"Good morning, Sunshine." "Or not." "I bought that painting at a gallery in Munich." "Okay, I'll have Ken take it down for you." " Ken?" " Yeah, my new assistant." "My new "interim" assistant." "Okay, I'm gonna be upfront with you, Charlie." "I want my office back." "Yeah, I could tell that by the way you just broke in here." "I did not break in here." "I still have keys." "Okay, Dawn, we'll share the office." "We'll get bunk desks." "Be like when we were married." "Oh, you mean like inhabit the same space, but not acknowledge each other's presence?" "Come on, it wasn't that bad." "Mm, yeah, that's what we say about a colonoscopy... not a marriage." "I should still be chief of surgery." "Maybe, but that's not my call." "Luke has a fever." "What?" "I just dropped him off." "Well, I went to the daycare to go say hi, but they need either you or Alex to go get him." "Well, Alex is away this weekend." "What... how high is his temperature?" "Can you excuse us?" "This is a family matter." "Okay." "It was 100 degrees on the dot." "What?" "!" "Charlie, I saw a little girl there." "She had mucus all over her face." "She had our book in..." "Charlie, she had our book in her mouth." "Yeah, yeah." "Yes, Shahir." "I'll go..." "I'll go grab him right now." "Okay." "Hmm." ""For Luke." "Love, Uncle Shahir."" "Ooh." "This..." "Oh, you dirty little spud." "Hey, Alex, just letting you know Luke's got a slight temperature." "Probably just molars coming in, but nothing to worry about." "In case anybody calls and..." "Ah!" "Um..." "Oh!" "Hey." "Someone had their Wheaties this morning." "Um, yeah, breakfast." "Thank you for the reminder." "Uh-huh." "I, uh, I hear your study's moving forward, your cancer study at Mississauga Memorial." "Yeah, the board thought after what happened with Bree..." "Well, you and Alex got that study off the ground." " Don't forget that." " Yeah, I know." "I just..." "So I finally found my thing and then I lost it just as fast." "I miss having a project." "Ooh, I might have something for you if you're up for it." "Okay." "I need a new chief resident." "Leffering offered Cassie the post but, uh..." "Perhaps not an entirely impartial choice." "Yeah, that is a concern." "Dawn's been evaluating them, but I could use a second opinion." "Ah, yes, feels like only yesterday Dawn was fixing that icy blue stare on my every move." " Mm." " Ah, wait." "That was yesterday." "Dawn's tough, which makes her great." "You... are a great counterpoint because of your..." "Compassion, cheery disposition..." "Availability." "Wow, that's validating." " Mm-hmm." " Thanks." "Mwah!" "Thank you, Mags." "Mm-hmm." "The board wants me to stay." "Asked me to finish out my term." "Congratulations." "Then I resigned." "What?" "Yeah." "Since he died..." "Eli King..." "I'm not doing so great." "Thomas, there are people here that can help you with that." "I also asked them to consider reinstating you as chief of surgery." "You didn't need to do that." "I told them it was ego and hubris that got you fired." "Mine." "But things should probably go back to the way they were before I got here." "Thank you." "Good luck, Dawn." "Mrs. Crace, I'm happy to hear that Hope Zion will be going back to a more familiar way of doing things." "Dawn, I-I can't reinstate you as chief." "What?" "I'm sorry, so much is in flux right now." "We have to stay the course." "Dr. Harris is doing a fine job." "I see." "Uh, we'll, um, post the job and fill it permanently in a few months." "We're happy to have you reapply, of course." " I would be honored." " Wonderful." "Now, if you'll excuse me." "Up and at 'em." "Okay, good news." "You three lucky contestants are in the running for chief resident." "Oh, wait." "In the running?" "No, no, no, the race is over." "I already won." "Oh, yeah." "Her, uh, her boyfriend appointed her." "He's not..." "I won the job because I'm the most deserving." "In bed." "That's enough, dude." "Dr. Harris says the post is still up for grabs, so..." "I hear he's single." "Okay, let's focus on the positive." "I'm doing the evaluating, and my motto is," ""Do your best