The Resident (2018) s04e01 Episode Script

1 Previously on The Resident Nicolette Marie Nevin, will you do me the honor ANDREA: He's one of a kind, isn't he? Yeah.
Our relationship it is perfect just like this.
My father owns his own cab.
He put me through medical school working very long hours, and I'm very proud of him.
So, y-you think this place in Savannah you really think they can help me? It's one of the best inpatient centers in the country.
I really want to be there for all those moments - that you talked about.
- Me too.
KIM: Cain and Bell had their chance to be the star of this company, but they couldn't deliver.
Our future is brighter with Conrad Hawkins front and center.
I don't know.
I'm still jonesing for that powder blue tux with the ruffled shirt.
No, no, no, no, no, you are not allowed to look like a lounge singer on your wedding day.
Seriously thoughts? You fishing for compliments? - (CHUCKLES) - Come on.
Okay.
Baller.
Slightly different guy than that jerk you met your first day of residency.
You were just doing your job the wrong way.
I must've done something right.
You turned into a damn fine doctor.
Yeah, well, it hasn't always felt that way.
When all hell breaks loose, you find out what people are made of.
You excelled.
That's very kind of you, but let's stick to you.
How you feeling? Any last-minute jitters? None.
I'm as happy as I've ever been.
I'm about to marry my soul mate.
Okay, last stitch.
Something borrowed and something blue.
It's a twofer.
Those earrings are beautiful.
Whose are they? They were Jessie's.
My dad bought them for her 16th birthday.
I wish she were here.
(SIGHS) Me, too.
But she's always with me.
- So is my mom.
- Hmm.
And now you get to wear her circa-1980 - wedding dress.
- (CHUCKLES) When my dad begged me to wear it, my heart sank.
(LAUGHS) Luckily you have Mina.
Something old is now new.
I mean, you're a miracle worker.
- Thank you.
- Of course.
(NIC SIGHS) Is it bad to be this happy after everything that's happened? (SIGHS) No, but I wish things had been different, that we could all be here together today.
Yeah.
(INHALES) 2020, man, what a year.
I mean, we had no idea what was about to hit us.
(SIGHS) Okay, since the service is outside, I was thinking, instead of throwing rice, people could throw birdseeds? Environmentally conscious I like it.
(LAUGHS) Okay, how do you feel about a buffet instead of a seated dinner? I feel nothing.
Defer.
Band or DJ? Up to you.
Oh, my God, we're bad at this.
Okay, I'm going DJ.
All right.
And I think I want burgundy flowers.
Dahlias, peonies.
Really? I was hoping for blue wildflowers.
You don't care what music we play and yet you have an opinion on the color of my bouquet? Remember that first date we had, hiking at Sweetwater? The flowers I picked for you that day? Blue wildflowers it is.
And whatever DJ you decide on, they have to play "Mr.
Brightside".
You asked.
(LAUGHS) I thought you had better taste than that.
Oh, you're about to be Mrs.
Conrad Hawkins.
We both should have better taste.
I'm pretty sure you're about to be Mr.
Nic Nevin.
No more, no work.
Okafor.
Quadruple bypass in an hour.
Get your game on.
My game is always on.
- (PHONE RINGING) - That's what I love about you.
Andrea.
Mon chéri.
Yeah, I will be picking you up at 8:00 for Chateaubriand at Chez Pierre.
(LAUGHS) Do not dis my French accent.
I loathe the in-love Raptor.
Maybe you should ask yourself why.
MAN (OVER P.
A.
): Transition team to OR Four.
Transition team to OR Four.
Look who it is.
- The new face of the hospital.
- (CHUCKLES) Not.
Why is Barrett Cain's mug still up there? CONRAD: Randolph Bell, Barrett Cain, then Conrad Hawkins? Hard pass, thank you very much.
(LAUGHS) Hey, do you have time for a quick consult? Sure.
Bay One, Carter Wiggins, 34.
Headache, febrile and fatigue.
Take a look at his hands over here.
Hello, Mr.
Wiggins.
- I'm Dr.
Hawkins.
- (COUGHING) Sounds like you're feeling lousy.
So these, um, red lesions are new.
And my nose is all stopped up.
Can't smell my pies, even the pineapple and pepperoni.
