Chicago Med (2015) s10e05 Episode Script

1
A few days ago,
I received a death threat.
Well, did they find out who sent it?
Not yet, but working theory
is a disgruntled employee.
I thought you looked familiar.
Think maybe people
will forget about this soon?
It's not every day
you find out your colleague
was a teen heartthrob.
Most emergency departments
don't have an OB specialist,
so I'm curious if you
find your position essential.
I just thought, as a woman,
you'd appreciate having someone
who specializes in women's health.
As a woman, I do appreciate it.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[UPBEAT SPOOKY MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
Are you dancing?
No, I had a cramp in my calf.
- [DEVICE CHIMES]
- [CHUCKLES]
Okay, listen up, everybody.
I just got confirmation.
We've got a code orange coming
in in T-minus ten minutes.
Are we ready for that?
Let me tell you something. We better be.
Halloween night can be one
of the busiest of the year.
Be smart about triage
and resource management,
and don't get too caught up
in the pageantry.
I expect the highest level of decorum.
- [PERSON YELLING]
- Hey, stop right there!
[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY IN SPANISH]
[GRUNTING]
♪
It's gonna be a long night.
- [KID FUSSING]
- Almost there, bud.
Almost there, Coop.
Hang in there, Superman.
Hang in there, buddy.
[KID FUSSING]
All right, Coop. Almost, buddy.
You're good, you're good, you're good.
Whoa.
How did he even get it in there?
I no mm.
- Does that taste good, bud?
- Mm-hmm.
Two birds, one lollipop. Right on.
- Ow, Superman!
- [GIGGLES]
You're so strong. You're so strong.
Wow. Excellent costume choice.
But this tracks, right?
I mean, you never just see one minion.
Facts.
Hey, Dr. Frost.
Oh, no.
[BOTH WHOOSHING AND BUZZING]
BOTH: That was a close one.
What do you think?
I think you should watch
higher-quality television.
[LAUGHTER]
[BOTH GRUNT]
You're kind of low-key famous.
Very low-key.
Among millennial females
of a certain age.
I've never seen "Nick of Time!" Sorry.
Thank God. We'll get along.
Yeah, we will.
Oh, I'm guessing this was coordinated.
[LAUGHS]
I wanted to be an astronaut.
Yes, but every hero needs a sidekick.
Mm-hmm.
Well, I'm gonna hit the head.
Well, make it quick. We need you.
Things are going well, I see.
Yeah, he's really
been showing up lately.
Showing up?
The man literally dressed
like a Ken doll to please you.
[LAUGHS]
Sweetie, he's head over heels.
Mm.
Okay, the prenatal clinic head count
is three patients in five days.
Lenox is gonna pull the plug
if we don't get those numbers up.
Doesn't help that
she keeps us on a tight leash.
All we need is to get the word out.
- Yeah, I hope you're right.
- Yeah.
Jackie, weren't you supposed to
go to a Halloween party
with your daughter tonight?
There was a change of plans,
so I picked up a shift.
Oh, good. We got
a code orange on its way.
Oh, well, I should get
changed quickly, then.
- [DEVICE BEEPS]
- No, it's gonna have to wait.
I need you on the floor.
Everybody, timeline's moved up.
Battle stations now!
- You ready?
- Come on!
- Let's do it.
- All right.
All right.
Make sure you have enough candy.
Make sure you have enough.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Thank you. [ELEVATOR BELL RINGS]
ALL: Trick or treat!
- Happy Halloween!
- Happy Halloween, guys!
[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]
Happy Halloween. There you go.
Yeah.
Yeah, I understand,
but we have to work with
the resources that we have available.
Well, yeah, that's a good point.
But let's keep that in mind
when we have to,
uh, tackle that fourth quarter budget.
[LAUGHS]
Yeah, okay.
Yeah. [CHUCKLES] Yeah.
Well, you know,
for now, why don't
we just stay the course?