and don't stress."" "Incoming." "Hey." "Lay off Cassie." "Bro, she ditched you for that suit." "Why you defending her?" "Because if she was a guy, you'd be high-fiving her." "This evaluation is serious." "Lame jokes aren't gonna win you any points." "Au contraire, I think Dr. Lin enjoys my witty repartee." "Maybe." "But Dr. Bell is evaluating us, too." "And she slapped a resident in the middle of a surgery." "Yeah, I heard about that in med school." " It's just folklore." " No, it was very real." "Resident's name was Lana Davis." "She quit on the spot." "No one's heard from her since." "Okay, now you're just trying to get in my head." "That's a frightening proposition." "Charlie's got this interim chief gig for the next few months, but after that, it's gonna open up again, which means... sign here and here... which means that you have a few months to convince the board that you're their best bet." "How am I gonna do that?" "You can, uh, come up with a mission statement and get some recommendation letters from your heavy-hitting peers." "You wanna be my campaign manager?" "Well, in the 12th grade, I did help Marty McGuire sweep student council, and he had a lazy eye, whereas you have beautiful eyes." "Okay, your point." "What's first?" "Well, rule number one, be nice." "It's better to be feared than loved." "Uh-huh." "Just be yourself, but nicer." "Like you are with me." "Good morning." "Dr. Lin." "Good morning." "How are you?" "Oh, I'm fine." "Thanks." "I'm just, uh, evaluating the residents today." "Well, I can't think of a better person for the job." "You are in good hands." " How was that?" " That was good." "I mean, you don't want to peak too soon." "That was really good." "Welcome to the freshly restored ER and our brand-new Leave No Trace policy, which means whatever you bring in must go with you when you leave, if you catch my drift, Dr. Lin." "Okay, they're with me all day." " They're being evaluated for chief res." " Hmm." "One false move and..." " Ignore him." " Incoming!" "We saw pulsatile bleeding at the scene." "He's had 20 mikes of fentanyl." "Okay, we got two beds coming and you take this one." "Okay, that is arterial blood." "Carotid is cut." "Okay, gauze and pressure." " Sir, can you hear me?" " He was talking at the scene." "" " Okay." "Ready?" "1, 2, 3." "That's a good sign." "That means his brain is still perfused." "Is that a knife?" "No, if I know my ancient weaponry, that's a ninja throwing star." " I'm getting a weird sound." " Weird how?" "Like Rice Krispies." "Dr. Lin, he's got bubbles." "Bubbles and Rice Krispies." "This guy should do kids' parties." "Diagnosis?" "Subcutaneous emphysema." "Air trapped under the skin." " Very good." " There's a rupture in his airway somewhere between the trachea and the lung parenchyma." "Also correct." "This is not good for our patient." "What was he doing?" "Playing ninja?" "We were at the Ninja Binja." "It's like drop-in training for ninjas." "And everything was going fine until this idiot" " bounced a ninja star..." " Sammy..." " Hey, hey, don't move!" " His air is compromised." "He can't breathe." "He can't breathe." "I wanna help him." "I wanna be in there." "I know." "That's okay." "We got him." "Now what's your name?" " Samuel." " Samuel?" "Just wait here." " What do we got?" " A man in cubicle 2, broke his fall on a glass table." "Guy's hand is pretty banged up." " Oh, FOOSH injury." "You need ortho." " And plastics." "No way." "I've been on trauma call all night." "And I don't do plastics anymore." "Dr. Harris says that you do, and I just follow orders." "So bed... 2." "Whoa." "Let's keep it G-rated, shall we?" "I'm Dr. Kinney, and you must be..." "Just call me Mario." "And this is, uh, Claudia." "I don't..." "I know what it says on the chart, but, um," " please, just call me Mario." " Okay." "Mario." "Let's look at that hand, shall we?" " Mm." " Can you feel that?" "Yeah, a lot, actually." "Mm-hmm." "I knew we shouldn't have had dinner in bed." "Never got out of bed." "We had to eat sometime." "It was all fine until I started choking." "I went for the phone." "I