HUNDLEY: Can't believe you went to work today.
Your mama would be angry.
- (COUGHING) - Temp is up to 102.
5.
Have you traveled anywhere recently? Uh, Seattle.
To see my grandmother.
Okay, we'll be right back.
How many cases of COVID-19 in Seattle? 14 known so far, five deaths.
DEVON: The symptoms fit.
I think we have our first case of coronavirus.
- (ALARM BEEPING) - HUNDLEY: We need a crash cart! I've lost his pulse.
Hundley, stop! You need PPE.
(SIREN WAILING) (NEWSWOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY) (PHONE CHIMES) NIC: Just got a text.
They can't refund the deposit for the wedding venue.
CONRAD: Someday this will be over and we will have a beautiful wedding.
NIC: It seems petty to even be talking about that.
No, it's not petty.
Just want everyone to get to that day safely.
- (BEEPS) - (BEEPS) You guys, I've got Hundley on speaker.
(HUNDLEY COUGHING) Hey, Hundley, it's Devon.
What's your O2 sat? 90.
But don't worry.
I just had a coughing fit, so it'll come back up.
(COUGHING) Mom, are you okay? Mom, I'm coming in.
No, you're not, honey! (COUGHING) Mom! MINA: Is there anything we can do? (PANTING): Don't, don't worry about me.
CONRAD: Not possible.
You should come in.
I'll know if the time comes when I need you.
(COUGHING, WHEEZING) Mom, I'm getting scared.
Please come unlock the door.
(RATTLING) (HACKING) Don't come in.
Okay, I'm-I'm officially worried.
Seriously.
This is day five of the same mask.
Can you check my seal? Yep.
Seal's holding.
You ready? Let's go.
I don't think I ever realized how many of our surgeries are actually elective.
AUSTIN: I have patients who need operations who won't come in.
They're worried it's not safe.
BELL: You know, I've never felt quite so useless.
NOLAN: So what do we do? Well, I'd say we join the front lines.
Mina's been in the ER all week.
- Same as Kit, in the ICU.
- Well, that's all well and good, except I got this preexisting condition - Cowardice? - (AUSTIN LAUGHS) Time to put on the big boy pants, Nolan.
We got work to do, baby.
C-Can he hear us? KIT: I believe so.
Say whatever you have to say now; it won't be much longer.
We will be here long as it takes.
He can't die alone.
I'll give you some privacy.
(ALARM BEEPING) (INDISTINCT CHATTER) (MONITOR BEEPING) - (POUNDING ON DOOR) - PUND (MUFFLED): Dr.
Bell! Dr.
Bell.
His sat is stuck in the 70s.
What do you need? BELL: Hey.
What's going on? KIT: (SIGHS) Everything.
I feel so helpless.
We're surgeons.
We cut, we fix.
With this disease, there's so little we can do.
Just hold their hands and support them.
And too many are dying in these rooms, alone.
BELL: You should go home.
You're exhausted.
KIT: You should.
It's too dangerous for you here.
People over 65 are most at risk.
BELL: I'm 60.
Roughly.
I'm fit.
I run marathons.
KIT: That's Pete.
He's a tennis pro, now with myocarditis as a result of this virus.
He's 33 and he might die.
Fit won't save you.
BELL: Well, I'm staying.
(PHONE CHIMES) MINA: Hundley just pulled in.
She's not doing well.
She drove herself.
(PANTING) (SIREN WAILING) (GRUNTS) DEVON: Hundley! Hundley, hang on! - MINA: We've got Hundley! - IRVING: Put her in Bay Three.
MINA: Sat 78, pulse 150 and climbing.
NIC: I'll start an IV.
CONRAD: Mina, she needs oxygen.
MINA: Get her started on a non-rebreather.
- (HUNDLEY COUGHING) - DEVON: And 500cc's of saline.
(PANTING) You got this.
We got this.
NIC: Here you go.
All right? Temp is 102.
6.
DEVON: Okay, her sats are rising.
92.
- 94.
- HUNDLEY: Oxygen's helping.
Don't intubate if you can avoid it.
I need to stay awake for Raylee.
Promise.
NIC: We're gonna do everything we can to take care of you.