[METALLIC CLANGING]
Um
let's pick this up in the morning.
O-Okay.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Who's there?
[FLOORBOARDS CREAKING]
I've already called the police!
[LOUD BANG] [KNOCK AT DOOR]
[GASPS]
- [PEPPER SPRAY HISSES]
- Ah! [GROANS]
That stings!
Kyle!
Oh, Kyle! Oh, no, I'm so sorry.
Are you okay?
Come on, let's go get your mother.
Come on.
All right, Kyle, we're gonna
hold this over your eyes.
- Can you do that for me?
- Yeah.
Great. He'll be fine.
We irrigated his eyes,
no sign of corneal damage.
Just need to manage the swelling now.
Thank you, Dr. Frost.
Of course.
Helen, I am so sorry about this.
Is there anything I could do
to make it up to both of you?
Can I have all your peanut butter cups?
Mom, don't guilt-trip Ms. Goodwin.
It was an accident.
No worries, Kyle.
It's a deal.
[LAUGHS] But seriously, Sharon,
someone was in your house?
- That's terrifying.
- Well, I think it was.
But honestly, I've been
a little keyed up lately.
CPD is doing a full sweep
of the house, so.
- Hopefully it's nothing.
- Yeah.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I saw your flyer at the community center
about prenatal screenings.
Yes. Yes, that's right.
Um, unfortunately, though,
our clinic hours are over for the day.
When when are they?
Weekdays from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Um, I work then.
Just about everybody does.
Yeah, I can you come in
on one of your days off?
Um, yeah, it's been a while
since I've had one of those.
Is is there any way
that you can see me now?
I mean, something just
it doesn't feel right.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Yeah, you know, let me
let me see what I can do.
Okay, thank you.
So he escaped from the psych ward?
Yep. Name's Ted Kachler.
He's got a pretty nasty gash on his arm
after security tackled him
at the front entrance.
We're waiting on X-rays
before sending him back up.
And why did Dr. Cuevas
hold him in the first place?
Well, the police brought
him in for erratic behavior
during a domestic dispute.
He was pretty unhinged
and paranoid during intake.
Thank you.
This is all a huge misunderstanding.
Ted, how are you doing? I'm Dr. Charles.
Um, Jackie has been telling me that, uh,
you were involved
in an incident at home?
Yeah, which Becca has totally
blown out of proportion
- for her advantage.
- Okay.
So Becca is your your partner?
Your your wife?
Not for long.
Um, we're in the middle
of a nasty divorce,
and she is she's trying to sue me
for full custody of our daughter, Ella.
Oh, well, I'm really sorry to hear that.
I mean, divorce
- [GROANS]
- Divorce, uh, sucks.
Yeah, uh um, the thing is,
the custody hearing is tomorrow morning,
- and I'm I'm stuck in here.
- Uh-huh.
So that's why you were trying
to get out of the hospital?
I can't lose my little girl, doc.
I hear you. Really, I do.
Um, the thing is Dr. Cuevas
probably wouldn't have
put you on a psych hold
without a pretty good reason.
So if you don't mind, can you
just tell me a little bit more
about what happened?
Look, I
I lost my temper, okay?
I I was I was tired,
I was stressed.
I don't know.
Um, my my my brain,
it just suddenly glitched.
Okay, so when you say that
your brain suddenly glitched,
can you get a little more
specific about that?
I mean, was it did you see
something or hear something
out of the ordinary, or
No, I [SIGHS]
[APPREHENSIVE MUSIC]
I just lost control, okay?
But I feel totally fine now.
But I'm thinking that
it's actually probably
in all of our best interests
to drill down and figure out
what's going on with this glitch.
I don't I don't know
what to say, you know?
I I freaked out,
and now I find myself suddenly
in a psych ward.
- Right.
- Which I do not belong in.
Okay.
Look, I want you to try
and relax a little bit,
'cause we gotta wait
for your X-ray anyway.