got tangled up in the sheets." "Fell out of bed, put my hand out to break my fall." "Yeah, well, you've definitely broken something." "I'll need an X-ray to confirm." "But look at the bright side, you got a hell of a story to tell about your honeymoon." "Oh, uh, we're not married." "Oh, sorry." "Just assumed." "Wild nights, dinners in bed, you know, thought you were newlyweds." " We're kind of the opposite, actually." " Uh-huh." "We don't even know each other's name." "And we never will." "That one goes... here." "Where's... oh, shoot." "This one is..." "Jonathan." "I know." "I know, I know, I know." "I'm obsessing." "That's one of your best qualities." "You care about the details." "Can you remind me again why I quit my finance job to sell homemade cookies?" "Well, you said you were following your bliss." "Yeah, I just wish my bliss paid better." " I really need to make a sale." " I think you'll make one day." "You must be Jonathan." "I've heard so much about you." "Dawn Bell." "I've heard a lot about you, too." "Look at these marvelous confections." " Did you make these?" " Mm-hmm, yeah." "It's millet with carob and goji berries." "Yes." "Jonathan has a meeting with the head of Food and Beverages." "We're hoping he can sell these cookies in the hospital." "I have been saying for years that this hospital needs to serve healthier snacks." "I never heard you say that." "I'll tell you what." "You sell me some samples, and then tell Food and Beverage that it has been endorsed as a healthy by the Chief of Cardiac Surgery." "Amazing." "Thank you." "Uh, so, uh, a dozen is $48." "So two dozen is 96 bucks." "That... that's great." "Uh, as soon as I can change my clothes, I'm good for it." "Mnh." "That's very kind of you." "I am happy to help." " Oh, Shahir." " Hmm?" "Since I have you, uh," "I'd like you to consider writing a letter to the board endorsing me for the next chief posting." "I think that sounds like a fair deal." "Hmm?" "Okay?" "Right." "Thank you, Shahir." "Thank you." "Your cookies." " Hey!" " Hey." "He looks flushed." " Is he febrile?" " No, his temperature's normal." "Just need to go for a little spin to calm him down." " Okay, that's good." " You're such a worrier." "You know, you get that from your mother." "And of course they're calling me to the ER." "Do you guys mind, uh..." " Are you kidding?" "We'd love to." " Thank you." "Actually, you know, I have a consult in five minutes." "Go, go, go, go, go." "Heal the world." "Hey, Lukey, you want a cookie?" "You know, why don't I hold on to these cookies" " while you take care of Luke?" " Don't be silly." "I'll leave them in your office until the meeting." "And stop worrying." "You're gonna get wrinkles." "Wanna get in some trouble, buddy?" "Let's do this." "Let's do this!" "No evidence of nerve or tendon damage." "Clean colles fracture." "So no need for plastics, which is good, because I don't do that anymore." "Look, I'm trying to hire someone new, but until I do, I need to know I can still count on you." "It's not easy being so wonderful, you know?" "Sleeplessness does become you." "Hello, I'm, uh, I'm Dr. Harris," " Mr., um..." " Uh, call me Mario." "Okay." "Mario." "Um, you have a fracture of the distal radius." "So you're gonna need a lot of help for the next six to eight weeks." "I take it that would be you." "Me?" "No, no." "That's not... no." "It's not part of our deal." "Okay, well, you may want to renegotiate those terms 'cause that hand's gonna be completely immobilized." "I'll manage." "Uh, you should go." "Wait, wait." "You're just gonna leave?" "Well, I have to." "That's part of our..." "Deal." "Right." "You said." " You're my heart." " And you're mine." "Till next year." "Ti amo." "So, uh, what happens next year?" "We... do it all over again." "Uh, well, not all of it." "Is my dad okay?" "We're doing everything we can for him." "We do need a signed consent before we take him into the OR." " Is your mom around?" " She passed away." "It needs to be someone over 18." "I mean, we only moved here a couple months ago." "It's been just the two of us." "You and your