RAYLEE: Mom! HUNDLEY: Oh, oh, my baby.
Send her home where she's safe.
- Get her out of here.
- I will.
I promise.
DEVON: Hundley, we need to admit you, get you to the ICU, okay? IRVING: I'm putting in the orders now.
MINA: Checking for available beds.
Hang in there.
RAYLEE: Nic, please.
She wouldn't even let me drive her here.
I have to see her.
NIC: Raylee, we can't have visitors - in the hospital right now.
- RAYLEE: Please.
You know my mom.
She's there for me when I'm sick.
I can't just leave.
Listen, first off all, are you feeling okay? Good.
So, your mom wants you to go home and isolate.
Take care of yourself, and I will call you as soon as she's settled, okay? I'm so sorry.
KIM: We're bleeding money.
Down $400 million in a single month.
Uh, you hold the fate of the hospital in your hands.
Red Rock needs you to start cutting again.
CAIN: Can't cut.
Everyone's afraid.
Especially the sickest people who need the operations the most.
They're afraid COVID is gonna kill them.
KIM: Then-then focus on elective surgeries.
Stents, uh, knee replacements, disc repair, uh, plastics.
BELL: It's against CMS guidelines.
KIT: Elective surgeries use precious PPE, hospital beds and resources.
KIM: We don't have a multibillion-dollar endowment like the Mayo Clinic.
I have to make payroll.
D-Do you understand that this hospital will close? - Thousands of jobs are at stake.
- AUSTIN: Yeah, but the only job you're worried about is your own, Kim.
- KIM: That's not true.
- Really? KIM: I-I know we haven't always been on the same side, but we need to work together this time.
BELL: There's a government bailout coming.
- Where will that money go? - KIT: Red Rock's bank account.
- (BELL LAUGHS) - AUSTIN: Yeah.
We're done here.
KIM: B-Barrett.
You're the chief of surgery.
My rainmaker.
I Help me to save Chastain.
Take the lowest-risk elective surgeries and-and schedule them as urgent.
CAIN: Okay, on one condition.
Don't ever threaten my job again or replace my face on the side of this building with a shiny new object.
KIM: Deal.
(LINE RINGING) (PHONE RINGING) (SIGHS) Dr.
Cain? Is there something wrong? I'm afraid so.
Listen, I know that I told you your back surgery could wait, Ben, but I took another look at your last scan this morning.
Is there a problem? Yes.
I see some progression in your disc herniation at your L5-S1 vertebrae with some potential involvement of your spinal cord.
- My spinal cord? - Yes, yes, and it's getting worse.
I need to get you into the OR immediately.
But it's not safe at the hospital.
- The coronavirus is - Oh, no, our surgical facilities are pristine.
Yeah, never been cleaner or safer.
And you won't be anywhere near a COVID patient.
We'll take every precaution.
(EXHALES) I don't know.
Um, I have to think about this.
See, here's the thing, Ben, if you put this off, you take one bad step, you slip and fall in the bathroom you'll end up paralyzed.
Oh, my God, Dr.
Cain.
(EXHALES) Okay.
I'll do whatever you say.
(PHONE RINGING) Devon? How are you? Are you driving your cab again? That's one of the riskiest things you could do.
You promised me you'd stay home.
- And who is going to pay my rent, Devon? - I will.
Listen, Dad, our ER is packed.
Our ICU, too.
Think about Mom.
You could get infected, you could take it home to her, she could die.
You both could.
I need you to turn that cab around and go home now.
Dad, you need to leave the facility and quarantine now.
It's really not a good time, Nicky.
I'm only - I'm halfway through treatment.
If I leave - I know, but I wouldn't be asking if it wasn't serious.
Please.
I'll get you a hotel room.
Just tell me you'll do this.
Yeah, okay.
Okay, okay.
Uh Anything for you, Nicky.
Okay.
Dad, where are you? I finally got a guy who's willing to manufacture the new mask prototypes, but now he is telling me that there are no more materials.
You have Crohn's disease and a compromised immune system.
We agreed that you were gonna work from home.
Hear my voice.
This is me not happy with you.
You need to solve this issue from home.
As soon as I'm finished here.
- (PHONE BEEPS) - Hello? This is Marshall Winthrop.
