Sometimes in life no matter how hard you try, you come up on the short end. No matter what choices you make, they are the wrong ones. No matter how many times you try for the strike, all you end up with is a gutter ball. This was no more evident than on last Thursday's General Hospital: Night Shift.
This episode opened with student nurse Layla passing Dr. Patrick Drake a note and telling him everything was set. Robin overhead and witnessed what she concluded to be plans to meet romantically, unaware Patrick was actually coordinating unauthorized surgery on Lainey's father, the same type of stunt that got him sentenced to the night shift to begin with. When Patrick did ask Robin to join him, Dr. Kelly, Regina, and Layla in the operating room, she refused because she had an appointment with the social worker about Anna.
Frustrated and upset he drug her into the stairwell and began yelling at her about loyalty to her friends and wouldn't even try and listen to her feelings about the baby, accusing her of being too focused on the child to see anything else in her life. A point Robin later proved wrong when she ran interference with Dr. Ford, throwing a temper tantrum to keep his attention away from the operating room where the surgery was being conducted.
The pill addicted Iraq war veteran, Cody, who for an unknown reason has been able to bond with Rodger Winters, showed up to check on him and was able to help transport him quietly to the OR, though Lainey continued to hold his motives suspect. Cody (expertly played by Graham Shiels) is certainly a formable foe and possible romantic interest for Lainey. They play off each other with such a delicate balance of suspicion and sympathy. After student nurse Jolene struck as the angel of death, injecting an air bubble into Winter's IV causing an embolism that puts him on life support, it was Cody who was able to help Lainey see her father never wanted his life prolonged in the first place. In the end, she asked to enforce a 'do not resuscitate' and have him removed from life support.
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