While Eva (Lana Parrilla) helped a teenager from a bad neighbourhood who had been left for dead at the entrance to the hospital, Serena (Elisabeth Harnois) took a special interest in a stabbing victim who had protected his wallet, and pictures of his late wife and child, from 3 attackers, and Tuck (Omar Gooding) paid his usual, tender attentions to the sister of another stabbing victim.
I like the attention Miami Medical pays to the Cuban population of the city. Eva has come a long was since she was a teenager at a high school where the life expectancy isn't more than 17. As depressing as that is, to know someone got out, that there is a chance for a better life even starting so low, is so full of hope that you can't help but smile and hope too. But it also credits that betterment to luck as well as effort. Had no one helps Eva, had her patient not ended up in her care, maybe neither of them would have had the chance to improve their lots.
As for the two stabbing victims, it was apparent from early on that they were linked. Regardless of how kind a man Serena's patient seemed, and he did a very good job of seeming kind, I knew from the start that he was the attacker himself, from the moment we met/saw the second victim. What I did not see coming was what happened after Alpha team figured it out. I assumed that the man's plan would be to try to finish what he started, to kill the girl he had attacked before she had a chance to denounce him. Instead, he ran. And during his escape, he encountered Tuck and stabbed him in the heart with a pair of scissors.
After watching Tuck be so kind to the sister of the true victim of the stabbing attack, and knowing just how good a nurse he is, how much Alpha team relies on him, to see him stabbed was simply awful. Unexpected and heartbreaking, we do not even know how long he was unconscious before he was found, if he is likely to suffer brain damage nothing. And what's worse is that the SOB who did this to him escaped.
And in the moment the team found Tuck and began to work on him, we were again reminded of why Proctor (Jeremy Northam) was chosen to be the team lead over Eva and Chris (Mike Vogel). While they and Serena were in a panic over what had happened to their friend, Proctor maintained his distance and forced them to do the same so that they would be able to help him as they would any other patient, rather than have their judgement and abilities clouded by emotions.
Hopefully Tuck will recover, though I would enjoy seeing have to work for that recovery. It would be far more realistic. If that doesn't happen, I won't mind either. What are your thoughts?
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