Chicago Med (2015) s03e10 Episode Script
Down By Law
1 Hey.
Remember what I told you.
Next time you are on the top of the Make sure my boy ex isn't at the bottom.
- Mm-hmm.
- Heard that.
All right, Simone here is gonna take great care of you.
- [MUMBLES.]
- Sweet kid.
Yeah.
Hey, thanks for offering to help today.
It's no problem.
Though, I confess I may have had an ulterior motive.
Oh? Maggie's birthday, it's in a couple weeks, and I'm stumped as far as gifts.
Mmm.
So what are you considering? Currently? Uh, thinking a gold bracelet from Yurman.
Jewelry, huh? That's a big statement.
That's the thing.
I'm not sure if we should pick up where we left off, or play it like we're starting from scratch.
- Hm.
- [GUNSHOT.]
[GUNSHOTS, PEOPLE SCREAMING.]
There's someone hit on the corner.
- Should we call it in? - I'll administer aid.
[PANTING.]
[CAR BEEPING.]
My chest! Bitch shot me in my chest! Hang on, we got you.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
Gunshot wound, right anterior lateral chest.
All right, we're gonna roll him, okay? - Okay.
- [GRUNTS.]
Bullet went through and through.
All right.
Decreased breath sounds on the right.
His lung's collapsed.
Give me a needle, Barry.
Got it.
Pulse is good.
Breath sounds improving.
Let's get him to Med.
I'll go get the ambo.
[ENGINE REVS, TIRES SCREECH.]
They're coming back.
Get down! - [GUNSHOT.]
- [GRUNTS.]
Ow! [GUNSHOTS.]
[GLASS SHATTERS.]
- [GASPS.]
- Ah! [GROANS.]
- [GASPS.]
- [PANTING.]
[PANTING.]
[DOOR BEEPS.]
Are you guys all right? Dispatch said you were in a shootout.
What the hell happened out there? You're going to Baghdad.
Tried to help this guy, banger circled back, tried to finish the job.
- Barry saved my life.
- What? Uh, 19-year-old male was shot in the right chest.
Needle decompressed in the field, still hypotensive.
Someone take a look at Barry's leg.
- He was hit.
- Thanks, Barry.
- Barry? - Sorry, it's not serious.
Uh, Noah, Dr.
Sexton, meet us in Treatment Four.
On it.
Kay, let's transfer on my count.
Ready, one, two, three [GRUNTS.]
Start on the groin line.
- Are you sure you're okay? - Yeah, I'm fine.
Open a 36 French chest tube.
Hey, you still with me? Damn it.
Hold the tube.
[SOLEMN MUSIC.]
All right, just a tangential wound.
Nothing to do but dress it and let it heal on its own.
Told you it wasn't anything to worry about.
Okay, tough guy.
And why didn't you ever tell me you carry a gun? - Maggie? - Oh, hey, Alvin.
Mr.
Vaughn, I'm Detective Olinsky with the Chicago Police Department.
Alvin, can this wait? He's being treated.
It's okay.
Listen, we're gonna need your weapon.
[GRUNTING.]
Course, yes, sir.
It's locked in the glove compartment of my rig.
Uh, it's now evidence.
Uh, you got a concealed carry permit? Yeah.
There you go.
You always got a gun at work? Uh, I've been carrying for a couple years.
Necessary precaution.
And it's a good thing he does.
He saved three lives today.
For real.
Barry, you the man.
[BLOOD SPUTTERS.]
Big hemothorax.
Lots of blood.
Are you okay, Natalie? Yeah.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
Tube's in.
Securing it now.
What's his pressure? 107 over 68; heart rate of 121.
Three units of blood, one unit of plasma in.
Okay.
Color's coming back.
He looks better.
- Hey, Nat - Yeah? - We'll take over.
- Okay.
Just glad you're okay.
[MUMBLING.]
Yeah.
Yeah.
Are you hurt anywhere? Let me see.
No.
No, I'm fine.
I just, um I hit my head when Barry pushed me out of the way.
If he hadn't that bullet barely missed me.
Yeah, well, thank God for Barry.
But but you, what what are you thinking, putting yourself in the line of fire like that? Uh, I was thinking that there was a patient in need.
[DOOR OPENS.]
Dr.
Manning, you feeling well enough to answer a few questions? Yeah, of course.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
[ELEVATOR DINGING.]
- Right this way.
- Uh, is this really necessary? Like I said, it's probably indigestion.
First thing they teach you in med school: Always take chest pain seriously.
That's what I get for hooking up with a heart surgeon.
[CHUCKLES.]
Here, why don't you pop into this room right here, and I'll be in as soon as I can.
Who'd you just plant in my room? She's a friend.
Uh, she woke up this morning with tightness in her chest.
I'd like to get an EKG and troponins.
- What's your friend's name? - Margo - Uh - Does she have a last name? Can you help me out here, Bea? Thank you.
It must be hard remembering all their names.
Now, I read that Derek Jeter used to send his conquests home with a gift basket, but a full cardio workup is is much classier.
Jeter, huh? You you're You're a baseball fan? No.
It's too boring.
But I love gossip.
So you're in from Missouri? St.
Louis.
Here on business.
Well, we will get you in and out of here as quickly as possible.
THAT'S WHAT DR.
RHODES IS RENOWNED FOR AROUND HERE: quick in-and-outs.
I'm Dr.
Bekker, by the way.
Your insurance card has you listed as a dependent of Theodore J.
Dimilio? That would be my husband.
Would you like us to contact him? No, thank you.
Not just yet.
I'll make some copies and be right back.
So you're married? Didn't wanna tell me? If I had, would you have come back to my hotel room? No.
Maybe.
I don't know.
That's why I didn't tell you.
[DISTANT SIREN WAILING.]
Hey, there you are.
I thought you were gonna come find me as soon as you were done with the police.
I just needed some fresh air.
Well, I notified the ped's on-call.
He's on his way in, so you can go home.
What? Why? Thought you should take the rest of the day off.
Will, I'm fine.
Just please don't do that.
Don't make unilateral decisions on my behalf, okay? Excuse me! Excuse me, I need some help over here.
[GROANING, SOBBING.]
Ow! She's been screaming blue murder since Michigan City.
I I pulled over a couple of times, so she could throw up.
And she says it hurts too much to walk.
[SOBBING.]
Ow! So you think I had a heart attack? I'm afraid so, yeah.
Yeah, a mild one.
Yeah, it's hard to tell exactly what's going on from the EKG, so I wanna get you over to the cath lab, so we can take a closer look at your vessels.
[CHUCKLES.]
I'm not gonna catch my flight home, am I? No.
Dr.
Rhodes I received a call from IR.
Said you required a priority reschedule for your patient, Margo Dimilio? Yes.
Uh, her EKG showed some PVC runs and possible ST changes.
Ah.
I'm not sure you heard, but her lab work came back.
They found traces of cocaine in her urine.
- What? - 520 nanograms per milliliter.
I don't believe that's what caused the distress.
Why not? All right, you want all the details? Sure.
Uh, we met at a fundraiser at the Field Museum.
Uh, we were at the roulette table.
We both liked the number 19.
She ends up inviting me back to her hotel room, where we exerted ourselves a couple of times.
