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[narrator]
Previously on The Resident…

You want Conrad to go down.

Whistleblowers like Hawkins
cost hospitals millions.

It's him or you.

If it were easy,
everyone would be a doctor,

because this is the best job in the world,

despite everything…
Because of everything.

Cardiac issues can escalate quickly
for pregnant women.

Worsening heart failure could
kill both you and the baby.

So, guys, hey.
These are the doctors

that are gonna be helping
Dr. Cain save Mom.

There is only a slim hope
this will buy you more time.

I will do anything to stay with my kids

-as long as I can.
-When is she gonna wake up?

Dawn has endured 17 hours of surgery.
Her body is struggling to recover.

She hasn't regained consciousness,
and as yet,

isn't able to breathe on her own.

[phone vibrating]

[grunts]

What?

[Adaku] Mina, I think it's happening.

What do you mean it's happening?

-The baby.
-It's five weeks early.

-How far apart are your contractions?
-Hang on a sec.

[grunting and panting]

Twenty minutes maybe.
I think some are coming sooner.

I think they're getting stronger.

Use the app.
It's important to log each one.

-Did your water break?
-No.

-Where are you?
-I'm at Peachtree and 4th.

Big sale.
First come, first serve. I need a crib.

-I'm in line.
-Sit down immediately.

-Yes, Doctor.
-Okay, I'm on my way.

I'm taking you to Chastain.

[panting]

Okay. Okay.

[phone ringing]

-Hey, what's up?
-[Mina] Adaku is in labor,

and in line at a box store,
if you can believe it.

-I'm gonna get her right now.
-She's five weeks early.

Yeah. So to be safe,
I'm taking her to the ER.

With her heart condition,
she needs to be monitored.

Obviously, I will not make lunch today.

-[horns blaring]
-[tires screeching]

-What was that?
-Um…

I, uh, almost hit a car. All good.

Okay. I'm coming
to meet you both at the ER.

Uh, no.
It's your day off. Enjoy your… yoga.

On a scale from one to 10,
your stress level's like a 12.

Emotional support is required,

and that happens to be my superpower,
so I will see you at the hospital.

Now turn off your phone and slow down.

I will. I promise.

[Cain] And we're done here.

Dr. Voss, the hip is all yours.

[monitor beeping rapidly]

He's bradying down.

Coleman, push two grams of mannitol
and open up the drain.

[Kit] His brain is swelling again.

What's your issue, Dr. Voss?

He had advanced dementia
even before he fell.

Uh, he's 89.

Yes, I've had the pleasure
of reading his chart.

Your point?

[monitor beeps]

His ICP's increasing.
He's gonna herniate.

There's no way this is gonna end well.

Given his physical and mental status
before surgery and this complication,

he'll have zero quality of life,
if you could even call it life.

Are you suggesting we let him die?

He'll be a body in a bed.
A vegetable.

It's the compassionate choice
at this point.

I'm gonna say this once and never again.

Nobody…

and I mean nobody dies in my OR!

Coleman, proceed.

Pushing two grams of mannitol
and opening the drain.

So, the son is expecting an update.

Why don't you go out there
and talk to him,

tell him the surgery went well.

Tell him his father is stable
and in the ICU.

Remember to smile.

It shows you take pleasure
when delivering good news.

Understood?

[opening theme music playing]

-[siren wailing in distance]
-[chattering indistinctly]

Last day as an intern
for Dr. Devon Pravesh!

-[all applauding]
-Yeah!

-My, how time flies.
-Seriously?

Thank you.

Felt like the longest year ever.

Twelve more hours,
you'll be free of me.

I will never escape you
since you're going to be chief resident.

[Conrad] Oh, yeah.

-Good point.
-As a second-year resident

with interns of your own,
you'll need to up your wardrobe game.

-Mm.
-I could definitely see him in a bow tie.

Yeah, I've already
got three picked out for him.

-No.
-Nic leans towards plaid, but I think

-he's more of a polka dot kind of guy.
-Oh… Uh…

Batman, Robin, you're needed in Bay Two.

Hello. I'm Dr. Hawkins.
This is my intern Dr. Pravesh.

-Hi.
-Now, can you tell us what happened?

