.
[soft laughter]
- After our honeymoon, we'd like to start treating people.
Are you giving me notice?
Yes, ma'am.
[both grunting]
- Come on, Dean. What's going on?
Is there anything I can do?
You can keep it to yourself.
Justin Lieu.
I spent a decade doing search and rescue
before deciding on med school.
I'm Liliana.
I clean your office.
- Would you like to have some coffee with me?
How about now?
[car horn honks] [crash]
Are you having an affair?
No. Never.
He thinks that we need time apart.
- And thanks to Mr. Dayton's generosity,
Chicago Med is able to provide
a whole new level of surgical intervention.
I know the tech.
I promise you, it won't let you down.
- You know tech, but you don't know surgery.
- Jack Dayton has bought controlling interest
in the Gaffney Medical Group.
- So I guess he's in charge now.
[tense music]
* *
- Man, I've been seeing these 2.0 ads everywhere.
Kind of makes me wish I needed surgery.
- Yeah. These are a lot of signs.
- I guess there are worse things
than having Jack Dayton's PR machine
- in our corner, though, right? - Hey, look.
As long as he keeps us ahead of the supply shortages,
- I am not complaining. - You know what?
Come to think of it, I saw a whole new shipment
of PPE came in.
- Let me catch up with you later.
Hey, Maggie.
Oh, hey, Sharon.
How you doing?
I'm OK.
You know, Ben used to make me breakfast every morning.
- You two still aren't talking, huh?
- Uh-uh.
- Well, I know it must be hard not having him around,
so I'm here if you ever need to talk.
- I know. Thank you.
Liliana.
Good morning, Daniel.
- What a pleasant way to start the day.
- Thank you, though I just finished my shift.
I am on my way out.
- You know what I've been thinking?
We've had a couple of very pleasant coffees together.
How about we, um,
I don't know, advance to dinner?
OK, sure.
- You want to pick the restaurant?
- Should I? - Better idea.
Let me cook. I'll make zrazy.
- Zrazy. Fantastic. What is that?
- It's Polish dish. It's my grandmother's recipe.
OK.
- So my apartment, 8:00? - Great.
- I'll text you my address. - I will see you there.
What have we got?
- Martha Kittle, 75 years old.
Took a bad spill in her kitchen.
- Let's get you checked out, Martha.
I need an X-ray in treatment five.
Grandma!
I hear you, Alexander.
I'm coming, Grandma.
Where are they taking her?
- Just into her room to check her out.
You can go in with her if you want.
What's that?
- That's an X-ray machine.
- Will it hurt her? - No, no.
That's just so the doctor can help your grandmother.
- Are you OK? - Yeah.
His name's Alexander.
Looks to me like he could be on the autism spectrum.
He's having trouble making sense
of what's going on with his grandmother.
Leave her alone!
- Oh! - Get away from her!
- She's just trying to get an X-ray.
- Yeah, Alexander. It's OK.
- I'm not going to let you hurt her.
- Alexander, how about we get you a little space?
Would that be good? Let's get you some space.
Thank you, Nancy.
Let's go home, Grandma.
Alexander, please stop.
Let's go home.
I need to be here.
And I need you to calm down, please.
These are nice people.
They're trying to help me.
I'm sorry.
I...
- [shushing] - [sobbing]
* *
.
- Oh, again? - Yeah.
Is Jack Dayton gonna have
fresh donuts for us every day?
I suppose these aren't allowed on your renal diet.
- I'm sorry. - Don't be.
You're the one missing out on my cranberry juice.
- Whoa. Brand-new espresso machine?
Yeah, a generous gift
bestowed upon us by Jack Dayton.
- Well, hopefully, these upgrades
extend to patient care too.
- Yeah, you keep telling yourself that, pal.
Dean won't be swayed
by Dayton's new shiny toys and sweets.
- Don't tell me you don't remember
the story of "Hansel and Gretel," right?
The witch fattening them up?
- You think Jack Dayton wants to eat us?
- Guy seems to have a big appetite.
- Dr. Lieu, you're with me today. - Sure thing, Dr. Archer.
- Dr. Archer, we've got one coming down
from the helicopter pad.
Use Baghdad.
What do we got?
- Brandon Thompson, 34-year-old male.
Restrained driver in MVC.
Intubated en route.
500 milliliters of fluid in the field.
HR 120. BP stable, 130 over 82.
- What happened? - Drove his car off road.