I only offer that up, because I believe it was the exertion that exacerbated the pain that she was already experiencing, which is why I brought her in, and why I believe we need to take a closer look at her vessels.
Did you partake in the cocaine? No and I didn't know that she was either.
I can take a drug test if you'd like.
That won't be necessary.
Carry on.
Thank you.
Let me know if anything makes you feel uncomfortable, okay? - Yes, ma'am.
- All right, Mr.
Cray Uh, Reverend Cray, actually.
Okay.
Reverend, how old is Lindsay? 14.
Now, how long is this gonna take? And I'm only asking that, because we gotta get down to Cedar Rapids.
I'm preaching at a revival meeting tomorrow.
Okay, we'll just figure out what's going on here first, and take it from there.
Have you ever felt pain like this before? Her last pregnancy, she'd get sick like this, but n not with all this blood, you know.
Last pregnancy? Lindsay, what happened with your last pregnancy? - Did you carry to term? - No, ma'am.
She had what they called a spontaneous miscarriage.
- That was four months ago.
- [GASPING.]
Well, it doesn't look like she's pregnant now.
However, I am seeing some irregularities in the lining of her uterus, perhaps something that didn't move through when she had her miscarriage.
All right, I'm gonna do a pelvic exam now.
Are you all right with that? You can come outside.
There's a waiting area.
We'll give your daughter a little more privacy.
My daughter? Lindsay's my wife.
This marriage is legal? That guy and a 14-year-old girl? Her father gave his consent and a judge signed off on it, - so yeah.
- What about her mother? Well, she died when Lindsay was only three.
- That man should be arrested.
- Right, but on what charges? Rape, coercion, whatever.
This girl is a kid.
She obviously had no choice in the matter.
He barely lets her speak.
Can we call on the police? Family services? No, unfortunately we're required to respect Michigan state law.
How's the girl doing? She's undergoing a D&C to get rid of any products from her prior miscarriage.
Yeah, which the reverend only okayed, because he wants Lindsay to be able to conceive as soon as possible.
I realize this is distasteful for all of us, but I implore both of you to do your best not to let your personal feelings interfere with the care of this patient or the law.
What am I supposed to do? I'm not sure I can be in the same room as that guy.
Then go home.
I'll deal with this.
You keep trying to push me out the door.
Yes, I'm concerned about you.
I don't know why you're being so stubborn.
I'm gonna go see how the D&C is going.
[ELEVATOR DINGING.]
Dr.
Reese! How did your rounds at Cohn County Jail go? Great.
Actually, the patient, Michael, who tried to kill his brother in a bout of manic psychosis, we had a breakthrough this morning.
He's no longer on suicide watch.
Wow.
Sounds like you're really making some progress, not just with your patients, but, um with your own therapy as well.
I need to see a psychiatrist now! Don't listen to my husband.
Ben, you're being ridiculous.
Sir, you need to wait for triage.
Uh, it's okay, Leah.
Hi, I'm Dr.
Charles.
How can I help you? Listen, I need to check myself into the psych ward.
No, no, no, he doesn't.
He's not crazy.
Ben, please.
People are listening.
Do you think I care? I need to be committed for as long as it takes to stop these thoughts.
Okay, I understand.
Um, how 'bout if we step into this room over here, - so we can discuss your situa - No! No more talking! I don't need to talk.
I need to be locked up.
- Ben - You send me back out of here, then I'm going to murder my wife.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
Wait, so, you're telling me I need surgery? Unfortunately, yes.
Uh, now, normally, we would have placed a stent, but there's too much curvature in the vessel.
So, look, I recommend doing the bypass as soon as possible.
I can perform the operation myself.
Uh, no, I I I need to get home.
- Margo - This is all too much.
I I'm sure that there's someone you can refer me to in Saint Louis.
I I'm very sorry, but I can't let you leave.
What? Your condition is too unstable, and we need to keep you under observation until the surgery.
I'm sorry, please, just [SOLEMN MUSIC.]
Please.
What do they say? You reap what you sow? This must be karmic retribution for cheating on my husband.
Your coronary disease didn't just develop overnight.
It's been building up for a long time.
I've been cheating on my husband for a long time.
Dr.
Rhodes? Yeah.
I will let you know as soon as an O.
R.
is open.
- She's agreed to a CABG? - Mm-hmm.
I'm confident we can do a robotic assisted bypass.
- It'll be less invasive.
- Of course.
I'm having Dr.
Bekker perform the surgery.
What? Uh, no, she is way less experienced with the robotics.
Hm, what happens if something goes wrong? - Well, it won't.
- And if it does? Given the circumstances, a lawyer could make a compelling case for negligence.
No, Dr.
Latham, I There is too much potential liability at stake for both you and the hospital to risk keeping you on the case.
They're short a trauma surgeon in the E.
D.
I volunteered you.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
Hi.
How are you feeling, Lindsay? A little groggy still, but I feel better.
- Thank you, ma'am.
- Is everything okay with her? Well, that's what I came in to discuss with you both.
Um the gynecologist found a tumor growing within the tissue that would've become the placenta.
- Tumor? - Yes.
Um, she sent it to Pathology.
It is, I'm afraid, malignant.
It's called a choriocarcinoma.
I have cancer? Thankfully, it's still confined to your uterus.
That's what's called Stage One.
Given that we caught it relatively early, these tumors generally respond favorably to chemotherapy.
And if that doesn't work, what happens then? Worst-case scenario, we would need to consider a hysterectomy.
But we are far, far from even discussing that.
See? First she comes in here, talks chemo.
Next she's scheming to remove your womb altogether.
I can assure you, there is no scheming going on.
Chemo can lead to infertility.
Not necessarily.
Yes, there are some risk factors, but to do nothing at all would be far, far riskier.
No, thank you, then.
We will not be doing any chemotherapy.
Sir I'm gonna ask you to step out for a moment, so that I can discuss this with my patient, privately.
Why? She doesn't want me to leave.
Go on, ask her.
He can stay.
Like I said, only thing we need from you now, Doctor, is to get Lindsay discharged.
Shortly after my wife got pregnant, I started having these thoughts.
Okay, take your time.
It's all right.
No one here's judging you.
Um, I'd imagine killing her, slashing her throat with a knife, to be specific.
I can't even be around knives anymore.
Afraid of what I might do.
That must be terrifying.
Can I ask you, was this pregnancy planned? Yes no we both wanted it.
I don't have an escape fantasy.
I'm not jealous of my unborn child.
It sounds like you've been seeing some other therapists.
[CHUCKLES.]
Two.
One wouldn't even be alone in a room with me.
Thoughts only got worse after that.
I'm really sorry you had to go through hat.
You know, sometimes when we over-focus on fixing problems like this, you know, not thinking certain thoughts, it it tends just to tighten their grip.
Like, if I tell you not to think of a brown bear, you'd immediately picture it.
Look, I'm telling you, I'm in real danger.
I need to be committed.
Grabbed your spare pants from your ambo.
And found you this.
- Mmm.
- Last one.
Nearly had to wrestle Doris to the ground for it.
Thank you, babe.
[GRUNTS.]
Uh, sit here for a second, would you? Something I've been wanting to say since this morning.
Me too.
- But you go first.
- Okay.
Getting back together with you, it is the happiest I've been in a long time.
Now, I know you had your reservations about Wait.
[SIGHS.]
