Like Dr. Shen, I have an iced coffee, Millennial dissociation, and enough gallows humor to get through what is sure to be a harrowing, intense, anxiety-ridden, and adrenaline-induced hour of The Pitt.
Are the shaky hands from the caffeine, anxiety, or anticipation? All of the above, baby, but that’s what makes this show so divine!
So, let’s get into it! And if reviews are more your speed, fret not, we have The Pitt Season 1 Episode 13 Review available too.
It’s Hour 13, also known as the unlucky number, but let’s hold a prayer circle or what have you that our badass first-line responders will have something akin to luck in all of this.
We open with Robby, looking more dour by the second but no less handsome. Seriously, my Noah Wyle crush has been reignited something fierce watching The Pitt, along with my Daddy Issues, but that requires wine, not coffee.
The queen that is Dana, also known as Robby’s “work wife,” tries to ask him about the sudden influx of police and S.W.A.T. at the hospital. Naturally, the woman who someone recently attacked would like to know about this development.
Unfortunately, Robby ignores her and fixates on the police officer with the GSW to the face whom they brought in at the end of The Pitt Season 1 Episode 12. His comrades are by his side, giving him encouraging words, but the sentiment, while nice, isn’t helpful. Dana shoos them away as they need space to save this man’s life.
Langdon, who simultaneously looks like Chris Pine’s younger brother and Clark Kent, thanks to that tuft of hair that falls over his forehead, is working on a chest tube for a patient when the others notice the police around. He rightfully guesses that it means maybe the shooter is approaching, and that’s why there is a need for more police presence.
McKay freaks out about this since her son is in the breakroom. And Eileen is pissed off that Langdon is “spreading rumors.” While an acquired taste, Eileen gets points for this, as they don’t need further panic.
Elsewhere, precious intern cubs Javadi and Whitaker are on the roof, waiting to retrieve more blood from the helicopter that comes down. Javadi checks in with Whitaker to ensure he’s doing okay mentally and emotionally, and the sweet man with the sad basset-hound eyes has very little to say. What can you say? It all sucks.
Javadi recalls where they’re supposed to stand, which is a nice callback to that infamous ER scene. We will NOT be losing doctors or limbs on the helipad.
They pass out the blood to whoever needs it, and Robby, while working on the cop, still takes a second to ensure that Whitaker is doing well and reminds him to ask for help if he needs it.
Dana sends all the cops out of the way because they’re a distraction as they work on the patient. And she’s relieved when another Night Shift hero shows up after pushing through gridlock traffic to help out. Her name is Bridget, and if she’s anything like the rest of the night shift crew, she’s a badass. She’s also equally as pissed about a patient attacking Dana.
Mel and Whitaker treat a clown in the yellow area, and he seems to be okay. Whitaker puts an IO into the clown, drilling into him and causing pain. Mel pulls Whitaker away for a group huddle where she and the others remind him that he was only supposed to use IOs on unresponsive or unconscious patients. Oops!
Mohan and Robby are still working on the cop. Robby has to do an old-school crich without all the bells and whistles, which seems to alarm Mohan, but he’s unfazed. So is Abbot, who comes in with his trusty medical bag full of goodies and the perfect utensil for the occasion.
It’s another reminder that his combat medical training is elite, and Abbot is awesome. Also, this bromance is epic.
Abbot performs the rich and explains how he’s doing it to the others. Mohan is curious about what else he has in his “go-bag,” and they learn that most of his cool things don’t fit into the budget.
Kiara and Lupe head are in the morgue taking pictures of a deceased person to help identify him. They do it respectfully.
Javadi, McKay, Mohan, and the nurses are going from one patient to the next. It’s all bloody and chaotic. While treating one patient, he wakes up disoriented and reaches for a gun that is strapped to his ankle. This startles everyone as Langdon yells out, everyone ducks or throws their bodies over patients, and S.W.A.T. comes to disarm the patient.
Despite these harrowing moments, they clear the guy, his registered weapon, and it’s not the same weapon used at the festival. The cops say they’ll run his information, but he’s not the shooter and just happens to have a registered firearm on him.
