Saving Hope (2012) s05e12 Episode Script
Leap of Faith
1 Charlie: You sure you don't want me to come to this ultrasound? I'm fine.
Besides, I thought you had work to do.
Eh.
How you been feeling? I am not sure.
I-I things are changing, I'm expanding by the second, and Maggie's moving to London.
[scoffs.]
Yeah, about that.
What, uh What if Maggie didn't have to move to London? What do you mean? Well, I was kind of waiting till this was official, but, um a staff position just came up at, uh, Hope Zion in Obstetrics, and Maggie's perfect for the position.
- Oh, no.
- Really? - I thought you'd be happy about that.
- Of course, I am.
It's just that Maggie's been really happy with her decision to leave.
So, you don't think I should tell her? I don't know.
They're leaving tonight.
She and Syd are great together.
- It's your call.
- Okay.
No, I, uh My lips are sealed.
Wait.
You can see me.
Something wrong? Someone wants my attention.
Duder, I know you can see me, and I kind of need your help here.
Doctor will be with you in a minute.
[cellphone vibrates.]
Oh, come on.
Um Okay, I got broken bones incoming.
Um, you'll-you'll text me a picture of the ultrasound? - Absolutely.
- I got to go.
Duder, wait up! I'm just saying, it's not that difficult.
That's easy for you to say.
You weren't up half the night with him.
You just have to manage your time better.
I'm sure you can figure it out.
You are a neurosurgeon.
You're working all the time now, with this new job of yours.
Yeah.
Back to Bay Street.
Turns out that finance pays better than cookies.
You're not nearly as accessible.
You know, all this child rearing, it's falling on my shoulders, Jonathan.
- Shahir? - Hmm? You know the expression, "it's not exactly brain surgery"? Mm-hmm.
That's about you, my beautiful man.
Hey, this is our child.
You can do this.
- Okay.
- [baby cries.]
Shanathan needs to burp.
Don't call our pretend child that.
Why? It's Shahir plus Jonathan.
Shanathan.
Yes, I understand, but explaining it Shh.
Oh, God.
I got to go to work.
Hey, you can do this.
- Shh.
- I have faith.
At least one of us does.
- [crying continues.]
- Hmm? Shh.
[burps.]
Oh.
[woman speaking indistinctly over P.
A.
.]
- Hey.
- Hey.
"An Evening with Steve Martin"? This is awesome.
Tomorrow night, 8:00.
- Gonna be a wild and crazy night.
- Wild and crazy - Wait.
Tomorrow night? - What? I actually can't go tomorrow night.
- Why not? - It's Thursday night.
That's bowling league.
You can skip it for one week, can't you? I can't.
The team depends on me.
The team that I've never once heard you mention.
Rose: [groans.]
Ow! [groans.]
Ohh, Dr.
Miller.
Please, I need your help.
Okay, Rose, what is it? Ohh, there's an elephant Ohh! Parked in the middle of my chest.
Dr.
Bell, this is this is Rose, she's one of our more frequent flyers.
Okay.
All right.
I'll take a look.
- No! - Right this way, ma'am.
Thank you, and thank you for letting me off the hook.
- Oh, no, you're not off the hook.
- [groans.]
Heart looks perfect.
Stomach, liver and kidneys, they're all where they should be.
This is one healthy nipper.
- She's brushing up on her British.
- Hmm.
Look at those backflips.
I know.
Tell me about it.
I feel like I've been on the Zumba Flume 24/7.
[chuckles.]
She's just showing off for her adoring crowd.
[computer beeps.]
Um, did you say "her"? Oh, I'm sorry.
You didn't want to know.
No.
No, I'm I'm fine.
It's just Actually, I didn't expect it.
You know, you did this exact same thing to me with Luke, right? - Did I? - Yes.
Oh! I'm terrible at secrets.
It's a good thing we're leaving tonight, or I would've told the whole hospital.
That's great news.
You gonna tell Charlie? I thought he was coming.
Well, he had work to do and I I kind of wanted to be alone for this.
You okay? Yeah.
I'm fine.
Fine but, uh, more importantly, what about you? You know, big move Any job prospects for you over there? Well, I'm not sure it's gonna be as easy as I thought, but Sydney: I trained over there, but Maggie will have to re-certify.
Might mean another fellowship year.
[cellphone vibrates.]
You're gonna have to start over from scratch? Yay! Ugh! Dr.
Storms.
Oh, everybody's least-favorite plastic surgeon.
His wife, Kimberly, went into labor.
Care to join me for one last delivery at Hope Zion, Dr.
Lin? I have some charting to finish, but I'll be up as soon as I can.
Cheerio.
I mean, it's fine.
I can start at the bottom.
It's not like I was moving up here, right? Right.
[sighs.]
What? Charlie told me that a staff position in Obstetrics just opened up.
Staff position? - Here? - Mm-hmm.
[inhales deeply.]
Doesn't change a thing.
I'm happy with my decision.
Good.
[siren wails in distance.]
- What happened? - Apparently, he fell 15 feet.
Okay, let's check him for spinal damage.
We're gonna roll him on three.
One, two, and three.
Aah! [groaning, breathing shallowly.]
- Sir, can you feel that? - [screams.]
Okay.
I'll take that as a yes.
Looks like he landed on his legs.
Or what's left of them anyway.
Let's, uh, have a look.
Watch the pants, man! They're my show pants.
Okay, put your head down.
Head down.
Okay.
Whoa! He must've nicked the femoral artery.
Pressure here! Dare I ask why he's all wet? He was holding his breath in a water tank suspended above Dundas Square until the wires snapped.
Uh, quick follow-up question why? His name is the Alluring Abbadon.
The magic community's hailing him as the next David Blaine.
Did you just say "magic community"? Yeah.
I dabble in the dark arts.
You got a problem with that, Dr.
Miller? Yeah.
I do.
Okay.
We need to stabilize these fractures.
Get him to imaging and into an O.
R.
right away.
[monitor beeps.]
Hey, he's dry drowning.
Being submerged must have caused pulmonary edema.
Let's get a tube in him right now.
Hope you got some really good tricks up your sleeve, Doc.
Zach: - Okay, he's tubed.
- Almost there.
Yeesh.
Tough luck, bud.
If only I could put this into my act.
Yeah.
They'd never believe it, right? - And what do we do now? - I don't know.
I mean, he's the only one who can see us, but apparently, he's busy trying to save your getaway sticks.
Okay.
Good to go.
- Breathing's normalized.
- All good down here.
- And what are we supposed to do? - Okay, Mr.
Abbadon, we're gonna take good care of you.
Just hang in there, all right? Gotta operate on these legs right away.
Uh Shortness of breath, sharp pain in the right arm.
What else could it be? It has to be a heart attack.
Okay, Rose, I need you to take a deep breath for me.
Between you and me, bowling league is a euphemism.
- I'm sorry? - There's definitely something else going on with your boyfriend.
[laughs.]
I see.
What makes you say that? The wisdom of five marriages.
I don't even know what that means.
Okay.
Do you know what a turkey is? I'm sorry? Bowling-wise, what's a turkey? Again, no idea.
It's three strikes in a row.
If he's actually bowling every Thursday, he'll know that.
Rose, what's that? It appears to be a thread.
Attached to a sewing needle? That might explain the pain in your right arm.
I was sewing a button back on a coat.
You're not having a heart attack, Rose.
But you may be having a panic attack.
No.
This isn't in my head.
Okay.
Well, you are welcome to a second opinion, and I know just the guy to give you one.
Here you go, Kingpin.
She's all yours.
Patient is a 55-year-old woman presenting with nausea and headaches.
Okay.
I am the Chief of Neurosurgery.
Do I need to be brought in on every patient - that has flu-like symptoms? - Oh, I just That's a rhetorical question, Dr.
Williams.
- Oh.
- I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
My phone has colic.
I have been up all night.
- What? - You wouldn't understand.
You don't have children.
Either the sleep deprivation has completely taken over, or you are Antonella Markos.