Uh, I, um, I think Tyler
took a bunch of these.

I'm not sure how many,
and a few sleeping pills.

Okay. Sleeping pills.

Uh, it… It's not what you think.

He's been having trouble sleeping
and lots of pain from sports injuries.

I think he took too much
acetaminophen by mistake.

Okay. Thank you.

We will let you know
as soon as we have an update.

Nurse Hundley?

Would you mind taking Tyler's mom outside

-where she can wait, please?
-Sure.

-[quietly] Excuse me.
-Come on.

Vitals are stable.

Pulse 80s, BP 120/70.

-Satting 100% on room air.
-Tyler.

[grunts softly]

[Conrad] Tyler, can you hear me?

-Where's my mom at?
-She's here. We got you.

I'll order a set of labs with an
acetaminophen and aspirin level.

-Don't forget--
-Coags.

-I know.
-We'll add a liter of saline.

Labs could be hours.
There's a high index of suspicion.

-Let's start him on NAC.
-Hmm. Hey.

I think it, he says it.

It's like I taught him
everything he knows.

-Hey. I was also involved.
-Eh.

-[Devon] Okay, guys.
-Eh.

Chill out.

-[monitor beeping]
-[ventilator pumping steadily]

Katie and I cooked dinner yesterday.

Tim cleaned. Well… [chuckles]

He sort of cleaned.

We always have to wash his dishes twice.

We miss you.

I bet your mother loves
hearing about your day.

[exhales]

Do you really think so, Dr. Cain?

She never squeezes my hand,
or makes any sign

that she even knows I'm here.

Well, I have some good news.

Your mother is ready to leave the ICU
and go to a great rehab facility.

Rehab?
She… She doesn't even move.

Well, give her some time.
Don't count her out.

Your mother is a fighter.

She survived the Mother of All Surgeries.

She's being transferred today.

Just let her settle into her new home
and then you can go visit her.

And, Malia, don't give up
before the miracle.

Okay?

Where are you taking this patient?

Long-term acute care facility.

-On whose orders?
-Dr. Cain, at the family's request.

Adaku?

So, this is your baby's birthday.

So excited. Scared and excited.

Where's her OB?
I texted her to meet us half an hour ago.

Dr. Lin has a patient,
but will be here soon.

Put her in Trauma Bay 11.

How is that good enough?

I'm going to call the OB chief
and complain.

Dr. Lin is the OB chief, Mina.

That's why you chose her.
Remember?

-Breathe.
-I'm not having a contraction.

He means me.

-Mina, darling. One minute.
-What? Do you have pain?

-Is your heart racing?
-I'm fine.

Soon we will meet my baby,
the child I've wanted my whole life.

And you'll be her godmother.

You are my dearest friend.

I've known you half my life.

It's time for us to be happy.
Together.

[whispers] Okay.

[ventilators pumping steadily]

Got a new one for the vent farm.

-From Chastain. Dr. Cain's patient.
-Another?

We won't have a room ready for her
until later today.

Got to put her here. She can't go back
to the hospital. Doctor's orders.

Okay. Stash her there
with the others who are waiting.

[Devon] How you doing, Tyler?

Uh, I'm… I'm better. Thanks.

Do you want to tell us what happened?

Sophomore year,
I was tackling the fullback.

He was a big guy and I…
dislocated my elbow.

-[sighs]
-Painful.

Yeah, and… junior year,
I lost sight of the quarterback.

-Got blindsided.
-Did you get this bruise playing football?

Uh, that one, I don't know.

I'm not sure.

When's your next game?

[Tyler] For me?

Never, 'cause I got cut.

And then Tilly, my girlfriend,

she broke up with me the next day, so…

Did that happen today?

Tilly was yesterday and…

team was the day before. Um…

Then, this morning…

uh, my parents told me
that they're calling it quits.

Filing for divorce.

That is a lot to deal with, man.

I… I did something really stupid, um…

I…

I tried to kill myself.

[breath trembles]

Yeah.

-Tyler?
-Yeah.

Have you contemplated
taking pills for a while?

