Hour Three: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Episode 3 of The Pitt sees Huckleberry (Dr Whitaker) trying desperately to bring Milton back to life. Langdon lets him carry on with compressions for the time being, while attempting to try and squeeze out some beds and get patients moved on. There’s also the rat situation too, which are still on the loose, but Robby shrugs it off for the time being, believing they have bigger fish to fry.
Meanwhile, Dr Collins gets a Nepalese translator in to talk to our subway incident patient, and she immediately knows that Collins is pregnant. She congratulates her but Collins is a little uneasy and unzips her jumper, trying to cover up the truth.
Robby eventually speaks to Whitaker, deciding he needs to let Milton go given the chest compressions are not working. Despite how insensitive it seems, they also need the bed too. It’s Whitaker’s first patient death and Mel is there to oversee things in her eccentrically weird way, admitting that she has an emotional response to death. They all debrief Milton’s passing, with Whitaker clearly taking it hard as they all remember him and honour his memory.
Robby can sense that Whitaker is going through it, and points out it’s not his fault that this has happened. He encourages Whitaker to talk to Kiara (the social worker) if he needs to, but the whole conversation is a bit awkward, especially given what Robby is currently going through.
Outside, Dr McKay brings Crash (Javadi) onboard to bring a woman called Gemma inside after she’s collapsed and isn’t responding. They need a room and a bed, and as she’s taken to ER, she suddenly regains consciousness. Apparently she took half a Narcan to try and fall asleep, which happens to be the root cause.
Through all of this, we see that Santos deals with the job in a very different way to the other doctors. She’s sarcastic, continues to call Javadi by her Crash nickname and keeps herself emotionally distant from her patients. Later on, she speaks to Mel out in the hallway and it’s clear that Santos doesn’t get on with her mum at all.
Meanwhile, we get a brand new patient brought in. A man called Hank has been shot in the chest with a nail-gun and it seems to have penetrated his heart. He’s got a foul mouth and he needs surgery immediately. They can’t just pull out the nail either as that could well kill him, while Santos and Mohan are front and center on this one. The former comments how the whole surgery is “f*cking cool” but she’s chewed out by Collins as a result of her foul language and behaviour.
The surgery is a success, while in the adjacent room, Robby oversees a heart attack patient that needs to be prepped. Both are a success and taken out, allowing new patients to brought in. Now, Robby is still feeling the effects of his mentor’s death, and speaking to Whitaker in the hallway seems to bring these memories back in a fresh way. He also worries that Whitaker isn’t on the ball, and has Dana keep an eye on him.
Robby next speeds up Mohan, who has the nickname of “Slow-mo” in the ER. She’s spending way too much time with the Sickle Cell patient, and Robby is losing patience. He wants her to thrive and learn more, and he reprimands Mohan for not being fully invested in the job. He’s quick to point out that they need to move patients around and it’s not always going to be smooth sailing.
In the midst of this, there’s a big drama involving the woman who ODed on drugs. Turns out she’s actually connected to Nick, the brain-dead patient whose parents are still clinging to hope that their son will return. When Nick’s dad, John, finds out, he’s livid and shouts at her that she’s killed their son.
We also see exactly how trying this job is, with something as trivial as needing to go toilet turned into a full-blown operation of time management. Robby experiences this first-hand, as he’s pushed and pulled between different patients, struggling to find the time to use the loo.
In the midst of this, we also have Whitaker’s drama, who’s worried and fears losing another patient after some fiasco surrounding his scrubs. Thankfully, Mohan is there and takes him under her wing. These two together is a nice pairing as they both need to get into the swing of things for very different reasons.
While this is going on, another patient – the old man who is losing oxygen – passes away and his kids finally are ready to say goodbye.
The Episode Review
Man, this show is absolutely relentless. The idea of crafting this drama around Robby’s simple desire to go to the toilet, but yet thrown between different patients and juggling all these responsibilities, is a dizzying way of showing just what an incredible job these doctors do every day.
The characters are nicely defined as well and teaming up the different doctor pairings, like Mohan and Whitaker alongside Santos and Mel, is bringing up some great pockets of characterisation that help to flesh this one out in a compelling way.
This is easily one of the best medical dramas on TV right now and dare I say it, an early contender for one of the best shows this year, especially if the series keeps up this level of craziness. Roll on next week.
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