It's a week later, and we're back in General Hospital's emergency room for the Night Shift — Midnight to 6:00 am. This week the doctors and nurses are still reeling from the loss of their favorite habitual patient Mrs. Storch and shocked to discover it was caused by an injection to her IV. The paper is calling it a mercy killing and coupled with the brewing strike talks amongst the nurses and staff, as well as the continuing mix-ups with patient's charts, Dr. Ford and Miss Sneed are both worried a take over from Medcam is eminent.
Spinelli showed up to fill in for Jason, only telling Toussaint the other man was working his day job. It quickly becomes apparent he is there to further his attempts to get closer to nurse Jolene, who is distraught and weepy for most of the episode. Many assume it's over the loss of the patient, but late in the episode she confides to Spin it is the seventh anniversary of her father's death. He died during surgery, she says, and while her mother blamed the health care system it drew her to it – she wanted to effect change. A noble cause and honorable tribute to his memory comforted Spinelli.
As during the day, Spinelli brings lighthearted fun to even the most dramatic of situations with his quirky and awkward movements as well as his way of paralleling every situation to a video game, but even more so on Night Shift we are seeing a depth and growth to the character, which is just as entertaining to watch. Hopefully we'll see this friendship between him and Jolene escalate and carry over to the daytime hours.
Stacy Sloan was back at the hospital, actually passing out in front amidst the striking employees. Thankfully Patrick noticed her and got her inside where Robin pressed to keep him involved in her case. With neither pregnancy nor HIV being his area of expertise, Patrick found himself feeling trapped and accused Robin of forcing the idea of having a baby on him.
Two patients were refused treatment in the emergency room this week. One was a nameless young woman, obviously very ill, but without health insurance. The other was Lainy Winter's father, who was transferred from Rose Lawn where he's being treated for his advanced Alzheimer's on the fear he has suffered a stroke. The Alzheimer's storyline was visited briefly awhile back on the parent show, but was dropped suddenly and I was happy to see it revisited on Night Shift.
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