But, um, we are gonna get
to the bottom of this, okay?
And I want you to trust me on that.
- Okay.
- Good. Thank you.
Um, we'll check back in a bit.
[CLEARS THROAT]
I did Ted's intake.
He's got IBS, asthma, hypertension,
but absolutely no history
of mental illness.
So you're thinking that
this is just a legal tactic
on the part of the wife?
It's worth considering, yeah.
If his wife uses this psych
hold against him in court,
he might not ever see his kid again.
Yeah, but I mean, clearly there's
something going on here, right?
I mean, Ted himself
brought up this glitch.
Sometimes people crack under pressure.
- Doesn't make them mentally ill.
- Very true.
But, uh, you know what?
I just need a better understanding
of what's going on here
before I release him in good conscience.
So you know, let's, um,
let's figure it out.
We already talked about this.
Tonight's gonna be a madhouse.
I don't have the space for
the prenatal lab after hours.
Dr. Lenox, she took three
buses across town to be here.
Does she have an acute medical need?
- No, but
- Then please send her home.
I'm sorry.
All I'm asking for are a few
prenatal labs and an ultrasound.
How long do you need, Dr. Asher?
Hour, tops.
Dr. Lenox, given the extremes
the woman went through to get here,
perhaps we can make an exception.
- Knock yourself out.
- Thank you, both of you.
You know, bending isn't always breaking.
Bending means more expectation to bend.
Excuse me. Can someone please help me?
There's something really wrong with him.
Dr. Frost, we need help here.
Hey. Let me take a look.
It's okay, it's okay.
Let's take a little look.
Baby's slightly cyanotic.
Can we get a cot crib, please?
- You're going to Trauma 1.
- All right.
Just follow me and tell me
what happened, okay?
I don't know. He just started wheezing.
Okay, was he exposed to cigarette smoke?
- No, I don't smoke or vape.
- Okay.
Was he sleeping near a vent?
No. He was fine and then he wasn't.
Okay. Let's set him down.
Hey, buddy. You're okay, you're okay.
All right.
[BABY WHEEZING]
Let's see what we got.
Okay, crackles bilaterally.
Let's get a CBC, BNP,
blood culture, X-ray,
and then swabs for COVID,
influenza, and RSV, all right?
- Copy.
- Thank you.
- What's his name?
- Nate.
Hey, Nate. How are you doing?
Are you his mother?
Uh, no, I'm the babysitter, Whitney.
Okay, well, Whitney, I'm gonna want you
to call his mother for me, okay?
I already did. She's on her way.
Will he be okay?
I'm gonna take very good
care of him, I promise.
Good evening. I'm Dr. Ripley.
Nice to meet you.
I'm Mary Katherine, but people
call me MK for short.
So the, uh, triage nurse
says that you've been
experiencing some abdominal pain.
That's right.
Any chance you just, uh,
had too much to drink
at a Halloween party, sister?
I haven't had a drink in 20 years.
And the only party I'm attending
is my weekly sewing circle.
At the rectory.
I I am so sorry, sister.
Oh, don't be.
It's it's Halloween night.
I get it.
So how long have you
been experiencing pain?
Off and on for about a month.
Any, uh any dietary changes lately?
Halloween candy is my weakness.
Well, sugar can impact health,
but, uh, it's unlikely
to cause an acute episode.
Uh, would you mind sitting back for me?
Of course.
- May I?
- Yeah.
[CLEARS THROAT]
[INHALES SHARPLY]
[GASPS]
I think we're looking at diverticulitis.
It's an inflammation
of the large intestine.
We usually treat it with antibiotics.
Mm.
So how about we start with a
CT scan to get a closer look,
and uh, we'll take it from there?
- Sounds good.
- Okay.
Uh, his name is Nate Sullivan.
He's three months old.
Uh, my babysitter
- Lynne.
- Whitney oh, Rip.
Uh, Nate was brought in with a fever?
