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I was happy to say that the treatment I'd found for Dr. Cox was working, and

he was finally feeling like himself again.

You're a huge disappointment.

Breathe till your eyes don't well, and confidence.

You can say any mean thing you want to me, I'm just glad you have the energy to

say it. Well, Dave, half the reason I gave you this job was so that you'd find

someone to drive you as crazy as you drove me. Hell, Barbie found someone.

This is modular pressure.

Shiggity. Check out Montel over here. Remember, Dishana.

We spin into our gown to stay sterile and stylish. Five, six, seven, eight.

Tens across the board.

Yours was so much better. Oh, thank you.

Even the tod has a minty.

Not bad, but a little stiff.

You know it's a lot of stiff?

Shh, not yet.

Take it slow.

I just haven't had time to focus on one person. I'm so swamped. I would need,

like, four of me.

I know just what we'd do.

In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate,

equally important groups.

These are their stories.

Not connecting

with anyone is the surest path to becoming a soulless administrator.

You go ahead and find your special someone, but for the love of God, do it

before your mentor eggs shrivel up and die inside your body.

Dr. Cox was right.

I'm the doctor I am today because of him.

I need to take someone under my wing. But who?

Hey, Dr. D.

I'd love to get some advice from you, both personal and professional. Not now,

Dustin.

Grant Summers, the new chief resident.

I hadn't really gotten to know him yet, but everyone seemed to love him. I'm

still not totally sold on the nicknames, but with you, I'm working with Blake

Tahoe, Philly Cheese Blake.

You look like a one-man party.

I'm going Wake and Blake.

Asher, do you run?

Not really.

There goes Asher Dasher.

Oh, have you ever exposed yourself on the subway, Asher Flasher? I will learn

to run. Sorry, dude. I'm still getting my bearings around here. I don't even

know where the bathroom is.

Yesterday, I just peed in a cup and gave it to the lab.

Turns out I'm pre-diabetic.

Oh. It's quite the roller coaster.

All right. Here's a guy who needs me. An insecure young leader just trying to

make a difference.

I see so much of myself in him. Sometimes in a hospital. What's right?

Move, Dustin.

I can't do this all on my own. No, I know.

I'm no Superman.

I'm no Superman.

The icebreaker was simple. Grant loves nicknames, and I'm amazing at them. What

up, G-Spot?

Sorry, nicknames are hard. Let's just sit in it.

Here we are. Hey, Grant, why don't you round with me today? I can show you the

ropes. Round with the chief of medicine? It'd be an honor.

The honor would be all mine.

Okay, he let you in. Give his shoulder a mentoring squeeze.

But man, look at those cheeks.

I'm so sorry. With these bad boys?

Practically asked them for it. Maybe I should call you the cheek resident.

Maybe you should let go. Yeah, you're probably right. Yep. Let's go raw dog

some rounds. Are you okay? I'm not sure.

Dr. Turk, can I please pick the next song?

Yeah, as long as it's from my playlist.

Oh, great. Nothing but songs from before I was born.

They're called classics.

You got to earn the right to DJ in my OR, Deshada.

Closing. Maybe I need more light.

Oh, okay. Let me just cut a hole in the ceiling so I can let in the sun.

Or you can bring your reading glasses like I told you. And I told you I only

need those glasses to read the rules on the back of my scratch-off. Hey, I got

this. I've been practicing mine also.

Okay, go ahead.

Karate chop. Claw.

Square knot. Boom.

Did she do it right? I can't see.

I'm blinded by all your lights.

Sorry, I don't mean to interrupt, but there's something about the red in that

blood and the green in your eyes. It makes me want to spend Christmas in

London with you. Can we go to Hogwarts?

It doesn't exist, I don't think, but I'll try. I'll do my best.

Okay.

Dobby likes you. Stop!

Tosh, I think you've got enough blood.

Mr. Pataki?

Thank you, Mr. Pataki. Have some juice.

I'm so sorry. I did not mean to do that. It will not happen again. I was

distracted. Look, there's always going to be some boy you're sleeping with that

nobody thinks is right for you. Wait, what?

Wait, what? What? What?

Tosh, you're halfway through your intern year. You have to start thinking about

your specialty.

I am. It's just such a big commitment. It's like how I almost married my high

school boyfriend, Jeff, and now he's doing five years for squatting in his

grandma's senior living facility.

It's like, what if I pick oncology, and oncology is Jeff?

I had a Jeff, too. Craig, the dirt bike king of Greenwich, Connecticut. Oh, my

God, we were so in love. And he was so hot until he tried to jump that quarry.