Barreled through the woods until smashing into a tree.
- All right, on my count. Ready?
One, two, three.
All right. Lungs are clear.
Bilateral breath sounds.
OK.
Pupils are equal and reactive.
Fast him.
No free fluid.
- Put in an A-line and blood gas.
Doris, I'm gonna need a chest and pelvis X-ray
as well as a EKG and a PanScan.
Got it.
- Must have lost control of the car.
Wonder why.
- Let's hope he can wake up and tell us.
- I'm sorry, we didn't get a chance
to introduce ourselves before.
This is Dr. Cuevas. I'm Dr. Charles.
- Is now a good time? - Of course.
Go ahead, Alexander.
What do you say?
I'm sorry.
I was wrong.
I didn't know what was happening.
Alexander, you know what?
This can be a very confusing place.
You have absolutely nothing to worry about, OK?
Are you gonna fix Grandma?
- We're gonna do our very best.
- Martha, I would like to go over your X-rays with you.
- Alexander, maybe you could go get a snack?
- There's some vending machines in the waiting room.
I can take you.
- There's some money in my purse.
Thanks for not sharing anything in front of Alexander.
It's hard for him knowing I'm in pain.
- Ms. Kittle, when you fell,
you suffered an intertrochanteric fracture.
You broke your hip.
Perhaps more concerning,
you've got lytic lesions on your bones
that are causing areas of weakness.
- That's probably because of the cancer.
Stage 4 lymphoma. It's metastasized to my bones.
Very sorry to hear that.
It is what it is.
I've decided not to treat it,
though I do take medication for the pain.
The doctors say I might have only a few more months.
Does Alexander know?
- I'm struggling to find the right way to tell him.
I understand.
Listen, Martha, you are gonna need some surgery, OK?
But I want you to know that we're gonna do
everything we can to make this workable
for Alexander.
Surgery?
- You're gonna need to have your hip pinned.
- What's the recovery time for that?
- At least a month, but likely longer.
An orthopedic surgeon can give you a more accurate estimate.
I'll page the ortho resident on call to come down.
- Don't, please. I can't go through a surgery like that.
Who will take care of Alexander?
- There isn't another family member
who might be able to help?
No, not since he was a baby.
It's always just been the two of us.
- Right. No friend that he feels comfortable with or--
You saw how he was earlier.
Blowups like that happen at least once a day.
No one I know would want to take that on.
- Then what we're gonna do is we're gonna appoint
a short-term guardianship.
- Alexander won't listen to anyone but me.
I'm the only one who can calm him down.
So no surgery.
Grandma?
Look. [chuckles]
Can I have it?
Yes, but not before lunch.
- Hi, Sophia. I'm Dr. Halstead.
Are you her mom?
Her swim coach, Cindy.
Her dad should be here soon.
He lives a few hours away.
Sophia goes to St. Joseph Prep here in the city.
- Oh, the boarding school, right?
- Mm-hmm. - OK.
So what's going on, Sophia?
I don't know honestly.
It was the weirdest thing.
- Sophia and her teammates were practicing
their individual medley races,
and right after Sophia made her last flip turn,
she fell behind all the others.
Then she stopped swimming altogether.
- I think I felt something in my chest,
but then I passed out.
OK if I give a quick listen?
Oh, it was terrifying.
I mean, she was just floating there, face down.
One of the other coaches helped me get her out of the pool.
And she was unconscious at first.
And then after a few seconds, she came to, thank goodness.
- Anything like this ever happened before?
No, never.
- Sophia is a fantastic swimmer.
I broke the state record
for the 200-meter breaststroke last year.
Wow. Impressive.
All right, let's get a chest X-ray, CBC,
CMP, EKG, and cardiac labs.
And why don't we get Sophia a gown?
- Hey, is this the hospital Jack Dayton bought?
It is.
- Any chance I'll get to see him?
- You're 16 and you keep up with Jack Dayton?
When Jack Dayton was 16,
he'd already created the beta version
of what would become SapphireCash.com.
- You know a lot about him? - Of course.
I'm a dev.
- Dev? - Developer.
It's hard not to look up to somebody like Jack Dayton.
- Unfortunately, I doubt Jack will make an appearance today.
He's a pretty busy guy. Sorry.
But we'll get these tests and figure out what's going on.
- Sound good? - Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
I swear,
I would never wish Crohn's disease on my worst enemy.
- The gastric tube is definitely clogged.