Oh, I'm I'm sorry to hear that.
He's in Trauma 1 with Dr. Frost.
Okay.
I'll walk over with you
so I can see him.
- Okay.
- You've you've been drinking?
Yeah, I had a few at a bar
with some friends.
Wait, you you took Nate to a bar?
No, I got him a babysitter.
That's that's who brought him in.
Has he been sick?
No, he
he has a little cough.
So you left a sick baby
to go get hammered?
Do I'm I'm not hammered.
I went out for a little
Halloween celebration.
Unbelievable.
Screw you and your judgment, Saint Rip.
I don't need this.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[BABY COOING AND BABBLING]
I just got Nate's X-rays back.
It looks like a mild case of pneumonia,
but I think a course of IV antibiotics
will clear it right up.
[SIGHS] Thank you.
So sorry, he's gonna be okay?
I'd like to keep him
overnight in the PICU
for observation, but
I expect him to be just fine.
I already requested the transfer.
They'll be down in ten minutes.
Thank you so much.
You got it.
[BABY COOING]
What? You got something to say?
Honestly, I'm not sure what to say.
Yeah?
Well, if you're so damn worried,
why don't you come over and
help me out once in a while?
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I'm all alone with him.
When he doesn't sleep, I don't sleep,
so I'm going crazy.
♪
- [CHILD SHOUTING]
- Look at me.
Look at Mommy, look at Mommy.
Shh, shh. Hey, hey.
Please just sit for Mommy.
I just need you to sit.
I just need you to sit for Mommy.
- [CHILD SHOUTING]
- Look what I found, Leo.
[YELLING]
- Look what I found.
- Hey, hey, hey.
[YELLING]
Hey, hey, hey, hey. It's okay.
Just play your game, okay?
Okay.
Sorry, it's, um
it's been a long day for him.
No, no, it's
it's totally fine.
I should have asked first.
[SIGHS]
The day I I found out
I was pregnant with Leo,
I just about
emptied the Amazon warehouse
of every baby toy
and onesie they had in stock.
I just couldn't wait.
Now you get to spoil this one.
Yeah.
I didn't, um [CLEARS THROAT]
I didn't take proper care of myself.
And I've always wondered if
if that's why Leo has
the issue that he has.
No, Olivia. Don't put that on yourself.
This wasn't your fault.
I swore I I
if I ever got pregnant, I'd do better.
I mean, that's why I'm here.
I'm on my own and got rent to pay,
and times are hard to come by.
And I'm just I'm terrified that
I'm terrified that the, um
I just want this baby
to get proper care.
Okay. It's okay.
♪
Dr. Charles.
What was so important
that I had to leave my brother
and six-year-old nephew in the
middle of trick-or-treating?
I don't understand.
Nurse Nelson called and said that you
needed an immediate consult
for Ted Kachler.
Oh, right, right.
That's because, um, I do have
some significant questions
about his intake
and I could be on the verge
of of releasing him.
And I just wanted to, you know,
consult with you first.
But you're my boss.
In what world do you need me
to sign off?
Oh, I don't know, professional courtesy.
You know, it's your patient.
I appreciate that, but maybe
next time, just give me a call.
Noted.
I think we might have crossed our wires.
But look, while I have you here,
do you mind going into
a little more detail
about what you observed on intake
that led you to hold him?
Yeah, he was erratic and violent
when the cops brought him in,
and he was screaming threats
at his wife, who was clearly terrified.
Got it, got it.
You do whatever you feel is right,
but I would fix his arm
and send him back upstairs.
Okay.
Well, thank you, Nellie,
and I'm sorry about the mix-up.
No problem.
[INDISTINCT PA ANNOUNCEMENT]
Are you kidding me?
What were you thinking?
I just thought you could talk to her.
That's not the way it works, Jackie.
You can't just summon another doctor
to the hospital in my name
without my permission.
I really have to explain that to you?
I just can't stop thinking about
- a little girl losing her dad.