The helmet saved his head, but the rest of him was nowhere to be found.

I guess what I'm trying to say here, Tosh, is let's get your career helmet.

Mr. Pataki, I'll take that.

Ah, the admissions hallway.

Or as I like to call it, the hall of legends.

Whoa, check you out. Oh, that.

Sometimes I forget I even did that silly old thing.

That's really, really good.

If I had dead eyes. Where is the twinkle?

Did you not learn to paint a twinkle?

None of these have any twinkle. Give me a brush.

I'll do it myself in the bathroom mirror.

That is good twinkle.

And is this the evil billionaire who owns this place?

Oh, no, no, no. That's Dr. Cox. He's my old mentor. Yeah, he has microscopic

polyangitis, but he's in full remission. You should see how he looks at me now.

Oh. Hello, Dr. Cox. That's his morning scowl. This is Grant. As his grand

mentor, would you like him to call you Grandpop, Pappy, or Poppop? No, I'm not

going to. I'm calling him Dr. Cox. Poppop it is. I was just telling Grant

you're feeling better. I am indeed, except for this one little side effect.

Your bill is $35,000?

That's per infusion, oldie. And since I still have 12 infusions left, I am going

to choose death and do.

You may not come to the funeral. Grant, you may come. You seem cool.

No, we are not fist-bumping bad things. I will figure this out. Just stick

around. Stick around?

You understand, every time I try to walk out those doors, I get sucked back in

like it's some sort of fluorescent lit purgatory. Do you ever say one sentence

and then stop?

No, he doesn't, and now you've angered him. Let's walk away or you'll lose your

funeral invite and I'm your plus one.

To figure out Dr. Cox's insurance problem, I'd need a little help. Hey,

Francois, does Barbara in admin still have a huge crush on you?

Oh, yes, she does.

Her gaydar is set to church mode. Okay, great. I want to try and appeal Dr.

Cox's insurance denial, and I want you to convince Barbara to expedite it.

Nurse Dubois, you do not have to do anything you don't want to do.

Besides, it's never going to work.

Oh, baby.

It's going to work.

Kiss me on the mouth, you beautiful bald bastard.

Yo, Babs.

Let me holler at you real quick.

Hey, girl.

Easy.

Don't overstraight.

Boom! Don't need glasses to see that one.

What is that about?

Because I'm going to wear my glasses in the OR. This one thinks she's running

laps around me. Just wear your glasses, dude. Father, time comes for all of us.

You got some old-ass eyes, boy.

Let me guess. My father times Flavor Flav. False. It was an older white

gentleman not wearing a clock around his neck.

Deshauna, come with me. I'm about to derail the D-train.

Oh.

Okay, I made a list of specialties.

Super hard to get a fellowship these days, right?

But they always need women in dermatology, OB, pediatrics. Okay, let

me stop you right there. I do not want you to feel forced into some female

specialty. I mean, yes, peds is a noble profession, but I take care of enough

kids at home.

One, you can join the dermo divas. It's easy money and all the fillers and Botox

you could want.

Oh, wait, Slay. No, Slay. Tosh, I did Botox once. Do not go down that road.

Try telling a patient, I'm so sorry your cancer's back with frozen bitch face.

Okay, then no lady stuff.

Urology. You could, but it's boring and you'd be with those guys.

They kind of look like... Penises?

Yeah.

Look, Tash, what are you excited about?

I had an endocrinology case the other day that was really fascinating.

That's great. I loved endo too. And I'm super tight with the head of the

department, Dr. Buckley. Here, give him a call.

Thank you.

Cox's insurance denied the appeal. Damn it. Also, Dubois needs to leave early.

Barbara's taking him to P.F. Chang's. P.F. Chang's? That's the horniest

restaurant in town. I know.

It's okay. He'll do what needs to be done.

And so will we.

Lead and I shall follow, my captain.

Dr. Cox and I used to figure out insurance workarounds all the time.

What's a workaround when insurance refuses to cover someone as an

outpatient?

We admit him.

Yet in here, insurance has to cover the treatment.

But... Dr. Cox has no reason to be admitted.

That's where you come in.

I'm gonna need a favor, Mr. Chief Resident.

Anything for you, boss man. I need you to admit Dr. Cox.

Nope, can't do that. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, hey, hey.

Hey, hey, hey. No, that was a little quick. We're just spitballing.

We're just a mentor and a mentee shooting the S-word, okay?

We're just kind of free-flowing.

It's like jazz.

Okay. You have the trumpet.