dad must be pretty close." "Yeah, we are." "Since my mom died." "We've gone ziplining, swam with sharks." "You guys are gonna operate anyway, though, right?" "Of course." "Not to worry." "I'm not." "He'll be fine." "He's the strongest person in the world." "Okay, just relax your wrist for me." "Everything feels so heavy." "Listen, I know this is none of my business, but, um," "I do recognize the look of someone who knows the, um, best thing in his life just walked out the door." "What am I supposed to do about it?" "Feelings weren't part of the..." "Deal, yeah." "You, uh, you keep saying that." "I met Claudia, um, at a conference three years ago." "And it was like, boom." "Best week of my life." "So we did it again the next year and the next." "We never talked about our real lives." "We got to know each other from the inside out." "Only the craziest thing happened." "You fell in love?" "I never planned it, but I, uh... just couldn't stop it from happening, you know?" "How come you never told me?" "Okay, I'm gonna, uh, leave the two of you to sort this out." " Hey, Doc." " Yeah?" "If you're gonna bail on me, you could at least look me in the eye." "Will you excuse me for a minute?" "We weren't supposed to fall in love." "How could he do this?" "Claudia, I think you might have bigger problems right now." "Which way did you come from?" "I don't..." "Back there." "You all right, Dr. Harris?" "We need a doctor!" "Call a code team now!" "Claudia?" "Claudia, can you hear me?" " Yes, yes." "Say yes." " How do you know this person?" "Uh, she came in with a patient of mine." "Carotid's a little thready." "This is my fault." "It's my punishment." "Okay, we gotta get an IV in her right away." " Let's get her to the IR." " Am I gonna die?" "She needs triage." "ER's her best bet." "She needs a gastroscope." "Right down here." "Okay." "IR it is." "Let's go, guys." "Let's move." "Please, don't let me die like this!" "A fortifying pre-operative treat for all that you do." "Dr. Bell, I'm taking the residents in on a suspected tear of the carotid artery." "Could be a simple suture, or it could be a PTFE graft repair." "Okay." "That is a perfect procedure for an evaluation." "What the hell?" "I'm gonna join you." "Oh." "Don't worry, Dr. Scott." "I will not slap you." "Unless, of course, you screw up." "What's the occasion?" "I'm just giving back to my staff who has given me so much." "You want your old job back, don't you?" "I do." "Our former CEO finally saw the error in his ways." "Sorry." "Former?" "Thomas resigned this morning." "Obviously, he hasn't told you." "Doesn't matter." "I need to focus on the surgery." "Good." "Yo, Samuel." "You lost?" "I wanted to see the operation." "Oh, no, man." "You're not allowed." "Only staff are supposed to be here." "Um, are you his doctor?" "Yeah, I'm one of them." "Dude, your dad's got a great team looking after him." "Is he gonna be okay?" "Hey, look at this face." "Does this look like the face of a nervous man to you?" "Mm, I guess not." "No, that's right." "Now come on." "Waiting room's at the end of the hall." "I'll come get you as soon as we're done." "Okay." "Thank you." "Um, why don't the men's washrooms have diaper stations?" "Huh." "We should talk to Charlie about that." " Yeah, that's a good idea." " Okay." " Here." "You better go." " Great." "Yes." "You'll be late to your pitch." "Listen, I gave him a cookie, but he barely ate it." "Maybe he really is sick." "He's probably just not hungry." " Um, wish me luck." " Yes." "Good luck." " Bye." " Bye." "It's okay." "I saved you one of the good ones." "Dr. Williams, continue through prep." "As the neck is our area of concern..." "Suboptimal." "Anyone else?" "With the subcutaneous emphysema, we should prep the chest, too." "Good, Sekara." "Go ahead." "We need to keep our options open." "Okay, then we'll make cuts above and below..." "No pointing." "Verbally describe." "Uh, yeah, we would do a..." "Follow the anterior border of the sternocleidomastoid." "And curve medially towards the midline in case we have to do a sternotomy." "Right on." "And the arterial