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Season One Episode Three – Day One

Flashback. Any is looking on a board at all the vitals for each patient in their care. One patient’s blood pressure is dropping. Amy runs to the room only to find out he had been moved. TJ is getting ready to perform a procedure but did not notice the patient’s vitals. Amy gets there in time. Jake comes in to check on TJ. Amy goes on to tell Jake that maybe he should make sure his patients are okay before going home.

Richard meets with the doctors to inform them that Amy is coming back to work that day. New protocol in place where Amy is not allowed to see patients alone; she is to observe with one of them. Amy cannot consult with patients or make diagnosis. Of course, Sonya has something to say about that.

When Amy gets to the hospital that day, everyone is silently staring at her. Amy meets with Michael and Gina first to go over the rules she will have to follow. Amy is shocked she is starting back as a med student, but she will take what she can get for now. Gina informs Amy that she wants to monitor her brain activity a few weeks longer. And Amy has to retake the boards. Amy says she understands and will not make Michael look bad.

Richard is on the phone with his lawyer and is worried about what Amy could start remembering, especially the pending autopsy report. If Amy starts to remember, Richard could be in big trouble. The lawyer goes on to tell Richard to make sure Amy fails. I knew he was up to no good.

Amy goes to Richard’s office and he gives a few of his rules and hands her scrubs to wear. Richard tells her that she will be observing Sonya for the day. Richard also tells her that her belongings from the office are in a box on the table for her to take with her later. Amy agrees to get the box later.

Amy changes into the scrubs and goes to the nurse’s desk to let them know she would be observing Sonya that day. Jake overhears her and says no, she will be observing TJ. Liz gives her the room number where TJ is with a patient. Amy gets to the room and tells TJ she will be with him. TJ is talking to the patient about his condition as wife looks on. After Evan gives his symptoms and TJ examines him, Amy looks concerned and ask a few questions herself. Amy gets TJ out of the room and tells him they need to get the wife out of the room so they can get the truth from Evan.

Flashback. Amy comes in to check on a patient and questions the med students on what procedures they need to perform. Amy ask TJ to check the patient and give his assessment. TJ does not answer the corrections correctly at first. After pressure from Amy, TJ gets it right. Before leaving, Amy looks at Jake and tells him to make sure TJ does not screw it up.

TJ agrees with Amy’s plan and they go back into the room to let the wife know that it will take over four hours to get test done on Evan. The wife agrees to leave and come back later. With Evan alone, Amy starts to ask him a lot of questions. Evan is not telling them anything and gets defensive.

Sonya and Jake go into the room of an elderly couple, Dante and Ruby. They are talking to the couple and found out they have been married 59 years. Jake breaks the news to Dante that he had a drop in his blood sugar and will be have to stay in the hospital one more night. Dante complains about his stomach hurting and Jake has Sonya to run more test to see what’s wrong.

TJ receives Evan’s test results, which show no alcohol in his system. Despite this, Amy remains convinced he has been drinking and worries about liver failure. While waiting for more results, Amy struggles to remember her email password on her work computer. TJ gets the results, and Amy offers a suggestion for TJ’s next steps.

Sonya pushes Dante in a wheelchair taking him to get more test done. Dante mentions that Sonya and Jake make a good team; hinting they were a couple. Ruby jokes with Sonya who admits nothing is going on between the two of them. While Jake is waiting on Dante’s results, Richard comes in the room where is talking to Sonya. Richard ask Sonya how it was going with Amy and Sonya has no idea what his talking about. Richard goes on to say that Amy was supposed to be observing her for the day and Sonya has no clue. Jake ask Sonya to leave the room. Jake confronts Richard on him trying to set up Amy to fail.

Flashback. Amy is monitoring TJ on a procedue he is doing. Amy scolls TJ on what hs is doing. Jake gives TJ encouragement. TJ performs the procedure with no mistakes. Amy leaves without telling TJ he did good.

Jake is talking to Dante and Ruby. Sonya comes in with test results stating that Dante will need surgery. Jake gives Dante the risk of them doing surgery. Dante refuses to do the surgery but Ruby talks him into it.

