Robby and Santos are vying for who is going to be the absolute worst, most obnoxious person on shift during The Pitt Season 2 Episode 10.
We also see how a waterslide collapse can bring about some concerning traumas, and everyone was getting some empathy checks, reality checks, or all around ready to check out!
Let’s dive into the recap!
It’s time to rally the troops! The water slide collapse has incoming victims, and Dana is barking out orders, baby.
Makedah, the pretty and fast new runner, is sent to gather more information. Am I the only one hoping she and Ahmad become a thing? The way he looked at her during The Pitt Season 2 Episode 9 was something.
Two choppers are coming, and Langdon offers to join Robby on the roof, but Robby picks Ogilvie instead. I’m fine with Langdon staying inside. Hopefully, we don’t repeat an ER scenario.
Roxie is visibly slipping away. McKay is doing a great job of making her feel comfortable and extending the same level of compassion toward Javadi, who is emotional.
McKay reminds Javadi to set emotional boundaries and not make the moment about them, but about the patient.
She’s giving Javadi sound advice, and she’s really a great mentor, especially when Javadi says she feels like an “asshole” because all those kids want is more time with their mother, and she wants less with hers.
Two traumas are coming in, and Langdon is diving in. Al-Hashimi puts Santos on the case with Langdon, and Santos is definitely not pleased.
Side Note: It’s easy to forget just how terrible Langdon was to Santos during The Pitt Season 1. It’s something that gets lost in the seas of Santos being an “acquired taste.”
That said, we’re nearly a year later, the ED is pure chaos, and at some point, Santos has to learn to compartmentalize better and work with the guy.
It’s super chaotic, and Emma is really trying to find her bearings, wondering if the whole cyberattack thing is a common occurrence.
Emma: Do cyberattacks happen often?
Dana: More than you realize, I blame the Ruskies.
Princess tells Mohan that her mother is calling, that she sounds really upset, and that she really needs to talk to her, but Mohan blows her off.
Meanwhile, back on the roof, Robby checks in with Ogilvie, who recognizes that while working in the ED in Vermont was busy, this is a hellscape. He even whacks Robby a bit when he talks about this not being normal for anyone — or healthy.
Ogilvie: I think we have a very different idea of normal.
Robby: It’s not for everyone.
Ogilvie: I’m not sure it’s healthy for anybody.
Side note: Ogilvie is such a complicated character. He’s not a horrible person, but he struggles to express basic empathy at times and clearly has trouble processing human emotions the same way.
But his delivery sometimes is unmatched. That quiet “Jesus” when someone hands him a leg in a bag will have me cackling for days.
We need more runners, but now they’re closing the gift shop and recruiting its staff, some of whom may use walkers.
We’re so busy, Monica doesn’t have time for a smoke and has to resort to nicotine gum, and Mohan and Joy have to hit up the front of the house. But Samira asks Dana if Abbot is around because she wants him to write her a rec for a fellowship elective.
She’s late to the game, which Dana notes. But everyone knows Abbot is committed to the cause. It’s going to be a glowing review!
Dana is on fire with her one-liners when someone asks her to read some notations:
“If it’s not in a text with emojis, you kids can’t read for shit.”
So savage. So true.
We have the woman whose leg is missing, and she’s in a lot of pain. Ogilvie almost answers her when she asks if it’s broken… no, honey, it’s GONE!
Robby already knows Ogilvie isn’t SHIT in this situation and hits him up with a: “Keep your fucking mouth shut.”
Ogilvie is freaking out, and you know what? Fair.
In the next room, they’re working on Derek, a dad who fell 20 ft and has a blunt force trauma to the chest. But all he cares about is finding his son.
If people thought a waterslide collapse was a silly plot point, the reality of just how gnarly this is hits home with these patients. The Pitt doesn’t take a 9-1-1 approach with this, no, this is actually terrifying.
Santos and Langdon disagree on Derek’s treatment: Santos wants immediate intervention, while Langdon prefers a triage approach for now.
She feels frustrated when Al-Hashimi backs Langdon up twice during the calls he’s making.
Mohan is annoyed and curses out the fact that her mother is still calling her. She’s also frustrated because people in the hallway are confronting her about wanting to be seen.
She reminds them that she’s not their doctor.
Helen Torres is Mohan’s next patient, and she has a swollen leg. Princess interrupts her to tell her about her mother again, and she snaps at Princess, telling her, “Not now.”
But Mohan is all sweaty and having issues, and both Helen and Joy notice it. Samira takes a moment to get some air, but she’s clutching her stomach and chest. It looks like she’s having a panic attack in the lobby when Joy forces her to get into the chair and wheels her back.