Please call me Nellie.
[laughs.]
This is my daughter, Poppy.
- Hey.
- Hi.
- You know her? - Yes.
Miss Markos is one of the finest concert pianists on the planet.
You know, I listen to your CD - every other day on my way to work.
- [laughs.]
Every other day.
I told you we came to the right hospital.
Can we focus on her headaches? They've been getting worse and worse.
- It's nothing.
- It's not "nothing," Mom.
She's been so weak, she's basically stopped eating.
[scoffs.]
This is nothing that a bit of Tabacum and lavender oil won't fix.
Nellie, can you please follow my finger? Thank you.
Some homeopathic remedies have been known to cause adverse reactions.
We should run some tests.
Dr.
Williams? That's really not necessary.
I'm feeling better already.
I should get back to work.
Ah, please stay.
How about an autograph for your trouble? Yes.
Yes, I would love that.
Also, could you sign this consent form for a full blood panel? Right here.
And I'll get my C.
D.
from the car.
[sighs.]
Thank you.
[laughs.]
Hey, I started to think you found a better offer and bailed on me.
No.
Why would you think that? I'm just kidding.
Relax.
Let me fill you in.
Nurse Storms here had some mild contractions overnight.
- They were nothing, really.
- Easy for you to say.
- She's 10 centimeters.
- Wait.
She's fully dilated? You You You mean it's go-time? No, I can't be.
I want an epidural.
- Sorry.
There isn't time.
- Yes, there is.
- Oh! - Oh, here comes another one.
- Okay.
- Oh! Oh, damn you! - Ow! - Gah! [Groans.]
I can't believe how fast she progressed.
Maggie: It's a miracle she didn't give birth in your Range Rover.
Oh, he never would've forgiven me.
Oh! Arnie loves his car.
No, I love our child more, Kim.
Yeah, that remains to be seen, Arnie.
Okay, can you two finish this later? 'Cause right now, it's time to push.
[grunts.]
Okay.
[grunts.]
Damon: Hey, you can run but you can't hide.
[chuckles.]
I just wanted to say it.
My legs.
You have to save them! I'm gonna do my best.
Hey, yeah, I know the whole squeaky wheel and all, - but, uh, what about me? - No, no, no.
You don't understand.
No legs, no Leap of Faith.
That's my signature trick.
That's what everybody comes to see.
I'll tell you what.
Why don't you keep him entertained? Show him all your tricks.
And when I'm done operating on your legs, I'll take him off your hands.
I'm right here, you know.
Deal? Well, I normally don't perform for free, but I hate magicians.
Oh, that might have been the fastest delivery in the history of vaginas.
We make a great team, you and me.
[chuckles.]
That's when you say, "Yeah, we do.
" "Can't wait to leave for London tonight.
" Oh, maybe when we're there, we'll have to deliver babies on the other side of the bed.
[chuckles.]
You know, like the driving.
Okay, that was funny.
- What's up? - Nothing.
It's just Kimberly was on track to becoming head nurse, and then she started dating Arnie, and disappeared.
Mm.
Different priorities now.
But they don't even seem to like each other.
Do you think she resents the fact that she put his career ahead of hers? Maggie, nobody likes Arnie Storms.
You can't expect his wife to.
Yeah, I think I just have too much on my plate.
I'm sorry.
I'm gonna change my scrub top, and I'll see you later.
Alex: Oh.
Maggs, you okay? No.
I'm not okay.
I'm definitely not okay.
Why did you tell me about the staff position? I don't know.
I-I-I found out that you had to re-certify, and I got protective.
Oh, you thought telling me about the great opportunity I'm leaving behind would make me feel better? No.
I I just wanted you to have all of the information.
Why now? Are you afraid for me? Is that it? Little Maggie going across the pond, trying to make it without big sister Alex.
Okay.
Okay.
Well, where is this coming from? I'm just I'm scared.
Right.
Tell me about it.
What are you scared about? Well, this isn't about me.
This is about your stuff.
Your stuff is my stuff.
Okay, fine.
The pregnancy? Not connecting with it at all.
I feel terrible about it.
I keep having these ridiculous dreams, and I'm sorry.
I I am so sorry that I told you about the job.
I'm glad you did.
I needed all the information, right? But, you're going anyway.
[cellphone vibrates.]
[sighs.]
It's Kimberly.
Go.
We'll We'll talk later.
[door closes.]
[sighs.]
It really hurts.
Oh, wow.
Where's the baby? We just moved her to the nursery.
- Kim, where does it hurt? - All over.
- And Dr.
Storms? - [groans.]
He's at Ikea getting a bassinet.
He was too superstitious to have any baby stuff - in the house before the birth.
- Mm.
Yeah.
That's a Jewish thing.
Is having your cell turned off at a crucial moment a Jewish thing, too? No, it's a guy thing, but we're here for you.
- [exhales sharply.]
- Chest pains? Oh, hell, yeah.
Shortness of breath.
[inhales sharply.]
Okay.
[groans.]
She has an iliac vein clot.
- Mm-hmm.
- [cries.]
- I want my husband.
- It's okay.
We're going to do everything we can to find him.
Chest pain means pieces of the clot must be breaking off and moving towards her heart.
So, if we don't break it up before it gets to her lungs She'll be dead within the hour.
[heart monitor beeps.]
How's he lookin', Roxy? B.
P.
and heart rate are on the low side, but he's stable-ish.
Okay, well, stable-ish is gonna have to do.
I'm gonna start with the intramedullary rods.
[monitor beeps rapidly.]
Dr.
Harris, his pulse is spiking.
[rapid beeping.]
What? I didn't put in the needle yet.
More pulmonary edema? [beeping continues.]
Okay.
Petechial rash.
Bone marrow from the breaks must have gotten in his blood.
- Fat embolism.
- [inhales sharply.]
Yeah.
Change of plans.
Um, I'm gonna secure these fractures with a temporary ex-fix.
And somebody get Dr.
Bell down here, please.
[sighs.]
[playing "Suite Bergamasque".]
[sniffles.]
- Dr.
Hamza.
- Hmm? Hm.
I've just been watching her for the past few minutes.
I don't want her to stop.
Are you crying? Oh! I didn't You don't really strike me as the crying type.
Right.
I'm just incredibly tired.
She has a toxic level of gelsemium - in her system.
- Oh.
It's what's causing the flu-like symptoms.
She's been accidentally poisoning herself.
Okay, thank you, Dr.
Williams.
Hmm.
I think I know what's wrong with her.
[exhales sharply.]
Nellie how long have you known you've had Parkinson's? Homeopaths use gelsemium to treat tremors.
Nellie? Six months.
Poppy: Six months? [machines beeping.]
It's fine.
It's fine.
What am I looking at, Charlie? Charlie: Fat embolism from femoral fractures He's tachycardic with ventilation issues.
Thoughts? We need to attack the fat directly.
It's in a thousand tiny pieces.
Mm, flush it out.
Bronchoalveolar lavage.
What do you know about bowling? What? Gutter ball, shared shoes turkeys.
Everything okay, Dawn? I think Zach is lying to me.
About bowling? Bowling is a euphemism.
Never mind.
[sighs.]
Well, Zach doesn't strike me as a deceptive type.
[laughs sarcastically.]
Oh, here we go Bro code, right? I'm the crazy girlfriend making stuff up in my head.
No, it's - That's awesome.
- [laughs.]
No, it's just that You know, sometimes you have to give people the benefit of the doubt.
If he's keeping something from you, - maybe he's got good reason for it.
- Oh, yeah? Is that what you tell yourself when you keep stuff from Alex? Give it to me straight, Doc.
Did you save my legs? Yes.
[sighs.]
What's going on? I step out for two minutes, everything goes to hell? Where's my baby? We tried to page you, and your baby's fine.
Kimberly has an iliac vein clot.
Which we've countered with heparin.
Dr.
Lin, you have a history with blood thinners.
Are we taking bets as to when my wife goes into a coma? Kimberly: - Arnie, please.
