After a quick recap of last week's Night Shift, we were deep in the drama and action as the singular focus of the hospital seemed to be saving Stacy and her baby from the stalled elevator.
Last week, HIV positive expectant mother Stacy Sloan found herself trapped on a broken elevator with janitor Jason Morgan and his sidekick, lord of cyberspace, Spinelli. Dr. Robin Scorpio, who is also HIV positive and had formed a bond with Stacy, was letting her personal attachment to the woman cloud her judgment, snapping at all of her colleagues, her boyfriend, and baby-phobic Patrick Drake the most, though I could hardly blame her. Hiding behind professional detachment, Patrick worked hard to distance himself from the crisis completely, a particularly brutal slap to Robin who was so invested.
This episode opened with more of the framed flashback. We saw Dr Lee explaining to chief of staff Dr. Ford and the hospital attorney that Stacy had always planned to have a Caesarean section to minimize the risk of blood on blood contact with her child. We were then taken to the elevator car where Jason was giving the baby mouth-to-mouth, encouraging her to breathe. Soon, the infant's cries filled the elevator and their attention was redirected back to Stacy, still unconscious and bleeding.
Jason handed the baby to a reluctant Spinelli and asked him to keep reading from the website; he needed to finish the procedure. Though he removed the placenta and pinched off his incision sites the bleeding wasn't stopping, and the blood was everywhere.
Toussaint and Stan continued to work on fixing the electrical panel so they could get the elevator doors open, but both were buckling under the pressure. Toussaint, who was sure the mishap was not accidental, was especially upset.
Meanwhile, Miss Sneed tried to put a stop to the vigil in the hall, insisting Dr. Archer, the anesthesiologist, scrub in on an appendectomy and the remaining doctors and nurses return to the short-staffed and overcrowded ER. When Robin protested, the administrator lashed out, saying Stacy and her baby were certainly dead by now, and the hospital needed to get back to business. Dr. Ford stepped in and (for once) came down on the side of medicine, giving the doctors permission to wait for the elevator to be fixed.
After Miss Sneed made her exit, Dr. Ford asked how long it was expected Stacy and her child could last in the elevator. Robin hesitated, not wanting to admit the original prediction had been an hour – an hour that had long passed. Fortunately, she didn't have to as the elevator lit up and the car could be heard rushing to the tenth floor.
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Article comments
1 - poll
I really thought last night was a step up for the whole show with writing and even the acting.. Bradford did amazing pretty much everyone did.. Why couldn't we have gotten a story like this on GH?
2 - Connie Phillips
I will admit the writing has been really good on Night Shift, honestly, better than I expected it to be.
It definitely has a very sleek and faced paced feel that we are use to seeing in night time drama's, but I also think it has to do with the fact these are medical stories inside the hospital, not mob stories in the office of Sonny's coffee shop.
Guza has said in interviews at the end of its 13 week run they are going to incorporate as much of this cast into the Daytime show as possible. I hope that means new medical based stories on GH.
Bradford was pretty incredible. When Spinelli broke down into tears as he watched 'the charmed one' through the nursery window, I'll admit my eyes were a bit misty as well.
The final scenes with Jason running up the steps to the rooftop, seeing the breaking dawn, and breaking down were touching as well. Though I thought Robin was going to be there and they would fall into each other's arms since Patrick was being so distant... Bigtime 'scrubs' fan that I am, I can't believe I was hoping for a Robin/Jason moment, but the NS is an alternate universe, right.
3 - KSC
All the main players were identifying with Stacy for some reason or another. Robin obviously because of her HIV status. I believe Patrick was distancing himself because he was over-identifying with Stacy, too. Spin saw his back family situation we've only touched on (Did you notice he started crying harder when the other baby's parents picked up their child?) Jason has had more than his fair share of baby tragedy, and this just brought it all to the forfront.
Good episode, and extremely well acted by the four mentioned.
4 - Connie Phillips
Thanks for chiming in KSC. I totally agree Patrick was over-identifying with Stacy. I would love to see some background on why he's so afraid of becoming a father. It's been represented that he was college age when his mother died and Noah started drinking and distancing himself, so I think it has to go deeper than that one incident. (Though I guess it would make a huge impact at any age.) I just get the feeling there is so much more to this and I hope we get into the meat of that story soon.
I'm also looking forward to getting into Spin's past too as is being promised on the daytime show.