Derek says he and his son were going down the waterslide when the bottom went out. He grabbed Zack’s hand, trying to hold onto him, but his hand slipped, his ring got stuck, his finger was ripped, and he lost his son.
His finger is coming off the bone. Garcia arrives for this case and checks things out.
And Santos is both annoyed by Langdon and Garcia’s banter and by the fact that Langdon asked her a question she felt was too simple and only for med students.
But Al-Hashimi backs Langdon again, clearly annoyed with the disrespect Santos is showing so brazenly.
Santos answers the question and still gets snarky when Langdon compliments her response, but Garcia takes a jab at Santos in the process.
Dana comes in to tell Langdon that Becca is antsy and looking for him. He says he’s on his way, but he gets sidetracked when Joy wheels Mohan in, and he starts treating her.
Back in the limbless case, Park the Shark, the orthopedic surgeon, comes in to check out the amputated leg, and even though Whitaker and Ogilvie did all they were supposed to, Park isn’t making it easy for him with his assessment.
Park assesses the amputated leg and clears it for replantation. The leg will be saved.
Joy interrupts all of that goodness to tell Robby that Mohan may be having a heart attack, and Robby is showing some concern for his neglected first daughter of The Pitt. Her EKG is clear.
Pause for a Cause:
But as Robby is assessing her, all his empathy goes out the window when she starts talking about her mother moving and not having a fellowship lined up.
Robby MOCKS her for having a panic attack and” Mommy Issues.” He reminds everyone that the ED is a shitshow and tells them to get back to work.
The scene is grating and cruel, especially coming from a man who was curled up in the fetal position during a mass shooting on The Pitt Season 1 Episode 14. It is humiliating, as he cavalierly diminishes and degrades her in front of everyone before leaving.
Even Dana is put off by it.
Robby is defensive when he encounters others dealing with mental health issues.
And we resume.
Langdon returns to check on Becca and brings her drink options. She reminds him that he’s been gone longer than promised, but he gives her the antibiotics and meds for her UTI.
She asks him to crush them and put them in her drink, and he does. Becca says Mel will be worried, and he tells her he can’t tell Mel anything unless she permits him.
It’s such a precious scene, but Langdon is on the move again.
Patient Check: Roxie and her kid are curled up in bed together, and she tells her kid she doesn’t want to go but has to. It’s a truly devastating scene.
But her oldest son is waiting outside and doesn’t want to go in. He talks about how unfair it is to McKay when she checks on him, and it’s clear that he feels that if he goes in, it’ll mean it’s really over.
McKay tells him that if he doesn’t go in and say goodbye and tell her that he loves her, he’ll regret it.
Robby treats the leg injury as Whitaker asks about Mohan. Robby again seems insensitive.
Emily, the woman who lost her leg, wakes up and starts panicking when she sees her leg across the room. Robby immediately explains the situation to her and asks for her consent before proceeding.
She agrees. Ironically, the two characters who usually struggle to show sympathy are the ones insisting that Robby put Emily back under anesthesia because it’s taking him a minute…
Robby, if Whigilvie is side-eying you…
There’s more clashing between Santos and Langdon over how to treat Derek. It’s enough that Al-Hashimi tosses in a line that Santos can learn a lot from senior residents, and Langdon snarks off about how happy he is to teach her.
Honestly, fair jab, he’s taken it to the chin, but Santos’s inability to cut the snide remarks out even in front of patients and superiors is a bit much.
The Senior sneakers from the gift shop are now runners, and I love them. Javadi runs Dana’s prescription for nicotine patches, which she gives to Monica even though she “technically shouldn’t,” and poor Javadi seems scandalized by this because her privilege is showing.
Javadi: Isn’t that insurance fraud?
Dana: Throw me in jail. I could use a vacation.
Shamsi comes down to talk to Javadi, scolds her for her errors with the previous patient, who had Garcia livid, and berates Javadi for learning street medicine and for basically disappointing her.
Well, that’s not fun to experience in front of your colleagues. Something McKay notices, and Robby talks to McKay about.
He also wants Dana to call in more doctors since Mohan is down until her lab results come back, and he’s disappointed that her head isn’t in the game. Dana tells him she saw his “pep talk,” and I need SOMEONE to call him out on that bullshit.
We’re back in the most awkward, tense situation ever, where Santos cannot get her gosh-damn attitude in check, where even Derek is noticing all the tension.
She’s snarky and doubling down on her rude comments as Langdon walks her through a procedure. And this time, Garcia flat-out calls her out for lacking decency and decorum.
Yeah, I don’t see them hooking up tonight.