No, man, no. It was…

Gosh, it was a spur-of-the-moment thing.
I was just…

I was, I was angry and I…

I'm not like that, like, I'm-I'm not…

I, uh…

Where am I?

[monitor beeping]

[muttering indistinctly]

-Hey, Tyler, look at me.
-Oh…

-Huh?
-Open your eyes.

-Okay, okay.
-Bruising, confusion,

-scleral icterus.
-No, guys.

I'm good. I'm okay.

[laughing] I'm… I'm okay…

Whoa, whoa.

-Okay, okay.
-[gasping]

I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm good.

[pants and coughs]

[woman over PA]
Dr. Katz to Obstetrics…

What time did the contractions start?

Her first contraction
was at 6:42, second at 7:15,

-third at 7:33.
-It sounds like early labor,

which isn't great,
since she's five weeks early.

We'll deal with it.
We'll give her steroids to help

-the baby's lungs mature.
-Her heart rate has raised

from 100 to 125 in the past hour.

She has a history
of dilated cardiomyopathy.

She cannot handle
a sustained tachycardia.

Believe it or not,
she can be a ton of fun.

You should see her
when she's had a few drinks.

I'm sure Dr. Lin's very well versed
in her patient's medical needs.

An excess of caution is appropriate.

So, normally,
if your contractions stopped,

we would watch you,
we might even consider sending you home.

With your cardiac history,
the safest choice

is to get you comfortable
in labor and delivery,

and we will monitor you and the baby.

And you'll be back
to check on her shortly.

[Nic] Thank you, Dr. Lin.

You're welcome.

I'm getting Dr. Austin.

A full cardiac exam should
put everyone's mind at ease, especially…

[machine beeping]

All right, good news.

Tyler's brain CT is negative.

No bleeding or signs of cerebral edema.
What about the labs?

Not good news.

Let me guess.

Fulminant hepatic failure
from all the acetaminophen he took?

He needs a liver transplant or he'll die.

I wish I could say
I haven't seen this before,

but I've seen it too many times.

Acetaminophen overdose
is the leading cause

of liver failure in the U.S.

He's young, otherwise in good health.

That should put him
at the top of the transplant list.

He could get an organ quickly.

If we tell the transplant board
that Tyler attempted suicide,

he will be ruled ineligible.

He won't be put at the top of the list.

He won't be on the list at all.

That is a rule here at Chastain.

As long as we get him counseling,
I say…

what suicide attempt?

Wait, did I hear that right?

Is that Dr. Pravesh,
or is that an imposter?

Look, I'm the same man
that I've always been,

but I see more shades of gray
than I used to.

Sometimes, to do right,
you can't follow the rules.

I think the short answer
is I'm not an intern anymore.

I'll transfer him to the ICU.

And I'll contact the transplant team.

[Austin] Well, you're definitely
still pregnant, but I'm guessing

-you already knew that.
-[laughs]

[grunting]

Shallow breaths.
Use your abdomen like this.

[breathing rapidly]

What do you see?

Heart's beating a little fast.

But you're pumping for two,
so that's totally normal.

[fetal heartbeat pulsing over monitor]

What is it?

All good.

Listen, I've got instructions

for your ladies in waiting
on how to best take care of you.

-So, they'll be right back.
-Okay.

[woman speaking indistinctly over PA]

One of her heart valves is failing.

It's leaking severely.

Mitral regurg.

It's causing fluid
to back up into her lungs.

We have to, uh, get her
in surgery right away.

I'm gonna book an OR and scrub in.

Whoa, wait, take your foot off the gas.

The regurg isn't emergent.

The valve needs to be replaced.

With the stress of pregnancy, she could

-decompensate rapidly.
-Or it could last

another week or another month.
There's no way to predict.

Do not play Russian roulette
with Adaku's life.

No delay. We need to get her
to surgery right now.

No. I'm gonna close my eyes and pretend

the last 15 seconds of this conversation
never happened.

And when I open them,
history will be erased,

and I will know that
you still have unlimited faith

in my ability to deliver
the best care possible

to your friend.

[Nic] We obviously trust your judgment.

What I think Mina's trying to say is
we need to save Mom and baby.

No, that is not what I want to say.

The mother is priority number one.