- Anything happens to her, I'll be sure to talk to Dr.
Harris about your suitability for the staff job.
Staff job? Dr.
Benton's leaving.
That's why we're stuck with you.
I want my wife monitored every 15 minutes.
Arnie, I know you're upset, but the best thing that you can do right now is take off your lab coat and be with your wife.
We're gonna let the heparin keep working its magic, and we'll be back to check on you in a bit.
- Thank you.
- Okay.
Dr.
Lin, a word.
You knew about this staff position? I heard about it this morning, but it's not for me.
Nothing's changed.
What are you talking about? Everything has changed.
Maggie, I can't be the person who takes you away from this opportunity so you can start all over again.
Don't do this for me.
It isn't for you.
It's for me.
I want to go to England.
It's my choice, and I chose you.
If you had known about this staff job before I asked you to come with me, would you have made the same choice? Yes.
[exhales sharply.]
Don't put me in this position.
What are you saying? I'm saying I love you, but I don't want you spending your whole life regretting this decision.
Don't come with me.
[exhales sharply.]
- Hi.
- Oh.
I heard you were on the ward.
I just wanted to see how you were doing.
Much better.
Thanks.
You have a patient up here? No, actually.
Um [chuckles.]
[chuckling.]
Oh, my! [Baby coos.]
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Yeah, whenever I have some time, I wander the ward, and That's not as weird as it sounds.
No, I used to do it all the time just trying to get in the mood.
What did you name her? Alice.
Alice Suzanne Storms.
Arnie wanted to call her Gertie.
Oh, well [both chuckle.]
Alice is perfect.
She really is, even in my belly.
I don't know if I've ever loved anyone like that before.
But you must know what I mean.
[monitor beeps.]
Sure.
Yeah, of course I do.
Oh, my Ohh! Is everything all right? [groans.]
Yeah, I just have a pain right up my back.
- Oh, my - Let me take Alice for you.
- All right.
- Ohh.
There we go.
[exhales sharply.]
All right, let's have a feel.
Your uterus seems deviated to the side.
There may be internal bleeding.
Page Dr.
Katz now.
Am I gonna see my baby again? Hold tight, Kim.
Hold tight.
[Alice coos.]
You sure about this, Maggie? Yeah.
The timing couldn't be better, actually.
Okay.
Well, you won't be seeing patients for the first few weeks, but if you're sure [drawer opens.]
you can move in to your brand-spanking new office.
[sirens wail in distance.]
Come here, come here, come here! Everything okay? Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm just dealing with a really difficult case.
Yeah, I heard Kimberly Storms.
You know what they say about, uh, treating other doctor's wives Hang an IV, call for help.
[chuckles.]
[cellphone vibrates.]
Well, you're not wrong.
It's Kimberly.
I got to take this.
- Maggie.
- Yeah? Keys.
Yeah.
Hey, you said you saved my legs.
I did.
Well, why am I still in the operating room? Because you developed another complication.
- [sighs.]
- Don't worry.
Dr.
Bell's an excellent surgeon.
You're in very good hands.
Oh, better than a guy who can talk to ghosts? I find that hard to believe.
If I learn more, I'll come find you, okay? Hey, hey.
This, uh This thing of yours.
Can you talk to spirits, the dead, or just the ones in this hospital? Magicians never reveal their secrets.
I mean, what? Look, just It's It's real magic, man.
It's beautiful.
- Not so sure about that.
- Are you kidding? It's the best monkey of all time.
Monkey.
Why'd you say the It's a truck.
It's a It's a [slurring words.]
What's going on? Okay.
BAL may be interfering with your ventilation.
You're about to have a stroke.
Dawn: Clearing out the last of the debris, and Presto.
Sorry.
He's a magician.
[door opens.]
Hey.
We need to raise his positive-end expiratory pressure.
Welcome back, Dr.
Harris.
I'm just finishing up.
No, you're not.
[sighs.]
He's stroking out.
What are you talking about? The BAL is interfering with his ventilation.
His stats are bottoming out.
He is bucking the vent a bit.
Listen, Dawn, I will explain later.
Just trust me on this, okay? All right, you heard the man.
Get me the JET ventilator.
I hope you're right.
Yep.
Me, too.
Me three.
Me four.
[clears throat.]
Sorry.
40 megs of Propofol.
Everything okay, Dr.
Harris? Yeah.
Yeah.
[door opens.]
I [sighs.]
Levodopa and dopamine have also been known to help.
We could try that.
I tried them both.
They didn't help.
We could get you on some anticholinergics like trihexyphenidyl.
I've tried everything.
Gelsemium is the only thing that's working.
It's not, though.
The plant is highly toxic, and you're poisoning yourself.
As long as I can complete my opus, I'll die happy.
Mom, you would rather play the piano than live? Playing is living for me.
You know I love you, but this this is who I am.
And I wouldn't understand, right? You are supposed to be my mother, but you were never really there for me, so why would dead be any different? [siren wails in distance.]
[telephone rings.]
You have kids? Um [clears throat.]
Not ones that aren't digital.
My partner and I are trying to adopt.
That's brave in your line of work.
You can't have it all, doctor.
Don't let anyone tell you different.
You're only meant to be truly great at one thing.
Have you considered surgical options, Nellie? I'm not aware of any.
Okay, there's a procedure called Deep Brain Stimulation DBS.
We install electrodes.
It's like having a pacemaker in your brain.
That seems risky.
Well, there are risks, some cognitive ones, but we've had success with DBS on selected Parkinson's patients.
There are no guarantees, but it could buy you some time, tremor free.
How much time? A few years, maybe more.
Long enough to finish my opus.
Or spend time with your daughter.
Hmm.
CT results.
Oof.
The birth was so fast, the baby's head must have caused a rupture into the retroperitoneal space.
And the heparin that you have her Made things 10 times worse.
I can't believe this is happening again.
We have to get her off the blood thinner or she'll bleed out.
But if we do take her off the heparin, she'll die from the massive clots to the lungs.
We've got to get in there, do something now.
A cava umbrella.
Brilliant.
Insert through her leg, weave it up into her abdomen, just below the renal veins? Stop the larger clots from reaching the lungs, and when that's in place, - we'll take her off the blood thinner.
- Great.
I have to be at the airport in three hours, but I can do this.
All due respect, Syd, I'm already at the dance.
Let me show you my moves.
Okay, Dr.
Reid.
Let's boogie.
Okay.
Okay, pump going on.
[ventilator puffing rapidly.]
[puffing stops.]
[puffing resumes.]
Ventilation is normalizing.
Looks like we're out of the woods.
A truly magical save.
I never got into magic as a kid.
And now you're talking to a ghost.
Yeah.
Look, this trick of yours, Doc I need to learn it.
[sighs.]
Why? [laughs.]
I was married once, you know? It was the best three years of my life.
I didn't deserve him.
And I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, and then it did.
What happened? Uh, brain aneurysm in the dining room.
Now you see him, [snaps fingers.]
now you don't.
I'm sorry.
I threw myself into my work.
I thought maybe if I work hard enough on the magic act, maybe You could see him again? And then I meet you, and you got the magic, man! You got to teach me.
I can't.
I'm sorry.
I don't even know how I got this.
[chuckles.]
I'd do anything just to just to see him once more.
[sniffles.]
Yeah.
I get that.
[monitors beeping.]
Now, be careful.
She's a high-bleed risk, so if you nick anything If you're gonna let me lead, Dr.
Katz, let me lead.
Almost there.
Okay.
Expanding.
All right.
Looks like we're over the hump.
Okay, there's no need for two obstetrical staff members in here, and I have a plane to catch, so Your idea saved this patient's life.
Hope Zion's lucky to have you.
W-Wait.
Is this goodbye? I guess so.
[chuckles.]
Well, like, call me when you get there, okay? [inhales deeply.]
Sure.
[door opens, closes.]
Do you want to talk about it? What is there to talk about? I finally got the job I always wanted, and couldn't be happier.