repair?" "Uh, homologous graft would be best." "And barring a simple suture closure, uh, from where would we harvest the autologous graft, Dr. Scott?" "Uh, yeah, we probably..." "best bet would be..." "While you're thinking it over, this man goes brain-dead." " Anyone else?" " The saphenous vein." "So we also need to prep the leg." "Nothing motivates like the fear of failure." "Well, whoever's up, the patient's good to go." "Who'd like to do the honors?" "" " Sekara." " Scalpel." "Dr. Bell?" "You're wanted in interventional radiology." "Carry on." "Would you like to help finish evaluating later?" "Oh, no." "I've seen enough." "Well, I'm screwed." "You're not the only one." "Dr. Bell is tough, but it's not personal." "It's just the way she learned." "Old school." "All stick." "No carrot." "It's a method, but I don't think it's the only one." "Remember, I'm evaluating you, too." "Millennials." "So sensitive." "All right, there it is." "Right in the esophagus." "Could be a mycotic aneurysm." "Must have aortoesophageal fistula." "This the woman that was vomiting blood in the elevator?" "Yeah, esophageal, we ruled out liver disease." "I'm holding the bleed with a scope, but I can't do it for much longer." "She's losing volume fast." "Okay, she's going into v-tack." "She needs a CVP line." "Pump those bags." "Dr. Kinney, she needs more volume." " What do we know about her?" " She was choking on her dinner last night." " Didn't say what she ate." " We had fish." "It's an aphrodisiac." "It's a fishbone." "You sure?" "Yep. 100%." "Okay, well, clear an OR, because if it's a fishbone and it gets into her aorta, she's dead." "Let's move." "She's already fistulized." "There may be nothing else we can do." "Okay, well, if it's a sentinel bleed, then the worst is around the corner." "I'll put a stent in, but it's only..." "No, that wouldn't give her more than a few months." "Her only chance is a thoracotomy." "And even that is a long shot." "All from a damn fishbone, huh?" "I'll handle the esophagus." "Okay, I'm gonna bring in Dr. Kinney." "I'll go see if I can get a more extensive medical history." " I'm surprised you don't already have one." " What?" "It's just that you always seem to have this information that no one else does, you know?" "It's like your super power?" "Yeah, one more time." "Yeah." "Sorry, that, uh, went a little longer than I thought." "Mm-hmm." "Uh, I need to talk to you about something." "Um, you know, they're holding an OR for me." "How did the meeting go?" "Uh..." "Well..." "Oh, it went well." "That's good." "Yeah, they liked the cookies." "Excellent." "That is excellent." "I wanna hear all the details when I come out of surgery." "Hey, Doc, so am I good to go now or what?" "Uh, no, you need to stick around for one more X-ray." "But, Mario, you should know that we just admitted Claudia." "What... why?" "What happened?" "Um, it turns out last night when she was choking on something, that it was a fishbone, and it got lodged in her throat, causing quite a nasty tear." "Is she okay?" "We hope so, but we need to find out something about her medical history." "I told you, I don't even know her." "I don't know anything about her." "This is a disaster." "Dr. Harris." "The woman with the fishbone, I was told you're the surgeon to consult while she's in surgery?" "Uh, yeah." "Do you have a question, Taylor?" "No, but, uh, her husband does." "Dr. Harris, this is Derek Adams." "I don't know what's worse, that my wife choked on a fishbone that might kill her, or that she was in bed with another man when it happened." "When can I see her?" "Uh, it's gonna be a few hours." "But, um, until then, I'm gonna need as much information about her as I can get." "Well, first of all, her name's Claudine." "She always thought that "Claudia" was sexier." "You know, I met her in a hospital." "She was doing some volunteer work and I'd gotten mugged on my way home from the library." "Three stitches and a broken nose." "And when I saw her, I said, "Derek, that is the one."" "You married?" "No." "Maybe for the best." "You could've been sitting here