Like I mentioned earlier, in season 1 Shen was only a month or two out of residency. So now he’s still under a year as an attending. I have no idea how long is normal to hand over an entire shift to a new attending. Probably not nearly as long as it should be.
There’s a rumor that Santos stole the scalpel and slashed the tires to Robby’s bike.
There’s a general class of rumors that can be described as Something’s Going to Happen to Dr Robby’s Motorcycle. They’re based broadly on teasing out parts of the preview of this week’s Episode 14.
Among others:
- Dr Santos stole a scalpel earlier in the season, and she’s going to slash the tires
- Something’s going to crash into the parked motorcycle and prevent Dr Robby from taking off right after his shift
- Duke is going to go to the motorcycle and pull off a spark plug or something to render it unable to function
Santos taking the scalpel is more a concern of her potentially relapsing to cutting, shown on her thighs earlier.
Yeah, Santos seems completely unaware of Robby’s issues, so I don’t see any reason for her to interfere with Robby’s trip.
I think Duke has more emotionally invested in his friend than the rest of the staff. Only an idiot would take off on a motorcycle trip right after a 12 hour shift, he said.
Welp. Duke’s got Robbie’s bike to himself for a spell. He’s got his tools. He’s got Robbie’s blessing to “work on Bonnie”.
Dana’s barely keeping it together. A little surprised she and Duke haven’t gotten around to chatting. Maybe next episode she’ll go out for some air in the ambulance bay/bike repair shop.
Who the hell has Huckleberry’s badge? Not Langdon scoring drugs again, right?
No, I think they are just doing a red herring on that. They set it up well with Langdon making shifty eyes a little after he came out of the bathroom.
He wouldn’t be so eager to go get drug tested if he had just done drugs.
I think people here were speculating that Robby didn’t report Langdon’s drug abuse to management, but if Langdon is subject to regular testing, management is aware but may be treating it as a private matter between him and human resources.
I don’t think that’s it. He was allowed to leave his residency and come back. There’s no way that could’ve happened without management, knowing about it and what it was for. I think it’s clear. He did exactly what Robbie told him to do at the end of the first season, report himself and get help. What Robbie didn’t do was turn him in for stealing medication. That’s a separate issue.
It was clear Robbie reported the drug abuse. Everyone knew he was in rehab.
What he did not report was that Langdon was stealing drugs. That would have cost him his license.
I can see the value in him not losing his license.
BTW, I thought the damage to Robbie’s motorcycle would be enough to make it unrideable so he’d have to rethink his idiotic plan to start a long ride immediately after a twelve-hour shift. (Why not go home and start fresh in the morning?)
And the tug-of-war injury reminded me that injuries like that (or worse) can occur in that sport.
Robbie’s bike is not out of the woods yet. Not while Duke is wielding a wrench and a conscience.
EDIT: And that ambulance just clipped the bike next to Robbie’s and started a small domino effect. No worse that if someone just pushed his bike over.
Unless he has some amazing sleight of hand I don’t see how. Just rewatched the end of the last episode and he has it when talking to Mohan.
Actually, I was wrong. He has it when he’s getting in the ambulance with Ogilvie, and he doesn’t have it when he comes back in. So the badge went for a ride.
Random thoughts.
What the heck is a personal vehicle, Robby’s Bonny, doing being parked in the ambulance emergency driveway anyway? I don’t care that you are head of department. Personal vehicles don’t belong there.
Santos pocketing the scalpel - reminds me of the character in Slow Horses who was clean but held on to drugs to take out and look at and make the decision to not use ?
Al-Hashimi sharing her medical condition with Robby at end of shift? Other than for plot needs, why?
Langdon’s cervical unifacet reduction? New level of “see one do one teach one” (classic residency mantra). Not sure it should be celebrated as “brass balls”? A resident, first day back from a drug of abuse related leave of absence, whose experience with the procedure was observing one done a fair ways back, doing that? Pushed to do it by his department chair when he hesitated. Yes in the story he possibly saved the man from quadriplegia, but in reality the man could have ended up as a quadriplegic, precisely because he understandably did it wrong, with neurosurg, much more qualified, a few minutes away, Boy that would be a fun case for the hospital to defend!
Robby has nothing to live for outside of the meaning he has in the ED. Maybe he should pay more attention to the woman who is clearly attached to him and gain some meaning doing things with and for her? What a dis to her.
Liked that Dr. King is trying to find life and fun outside of the ED and taking care of her having lots of great sex sister.