[indistinct conversations.]
What's a turkey? [pen clicks.]
Um, from the poultry family, popular on Thanksgiving? Bowling-wise.
Don't know.
So you don't bowl on Thursdays.
What do you do? Okay, wait a minute.
I do bowl on Thursdays, but sometimes it's mini golf, the arcade.
Jesus.
How old is she, Zach? No.
What? No! You need to level with me.
Okay, Dawn, listen.
[sighs.]
It's the boys Jacob and Oliver.
We're just trying to figure out a proper visitation schedule until they get settled.
[chuckles.]
I'm sorry.
Why didn't you just tell me that? I-I-I like mini golf.
I could join you.
I love your boys.
I know.
I know you do.
I know, and I They They just They're They don't like me.
No, it's not that.
It's just that they they just they just wanted a little bit of alone time with their dad.
Why didn't you just tell me that? I didn't want to hurt your feelings.
So you lied to me? No, I [sighs.]
Look, Dawn.
You are so amazing with them.
It's But you're not their mother.
Look.
They just don't know you like I know you, and they just need a little bit of time.
That's all.
Me, too.
[chuckles.]
[sighs.]
Nellie, you wanted to see me? Yes.
I think I have decided to go forward with the Deep Brain Stimulation.
I think that's the right decision.
It'll take a while to set everything up and to book a surgery, but if the DBS is successful, it could quiet the tremors.
The cognitive risks tell me more.
Well, even if we are successful, a bilateral GPI surgery coupled with a hemorrhage could create some cognitive deficits.
Is it going to affect her playing? Well, after the surgery, there's a chance your mother might not remember how to play the piano.
Then that's a deal-breaker.
No, it isn't.
Let's hear him out.
It's not permanent.
Cognition could revert back in a few months.
You would need someone patient to help you relearn while the brain recovers from surgery.
The music comes from here.
And that's where you live.
The most beautiful pieces I wrote, I wrote to you.
If it comes to it, would you teach me how to play them again? [siren wails in the distance.]
Alex: - Hey.
- [exhales sharply.]
I just came from recovery.
Kim's doing well.
Thought you wanted to know.
Best news I've heard all day.
Wow.
Considering your promotion and your digs, that says a lot.
I guess it just hasn't really sunk in yet.
What's that? I found it on the floor.
It's Syd's handwriting, and I figured it's her goodbye letter.
I can't bring myself to read it.
I know you, Maggie, and I know what it looks like when you're happy, and this last month is the happiest I have ever seen you.
Do you think I made a mistake? Well, it depends.
[exhales sharply.]
Jobs come and go, but love, it's well, it's hard to come by.
Well, she was the one who told me to stay.
Her exact words were, "Don't come with me.
" It doesn't get more clear than that.
Unless this letter says differently.
[chuckles.]
It's in Hebrew.
Classic Katz.
[chuckles.]
Writing me a letter I can't read.
Let's get her to read it to you.
Her flight hasn't left yet.
Uh, there's no time.
Ah, yes, there is.
You just need a fast car and somebody reckless to drive it.
Oh, my God.
Come on.
Let's go.
Zach! - Yeah? - Did you drive today? No, I rode in on my Penny Farthing.
- [scoffs.]
- Yeah, I drove.
Okay, great.
I need your keys.
Where's your motorcycle? I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm pregnant, so I sold it.
No one saw that coming.
Okay, not enough time.
Keys! [keys clack.]
How am I supposed to get home? Hitch a ride with Dawn.
It's not gonna happen.
We're riding on our horses, our hands full of torches I'm never gonna see you again.
Your going to England, Lin, not Mars.
I love you.
You, too.
- Come over, red rover, you're through Alex: - Okay, let's go! Now get out of my E.
R.
! Not safe from the lure Not safe from ourselves It longs to be warm I can't believe I'm the one rushing to the airport for love.
Why do you say that? [chuckles.]
Because you're the hopeless romantic.
I'm always the bridesmaid.
That is not true! You just hadn't met your one.
[exhales sharply.]
Now my one is crossing the pond without me.
Well, she hasn't left yet.
[sighs.]
Thank you for doing this.
You have been there for me more times than I can count.
Seriously, the only thing bigger than your brain is your heart.
I wish I could decide which one I'm listening to.
You showed me not to be afraid of mine, not to mention a thing or two in the O.
R.
There are no words.
Don't worry.
You're not getting rid of me that easily.
We are coming to visit.
You better.
Or we won't make it, and you'll be stuck with me forever.
Oh, no, no, no.
I'm gonna get you there dead or alive, preferably alive.
[chuckles.]
Hey.
How you feeling, my love? Oh, I'm just tired.
Yeah? Yeah.
How's our little Sha-Nathan doing? I don't know if I can be a father, Jonathan.
You can only be great at one thing, and I'm already a great surgeon.
So, that's it? Well, maybe in a few years when things are less hectic.
It won't be less hectic.
That's just life, Shahir.
Well, maybe my life doesn't include a child.
I'm gonna go.
Okay.
I'll see you at home.
Jonathan.
Jon [monitor beeping.]
Pick a card, any card.
Oh, really? Really.
Okay, put it back anywhere you like.
Anywhere? Mm-hmm.
Okay, so, Dr.
Bell managed to regulate your breathing, and it looks like your legs are gonna make a full recovery.
[exhales sharply.]
But I might not want to do the Leap of Faith anytime soon.
Well, between you and me, doctor, that illusion actually requires very little leaping.
No.
No jumping at all.
Why do I get the strange feeling we've met before? 'Cause we have, in the E.
R.
when they brought you in.
No, it's more than that.
I don't know.
Is that your card? No, actually.
It's not.
Well, don't feel bad.
You had a bit of a day.
Geez, doc, how many drugs did you give me? Well, we we Uh, okay.
Yeah, that's pretty impressive.
Not really.
You got the real magic, man.
You fixed me.
Thanks.
Oh, look who it is! I know you've been avoiding me.
No.
No one's been avoiding you.
It's just It's been a busy day.
Listen, you died.
That doesn't mean you weren't loved or you won't be missed.
I'm just scared.
I know.
But I don't know what happens next.
You just think of someone you love and hope for the best [chuckles.]
duder.
[laughs.]
[whoosh.]
[Beethoven's "Fur Elise" plays.]
[baby crying.]
[baby belches, coos.]
[exhales forcefully.]
- Love you! - Love you! Bye! Bye! [music ends.]
[groans.]
[indistinct conversations.]
Sydney: Hey, stranger.
I thought you left.
I did want to get on that plane.
I was so mad and disappointed.
I'm sorry.
No, no, no, not at you at myself for pushing you away.
I'm so glad you came.
[indistinct announcement over P.
A.
.]
I got your letter.
I think the first word is "Shalom.
" [chuckles.]
Yeah.
But it's really hard to find someone who reads Hebrew.
Yeah, 'cause there's no Jewish doctors working at a hospital.
- [laughs.]
- Nope.
I was standing in that office, and it was everything I'd worked for.
And all I could think about was you.
[chuckles.]
I love you.
And I'd give everything up to be with you.
I would, too.
That's why I didn't get on the plane.
I guess we both gave it all up.
[chuckles.]
You want to know what that says? Hmm.
Ooh, ooh, ooh "Shalom, Maggie.
" "From the Book of Ruth 'Urge me not to leave you.
'" "'Where ever you go, I will go.
'" "'Where you lodge, I will lodge.
'" "'Where you die, I will die.
'" "'And there, I will be buried.
'" You had me at "Shalom.
" [both chuckle.]
It's a strange, strange game Life will never be the same I wonder when Plane tickets are on me.
I'll be sane again [both laugh.]
Even though I know, I know everything All right.
Thought I knew I saw you [sighs.]
Now I know I know nothing at all So, my best friend's gone.
Position's open.
Are you in? Hey, Charlie, it's me.
Can you watch Luke tonight? No, I'm I'm fine.
Everything's fine.
I'm just I'm having a girl's night.