- Okay.
Well, you heard Dr. Cuevas.
Whatever this glitch is, it ain't good.
So for now, anyway, he's
exactly where he needs to be.
[SIGHS]
Dr. Ripley, this is my sister, Connie.
Nice to meet you.
Thank you so much for taking
such good care of MK.
She needs to slow down.
Please stop, Con.
Are you ready to go up
to radiology for a CT?
Are you okay? You seem sad.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I'm I'm great.
Why?
You just lied to a nun, Dr. Ripley.
My big sis has a sixth sense
about human emotion.
You should just confess now.
Uh, can I confess after the CT?
[CHUCKLES] Only priests take confession.
But you and I will definitely
have a chat.
Deal.
Okay, Olivia, I have great news.
Your red count is
within a healthy range,
your liver and kidney function
is normal,
and you are negative for Rh protein.
That's such a relief. Thank you.
Okay, let's just get
a quick look at baby
and you should be good to go.
- Sounds good, Dr. Asher.
- Okay.
Here we go.
[ULTRASOUND WARBLING]
[CHUCKLES]
Do you not know the sex of your baby?
No, uh, I didn't do it with Leo.
Kind of old-school.
That works for me.
[CHUCKLES]
[TENSE MUSIC]
Is there something wrong?
No. No, nothing's wrong.
But if you're okay with it, Olivia,
I would like to run a few more tests.
Something is wrong.
I just wanna be extra thorough
since you came all this way.
Okay. Um, do whatever you need to do.
Okay.
I'll put those work orders in
and check back shortly.
♪
Mags, Olivia's baby's heart rate's low.
- How low?
- 125.
That's the low side of normal.
Bradycardia in a fetus can have
a number of explanations.
Yeah, but in rare instances
it can also indicate
a fetal heart block, so I wanna get
an SSA antibody test
just to rule it out.
Well, we told Lenox that
it was gonna be an hour,
and it's been two hours.
If she catches wind of
Olivia even being here
I get it.
Okay.
So you were bitten by a bat?
No, dude.
I told the nurse I had a close
encounter with a few bats
and my mom insisted
I get a rabies vaccine.
Okay, and where did you
encounter these bats?
Kevin's house.
Educate me.
It's a haunted house in Uptown.
Back in the early '90s,
Kevin was my age.
Liked to sass the 'rents,
so eventually they chained his
mouthy ass up in the basement
and let him starve to death.
Still haven't found his body.
Okay. Looks like you did get bit.
I didn't feel a thing.
Yeah, well, bat teeth are tiny,
so the bites can
sometimes go undetected.
But we'll vaccinate you for rabies
just to be safe, all right?
Am I gonna die?
Well, it's almost 100% fatal
if you start showing symptoms,
but I got you.
It's okay.
Dude, my friends are gonna be shook.
Excuse me?
My bros, over there.
[CHATTER AND LAUGHTER]
Right. Okay.
Well, looks like your bros are
gonna need a jab, too, then.
♪
Hey, uh, can I get your eyes
on something?
Yeah, sure.
It's my patient in T3.
- The nun?
- Yeah.
Are my eyes playing tricks on me,
or is that what I think it is?
It's a baby, right?
Yeah, at least
it was.
[MACHINES BEEPING]
I've never been pregnant.
Well, even though you may not
have realized it at the time,
this image shows us that you were
until sometime in the second trimester.
Clearly, the fetus did not survive.
But that's a miscarriage.
You're telling me
there's a baby in me right now?
Normally, the body
would expel the fetus,
but in very rare cases it can
be retained by the uterus
and the body launches an immune
response that calcifies it.
It's called a lithopedion.
Um, a stone baby.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
But why now?
Uh, after all these years
of having no idea it was there?
Well, your body's entered
a premenopausal phase,
so the hormone changes
likely caused your uterus
to contract, which resulted
in your abdominal pain.
And sometimes this condition
can remain asymptomatic for a lifetime.