Wait When that call came through today I was so scared.
I admit it's been hard for me accepting you back into my life, but I realize now that what we have is real.
Whatever happened in the past, it doesn't matter.
I want a fresh start.
[DEVICE BEEPING.]
[SIGHS.]
Continue this later? [DOOR BEEPS.]
Miguel Garcia, 55-year-old male.
Single GSW through the left clavicle.
April, Dr.
Choi, you're going to Baghdad.
- Copy.
- Hypotensive and unresponsive.
Intubated in the field.
My finger's in the bullet hole.
I move it and blood will hit the ceiling.
- Keep pressure on it.
- All right.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
All right, set on my count.
One, two, three There we go.
All right, it looks like the distal subclavian artery through the clavicle.
Let's take a look very carefully.
[BLOOD SPUTTERS.]
Whoa! Okay, definitely the subclavian.
All right.
All right, here's the plan: April, give me the biggest stitch needle - you can find, all right? - Got it! Monique, you know where we can find some zip ties? - Maintenance has them.
- Go get 'em quick.
- Hey, Detective Olinsky? - Yeah? Miguel Garcia, that victim that we just brought in, shot-spotter pinpointed the source of the gunfire to the same time and location of your drive-by.
- Got zip ties.
- All right, good.
All right, we're gonna jerry-rig something to stop the bleeding.
Ethan, I've got one hand.
Get over here, grab the needle driver.
- Got it prepped right here.
- Good.
All right.
Stick the needle through the male end of the zip tie and tie a knot.
April, hand me a scalpel.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
- Done.
Here you go.
- All right.
All right, needle's in.
Pull the stitch, and feed the zip tie around the clavicle and the artery.
- Zip tie's in.
- All right, cinch it down.
- Gently.
- Mm-hmm.
All right.
Okay, it's temporized.
How's the pressure? Holding.
Heart rate's down.
All right, let's get him up to the O.
R.
What did they say his name was? Miguel.
Don't go getting ahead of yourself.
What if the bullet's mine, Maggie? What if it's not? Look, if anyone can get him through this, it's Connor.
Let's just stay in the moment for now.
Dr.
Charles You see he's overreacting, right? You're not going to commit him? I know it may be very difficult to understand, but the thoughts your husband is experiencing are very real to him.
Look, you don't know my husband.
We've been together since college.
He's a gentle soul.
But Ms.
Samuels, your husband's suffering.
Don't we wanna try and help him get some peace with all this? Of course.
But if you commit him, then what? I mean Our baby needs his father.
Can't you just, um give him some pills? There must be something you can do.
Dr.
Charles, can I speak with you a moment? Would you excuse us for a second? It seems to me that Ben is suffering from some sort of OCD.
Other than that, he has no functional impairments.
We're not talking about over-washing your hands here or or checking the front door every two minutes.
This is OCD Harm.
His thoughts toward his wife are violent.
Judging from Ben's history, there's no reason to think he would act on it.
We don't know that.
I mean, what if we send him out here today and he does? Uh, I really think that that committing him is our best option.
You know, put him in an environment where he feels safe from his thoughts, help him defuse them, or, at the very least, coexist with them.
What if the right move isn't to make him feel safe from his thoughts? What if it's to make him confront them directly? You mean exposure therapy? Dr.
Reese, I know that's been very helpful to you, but in this case, that approach would be extremely risky and and way too early.
Look, we need time to fully evaluate the patient, okay? So let's commit him to the psych ward and take it from there, okay? [ELEVATOR DINGING.]
- Dr.
Rhodes? - Not now.
Has to be now.
I'm ASA Ramirez, state's attorney investigating today's shootout.
I'd appreciate if you could retrieve the bullet, so that we could run ballistics.
My priority is to save this man's life.
You'll get your bullet if it's medically advisable.
Uh, I'm not sure I should be talking to you alone.
Is that what he told you? Listen, I'm not sure how you feel about being married, but the one advantage that it does give you is that you are considered, by law, to be medically emancipated.
Emancipated? It means you have the right to make your own medical decisions.
Does chemo really make it so I can't have a baby? No.
No.
And Lindsay, it's clearly your best and safest bet moving forward.
What are you doing? It n-nothing.
No, we I was just conferring with my patient.
Lindsay, regardless of what this man thinks or wants, it is your body and your choice That has already been decided.
Will you step outside with me, please? Sir, get your hands off of me! From the start, you have been willful and argumentative.
My patient has the right to decide how she wants to treat her cancer.
The cancer is you.
You've been treating Lindsay like she's a child, not a woman.
She is a child! She's 14! Just because you had some judge sign off on what's obviously a case of abuse Excuse me excuse me, I need to talk to someone who's in charge here.
And now you wanna play games with her health? You are a bully and a predator! I'm the charge nurse here.
How can I help you? Yes, I want this bitch removed from my wife's care.
[SOLEMN MUSIC.]
All right, we've got proximal and distal control of the artery.
Need to remove the bone fragments before we can repair the vessel.
Huh It looks like the bullet is kissing the vein.
It's gotta come out.
Behavior is what is outrageous.
This is why I never go to city hospitals.
We will treat your wife I heard he called you a bitch.
Not really what matters here.
Just got an earful from the good reverend.
If he takes Lindsay out of this hospital, she will never get the care that she needs.
Every patient is allowed a second opinion.
But she'll die.
It's abuse, plain and simple.
She's right.
I admire your advocacy, Dr.
Manning, but you're off the case.
Dr.
Halstead will be primary until the patient can be discharged.
I swear I have a mind to knock the hell out of that sanctimonious Will, I do not need my boyfriend to defend my honor right now, okay? What I need is for ow.
- [GROANS.]
- Natalie, you all right? Yeah, I just [GAGGING.]
Natalie Natalie! - [PANTS.]
- Nat So you lost consciousness as well? Mm.
Have you, uh, had difficulty concentrating? I don't know, maybe.
Have you been more irritable than usual? Yes.
Sorry, it's true.
Look, I gotta get out of here.
I have a patient I need to go see.
Sorry, you don't get to go back in the game, Mitch Trubisky.
You have a concussion.
I'll need a head CT to rule out any bleeds.
Uh, let me make a call to Imaging.
Thanks, Sam.
I need to go talk to Lindsay before she's discharged.
Ow.
- Natalie - What? Goodwin removed you from her care.
- You don't remember that? - She did? [SIGHS.]
Oh, no.
[GROANS.]
I really messed this up, Will.
- No, you didn't.
- Yes, I did.
She was asking me about chemo.
I I was this close to convincing her to get treatment.
If I had just had a little longer with her Well, maybe it's not too late.
9 millimeter bullet.
It was my gun.
- I shot him.
- You can't blame yourself.
You did what anyone in your position would have done.
- Mr.
Vaughn? - Yes? I need to ask you a few questions.
[SIGHS.]
- How are you holding up? - [SIGHS.]
Trying to keep it together for him.
To be honest, Ethan I'm scared.
Even if the worst happens, Barry's not criminally responsible.
The shooting was instigated by someone else.
It was it was self-defense.
I know, but how is Barry supposed to carry that burden? - It's inexcusable behavior.
- No, you're absolutely right.
And again, I I wanna apologize for Dr.
Manning's behavior.
It was entirely unprofessional.