I'm the trombone. Loosen your shoulders. All right. Shake it out. Here comes my

trombone thing. Ready? I say something like, hey, man, I need you to admit Dr.

Cox. And you hit me with a little... No, I cannot do that. It's super illegal.

And here it was.

The moment I do for Grant what Dr. Cox did for me.

Look, Grant, I think we all come in here thinking we know what's right and what's

wrong.

And then we realize we're working in a completely broken system.

So if occasionally we have to put ourselves on the line, we do it.

Wow.

Yeah. There it is. Now you can touch his shoulder. You've earned it.

Not cheek, not cheek. Back to shoulder.

Mm, shoulder.

Okay, first one to 20 bananas using a running suture wins.

Forgive me, Father, for what I'm about to do to this intern, for she knows not

what she's unleashed. Don't worry about them glasses, Pops.

You gonna feel this win. Okay.

Mimi, hit it!

Mimi!

I meant the phone.

Whatever.

Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.

Boom. One easy. Let's go with the next one.

I'm gonna do it with my eyes closed.

Oh!

Unfortunately, like they say, Father Time comes for everyone.

Your hands looking a little shaky there, Pops.

Not at all. I need more light.

Boom! Done.

This is my house now.

Don't need glasses to see that.

Asher, quick medical question.

Is this a real question or one of your wonderful moments of whimsy?

I think I'm having an allergic reaction.

Ah, whimsy it is.

Oh, no.

My throat's closing up.

Dr. Tosh?

I'm Dr. Gould, pediatrics.

Have you picked your specialty yet?

Because I think you have the bedside manner our young patients would

appreciate. I do?

Absolutely.

Here's my card. Thank you, Dr. Gould, but unfortunately Dr. Tosh is very

passionate about endocrinology.

Yeah, I'm really into glands.

Children have glands.

I like them big. Huge.

Thanks anyway.

I have a mentee now.

Grant. We're like two cool jazz cats, jazzing some riffs together.

I don't know. Everything I know about jazz I learned from watching La La Land.

I get it. I feel like I really helped guide Tosh on her path to endocrinology.

Is it a bike path?

What's a one-wheeled fridge?

Dr. Dorian, a moment. Grant Summers has reported you. He says you tried to

jeopardize his career.

What? Grant Summers has... No, I heard you. I just can't believe it.

I never should have trusted those cheeks.

You went to Sibi and told on me? You could have just come to me. First of

all... Hello.

Second of all, it's not a big deal. It wasn't about you. It's more about the

insurance fraud you wanted me to commit under the guise of some kind of jazz

improv. I think you're oversimplifying this. Dr. Cox is one of the most

important people in my life. I totally hear you.

Okay. And maybe that's how they did things in the 1980s when everyone was

doing blow off of each other's trans amps. Maybe I should take my career for

a friend of yours who seems to hate you.

He doesn't hate me.

That's just how he is on the outside.

I have been inside of him.

Why does the pediatric ward at every hospital look like Satan's playhouse?

I do not go in there without my Bible.

Oh, my God.

Angie.

Out of your face.

Oh, Dr. Reed, what brings you in?

I asked you nicely to back off Dr. Tosh.

She's got bigger plans than peds.

So you think helping sick kids is beneath her? Oh, take off your halo,

Steffi. Look, Dr. Tosh is young and insecure, and she is swayed by anyone

who shows her even the slightest bit of attention, whether it's her boyfriend or

you. Good to know that's what you think of me.

Back on the stick.

Sam, I'm not trying to be harsh, but these fellowships are incredibly

competitive and you cannot get distracted. I'm not distracted. I'm just

not sure I want to do what you want me to do.

I'm just trying stuff out.

Trying stuff out? This isn't college where you have a couple glasses of wine

and kiss someone with a bajingo. Grow up. Me grow up? Say vagina.

There are children here.

Actually, we do encourage the children to use the correct anatomical terms.

Well, this is a madhouse.

There he is.

As chief, I had to do the mature thing.

Let Grant know he was dead to me. Oh, hey, Blake.

I've been thinking, I'd really like to mentor you.

Oh, wow.

I'm so flattered. But, you know, what we have is working for me. I'd hate to

screw that up.

Oh, really? Because, you know, last week when we were intubating that guy, I

thought we really connected. I know you felt that, too.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, we had fun.

But, uh, that's all that was.

Hey, you're going to make some intern really happy someday.

I think I just got friend-zoned by an intern.

Well, at least Grant didn't see it.

What's up?

Barbie, I don't want to be bothered.

I get why you left. This whole generation of interns is impossible,

right? Here's what we're going to do.