You called it, Roy.
- That's the fourth time in the last three months.
- Yeah. You flushing it out?
I've used warm water,
seltzer, soda,
everything short of Drano.
- OK, well, let's upsize the tube a little bit.
- Come on, Dr. Marcel. It's a temporary solution.
There's got to be something better
than this game of musical tubes.
- Yeah, look, I get that you're frustrated, Roy,
but we got to get you nutrition somehow.
You don't understand.
I can't take this.
I need to eat something.
- Look, sadly, that's not possible anymore
because of your esophageal strictures.
You won't be able to get the food down.
- What about my surgical options?
I read online you can remove and replace my esophagus.
Can we do something like that?
- Well, if I do that, I'll need to replace it
by reconstructing a new esophagus
from a part of your stomach or intestine.
But it's a complicated procedure,
especially for you.
Look, you've had a lot of surgeries over the years,
and all of that resulting scar tissue makes it very difficult
to find a piece of intestine that can work.
But you could try, right?
Too much can go wrong.
- How much worse can it be than this?
You worried you might kill me?
I can't stand the idea
of having to keep living like this.
[voice breaks] I'm serious.
I don't know how much longer I could go on.
I hear you, Roy.
All right, well...
let me have a think on it, OK?
Dr. Dupre, morning.
Can you input that for me?
- Dr. Marcel, I couldn't help but overhear
you discussing what sounded to be
like an Ivor Lewis operation
on a Crohn's patient with a hostile abdomen.
Eavesdropping much?
Not intentionally.
Look, I would love to offer 2.0 services for the operation.
Thanks, but I told him
we're not gonna go the surgical route.
Roy's Crohn's disease and adhesions from prior surgeries
make him a very high risk and poor surgical candidate.
- I think this is the perfect case
to take advantage of 2.0's imaging.
If 2.0 is gonna revolutionize surgery,
this is exactly the kind of case it should be used on.
- You know, Roy's situation is very precarious.
I'm not convinced 2.0 can make a difference.
- I understand your reservations,
but don't you think it's worth exploring?
[tense music]
* *
[knocks on door]
You must be Sophia's dad.
- Glen Eastman. I'm sorry I'm late.
I live out in Rochelle. Got here as soon as I could.
- I'm glad you made it. I'm Dr. Halstead.
I have your lab results.
I'll step outside.
No, Coach, please stay.
- You're basically family, Cindy.
She's been a wonderful influence in Sophia's life
over the past few years,
especially since I live so far away.
OK.
Well, the good news is your labs and EKG came back normal.
- Any idea what did cause this then?
- Not yet, but I'd like to test Sophia
for something called Brugada syndrome.
It's a very rare disorder that causes arrhythmias
or irregular heartbeats,
especially if someone who has it
overexerts themselves like you did swimming today.
That sounds serious.
In the very worst cases,
it can cause the heart to stop altogether.
But there are treatments
that will prevent that from happening.
That's why I'd like to do another EKG.
But this time, I'd like to administer a medication
called procainamide that will trigger an irregular EKG result
if Sophia does in fact have Brugada syndrome.
We've got to do it, right?
So we know either way.
- All right, I'll have a nurse get you set up right away.
Brandon's CT.
He's got a grade 2 splenic crack with no blush.
- All right. What's your recommendation?
- Track his hemoglobins over the next 24 hours.
As long as it remains stable,
I don't see any need for surgical intervention.
He also passed a spontaneous breathing test.
- Good. Let's extubate.
Here you go.
Brandon, we're gonna remove your endotracheal tube now, OK?
- All right, Brandon, I'm just gonna loosen the strap.
There you go. Nice and easy.
Breathe.
- [coughing] - Good job.
- [strained] Is Tiffany OK?
Tiffany?
- My wife. Did they bring her here?
I don't understand.
Was she in the car?
Yes.
She's pregnant.
In labor.
Where is she?
.
- Just spoke to the local fire department on the scene.
I'm afraid they didn't find anyone else there.
What?
No, I--what are-- what are you saying?
Brandon, are you sure
you're not misremembering what happened?
I'm not making this up.
She was sitting right next to me.
I can prove it. Just--where's my phone?
OK.
Look, this dot on the map is her cell phone.
That's right by Interstate 55.
That's where I crashed, right?
OK, I'll go back there myself if I have to.
- Brandon, you're in no shape to leave the hospital.
- We're gonna get on top of this. You just sit tight.
