The comedown is brutal, and fresh faces only highlight how spent everyone else is.
The Pitt Season 2 Episode 13 is an understated hour that focuses on the comedown and lays bare how damaged everyone is. Samira has completely flamed out, Robby has finally snapped, and a death is what completely breaks Ogilvie.
This hour is deceptively quiet and understated, and puts you on edge because of that. It’s tense in these hours right before everything gives out completely, and that’s disquieting and uncomfortable.
Our familiar faces who carried most of the season are at their wits’ end, but a host of guest-stars clocking in adds an extra spark, and inadvertently proves just how much things can change with a simple rotation of characters.
Let’s recap!
Orlando is back after a horrible fall, and it’s stressful knowing that he can’t afford this. It’s also not looking great. Why couldn’t he just stay home?
Ellis asks Mohan about the patient, and Mohan snaps at Ellis. Now, hold on, baby girl, not my girl Ellis. Let’s take a breather.
Shen, always keeping it real, asks around about a card for Robby or cake, because priorities, baby. And he’s bummed out when there’s little fanfare about Robby leaving.
Meanwhile, Santos catches up with Night Shift’s Dr. Cruz, giving him the rundown about ICE arresting Jesse. And Cruz welcomes him back. Whitaker introduces the new intern, Nesley, to Monica, but she’s rude.
Al-Hashimi gave her a warm welcome in Armenian. Monica rolls her eyes at this. I’m so sick of Monica, you guys!
Dana updates the Night Shift about Jesse and what happened with Dana. And mid-conversation about all of that, the computers are back up. But now they have to do charting for the past five hours.
Perlah updates Robby about Jesse. She found out from her brother-in-law, who is a cop, that he’s at a detention facility two hours away. Robby says he’ll let the hospital lawyers know.
They do rounds to update the night shift on what’s going on. One of them they check on is Digby. I love Pitt Jesus so much.
Dana doubles back to see if Digby wants a haircut and shave, and she puts Emma on it.
Mohan is fretting over why Orlando passed out and asks the EMT about it.
Grady comes in wheezing and unable to breathe with his mother, Naomi, and Smooth Cruz is on the case with Shen. This already triggers me, as I vividly remember long nights and days camped out at the Children’s hospital with my younger brother, who was a severe asthmatic.
Worse here is that poor Grady lost his Medicaid, so he doesn’t have all of his meds anymore.
Abbot puts Nesley with McKay despite her attempts not to take on a patient who got lost in the triage fray. He has to head up Admin after everything happened.
And that puts Nesley and McKay with Mrs. Davis, AKA Noah Wyle‘s wife. Seriously, this season has ALL the spouses on here, doesn’t it?
Mrs. David is YELLOW, but she says it’s because she’s been using a bronzing cream, and she also has liver inflammation. Can we get back to why she’s yellow, not bronze? Oy!
Robby is annoyed to learn that Duke got bumped in CT, and he’s been waiting in the hall all this time. Robby is stressed. And he takes it out on Dana. Our Pitt parents are still fighting, and even Monica is taking notice.
Robby, Ellis, and Samira are still working on Orlando, and it’s not going over well. She keeps snapping at everyone. Yeah, Samira has officially reached her breaking point, and it’s curtains.
No, really, it’s definitely curtains.
We’re back to Emma shaving Digby, and he’s complimenting her on her first day, and it’s so cute.
Santos slips on some water on the floor, drops all the files, and now she and Whitaker have a difficult task of lining up all the patients with their charts.
Santos and Whitaker talk about Robby leaving, and these two awkward souls are basically circling the fact that he doesn’t want to move out and she doesn’t want him to.
Why does this remind me of holding conversations with my brothers?
Wait, Mary McCormack! While she’ll always be In Plain Sight‘s Mary Shannon to me, here, she is Linda, the Division Chief, who is in and checking out Orlando.
Neither Samira nor Javadi wants to step in and help Linda. Robby is already put off by Samira completely shutting down, and he’s in disbelief when Javadi gives up an opportunity after saying her shift ended a while ago.
Side Note: Something the kids get right these days is genuinely working towards having a better work/life balance. That’s why Joy clocking out was such a great moment during The Pitt Season 2 Episode 12.
