
which sent her anxiety through the roof.
I do not need a lecture, Vera.
I have been doing this a long time.
Yes, and though this may shock you,
I respect the hell out of you.
I hope to be as accomplished
as you someday.
But, girl, you gotta pivot sometimes.
[PENSIVE MUSIC]
My life is going to irreversibly change
in a few weeks.
I know that.
My body's not my own.
My hormones are not.
I cried yesterday because
I couldn't open a string cheese.
I just don't think that
it's fair that my career,
the one thing that
shouldn't have to change,
is also being ripped out of my hands.
Preach.
You know, I have a feeling
that you're gonna
figure it all out
while on leave.
♪
Hanging in there, Dr. Ripley?
Oh, you know,
my mind's doing what minds do
when you're worried
you won't see someone again.
I believe it's called guilt.
[CHUCKLES] Yeah.
Whatever it is, Dr. Charles has only
ever held you in the highest regard.
I know. I know.
It's just
sometimes I worry he
he thinks that I'm still holding on
- to some ancient history.
- Ah.
But I'm not.
He's had a profoundly
positive effect on my life.
And you know something?
I think that would mean a lot to him.
Hmm?
Okay, that was Robin.
Her connecting flight
from LAX got canceled,
so we got her another one from Burbank,
but she only has two hours
to cab it over.
- Oh, okay.
- So.
Is there any news on Dad?
Well, he's the same, holding his own.
- Good.
- Dr. Lenox.
May I join?
Please do.
What?
- I really appreciate it.
- Don't ruin it.
I'm having a hard time seeing
the proximal anastomosis.
Can we have saline flush, please?
[MONITORS BEEPING]
Well, that's worrisome.
We're running a bit hypotensive.
What the hell are you guys
doing up there?
Our job, Marty.
So do yours and just fix it, okay?
He's not responding
to fluids or pressors.
Well, load him up, damn it.
Something's going on.
I can't see.
Our own party.
We can invite anybody we want!
Yeah.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[SOFT TENSE MUSIC]
Mom.
If there were not planks
scattered around,
she'd be able to run
and play like the rest of us.
Aren't we having fun?
[CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]
Can we have saline flush?
Do you remember the last conversation
we had the day I died?
The one where you accused me
of driving your father
and brother to early graves?
Sure do.
And I bet you do,
because I died an hour later.
Do you know what
I've been curious about?
What's that?
Do you ever miss me?
Actually, yeah.
Sometimes I do.
You're a liar. You were relieved.
How can you say that?
I felt terrible about
the things that I said to you.
If you must know, I mean, I've actually
been kind of haunted by it.
You've always been too hard on yourself.
You do know that, don't you?
What do you mean? How so?
Well, you always seemed to think that
it was your job to make
everything and everybody okay.
Is that really such a terrible thing?
Pretty tall order, don't you think?
I don't know, Danny.
I've just always regretted
that you were here that day,
that you had to go through that alone.
Because I truly believe
that that's where all this comes from.
♪
[GAS HISSING]
[EXHALES]
Danny.
You do know I always
loved you, don't you?
♪
[ENGINE RUMBLING]
Dad!
[GARAGE DOOR WHIRRING]
Dad!
Dad!
[MONITORS BEEPING]
- He's flatlined!
- Damn it.
Push 1 milligram of epi.
Starting chest compressions.
Come on. Come on!
He's in V-fib.
Give me the paddles, please.
Charge to 200.
Clear.
I got you, Dad!
[GLASS SHATTERS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Dad! Dad, I'm right here!
Dad! Dad!
Wake up! Wake up.
Dad, can you hear me? Dad!
Wake up, Dad!
[COUGHING]
[PANTING] Danny?
All right. Charge again.
Clear.
I didn't know you got home from school.
All I can tell you is that I'm really,
really glad that I did.
Me too.
Thank you, buddy.
That was close.
Dad, look, I know
how Mom makes you feel, okay?
It wasn't your mother's fault, pal.
I know you and Tommy always
blamed her for my dark moods,
but the truth is, I struggled with them
long before I met her.
She never tried to understand.
How could she?
I don't understand.
You, Dad, are depressed.
- I'm what?
- Blue, melancholy.
They had all kinds of
silly names for it back then.
And psychiatry wasn't equipped
to deal with it yet,
but now we are.
What do you mean, now?