Please.
This is what she looks like.
- We'll do everything we can to find her.
- Doris, call the Illinois State Police
and the local sheriff department.
Tell them we've pinned a possible location.
- I should go out there to help them.
I have experience in search and rescue.
- Yeah, but there are other people for that.
Look, back in Colorado,
hikers would go missing all the time.
We would have a designated incident commander
and experienced hasty teams at the ready
with helicopters and trucks and commtech.
I'm not sure the local sheriff has those kind of resources.
Maybe I can make up for some of that.
- Yeah, you're not a helicopter.
- But I do have 63 rescues under my belt.
For Tiffany and her baby
to have the best chance of survival,
I need to be out there.
I can bring the hospital to her.
Dr. Asher.
Hmm? What's up?
- There's a pregnant woman missing out in the woods
and Dr. Lieu here seems to be convinced
that he needs to join the search and rescue.
I want you to go with him.
She's reportedly in labor, OK?
63 rescues, huh?
Make Tiffany number 64.
- The stomach is just too fibrotic and scarred
to manipulate into an esophagus.
- How about a colonic interpositioning?
Can you use his colon?
- There's too many strictures throughout the bowel,
not to mention the extensive adhesions
we can't see on the scans.
Look, I want this to work. I do.
I hate that Roy has to suffer this much,
but I'm not gonna open him up
and risk further damage to his intestine
without a plan in place, OK?
- Perhaps a better angle can help.
2.0, show us the digital twin for patient Roy Tooley.
[whirring]
Based on Roy's charts and scans,
2.0 has created this twin that is anatomically identical.
Feel free to poke around in there.
What do you mean?
- I've enabled a function with 2.0
that allows you to manipulate the hologram
using the sensory gloves.
Here, try it.
OK.
Here we go.
- Area of bowel has previous intestinal anastomosis.
Neat trick.
But it's just a hologram.
There's no telling how Roy's body would respond
to any of this in real life.
- 2.0 can simulate the real-life responses
based on an extensive database of previous surgical input
while continuously recalibrating
to incorporate Roy's personal data as well.
Mm.
- Look, if you're worried about that little hiccup
where 2.0 questioned your suturing technique,
it won't happen again.
2.0 is here to assist, not hinder.
- Well, I guess there's no harm in running a simulation.
OK, we ready?
OK, it all looks normal so far, just like the first time.
Push the procainamide.
[machine beeping steadily]
[machines beeping slows]
So see the slope that gradually descends after each heartbeat?
I don't feel any different.
You're not supposed to.
The medication only changes the EKG reading
if you have Brugada syndrome.
- So does this mean Sophia has it?
I'm afraid so, yeah.
A cardiologist will walk you through it,
but, Sophia, you're going to need
an implantable cardioverter defibrillator, an ICD.
What's that?
- It's a device that monitors your heartbeats.
And if you were to ever have
another heart-stopping arrhythmia,
it will deliver a very small shock to your heart
to restore regular rhythm.
It's a procedure typically done in a cath lab OR,
but after four to six weeks, Sophia should be able
to resume all normal activities, including swimming.
- Wait, you mean I can't swim at all until then?
- You will need to take a break.
- Um, that's gonna be a problem for regionals.
If Sophia doesn't compete in the upcoming meet in two weeks,
she'll be ineligible for future events.
- That means I won't be able to compete at state.
Can't we put this surgery off until later?
- That makes me a little nervous.
- I agree. It's best to take care of this right away.
- OK, we'll do it. - Dad.
- Dr. Halstead is saying your heart could stop beating.
You don't understand, Dad.
You're not around, and you hardly come to my meets.
If I don't compete at state, that screws up my chances
of going out for the Olympics a year from now.
- I'm sorry, honey. It's just too risky.
There'll be plenty more opportunities
for you to compete in the future.
- Yeah, I will have someone from cardiology
come speak with you.
- Well, thank you very much. You've been really helpful.
Huh.
So that's the mayor's office for people with disabilities
with a very promising referral for a short-term guardian
who has extensive experience
working with adults with special needs.
- Well, that's good. - Yeah.
Hopefully, Martha will sign off on it.
We need some help in here.
Alexander!
Help him!
What's going on?
OK, he's unresponsive, and he's not breathing.
Oh, God.
His lips are turning blue.
- Pinpoint pupils. Did he take something?
- It looks like he's overdosed. - Do something, please.
Narcan.