- It's a strange, strange game - All right.
Life will never be the same [sighs.]
Besides, I thought you had work to do.
Eh.
How you been feeling? I am not sure.
I-I things are changing, I'm expanding by the second, and Maggie's moving to London.
[scoffs.]
Yeah, about that.
What, uh What if Maggie didn't have to move to London? What do you mean? Well, I was kind of waiting till this was official, but, um a staff position just came up at, uh, Hope Zion in Obstetrics, and Maggie's perfect for the position.
- Oh, no.
- Really? - I thought you'd be happy about that.
- Of course, I am.
It's just that Maggie's been really happy with her decision to leave.
So, you don't think I should tell her? I don't know.
They're leaving tonight.
She and Syd are great together.
- It's your call.
- Okay.
No, I, uh My lips are sealed.
Wait.
You can see me.
Something wrong? Someone wants my attention.
Duder, I know you can see me, and I kind of need your help here.
Doctor will be with you in a minute.
[cellphone vibrates.]
Oh, come on.
Um Okay, I got broken bones incoming.
Um, you'll-you'll text me a picture of the ultrasound? - Absolutely.
- I got to go.
Duder, wait up! I'm just saying, it's not that difficult.
That's easy for you to say.
You weren't up half the night with him.
You just have to manage your time better.
I'm sure you can figure it out.
You are a neurosurgeon.
You're working all the time now, with this new job of yours.
Yeah.
Back to Bay Street.
Turns out that finance pays better than cookies.
You're not nearly as accessible.
You know, all this child rearing, it's falling on my shoulders, Jonathan.
- Shahir? - Hmm? You know the expression, "it's not exactly brain surgery"? Mm-hmm.
That's about you, my beautiful man.
Hey, this is our child.
You can do this.
- Okay.
- [baby cries.]
Shanathan needs to burp.
Don't call our pretend child that.
Why? It's Shahir plus Jonathan.
Shanathan.
Yes, I understand, but explaining it Shh.
Oh, God.
I got to go to work.
Hey, you can do this.
- Shh.
- I have faith.
At least one of us does.
- [crying continues.]
- Hmm? Shh.
[burps.]
Oh.
[woman speaking indistinctly over P.
A.
.]
- Hey.
- Hey.
"An Evening with Steve Martin"? This is awesome.
Tomorrow night, 8:00.
- Gonna be a wild and crazy night.
- Wild and crazy - Wait.
Tomorrow night? - What? I actually can't go tomorrow night.
- Why not? - It's Thursday night.
That's bowling league.
You can skip it for one week, can't you? I can't.
The team depends on me.
The team that I've never once heard you mention.
Rose: [groans.]
Ow! [groans.]
Ohh, Dr.
Miller.
Please, I need your help.
Okay, Rose, what is it? Ohh, there's an elephant Ohh! Parked in the middle of my chest.
Dr.
Bell, this is this is Rose, she's one of our more frequent flyers.
Okay.
All right.
I'll take a look.
- No! - Right this way, ma'am.
Thank you, and thank you for letting me off the hook.
- Oh, no, you're not off the hook.
- [groans.]
Heart looks perfect.
Stomach, liver and kidneys, they're all where they should be.
This is one healthy nipper.
- She's brushing up on her British.
- Hmm.
Look at those backflips.
I know.
Tell me about it.
I feel like I've been on the Zumba Flume 24/7.
[chuckles.]
She's just showing off for her adoring crowd.
[computer beeps.]
Um, did you say "her"? Oh, I'm sorry.
You didn't want to know.
No.
No, I'm I'm fine.
It's just Actually, I didn't expect it.
You know, you did this exact same thing to me with Luke, right? - Did I? - Yes.
Oh! I'm terrible at secrets.
It's a good thing we're leaving tonight, or I would've told the whole hospital.
That's great news.
You gonna tell Charlie? I thought he was coming.
Well, he had work to do and I I kind of wanted to be alone for this.
You okay? Yeah.
I'm fine.
Fine but, uh, more importantly, what about you? You know, big move Any job prospects for you over there? Well, I'm not sure it's gonna be as easy as I thought, but Sydney: I trained over there, but Maggie will have to re-certify.
Might mean another fellowship year.
[cellphone vibrates.]
You're gonna have to start over from scratch? Yay! Ugh! Dr.
Storms.
Oh, everybody's least-favorite plastic surgeon.
His wife, Kimberly, went into labor.
Care to join me for one last delivery at Hope Zion, Dr.
Lin? I have some charting to finish, but I'll be up as soon as I can.
Cheerio.
I mean, it's fine.
I can start at the bottom.
It's not like I was moving up here, right? Right.
[sighs.]
What? Charlie told me that a staff position in Obstetrics just opened up.
Staff position? - Here? - Mm-hmm.
[inhales deeply.]
Doesn't change a thing.
I'm happy with my decision.
Good.
[siren wails in distance.]
- What happened? - Apparently, he fell 15 feet.
Okay, let's check him for spinal damage.
We're gonna roll him on three.
One, two, and three.
Aah! [groaning, breathing shallowly.]
- Sir, can you feel that? - [screams.]
Okay.
I'll take that as a yes.
Looks like he landed on his legs.
Or what's left of them anyway.
Let's, uh, have a look.
Watch the pants, man! They're my show pants.
Okay, put your head down.
Head down.
Okay.
Whoa! He must've nicked the femoral artery.
Pressure here! Dare I ask why he's all wet? He was holding his breath in a water tank suspended above Dundas Square until the wires snapped.
Uh, quick follow-up question why? His name is the Alluring Abbadon.
The magic community's hailing him as the next David Blaine.
Did you just say "magic community"? Yeah.
I dabble in the dark arts.
You got a problem with that, Dr.
Miller? Yeah.
I do.
Okay.
We need to stabilize these fractures.
Get him to imaging and into an O.
R.
right away.
[monitor beeps.]
Hey, he's dry drowning.
Being submerged must have caused pulmonary edema.
Let's get a tube in him right now.
Hope you got some really good tricks up your sleeve, Doc.
Zach: - Okay, he's tubed.
- Almost there.
Yeesh.
Tough luck, bud.
If only I could put this into my act.
Yeah.
They'd never believe it, right? - And what do we do now? - I don't know.
I mean, he's the only one who can see us, but apparently, he's busy trying to save your getaway sticks.
Okay.
Good to go.
- Breathing's normalized.
- All good down here.
- And what are we supposed to do? - Okay, Mr.
Abbadon, we're gonna take good care of you.
Just hang in there, all right? Gotta operate on these legs right away.
Uh Shortness of breath, sharp pain in the right arm.
What else could it be? It has to be a heart attack.
Okay, Rose, I need you to take a deep breath for me.
Between you and me, bowling league is a euphemism.
- I'm sorry? - There's definitely something else going on with your boyfriend.
[laughs.]
I see.
What makes you say that? The wisdom of five marriages.
I don't even know what that means.
Okay.
Do you know what a turkey is? I'm sorry? Bowling-wise, what's a turkey? Again, no idea.
It's three strikes in a row.
If he's actually bowling every Thursday, he'll know that.
Rose, what's that? It appears to be a thread.
Attached to a sewing needle? That might explain the pain in your right arm.
I was sewing a button back on a coat.
You're not having a heart attack, Rose.
But you may be having a panic attack.
No.
This isn't in my head.
Okay.
Well, you are welcome to a second opinion, and I know just the guy to give you one.
Here you go, Kingpin.
She's all yours.
Patient is a 55-year-old woman presenting with nausea and headaches.
Okay.
I am the Chief of Neurosurgery.
Do I need to be brought in on every patient - that has flu-like symptoms? - Oh, I just That's a rhetorical question, Dr.
Williams.
- Oh.
- I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
My phone has colic.
I have been up all night.
- What? - You wouldn't understand.
You don't have children.
Either the sleep deprivation has completely taken over, or you are Antonella Markos.
Please call me Nellie.
[laughs.]
This is my daughter, Poppy.