Your math ain't mathin', pal.
I'm so sorry, Danny.
What are you talking about? Dad, listen.
And this is important, okay?
You have nothing to apologize for,
because it's not your fault.
All we gotta do is get you
the right kind of help,
and there's a lot of help out there.
[GARAGE DOOR WHIRRING]
Why is the garage door closing again?
Danny, it's for the best.
It's genetic, right?
Let's just let sleeping dogs lie.
[ENGINE RUMBLING]
What, Dad?
What's happening?
Danny, you can't stop this.
And it's really important
for you to know three things.
You never could have,
it's not your fault,
and I love you, always will.
No. No, Dad. No. No.
Come with me, Danny. Trust me.
It's peaceful where we're going.
And we can be together.
[BREATHING IN DEEPLY]
No, Dad.
We are not going anywhere.
[GRUNTING]
Dad, we're not.
[COUGHING]
[PANTING]
[CRYING]
You can't do this again, Dad.
You can't. I'm gonna miss you too much.
I'm gonna miss you too much.
[SIGHS]
♪
[MUFFLED CLATTERING]
[ALARMS BEEPING]
We're losing him.
- Charge again.
- Clear.
- Still no pulse.
- Again. Clear.
[THUMPING]
[MONITORS BEEPING STEADILY]
All right. I got a good carotid pulse.
Nice job, Dr. Archer.
Do you mind if we get back to
our little brain surgery now?
Feel free.
Let's hope the code didn't cause
any permanent neurological deficits.
Well, I'd cross my fingers,
but they're covered
in cerebrospinal fluid.
But I share that hope.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[PHONE CLATTERING]
Oh, no, no. Daniel. No, no.
Don't don't move your head, okay?
I got it.
[SIGHS]
Want some water?
[GULPING]
Yeah.
[SIGHS]
Anna?
Anna.
I sent her home.
She'd been awake for almost 48 hours.
But but she's fine.
Anna, Ripley, thank you.
I'm sorry, Daniel,
I don't know what you mean.
Extinguisher, extinguisher.
Thank you, extinguisher.
Oh, please, no. Please.
I'm at Gaffney Chicago Medical Center.
♪
Best damn hospital in the Midwest,
and I wake up,
and all I get is a sippy cup?
And you?
[CHUCKLING]
Where's my damn Jell-O?
Where's all my balloons?
I tell you what, I'm calling Howie
first thing in the morning.
I'm done with this dump.
Well, this dump ain't done with you.
Oh, yeah?
Then get me some balloons.
Get me some Jell-O.
I'm on it.
[SNORING SOFTLY]
♪
[SIGHS]
You know, I started to volunteer
at the suicide hotline.
- I want to die.
- Gio.
You did everything you can.
You can't save everybody.
When we met at that juvenile facility,
you thought that I gave up on you.
I'd do almost anything
to turn back the clock.
I'm trying to protect you.
This from the man who spent
years preaching non-judgment
I almost lost you, okay?
You cut me some slack!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Sage has filed a complaint against you.
Sharon, nothing happened.
I have to go through
the motions of processing this.
- This is unbelievable.
- Okay.
What are you not telling me?
What's that supposed to mean,
not tell
you don't believe me. No, no.
You don't believe me.
- Daniel, wait a minute.
[HYPERVENTILATING]
Stay with me.
Just focus on me.
That's it.
We're gonna help you.
Your daughter's on her way.
How long was he down?
An hour, maybe two.
Trauma 3 is open.
250 CCs of 3% saline
to reduce intracranial pressure,
1 gram of Keppra
for seizure prophylaxis.
I'm on it.
Dr. Lenox, he's losing consciousness.
Oh, whoa, whoa! Hey, stay with me.
I need you so stay with me.
- Let's start a trauma workup.
- Yeah.
What do we got?
42-year-old male fell headfirst
off his roof taking down
Christmas lights.
Smacked his head on the concrete.
I'm thinking he's got a bleed.
Yeah, so am I. His pupils are blown.
No gag reflex, no cough.
No brain stem reflexes.
He's brain dead.
Yeah, let's do a CT to confirm.
And keep him on the vent
until his daughter gets here.
- God.
I mean, it's already April.
He should have kept the
lights up till next year.
Sharon, have you seen Daniel?
He's not answering his phone.
I got a 20-year-old who just
confessed to shooting JFK.
