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WCBS breaking news.

New York billionaire Ron Vanetz was involved in a dramatic car crash early

morning. Ronald Vanetz, known for his lavish lifestyle and outrageous parties,

has been flown to the Holt Neurosurgical Center, where he's presumably under the

care of renowned neurosurgeon Michael Holt. Michael Holt and Ron Vanetz have

been business associates and close friends for years. No word yet on

condition.

There.

Where's my patch?

It's coming, sir.

While I'm young.

Damn, another patch, please.

I'm sorry, Dr. Fletcher.

That's his optic nerve. Where's my patch?

It's coming.

That fluid keeps leaking. He dies.

The nerve gets cut. He goes blind.

Where's my patch?

Here, sir. It's here. It's here. Sorry.

Kill that alarm.

Close him up. I'm sorry, sir.

It won't happen again.

Dr. Holt?

Excuse me.

It was an honor to see you at work. Sorry to the tech.

He's up. He's talking.

It'll take longer for the arm and shoulder to heal than the cranial

Is that it?

I need signatures.

How's Vanessa?

Stable and a pain in the ass.

You have an 8 a .m. staff meeting, then the two back -to -back gliomas.

Madeline needs 15 minutes.

Put her into lunch.

Can't. You'll be doing a consult with Lacey Sandreschi.

Lacey Sandreschi. Lacey Sandreschi.

She's 19 years old, ranked number one. In the last 12 months, she's won

Wimbledon, the U .S. Open, and the Australian Open. And if she wins the

which starts next week.

She'll be the youngest woman ever to win a Grand Slam.

What's her consult about?

Her father wouldn't say just that they need to see you ASAP.

One more thing.

It's my birthday.

Again?

Once a year, like everyone else.

Lynn's taking me to Jean -Luc. I'm leaving at six.

Jean -Luc is overrated.

Madeline. I need 15 minutes.

I told him.

Happy birthday, Rita.

Why, thank you, Michael.

When was the accident? Yesterday.

I was driving. Late, he was in the passenger seat. Some numbnuts in front

just slams on the brakes.

Sultan said it might be an aneurysm.

I agree, it might be.

But you can't tell?

Not without running a CTA.

I think I know what an aneurysm is, but could you please explain? And what is a

CTA?

A 3D model of the vessels in her head. An aneurysm is when the wall of an

expands out like a balloon. And the danger in that is what? Now, what does

take? We're in training.

45 minutes of work around your schedule.

The bulge weakens the wall, which makes it vulnerable to rupture.

Rita will schedule the test.

Just let her know it works for you. That's what we'll do.

Tell Lacey I look forward to meeting her.

Knock, knock.

Make yourself at home, huh?

Born and ready. Good morning, Dr. Holt. Your sheets are dreadful.

Where have you been? I've been calling you for hours.

Believe it or not, Ronnie, you are not my only patient. Look at me.

For what I'm paying, I should own you for the day.

You're confusing me with one of your hookers.

Any flashes of light in the eyes?

Salty taste in your mouth? Fluid in the back of your nose?

No, no. When can I go home?

That depends.

What are you going to do when you get there?

What can he do?

Nothing.

No driving, no drinking, no booze, no drugs, no sex, no work, nothing.

Good God, Michael, why bother saving me?

Look, I know you think you're the cat with nine lives, but you're not.

You get one.

You knock that patch loose before the bone heals, you lose it.

Plain and simple. Got it?

Anna?

Michael? What the hell are you doing here?

Oh, my God.

I live here.

What? Hang on. You moved to my city, you don't even tell me? Your city.

Michael, eight million people live here.

I can't believe this.

What are you doing? You eating here?

Uh, yeah, I was thinking about it.

Well, I've got enough for both of us.

Oh. Come on over. We'll eat together. I live right around the corner.

Don't think about it. Just get in.

Come on. All right.

Well, this is definitely a step up from our place in Alaska.

Low bar.

That was the worst apartment in human history.

Pretty much.

And cold.

Man, it was cold.

Oh, my gosh. You in that heater?

My nemesis.

Beating on it with a wrench all night?

I was fixing it.

I tried to save my wife from getting hypothermia.

Thank you.

It was fun being married.

Fun. Exciting, yes.

Fun. We had our moments.

All kinds of moments.

And lovely moments.

Anyway...

So what lured you to New York? I was recruited by a clinic in Alphabet City

about eight years ago, Clinica Sanando.

Sounds very commie. It's like the Inuit place, but warmer.