Right, and very aggressive.
It was pushy.
Yeah, well, between you and me, this is not the first time we've had a problem with her.
She can get emotional.
Women, right? [PHONE CHIRPS, BUZZES.]
Ah, I have to check up on a patient in Orthopedics.
Let me Monique, help Reverend Cray here with, uh, discharge paperwork, would ya? Patient's name is Lindsay Cray.
Monique will take great care of you.
Good luck and God bless, Reverend.
I will be praying for you and your wife.
- Thank you.
- You're very welcome.
[ELEVATOR DINGING.]
Where's the reverend? He's filling out the paperwork needed to take you out of here.
I can't keep you here much longer.
I know you have some big decisions to make, but I won't be able to get you the medical attention you need unless you speak up right now.
My mother died when she was 19.
She had ovarian cancer.
My great-grandmother too.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY.]
Guess it's the family curse.
I'm sorry to hear that.
The lady doctor said something earlier about a hysterectomy? Dr.
Manning, yes.
Now, that is only if you get sicker.
With the right medicine, you have a great chance of beating this.
You can live a long life, have a family someday.
Are those things I'm supposed to look forward to? No, I want a hysterectomy.
A hysterectomy is really not necessary at this point.
[SCOFFS.]
I don't care.
Some women have their breasts removed if they have the cancer gene just so they don't get it later, right? But but you are so young.
All right, hysterectomy is irreversible.
You will not be able to become pregnant and have children, ever.
You don't know my life, okay? You don't understand.
[INHALES SHARPLY.]
I don't want to bring a kid into this world.
Dr.
Manning said it was my decision.
Mags, I just talked to Connor.
They controlled the bleeding and rebuilt the artery.
We have every reason to believe Miguel's gonna make it.
[RELIEVED SIGH.]
We've gotta tell Barry.
Barry? Barry? Why is he in handcuffs? The bystander made it out of surgery.
Well, that's not the issue.
There's some kinda discrepancy with his carry permit.
Permit? Come on, Detective.
Barry, what's going on? I'm sorry, Maggie.
Have a seat, Ben.
Wait, have I been committed already? Shouldn't I be medicated or in a straightjacket or something? So, the nurse is preparing your admittance paperwork, but in the meantime, um, I would like to talk to you about something.
Talk about what? I already told you, I've done every type of therapy in the book.
- The thoughts won't go away.
- I understand.
But what if I told you that most of the thoughts we have are just nonsense? Just synapses popping off in our heads, and that we shouldn't take them so seriously? If you could, just do me a favor for a moment and close your eyes.
Now, I want you to bring up the thought that frightens you the most.
Tell me what you see.
It's okay.
You are in a safe space.
[SOFT MUSIC.]
I see myself - I'm holding a knife.
- Okay, keep going.
[APPREHENSIVE MUSIC.]
I see my wife.
She's in the kitchen, doing dishes.
I'm walking up behind her.
She doesn't know I'm there.
You're doing very well.
What's that? [TENSE MUSIC.]
I paged Dr.
Charles.
Let me know when he comes up here.
- Kayla - Oh, here he is.
- I got your page.
What's up? - It's Dr.
Reese.
She's locked in with a patient.
[EXHALES SOFTLY, SHAKILY.]
[TENSE MUSIC.]
You've conquered th or shower your fear of holding a knife a weapon.
Now, imagine that I'm your wife.
I can't.
You can.
I trust you.
- [EXHALES SHARPLY.]
- Do you see her? Yes.
Here's your opportunity.
You can slit my throat right now.
No.
[SOLEMN MUSIC.]
No, I don't want to.
- I don't wanna do it.
- No, you don't.
This whole time, you've been beating yourself up over your thoughts.
The fact that you can't dismiss them - does not mean you're depraved.
- [SCOFFS SOMBERLY.]
It shows you have a conscience.
[SOBBING.]
Dr.
Reese outside now.
Dr.
Charles, I know I didn't take your approach today You didn't take my approach? You directly defied my orders, and put yourself and your patient in real danger.
Ben isn't dangerous.
I think I just proved that.
The only thing you proved to me is that you're reckless and insubordinate, and I have half a mind to suspend you again.
The last few months, you've been preaching to me that I can either see my patients as a threat or as an opportunity.
Was I afraid in there? Yes.
But my fear no longer controls me.
I control it, and now Ben controls his too.
You are missing the point! I appreciate that exposure therapy has given you a newfound sense of confidence, but it does not make you all-knowing and invincible.
What you just did in there was unbelievably stupid.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
Sharon? You called for me? - Yeah.
- [DOOR CLOSES.]
Sit down with me for a minute.
What is it? Do I need to get Barry a lawyer? A bondsman? I just spoke with my guy at the State's Attorney's office, the discrepancy with Barry's carry permit.
- Yeah? - It turns out he changed his identity at some point, because of a juvenile record.
He didn't disclose it on his permit.
That's why it wasn't technically legal.
What do you mean change his identity? You mean Barry Vaughn isn't his real name? Apparently not.
Why wouldn't he tell me? He had a whole other life? I'm sorry, Maggie.
The State's Attorney is gonna file a charge against him.
The whole time we were together He was lying? Every day? [WHIMPERING.]
Every day, Sharon.
What is going on here? Lindsay has decided to have a hysterectomy.
Over my dead body.
She's my wife.
I make the decisions.
Sir, please move.
You lay so much as a finger on her, and I will sue you to kingdom come.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
We have her consent.
You lied to me.
She can't make that kind of decision for herself.
She was obviously coerced.
He he forced you to sign this, didn't he? No.
It was my decision.
You have two seconds to step aside, Mr.
Cray, or I will have you forcibly removed from the premises.
You you go through with this, Lindsay, and you will be banished by the church, the community, everything.
You will be diminished in the eyes of the Lord.
Do you understand? Surgery went without a hitch.
Seems your personal life keeps working in my favor.
Excuse me, Dr.
Bekker? I'm Teddy Dimilio.
I just wanted to thank you for saving my wife's life.
It was actually Dr.
Rhodes here who made the diagnosis.
Well, both of you then.
Yeah.
[GRUNTS.]
I don't know what I would've done without her.
It was our pleasure.
Thank you.
[SOFT MUSIC.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[SIGHS.]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
- Hey.
- Hey.
Someone told me about a standoff between you and Cray? Yeah.
Were you able to talk to Lindsay? - I was.
- Is she gonna start chemo? She's having a hysterectomy.
I tried to talk her out of it, believe me, but she was adamant.
It's a drastic step to take, but I can see why she took it.
That girl will finally have her say.
- But she's just a kid, Nat.
- She's tough.
Women are tough, tougher than you think.
I guess I got a lot to learn about this kinda stuff.
[CHUCKLES.]
Trust me, you are way further along than most.
- Way, huh? - Mm-hmm.
[LAUGHS.]
All right.
Thank you.
[MUMBLES.]
[SOLEMN MUSIC.]
Impressive save today.
Yeah, thanks.
You headed somewhere? No, just headed home.
It's been a long day.
Shame.
Waste of a nice tux.
I know a spot over in the West Loop.
Makes the best Old Fashioned's in town.
Care to decompress over a drink? You're not married, are you? No.
In that case, I'm more of a Manhattan kinda guy, but I might be able to be persuaded.