On the bright side, he knows
his American history, at least.
I think Daniel's probably
somewhere cooling off.
I'd give him his space.
- Really? What happened?
- We had a pretty bad argument.
Oh. What about?
He accused me of not having his back.
Well, that doesn't sound like Daniel.
Exactly.
That's why I'm worried.
[EERIE MUSIC]
♪
[MUMBLES INDISTINCTLY]
Mom.
What's going on?
What are we doing here?
Oh, come on.
If you're asking the question,
you already know the answer.
Mom, I'm not dead, like you.
Mm, maybe not yet.
And I'm not dying either.
For God's sake, I'm having a dream.
And I just
I just don't know why we're
we're here.
Listen, I know you think
this is all about
that poor kid you killed.
What was his name?
Gio, who finally got up
the courage to reach out
for help and then had the terrible luck
to have you answer the phone.
When did you become so cruel?
Did somebody do something
to you so terrible
that it made you feel so small
that for the rest of your life,
the only way you could
feel good about yourself
is if you were making
somebody else feel miserable,
especially your kids?
Oh, Danny, you poor thing.
There you are, huffing and puffing,
and you still don't get it, do you?
- Get what?
- Why we're here!
The answer, my darling, is,
this is where it all started, isn't it?
This is where it happened,
right over there.
♪
Daniel.
Daniel? Daniel, can you hear me?
Sharon?
Daniel.
Daniel.
Daniel, are you okay?
♪
Dean, I just found Daniel unconscious
on the floor in his office.
I think he may be having a stroke.
Can you please come up here?
Daniel.
Daniel, can you hear me?
It's Sharon, Daniel.
How is he?
There's no movement on his right side,
in and out of consciousness.
Heart rate 110. BP 160/90.
I've already activated code stroke.
How long has he been down?
Sharon spoke to him
about three hours ago.
You're thinking TPA?
His timeline does fall within
the 4 1/2-hour treatment window.
If we're lucky, the TPA could break down
the clot before it does permanent damage
to Daniel's brain.
Same page, Dr. Ripley.
All right, let's confirm with the CTs,
and we'll take it from there.
Anna.
Hey.
Is Dad alive?
Yes, but we think he's having a stroke.
Is he gonna die?
I won't lie to you, Anna.
It's very serious.
But Dr. Archer took him for imaging
so we can know exactly the extent
of what we're dealing with.
We had a big fight today.
What if that was our last conversation?
Shh, mm-mm.
We're gonna take this
one step at a time, okay?
Can I see him?
Soon, I promise.
Come.
And we are at the clot.
All right, you're up, Dr. Ripley.
Applying negative pressure.
No, his clot's too firm. Damn it.
Aspiration technique isn't working.
What if we pivot?
Advance the microcatheter past the clot
and deploy a stent retriever across it.
It's a smart idea,
almost as if I'd thought of it.
[MONITORS BEEPING]
[EERIE MUSIC]
♪
I said I never wanted to see you again.
I know you did. I know you did.
But I don't I have no idea
what's going on here.
But this was not my idea.
I promise you that.
Okay, well, say what you're gonna say.
Get out with it.
Make it quick and get the hell out.
After all, it's what
you're best at, isn't it?
Look, I feel terrible about that.
I do.
I think about it all the time.
But, look, I have some really good news.
In about 20 years, we meet again,
and we we work together.
Yeah. Get this.
You become a doctor, Mitch.
- What?
- Yeah.
Had nothing to do with me.
And don't worry.
You really ripped me a new one.
But, you know, we
we hash it out.
- Wait, wait.
Wait, wait, wait.
Do I actually forgive you?
Yeah. Oh, we become friends.
I don't believe you.
Believe it, man.
Yeah, it happened.
You look at your stuff.
You deal with it. You get it together.
It's actually one of the
proudest moments of my life.
It still is.
My stuff.
Do you even hear yourself?
You're so full of it.
What did I say?
What, you say that it's no thanks to you
out of one side of your mouth,
and then you go
and tell me that you're proud
of me out of the other?
You always find some way to take credit,
like I'm your kid or something.
You did it just today.
How do you know that?
Wait, do you actually think that I'm me?
I'm you, pal.
This is just
a conversation with yourself.
It's all just a nostalgia tour,
and you're playing the hits
in this case,
forcing me to confront
my abandonment issues
only to abandon me here yourself.