- Hey.
- Hi.
- You know her? - Yes.
Miss Markos is one of the finest concert pianists on the planet.
You know, I listen to your CD - every other day on my way to work.
- [laughs.]
Every other day.
I told you we came to the right hospital.
Can we focus on her headaches? They've been getting worse and worse.
- It's nothing.
- It's not "nothing," Mom.
She's been so weak, she's basically stopped eating.
[scoffs.]
This is nothing that a bit of Tabacum and lavender oil won't fix.
Nellie, can you please follow my finger? Thank you.
Some homeopathic remedies have been known to cause adverse reactions.
We should run some tests.
Dr.
Williams? That's really not necessary.
I'm feeling better already.
I should get back to work.
Ah, please stay.
How about an autograph for your trouble? Yes.
Yes, I would love that.
Also, could you sign this consent form for a full blood panel? Right here.
And I'll get my C.
D.
from the car.
[sighs.]
Thank you.
[laughs.]
Hey, I started to think you found a better offer and bailed on me.
No.
Why would you think that? I'm just kidding.
Relax.
Let me fill you in.
Nurse Storms here had some mild contractions overnight.
- They were nothing, really.
- Easy for you to say.
- She's 10 centimeters.
- Wait.
She's fully dilated? You You You mean it's go-time? No, I can't be.
I want an epidural.
- Sorry.
There isn't time.
- Yes, there is.
- Oh! - Oh, here comes another one.
- Okay.
- Oh! Oh, damn you! - Ow! - Gah! [Groans.]
I can't believe how fast she progressed.
Maggie: It's a miracle she didn't give birth in your Range Rover.
Oh, he never would've forgiven me.
Oh! Arnie loves his car.
No, I love our child more, Kim.
Yeah, that remains to be seen, Arnie.
Okay, can you two finish this later? 'Cause right now, it's time to push.
[grunts.]
Okay.
[grunts.]
Damon: Hey, you can run but you can't hide.
[chuckles.]
I just wanted to say it.
My legs.
You have to save them! I'm gonna do my best.
Hey, yeah, I know the whole squeaky wheel and all, - but, uh, what about me? - No, no, no.
You don't understand.
No legs, no Leap of Faith.
That's my signature trick.
That's what everybody comes to see.
I'll tell you what.
Why don't you keep him entertained? Show him all your tricks.
And when I'm done operating on your legs, I'll take him off your hands.
I'm right here, you know.
Deal? Well, I normally don't perform for free, but I hate magicians.
Oh, that might have been the fastest delivery in the history of vaginas.
We make a great team, you and me.
[chuckles.]
That's when you say, "Yeah, we do.
" "Can't wait to leave for London tonight.
" Oh, maybe when we're there, we'll have to deliver babies on the other side of the bed.
[chuckles.]
You know, like the driving.
Okay, that was funny.
- What's up? - Nothing.
It's just Kimberly was on track to becoming head nurse, and then she started dating Arnie, and disappeared.
Mm.
Different priorities now.
But they don't even seem to like each other.
Do you think she resents the fact that she put his career ahead of hers? Maggie, nobody likes Arnie Storms.
You can't expect his wife to.
Yeah, I think I just have too much on my plate.
I'm sorry.
I'm gonna change my scrub top, and I'll see you later.
Alex: Oh.
Maggs, you okay? No.
I'm not okay.
I'm definitely not okay.
Why did you tell me about the staff position? I don't know.
I-I-I found out that you had to re-certify, and I got protective.
Oh, you thought telling me about the great opportunity I'm leaving behind would make me feel better? No.
I I just wanted you to have all of the information.
Why now? Are you afraid for me? Is that it? Little Maggie going across the pond, trying to make it without big sister Alex.
Okay.
Okay.
Well, where is this coming from? I'm just I'm scared.
Right.
Tell me about it.
What are you scared about? Well, this isn't about me.
This is about your stuff.
Your stuff is my stuff.
Okay, fine.
The pregnancy? Not connecting with it at all.
I feel terrible about it.
I keep having these ridiculous dreams, and I'm sorry.
I I am so sorry that I told you about the job.
I'm glad you did.
I needed all the information, right? But, you're going anyway.
[cellphone vibrates.]
[sighs.]
It's Kimberly.
Go.
We'll We'll talk later.
[door closes.]
[sighs.]
It really hurts.
Oh, wow.
Where's the baby? We just moved her to the nursery.
- Kim, where does it hurt? - All over.
- And Dr.
Storms? - [groans.]
He's at Ikea getting a bassinet.
He was too superstitious to have any baby stuff - in the house before the birth.
- Mm.
Yeah.
That's a Jewish thing.
Is having your cell turned off at a crucial moment a Jewish thing, too? No, it's a guy thing, but we're here for you.
- [exhales sharply.]
- Chest pains? Oh, hell, yeah.
Shortness of breath.
[inhales sharply.]
Okay.
[groans.]
She has an iliac vein clot.
- Mm-hmm.
- [cries.]
- I want my husband.
- It's okay.
We're going to do everything we can to find him.
Chest pain means pieces of the clot must be breaking off and moving towards her heart.
So, if we don't break it up before it gets to her lungs She'll be dead within the hour.
[heart monitor beeps.]
How's he lookin', Roxy? B.
P.
and heart rate are on the low side, but he's stable-ish.
Okay, well, stable-ish is gonna have to do.
I'm gonna start with the intramedullary rods.
[monitor beeps rapidly.]
Dr.
Harris, his pulse is spiking.
[rapid beeping.]
What? I didn't put in the needle yet.
More pulmonary edema? [beeping continues.]
Okay.
Petechial rash.
Bone marrow from the breaks must have gotten in his blood.
- Fat embolism.
- [inhales sharply.]
Yeah.
Change of plans.
Um, I'm gonna secure these fractures with a temporary ex-fix.
And somebody get Dr.
Bell down here, please.
[sighs.]
[playing "Suite Bergamasque".]
[sniffles.]
- Dr.
Hamza.
- Hmm? Hm.
I've just been watching her for the past few minutes.
I don't want her to stop.
Are you crying? Oh! I didn't You don't really strike me as the crying type.
Right.
I'm just incredibly tired.
She has a toxic level of gelsemium - in her system.
- Oh.
It's what's causing the flu-like symptoms.
She's been accidentally poisoning herself.
Okay, thank you, Dr.
Williams.
Hmm.
I think I know what's wrong with her.
[exhales sharply.]
Nellie how long have you known you've had Parkinson's? Homeopaths use gelsemium to treat tremors.
Nellie? Six months.
Poppy: Six months? [machines beeping.]
It's fine.
It's fine.
What am I looking at, Charlie? Charlie: Fat embolism from femoral fractures He's tachycardic with ventilation issues.
Thoughts? We need to attack the fat directly.
It's in a thousand tiny pieces.
Mm, flush it out.
Bronchoalveolar lavage.
What do you know about bowling? What? Gutter ball, shared shoes turkeys.
Everything okay, Dawn? I think Zach is lying to me.
About bowling? Bowling is a euphemism.
Never mind.
[sighs.]
Well, Zach doesn't strike me as a deceptive type.
[laughs sarcastically.]
Oh, here we go Bro code, right? I'm the crazy girlfriend making stuff up in my head.
No, it's - That's awesome.
- [laughs.]
No, it's just that You know, sometimes you have to give people the benefit of the doubt.
If he's keeping something from you, - maybe he's got good reason for it.
- Oh, yeah? Is that what you tell yourself when you keep stuff from Alex? Give it to me straight, Doc.
Did you save my legs? Yes.
[sighs.]
What's going on? I step out for two minutes, everything goes to hell? Where's my baby? We tried to page you, and your baby's fine.
Kimberly has an iliac vein clot.
Which we've countered with heparin.
Dr.
Lin, you have a history with blood thinners.
Are we taking bets as to when my wife goes into a coma? Kimberly: - Arnie, please.
- Anything happens to her, I'll be sure to talk to Dr.