the cuckolded fool." "You're not a fool, Derek." "But I am." "You wanna know why?" "Because I don't care about the other guy." "I just want her to be okay." "I need to see her again." "That doesn't make you a fool either." "Oh, I, uh, I brought this." "It's hers." "I always carry around a spare." "She's a bit of a scatterbrain." "Thank you." "I'll, um..." "I'll let you know when there's something to report." "Roxy, it is hard to work with all that noise." "I'm sorry to disturb you, Dr. Palmer, but something's going on." "She's having a reaction." "She has asthma, so be on the look out for bronchospasm." "Is that it there?" "Fishbone." "Just like the man said." "Uncanny." "How's she doing now, Roxy?" "Airway pressure's stabilized." "The bone perforated the esophageal wall." "I can't make any predictions until I get a look at the aortoesophageal fistula." "I'm done in the chest." "Fill your boots, guys." "I'm gonna leave you to it, then." "He's gonna leave us to it until the next time he comes back with another random tidbit of mysterious information, right?" "The guy's like Scooby Doo, am I right?" "Hey, when you're chief of surgery, you get to be weird, okay?" "Just ask Dr. Bell." "How's it going with those vessie loops, Dr. Williams?" "I've got the artery clamped." "Okay, now it should be safe to remove that star thingy." "This might be a stupid question." "" " No such thing." "Go ahead." " How do we do that?" "Well, it's not lodged in the jaw or the spine." "It should come right out." "Do you know how sharp those things are?" " Ninjas used them to kill people." " I know that." "I'm just saying." "Trachea's already injured." "If we nick the esophagus, it'll be a disaster." "Okay, focus, people." "Yeah, it comes right out." "Step back." "I need to find this bleed." "Quickly, Lin." "SATs are dropping." "Is it the jugular vein?" "You ripped it to shreds tearing it out like that." "What were you thinking?" "I thought you said we could safely remove it." "I didn't say to do it now, did I?" "Okay, you didn't cut the vein." "The jugular's already injured." "The artery shouldn't be clamped off like that." " I can tie the jugular." " Okay, do it." "Right AO?" "Dr. Lin, I don't like his BP." " Dr. Williams?" " Hold on." "Cassie?" "It's tied off." "That's it." "I think." " Is that it?" " Well, the bleeding's stopped." "Dr. Sharpe?" "BP rising." "He's stable." "Okay, hell of a lesson plan, Dr. Lin." "Thought I might find you in here." "Masked strangers cutting my body open." "I wouldn't miss it." "You must think I'm a terrible person after what I did." "I don't, but doesn't really matter what I think." "Matters what you think." "You know that woman you met in the emergency room?" "Claudia?" "She's wild and reckless and doesn't give a hoot what anyone thinks." "She also wouldn't use the word "hoot."" "But me, I do." "I just did." "Maybe your time with Mario's more about you than it is about him." "With Mario, I..." "I get to be messy." "He surprises me, but most importantly," "I surprise myself." "After 10 years of marriage," "Derek doesn't surprise you anymore?" "He supports me, he hears me, but... no." "No surprises." "Have you told him that?" " Nice suture." " Hmm." " How we doing, Roxy?" " A-one, Dr. Bell." "She's stable." "Okay." "Removing the clamps." "So you're gonna throw your hat in the ring for chief when the time comes, huh?" "Uh, I will be." "And I'll be looking for letters of support written by my most esteemed peers." "Go on." "You know, if you wanna beat Dr. Harris, you could just let everyone know what a nut job he is." "I thought we were gonna lose him." "The key is to stay a few steps ahead." "Chess." "I never liked chess." "Always overidentified with the pawns." "Plodding along one square at a time." "Well, then just think of it as a super intense" " life-or-death game of Dungeons  Dragons." " Hmm." "So, like, every game of DD." "You know, Billy almost just killed that guy and somehow he's still in the running for chief resident." "Hey, we saved our patient." "Today's not all bad." "You know, there shouldn't even be a race." "I