[inhales sharply]
- Alexander, are you all right? You OK?
- What happened? - You're OK, baby.
You're OK.
I don't feel good.
- You're going to be fine. Don't worry.
.
- The car crashed through this fence here.
The car then careened into the woods
until an oak tree brought it to a halt right about here.
There was no sign of a passenger,
so we went ahead and had it towed.
- Sheriff, I found these about 100 yards due east.
Those are Tiffany's.
Brandon had the same picture on his phone.
- Deputy Russell, this is Dr. Lieu and Dr. Asher.
They treated the driver at Chicago Med.
[whistles] Bring over Brix.
Has Brix helped you out
on other search and rescues before?
- No, but he once found 12 kilos of blow
buried in a local trailer park.
Hopefully, he'll be able
to find a pregnant woman in the woods.
- Sheriff Parker, we'd like to head out with the first team.
We can provided immediate medical support.
Works for me.
First team, let's head out. Let's go.
Let's grab our supplies.
Here?
- Vascular pedicle is too short.
This looks promising.
Left colon just past the splenic flexure.
Tissue is extremely friable.
Many adhesions. Easy to tear.
Well, it seems 2.0
has already assessed all my options.
So why don't we just skip to the part
where it tells me what segment of the bowel to pull up?
2.0, your recommendation?
- Abort esophageal reconstruction.
- You're kidding me. - Place gastric tube
and commit to liquid enteral nutrition.
- Well, Roy's already been doing all of that,
so what was the point of any of this?
Hold on.
2.0, what is the prognosis
of an esophageal reconstruction with this patient?
48% chance of success.
48%? Those are decent odds.
Why would 2.0 insist this will fail?
- Well, 2.0 has a default setting.
Not to support any surgical procedure
that has less than a 50% chance of success.
But I am going to lower that threshold.
You are good to go.
OK.
Here we go.
Starting from square one, 2.0.
- The left colon has the best odds of viability.
- Yeah, I see it. Looks pretty good.
Oh.
Yeah, that section looks long enough.
Seems like it has adequate blood flow.
- I think this could actually work.
Yeah.
OK, well, let's do a couple of practice rounds,
and then we can bring in the real Roy.
OK, from the top. Let's go.
Alexander, how are you doing?
- Can I see Grandma now? - Very soon.
- We want to keep you on IV fluids,
that tube that's in your arm, just a little while longer.
Make sure you feel better.
- In the meantime, we're hoping you can help us
figure out exactly what happened.
I think I fainted.
- Any idea why that might have happened?
Can you remember eating anything different
than you normally do, like anything at all?
No.
Think real hard, Alexander.
We're here to help you.
I know.
- Alexander, are you, um--
are you a candy person?
- Do you like candy? - Yes.
- I'm just wondering if there's any chance
you could have looked in your grandma's purse
and seen red and blue pills
and thought that they were candy maybe?
- I don't eat anything unless Grandma lets me.
I have to ask.
- Like the soda this morning from the vending machine?
- Uh-huh.
She said I could. She opened it for me.
- I guess it doesn't matter what I think.
- We're very sorry, Mr. Eastman.
What's going on?
- Sophia's refusing to stop swimming competitively.
She's petitioned a judge
to issue a stay on her ICD implantation.
Well, how is that possible?
Her father signed off, and she's a minor.
- She's filing for emancipation.
- What? She's gonna need her father's consent, right?
Well, in most cases, yes.
- But she's been living independently
at her boarding school these last few years
on a swimming scholarship, so the court may grant her
emancipation regardless of what her father wants.
She has a heart disorder,
and you're telling me a judge is, what?
Gonna let her ignore it?
It's out of our hands now.
We're sorry.
Great. Yeah, OK.
As long as we have
an automated external defibrillator on standby,
you are OK to compete.
- That another doctor you were talking to there?
A friend who's in contact
with the state's competitive committee.
- Sophia, you do realize the more you exert yourself,
the higher the chances this happens again?
- Which is why we're looking into precautionary measures
- that don't require surgery. - There aren't any.
- I've trained my whole life for this,
and I'm not about to throw it all away
just because I passed out once.
- Sophia, if another arrhythmia occurs,
you may not get the chance to go to the Olympics.
Dr. Halstead.
You could die.
May I have a word?
Ms. Goodwin,
she's taking medical advice from a swim coach.
- You need to give this girl some space.
I don't like it any more than you do,
but it's time to step away.