Okay, look, I didn't abandon you.
My rotation ended.
I couldn't handle it differently.
There it is. Denial.
What, you you need another hug?
[CHUCKLES] You are such a fraud.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[GAS HISSING]
[COUGHING]
We performed a mechanical thrombectomy.
It's where a microcatheter is threaded
into his middle cerebral artery
to manually remove the clot.
Did it work?
It was an especially large clot.
We got some of it, but not enough
to reestablish adequate blood flow
to the ischemic area of his brain.
So what are our options, Dr. Abrams?
Well, we have two.
We could raise his blood pressure
and just wait and see.
Best case scenario is
he wakes up completely fine.
Worst case, he has permanent,
irreversible deficits
that mean a feeding tube
and possibly a ventilator
for the rest of his life.
So then what's the other option?
A direct bypass craniotomy.
I make an incision in his head
and connect the cortical
intracranial artery
directly to his
superficial temporal artery,
completely bypassing the blockage.
So we're talking about brain surgery?
Yes. Not as scary as it sounds.
It would definitively
restore blood flow.
I sense a "but" coming.
The TPA Dr. Archer and I
administered to break down
the clot also puts your father
at a much higher risk
of hemorrhagic complications
during surgery.
- This all sounds like a lot.
- Yeah.
I'm still here because
Dr. Archer took a risk
while I was on that table,
but unfortunately,
there are no guarantees.
Well, I'll call Robin
and see what she thinks.
Uh, this is awkward.
I'm afraid it isn't up to you.
That decision lies with Daniel's
medical power of attorney.
Isn't that me and Robin?
That privilege belongs to Ms. Goodwin.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Me?
Doris, have you seen Dean?
He's got his phone turned off.
- You don't know.
- Know what? [CHUCKLES]
Dr. Charles had a stroke.
Dr. Archer, Abrams, and Ripley
are taking care of him now.
Wha uh well, how bad is it?
It's pretty bad.
Dr. Asher, you ready?
Ready for what?
To onboard your substitute
before you go on maternity leave.
Wait, um [CHUCKLES]
- You you hired someone?
- I did.
But I was planning to work
close to my due date,
which is still weeks away.
So what's the rush?
You, of all people, should know
babies don't always abide by due dates.
Dr. Lovell's references were glowing.
- I'm sorry, Dr. Lovell?
- Yeah.
She's waiting for you.
The cat with Eugene Levy eyebrows?
You two already know each other?
Yeah, I guess you could say that.
Oh.
You know, I'm just as surprised
as you are that your father gave me
medical power of attorney.
I know. It's totally fine.
I would have said no if he'd asked me.
Why?
Because that should be
a family decision.
Yeah, but you are family.
I mean, you've always been
Auntie Sharon to me and Robin.
And then you and Dad have been friends
since before I was even born.
I mean, Dad loves people,
but there's only a few
that he really, truly trusts.
But I know that he trusts you.
That's nice of you to say,
but I'm not so sure he would
What? What's wrong?
You know, let's just focus on deciding
what's best for your father together.
Dad's mind is everything to him.
If he doesn't have that, he's not Dad.
I think we do the surgery.
Me too.
So call your sister.
See if she agrees before
we let Dr. Abrams know.
Is there something
you're not telling me?
[SIGHS] Well.
I guess the apple
didn't fall far from the tree.
I also had an argument with your father.
It was bad.
Dad went full Grandma on you, didn't he?
- [EXHALES]
- Yeah.
He has a little of her in him.
She pops out when he gets really angry.
Well, it left me unsettled.
So I went to his office
so we could talk it out,
and that's when I found him.
You know, he's gonna apologize,
like, 20 times when he wakes up.
[CHUCKLES] I know.
But either way, when he does,
we're gonna have a very
serious discussion
about his anger issues.
You're damn right we will.
[SNIFFLES]
[SIGHS]
[SIGHS] Bruh, that was sick!
If you mean a pregnant woman
with a gangrenous
diabetic foot, then yes, that was sick.
Yeah, I mean, she had max aura.
Not gonna lie.
Kacy, can you call Podiatry,
get them down here
- to do a consult on Treatment 4?
- Yeah, sure can.
Also, Dr. Archer wanted you to know
he's joining Dr. Abrams in surgery.
- For Dr. Charles?
- Yeah.
I remember Dr. Archer.