- Car's right here.
- All right.
Remember what I told you.
Next time you are on the top of the Make sure my boy ex isn't at the bottom.
- Mm-hmm.
- Heard that.
All right, Simone here is gonna take great care of you.
- [MUMBLES.]
- Sweet kid.
Yeah.
Hey, thanks for offering to help today.
It's no problem.
Though, I confess I may have had an ulterior motive.
Oh? Maggie's birthday, it's in a couple weeks, and I'm stumped as far as gifts.
Mmm.
So what are you considering? Currently? Uh, thinking a gold bracelet from Yurman.
Jewelry, huh? That's a big statement.
That's the thing.
I'm not sure if we should pick up where we left off, or play it like we're starting from scratch.
- Hm.
- [GUNSHOT.]
[GUNSHOTS, PEOPLE SCREAMING.]
There's someone hit on the corner.
- Should we call it in? - I'll administer aid.
[PANTING.]
[CAR BEEPING.]
My chest! Bitch shot me in my chest! Hang on, we got you.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
Gunshot wound, right anterior lateral chest.
All right, we're gonna roll him, okay? - Okay.
- [GRUNTS.]
Bullet went through and through.
All right.
Decreased breath sounds on the right.
His lung's collapsed.
Give me a needle, Barry.
Got it.
Pulse is good.
Breath sounds improving.
Let's get him to Med.
I'll go get the ambo.
[ENGINE REVS, TIRES SCREECH.]
They're coming back.
Get down! - [GUNSHOT.]
- [GRUNTS.]
Ow! [GUNSHOTS.]
[GLASS SHATTERS.]
- [GASPS.]
- Ah! [GROANS.]
- [GASPS.]
- [PANTING.]
[PANTING.]
[DOOR BEEPS.]
Are you guys all right? Dispatch said you were in a shootout.
What the hell happened out there? You're going to Baghdad.
Tried to help this guy, banger circled back, tried to finish the job.
- Barry saved my life.
- What? Uh, 19-year-old male was shot in the right chest.
Needle decompressed in the field, still hypotensive.
Someone take a look at Barry's leg.
- He was hit.
- Thanks, Barry.
- Barry? - Sorry, it's not serious.
Uh, Noah, Dr.
Sexton, meet us in Treatment Four.
On it.
Kay, let's transfer on my count.
Ready, one, two, three [GRUNTS.]
Start on the groin line.
- Are you sure you're okay? - Yeah, I'm fine.
Open a 36 French chest tube.
Hey, you still with me? Damn it.
Hold the tube.
[SOLEMN MUSIC.]
All right, just a tangential wound.
Nothing to do but dress it and let it heal on its own.
Told you it wasn't anything to worry about.
Okay, tough guy.
And why didn't you ever tell me you carry a gun? - Maggie? - Oh, hey, Alvin.
Mr.
Vaughn, I'm Detective Olinsky with the Chicago Police Department.
Alvin, can this wait? He's being treated.
It's okay.
Listen, we're gonna need your weapon.
[GRUNTING.]
Course, yes, sir.
It's locked in the glove compartment of my rig.
Uh, it's now evidence.
Uh, you got a concealed carry permit? Yeah.
There you go.
You always got a gun at work? Uh, I've been carrying for a couple years.
Necessary precaution.
And it's a good thing he does.
He saved three lives today.
For real.
Barry, you the man.
[BLOOD SPUTTERS.]
Big hemothorax.
Lots of blood.
Are you okay, Natalie? Yeah.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
Tube's in.
Securing it now.
What's his pressure? 107 over 68; heart rate of 121.
Three units of blood, one unit of plasma in.
Okay.
Color's coming back.
He looks better.
- Hey, Nat - Yeah? - We'll take over.
- Okay.
Just glad you're okay.
[MUMBLING.]
Yeah.
Yeah.
Are you hurt anywhere? Let me see.
No.
No, I'm fine.
I just, um I hit my head when Barry pushed me out of the way.
If he hadn't that bullet barely missed me.
Yeah, well, thank God for Barry.
But but you, what what are you thinking, putting yourself in the line of fire like that? Uh, I was thinking that there was a patient in need.
[DOOR OPENS.]
Dr.
Manning, you feeling well enough to answer a few questions? Yeah, of course.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
[ELEVATOR DINGING.]
- Right this way.
- Uh, is this really necessary? Like I said, it's probably indigestion.
First thing they teach you in med school: Always take chest pain seriously.
That's what I get for hooking up with a heart surgeon.
[CHUCKLES.]
Here, why don't you pop into this room right here, and I'll be in as soon as I can.
Who'd you just plant in my room? She's a friend.
Uh, she woke up this morning with tightness in her chest.
I'd like to get an EKG and troponins.
- What's your friend's name? - Margo - Uh - Does she have a last name? Can you help me out here, Bea? Thank you.
It must be hard remembering all their names.
Now, I read that Derek Jeter used to send his conquests home with a gift basket, but a full cardio workup is is much classier.
Jeter, huh? You you're You're a baseball fan? No.
It's too boring.
But I love gossip.
So you're in from Missouri? St.
Louis.
Here on business.
Well, we will get you in and out of here as quickly as possible.
THAT'S WHAT DR.
RHODES IS RENOWNED FOR AROUND HERE: quick in-and-outs.
I'm Dr.
Bekker, by the way.
Your insurance card has you listed as a dependent of Theodore J.
Dimilio? That would be my husband.
Would you like us to contact him? No, thank you.
Not just yet.
I'll make some copies and be right back.
So you're married? Didn't wanna tell me? If I had, would you have come back to my hotel room? No.
Maybe.
I don't know.
That's why I didn't tell you.
[DISTANT SIREN WAILING.]
Hey, there you are.
I thought you were gonna come find me as soon as you were done with the police.
I just needed some fresh air.
Well, I notified the ped's on-call.
He's on his way in, so you can go home.
What? Why? Thought you should take the rest of the day off.
Will, I'm fine.
Just please don't do that.
Don't make unilateral decisions on my behalf, okay? Excuse me! Excuse me, I need some help over here.
[GROANING, SOBBING.]
Ow! She's been screaming blue murder since Michigan City.
I I pulled over a couple of times, so she could throw up.
And she says it hurts too much to walk.
[SOBBING.]
Ow! So you think I had a heart attack? I'm afraid so, yeah.
Yeah, a mild one.
Yeah, it's hard to tell exactly what's going on from the EKG, so I wanna get you over to the cath lab, so we can take a closer look at your vessels.
[CHUCKLES.]
I'm not gonna catch my flight home, am I? No.
Dr.
Rhodes I received a call from IR.
Said you required a priority reschedule for your patient, Margo Dimilio? Yes.
Uh, her EKG showed some PVC runs and possible ST changes.
Ah.
I'm not sure you heard, but her lab work came back.
They found traces of cocaine in her urine.
- What? - 520 nanograms per milliliter.
I don't believe that's what caused the distress.
Why not? All right, you want all the details? Sure.
Uh, we met at a fundraiser at the Field Museum.
Uh, we were at the roulette table.
We both liked the number 19.
She ends up inviting me back to her hotel room, where we exerted ourselves a couple of times.
I only offer that up, because I believe it was the exertion that exacerbated the pain that she was already experiencing, which is why I brought her in, and why I believe we need to take a closer look at her vessels.