But Robby likely also sees this as a failure on their part, at least with Javadi, not seizing the chance to learn from the DIVISION CHIEF of Neurosurgery.
We’re back to Robby reprimanding Javadi for not stepping up, and he forces her to do it. It’s so paternalistic, and even Javadi is thrown by how forceful he is.
Grady is still struggling to breathe, and Al-Hashimi is in the middle of explaining something to them when she has another one of those episodes. Robby tries to snap her out of it, and she takes off to the bathroom again.
Robby heads back into the room to ask Samira about Al-Hashimi and how long he worked with her before, and how well he knows her. He’s clearly trying to figure out what his deal is, and I’m glad we’re revisiting this story a bit, too.
Javadi is performing this procedure on Orlando, and yeesh, digging into someone’s head like that will not look painful.
Back in the room, Dana talks Digby into getting his hair cut even though he’s initially resistant, and The Pitt surprises me by giving us background on Digby in one fell swoop.
Dana is used to cutting hair because she does it for her husband, Benji. And the last time Digby got a haircut was a few years ago when his daughter got married, and he attended the ceremony at a local church.
His daughter not only lives in the city but also in HIS house. And he lives … wherever. Ummmm, did his kids kick him out and take over his house? WTF?
Javadi may not have wanted to perform this procedure, but she stepped up to the plate and, maybe, after all of this, found her calling in neurosurgery.
McKay enlists Santos’ help with her patient because she’s good at figuring out the weird stuff. We all have our gifts!
They’re finally getting Grady’s breathing under control, and his mother, Naomi, explains to them how she gets his meds and his community program, and that the one Symbicort inhaler is $400, which is painfully, disgustingly true!
There’s nothing more vile than hearing how much other countries pay for the same devices. Anywho…
Javadi is a total rockstar here! She is doing incredibly well with Linda, who is pretty damn badass!
Robby makes Samira step out, but it’s to ask her about Al-Hashimi again and how she behaved at the VA. Samira tells him about how she zoned out earlier during the incident with Baby Jane Doe.
Our health nut, Mrs. Davis, has been taking massive amounts of Turmeric, and that explains her liver issues.
Dana and Emma with Digby totally trigger my allergies. He has a moment of worry that his family won’t recognize him after that haircut, but they reassure him they will.
Emma is just Dana 30 years ago, isn’t she?
Robby tries to prod Al-Hashimi about her spacing out, but she doesn’t bite. And he checks on where his friend is, and his friend’s finally in the scanner.
Mel asks Langdon if they need him for Grady, and hilariously, when Abbot asks her if they need an attending, she says they already have Shen. So, why do they need Langdon, hmm? Surely, that’s a fun little moment for the shippers.
Grady has a collapsed lung, and Cruz performs a procedure to fix it. But the whole thing had Langdon stressed out, and why is Shen just kind of standing there?
Duke is done with the scan, and apparently, he’s fine now because he’s teaching Nurse Vivi how to ride a motorcycle. How did Duke come in and bag a young baddie in just a couple of hours? Gotta love it.
Orlando’s wife comes in, and Samira updates her on what happened. He may or may not wake up; it may take a year before he’s independent, and he may now need to be in a nursing home.
Orlando did all of this to avoid missing a shift and losing money, and now his family is in more dire financial straits, and he’s not there. All this working to stay afloat only to end up here. It’s heartbreaking.
Mel heads into the doctor’s lounge to check on Langdon, and he opens up to her about wondering if he should even be there. He blames himself for intubating Grady and nearly causing a pneumothorax.
She opens up to him about how her deposition made her feel. She also tells him that, with Robby leaving, she doesn’t want him gone and that “that which does not kill me makes me stronger.”
Another score for Mel/Langdon Fanatics.
Patient Check: Austin Greene, the English teacher whom Ogilvie headed into surgery with, along with Shamsi, died on the table nearly an hour before.
Apparently, he didn’t share all his medical information with them. He was supposed to come back every six months, but he didn’t tell Ogilvie. Or, Santos says that Ogilvie didn’t ask the right questions.
Either way, where is Ogilvie? He probably took that one HARD.