- Is Alexander OK? - He's gonna be.
But, you know, Martha, there was, um,
a pretty significant amount of opiates in his bloodstream.
And, you know, it occurred to me
that given your stage 4 cancer pain,
it would be completely understandable
if you were carrying around, you know,
just a lot of very strong medicine with you
all the time, right?
And at first, I thought that maybe--
I don't know, maybe Alexander was looking in your purse,
and I don't know, he mistook the medicine
for candy or something.
But then he told me pretty explicitly
that he never puts anything in his mouth
without your permission.
So, Martha, I have to ask you,
did you--
did you put a bunch of pills in his soda this morning?
- I didn't know what else to do.
When I got my diagnosis,
I thought if I could just hold on a little longer,
maybe when he got a bit older,
he could manage by himself.
But then I realized that was never gonna happen.
- You know, there are other options, though.
- Martha-- - I've tried them.
I put Alexander in different group homes,
but he wouldn't eat,
wouldn't sleep.
He'd sob and bang the ground with his fists until they bled.
Every time, it was a disaster.
- So you thought that he would--
he would be better off dead?
- I love Alexander more than I've loved anybody.
But after I fell this morning, I couldn't stop thinking,
if I can't be there for him, who will?
[sobbing]
I'm sorry.
[sniffles] I'm so sorry.
- It looks like Brix wants to cross.
[barking]
- Let's split up. You guys cross.
Dr. Asher and I will stay on this side, move downstream.
- Cover more ground that way. - You got it.
So what was that about?
- Brix has been trained to detect drugs and contraband.
It's not the same skillset
as searching for a missing person.
I'm just not sure it makes sense
for Tiffany to cross the stream in her state.
- All right, see this twig here? - Yeah.
- How it's broken about waist level?
You think Tiffany did that?
- It's high off the ground. Some human did.
Check this out.
- Looks like fresh blood to me. - Could be Tiffany's.
Sheriff, this is Dr. Lieu.
We've got blood droplets just off the creek
in grid D5 on the map.
We're marking it off now.
Copy that.
- She's close. Come on.
.
OK, gonna take the left colon
just up to the middle colic artery.
- Tissue appears viable. Adequate blood supply.
OK, good.
I'm gonna resect. GIA stapler.
Thank you.
Is something wrong?
- Colon looks OK, but the small bowel looks much better.
It's got a good vascular pedicle.
Appears more freely mobile.
Might be better for the reconstruction.
- Small bowel interposition is not recommended.
Why is that?
- There's no dataset to guide you.
- I don't need a data set. I just need a viable bowel.
OK, but first, let's remove the esophagus.
- Once you take the esophagus out, there's no turning back.
Scalpel, please.
[elevator dings]
Mr. Dayton, hi.
I'm Will Halstead, one of the ED docs.
- Sorry. Mr. Dayton's on a very tight schedule.
- Oh, I understand, but I have a patient,
a teenager, who has a heart condition.
She needs a procedure, and she's refusing
because it'll get in the way of her competitive swimming.
But I think you might be able to change her mind.
Why would she listen to me?
She's into computers.
She idolizes you. I wouldn't be asking otherwise.
- Mr. Dayton, you have to be in San Francisco by 8:00 p.m.
- I've got a very important meeting.
It can't be rescheduled.
- All I'm asking for is a few minutes.
Convincing Sophia to get this procedure,
it could save her life.
- I appreciate your concern for your patient,
but I really do have a plane to catch.
- Why did you even buy a hospital
if you don't care about the patients in it?
Excuse me?
- You know, when you took over Med,
I hoped it might have something to do
with a desire to help people,
but clearly, that was naive on my part.
We're nothing to you.
Just another toy to play with.
Have a safe flight.
There.
Tiffany.
Hey, Tiffany. We're doctors.
- We're here to help you. - What's happening?
- You were in a car accident. - [groaning]
She's cold to the touch.
We're gonna put a tarp under you, OK?
Here we go.
Lift up just a little.
Great job.
OK, I'm gonna remove your jacket
so we can put a warming blanket on you.
Sheriff, this is Dr. Lieu.
We've located Tiffany in grid C7.
Track the orange markers, and you'll find us.
- Copy. On our way.
- Tiffany, I'm gonna examine you, OK?
- Am I bleeding? - You're in labor.
She's disoriented.
Could be from the head lash or from hypothermia.
- [grunts] - Abdomen's hard as a rock.