There is no choice to be made, Mina.
We save both the baby and the mama.

Adaku is a high-risk pregnancy.

We need to get our ducks in a row

-before surgery, Mina.
-Thank you, Nic.

Now, that means we have to line
up the best anesthesiologist,

the best neonatologist,

have an on-call perfusionist,
and put blood on hold.

It's gonna take a few hours,
and once everything is

in place, Dr. Lin will deliver the baby

and we will repair the valve.

And there's every reason to believe
it's going to be fine.

If her condition changes, page me.

Look, if you are frightened,

you are gonna transfer
that anxiety onto Adaku.

The only thing we can do now
is show rock-solid support.

And to restate the obvious,
Mina, I'm here for you.

Okay?

[exhales]

So, your patient, Dawn Long,
you moved her to an LTACH?

Family didn't want to let her go,
so in deference

to their wishes,
I admitted her to a facility

where she can be safe and comfortable.

Yeah, just wondering about the timing.

Meaning?

Well, if you keep her alive
past the 90-day mark,

then her outcome won't be tracked anymore

and you can claim your patient survived
the Mother of All Surgeries.

As can the hospital.

Better outcomes mean more patients
and better Medicare reimbursements.

Yeah, agreed, except neither of those

are appropriate reasons
for a medical decision.

So, tell me, what's the harm in allowing

a family to live with hope
for just a little while longer?

In a facility owned by Red Rock costing
thousands of dollars a day.

Exactly. You're making my case for me.

Tyler's an excellent candidate
for a liver transplant.

The patient is otherwise healthy,
no underlying medical conditions?

None, and he's a teenager
with his whole life ahead of him.

According to your notes,

he presented
with an overdose of painkillers.

Yeah, acetaminophen.

He's a football player.

Tried to self-treat his back pain.

Took too many.

Uh, this was a… [chuckles]

A therapeutic misadventure.

You know, people don't realize
how easy it is

to take too much
over-the-counter pain medicine.

You talk to our ER staff,
they'll tell you.

-They see it all the time.
-You understand that

patients with suicidal ideations
are disqualified

from receiving transplants
at our hospital?

-Mmm-hmm.
-We've had a few recent bad outcomes.

And any more could put
our program in jeopardy.

Of course.

Was Tyler's overdose a suicide attempt?

Absolutely not.

We'll get Tyler listed.

Notify UNOS.

With his numbers, he's first priority.

Great.

Thank you.

Torturing yourself?

Facing our new reality.

The Barrett Cain Center for Neurosurgery.

He's a pot of gold at the end
of Red Rock's rainbow.

I'm the chief of surgery,
and I still can't control him.

You remember Dawn Long?

The lovely woman with seven kids
who had the Mother of All Surgeries?

He had her transferred today
to an LTACH for rehab.

[sighs] Oh, you're joking.

He was gaming the system
to boost his own stats

at the expense of his patients.

That's what I'm here to talk to you about.

You know how I've been trying to play nice
with Cain in his sandbox to find out

-what he's up to?
-Yes.

I've seen multiple surgeries

with residents in charge,
overtreatment, up-coding.

This morning, he operated on a patient

who shouldn't have had surgery
in the first place,

then condemned him to life
on a vent in a vegetative state,

just so he wouldn't
have a death in his OR.

I'm not surprised.

We have to do something.

No, we don't have to do anything.

You have to stay out of the line of fire.

Chastain needs good doctors
like you now more than ever.

And your contract
is coming up for renewal.

If he thinks that
you're against him, you're gone.

What about you?

My contract
is virtually unbreakable, so…

[sighs]

I guess what happens next
is up to me.

[monitor alarms beeping]

[breathing heavily]
Chest feels heavy.

She became acutely short of breath
and her 02 sat dropped.

Harsh holosystolic murmur.
We need to get another look at that valve.

[Austin] Coming up.

A chord must have ruptured.

[Austin] It's wide-open
mitral regurgitation.

That valve is blown.

What? What does that mean?

It's time to have this baby.

Page Dr. Lin!

-Mina, what's happening?
-We're gonna proceed

immediately with the C-section
with Dr. Lin, and then you're

gonna go into surgery right after.

It's my heart? Listen to me.