Nelsey hits up Whitaker about assistance on a case with a teenager with some challenging piercings.
And McKay and Santos talk about Mrs. Davis, the health nut, bringing out all of Santos’ snark and that slight disdain she has for stupid people who keep them in business. Even McKay is thrown.
Santos: I just think, what’s the stupidest thing that a person could have done? Then assume they did it.
Also, Santos taking a dig at the CDC being a medical toxic waste site made me chuckle.
Eemma is out of the building! She bids everyone farewell at Dana’s request, even though Monica comments that Emma should stick around to pitch in. Did I mention I can’t stand Monica?
Back to one of the gazillion reasons Robby is stressed. He can’t find Duke’s radiology results. Monica offers to track them down, and I’m just grateful to have her offscreen again.
Robby starts talking about Orlando and how he may have attempted suicide because of all his debt, when Dana has to cut him off before Mrs. Diaz, Orlando’s wife, hears him. Dammit, Robby!
Septum girl was amusing. But that’s whatever, because apparently Duke’s results are NOT good, and Robby has to consider what he intends to do next.
And Emma comes in to tell everyone that Ogilvie is outside in the ambulance bay, covered in blood and completely checked out! Poor kid.
Whitaker, the Empath, is up. He goes to check on him, and Ogilvie looks like he’s been through the wringer.
Grady is doing better, and his mother explains how they lost their Medicaid, the hassle of losing it, not being able to reenroll, and how her income fluctuates too much.
Grady thanks Langdon because he was very scared.
Noelle is back to explain to Orlando’s wife the next steps for care, and Samira can see that his wife isn’t up to it, but Noelle pushes anyway.
Noelle also stops by to talk to Robby. She tells him that she hopes his “vision quest” is not about him running away from her. He reassures her that it isn’t the case.
Abbot interrupts them, walking by and mirroring a similar moment of witnessing an intimate scene, as was the case with Mohabbot during The Pitt Season 2 Episode 7.
Whitaker talks to Ogilvie about his first loss in the ED. HE tells him that people die, and they never get used to it, and they try to find balance.
But Ogilvie tells Whitaker that he can’t take another day like that day and that primary or peds may be better. And Whitaker explains why this job means so much to him and why ED matters.
The Pitt is having fun with the parallels between Whitaker and Robby.
Whitaker sends Ogilvie home.
He’s also the one to tell Samira about Greene because she didn’t know, and it seems like her final straw for the day. But at least after talking to an impressive Cruz, she learned about a new area she could focus on, maybe, if things weren’t so competitive.
Robby is spiraling over Duke, and Dana sends him to take a walk, but then she catches up to him to lay into him. She’s on his ass again about the way he’s treated Samira and McKay all day, as well as that reckless move of talking about a patient’s possible suicide publicly.
She tells him he needs a break and brings up that she normally gives her kids a timeout when they act like this, prompting a nice little nugget about how Robby’s mom bailed on him.
Ohhhh, the trauma. It always comes back, doesn’t it?
Robby still keeps saying it’s too much he has to wrap up before he can go, like telling Duke about his prognosis, especially after talking to the doctor who read his results and basically said he’s a ticking time bomb but has roughly a week before he can do something about it.
He tells Dana that he’s worried about all the people he cares about, whether Langdon will relapse, Samira will flame out, Javadi will give up doing what she’s good at, and Whitaker will take care of his stuff.
He says he’s worried about whether Al-Hashimi can run things and whether Dana can, given the whole syringe thing.
Dana: We’ll all manage until you come back. We always do.
Robby: Yeah, what if I don’t come back?
And there it is. Robby finally voiced out loud the thing everyone has been tiptoeing around all shift.
Robby is trying to get his ducks in a row because he doesn’t plan on coming back. But there is no guarantee that everything is good. Nothing will always be good.
Hell, Orlando is proof of that. He also just caused his loved ones more harm and financial pain. Maybe Robby is realizing that, but recognizing that and changing is harder than it seems.
There’s an uneasiness to this episode. And why has Abbot been gone so long talking to admin? The intensity is right beneath the surface in this hour, and I’m stressed.
Over to you, Pitt Fanatics. Surely, you have some thoughts, and I have my snacks, so I’ll see you below.
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