Unfort (SIREN WAILING) CHAD: Hey, you, nurse.
I've been waiting for two hours.
I got gold-plated insurance.
- The taxes I pay, I should be first in line.
- MINA: Hey, hey, hey.
There's no special treatment in this ER.
Put your mask up, six feet apart or you're out of here.
I am six feet apart.
What are you trying to do, set a world record for people in an ER in the middle of a pandemic? MINA: I understand the male temptation to exaggerate length but you need to back up.
(GASPS) What Don't touch me! He's not six feet apart! IRVING: We've got five minutes before our next crisis.
- JESSICA: It is crazy out there.
- IRVING: And unsafe.
I really wish you were back in the OR working as a scrub nurse.
JESSICA: I'm right where I want to be.
I'm laying my head on your shoulder right now.
IRVING: I'm holding you and rocking you back and forth.
JESSICA: Aw.
Thank you.
"Lower extremity weakness and acute onset of bowel incontinence requiring urgent operative management".
Come on, he's a 58-year-old with a simple bulging disc.
We are in the midst of the single most devastating public health crisis of our lifetimes.
Barrett, you can't be doing surgeries that don't need to be done.
You put a patient at risk of getting COVID.
20% of surgeries are unnecessary.
I made a judgment call.
And he won't get COVID because my OR is spotless.
You know, you had a chance to do the right thing.
Pitch in with the rest of us and help, but no.
You just followed Red Rock's marching orders.
I'm a neurosurgeon.
I cut.
When that pandemic can be cured by brain surgery, shoot me a page.
HUNDLEY: It's okay, Raylee.
If you get a fever or cough, don't panic.
Most people don't get this sick.
You're gonna be okay.
My doctors are here.
I'll call you back soon.
- I love you.
- RAYLEE: I love you, Mom.
- (PHONE BEEPS) - BELL: Hey, there.
(HUNDLEY PANTING) Proning isn't working, is it? BELL: Well, your O2 sats are still dipping too low, so we're gonna try a high-flow nasal cannula now.
CONRAD: It is a little outside the box, but otherwise we have to intubate.
If you put me to sleep and put that tube in, there's a good chance I won't wake up again.
Which is why high-flow is worth the risk.
Okay.
On three.
One, two, three.
(GROANING, PANTING) - KIT: Uh-oh, we disconnected something.
- (ALARM BEEPING) - BELL: Where do these go? - Haven't a clue.
White electrode under right clavicle.
Black under left.
(GROANS) Red above and left of umbilicus.
What about the beeping? Just press "silence".
(BEEPING STOPS) Surgeons, huh? Nurses aren't paid enough.
Tell me about it.
(COUGHING) (PANTING) You're gonna be okay.
(COUGHS) Snapped when I was in the room.
I thought I felt something.
CONRAD: Europe, South Korea, China, they all have state-of-the-art protection; look at this.
Dr.
Voss is a surgeon.
Could have gone home 'cause she doesn't have any patients, but she's working in the ICU, and this is all that protected her from exposure to COVID-19.
She's been exposed.
You are sending our soldiers to face the enemy without any armor.
We have a top ER nurse in the ICU fighting for her life.
Two transpo workers are dead.
Med students, residents, they're isolating from their families, they're sick and alone, and some of them may die.
Everybody is chasing the same shipments.
I keep getting outbid by other hospitals.
You need to protect our staff.
That's your job.
I feel your frustration.
I-I do.
My frustration? Why-why don't you come down to my ER and share my frustration instead of sitting in your ivory tower doing nothing?! All of you think I don't care.
I care.
I can't escape this either.
This morning, a woman, a total stranger, called me a bat eater.
I'm sorry.
That's terrible.
The "China Virus", the "Kung Flu".
I was born in Savannah.
This is being used to turn us all against each other.
And yes, I am trying to save this hospital.
I'll-I'll bend the rules to do it, but do not think for one moment that this hasn't hit me hard.
I am human.
Prove it.
Prove it.
(DISTANT SIREN WAILING) Yo.
How you holding up? I don't know.
It's pretty rough in there.
I'm proud of you for working the ER; however, I need you in the OR.
We have our first COVID trach.
Sounds delightful.
