Tonight on CBS Code Black airs with an all new Wednesday October 7, season 1 episode 2 called, “We Plug Holes,” and we have your weekly recap below! On tonight’s episode, Christa (Bonnie Somerville) saves a woman’s life and then pleads with Neal (Raza Jaffrey) to perform a surgery that will save the patient’s reproductive future.
For those of you who don’t know, Code Black is about Doctors and nurses fight to save lives in the country’s busiest ER.
On the last episode, Doctors and nurses fought to save lives in the country’s busiest ER. In the opener, four new first-year residents are immediately put to work by the ER’s tough-minded residency director Dr. Leanne Rorish. Did you watch the last episode? If you missed it, we have a full and detailed recap right here for you.
On tonight’s episode as per the CBS synopsis, “Christa saves a woman’s life and then pleads with Neal to perform a surgery that will save the patient’s reproductive future. Meanwhile, Mario gets into a fight with a patient after he delivers a diagnosis that could end the man’s hockey career.”
This is definitely one series that you don’t want to miss. Don’t forget to stay tuned to Celeb Dirty Laundry where we will be live blogging the season 1 episode 2 of Black Code.
RECAP:
The average hospital experiences the rare code black at least five terms a year. Yet the Angels Memorial Hospital based in LA is in a league of its own. They generally go through a code black up to 300 times in a year. So what the first year residents should have been gearing up was their first Saturday shift but instead they were gossiping.
It seems the big mystery surrounding the sudden change in Rorish’s personality is that she apparently lost her family in a horrific accident. No one had survived the ordeal and so Rorish has no one left. But both Christa and Pineda didn’t want to continue talking about the subject. They felt something like that should remain personal. And they told the guys to drops it.
However that wasn’t the first time that Mario had been called out on his bedside manner and it wasn’t the last. Rorish had later personally chosen him out of all the residents to handle their VIP. A hockey player by the name of Brian Wellbourne had been brought in after passing out. And so it was Mario that was stuck with Brian who proved to be a nuisance.
Brian didn’t want to admit to passing out and barely acknowledged his doctor’s authority. Thus getting him to follow through on a check-up was an uphill battle. And getting him to accept diagnosis almost caused a fight there in the ER.
Brian was having seizures. Only if he accepted that then meant he would have to give up hockey. Which he didn’t want to do. So he called in the team’s doctor and together they tried to bully Mario to changing his recorded diagnosis. And when Mario refused to do something so unethical, Brian got into his face and shoved him.
Yet Rorish wasn’t having that. She quickly stepped in and asked her resident to step outside for a breather. And then she took charge when Brian began to have a seizure not long after his fight. So there was no way the team doctor could keep pretending.
Brian was sick and a scan showed that he suffered major damage because of his seizures. Meaning he was literally risking his life to play hockey and another hit to the head was most likely going to kill him. And funnily enough it was that piece of information that finally made Brian come to his senses.
Rorish had given the job of passing on the news to Mario and Mario, remembering what Jesse told him, decided to break the news gently. He told Brian about his condition and then he told the other man that it was never too late to start on another profession. After all, Christa became a doctor at forty.
Though Christa’s story is a tad different. Her son had gotten sick and, after he died, her husband suddenly decided to leave her. So that’s why Christa ended up going back to school and why she was so protective of Rorish’s own experience.
But Christa let her pass dictate her actions. A patient came in complaining about a stomach pain and unfortunately it was the patient’s ovary that was causing so much problems. She needed surgery and if she didn’t get it then she was at risk of losing said ovary. And Christa couldn’t allow that to happen.
The patient told her that her husband had died. They had been together since they were in third grade and a couple of years ago he was diagnosed with lymphoma. So the couple froze his sperm so that they could still have the family they always wanted.
And though the husband has passed, his wife still wants to use the sperm to have a baby. Hence she needed her ovary and Christa didn’t want to let a lack of resources be the thing that stops her from getting that family.
So she approached Taylor who runs the ER. She told him about her case and he said it wasn’t his problem. By that point the hospital was at Code Red and the night wasn’t over and so if Taylor sounded dismissive – he didn’t mean anything by it. Just to him, as long as the patient wasn’t at risk of dying then he wasn’t going to stretch their already limited resources for one single person. But Christa couldn’t drop it. She then went to Hudson and she somehow convinced him to reenter the operating room in order to save her patient’s ovary.
Yet Rorish didn’t approve of Christa’s attachment much less Christa bring up Rorish’s own loss to justify why she wanted help a woman keep the dream of her husband’s child. Rorish even snapped at Christa when she did that.
But in the end she decided to let the surgery go ahead. She told Hudson not to ask Taylor because it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than it was for permission. And she turned blind eye while they ignored hospital rules.
And really that brought her and Christa closer.
She saw Christa go an extra mile for her patient but watched as Pineda and Angus ignore a dire situation. The residents had an idea about what their patient was suffering however they didn’t run the tests. They said they needed proof rather than a feeling only for them to be right about their patient’s initial diagnosis.
So they wounded up getting a lecture tonight but it looks like Rorish taught them a little something about using their instincts.
And at the end of their shift, Rorish brought a patient by the name of Jake Willis who miraculously survived thanks to everyone on the floor. Jake had been in an accident and for a second there it didn’t look like he would make it. But he did and the fact he’ll soon be able to go home to his family is something Rorish wanted all of her residents to think about.
She said the moment they begin thinking they could do more and the patient could still be saved is when they become doctors.