was promised something and it was immediately taken away from me." "Cassie." "Cassie." "I agree." "Go tell someone who matters." "You matter, Dev." "Radiology, code seven." "You guys are smiling." "That's good, right?" "Your dad's gonna be fine." "He's gonna need some time, though." "He's gonna need a lot of help." "Yeah, I'm gonna put some handrails in the shower, move his bed to the main floor." "It'll be more than that." "There'll be medications to remember..." "Oh, yeah." "No problem." "I got that." "Done." "Just tell me... what you need." "You shouldn't have to." "You're a kid." "Let's find you some help." "When my mom died, we said we'd look after each other." "He spends all his time with me." "Gave up everything." "He's really there for you." "I just..." "I wanna show him that I can be there for him, too." "That I'm strong enough." "I'm sure he knows that." "You know, there's strength in knowing your limits." "I know you're scared, even if you got your game face on." "And you both have needs." "It doesn't help your dad to pretend you don't." "Dr. Scott, why don't you show Samuel to his father?" "Yeah." "Come on." "Cassie." "Does that look straight to you?" "I know what you think, Dr. Bell." "You think I flirted my way to the top." "Did you?" "I covered call every other night and I studied my ass off and you barely noticed." "So when Thomas came around and did..." "I noticed, Cassie." "But the truth is, is it's not enough if you wanna compete with Dev and Billy." "You need to work 10 times harder than they do to get ahead." "And that is just the way that it is." "So that's why you're pushing me?" "There's no point in complaining about it." "We signed up for this, and there's no sense in playing the victim." "You go after what you want, and you make no apologies about it." "Do you think I deserve to be chief resident?" "Yes, Cassie, I do." " Mr. Adams." " Dr. Harris." "Sorry, I didn't mean to leave." "Is everything okay?" "Yes, the surgery was a success." "She's gonna be all right?" "Yes, Claudine's in recovery right now." "Oh, hey!" "Uh, sorry." "I know some people aren't huggers." "Yeah, I think in the circumstances, I'll accept it." "Why don't we, uh..." "Why don't we go see your wife?" "Um, I'd appreciate it if you didn't tell Claudine, well, anything about what we talked about today." "It's none of my business." "I knew before I came." "Yeah." "I found out last year." "And you never told her?" "I wanted her to tell me." "I don't know." "Maybe being passive about it isn't the greatest approach." "Yeah, maybe you gotta fight a little harder." "It's like this Great White kept, like, biting the bars and, like, rattling the cage." "And, like, we look up, and the latch on the cage was open." "No way." "And he kept, like, circling and circling." "Ugh, I'd be freaking." "I was, like, so scared, I peed my wetsuit." "Yeah, that I can relate to." "It does sound crazy, but..." "Oh, man." "Must be cool to have a dad, though, that's like a best friend." "I mean, yeah, but, you know, sometimes I wish I had more of a dad than a best friend." "Hmm." "Having your game face on all the time gets pretty tiring, huh?" "Yeah." "But, like, don't tell him I said that." "It'll be our secret." "We'll be back to check on him in a moment." "Hey, um, thanks for taking care of my dad, you know." "Sometimes I can't." "Hey, uh, I was wondering, not to be too forward, but I was thinking..." "Oh, you're not gonna ask me out, are you?" "What?" "No, no." "Aren't you..." "Never mind." "What is it, Billy?" "Will you be my mentor?" "Nobody's ever asked me that before." "Mm." "So is that a yes?" "Oh, come on, Dr. Lin." "Look at this face." "You wanna spend more time with this face." "Thanks, Billy, but no, thanks." "Okay, okay." "Look, real talk." "Watching Cassie and Dev in the OR..." "I'm not that good." "Not yet, but I can be with your guidance." "I'm not really a Dawn." "Yeah, which is cool because I can't learn around that kind of pressure." "Reminds me of my old man, and not in a good way." "I much prefer your style of leadership." "Leadership?" "Unconditional