(BOTH LAUGH) Well, seriously, you could use the break.
I'm worried about you.
I'm worried about you, too.
Okay.
You know where to find me if you need me.
I certainly do.
CONRAD: The high-flow bought us time, but your sat is 82% on 100% oxygen, and it is dropping.
We need to intubate.
(STIFLED SOBBING) - Can you get Chu? - He's on his way.
(HUNDLEY CRYING) Can you please tell Raylee I love her again? You will tell her yourself because you will wake up.
Now let us fight for you.
- I'm here, Hundley.
I'm here.
- (COUGHING) You're gonna be okay.
- (SNIFFLING) - We're here.
(SOBBING SOFTLY) We're gonna put you to sleep now, my friend.
Just relax.
Just relax.
- You haven't eaten all day.
- I can't eat.
Hundley's a single mom.
I don't want to have to tell Raylee that she's never gonna see her mom again.
She's around the same age you were when you lost your mom, isn't she? If you get COVID, I get COVID.
The good news is I can smell that coffee.
And I could taste that bread.
If it's my last meal, I'm going out with carbs.
Don't even say that.
How's Kit? Her mask broke.
She's been exposed.
- (SIGHS) - I told her to go home.
She's scared.
(MINA CHUCKLES) You'd rather wear a PAPR than shave your beard.
(CHUCKLES) You know how long it takes to grow this beard out? You know we have a limited number of these? They're for people who can't wear N95s because of the way their faces are shaped, or because they have a religious objection to shaving their beards.
Yeah, well, let's just say I do have a religious objection.
I worship this beard, all right? Well, you certainly are conceited as you are vain.
Isn't it itchy? Not at all.
- All right, let me help you.
- Aw, thanks.
Without the beard, I look too young.
It adds wisdom and gravitas, - and it's reassuring to my patients.
- Mm.
(LAUGHS) Well, you don't look reassuring to me.
- You look like you're about to go into space.
- Ha-ha-ha-ha.
(DEVICE BEEPS, WHIRS) (AIR HISSING) It's working.
Yeah, it is.
Where did you get it? South Korea.
My family still has relatives there.
I put in an emergency order, and it turns out this shipment was on its way.
It wasn't cheap getting it diverted to Chastain.
Wait, wait, wait.
You said Red Rock wouldn't pay.
They won't.
But they did.
(SIGHS) What happens when they find out? Could cost me my job.
But for now, at least our staff will be protected.
And I could sleep a little better tonight.
You never looked better.
You, too.
(BOTH LAUGH) NIC: Ready for the next shift? CONRAD: Yeah.
I'm ready.
And we are not leaving Hundley.
Whisper in my ear it's time to go (INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER) Head between your hands but I feel cold (CHEERING) It's too hard to hold you up and breathe My heart is breaking up the things it wants, yeah My love, it ain't big enough What if I can't reach And pick you up next time? What if I can't reach And make you feel all right? What if I can't reach And pick you up next time? What if I can't reach And make you feel all right (LINE RINGING) Hey, Dad, it's me.
Just calling to check in and make sure you're not driving - your cab anymore.
- (COUGHING) One second, son.
- (COUGHING) - Dad, what's going on? Nothing.
I think I have a little flu, that's all.
What if I can't reach And pick you up next time? What if I can't reach And make you feel all right? What if I can't reach, oh Reach What if I can't reach? What if I can't Reach? What if I can't reach And make you feel all right? (THERMOMETER BEEPS) What if I can't reach And pick you up next time? What if I can't reach And make you feel all right? What if I can't reach? Randolph I'm gonna need you to cover my patients tomorrow.
(EXHALES) I have a fever.
Please give Nic all my love, and tell her I'm sorry I couldn't stay.
How is your mom doing? They were married 41 years.
An arranged marriage that worked, you know? This is the only thing that could've separated them.
Yeah.
I have to go.
Got to catch my plane.
CONRAD: Fly safe.
(DOOR OPENS, CLOSES) I can hear her heart beat From a thousand miles Ooh And the heavens open Every time she smiles And when I come to her That's where I belong Yeah, I'm running to her Like a river's song She gives me love, love, love, love Crazy love She give me love, love, love, love Crazy love - I love you.