So what happens now?
We remove it surgically.
Sooner the better.
I'd like to get you
into surgery tonight.
But, um, we can
we can wait a day or two
if you need some time.
♪
Tonight is fine.
I'm ready.
CPD called.
My house was completely cleared.
- Total sweep?
- Y-yeah.
I mean, they didn't find
any evidence of forced entry
or that anyone had been there.
Okay. So what now?
I mean, better not be trying
to tell you
you imagined the whole thing.
Well, who knows?
But I know how I felt, Daniel.
- Someone was in my house.
- Okay.
Well, that's easy.
You're gonna sleep somewhere else,
you know, until we figure out
what's going on.
Well, they offered
a patrol car out front.
- I said yes.
- That ain't nothing.
I mean, will it make you feel better?
At least it might help me sleep.
♪
Where is the real injury?
The cut over my right eye.
The skin tore pretty deeply.
You are definitely gonna need stitches.
I got clocked in the face by a customer.
Customer?
Yeah.
I'm a performer at the
Fun Farm Halloween Night Show.
It sounds like
you're too good at your job.
Who goes to a Halloween show
if they don't want a few jump scares?
It's what he paid for.
I'd take it as a compliment.
Really?
Well, yeah, it means you gave
an authentic performance.
Mm.
- Thank you.
- A small pinch here.
Next.
All right. You okay?
Hey, thank you for your patience.
Can you lift your sleeve up
over your shoulder, please?
[TENSE MUSIC]
- [GROWLS]
- [GASPS]
I need you to calm down, all right?
- Take a seat for me now!
- [SNARLS]
- Oh!
- [GROWLING]
[GRUNTS] Relax!
[GROWLING]
- [CRUNCHING]
- He's biting me!
God!
Relax!
What's up with your friend, man?
- We don't know him.
- You don't?
He escaped the psych unit
a few hours ago.
He must have slipped out during
that other guy's attempt.
Come on, Kevin.
Whoa, it's Kevin.
- Kevin's alive!
- Whoa!
Kev what is going on tonight?
Mm-mm.
God! Ouch!
Wait, so you're saying
that there's something wrong
with my baby's heart?
Your test shows what I believe to be
an atrioventricular block.
What does that mean?
It means that your body
has developed a rare set of antibodies
and has disrupted your baby's
cardiac development.
Oh, my God.
- Just listen.
- Okay.
We've already given you
a course of steroids
to help root out the dangerous antigens
and now have started an IV drip
to help replace them
with the healthy ones.
So my baby's gonna be okay?
She's gonna be just fine.
Wait, she?
Sounds like someone
let the cat out of the bag.
I cannot believe I just did that.
- Oh, my gosh. No, Olivia!
- [LAUGHING] No worries.
I'm so I've never oh, my God.
- [LAUGHTER]
- I'm glad that you told me.
Thank you. Thank you for helping me.
No, thank yourself.
Dr. Asher only caught this
because you decided to come in early.
It could have been a lot worse
had you decided to wait longer.
[CHUCKLES] Leo, you're gonna have
wait, where did where did Leo go?
Wait, where did he go?
Okay, no worries.
- I'll go track him down.
- Okay.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Leo.
Leo.
- Stop trying to hurt me.
- Leo, are you okay, honey?
- I will not let you hurt me!
- No, Ted, we're trying to
- Stop it!
- We just
It's okay, Leo.
They're just trying to help him.
Leo, it's okay.
They're just trying to help him.
[VOICE ECHOING] It's okay, Leo.
It's okay, Leo.
[YELLING]
Okay, Leo
[YELLING]
♪
[MOANING]
What's going on here?
Leo's autistic, and he wandered out here
and just melted down,
and he screams any time I get near him.
Okay.
[MOANING]
Hey, is she mad
that Olivia's still here?
No, she ju
I don't know what she is right now.
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪
All those people are scary, huh?