How is baby zaddy?
- You two low-key nesting?
- They don't live together.
Oh, it's giving situationship.
Okay, not not together.
There's no ship at all.
- So messy, I love it.
- Okay, uh, Kacy.
Oh, we got a woman in 6
complaining about painful sex.
Not the good kind. Sorry.
Okay, Summer, so you are
having abdominal discomfort
and painful intercourse?
I've narrowed it down to really bad gas
or ovarian cancer.
Based on what?
A TikTok rabbit hole.
I feel like I just went
to medical school.
I would stay off the internet
when it comes to health.
- It is full of disinformation.
- Right.
All right,
I would like to start an exam.
Is that okay with you?
Okay, just lean back a little bit.
[CLEARS THROAT]
Okay.
[SIGHS]
My algorithm's all medicine too.
Really? Do you follow Dr. Oscar?
You know, he's the neurosurgeon
whose background is
Always inexplicably a rainforest.
- Yes! Yeah.
- Oh.
- He has the coolest stories.
- Yeah, he does.
I saw in your chart
that you had a pap smear
about two weeks ago.
Yeah, I had my annual
with my regular OB/GYN
when she inserted my IUD.
Okay, well, we'll follow up on that.
In the meantime,
I will start your pelvic exam.
Okay, just scooch down a little bit.
Actually, can she do it?
Of course. Yeah.
Thank you.
[SIGHS] Awesome sauce.
- How are we doing, Marty?
- All systems go.
Patient is under deep propofol sedation.
BP 120/69.
Heart rate 71.
What are we waiting for?
- [SIGHS]
- All right.
Making an incision along
the lateral branch of the SGA.
[MONITORS BEEPING]
Huh.
Oh.
Hi, honey.
You're in big trouble, Daddy.
I am? What'd I do?
Oh, look who arrived just in time
to be absolutely no help at all.
Told you!
You promised to be home
in time to get Robin up
and off to school, but instead,
surprise, surprise,
you decided to hang around
at work and, surprise, surprise,
didn't bother to call.
You never, ever did.
- Not even once.
- I got this.
I'm taking you to school, honey.
I will take her to school,
and you will go back to sleep.
- And I'm sorry.
- Sleep? Is that a joke?
Come on, baby.
I'm an hour late for work.
There you are.
- Sue.
- Anna's in the car.
I don't want her to hear what
I'm about to say, so I'll
I'll cut right to the point.
Oh, crap, I remember this.
Yeah, well, I'm not surprised.
This was the time I meant it.
Because nothing can compete
with your fancy job
where you get to be oh, so important
and everyone adores you.
After all, all we are is your family.
Look, nothing was ever
more important to me
than you and Anna, and you know that.
I have to cut my hours.
I have for the thousandth time
Yeah, but it never made a difference.
What happens with
the next clinical emergency?
The next nervous breakdown?
The next suicide attempt?
You will never let anyone else handle it
because that is not who you are.
Stop fighting!
[SOMBER MUSIC]
Oh, honey, honey.
It's okay, honey. Don't be sad.
Don't be sad.
Anna banana, you are gonna see Daddy
all the time, all the time.
And we're gonna have
so much fun, aren't we?
- Mm-hmm.
- [SPEAKING SPANISH]
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Lucia.
[SPEAKING SPANISH]
Spanish was never my strong suit.
Honey, come on, you know that.
You have learned nothing.
You said it would be different with us.
You said it a thousand times.
I really, really wanted it to be.
You don't need me, Danny.
- That's not true.
- It is.
It's not true.
It is.
You don't need anyone.
♪
So I just wanted
to make sure we're cool.
Why wouldn't we be?
You were totally pissed
at me earlier about Summer.
We shouldn't be encouraging our patients
to seek medical advice on social media.
Influencers are destigmatizing
the sharing of health diagnoses,
and they're teaching patients
to advocate for themselves.
Why seek treatment from an actual doctor
when you could just
misdiagnose yourself from home?
That is an oversimplification.
- Really?
- Yes.
I mean, cancer screenings
tripled last year
after Kate Middleton posted a
video about her own diagnosis.
I think you sent Summer mixed messages.
I was trying to connect
after you dismissed her
with your buzzkill energy.
Buzzkill energy? Really?
- Dr. Asher.
- Yep.
The lab called.
Summer's test results were just posted.
Thank you.
Well, I guess we better tell her.