And you didn't call because... I didn't think you'd want to hear from me.

After everything.

Well... And I...

And I had to leave. I was losing my mind, taking temperatures and wiping

in that dismal family clinic.

Michael, you didn't leave because of the wiping of the noses.

No? No.

You left because you didn't want to be married anymore.

Was that it?

Pretty sure.

For what it's worth when I got here. I realized I didn't want to not be married

to you either So what did you do?

Did you marry someone else I did not you

No, God, don't leave.

It was wonderful to see you again, Michael.

Thank you for the company.

I'm happy you're happy.

Who says I'm happy?

Answer that. I'm going anyway.

No, come on. Don't go yet.

This is Dr. Holt. You have a collect call from Milo.

Yes. Milo, what's going on? Where are you?

Uncle Mike, I'm not sure exactly.

Do you know where the 83rd Precinct is?

What, what?

Total police abuse.

All I do is meet up with the kid at a skate park. And he's like, hey, we're

rolling down a bed. You want to come along?

Brilliant, Milo.

Follow a gang kid back to his neighborhood.

And then the cops come flying in.

Gestapo on the ground.

On the ground.

Nazis.

It's called a gang sweep.

You're lucky to tell what happened to you.

Milo!

You and I had a curfew growing up, remember?

What am I supposed to do, handcuff him to a radiator?

What are you doing?

I said you're behind on rent. I didn't ask for your help. Yeah, well, how much?

900, but I'm getting paid on Friday.

Thank you, Michael.

You're welcome.

Good night.

Oh, guess who I had dinner with today?

Obama.

Anna.

Paul?

Yeah.

Anna Paul.

is she she's great beautiful smart funny oh

interesting you know the only time you were in a total jerk was when you were

with her so

work

it out with your son you're going off the rails

Dr. Halt, I'm Lacey Kondrowski. Hi. Nice to meet you.

This is Lacey.

Radiation.

Say this test shows a problem in my head.

What's the plan?

There's no point discussing treatment options without a diagnosis.

We ready to go, Elena?

Yep, whenever you are.

Hop on the table.

Thanks.

Dr. Halt? Mm -hmm?

I'm about to go for a world record that's been held for 58 years.

If you have any idea the kind of mental preparation... Thanks for listening to

me.

To do what you're trying to do next week in Paris, knock Mo Conley out of the

record books. That's epic.

It's going to take every ounce of energy you have. You can't afford to waste it

worrying about what -ifs.

So do the test, go back to training.

When we have the results, we'll talk about what we know.

You sound like my sports psychologist.

You know, being the best at tennis, surgery, whatever.

It can't be part of your life.

It has to be instead of it. I get that.

It's fine by me.

Ron, you look jaunty.

Night, night.

What the hell are you doing? I'm going home. Randy's gone to get the car. No,

no, no, no. I haven't discharged you.

Michael, darling.

If you want to give orders, get a dog. Ron, I know you. You'll get home, check

your mail, get an invitation.

Next thing you know, you're on a boat snorting Special K.

I'll behave. You don't know how to behave.

I have very few real friends, Ron.

I'd really rather not lose one to stupidity.

But I'm ordering dinner from the Four Seasons.

Ah, that zillionaire hotshot on the Nexus having sciatic pain again.

Excellent. Nick's loss is our gain. It's coming in tomorrow.

Roll out the red carpet.

Oh!

There's a clinic downtown.

Clinica Sanando.

Get him on the line for me. Clinica Sanando.

Anna Paul, please.

Who is this, please?

Dr. Michael Holt.

I'm sorry, Dr. Holt.

Dr. Paul passed away two weeks ago.

Ron Vanessa's going home with the nurse. I want to talk to him twice a day. Uh

-huh Madeline still needs 15 minutes, right?

Oh and Here's what I got on that doctor

Michael

your sister I

just

a couple minutes.

Okay.

I've been thinking about what you said about Milo.

Good. I know this woman. She's a family therapist and she's willing to work with

us for free.

Yeah.

She said the sessions would probably go better if the primary male in his life

was there, too.

Yeah, probably.

That's you, Michael.

What? No!

Christina, I'm not going to therapy with you and your messed up son, no.

Nothing.

Anna?

Look, you should leave.

No, wait, I don't get it. You said you had dinner with her.

I didn't have dinner with anyone.

No, you just told me that last night.

Last night I took an oxy for my shoulder and then I drank some wine.

