Tonight on CBS Code Black airs with an all new Wednesday October 21, season 1 episode 4 called, “Sometimes It’s a Zebra.” and we have your weekly recap below! On tonight’s episode, Guthrie’s (William Allen Young) estranged son joins Angels Memorial as a surgical attending and clashes with Leanne (Marcia Gay Harden) over their contrasting approaches to medicine.
On the last episode, the doctors worked 36 consecutive hours in code black and had to deal with a distraught mother of two sons who were in a devastating car accident. Meanwhile, Mario bullied Angus into performing an unnecessary operation and lets Angus took the blame when Leanne found out. Did you watch the last episode? If you missed it, we have a full and detailed recap right here for you.
On tonight’s episode as per the CBS synopsis, “Guthrie’s estranged son joins Angels Memorial as a surgical attending and clashes with Leanne over their contrasting approaches to medicine. Meanwhile, Christa experiences a crisis of confidence in the middle of a procedure on her first infant patient since the loss of her son.”
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Things are never calm at the Angels Memorial Hospital. That’s why all the interns at the hospital have to either be on board with any goes or know their limits means they should be at another hospital.
However Christa thought she could be a doctor. And sure she went to med school late in life but she thought she could handle anything she might see on the job and to an extent she was right. She was able to handle a serial killer last week by simply standing up to him. So if anything a baby brought into the ER should not have deterred from doing her job.
A devastating fire was what brought a grandfather, his daughter, and grandson into the ER. And out of all three it was only the grandfather that was in a stable condition. Therefore the daughter and grandson needed emergency care and when it came time for Christa to drill a line into the baby’s leg in order to get him breathing again – she choked. In that moment she didn’t see someone else’s child. She saw her child. The one that died.
And only Rorish understood. After Christa ran out on her patient, Rorish followed her. She told the other woman that she knows what it’s like to save someone else’s child when no one could save hers. Yet, despite the pain, she has to move pas it and be a doctor again. So Christa volunteered to go back on the baby’s case and Hudson decided to give her second chance at being objective.
But speaking of being objective, there was a woman that came in complaining after her body refused to stop having an orgasm. And none of male doctors knew how to treat her. In fact they were afraid to touch her in case that proved to be unethical on their part.
First Angus was her doctor then Mario took over but when they couldn’t understand her condition then that’s when the latter suggested it was psychological. Maybe she was making up her orgasms. And so Jesse took over. He made the woman believe that all she needed was to sneeze for her body to stop and so he gave her pepper. Which solved her dilemma.
As long as she thought it was going to work then her mind made it work. Thus Angus and Mario ended up learning how to deal with such cases and clear up some space.
Yet Pineda’s patient was a lot harder to diagnose. A seventeen year old girl came up after she started to feel dizzy and was vomiting. And to make matters worse Pineda got on the mother’s bad side. So treating the patient became a like a walk into enemy territory.
It seems that when Pineda told her patient that Stanford was good first choice because of their diversity program with low-income student – she offended Kesha’s mother. Apparently the older woman didn’t believe her daughter needed any handouts as she called it seeing as she was smart enough to get into anywhere she applied. And after that nasty run-in the mother then began calling Pineda Princess Jasmine.
Only Princess Jasmine ran several tests on her patient and she kept getting reading that said Kesha was pregnant. So that had humbled the mother a bit. She had always told her daughter not to have sex because she didn’t want her daughter to turn out like her. A teenage mom that had to drop out of school but Kesha swore she was still a virgin.
So Pineda ran more tests and she found out that Kesha hadn’t been lying. She just kept getting a false positive because she had a brain tumor that was delivering the same type of protein. But luckily the tumor can be easily treated.
Meanwhile the baby in ICU, Tommy, was declining at a rapid pace that made no sense to his doctors. It looked like something else had happened to him besides the effects of the fire and so there was a question on whether or not he been abused by his mom. But his mother Tina eventually came out of her induced coma and attempted to write a note for the doctors.
She said she had been kidnapped and that would mean the man claiming to be her father was actually her kidnapper. And also it would explain why he disappeared the second it appeared that she was about to wake up.
The man calling himself Dennis was later found by Hudson trying to make his escape. His only excuse was that he had loved Tina. Apparently he loved her so much that he said he had to rescue her from herself.
But the reality of the situation is that he kidnapped her two years ago and when their son became sick – he was willing to deny Tommy treatment if it meant he didn’t have to go to jail. So Tina set a fire in hopes of luring help. And though she almost died in the process – she did what she set out to do. She brought her son to people who could help and they saved his life.
And now both mother and son are free of Dennis.
Yet Mario learned a tough lesson tonight. One that could do wonders for him. See, it dawned on him that he does need the other residents to have his back after there was no one keeping an eye on his patient that had OD and the patient almost died. So Mario will probably start changing his behavior and if he does then maybe he could give the new guy a tip.
Dr. Guthrie’s son Cole has joined the hospital as a new doctor and he too needs to get over his personal issues and remember what the job is really about.
THE END!