The Resident Review – Risk (5×21)

The Resident Season 5 Episode 21 put Cade and Conrad through the wringer, and though we knew it was coming, it didn’t make things easier. 

After bringing down the mob for medical fraud, Cade had a target on her back, which is why it made sense that she decided to pick up her life and get out of town. 

While she came to love the people at Chastain, including Conrad, she never put down any real roots here because she knew she was on borrowed time. 

Still, it didn’t make leaving any easier either. 

After sharing her goodbyes, Cade got in a car seemingly headed for the airport, which is when the mob’s hitman shot several bullets into her vehicle. 

I know this needed to happen for the sake of the storyline, but did they really just send her on her way with one police escort knowing how dangerous the mob actually is?

And then the one agent assigned to her case was completely useless. Conrad lept into action quicker than the agent!

Of course, Conrad’s motivations were personal as he had developed an emotional connection to Cade. 

They never acted on their feelings, but they were there bubbling right beneath the surface. Frankly, I thought he was going to plant one on her when she was leaving, right after she got shot, and when she woke up. 

Of course, there’s a lot more holding Conrad back than the fact that Cade didn’t want to get attached. 

He’s still reeling from losing Nic, and he’s too scared to get close to anyone and lose them again, plus, he feels like he’s cheating on her. 

The feelings are understandable, especially as his fears of losing Cade brought up the same fears he had when Nic was brought to the hospital. 

It couldn’t have been easy seeing the life of someone he cared about hanging in the balance again. 

The PTSD from losing someone is real. 

However, it also motivated him. He couldn’t save Nic, but he could try his best to save Cade. They weren’t out of options, and though things looked bleak when she began rejecting the blood transfusion and they realized she had a very rare blood type, Conrad’s desire to bring Cade out of this was a key factor in saving her life. 

Pravesh seemed skeptical that Conrad could rewrite the end, so to speak, but he did. 

It would’ve been too cruel to see Cade suffer permanent brain damage considering the nature of Nic’s death. 

You can’t put a man through all of that. 

Even if Conrad doesn’t end up with Cade — because it definitely seems like Billie’s throwing her net — I’m glad she’s alive. 

At the risk of sounding nitpicky, I was a little upset with how the whole blood-type situation went down. 

Cade knew that she could be killed at any moment, so why didn’t she tell anyone that she had a rare blood type? Why wasn’t it in any of her files?

Why did they have to waste so much time trying to acquire her backup blood? This is one of the things that should’ve been on Conrad or Kit’s radar. 

Being a whistleblower is dangerous, but Cade knew the risks going in. 

They didn’t need to keep it a secret anymore, and admittedly, it was hilarious to see everyone’s reactions when Conrad just blurted it out. 

It’s hard to believe that sweet and spunky Cade singlehandedly took down the mob. 

My guess is that they will no longer be a problem, though, it probably wasn’t wise that Kit did a press release and informed the public of Cade’s health status. 

If they wanted her dead, why would she go out there and tell people she was in critical condition?

At that point, someone might have just come through to finish the job. 

I don’t think Cade will ever be truly safe until she gets out of town and changes her name. Maybe her hair color too so it isn’t so distinguishable. 

And clearly, that squashes any potential romance storyline for her and Conrad. 

Cade’s father, Dr. Ian Sullivan, also arrived at Chastain to be there for his daughter. He was a little late but better late than never I guess. 

It probably isn’t fair of him to say that he’s here to “save her,” but Sullivan seems to be an ego-driven personality. It’s been a while since we’ve had one of those around here. 

Since the trailer teases that his expertise might come in handy and land him a job at Chastain, I assume Cade will also be sticking around. 

It was nice to see the team rally to save Cade. They went above and beyond to find a solution for her, and there’s no better than Bell, AJ Austin, and Leela. I’d trust those doctors with my entire being. 

While they waited to see if Cade would pull through, Pravesh and AJ got a little bit of a distraction with their patient, Jimmy Miller, a popular podcast host and known anti-vaxxer. 

Honestly, Jimmy was annoying, and it was hard to have any sympathy for him. 

He built all of his success on a lie because when push came to shove and he was lying on his death bed, he admitted that he was actually vaccinated, which made him eligible to be put on the donor’s list. 

Jimmy figured that he could get a lot of followers and listeners by tapping into the anti-vax movement, but he didn’t realize he was influencing a lot of people and preventing them from getting necessary vaccines.

He was a hypocrite who kept himself safe but purposefully put the public in danger. 

Pravesh and AJ couldn’t reveal Jimmy’s medical history, but they didn’t have to stand by the fact that they “made an exception”, so Jimmy’s wife pieced it together and emerged furious. 

I would be too if I knew my husband was a fraud whose decisions meant that his family also didn’t get vaccinated and almost died. 

That’s what I call a selfish man who got everything he deserved. In the end, AJ informed him that while he qualified to be added to the transplant list, they suggested getting it somewhere else as one of the stipulations was that he needed to have someone who would care for him for a year. And since his wife left him immediately upon finding out the truth, Jimmy was all alone. 

The episode was jam-packed with life-saving action, but there was a brief conversation between Pravesh and Leela about figuring out how to work alongside each other. 

The breakup is still very fresh, so they’ll need some time to adjust, but I think they are both mature adults who won’t let their emotions cloud their judgment. 

It’s unfortunate because man, I really loved them as a couple. And it’ll be weird to see them dating other people in the future, but since they made a huge deal about breaking up because of children, I think it’s only fair that Pravesh gets a real love interest that is on the same page as he is! 

What did you think of the episode? Did Cade’s “will she or won’t she die” storyline keep you on the edge of your seat?

Are you shipping her and Cade? Share your thoughts in the comments below!