Patient Checks: They have a propane hero whom Joy has to treat. Howard, our obese patient, is still in surgery, and there’s no news yet on his status. The firecracker kid is waiting to go to surgery. Jane Doe doesn’t have a foster home yet.
Langdon asks Dana about Louie’s body, and apparently, he’s still there in the viewing room. Sheesh!
A kid comes in with many injuries and traumas, and Derek thinks it’s his Zack, but it isn’t. They have to figure out what to do with the kid who is headed toward arrest.
Al-Hashimi has her moment to shine by performing a slash trach, a procedure no one else knows. She talks everyone through everything she’s doing, and it’s incredible.
Al-Hashimi is a badass.
The kid’s stats are coming up; his heart rate and CO2 are fine. She admits it’s her first slash-trach, but she used to practice at Stanford.
Garcia has some commentary about the hatchet job, and Al-Hashimi snaps back at her. Honestly, I’m here for this. Garcia always cutting down the ED staff gets annoying.
Ogilvie checks on his English teacher patient, who keeps correcting everything he says. He gives the patient his worn copy of James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son to read.
He admits he didn’t think he’d have that much to do that day and that he’d get a chance to read it.
It’s a fascinating and illuminating book choice for Ogilvie, and I’d love to know more about his interest in it. Also, can he loan it to Whitaker, for reasons?
Robby’s friend Duke, the VIP patient, comes into the lobby, skipping people, and Donnie takes him to the back. But why does it seem like he doesn’t even know why he’s really there?
Anyway, the Mel is returning after her deposition, which was apparently an unprofessional shitshow, and the lawyer was posturing and harder on her than they were on Dr. Ellis. They even called her incompetent.
Poor Mel still seems to be taking this to heart, even when the lawyer tells her it’s a clear money grab and an insurance game.
Mel checks in with Langdon about Becca and is a bit annoyed that he can’t tell her what’s going on because of HIPAA. And Santos dumps all of Mel’s patients back on her after covering them.
Dana updates Langdon that the M.E.’s office is coming to get Louie. He says he wants to make sure Louie gets a proper burial. She reminds him that he can’t make those calls without talking to his wife first, and talks about his sobriety.
He thinks he wants to start a GoFundMe because he at least wants Louie to be laid to rest with dignity. Robby overhears all of this but has little to say when Dana prods him.
But he gets distracted by Duke coming in, and he brings Whitaker in with him.
Duke is a motorcycle engineer who helped Robby build the bike. Robby made Duke come in even though he didn’t plan to, and they have to check his upper airway and find out why he has a sore throat.
We find out that Robby does intend to ride for 12 hours after this shift, which Duke calls stupid and Whitaker finds alarming, too.
Santos catches up with Garcia and wonders if they’re OK. She doesn’t understand why Garcia tore into her in the room with Langdon. And asks whose side Garcia is on. Um, are you 12?
Garcia shuts it down, reminds Santos that she’s not there for chit-chat or rehashing Langdon shit again (sounds like it’s a recurring thing), and tells her to talk things through, squash it, and move on.
She also reminds Santos of a key point: people treat her like a pariah because she doesn’t play well with others.
Santos isn’t the only one getting some hard truths because Al-Hashimi pulls Robby aside and calls him out on his treatment of Samira.
He tries to be dismissive again, but she’s not really having it and calls him out on his lack of basic freaking empathy.
She has truly pulled his card here, and he clearly doesn’t like it. He genuinely seems to think that others should do what he does, bury themselves in work, and pretend that they’re fine.
What do you need to get some basic human empathy back? – Al-Hashimi to Robby
Emma finds Derek’s son, and Dana commends her on her clever moves.
Mel and Langdon head back in to talk to Becca. She seems to really enjoy having so much autonomy and comments on how much she likes Langdon and why she understands that Mel likes him too.
She says she’ll tell Mel what she’s dealing with, and Langdon steps out of the room.
Becca tells Mel about her UTI, and Mel outlines all the ways she can get one, which Becca admits Langdon explained, including that she can get them from having sex.
Then Becca announces that she’s having sex, and poor Mel is shocked, and I’m thoroughly amused.
Becca has a boyfriend named Adam with whom she is having sex with A LOT. Hilarious!
Robby stops in to check on Mohan and gives her an apology, but he also undoes it with his insistence that she focus on her patient and stop feeling sorry for herself. Screw off, Robby.
We end things with McKay injecting Roxie’s last cocktail of meds that will likely allow her to die peacefully, and her husband is there with her, where he wants to be.
Over to you, Pitt Fanatics.
On a scale of 1-10, how irritating were Santos and Robby during this one? Let’s discuss that and more in the comments below!
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