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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some thoughts for discussion:

1) I think McKay is going to handle the suggestion that she might have misdiagnosed the postpartum mom due to bias badly. McKay is super tense and has shown herself to be unprofessional at times. Just seems like the wheels might come off now that she's on the defensive.

2) The Santos storyline is interesting because I'm genuinely struggling to understand her character's motivations. She's been very abrasive throughout the season and sometimes it seems like her suspicions of Langdon are totally manufactured because she doesn't like him. Like in this episode, it actually felt like she made a calculated move to lie to him about why they had not come to get him, to induce him to lose it with her and yell. There was this glint in her eye. But then sometimes I think that's not it at all, that she's maybe right about him, and that he's being unfair to her. But I like him generally and she seems like a PITA! It's very hard to see where that plot line is going. [/quote]

There were definitely signs that point to Langdon being on something last night, or maybe it's just that it was pointed out to me via this thread.  I loved the first few minutes when they all took a few minutes to regroup and he went outside to call his kid.

I loved the slow clap when Whitaker caught the rat and killed it.  [/quote]

The scene with Whitaker and the rat is probably my all time favorite of the season thus far. And because they'd foreshadowed it with him talking about growing up in a rural area and there being lots of animals around, it was totally believable when he knew exactly how to handle the rat. Love it.

I don't buy the idea that Langdon was high in the episode because the whole conceit of the show is that it's one continuous shift. If he was high in one episode, he'd be high in others. And honestly, he didn't seem high at all -- the scene where he calls home and has his wife put their son on the phone so he could hear his voice, after they lost the little girl who drowned, didn't look like someone who was on drugs.

I think if it turns out that Langdon is stealing drugs from the hospital, it will wind up being for a complex reason that is an ethical gray area, not just for a drug problem. [b]Like maybe he is taking drugs and giving them to prior patients that he can't get to come back into the hospital. They kind of set up a plot line like that this episode with all the talk about the "street team" and Whitaker's interactions with the guy with schizophrenia, and figuring out how to get him meds given that he is unhoused and can't be counted on to come back in on a regular schedule[/b].[/quote]
The hospital has the Street Team, so it doesn’t make sense that he’d need to do that. Langdon has a temper problem (as called out by Robby last night) and at times lacks empathy. The dynamic with Santos is weird on both sides and to they are both characters that I don’t think we’re really supposed to have a read on yet. [/quote]

We don't know how effective the street team is. I just think if it turns out Langdon is a druggie, that's too tidy and predictable.

The biggest thing for me is that Santos seems to have intentionally baited Langdon when she lied to him. She was hoping he'd blow up. That he did was on him, but I find Santos' behavior much more concerning. The ER is a naturally high stress place, and she seems to enjoy provoking people. This is a concerning behavior, especially in that environment.

Also I don't think Langdon actually lacks empathy, at least not any more than others in the ER (many use a variety of techniques to handle the emotional overload). He's been really kind to Mel, noticed she was struggling after the drowning death, and made sure she got a break. And then gave her a good pep talk that displayed empathy and thoughtfulness.[/quote]

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