Too much? Hang on, hang on. Then your idiot son wakes me up out of a dream I'm

having. No, that was not a dream. Yes, it was. No, no, no, no, no. You're...

No.

No. Maybe her spirit came to you. Yeah.

No, people do that when they die.

Do you remember my friend Anton? He's a shaman. He knows all about this stuff.

He explained it to me. He said that when someone dies and they're not willing to

move on, that they attach themselves to someone living.

It's a huge part of his healing practice. Dead people and alive people.

it...

He called it something. Rita, please help my sister. She just needs help.

This is a cosmic gift, Michael.

Okay.

Here it is.

It's 18 millimeters in your middle cerebral artery distribution.

Have you been having any vision problems lately?

Don't.

Headaches? Said no.

Okay.

Well, we have two options.

One, we bring you in today. I coil the aneurysm and we're done.

No way this thing will ever harm you.

Downside is no tennis for three months.

Option two, we do it after the French.

It's a small risk.

An asymptomatic aneurysm has a 1 .3 % chance of rupture per year.

What if you're in that 1 .3 %?

25 % survival rate.

25?

Wait.

So if it bursts, there's a 75 % chance that she... No, but it's 75 % of 1 .3.

That's nothing. If we did do it now, then everything... Let the man finish,

please. It's 25 % depending on what?

Depending on how quickly she's treated.

So, any symptoms of a bleed?

Headache, eye pain, vision impairment.

You need to call me immediately.

Tell you what, I'll go make history. Afterwards, we can celebrate by cutting

head open.

That sounds like a plan.

I want to finish recuperating on St. Bart's, and Randy says you wouldn't

approve, so he's refusing to arrange it. I want you to tell him I can go. No,

you can't.

It's an island, Michael. There's nothing but sand.

Yeah, and booze and drugs and men. No. Screw you, then. I'll arrange it myself.

Yeah, I'd like to see that.

Stay in bed.

My CFO is here.

I'll talk to you tomorrow.

You need 15 minutes?

Now that time?

No, now is perfect.

Oh, now pension funds.

See this? Mm -hmm.

How big of a hit did we take?

Minuscule. Be specific.

Our total corporate net worth is down 1 .1%. How do you do that?

Magic.

Legal magic?

Do not insult me.

That didn't take 15 minutes.

Mm -mm.

Sorry. Did I scare you?

Don't freak out, okay?

What are you... Two weeks ago, I went for a run.

There were some kids playing.

Their ball went into the street.

Stop. I went to get it for them.

I thought I looked, but I guess... No, stop.

No, I mean, stop talking. I didn't even see the car.

My head hit the pavement.

It all happened really fast. I don't even remember if it was painful.

The ball followed me here. Why, I have no idea.

I know it's weird.

You okay?

No. No.

I need your help.

A lot of people depended on me.

And I was stupid. I didn't train anybody.

Are you listening?

I'm sure my staff are completely derailed.

If they can get into my computer, they'll figure it out.

I need you to go there and open my files.

My password's the same as always been.

You remember?

My mic.

M -Y -M -I -K -E Do

this for me.

Michael? Morning, Michael.

Dr. Tsuchiji wants you in on his 8 a .m. consult.

That's in 20 minutes.

You might want to... Cancel that morning.

I have to, uh, check on something.

Okay. Book me an MRI this morning.

For who?

For me.

Why, is something wrong?

It's my own damn machine, Rita. If I want to use it, I don't need to ask your

permission.

Carmen,

I need you to pick up the phone.

Hey,

Sanando, can you please hold?

Hey. Hi.

Good to know, bro. I think I might need to...

Get on your computers.

Finally, man.

Yeah, just come on back. Just go right through the door.

I mean, for God's sake, you look like a million bucks.

I called tech support days ago. I thought you guys were supposed to be

We just lost our director. Totally sucked.

We've been trying to keep it all going, but without her... I figured if I could

maybe get at her files, I could at least book some doctors and maybe pay some

bills.

Let's see.

Okay.

There you go.

Can I get you anything?

No. No, I'm fine.

Take support to the rescue, dude.

Now, don't panic.

Tell me what happened.

He was playing soccer. He was fine. Then he was on the ground and he was shaking

and his eyes went like this. I don't know. Okay, okay. Just let me find you

nearest emergency room.

Don't send her to an ER.

The ER is going to make her wait like 10 hours and they won't even take her

because she doesn't have insurance.