Mind if I take the lead?
You're the boss, until I take over.
So your labs revealed elevated
white blood cell count,
CRP, and procalcitonin.
You have PID.
Sorry, I don't know
what that stands for.
It's Pelvic Inflammatory Disease.
It's an infection
of your reproductive organs.
I guess they didn't
cover that on TikTok.
But, wait, isn't that what Dr. Lovell
suspected when she examined me?
- That's correct.
- Is it serious?
It can be, if untreated.
But we caught this in plenty of time.
Broad spectrum antibiotics
should clear this right up.
I'm just really glad that you came in.
Of course I did.
I'm not gonna self-diagnose
based on what I read online.
It's just a research tool.
I hear you. No judgment.
You sure?
How did I catch this?
The most common causes are bacteria
- from chlamydia or gonorrhea.
- What?
You tested negative for both of those.
Your PID may have come
from your IUD insertion.
In some cases, bodies can become
more vulnerable to infection.
Oh, that's a relief.
I thought you were
telling me I had an STD.
[CHUCKLES]
What's wrong?
Well, completely unrelated to the PID,
your pap smear did reveal
that you are positive
for human papillomavirus.
HPV? So I do have an STD?
Like, get me off this roller coaster.
Am I right?
It is a completely asymptomatic STI,
which your body will likely
clear in a year or two.
Oh, my God.
Girl, HPV is nothing
to be ashamed of, okay?
At least 80% of the population
will get it in their lifetime,
and one out of every three
people currently has it.
I'll be real with you, I have it.
Dr. Lovell.
It's okay. I'm going.
Hey, man.
You doing okay?
I know you and Dr. Charles
are pretty tight.
Yeah.
Yeah, uh, just
just feeling a bit useless, you know?
Yeah.
No fun on the bench, huh?
Yeah, not really what I meant.
You know, um
there's been a few times
I've been in a really bad place,
and that man in there
definitely bailed me out.
I know this is just the kind of thing
people say in these situations, but
it always made me think to myself
I don't know.
I mean, why couldn't my dad
have been like that?
[CHUCKLES]
What can I say?
I guess we can't all be that lucky.
Yeah.
[MONITORS BEEPING]
Not a lot of veins around the M4 vessel.
Makes it a perfect landing zone.
How's the donor vessel?
Skeletonized and ready.
All right, let's relax the brain.
I'm not talking about yours, Marty.
Optimizing CO2 and pushing mannitol.
It's anastomosis time.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- [PHONE RINGING]
- Gio?
It's me, Danny.
Suzer?
Good to know you haven't
forgotten my voice.
Never.
Where are you calling from?
Right behind you.
♪
So you think Gio is dead?
Suze, okay.
He had a gun in his hand
when he called me.
Mm-hmm.
So I got him talking,
and all of a sudden,
I realized, wait, this kid is
completely and utterly alone.
And so I asked him if he thought
it might help to talk about her.
It very quickly went sideways.
Daniel, I would have
done the same thing.
Great.
Holly would have done the same thing.
Any shrink worth their salt
would have done the same thing.
Look [SIGHS]
Gio's call clearly set you off,
and you are clearly invested
in beating yourself up
about all the people
you think you've let down.
But are you sure you're not
burying the lede here?
Aren't you leaving somebody out?
Oh, no.
That stuff's been handled.
It's me, remember?
Every time I try to get you
to talk about this,
when we were together in med school,
you were never comfortable going there.
And every time since,
you've changed the subject.
Ever occur to you that
maybe I just didn't want
to talk about it with you?
Oh, that is beneath you.
- Okay, well
- Don't be a jerk.
Look, you know what?
[SCOFFS]
I love you dearly, but you're starting
to piss me off, okay?
I'm a psychiatrist.
I have sweat decades of blood
in therapy on this topic.
You have been running
from this your entire life,
and I get it.
Anyone would be terrified
at the prospect
of confronting this.
But you and I both know if you don't,
it'll run you over.
Maybe it already has.
♪
[DOOR CLICKS]
- There you are.
- Here I am.
Any word on Dr. Charles?
He's holding his own so far.
That's something.
It's a risky procedure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, I met him when I was 16.
When you were in juvie.
Kacy filled me in.
How the hell does Kacy know?
Because Kacy knows all,
yet knows nothing.