Did you partake in the cocaine? No and I didn't know that she was either.
I can take a drug test if you'd like.
That won't be necessary.
Carry on.
Thank you.
Let me know if anything makes you feel uncomfortable, okay? - Yes, ma'am.
- All right, Mr.
Cray Uh, Reverend Cray, actually.
Okay.
Reverend, how old is Lindsay? 14.
Now, how long is this gonna take? And I'm only asking that, because we gotta get down to Cedar Rapids.
I'm preaching at a revival meeting tomorrow.
Okay, we'll just figure out what's going on here first, and take it from there.
Have you ever felt pain like this before? Her last pregnancy, she'd get sick like this, but n not with all this blood, you know.
Last pregnancy? Lindsay, what happened with your last pregnancy? - Did you carry to term? - No, ma'am.
She had what they called a spontaneous miscarriage.
- That was four months ago.
- [GASPING.]
Well, it doesn't look like she's pregnant now.
However, I am seeing some irregularities in the lining of her uterus, perhaps something that didn't move through when she had her miscarriage.
All right, I'm gonna do a pelvic exam now.
Are you all right with that? You can come outside.
There's a waiting area.
We'll give your daughter a little more privacy.
My daughter? Lindsay's my wife.
This marriage is legal? That guy and a 14-year-old girl? Her father gave his consent and a judge signed off on it, - so yeah.
- What about her mother? Well, she died when Lindsay was only three.
- That man should be arrested.
- Right, but on what charges? Rape, coercion, whatever.
This girl is a kid.
She obviously had no choice in the matter.
He barely lets her speak.
Can we call on the police? Family services? No, unfortunately we're required to respect Michigan state law.
How's the girl doing? She's undergoing a D&C to get rid of any products from her prior miscarriage.
Yeah, which the reverend only okayed, because he wants Lindsay to be able to conceive as soon as possible.
I realize this is distasteful for all of us, but I implore both of you to do your best not to let your personal feelings interfere with the care of this patient or the law.
What am I supposed to do? I'm not sure I can be in the same room as that guy.
Then go home.
I'll deal with this.
You keep trying to push me out the door.
Yes, I'm concerned about you.
I don't know why you're being so stubborn.
I'm gonna go see how the D&C is going.
[ELEVATOR DINGING.]
Dr.
Reese! How did your rounds at Cohn County Jail go? Great.
Actually, the patient, Michael, who tried to kill his brother in a bout of manic psychosis, we had a breakthrough this morning.
He's no longer on suicide watch.
Wow.
Sounds like you're really making some progress, not just with your patients, but, um with your own therapy as well.
I need to see a psychiatrist now! Don't listen to my husband.
Ben, you're being ridiculous.
Sir, you need to wait for triage.
Uh, it's okay, Leah.
Hi, I'm Dr.
Charles.
How can I help you? Listen, I need to check myself into the psych ward.
No, no, no, he doesn't.
He's not crazy.
Ben, please.
People are listening.
Do you think I care? I need to be committed for as long as it takes to stop these thoughts.
Okay, I understand.
Um, how 'bout if we step into this room over here, - so we can discuss your situa - No! No more talking! I don't need to talk.
I need to be locked up.
- Ben - You send me back out of here, then I'm going to murder my wife.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
Wait, so, you're telling me I need surgery? Unfortunately, yes.
Uh, now, normally, we would have placed a stent, but there's too much curvature in the vessel.
So, look, I recommend doing the bypass as soon as possible.
I can perform the operation myself.
Uh, no, I I I need to get home.
- Margo - This is all too much.
I I'm sure that there's someone you can refer me to in Saint Louis.
I I'm very sorry, but I can't let you leave.
What? Your condition is too unstable, and we need to keep you under observation until the surgery.
I'm sorry, please, just [SOLEMN MUSIC.]
Please.
What do they say? You reap what you sow? This must be karmic retribution for cheating on my husband.
Your coronary disease didn't just develop overnight.
It's been building up for a long time.
I've been cheating on my husband for a long time.
Dr.
Rhodes? Yeah.
I will let you know as soon as an O.
R.
is open.
- She's agreed to a CABG? - Mm-hmm.
I'm confident we can do a robotic assisted bypass.
- It'll be less invasive.
- Of course.
I'm having Dr.
Bekker perform the surgery.
What? Uh, no, she is way less experienced with the robotics.
Hm, what happens if something goes wrong? - Well, it won't.
- And if it does? Given the circumstances, a lawyer could make a compelling case for negligence.
No, Dr.
Latham, I There is too much potential liability at stake for both you and the hospital to risk keeping you on the case.
They're short a trauma surgeon in the E.
D.
I volunteered you.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
Hi.
How are you feeling, Lindsay? A little groggy still, but I feel better.
- Thank you, ma'am.
- Is everything okay with her? Well, that's what I came in to discuss with you both.
Um the gynecologist found a tumor growing within the tissue that would've become the placenta.
- Tumor? - Yes.
Um, she sent it to Pathology.
It is, I'm afraid, malignant.
It's called a choriocarcinoma.
I have cancer? Thankfully, it's still confined to your uterus.
That's what's called Stage One.
Given that we caught it relatively early, these tumors generally respond favorably to chemotherapy.
And if that doesn't work, what happens then? Worst-case scenario, we would need to consider a hysterectomy.
But we are far, far from even discussing that.
See? First she comes in here, talks chemo.
Next she's scheming to remove your womb altogether.
I can assure you, there is no scheming going on.
Chemo can lead to infertility.
Not necessarily.
Yes, there are some risk factors, but to do nothing at all would be far, far riskier.
No, thank you, then.
We will not be doing any chemotherapy.
Sir I'm gonna ask you to step out for a moment, so that I can discuss this with my patient, privately.
Why? She doesn't want me to leave.
Go on, ask her.
He can stay.
Like I said, only thing we need from you now, Doctor, is to get Lindsay discharged.
Shortly after my wife got pregnant, I started having these thoughts.
Okay, take your time.
It's all right.
No one here's judging you.
Um, I'd imagine killing her, slashing her throat with a knife, to be specific.
I can't even be around knives anymore.
Afraid of what I might do.
That must be terrifying.
Can I ask you, was this pregnancy planned? Yes no we both wanted it.
I don't have an escape fantasy.
I'm not jealous of my unborn child.
It sounds like you've been seeing some other therapists.
[CHUCKLES.]
Two.
One wouldn't even be alone in a room with me.
Thoughts only got worse after that.
I'm really sorry you had to go through hat.
You know, sometimes when we over-focus on fixing problems like this, you know, not thinking certain thoughts, it it tends just to tighten their grip.
Like, if I tell you not to think of a brown bear, you'd immediately picture it.
Look, I'm telling you, I'm in real danger.
I need to be committed.
Grabbed your spare pants from your ambo.
And found you this.
- Mmm.
- Last one.
Nearly had to wrestle Doris to the ground for it.
Thank you, babe.
[GRUNTS.]
Uh, sit here for a second, would you? Something I've been wanting to say since this morning.
Me too.
- But you go first.
- Okay.
Getting back together with you, it is the happiest I've been in a long time.
Now, I know you had your reservations about Wait.
[SIGHS.]
Wait When that call came through today I was so scared.