The kid had a seizure and needs an MRI. Go to an imaging center, ma 'am, and ask

for an MRI. MRI.

Whoa, hang on. Who are you?

I'm a neurosurgeon. I don't work here.

Where's an imaging center?

I don't know. Google it. Which place do you use?

That wouldn't work.

Why wouldn't that work?

Because. Because?

What, are you 12?

Man, I got 100 sick people here. I'm asking for help with one.

Yeah,

you're right. I'm sorry. Fine.

Come on by, and I'll do the test.

Excuse me, which bus goes to here?

Three patients. I've had more people yell at me in the past two hours. Not to

mention Mr. Billion Dollar Sciatic, who's been waiting half an hour. MRI.

The rest?

Hide somewhere.

The MRI room's booked.

With who? You.

Elaine is down there waiting for you.

Doctor, my niece, her nose is running all the time.

We'll just get her some tissues.

And my other son, the little boy, Robert, he says his feet tingle. Try

that fit.

Ma 'am, let me get you some coffee.

I'm bringing in Mr.

Sciatica. No, have Garrett check him out.

His appointment is with you, Michael. I have got to do my MRI. Have Garrett

check him out. Do the scans. I'll follow up with results.

A reminder, Doctor, not to move at all during the exam.

I know how the machine works.

Yes, Doctor.

How'd it

go?

What are you... Did you open the file? You can't just, uh...

We can't just chat.

Why not? Because I don't know what you are.

A hallucination? Okay, but... From what?

Not a brain tumor.

See? My MRI is clear.

Maybe schizophrenia, but... No, you're not a schizophrenic. Okay, then what?

What are you?

I told you.

What? So that's... You're a...

Of course.

Yeah.

This is funny.

So how does it... I don't know. I'm not in control.

It's as if all time is condensed.

I'm with you, and then I'm with you, and then I'm with you again.

Anna, I'm a doctor. I can't...

People put their lives in my hands. I can't be irrational.

Oh,

sorry, Doctor.

I heard your voice and I thought you were talking to me.

Nope.

Has he told a flake or what?

I don't know. You'll have to ask him yourself.

Michael, you remember Anton Little Creek?

Brother Mike.

What's going down?

Uh, nothing.

Just dropped by.

Heard about your visitor, man. Right on.

You told him?

Of course I did.

So, what's up?

She come back?

Oh my God, did she?

That's what they do.

They get in and they do not like to get out.

You just feel her or can you see her too? Oh, he sees her.

So she's really dug in, huh?

Sit down.

What do you feel?

Physically, any pain?

A shoulder thing, but it's from surgery.

Worse lately?

Yes, but... Yep, so that's how she got in.

through my shoulder no the shoulder is just a symptom the problem is a tear in

your energetic body

It's right around here.

You can see it, isn't that cool?

Yep, really cool.

Thank you, and goodbye. Take my card.

I can extract her for you, if you want.

Extract?

Who?

It's not a big deal.

Call me anytime, Mike. I'm always around.

Ron Vanette was rushed to Beth Israel's ER this morning.

Why? Randy said when he got to work, Vanette was hungover and groggy.

He'd been drinking.

Hi.

Call this primary care guy, Neil Hagos. Got him on hold.

Mike, hi.

Calling about Vanette. Yeah, Neil, what's up? Not good.

When they brought him in, he was lethargic.

He just got his labs back.

Positive for meningococci.

Okay, what do you have him on?

Banco, except for tax, Amy, but... No, no, give him ampicillin.

Mike, we did not get...

Okay,

where are you? In the car, almost at the airport.

No, turn around, come back.

Oh, my God.

Okay, we need to go back to the doctor. doctor's office now, right away.

No, with Tim. You're not turning around. She's fine.

Tell them I wasn't asymptomatic.

Well, baby, I lied.

I was having my problems.

Don't let her move. Keep her head elevated and get there as fast as you

Rita, get the OR ready for an emergency endovascular coiling. All righty, Dad.

And give the EMTs an amp of mannitol and 10 milligrams of dexamethasone and

mannitol and 10 milligrams of dexamethasone.

Go, go.

Your feet still hurt?

What else? Any other pain?

My back.

Show me where.

Lift your leg up.

Ow. Any bed wetting? You peed your bed at night?

You had a lumbar MRI and a gadolinium enhanced study of the conus.

What? Uh, Dr. Holt would like your other son to have some tests, Jim.

We're doing a timeout. Patient's name is Lacey Sandresky, 19 years old.