[CHUCKLES]
Yeah, well, uh
Sully and I were about
to cross over from
petty crime to the real deal.
We stole a car.
He got away.
I didn't, and I ended up in juvie,
sitting across from Dr. Charles,
not caring what happened next.
♪
Where did you just go?
What are you doing?
I'm trying to help.
Sex isn't a cure-all, Caitlin.
I've found that it is.
Really?
Because it kind of feels
like a distraction
from a real conversation.
I don't do death, Mitch.
What does that even mean?
It means I'm trying
to meet you halfway here.
Well, it's not enough.
[DOOR THUDS]
[SIGHS]
I really think you should reconsider
Dr. Lovell as my replacement.
[SIGHS] She's your substitute.
She is not a good fit.
Is there any particular reason?
She's borderline unprofessional.
She she relies too much
on social media.
She called a patient "bruh"
and another patient "chat."
She talks non-stop, and honestly,
her manner is driving me insane.
Well, as you know, Dr. Asher,
not everyone is a fan of my manner,
but I don't think
this is about Dr. Lovell.
- I think it's about you.
- What? What do you mean?
You have avoided any discussion
of your maternity leave for months.
You clearly have
personal issues at play here.
But know this.
You will go on leave next month,
and Dr. Lovell will be
covering your position
until you return. Thank you.
[DOOR SLAMS]
[TOILET FLUSHING]
[SIGHS]
I'm I'm sorry you heard all that.
It's all good, chat.
Look, Dr. Lenox was right.
This this wasn't about you.
Oh, I know it wasn't.
I do think that you try
too hard to sound
young and hip with your patients.
What do you want me to do?
I am young and hip.
You shared a personal
medical fact with Summer.
That's universally pretty frowned upon.
But it put her at ease, didn't it?
As opposed to your clinical approach,
which sent her anxiety through the roof.
I do not need a lecture, Vera.
I have been doing this a long time.
Yes, and though this may shock you,
I respect the hell out of you.
I hope to be as accomplished
as you someday.
But, girl, you gotta pivot sometimes.
[PENSIVE MUSIC]
My life is going to irreversibly change
in a few weeks.
I know that.
My body's not my own.
My hormones are not.
I cried yesterday because
I couldn't open a string cheese.
I just don't think that
it's fair that my career,
the one thing that
shouldn't have to change,
is also being ripped out of my hands.
Preach.
You know, I have a feeling
that you're gonna
figure it all out
while on leave.
♪
Hanging in there, Dr. Ripley?
Oh, you know,
my mind's doing what minds do
when you're worried
you won't see someone again.
I believe it's called guilt.
[CHUCKLES] Yeah.
Whatever it is, Dr. Charles has only
ever held you in the highest regard.
I know. I know.
It's just
sometimes I worry he
he thinks that I'm still holding on
- to some ancient history.
- Ah.
But I'm not.
He's had a profoundly
positive effect on my life.
And you know something?
I think that would mean a lot to him.
Hmm?
Okay, that was Robin.
Her connecting flight
from LAX got canceled,
so we got her another one from Burbank,
but she only has two hours
to cab it over.
- Oh, okay.
- So.
Is there any news on Dad?
Well, he's the same, holding his own.
- Good.
- Dr. Lenox.
May I join?
Please do.
What?
- I really appreciate it.
- Don't ruin it.
I'm having a hard time seeing
the proximal anastomosis.
Can we have saline flush, please?
[MONITORS BEEPING]
Well, that's worrisome.
We're running a bit hypotensive.
What the hell are you guys
doing up there?
Our job, Marty.
So do yours and just fix it, okay?
He's not responding
to fluids or pressors.
Well, load him up, damn it.
Something's going on.
I can't see.
Our own party.
We can invite anybody we want!
Yeah.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[SOFT TENSE MUSIC]
Mom.
If there were not planks
scattered around,
she'd be able to run
and play like the rest of us.
Aren't we having fun?
[CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]
Can we have saline flush?
Do you remember the last conversation
we had the day I died?
The one where you accused me
of driving your father
and brother to early graves?
Sure do.
And I bet you do,
because I died an hour later.
Do you know what
I've been curious about?
What's that?
Do you ever miss me?
Actually, yeah.
Sometimes I do.
You're a liar. You were relieved.
How can you say that?
I felt terrible about
the things that I said to you.
If you must know, I mean, I've actually
been kind of haunted by it.