Harris about your suitability for the staff job.
Staff job? Dr.
Benton's leaving.
That's why we're stuck with you.
I want my wife monitored every 15 minutes.
Arnie, I know you're upset, but the best thing that you can do right now is take off your lab coat and be with your wife.
We're gonna let the heparin keep working its magic, and we'll be back to check on you in a bit.
- Thank you.
- Okay.
Dr.
Lin, a word.
You knew about this staff position? I heard about it this morning, but it's not for me.
Nothing's changed.
What are you talking about? Everything has changed.
Maggie, I can't be the person who takes you away from this opportunity so you can start all over again.
Don't do this for me.
It isn't for you.
It's for me.
I want to go to England.
It's my choice, and I chose you.
If you had known about this staff job before I asked you to come with me, would you have made the same choice? Yes.
[exhales sharply.]
Don't put me in this position.
What are you saying? I'm saying I love you, but I don't want you spending your whole life regretting this decision.
Don't come with me.
[exhales sharply.]
- Hi.
- Oh.
I heard you were on the ward.
I just wanted to see how you were doing.
Much better.
Thanks.
You have a patient up here? No, actually.
Um [chuckles.]
[chuckling.]
Oh, my! [Baby coos.]
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Yeah, whenever I have some time, I wander the ward, and That's not as weird as it sounds.
No, I used to do it all the time just trying to get in the mood.
What did you name her? Alice.
Alice Suzanne Storms.
Arnie wanted to call her Gertie.
Oh, well [both chuckle.]
Alice is perfect.
She really is, even in my belly.
I don't know if I've ever loved anyone like that before.
But you must know what I mean.
[monitor beeps.]
Sure.
Yeah, of course I do.
Oh, my Ohh! Is everything all right? [groans.]
Yeah, I just have a pain right up my back.
- Oh, my - Let me take Alice for you.
- All right.
- Ohh.
There we go.
[exhales sharply.]
All right, let's have a feel.
Your uterus seems deviated to the side.
There may be internal bleeding.
Page Dr.
Katz now.
Am I gonna see my baby again? Hold tight, Kim.
Hold tight.
[Alice coos.]
You sure about this, Maggie? Yeah.
The timing couldn't be better, actually.
Okay.
Well, you won't be seeing patients for the first few weeks, but if you're sure [drawer opens.]
you can move in to your brand-spanking new office.
[sirens wail in distance.]
Come here, come here, come here! Everything okay? Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm just dealing with a really difficult case.
Yeah, I heard Kimberly Storms.
You know what they say about, uh, treating other doctor's wives Hang an IV, call for help.
[chuckles.]
[cellphone vibrates.]
Well, you're not wrong.
It's Kimberly.
I got to take this.
- Maggie.
- Yeah? Keys.
Yeah.
Hey, you said you saved my legs.
I did.
Well, why am I still in the operating room? Because you developed another complication.
- [sighs.]
- Don't worry.
Dr.
Bell's an excellent surgeon.
You're in very good hands.
Oh, better than a guy who can talk to ghosts? I find that hard to believe.
If I learn more, I'll come find you, okay? Hey, hey.
This, uh This thing of yours.
Can you talk to spirits, the dead, or just the ones in this hospital? Magicians never reveal their secrets.
I mean, what? Look, just It's It's real magic, man.
It's beautiful.
- Not so sure about that.
- Are you kidding? It's the best monkey of all time.
Monkey.
Why'd you say the It's a truck.
It's a It's a [slurring words.]
What's going on? Okay.
BAL may be interfering with your ventilation.
You're about to have a stroke.
Dawn: Clearing out the last of the debris, and Presto.
Sorry.
He's a magician.
[door opens.]
Hey.
We need to raise his positive-end expiratory pressure.
Welcome back, Dr.
Harris.
I'm just finishing up.
No, you're not.
[sighs.]
He's stroking out.
What are you talking about? The BAL is interfering with his ventilation.
His stats are bottoming out.
He is bucking the vent a bit.
Listen, Dawn, I will explain later.
Just trust me on this, okay? All right, you heard the man.
Get me the JET ventilator.
I hope you're right.
Yep.
Me, too.
Me three.
Me four.
[clears throat.]
Sorry.
40 megs of Propofol.
Everything okay, Dr.
Harris? Yeah.
Yeah.
[door opens.]
I [sighs.]
Levodopa and dopamine have also been known to help.
We could try that.
I tried them both.
They didn't help.
We could get you on some anticholinergics like trihexyphenidyl.
I've tried everything.
Gelsemium is the only thing that's working.
It's not, though.
The plant is highly toxic, and you're poisoning yourself.
As long as I can complete my opus, I'll die happy.
Mom, you would rather play the piano than live? Playing is living for me.
You know I love you, but this this is who I am.
And I wouldn't understand, right? You are supposed to be my mother, but you were never really there for me, so why would dead be any different? [siren wails in distance.]
[telephone rings.]
You have kids? Um [clears throat.]
Not ones that aren't digital.
My partner and I are trying to adopt.
That's brave in your line of work.
You can't have it all, doctor.
Don't let anyone tell you different.
You're only meant to be truly great at one thing.
Have you considered surgical options, Nellie? I'm not aware of any.
Okay, there's a procedure called Deep Brain Stimulation DBS.
We install electrodes.
It's like having a pacemaker in your brain.
That seems risky.
Well, there are risks, some cognitive ones, but we've had success with DBS on selected Parkinson's patients.
There are no guarantees, but it could buy you some time, tremor free.
How much time? A few years, maybe more.
Long enough to finish my opus.
Or spend time with your daughter.
Hmm.
CT results.
Oof.
The birth was so fast, the baby's head must have caused a rupture into the retroperitoneal space.
And the heparin that you have her Made things 10 times worse.
I can't believe this is happening again.
We have to get her off the blood thinner or she'll bleed out.
But if we do take her off the heparin, she'll die from the massive clots to the lungs.
We've got to get in there, do something now.
A cava umbrella.
Brilliant.
Insert through her leg, weave it up into her abdomen, just below the renal veins? Stop the larger clots from reaching the lungs, and when that's in place, - we'll take her off the blood thinner.
- Great.
I have to be at the airport in three hours, but I can do this.
All due respect, Syd, I'm already at the dance.
Let me show you my moves.
Okay, Dr.
Reid.
Let's boogie.
Okay.
Okay, pump going on.
[ventilator puffing rapidly.]
[puffing stops.]
[puffing resumes.]
Ventilation is normalizing.
Looks like we're out of the woods.
A truly magical save.
I never got into magic as a kid.
And now you're talking to a ghost.
Yeah.
Look, this trick of yours, Doc I need to learn it.
[sighs.]
Why? [laughs.]
I was married once, you know? It was the best three years of my life.
I didn't deserve him.
And I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, and then it did.
What happened? Uh, brain aneurysm in the dining room.
Now you see him, [snaps fingers.]
now you don't.
I'm sorry.
I threw myself into my work.
I thought maybe if I work hard enough on the magic act, maybe You could see him again? And then I meet you, and you got the magic, man! You got to teach me.
I can't.
I'm sorry.
I don't even know how I got this.
[chuckles.]
I'd do anything just to just to see him once more.
[sniffles.]
Yeah.
I get that.
[monitors beeping.]
Now, be careful.
She's a high-bleed risk, so if you nick anything If you're gonna let me lead, Dr.
Katz, let me lead.
Almost there.
Okay.
Expanding.
All right.
Looks like we're over the hump.
Okay, there's no need for two obstetrical staff members in here, and I have a plane to catch, so Your idea saved this patient's life.
Hope Zion's lucky to have you.
W-Wait.
Is this goodbye? I guess so.
[chuckles.]
Well, like, call me when you get there, okay? [inhales deeply.]
Sure.
[door opens, closes.]
Do you want to talk about it? What is there to talk about? I finally got the job I always wanted, and couldn't be happier.
[indistinct conversations.]
What's a turkey? [pen clicks.]