positive regard." "It's kind of your brand." "Makes it easy to be real around you." "All right." "Yeah?" "Hey, baby, how you feeling?" "I've been so worried about you." "They called me after they found you in the elevator." "Dr. Harris has been looking out for me." "For both of you." "I think maybe we should talk." "I'm really tired, Derek." "Can this wait till tomorrow?" "No." "It can't." "It has to be now." "'Cause if it's not, well," "I'm not sure I'll be here tomorrow." "I'm fighting for us." "Dr. Harris, uh, how's she... how's she doing?" "Um, Claudine's gonna be fine." "What about Claudia?" "I'm not sure Claudia's gonna make it." "Is he a good guy?" "He seems to be, yeah." "Good." "That's good, uh..." "Listen, listen, you mind, uh, giving her something for me?" "That's my name and number, uh, just in case." "That's your real name." "Yeah, uh, you know, if she wants me in her life, she can contact me." "Don't forget your "Number One CEO" mug." "Funny." "I'm really sorry that you're leaving like this." "Good news travels fast, huh?" "It's okay." "I can use the time." "I'm gonna get my head straightened out." "Figure out how I let this happen." "You've got to let it go, Thomas." "You know, everyone keeps saying that, but... no one actually believes it." "So that's that, then, huh?" "Cassie, I'm sorry if I made things harder for you here." " It was never my intention." " I know, I know that." "And from everything I've seen," "I think you're a great doctor." "Thank you." "Even if you had to flirt with a pencil pusher to get ahead." " Oh!" " That was a joke." "At least I didn't make promises I couldn't keep to a power-hungry resident." "Okay." "See you around, pencil pusher." "See you around, power-hungry resident." "So total nut job, huh?" "Man, um, I was just giving Dr. Bell a pep talk." "No hard feelings, buddy." "You know, if you have any questions," "I'm more than happy to answer them." "No, no, no, you're not." "You know, 'cause I've already asked you a couple times now, actually, so..." "Hmm." "Okay, since you're offering." "How was it that you knew that woman was in the elevator?" "I just happened to be there, same as you." "Okay, I'll buy that." "But then, you, like, you knew... like, instantly knew what was causing the obstruction." "Mm." "Yeah, well, what can I tell you?" "I know bones." "You know bones." "Anything else?" "Yeah, um, just one more thing." "This... this one's a bit awkward though." "Yeah, 'cause, like, the last 30 seconds haven't been awkward enough?" "See, I haven't heard from Alex since she left." "Should I be worried?" "No." "No, she's fine." "She's, um, probably just at her family's farm wearing her dad's old sweater and eating popcorn for dinner." "So you heard from her?" "No." "No, I, uh, I just know her." "Shh." "He just went down." "Charlie said he got held up, but he'll be here any minute." "Well, we should go out to eat." "Hmm?" "To celebrate our success." "I take it your endonasal endoscopy went well." "Yes, um, I expect Mrs. Berry to make a full recovery." "But... but, Jonathan, I am so proud of you." "You know, for following your hopes and your dreams and for really putting your heart and soul into those cookies." "Cut the crap, Shahir." "I know you bait-and-switched my baked goods." "Yes, yes, but I... yes." "That... that's..." "Well, you just..." "I..." "love you." "They were that bad, huh?" " They were awful." " Oh, man." "Babe, why didn't you tell me?" "You were so proud of them." "Look, I love that you love me so much that you'll lie to my face to protect my feelings, but..." "You shouldn't make a habit out of that." "So from now on, promise me you're always gonna tell me the truth." " No matter what." " Okay." "Okay." "I'm tired of being Uncle Shahir." "And I want to be a father." "With you." "So I stopped by Jade Palace on the way home." "Figured I'd thank you guys for saving my ass today." "I'll get the plates." "And I'll, uh, open some wine." "Yes, please." "Excuse me." "Uh, where do you keep your corkscrew, Charlie?" "Um... second drawer on the left." "Jonathan, hot sauce."