The guy is huge, however, which is making things hard for Langdon to do an IO.
He calls out to Robbie who is across the hospital practically, asking for advice or confirming that he should maybe consider going through the man’s tibia. He seems to know the answer, but Langdon is lowkey just trying to get Robby to talk to him, probably.
A large blaring noise happens, distracting everyone, and Langdon yells about shutting the noise up so he can concentrate. It’s McKay’s ankle monitor. She’s out of her jurisdiction amid all of this chaos. She’s frustrated and takes a moment to find an IO drill at the nurse’s station to drill through her ankle monitor to shut it off.
It sparks but stops beeping, and Whitaker asks her if she’ll get in trouble for that, which she affirms she probably will. And then, she goes to check in with her son. McKay really is a badass, and I love her with my whole heart. May she never be humiliated again!
Her son has to pee, but he won’t go in the sink like his father suggests, and she doesn’t want him outside the room yet, so she fetches him a urinal that he refuses to use. Kids, you take what you can get. He at least has it easy!
Langdon and Mohan are still trying to intubate the bigger guy who had the gun. Robby comes over to help and shows the kids how it’s done by passing a tube without seeing the vocal chord and feeling it out by hand.
They remind him that he taught them never to do that, but the rules are different today! They do compressions and hope for the best with this guy and give him the allotted blood they can afford for one patient.
Lupe and Kiara identify the deceased man as Vincent, and they have to head to the cafeteria to talk to his loved ones and deliver the news.
Inspired by Robby going rogue a bit, Langdon takes a huge risk to find the big guy’s vein, it’s based on something he learned about via a podcast. Sometimes podcasts are great, after all. Winning endorsement.
He succeeds, they stabilize the guy, and the cops confirm that his information is good and he’s only a jeweler store owner. Langdon, with the great save!
Whitaker checks in on Mr. Grayson, who has a profusely bleeding headwound, and gives Whitaker a scare when he doesn’t immediately wake up. Whitaker asks him if he saw who shot him, but he doesn’t have much to say.
Next, Whitaker moves on to another patient, a woman who runs a food truck and has a gunshot wound in the juncture between her thigh and pelvis. It’s such an unusual place that it’s hard to stop the bleeding there, and Whitaker consults Mel with how best to do it.
Robby heads back out to triage where Shen and Ellis are still going strong. As he’s giving them a pep talk, a strike rolls up with more victims. One of the people is Jake, who is cradling his girlfriend, who appears to be dying in his arms. Robby hears his voice and immediately runs to him.
Jake was shot in the leg, but he’s more worried about his girlfriend, Leah. Robby works on Mia as Jake gets wheeled away to get checked out. They don’t feel a carotid on Leah, and word spreads in the room that Robby is working on his stepson’s girlfriend.
Lupe and Kiara find Vincent, the deceased man’s wife, and they show her photos of his hands with his wedding band and tattoos, and then they break the news that he died due to a GSW to the head.
They express so much sympathy and care, and the woman asks about her brother, who was with Vincent when it happened. She wants to know where he is, too.
Mel and Whitaker try to work on stopping the bleeding for the food cart lady, but then Whitaker has a scare again when the older hippie isn’t responding to pain. He, Santos, and Mel try to wake him up, but he’s not responding to anything.
Dana helps with Robby and assigns someone else primary so she can help him save Leah.
Langdon and Mohan revive a guy who had an opioid overdose and didn’t even realize that he was in a shooting because he was overdosing.
Jake leaves the wheelchair to focus on working on Leah. Whitaker has to make him sit down, but he keeps resisting Whitaker until Robby yells at him to go down.
Robby and Dana are still working on Leah and have gone through two units of blood. Abbot is working on another patient but tries to remind Robby that it’s not in the game plan to keep working on only one patient. Robby isn’t listening, though, because he wants to save his son’s girlfriend.
Meanwhile, Santos is trolling for a more exciting case. Why is Santos Santos? I support women’s rights and wrongs, but she irks me.
Grayson’s retina reveals cranial pressure building. Mohan makes a quick burr hole to release the pressure because they don’t have time to wait for the neuro. Slo-Mo no more. Go, Mohan, go!