Um, from the poultry family, popular on Thanksgiving? Bowling-wise.
Don't know.
So you don't bowl on Thursdays.
What do you do? Okay, wait a minute.
I do bowl on Thursdays, but sometimes it's mini golf, the arcade.
Jesus.
How old is she, Zach? No.
What? No! You need to level with me.
Okay, Dawn, listen.
[sighs.]
It's the boys Jacob and Oliver.
We're just trying to figure out a proper visitation schedule until they get settled.
[chuckles.]
I'm sorry.
Why didn't you just tell me that? I-I-I like mini golf.
I could join you.
I love your boys.
I know.
I know you do.
I know, and I They They just They're They don't like me.
No, it's not that.
It's just that they they just they just wanted a little bit of alone time with their dad.
Why didn't you just tell me that? I didn't want to hurt your feelings.
So you lied to me? No, I [sighs.]
Look, Dawn.
You are so amazing with them.
It's But you're not their mother.
Look.
They just don't know you like I know you, and they just need a little bit of time.
That's all.
Me, too.
[chuckles.]
[sighs.]
Nellie, you wanted to see me? Yes.
I think I have decided to go forward with the Deep Brain Stimulation.
I think that's the right decision.
It'll take a while to set everything up and to book a surgery, but if the DBS is successful, it could quiet the tremors.
The cognitive risks tell me more.
Well, even if we are successful, a bilateral GPI surgery coupled with a hemorrhage could create some cognitive deficits.
Is it going to affect her playing? Well, after the surgery, there's a chance your mother might not remember how to play the piano.
Then that's a deal-breaker.
No, it isn't.
Let's hear him out.
It's not permanent.
Cognition could revert back in a few months.
You would need someone patient to help you relearn while the brain recovers from surgery.
The music comes from here.
And that's where you live.
The most beautiful pieces I wrote, I wrote to you.
If it comes to it, would you teach me how to play them again? [siren wails in the distance.]
Alex: - Hey.
- [exhales sharply.]
I just came from recovery.
Kim's doing well.
Thought you wanted to know.
Best news I've heard all day.
Wow.
Considering your promotion and your digs, that says a lot.
I guess it just hasn't really sunk in yet.
What's that? I found it on the floor.
It's Syd's handwriting, and I figured it's her goodbye letter.
I can't bring myself to read it.
I know you, Maggie, and I know what it looks like when you're happy, and this last month is the happiest I have ever seen you.
Do you think I made a mistake? Well, it depends.
[exhales sharply.]
Jobs come and go, but love, it's well, it's hard to come by.
Well, she was the one who told me to stay.
Her exact words were, "Don't come with me.
" It doesn't get more clear than that.
Unless this letter says differently.
[chuckles.]
It's in Hebrew.
Classic Katz.
[chuckles.]
Writing me a letter I can't read.
Let's get her to read it to you.
Her flight hasn't left yet.
Uh, there's no time.
Ah, yes, there is.
You just need a fast car and somebody reckless to drive it.
Oh, my God.
Come on.
Let's go.
Zach! - Yeah? - Did you drive today? No, I rode in on my Penny Farthing.
- [scoffs.]
- Yeah, I drove.
Okay, great.
I need your keys.
Where's your motorcycle? I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm pregnant, so I sold it.
No one saw that coming.
Okay, not enough time.
Keys! [keys clack.]
How am I supposed to get home? Hitch a ride with Dawn.
It's not gonna happen.
We're riding on our horses, our hands full of torches I'm never gonna see you again.
Your going to England, Lin, not Mars.
I love you.
You, too.
- Come over, red rover, you're through Alex: - Okay, let's go! Now get out of my E.
R.
! Not safe from the lure Not safe from ourselves It longs to be warm I can't believe I'm the one rushing to the airport for love.
Why do you say that? [chuckles.]
Because you're the hopeless romantic.
I'm always the bridesmaid.
That is not true! You just hadn't met your one.
[exhales sharply.]
Now my one is crossing the pond without me.
Well, she hasn't left yet.
[sighs.]
Thank you for doing this.
You have been there for me more times than I can count.
Seriously, the only thing bigger than your brain is your heart.
I wish I could decide which one I'm listening to.
You showed me not to be afraid of mine, not to mention a thing or two in the O.
R.
There are no words.
Don't worry.
You're not getting rid of me that easily.
We are coming to visit.
You better.
Or we won't make it, and you'll be stuck with me forever.
Oh, no, no, no.
I'm gonna get you there dead or alive, preferably alive.
[chuckles.]
Hey.
How you feeling, my love? Oh, I'm just tired.
Yeah? Yeah.
How's our little Sha-Nathan doing? I don't know if I can be a father, Jonathan.
You can only be great at one thing, and I'm already a great surgeon.
So, that's it? Well, maybe in a few years when things are less hectic.
It won't be less hectic.
That's just life, Shahir.
Well, maybe my life doesn't include a child.
I'm gonna go.
Okay.
I'll see you at home.
Jonathan.
Jon [monitor beeping.]
Pick a card, any card.
Oh, really? Really.
Okay, put it back anywhere you like.
Anywhere? Mm-hmm.
Okay, so, Dr.
Bell managed to regulate your breathing, and it looks like your legs are gonna make a full recovery.
[exhales sharply.]
But I might not want to do the Leap of Faith anytime soon.
Well, between you and me, doctor, that illusion actually requires very little leaping.
No.
No jumping at all.
Why do I get the strange feeling we've met before? 'Cause we have, in the E.
R.
when they brought you in.
No, it's more than that.
I don't know.
Is that your card? No, actually.
It's not.
Well, don't feel bad.
You had a bit of a day.
Geez, doc, how many drugs did you give me? Well, we we Uh, okay.
Yeah, that's pretty impressive.
Not really.
You got the real magic, man.
You fixed me.
Thanks.
Oh, look who it is! I know you've been avoiding me.
No.
No one's been avoiding you.
It's just It's been a busy day.
Listen, you died.
That doesn't mean you weren't loved or you won't be missed.
I'm just scared.
I know.
But I don't know what happens next.
You just think of someone you love and hope for the best [chuckles.]
duder.
[laughs.]
[whoosh.]
[Beethoven's "Fur Elise" plays.]
[baby crying.]
[baby belches, coos.]
[exhales forcefully.]
- Love you! - Love you! Bye! Bye! [music ends.]
[groans.]
[indistinct conversations.]
Sydney: Hey, stranger.
I thought you left.
I did want to get on that plane.
I was so mad and disappointed.
I'm sorry.
No, no, no, not at you at myself for pushing you away.
I'm so glad you came.
[indistinct announcement over P.
A.
.]
I got your letter.
I think the first word is "Shalom.
" [chuckles.]
Yeah.
But it's really hard to find someone who reads Hebrew.
Yeah, 'cause there's no Jewish doctors working at a hospital.
- [laughs.]
- Nope.
I was standing in that office, and it was everything I'd worked for.
And all I could think about was you.
[chuckles.]
I love you.
And I'd give everything up to be with you.
I would, too.
That's why I didn't get on the plane.
I guess we both gave it all up.
[chuckles.]
You want to know what that says? Hmm.
Ooh, ooh, ooh "Shalom, Maggie.
" "From the Book of Ruth 'Urge me not to leave you.
'" "'Where ever you go, I will go.
'" "'Where you lodge, I will lodge.
'" "'Where you die, I will die.
'" "'And there, I will be buried.
'" You had me at "Shalom.
" [both chuckle.]
It's a strange, strange game Life will never be the same I wonder when Plane tickets are on me.
I'll be sane again [both laugh.]
Even though I know, I know everything All right.
Thought I knew I saw you [sighs.]
Now I know I know nothing at all So, my best friend's gone.
Position's open.
Are you in? Hey, Charlie, it's me.
Can you watch Luke tonight? No, I'm I'm fine.
Everything's fine.
I'm just I'm having a girl's night.
- It's a strange, strange game - All right.
Life will never be the same [sighs.]