Take my baby first.
Save my…

-Save my…
-Adaku?

Save my baby.

Adaku?

-[machine beeps]
-[Nic] I still have a pulse,

but she's hypoxic. We need to bag her.

-Acute pulmonary edema.
-Get a code team.

-[monitor flatlining]
-She's in V tach!

V fib. We lost her pulse.
Starting compressions.

We got no time to waste. Let's go.

Where's Dr. Lin?

-OR Three is ready for us.
-Good.

We need to get this baby out now.

No. Adaku's coding.
We save her first,

-then think about the baby.
-Negative.

We do that, the baby dies.
Adaku made her wishes clear.

-She said save the baby first.
-Austin, I swear,

-if you don't save Adaku…
-Listen to me!

We get her on bypass
as Lin delivers the baby,

then we deal with the valve.

That's the only way we save them both.

Trust me.

[monitor alarms beeping]

-How long you need?
-About a minute.

Ten blade.

[Mina] Adaku won't make it.

[Austin] Yes, she will.

We just have to buy her more time.

[whirring]

All right, baby's out.

Baby's not breathing.

[Austin] Now I'll prep her for bypass.

You handle the cardiac massage.

Let's get some blood in here.

How we doing over there, Nic?

Baby's still not breathing.

Okay, let's bag her.

[Nic sighs]

-Heart rate's in the 50s.
-She's hypoxic too long.

[Nic] Starting compressions.

[neonatologist]
Giving 0.5 milliliters epinephrine.

[monitor beeping rapidly]

[Nic] Okay.

-Thank God.
-[baby crying]

[sighs] Welcome to the world, little one.

Let's get her to the NICU, please.

[crying continues]

She's ready for bypass.

[machines whirring]

[Nic] How we doing?

[Austin] I'm starting to repair
the heart valve.

Mina. Let's go to the NICU.

I can finish the surgery, Mina. Go.

We saved the baby,
but Adaku still might die.

You should've operated her hours ago.
We shouldn't have waited.

[Nic] That's not helping.
He was right.

Adaku and the baby are both still alive.

-That is the best possible--
-I'm staying.

-No more mistakes on my watch.
-There were no mistakes!

That baby is going to have her mother,
and I'm going to make sure of it.

-Looks good.
-[Austin] What?

It's perfect.

Let's start weaning her off bypass.

[Mina] She's undergone
two major surgeries at once.

Her heart was already weak to begin with.
It may never restart.

Even if it does restart,
she may never wake up.

[Austin] Please clear.

[machine whirring]

[paddles thump]

Sinus rhythm.

Look at that.

That's a win for now.

I'm going to give you a pass
on how you behaved,

because I know how upset you are.

But I certainly won't forget.

It's all you.

[helicopter blades whirring]

Conrad.

Dr. Moore, how we doing?

Your organ is perfect.

Timing is practically a miracle.

[phone vibrating]

Hey.

-[exhales] We have a liver.
-Incredible.

Tyler is still down here.
They had no beds in the ICU.

All right, we'll send him up
to the OR now. Let's go.

[babies crying and fussing]

Take good care of her.

[breathing deeply]

[sighs] How is she?

Uh… alive.

We fixed the valve.

Her heart's beating, but… beyond that?

I don't know if I'm gonna
be okay if she's not.

You want to see the baby?

[door opens]

[sighs softly]

[crying]

[monitor beeping steadily]

[door opens]

Hey. How's it going?

So far so good.

Three more hours and you're official.

[chuckles softly]

That first day you told me,
"Go be a doctor, or go be something else."

Yeah, I remember.

And you said
this is the best job in the world,

despite everything.

Because of everything.

That day, I watched a young girl die.

And today, I watch good doctors
save a young man's life.

And right now, all I am thinking is…

[sighs]

what a privilege it is to be a part of it.

[chuckles softly]

[inhales deeply and sighs]

Dr. Cain still in surgery?

Uh, I don't know.
He was in OR Two.

[monitor beeping steadily]

Where is Dr. Cain?

Uh, he left 15 minutes ago.

[Bell] Who are you?

[surgeon] I'm his resident.

[monitor beeping rapidly]

-Uh…
-What's going on?

