The biggest plot point in Chicago Med Season 9, Episode 10 is that this hospital has the worst security ever. Even factoring in dramatic license, the security in the Emergency Department is terrible. Longtime viewers know that Dr. Daniel Charles was shot outside the hospital, that Maggie was stabbed, that Sharon Goodwin confronted a gunman and earlier in Season 9, members of a cult swarmed the ED. And factoring in the whole One Chicago franchise, fan-favorite Trudy Platt was able to sneak out of the hospital on Chicago P.D. This laughable but also scary trend continues in “You Just Might Find You Get What You Need,” when another shooting takes place just outside the doors.
Dr. Dean Archer treats Perry, a college student so out of his mind on drugs that he picked a fight with a tree. This sounds like okay, let’s laugh at the irresponsible college kid and send him on his way. Archer wisely asks that security check Perry’s clothes to make sure that he doesn’t have any more drugs on him. Around the same time, he’s flagged down by another doctor, who notices that the husband of a second patient — Greg Sanders, like the CSI character, and played by T.J. Thyne from the NCIS franchise’s 1,000th episode — has a gun clearly visible on his hip. So if Zach saw it, how did hospital security not see Greg walking in with a gun? How did they miss that Perry had meth in a compartment in his shoe? How did they not stop him from running out of the ED while high? And last but not least, how were they largely ineffective when Perry caused a ruckus outside, leading Greg to shoot him in self-defense?
The dramatic license comes in because if Perry doesn’t escape, there’s no dilemma for Archer or Greg, who has to be investigated by the police for what thankfully isn’t a fatal shooting. But one mistake is fine to handwave on a TV show; four is completely unrealistic, especially at a hospital with a history of safety concerns like Chicago Med. The implausibility of the story doesn’t negate the acting work done by Thyne and particularly by Weber, who utilizes Archer’s history of addiction in the way Archer interacts with Perry. The episode doesn’t need to remind the audience about Archer’s past; it comes out in Weber’s performance, and it’s wonderful to see the softer side of the character, since as Archer himself acknowledges at the start, he prefers to keep it secret.
Chicago Med Gives Dr. Charles a Heartwrenching Subplot
Oliver Platt Continues to Prove Why He’s So Beloved
Speaking of Charles, Oliver Platt continues to hold down the fort in Chicago Med Season 9, Episode 10, as the show gives his character an emotional storyline about a woman who seemingly tried to take her own life. June Bishop is brought in after stepping off a balcony — the detailing of her injuries, both in what is shown on-screen and what Dr. Crockett Marcel lists off, is the most uncomfortable moment in the whole episode. It is not a surprise that June can’t be saved. The plotline originally feels like a bureaucratic one, because Chicago Med desperately needs June’s lungs for one of Crockett’s other patients, and her husband Nathan won’t budge. The writers could have easily made the story about the hospital and its own self-interest. However, as ridiculous as the premise of Archer’s storyline is, that’s how relatable this plot becomes when Charles comes into the picture.
After speaking with the psychiatrist that June was seeing and learning that it was only for insomia, Charles takes it upon himself to do some detective work. The answer doesn’t come to him right away like he’s some sort of genius, and audiences watch him struggle with it both as a doctor and as a human being. This would have been a great Chicago Med episode to have Sarah Reese in, to act as Charles’ sounding board and shoulder to lean on. As it stands, Charles eventually is able to comfort Nathan with the discovery that June wasn’t suicidal. She was a sleepwalker and simply, tragically walked off the balcony to her death. Furthermore, her lungs go to Crockett’s young patient and all ends as well as it possibly could. It’s heartwrenching to see what Nathan goes through but also heartwarming when Charles is able to give him closure and the understanding that what happened to June is not his fault.
Chicago Med can do emotional storylines very well when it focuses in on these grounded elements, thanks to performers like Oliver Platt, Steven Weber and Marlyne Barrett. When the show strips away all the heightened drama and gets to the humanity, it’s something special. “You Just Might Find You Get What You Need” suffers from the absence of Luke Mitchell and some bad jokes regarding his character Mitch Ripley’s absence, and the implausibilities still stick out, but past that it’s one of the season’s better episodes.
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