Most likely placenta abruption.
Baby's not getting enough blood or oxygen.
- Heart rate 110, BP 90 over 42.
Hand me the fetal doppler.
Help me.
- It's gonna be OK, Tiffany. We're trying, OK?
Just hang on in there.
Ooh.
- Baby's heart rate is down to 80.
She's completely dilated.
- All right. Hang in there, Tiffany.
- Tiffany, we're gonna need to deliver your baby right now.
So when I tell you, you're gonna push
as hard as you can, OK?
May we interrupt?
You OK, Grandma?
I will be.
How about you?
- [sighs] I feel--
I'm feeling better now.
When can we go home?
Alexander...
I-I can't go home.
- You have to. You live there.
I know, but I'm very sick.
I'll help you get better.
- Oh, baby, I wish you could,
but I'm the kind of sick that never gets better.
Then I'll stay here with you.
You can't.
- Why? Did I do something wrong?
- No. No, you didn't do anything wrong.
This wasn't your fault at all.
But I'm not able to care for you anymore.
- Alexander, we're gonna help you find somebody who can, OK?
You stay out of this.
- Alexander, no. Listen to me, please.
You need to trust Dr. Charles.
He can help you in ways that I can't.
But I want you, Grandma.
Alexander, you are so special
and deserve the very best this world has to offer.
I just can't give that to you anymore.
Someone else can.
And I'm going to need you to let them.
Can you do that for me?
I love you, Grandma.
Baby, I love you so much.
I love you with all my heart.
- OK, Tiffany, we're gonna go again.
- You ready? - Yeah.
Push.
- [groaning] - You got it.
- You're doing great, Tiffany. - Keep pushing.
- You're doing great. Come on.
- I can't. I can't.
- Yes, you can. You're almost there.
I promise.
Here we go again.
Push.
[screams]
Yes.
It's a girl.
You got a little girl.
[baby crying]
.
- Well, Sophia, your discharge paperwork is complete.
You're free to go.
- [knocks on door] - Sorry.
Hope this is the right room.
You're Jack Dayton.
You must be Sophia.
Dr. Halstead here tells me you're quite the swimmer.
- She is. - She is also a fan of yours.
- Well, that's very kind of you.
You know, one of the perks of owning my own hospital
is getting to know the patients.
So I thought I'd come by and say hello.
- Hi. - Hi.
Now you love swimming, but I also hear
that you have an interest in computers, right?
Tell me about that.
- Well, I'll leave you all to talk.
What are you developing?
[hopeful music]
* *
- All right. We'll take it from here.
Thank you.
Nice work out there.
- Looks like Alexander and his guardian
are off to a good start.
Yeah, well,
thank God for that anyway.
Yeah.
- I really do appreciate you stepping in, Mr. Dayton.
She's a smart girl, Sophia.
Glad she changed her mind about having the procedure.
Yeah, curious.
What did you say to get through to her?
- Oh, well, it turns out we have a lot in common.
I told her how I used to be a bit of an athlete myself.
Basketball was my thing. But I also loved computers.
So when I messed up my back, couldn't play for a little bit,
I still had this other passion.
And, well, it worked out well for me.
I think it gave her a whole new perspective.
- OK, look, about what I said earlier--
- No one ever talks to me like that.
I'd like to apologize.
Save it.
I can respect a straight shooter,
especially one so committed to his patients.
Glad to know I have you on my team, Dr. Halstead.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a plane to catch.
- You know, if this week's contrast study goes well
and shows there are no leaks,
Roy will get to taste food for the first time in three months.
Man, he is gonna be thrilled.
He has you to thank for that.
No.
I had already given up on this surgery.
If it hadn't been for you insisting on 2.0,
I don't think we'd be here right now.
- The AI is not perfect yet, but it's evolving.
I hope I am too.
* *
That's a beautiful family.
Yeah.
They're so lucky they found their way back to each other.
Maggie.
I mean, first Vanessa left.
Now Ben is gone.
Oh, boy.
That zrazy is spectacular.
Granny knew what the heck she was doing.
She did.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it.
- Listen, Liliana, I just want to apologize
if I've been a little bit glum tonight.
I had a brutal day, and I happened--
- You help people with their problems all day long.
Once in a while,
one or two of these problems will follow you home.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Ah, you are my guest.
You sit.
OK. Thank you.
[humming]
[singing in Polish]
* *
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[tense music]
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[wolf howls]