-Page Dr. Cain.
-What is going on? Talk to me.

I lost control of the bypass,
can't stop the bleeding.

He's losing perfusion to his brain.

Page any attending.
I need help now.

Hang on, I'm coming in!

What's happening?

I can't finish the patch.
The artery's shredding.

[Bell] Take a deep breath.
I'm not kidding.

Take a deep breath.
Do what I say and this will be all right.

[surgeon] There's blood everywhere.

I've only done this in-in a sim lab.

First we need to see the field. Suction.

Now I'm gonna help you
get proximal and distal control.

-All right.
-Grab the vessel clamps and put them

-where my fingers are.
-All right.

-You see that?
-Yeah, right there.

Okay, good. Now what?

Um, reinforce the patch.

Uh-huh. Do it.

[door opens]

Bajwa here. Dr. Cain left the hospital.

He did what?

It's gonna have to wait.
I got an urgent text.

Yeah, don't worry, it's been handled.

-By whom?
-By me and Dr. Bajwa,

who happened to be on deck.

I've been a surgeon a long time.

I've seen attendings come in drunk.

I've seen 'em fall asleep
from sheer exhaustion.

I've seen incompetence
and heroics, everything,

but this defies description.

Your patient nearly died.

You left him wide open on the table.

You want an attaboy for saving one life?

I save dozens every day,
hundreds by the week. Get over it.

Do you save them,
or manage not to kill them?

Wheeling a patient with
a blown brain into the ICU

and hooking them to a vent's
not a life-saving procedure.

-It's abusive.
-[laughs] Oh.

Look who's talking.

One glass of ten-year-old bourbon
and your residents

cannot wait to share the tales
of the mighty HODAD.

Hands of Death and Destruction.

That is what they call you, isn't it?

Patients dead
after a routine appendectomy,

catching fire in the OR?

Yeah, I've made mistakes, but I was there.

With my staff in the OR, not off joyriding
while my patients were left incapacitated.

I have saved the lives
of kings and princesses

from every corner of this world.

They worship me.

They want to name their children after me.

They will never forget who I am.

-But it seems that you have.
-No.

You're the one who's forgotten who I am.

Chief of Surgery and your boss.

You will answer to the board.

Yeah? What do you think?

Wow. Nic let you
out of the house like that?

[laughs]

[Devon] What are you doing?

I've gotten a free sandwich here
ever since I started.

-These guys love me.
-That right?

Let me guess, fried egg.

Yeah. How'd you know that?

[Conrad] They like you,

but they don't like you that much.

Have you been buying my lunch
this whole time?

Yeah. Something my resident
did for me. It's a tradition.

You just pay it forward,
do the same for your intern.

It's a way to say thank you

for all the hard work they put in.

Last one. Better enjoy it.

[Conrad sighs]

Listen.

I want you to know that…

I do know.

Hey, I want to show you something.

-You mean…
-Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[exhales sharply]

Wow.

-Congratulations.
-Ah!

[laughs] I haven't… asked her yet.

I just have to find the right moment.

-She needs to say yes.
-Oh, she will.

You guys are inevitable.

No, I know how I feel about Nic.

That's never changed.
It never will change.

She's everything.

-Hi.
-Hi.

Oh, no, no.

Come on.

[chuckles] How's Mina?

[sighs] Rumpled and grumpy.

She slept in a chair
by Adaku's side last night.

[clears throat] And Adaku?

Critical.

She's intubated and sedated.

It's gonna be a long road ahead.

She'll be in the hospital for a while.

The baby, on the other hand,
might be able to go home in a week.

With Mina.

Wow, that's a scary thought.

-[chuckles]
-[exhales] Hoo.

I'm sorry…

for earlier.

The things I said.

But I was not wrong.

If we'd taken her
to surgery first thing…

Mina, stop.

Taking care of her was my job.

[Austin sighs]

Look, I get it.

It's been a rough 24 hours for everybody.

And you have another challenge
ahead of you now.

She's just so small.

The surgery went perfectly.

We're hopeful for a full recovery.

That's wonderful.

How you feeling?

I've been better, but I can't complain.