Walsh and Bridget are shocked, but a save is a save!
Dana says she feels a femoral in Leah, but Walsh checks, and there’s nothing. There’s no carotid either, so she can’t go up to the OR. Abbot reminds Robby that he’s at four units of blood for Leah and that it should go to the patients they can save. But Robby is determined. You guys, this is not looking good.
Nurse Don suggests a solution to stop Carmen’s bleeding, and Whitaker consults with Mel, as does Santos. Mel is the intern they all turn to—I love that for her! My girl.
Santos works on Jake. He mostly has shrapnel in his leg, and he asks about his girlfriend and wants Santos to check.
Mel is concerned about the emotional woman who seems completely checked out after the shooting. She wonders if the woman is okay, but honestly, who would be?
Dana and Abbot share a look because Robby is in denial about Leah’s death. It’s heartbreaking. Abbot again checks in with Robby and tells Robby that the bullet tore through Leah’s heart and that if it was anyone else, they’d have to call it. He gives Robby tough love.
Robby persists, though. Others seem to notice that he’s not okay with Mohan checking in on him and Abbot running calls while Robby is in the zone.
Shen is still cracking jokes in triage about not having his union bathroom break, and honestly, the more time we spend with this guy, the more relatable.
David, the teen they suspect is the shooter, rolls up and tries to go inside, talking about his mother, but the police stop him. When they realize who he is, they try to talk to him, but he tries to run. They take him down.
Leah has pretty much bled out. Blood is everywhere. They don’t find a single sign of life and Robby finally accepts it. But he starts having flashbacks to losing his mentor. Robby is NOT okay and can’t even talk. He sees the cops bringing him inside and plans to check on him.
David is NOT pleasant and treating the cops like crap. Go figure.
Mel and Santos try to figure out if the sad woman who wandered off has a genuine problem or just it’s emotional. But it’s grief. And shock. Mel concludes it’s probably PTSD, and the woman needs a quiet place. At least she’s trying to figure it out while Santos cracks jokes.
Carmen has passed out, and they have to work on her. Santos goes looking for some assistance because she needs a transfusion.
Langdon reminds everyone to focus when they try to figure out if David is the shooter, and Abbot helps Langdon with a particularly gnarly GSW.
Robby takes Leah’s body to the morgue, but he gets called to help Abbot and Langdon. Langdon is still looking to Robby for attention, but Robby is focused on helping the patient. He takes off and finally gets to Jake so he can take him to a quiet room and tell him the truth about his girlfriend.
He struggles but breaks it down as sensitively and as best he can. Someone hug this man! He’s truly cracking at the seams, running things down. Jake doesn’t take the news well and begs to see Leah.
Because all the attendings are busy, Santos goes rogue, itching for her badass moment, and puts in another line into Carmen. A REBOA, against everyone’s wishes. She succeeds at it, but still, she’s too smug. Abbot is shocked that Santos did a REBOA, but because Carmen is doing well, he congratulates Santos on being badass even after reprimanding her.
Robby takes Jake into the morgue to see Leah, and there are plenty of dead people in there, so they have to go according to the number written on the wrist tag. Jake doesn’t handle seeing Leah dead too well and starts crying and lashes out at Robby for not doing enough to save her.
It’s the grief-talking, but PROTECT ROBBY AT ALL COSTS!
Robby has flashbacks to losing his mentor, and he’s still in the room where his mentor died. He relives that experience and is breaking down a bit. Jake doesn’t seem to notice. HE’S DOING HIS BEST!
Robby shares with Jake how many people he lost today and that he’ll remember Leah and not be able to save her long after Jake has forgotten her.
He’s getting emotional and starts crying. It’s his breaking point, and he knows it. He swears and pushes Jake out of the room before he fully breaks down. And then he falls to the floor sobbing and grabbing his head.
In the words of Cristina Yang, SOMEBODY SEDATE ME.
Robby is not okay, and neither am I. The credits roll, but alas, I can barely see them because maybe I’m breaking down, too.
So I’m turning it over to you.
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