And it's really loud in here.
You're safe, Leo.
♪
[MOANING STOPS]
[BREATHING DEEPLY]
[BREATHING DEEPLY]
We can stay here
as long as you want, Leo.
♪
What, um, what happened?
After his X-ray cleared him,
a guard came to take him back to psych
and he had a full-blown asthma attack.
His oxygen saturation was down to 90
and he didn't have his inhaler,
so we treated the asthma attack.
And a few minutes later, he just
he completely freaked out.
What what meds did he get?
An albuterol nebulizer and fluticasone.
- Fluticasone.
- Mm-hmm.
The, um the nasal spray.
Yeah, you were right.
You've been right this whole time.
He, um
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
He is mentally ill.
You know what?
I am not so sure about that.
♪
Excuse me, MK.
I'm so sorry to interrupt,
but we need to get you into surgery.
Please pray with me.
Okay.
[SNIFFLES]
[BOTH SIGH]
Now, tell me what's been bothering you.
[CHUCKLES]
- Me?
- Mm-hmm.
It shouldn't be about me.
It should be about you.
I can sense sadness.
That's my gift.
[LAUGHS]
Please.
[CHUCKLES]
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
My, uh
my best friend's dying of cancer.
I'm so sorry to hear that, Dr. Ripley.
And tonight his little boy
was brought in with pneumonia.
Actually, a babysitter brought
him in because his mother,
my friend's girlfriend, Lynne,
ignored his symptoms
and decided to
party the night away instead.
♪
I'm not sad.
I'm angry.
Mm.
Sometimes, they're the same thing.
I met my baby's father
when I was 19.
He was a few years older than me
and he had the most piercing blue eyes.
They melted my heart.
We fell head over heels in love.
And like magic,
I could suddenly picture
our entire lives together.
Marriage, travel, kids,
everything.
What happened?
He fell in love with someone else.
[SIGHS]
And that whole life I saw
vanished.
I'm so sorry, MK.
I think Lynne pictures a life
which is now slowly vanishing
before her eyes,
which might be the most
painful goodbye of all.
Be patient with her, Dr. Ripley.
I will.
And I hope that
beautiful baby boy of hers
feels better soon.
He'll be fine, MK.
I like when you call me that.
Believe me, Sister gets old.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
[BOTH SIGH]
♪
What did you say her name was?
Dr. Lenox.
She knew exactly what to do
when Leo melted down.
No one ever does.
She clearly has a kind soul.
Yes, she does.
Okay, Olivia.
So you are just about
done with your infusion,
and your baby's heart rate is strong.
So I'll need you to follow up
here every few weeks,
but I expect that your baby
will be just fine.
I'm just so glad
you're doing this clinic.
It's not usually an option.
We're really glad you came, Olivia.
Yeah. And spread the word.
[CHUCKLES]
I'm feeling much better.
Uh
but I don't know why
this keeps happening to me.
Uh, I don't know.
Maybe maybe my ex is right.
Maybe I am crazy.
Mm, I'm not so sure about that.
Do you mind me asking,
did you happen to have an asthma attack
when you were arguing with your wife?
Uh, I did, actually, yeah.
And do you always
combine fluticasone spray
with your inhaler
to manage your attacks?
Actually, no. Rarely.
But, uh, she she really
got me worked up this time.
It was it was a doozy.
Okay.
Can you remember roughly how
many pumps you used per side?
Oh, I don't know.
Five?
I think that what
we're talking about here, Ted,
is something very simply known
as a medication overdose.
You know, fluticasone,
it's a corticosteroid,
which is a class of steroid
that has absolutely been known
to induce psychosis in people
with, you know, a certain vulnerability.
[SOFT MUSIC]
W-wait. I'm so I'm not crazy?
That's what was causing your glitch.
And we think that the reason
maybe it happened again today
is even if we gave you the right dose,
right, that that overload
is still in your system
and it just triggered another episode.