Amy is looking at more of Evan’s test results. Richard sees TJ in the hall and ask him how things were going with Amy. TJ says everything is fine. TJ gives Richard and update on Evan’s progress. TJ gets a page and goes the the nurse’s station. They tell him that Evan left the hospital. TJ calls him on the phone to let him know he needs to come back because he has liver failure.

Richard calls TJ and Amy with Jake in a meeting to discuss Evan. Richard tells TJ he should have been more forceful with Evan letting him know his condition. Richards says TJ should not have let Amy influence him. Micheal comes in the room and Richard gives him an update. Richard says Amy was wrong to diagnose, reckless, and violated protocol. Amy says it was true. Richard turns to Jake and tell es him next time not to second guess his decisions. Evan collapsed and was later found behind a dumpster in the parking lot.

Flashback. Jake comes into Amy’s office to discuss training. Jake does not think they will get anywhere with her being a drill sergeant. Jake ask if Amy would step back and let him do the job he was hired to do.

Evan is not doing well and they are waiting on more test to come back. Richard comes to report they will do more antibiotics to see if they works. Amy apologies to TJ. Micheal tells Amy to go home. Amy looks at TJ and he turns away. Amy leaves.

Amy goes home. Amy checks Evans scans again and call Richard. Amy thinks it’s an environmental exposure. Amy suggest that when Evan wakes up to ask him where he had been the day before. Richard text Amy later that she was right. Evan got laid off two months ago and was doing odd jobs in a warehouse. Amy goes to the warehouse where Evan had been working to found out what the conditions were. Amy looks around and comes across a big animal trap. Evan had been handling dead rats. Amy calls TJ to have Evan put on different meds.

Jake goes to check on Dante and Ruby and they are laying on his bed. Dante tries to wake up Ruby but she does not move. Jake gets concerned and has Dante moved off the bed so he can exam her. Jake tries everything but Ruby is dead.

Amy goes in to sit with Evan and his wife while she talks. Evan begins to cough and TJ comes in to take the ventilator out. Evan starts breathing on his own. Evan is off to a full recovery.

Flashback. Amy walks in to see Jake still at the hospital. They exchange a few words about why they are both still there. Amy learns Jake is separated from his wife. Amy is there late because she fights with her daughter all the time. Amy is eating a candy bar for dinner and Jake offers her some of his food. Jake looks at her laptop and her password is taped to it. Amy says it was her sons favorite stuffed toy. Jake apologizes for bringing it up.

Dante is in his room packing up to leave the hospital. Jake walks in and ask him what his was doing since Dante was due to have surgery that day. Dante says he is not having surgery. There was no point in it since Ruby was gone. Jake leaves and goes to a lobby area to think. Sonya comes up to check on Jake. Sonya apologized for not being a better friend.

Richard calls Amy in to let her know how impressed he was that she drove all the way to the warehouse where Evan worked. Amy thanks him for listening to her. Richard makes the comment that Amy has overwhelming support from Michael and that the neosurgion was her best friend. Amy then says that she can’t remember what she did to him but she was sorry. Richard says he appreciates what she said. Amy gets her box and leaves. Richard looks down at the phone and turns the recording off. Look at sneaky Richard.

Amy is still at the hospital and text Micheal to let him know that everything turned out good that day. Micheal is in his office and text back a thumbs ups. Amy then text to see if he had left yet. Michael said he was almost home. Michael is lying; and why?

Jake comes by and sees Amy still in one of the offices and ask her why she was still there. Amy says she is still trying to get in her emails and she does not remember what the password is. Jake gives her a password to try. Amy is shocked. Jake says she was not good at hiding what her password was. Amy goes on to say that it was her son’s favorite stuffed animal. Jake says he didn’t know that. Amy says was locked out but would try it the next day.

On the elevator, Gina ask Amy how her day was. Amy says she knows wha her email password is and that Jake told her. At home, Amy waits for midnight to try the password. When she hits enter, all her emails pop up.

Now she will finally see what was going on before she had the accident. She has thousands of emails and will take a minute for her to come across some things. I’m just happy she can start to put pieces together.