- I love you, too.
When I'm feeling low down Yeah, when I come to her When the sun goes down Takes away my trouble Takes away my grief Take away my heartache In the night like a thief She gives me love, love, love, love - (SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY) - Crazy love She gives me love, love, love, ooh Crazy love.
IRVING: Welcome to the long-awaited Nic and Conrad wedding.
We are all gathered here today to celebrate the union of these two people we love.
So, without further ado, I'll let Nic and Conrad speak for themselves.
I love you.
(WHISPERS): I love you, too.
Conrad and I wanted to take a moment to remember some friends that are missing here today.
People we worked with for a very long time who sadly lost their battle with COVID.
George in transpo.
Dr.
Peterson.
Peter who cleaned the ICU rooms.
Lois from accounting.
They ate lunch together every day.
I think she had a crush on him.
We lost them both.
CONRAD: We also want to send love to our dear friend Devon, who was to be my best man.
Devon lost his father to COVID-19 and he almost lost his mother.
He's on his way to his dad's memorial right now.
Dad? Thank you for stepping in as my best man.
I love you.
I love you.
IRVING: Let us honor the lives of those we've lost, by holding their memories in our hearts as we celebrate one of life's greatest joys.
Tough times come.
They always will.
But when they do, Conrad, I want you by my side.
No matter what, in sickness and in health.
NIC: I promise to always have your back, no matter what.
I promise to love you, - but to never obey you.
- (LAUGHTER) I didn't have my hopes up for that "obey" part.
Mostly I promise you'll never lose me.
This is forever.
For as long as we both shall live.
IRVING: Conrad Theodore Hawkins and Nicolette Marie Nevin, sounds to me like you take each other as lawfully wedded husband and wife.
- BOTH: We do.
- (LAUGHTER) Then by the power vested in me by the city of Atlanta and MakeMeAMinisterToday.
com, I hereby declare it official.
You may now enjoy your first kiss as husband and wife.
- - (DIALOGUE INAUDIBLE) ("MY OWN SOUL'S WARNING" BY THE KILLERS PLAYING) - Oh, yeah.
- (LAUGHS) - Oh, Randolph? - No.
No, don't ask.
- Don't ask.
- Oh, come on, come on, come on.
I know you've got moves.
You know what? They could be good for each other.
You know he was there for her the whole time she was sick? He'd buy her food, he'd schedule her nurses' visits.
- I-Is there a chance? - I mean, could be.
- Bell should be so lucky.
- (LAUGHS) Oh, man.
My own soul's warning "Meet me under the covered bridge"? What's up with the cryptic text? Andrea was supposed to be your guest.
But you're alone.
Why? We're not together anymore.
We broke up.
What happened? What did you do? You see the way Conrad looks at Nic? Andrea deserves someone who looks at her like that.
And quite frankly, I'm not that guy.
You know, if I were to be honest, to me, she was just filling the space that I wanted you to fill.
- But I told you - I know.
You don't want to lose what we have in the OR.
I get it.
I don't want to lose that, either, Mina.
Look, you asked me, right? So I'm telling you the truth.
That's what we do, right? Don't worry, I'm not expecting anything.
This changes nothing.
How about that? DOCTOR: Dr.
Pravesh, your father's respiratory failure is getting worse.
We need to intubate him.
DEVON (OVER VIDEO): What's the prognosis? DOCTOR: We are doing everything we can, but he's very sick.
DEVON: Uh, I need to speak to him before you intubate, please.
DOCTOR: Yes, of course.
(TEJAN COUGHING) - (STRAINED BREATHING) - DEVON: Dad, can you hear me? Dad, hang on.
They're gonna intubate, but don't give up.
Keep fighting.
People recover from this.
People just like you.
You You can make it, you just you just got to fight.
So proud of you, Devon.
(COUGHING) Take care of your mom.
DEVON: I will take care of Mom, no matter what.
I promise.
Dad, listen to me.
I would be nothing without you.
You helped put me through medical school, driving nights and weekends, working overtime.
I believed in myself because you believed in me.
And I always knew, no matter what, that you loved me.
You are everything.
Dad? Dad? Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Dad? Dad, can you hear me? (EXHALES) I love you, Dad.
(SIGHS)