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Season One Episode Seven .. Secrets and Lies

This episode focuses on Richard and his family. Richard’s wife and two of his sons are finishing breakfast. She asked one of the sons, Lucas, to clear his plate, but he starts yelling at her instead. Lucas drops his plate while still yelling. The other two boys look nervous. Richard enters the kitchen and calms Lucas down.

Amy is with Jake at the apartment. He seems happy at work. Both of them run into Michael in the elevator. They both pretend like nothing is going on.

Jake and TJ have a patient with liver issues. Patient Oliver seems happy, and his son Cary says they have tickets to an event, but Jake tells them they need to reschedule. They may have figured out what is wrong with Oliver.

Sonya and Amy visit a patient, but Sonya knows him and panics. Amy sees something is wrong. Sonya has flashbacks and leaves the room, looking for Richard, but he isn’t there and doesn’t answer her call. Meanwhile, Richard is at home talking with Lucas about therapy and controlling his anger. Sonya goes to the office and has more flashbacks about the patient. Nurse Julie brings in lab results to Sonya, and Amy wants to order more tests; and Sonya signs them off.

Jake and TJ talk privately with Oliver’s wife Alexa about his health condition. He has a genetic disease, cystic fibrosis, but their son does not have it. TJ reassures Alexa that the clinic would have informed them if Cary had the disease. Alexa shares that they separated for a time, and upon reconciling, she discovered she was pregnant. She doesn’t want Oliver to know, while Jake believes they should tell him since he will eventually find out.

Sonya goes back to the room. Amy thinks he has hepatitis B. Ravi who is the patient stated he wants to reconnect with Sonya, tries to touch her arm and Sonya freaks out. Sonya leaves and has a flashback of the patient attacking her. Amy comes out to check on Sonya and asked ifshe is okay. He had done something to her, but Sonya makes an excuse.

Richard goes to see Gina, who tells him that Lucas has bipolar and needs to be in the facility. Richard asked if Gina would consult with Lucas and Gina says to bring him in.

Sonya is back on a bed having a flashback of her taking pictures of her attack. Her phone rings. It’s Amy stating Ravi the patient does have hepatitis B and his liver is failing. Amy want Sonya to call in a verbal order for medicine.

Jack is in the room telling Oliver that he needs to transplant. Oliver needs a new pancreas. Alexis states they are not citizens, but Jake answers that it would not be a problem. Cary wants to be his father’s donor, not knowing that Oliver is not his father. TJ is not happy they are lying to Oliver and Kerry.

Amy runs into Richard outside Gina’s office. Richard tells Amy that Lucas is in there seeing Gina because he is having behavior problems. Lucas comes out, Amy goes in and tells Gina that something is wrong with Sonya, and she wants to help her.

Sonya is paged to go to the nursing station to get the medicine she ordered for her patient Ravi. Sonia gets to the medicine and goes into his room to give it to him. Ravi starts talking to her. She gets upset; she starts giving Robbie the medicine. Sonya pours it out, gives him air. He starts to code and Amy comes in and starts trying to save him. He stabilizes. Amy makes Sonya leave the room.

Amy comes to Sonia and she starts explaining what happened. Richard comes in and says he no longer needs him. Amy covers for Sonia. Sonia wants Sonia to stay away from Robbie.

Jake and TJ get the match for Oliver he goes into surgery. Everyone waites for the outcome.

 Amy is was having dinner with Katie and talks to her about being safe and what to do if someone tries to attack her. Katie says that Amy explained everything to her a while ago and she is good. Amy did not remember telling Katie that but is relieved that Katie knows to be safe.

 Oliver makes it through the surgery and Alex says she will explain everything to him when he wakes up. TJ says Oliver came through the surgery and it stable.

Amy calls to check on Sonya and she is not doing well. She gave Sonya an update on Ravi. Amy asked if she ever got any help. Sonya admits she told her mom, but her mom’s said just to sweep it under the rug. Ravi’s father is one of her fathers business partners. Sonya states she is going to turn herself in.

Amy goes to Ravi’s room and takes his finger to open his phone. Amy gives it to Sonya to look through his phone. After scrolling throught the phone, Sonya finds a woman’s names. The woman comes in to see Sonya telling her she may have hepetatis B. Emily figures out who the person is she could. have gotten it from. Sonya ask if Emily had been raped but Emily denies it at first. Emily says his name is Ravi Barr. Sonia tells a woman he raped her too. Sonia tries to get Emily to press charges against Ravi, but Emily is not willing to do that. Finally, Emily agrees to press charges.

Sonya goes to Michael’s office to turn herself in. Sonia turns over the rape kit she had taken five years ago. Michael asked her if everything’s okay and she said now she is. Sonya states she kept the kit in the freezer just in case she would turn it in one day.

TJ watches as Alexis tells Oliver that Cary is not his son. Oliver then explains his side of the story. Oliver had a feeling although he never said anything. Oliver says he will figure out later how to tell Cary.

Ravi wakes up and is handcuffed to his bed. He has read his rights by the police. He knows he attacked Sonya and tried to act like he didn’t. I’m glad Sonya came forward.

Richard is having second thoughts but made the right decision sending Lucas away. Vicki, his wife is trying to talk to him. Richard confesses to Vicky that he killed a patient. Richard says to Vicky that if Amy ever figured it out, he would loose his job.

 Amy gets out of Jake’s truck to go take the exam again. She is in the exam room waiting for the instructor to tell them to start the test . Amy seems excited aand ready to retake the exam again. Now she can move on with her life.

That was a good episode for stressing how important it is for women to report if they are ever attacked. Hopefully, Sonya will get the help she needs to heal.