Ruptured cerebral aneurysm. Medical record number is 222 -441 -463.

Procedure is cerebral angiogram and coiling of aneurysm. Everyone agree?

Agree.

Gotcha. Deploy it.

You are kidding. You are really, really good. There you are. I need to microchip

you.

Do you have a knock?

We have the other boy's results back.

Tumor of the distal spinal cord at the conus.

Do you want to remove it or do you want Oscar to? You do it. Oscar.

Why? I'll call the mom and fill her in. Oh, she's not going to want to hear that

from a secretary. You call her. You know she doesn't have insurance, right? Oh,

please. I figured.

So who's covering it? You are.

We are.

Are those your children, Michael?

What? No.

Just trying to figure out why we're suddenly running this place like a free

clinic. You have an L45 waiting in OR2.

I don't like her. Yeah?

Well, without her, my life would fall apart.

Excuse me, Dr. Hobbs. Can you tell me when you will do the surgery on Robert?

I'm not doing it. Dr. Sujishi is.

But you are the vet. That's what everybody says. Dr. Sugishi is excellent

well.

I taught him.

Knock, knock.

How are you feeling?

Wait, can I play again?

Completely off for three months. No tournaments for six.

You can still keep up the fitness training. You come back next year,

than ever.

No!

I'll be 20 then. Mo Connelly was 19 in three months when she won. It's over.

Listen to me. You came very close to not making it yesterday.

What? What am I supposed to bring out the champagne, celebrate?

I was supposed to have my name in the book, think she was the best.

I thought you got that.

Oh, I get it.

Robert, you a soccer fan?

Got a favorite player?

Messi.

Messi. Oh, he's awesome.

I bet if he was on your team, you'd feel pretty confident, right?

Well, I'm the Messi of surgeons.

And right now I am on your team.

So you don't have anything to worry about.

Everything's going to be A -OK.

All right?

Michael? Yeah?

What?

It's Rod.

What about him?

Operated on the boy.

When I depend upon the clean, total resection, the kid's going to be fine.

Good. Wonderful.

Thank you.

Did you know him?

Yes.

I'm sorry.

It's his own fault.

I saved his life so that he goes and does exactly the opposite of what I tell

him.

It's okay to feel sad, Michael.

Really?

Is it okay? Good.

No, no, it's good. No.

I mean, I know these things can be hard for you.

Anna, you haven't seen me in ten years. You have no idea what's hard for me.

I'm sorry you lost a patient.

He wasn't just a patient. He was a friend.

And he shouldn't have died. Not now.

Trust me.

That's something you can't control.

No.

No, there is a logic and there are rules and if you just follow them you don't

go out you don't get drunk You don't knock your patch loose You don't chase a

ball into the street I

can't

handle this

Mikey Mike?

Come on in.

Let's do this.

Any tools that are going to help us bring her into the room?

Go ahead and lay down.

To the winds of the south, great serpent, wrap your coils of light around

Teach us to shed the path the way you shed your skin.

To walk softly on this earth. Amen.

You sterilize your way, I sterilize mine.

Basically, we need to open the door so she can walk through.

Do you have to do that with my head?

Brother, I don't have to do anything.

But if you want her gone, this is the way.

Could you close your eyes?

And I want you to feel her.

Her whole deal, I mean.

Her look.

Her smell.

Everything.

Well, hello there.

Keep breathing.

Now you're going to thank her for being in this life with you.

For anything that she gave to you.

Anything that she taught you. Just really express that gratitude.

And then let her know that you're going to be okay without her.

What are we doing?

I want to thank you for being part of my life.

What is this?

What are you doing?

Yeah, I don't think this is working.

It's okay.

Stick with it.

What is it, hon?

What are we doing here?

Michael?

We're sending you away.

want to go no Anna no you can't I

have all these things to finish all these doors I left open I need you to

help me close them Michael please I can't have you in my life why not

because you don't fit who I am I can't

I can't be delusional. You're not delusional.

Then what is this?

I don't get it. I don't understand.

So?

Why can't I be the one thing in life you don't understand?

Anna, you have always been the one thing in life I don't understand.

If I go, we'll never see each other again.

Is that what you want?

What happened? What are we doing? Nothing.

Nothing. I'm good. She's gone.

She's not gone. No, no, she is.

She left.

Friend.

What'd I do?

It's just like you taking out a tumor. You know when it's gone, and you know

when it's still there.

What you do, friend, is nothing like what I do.

Are

you here?