I admit it's been hard for me accepting you back into my life, but I realize now that what we have is real.
Whatever happened in the past, it doesn't matter.
I want a fresh start.
[DEVICE BEEPING.]
[SIGHS.]
Continue this later? [DOOR BEEPS.]
Miguel Garcia, 55-year-old male.
Single GSW through the left clavicle.
April, Dr.
Choi, you're going to Baghdad.
- Copy.
- Hypotensive and unresponsive.
Intubated in the field.
My finger's in the bullet hole.
I move it and blood will hit the ceiling.
- Keep pressure on it.
- All right.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
All right, set on my count.
One, two, three There we go.
All right, it looks like the distal subclavian artery through the clavicle.
Let's take a look very carefully.
[BLOOD SPUTTERS.]
Whoa! Okay, definitely the subclavian.
All right.
All right, here's the plan: April, give me the biggest stitch needle - you can find, all right? - Got it! Monique, you know where we can find some zip ties? - Maintenance has them.
- Go get 'em quick.
- Hey, Detective Olinsky? - Yeah? Miguel Garcia, that victim that we just brought in, shot-spotter pinpointed the source of the gunfire to the same time and location of your drive-by.
- Got zip ties.
- All right, good.
All right, we're gonna jerry-rig something to stop the bleeding.
Ethan, I've got one hand.
Get over here, grab the needle driver.
- Got it prepped right here.
- Good.
All right.
Stick the needle through the male end of the zip tie and tie a knot.
April, hand me a scalpel.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
- Done.
Here you go.
- All right.
All right, needle's in.
Pull the stitch, and feed the zip tie around the clavicle and the artery.
- Zip tie's in.
- All right, cinch it down.
- Gently.
- Mm-hmm.
All right.
Okay, it's temporized.
How's the pressure? Holding.
Heart rate's down.
All right, let's get him up to the O.
R.
What did they say his name was? Miguel.
Don't go getting ahead of yourself.
What if the bullet's mine, Maggie? What if it's not? Look, if anyone can get him through this, it's Connor.
Let's just stay in the moment for now.
Dr.
Charles You see he's overreacting, right? You're not going to commit him? I know it may be very difficult to understand, but the thoughts your husband is experiencing are very real to him.
Look, you don't know my husband.
We've been together since college.
He's a gentle soul.
But Ms.
Samuels, your husband's suffering.
Don't we wanna try and help him get some peace with all this? Of course.
But if you commit him, then what? I mean Our baby needs his father.
Can't you just, um give him some pills? There must be something you can do.
Dr.
Charles, can I speak with you a moment? Would you excuse us for a second? It seems to me that Ben is suffering from some sort of OCD.
Other than that, he has no functional impairments.
We're not talking about over-washing your hands here or or checking the front door every two minutes.
This is OCD Harm.
His thoughts toward his wife are violent.
Judging from Ben's history, there's no reason to think he would act on it.
We don't know that.
I mean, what if we send him out here today and he does? Uh, I really think that that committing him is our best option.
You know, put him in an environment where he feels safe from his thoughts, help him defuse them, or, at the very least, coexist with them.
What if the right move isn't to make him feel safe from his thoughts? What if it's to make him confront them directly? You mean exposure therapy? Dr.
Reese, I know that's been very helpful to you, but in this case, that approach would be extremely risky and and way too early.
Look, we need time to fully evaluate the patient, okay? So let's commit him to the psych ward and take it from there, okay? [ELEVATOR DINGING.]
- Dr.
Rhodes? - Not now.
Has to be now.
I'm ASA Ramirez, state's attorney investigating today's shootout.
I'd appreciate if you could retrieve the bullet, so that we could run ballistics.
My priority is to save this man's life.
You'll get your bullet if it's medically advisable.
Uh, I'm not sure I should be talking to you alone.
Is that what he told you? Listen, I'm not sure how you feel about being married, but the one advantage that it does give you is that you are considered, by law, to be medically emancipated.
Emancipated? It means you have the right to make your own medical decisions.
Does chemo really make it so I can't have a baby? No.
No.
And Lindsay, it's clearly your best and safest bet moving forward.
What are you doing? It n-nothing.
No, we I was just conferring with my patient.
Lindsay, regardless of what this man thinks or wants, it is your body and your choice That has already been decided.
Will you step outside with me, please? Sir, get your hands off of me! From the start, you have been willful and argumentative.
My patient has the right to decide how she wants to treat her cancer.
The cancer is you.
You've been treating Lindsay like she's a child, not a woman.
She is a child! She's 14! Just because you had some judge sign off on what's obviously a case of abuse Excuse me excuse me, I need to talk to someone who's in charge here.
And now you wanna play games with her health? You are a bully and a predator! I'm the charge nurse here.
How can I help you? Yes, I want this bitch removed from my wife's care.
[SOLEMN MUSIC.]
All right, we've got proximal and distal control of the artery.
Need to remove the bone fragments before we can repair the vessel.
Huh It looks like the bullet is kissing the vein.
It's gotta come out.
Behavior is what is outrageous.
This is why I never go to city hospitals.
We will treat your wife I heard he called you a bitch.
Not really what matters here.
Just got an earful from the good reverend.
If he takes Lindsay out of this hospital, she will never get the care that she needs.
Every patient is allowed a second opinion.
But she'll die.
It's abuse, plain and simple.
She's right.
I admire your advocacy, Dr.
Manning, but you're off the case.
Dr.
Halstead will be primary until the patient can be discharged.
I swear I have a mind to knock the hell out of that sanctimonious Will, I do not need my boyfriend to defend my honor right now, okay? What I need is for ow.
- [GROANS.]
- Natalie, you all right? Yeah, I just [GAGGING.]
Natalie Natalie! - [PANTS.]
- Nat So you lost consciousness as well? Mm.
Have you, uh, had difficulty concentrating? I don't know, maybe.
Have you been more irritable than usual? Yes.
Sorry, it's true.
Look, I gotta get out of here.
I have a patient I need to go see.
Sorry, you don't get to go back in the game, Mitch Trubisky.
You have a concussion.
I'll need a head CT to rule out any bleeds.
Uh, let me make a call to Imaging.
Thanks, Sam.
I need to go talk to Lindsay before she's discharged.
Ow.
- Natalie - What? Goodwin removed you from her care.
- You don't remember that? - She did? [SIGHS.]
Oh, no.
[GROANS.]
I really messed this up, Will.
- No, you didn't.
- Yes, I did.
She was asking me about chemo.
I I was this close to convincing her to get treatment.
If I had just had a little longer with her Well, maybe it's not too late.
9 millimeter bullet.
It was my gun.
- I shot him.
- You can't blame yourself.
You did what anyone in your position would have done.
- Mr.
Vaughn? - Yes? I need to ask you a few questions.
[SIGHS.]
- How are you holding up? - [SIGHS.]
Trying to keep it together for him.
To be honest, Ethan I'm scared.
Even if the worst happens, Barry's not criminally responsible.
The shooting was instigated by someone else.
It was it was self-defense.
I know, but how is Barry supposed to carry that burden? - It's inexcusable behavior.
- No, you're absolutely right.
And again, I I wanna apologize for Dr.
Manning's behavior.
It was entirely unprofessional.
Right, and very aggressive.
It was pushy.