If it's okay with you, I'd like
to keep you till the morning
just to make absolutely
sure that all this stuff
is out of your system.
But you will still have plenty of time
- to make the custody hearing.
- [SIGHING] Oh.
[SNIFFLES] Thank you.
Thank you so much. Uh [LAUGHS]
You were pretty amazing
with Leo tonight.
Yeah, her mom wanted us
to thank you for her.
Well and
Happy Halloween.
Dr. Lenox is a mystery.
- Even possibly to herself.
- Mm-hmm.
Hey, great job with the clinic patient.
I heard it was very lucky
that she came in.
Yes, an atrioventricular block.
I am very glad that we caught it.
But overall, your prenatal clinic
has not been particularly well-attended.
What are you saying?
That maybe we should pivot.
I spoke to Violet Mikami
last week, from Firehouse 51.
She delivered a baby
mere minutes after the mother's death,
a death that could have been avoided
by a standard prenatal examination.
It made me think of Elise Thompson.
So I'm proposing a mobile unit
that could visit communities
most at risk,
'cause listen, if the patients
can't get to us,
we gotta go to them.
[CHUCKLING] That would be incredible.
We need to do better by the
pregnant women that need us.
And we will.
Good. Let's talk details tomorrow.
[SOFT MUSIC]
[LAUGHTER]
♪
Oh.
I know I overstepped today.
Yeah, you did.
I'm sorry.
It will not happen again.
Mm.
I'm just still trying to figure
out what you were thinking.
Totally get on the face of it, like,
why you wouldn't want Ted
to be misdiagnosed.
- I mean, I understand
- I've been there.
As you well know.
And, um, here's the thing
about a psych ward.
It's it's scary.
It's heavy and it sticks with you.
[SENTIMENTAL MUSIC]
Every Halloween, I
I take my daughter to this big bash
with all the neighborhood kids
and I was supposed
to go with her tonight,
but Carl changed his mind
at the last minute.
Yeah, he says he's worried about me.
Um
but the truth is, he doesn't
want me to be alone with her.
There's always that fear that,
you know, that I'm gonna go
to that place again.
Do you, uh do you
mind me asking, did you
did you ever think maybe that
I had misdiagnosed you?
No.
No, there was something wrong with me.
And I'm I'm grateful
for what you did.
Otherwise, I don't know
if I would be here today.
Mm.
♪
[BABY COOING]
- That's great.
Nate's breathing is improving.
That means the antibiotics
are working well.
When can I take him home?
I'd like to keep him
overnight for observation
just to make sure his oxygen
levels remain normal.
- Can I stay with him?
- Sure, yeah, yeah.
We'll set up a cot for you
so you're comfortable.
Thank you.
Need some company?
That depends.
Will that involve judgment and
thinly veiled condescension?
[BABY COOING]
I'll leave you to it.
Thank you for everything, Dr. Frost.
Of course. Yeah, yeah.
[CLEARS THROAT]
[SIGHS]
[SOFT MUSIC]
I'm sorry.
For how I treated you and
For what you're going through.
And you were right.
I haven't been there like I should.
But that changes now.
Whatever you need, I'm game.
Mitchell Ripley, taking the high road?
Taking my head out of my ass, actually.
- [CHUCKLES] Oh.
- Yeah.
♪
Does Sully know I'm here?
No.
And he won't, not from me.
Helen, I come bearing peanut
butter cups, as promised.
[LAUGHS] Who says guilt isn't useful?
Not me. [LAUGHTER]
How's Kyle?
[SIGHS] Milking the photos
of his red eyes
for full sympathetic impact
on Instagram.
Good for him. [LAUGHTER]
Well, if there's anything I can do.
You know, actually, there is.
I just noticed that
you have a doorbell camera.
Can I see the footage?
Of course you can. I'll send you a file.
- Great, thank you.
- Yeah.
- Good night.
- Good night.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[CHILDREN LAUGHING IN VIDEO]
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