You've always been too hard on yourself.
You do know that, don't you?
What do you mean? How so?
Well, you always seemed to think that
it was your job to make
everything and everybody okay.
Is that really such a terrible thing?
Pretty tall order, don't you think?
I don't know, Danny.
I've just always regretted
that you were here that day,
that you had to go through that alone.
Because I truly believe
that that's where all this comes from.
♪
[GAS HISSING]
[EXHALES]
Danny.
You do know I always
loved you, don't you?
♪
[ENGINE RUMBLING]
Dad!
[GARAGE DOOR WHIRRING]
Dad!
Dad!
[MONITORS BEEPING]
- He's flatlined!
- Damn it.
Push 1 milligram of epi.
Starting chest compressions.
Come on. Come on!
He's in V-fib.
Give me the paddles, please.
Charge to 200.
Clear.
I got you, Dad!
[GLASS SHATTERS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Dad! Dad, I'm right here!
Dad! Dad!
Wake up! Wake up.
Dad, can you hear me? Dad!
Wake up, Dad!
[COUGHING]
[PANTING] Danny?
All right. Charge again.
Clear.
I didn't know you got home from school.
All I can tell you is that I'm really,
really glad that I did.
Me too.
Thank you, buddy.
That was close.
Dad, look, I know
how Mom makes you feel, okay?
It wasn't your mother's fault, pal.
I know you and Tommy always
blamed her for my dark moods,
but the truth is, I struggled with them
long before I met her.
She never tried to understand.
How could she?
I don't understand.
You, Dad, are depressed.
- I'm what?
- Blue, melancholy.
They had all kinds of
silly names for it back then.
And psychiatry wasn't equipped
to deal with it yet,
but now we are.
What do you mean, now?
Your math ain't mathin', pal.
I'm so sorry, Danny.
What are you talking about? Dad, listen.
And this is important, okay?
You have nothing to apologize for,
because it's not your fault.
All we gotta do is get you
the right kind of help,
and there's a lot of help out there.
[GARAGE DOOR WHIRRING]
Why is the garage door closing again?
Danny, it's for the best.
It's genetic, right?
Let's just let sleeping dogs lie.
[ENGINE RUMBLING]
What, Dad?
What's happening?
Danny, you can't stop this.
And it's really important
for you to know three things.
You never could have,
it's not your fault,
and I love you, always will.
No. No, Dad. No. No.
Come with me, Danny. Trust me.
It's peaceful where we're going.
And we can be together.
[BREATHING IN DEEPLY]
No, Dad.
We are not going anywhere.
[GRUNTING]
Dad, we're not.
[COUGHING]
[PANTING]
[CRYING]
You can't do this again, Dad.
You can't. I'm gonna miss you too much.
I'm gonna miss you too much.
[SIGHS]
♪
[MUFFLED CLATTERING]
[ALARMS BEEPING]
We're losing him.
- Charge again.
- Clear.
- Still no pulse.
- Again. Clear.
[THUMPING]
[MONITORS BEEPING STEADILY]
All right. I got a good carotid pulse.
Nice job, Dr. Archer.
Do you mind if we get back to
our little brain surgery now?
Feel free.
Let's hope the code didn't cause
any permanent neurological deficits.
Well, I'd cross my fingers,
but they're covered
in cerebrospinal fluid.
But I share that hope.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[PHONE CLATTERING]
Oh, no, no. Daniel. No, no.
Don't don't move your head, okay?
I got it.
[SIGHS]
Want some water?
[GULPING]
Yeah.
[SIGHS]
Anna?
Anna.
I sent her home.
She'd been awake for almost 48 hours.
But but she's fine.
Anna, Ripley, thank you.
I'm sorry, Daniel,
I don't know what you mean.
Extinguisher, extinguisher.
Thank you, extinguisher.
Oh, please, no. Please.
I'm at Gaffney Chicago Medical Center.
♪
Best damn hospital in the Midwest,
and I wake up,
and all I get is a sippy cup?
And you?
[CHUCKLING]
Where's my damn Jell-O?
Where's all my balloons?
I tell you what, I'm calling Howie
first thing in the morning.
I'm done with this dump.
Well, this dump ain't done with you.
Oh, yeah?
Then get me some balloons.
Get me some Jell-O.
I'm on it.
[SNORING SOFTLY]
♪
[SIGHS]