Still here, right? [chuckles]

I know I have you to thank for that.

Well, the person we have
to thank is the donor.

He gave you a very precious gift.

Look, I promise I learned my lesson.

I'm not gonna make
that mistake again, okay?

I'd like to be sure of that.

I want you to start
by being honest with your mom.

-I can't do that.
-No, no, no, no.

It's okay. It's important.
She needs to know.

And this is why…

I want you to get counseling.

You need to talk to someone
about why you tried

to take your own life to make
sure it doesn't happen again.

Are you sure
the transplant surgeon heard you?

Positive.

-What did he say?
-Nothing.

He walked away without speaking to me.

Okay, this is bad.

Well, maybe, maybe not.

We don't know if he'll tell anyone.

Surgery's done, the outcome is good.
They can't turn back the clock.

This shouldn't even be an issue.

There are no guidelines from UNOS
telling transplant centers

whether to give organs to someone
who attempted suicide.

Transplant protocol varies
from hospital to hospital.

If Tyler had gone to Atlanta General,

they would have approved
the transplant surgery

with virtually no questions asked, but…

Chastain doesn't work that way.

So what do we do now?

Behave as if nothing happened.

Where's the board?
I requested a meeting.

Your request was denied.

[Bell] Well, you can't do that.

It's in the hospital charter.

The Chief of Surgery may request…

You've been stripped
of that title, Dr. Bell.

What'd you say?

Dr. Cain is Chastain's
new Chief of Surgery.

All future requests will go through him.

Randolph, I heard.

Are you all right?

Tending to my first love.

Putting my affections where they stand
a chance of being returned.

Will you leave Chastain?

I won't give 'em the satisfaction.

And if they fire me,
they will owe me a substantial sum.

But they will fire me.

You know how the pressure drops
before a storm,

and you're not aware of it
in any conscious way,

but you know something is changing?

I finalized your paperwork last night.

You have a five-year contract, ironclad.

I don't know what to say.

Just be what you are, a great surgeon.

[water running]

All right, everybody,
can I have your attention, please?

Let's welcome our new chief resident,

Dr. Conrad Hawkins.

[cheering and applauding]

Speech!

Oh, yeah.

If Devon wants a speech,
he's gonna get a speech.

Keys to the palace.

Got your own office,
a call room with a shower.

-Ooh. [kissing]
-She's all yours.

Thank you.
We'll see if you're all

still clapping for me
when I'm busting your asses

first thing in the morning.

[all laughing]

-Did you meet your interns yet?
-No.

I don't know anything about 'em.

-Nice coat, Hawkins.
-Thank you.

Not that it matters much.
I was never Chief Resident.

Look at me now.

[scoffs]

So, I hear your office has a brand-new
72-inch flat-screen and an Xbox.

Yeah. You got time for Call of Duty?

-Yeah, let's make it happen.
-All right.

-Just the man I was looking for! [laughs]
-Ahhh!

I can use the new shower, right?

-Anytime, anytime.
-[chuckles]

-Hey, how about me?
-Uh, not a chance.

What, the free fried egg sandwiches

-weren't enough for you?
-Mmm…

[sighs]

This is impressive.

-I've never had my name on a door.
-[scanner beeping]

Let me try.

Maybe they haven't programmed it yet.

Dr. Hawkins.

Uh, I'll… I'll take that. Thank you.

You lied to the… the transplant board.

We don't give organs
to patients who are suicidal.

Wait, Tyler's not suicidal.
It was a stupid mistake.

Am I talking to you?

You're fired.

[chuckles]

Ah, that rule's arbitrary and you know it.

You don't care about Tyler Warzel.

You care that I'm a whistleblower.

That's what this is about.

Huh? I blew the whistle

on a bad drug, and you're afraid
for your bottom line.

You're afraid of me.

And you should be.

Security will escort you out.

Give me your pager.

Thank you.

[elevator bell dings]

-What's going on?
-They're firing Conrad.

-You can't do this.
-Whoa, whoa.

-Get your hands off me. Lay off.
-Hey, hey!

-Whoa.
-It's okay, it's okay.

Then I'll quit, too.

No, you'll stay here.

I'll see you tonight.

[closing theme music playing]