You're going to go ahead and tell me your problem, and if I can solve it,

maybe I'll finally be able to cross over.

I have tried so hard to help Tosh. She's not taking any advice. Now she's going

to blow her whole future. I'm going to go ahead and stop you right there.

Because this isn't about Tosh's future. This is about your past.

Oh, damn it.

Nothing. God didn't take me.

What do you mean?

My past.

Oh, come on, Barbie. You were the most ambitious intern in this whole place

until you and J.D. started doing that whole will they, won't they, will they,

won't they, can't they, please just stop. Oh, no. They're getting married

and I have to go to it.

Thing. This is all about you and what you feel you didn't accomplish in your

own life.

You really think I was the most ambitious?

Thank you.

What did I ever do to you?

Dear God.

Dr. Turk, I got my playlist locked and loaded for surgery, but I'm just not

sure how to thumbtack it to the wall, though. You beat me suturing bananas.

You shouldn't gloat about that.

Okay, so you can gloat, but because I'm a woman, I'm not allowed to champion

myself?

Here are the things you gloated about today.

How shiny your head is. How perfectly you parallel parked your car.

How you braided all your daughter's hair in under ten minutes. Impossible, by the

way. Shana, you're tripping.

Okay, because I've earned the right to gloat after all my years working here. I

didn't gloat when I was your level. Please, God, let this be my final test.

Deschanel, it turns out that you are not, in fact, tripping.

Thank you.

That's what an ally looks like.

You seriously think that you never gloated? For the love of God, you used

to run around this place telling everybody they were going to name the

hospital after you. And I'm sorry, but is this the Turk whatever your last name

is, Wing?

Turk is my last name. Damn sure I never know it because it's not written on any

of the walls. Come on. You aren't really worried that she's better than you.

Hell, you're at the peak of your skills.

You're damn right I'm at the peak of my skills. Of course, once you reach your

peak...

There's really only one way to go, isn't there?

Like all surgeons, your whole life has been this place. You have no hobbies.

Your children will soon be grown and gone. You have put everything into this

career. And you're afraid now that when it finally is all over,

you won't know who you are without it.

All right, what do I do?

You don't realize it yet, but when you get to where I am...

You'll see, it was never about your best cases or your worst ones. Hell, your

patients will largely be a blur.

The one thing you will remember is the work you put in turning these annoying,

pain-in-the-ass kids into real doctors.

No matter how hard they make it.

Thank you.

Wasn't talking to you.

There's no turning back.

Keep your eyes on the tracks through the fields.

So yeah, Grant pissed me off. But I had forgotten the most important thing about

my relationship with Dr. Cox.

I annoyed the hell out of him, too. What's the plan today?

Sealing a wish from a sick kid for your golf buddy? For the record, Dr. Cox is

not my golf buddy. He prefers full-size golf.

I like to ski ball after a few rounds.

Right. But I still had to teach him.

And hope I could help make him into a great doctor. Come on around with me.

Really? Yes.

You're not going to touch my cheeks again, are you? I can't make any

promises.

Sometimes as a mentor, you think you're there to give guidance.

I was just frustrated because it's too late for me, and I didn't want that to

happen to you. But you were actually the one who needed a little inspiration.

Too late?

It is so not too late for you.

You don't think so? No.

You could do whatever you want. You could write a book or a medical podcast.

You love talking.

Oh, my God, you're right.

I could do anything.

Podcast title, Get Welliot with Elliot.

Yeah, we'll keep thinking on that, Mama. In the end, the best mentors know that

one day it'll be your turn.

You okay?

It's a little faster than your cat in a hat runs, huh? Enjoy a little victory.

One day it'll be your playlist on the wall. Until then, let me show you how to

do the Aberdeen knot.

And when you do find the right mentor...

You hold on to them for a lifetime.

I'm going to admit you, I know I don't have any legit reason, but it's the only

way to get you covered.

Absolutely not. The board will have your ass, and I did not give you this job so

you could lose it. This is what you taught me to do.

And you used to protect me from the fallout. Well, now it is my turn to

protect you.

You have passed the baton. I wish I had the baton so I could beat you with it.

Get in the chair.

No. Dubois, get your ass in the damn chair.

Gentlemen,

imagine what we could accomplish if we all worked together.

We could cure a rare disease.

Treat four times as many patients.

I think I may have a better idea.

How about a hug? Drop dead.

Can I have a hug? Buzz off.

I'd love a hug. Not a chance.

Don't forget about me.

No!

Did somebody have a bad dream?

Let the other three know there's more where that came from.