Yeah, well, between you and me, this is not the first time we've had a problem with her.
She can get emotional.
Women, right? [PHONE CHIRPS, BUZZES.]
Ah, I have to check up on a patient in Orthopedics.
Let me Monique, help Reverend Cray here with, uh, discharge paperwork, would ya? Patient's name is Lindsay Cray.
Monique will take great care of you.
Good luck and God bless, Reverend.
I will be praying for you and your wife.
- Thank you.
- You're very welcome.
[ELEVATOR DINGING.]
Where's the reverend? He's filling out the paperwork needed to take you out of here.
I can't keep you here much longer.
I know you have some big decisions to make, but I won't be able to get you the medical attention you need unless you speak up right now.
My mother died when she was 19.
She had ovarian cancer.
My great-grandmother too.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY.]
Guess it's the family curse.
I'm sorry to hear that.
The lady doctor said something earlier about a hysterectomy? Dr.
Manning, yes.
Now, that is only if you get sicker.
With the right medicine, you have a great chance of beating this.
You can live a long life, have a family someday.
Are those things I'm supposed to look forward to? No, I want a hysterectomy.
A hysterectomy is really not necessary at this point.
[SCOFFS.]
I don't care.
Some women have their breasts removed if they have the cancer gene just so they don't get it later, right? But but you are so young.
All right, hysterectomy is irreversible.
You will not be able to become pregnant and have children, ever.
You don't know my life, okay? You don't understand.
[INHALES SHARPLY.]
I don't want to bring a kid into this world.
Dr.
Manning said it was my decision.
Mags, I just talked to Connor.
They controlled the bleeding and rebuilt the artery.
We have every reason to believe Miguel's gonna make it.
[RELIEVED SIGH.]
We've gotta tell Barry.
Barry? Barry? Why is he in handcuffs? The bystander made it out of surgery.
Well, that's not the issue.
There's some kinda discrepancy with his carry permit.
Permit? Come on, Detective.
Barry, what's going on? I'm sorry, Maggie.
Have a seat, Ben.
Wait, have I been committed already? Shouldn't I be medicated or in a straightjacket or something? So, the nurse is preparing your admittance paperwork, but in the meantime, um, I would like to talk to you about something.
Talk about what? I already told you, I've done every type of therapy in the book.
- The thoughts won't go away.
- I understand.
But what if I told you that most of the thoughts we have are just nonsense? Just synapses popping off in our heads, and that we shouldn't take them so seriously? If you could, just do me a favor for a moment and close your eyes.
Now, I want you to bring up the thought that frightens you the most.
Tell me what you see.
It's okay.
You are in a safe space.
[SOFT MUSIC.]
I see myself - I'm holding a knife.
- Okay, keep going.
[APPREHENSIVE MUSIC.]
I see my wife.
She's in the kitchen, doing dishes.
I'm walking up behind her.
She doesn't know I'm there.
You're doing very well.
What's that? [TENSE MUSIC.]
I paged Dr.
Charles.
Let me know when he comes up here.
- Kayla - Oh, here he is.
- I got your page.
What's up? - It's Dr.
Reese.
She's locked in with a patient.
[EXHALES SOFTLY, SHAKILY.]
[TENSE MUSIC.]
You've conquered th or shower your fear of holding a knife a weapon.
Now, imagine that I'm your wife.
I can't.
You can.
I trust you.
- [EXHALES SHARPLY.]
- Do you see her? Yes.
Here's your opportunity.
You can slit my throat right now.
No.
[SOLEMN MUSIC.]
No, I don't want to.
- I don't wanna do it.
- No, you don't.
This whole time, you've been beating yourself up over your thoughts.
The fact that you can't dismiss them - does not mean you're depraved.
- [SCOFFS SOMBERLY.]
It shows you have a conscience.
[SOBBING.]
Dr.
Reese outside now.
Dr.
Charles, I know I didn't take your approach today You didn't take my approach? You directly defied my orders, and put yourself and your patient in real danger.
Ben isn't dangerous.
I think I just proved that.
The only thing you proved to me is that you're reckless and insubordinate, and I have half a mind to suspend you again.
The last few months, you've been preaching to me that I can either see my patients as a threat or as an opportunity.
Was I afraid in there? Yes.
But my fear no longer controls me.
I control it, and now Ben controls his too.
You are missing the point! I appreciate that exposure therapy has given you a newfound sense of confidence, but it does not make you all-knowing and invincible.
What you just did in there was unbelievably stupid.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
Sharon? You called for me? - Yeah.
- [DOOR CLOSES.]
Sit down with me for a minute.
What is it? Do I need to get Barry a lawyer? A bondsman? I just spoke with my guy at the State's Attorney's office, the discrepancy with Barry's carry permit.
- Yeah? - It turns out he changed his identity at some point, because of a juvenile record.
He didn't disclose it on his permit.
That's why it wasn't technically legal.
What do you mean change his identity? You mean Barry Vaughn isn't his real name? Apparently not.
Why wouldn't he tell me? He had a whole other life? I'm sorry, Maggie.
The State's Attorney is gonna file a charge against him.
The whole time we were together He was lying? Every day? [WHIMPERING.]
Every day, Sharon.
What is going on here? Lindsay has decided to have a hysterectomy.
Over my dead body.
She's my wife.
I make the decisions.
Sir, please move.
You lay so much as a finger on her, and I will sue you to kingdom come.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
We have her consent.
You lied to me.
She can't make that kind of decision for herself.
She was obviously coerced.
He he forced you to sign this, didn't he? No.
It was my decision.
You have two seconds to step aside, Mr.
Cray, or I will have you forcibly removed from the premises.
You you go through with this, Lindsay, and you will be banished by the church, the community, everything.
You will be diminished in the eyes of the Lord.
Do you understand? Surgery went without a hitch.
Seems your personal life keeps working in my favor.
Excuse me, Dr.
Bekker? I'm Teddy Dimilio.
I just wanted to thank you for saving my wife's life.
It was actually Dr.
Rhodes here who made the diagnosis.
Well, both of you then.
Yeah.
[GRUNTS.]
I don't know what I would've done without her.
It was our pleasure.
Thank you.
[SOFT MUSIC.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[SIGHS.]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
- Hey.
- Hey.
Someone told me about a standoff between you and Cray? Yeah.
Were you able to talk to Lindsay? - I was.
- Is she gonna start chemo? She's having a hysterectomy.
I tried to talk her out of it, believe me, but she was adamant.
It's a drastic step to take, but I can see why she took it.
That girl will finally have her say.
- But she's just a kid, Nat.
- She's tough.
Women are tough, tougher than you think.
I guess I got a lot to learn about this kinda stuff.
[CHUCKLES.]
Trust me, you are way further along than most.
- Way, huh? - Mm-hmm.
[LAUGHS.]
All right.
Thank you.
[MUMBLES.]
[SOLEMN MUSIC.]
Impressive save today.
Yeah, thanks.
You headed somewhere? No, just headed home.
It's been a long day.
Shame.
Waste of a nice tux.
I know a spot over in the West Loop.
Makes the best Old Fashioned's in town.
Care to decompress over a drink? You're not married, are you? No.
In that case, I'm more of a Manhattan kinda guy, but I might be able to be persuaded.
- Car's right here.
- All right.