Code Black

Previously on "Code Black"...

Run, Malaya! Run!

No, no, no, no, no! Don't pull that knife!

Oh, my god.

I'm gonna kill that bitch.

Help me. Help.

22-year-old female. Pulmonary fibrosis.

Acute shortness of breath. S.A.T.s in the 70s.

Center stage. Prep an airway, Dr. Savetti.

Sir, what's her name, please?

Lizzie. I'm her husband.

Please, Lizzie, hold on!

Call... them. Call them.

No, no! You're gonna be okay.

Right? She's gonna be okay.

One, two, three.

Lizzie, I'm Dr. Guthrie.

Can you take in a deep breath for me?

Completely absent on the left.

Neck veins distended.

Tension's pneumo.

All right. Quickly, let's do a finger thoracostomy.

- Got it. - Chest tube second.

James... please.

We don't need them, Lizzie, okay?

You're gonna make it.

She's got like 20 scars here.

These are chest-tube scars. Lung transplant?

Yeah, two.

Dear god, this poor child.

I'm okay.

No, she... she's strong.

I got air.

Get the chest tube in there, Dr. Savetti.

James... please.

No, I'm not doing this, okay? You're gonna be fine!

Sir, you need to tell me what's going on.

I've planned a coordinated death if I die.

What does that mean?

She hired a cryogenics company to freeze her body if she dies.

So I'll be able to live again.

It's gonna be okay.

Hey.

Nobody told me you were coming in today.

I wasn't sure myself.

Well, I'm glad you did.

Dr. Pineda.

Can't tell you how good it is to see you here.

Let me know if you need anything, okay?

Angus, you're with me.

You okay?

Yep.

I mean about seeing Malaya.

Remember what I said, man. You got to keep it together.

Just leave it alone, Mike, all right?

I'm Dr. Mike Leighton. This is Dr. Angus Leighton.

You married or brothers?

Brothers.

You never know these days.

You've been having abdominal pain, vomiting?

We were on our way out when he just doubled over.

I'm fine. Let me just go home.

Dad, stop being so stubborn.

Okay, stomach feels distended. Dr. Leighton, bowel sounds?

B.P.'s a little low. Temp 102.

Of all days for this to happen.

What do you think?

Concerning for obstruction.

Where were you guys headed?

A Valentine's day charity luncheon.

Odell Beckham's being honored.

Dad was his coach in high school.

His people sent us tickets.

He sent us tickets, Dad.

I'm a prop, that's all.

Dr. Leighton, what do you want to do?

Scan the belly for starters.

Good. And a full sepsis work-up.

Coach... Odell Beckham...

You must have done something right.

He came fully loaded.

I just counted the touchdowns.

We're gonna run some tests, see what we got.

Hey, careful of the tux. It's a rental.

- Hey. - Hey, yourself.

There's a patient inside.

The woman that brought her in is asking for you.

Her name is Grace Adams?

Grace? She's here now?

Yeah. She's wearing an Angels jacket.

Think she might work here.

No, no, she used to. Used to work here.

Hm.

Grace.

Neal. Hi.

This is Roseline.

Hello, Roseline.

How do you do?

I brought Roseline back with me from Port-au-Prince.

Grace spent the past year

working with Operation Hope in Haiti.

Wow. Good for you.

Thanks.

Roseline has a tumor on her spinal cord

that's making it increasingly difficult for her to walk.

I brought her back on a tourist visa

in hopes that I could get her the surgery that she needs.

You'll need Campbell for that, and he, uh...

Well, he won't be easy to convince.

Let's start with a CT scan and take it from there.

I'll order it now.

Thank you.

So, who's Grace?

Told you, she's a doctor who used to work here.

I know that. I'm asking who she is to you.

Shut up.

You've seen me in clothes before.

Not during a shift.

Oh, I don't know why I said yes to this.

I'm a doctor, not a whatever I am.

You're a doctor no matter what you're wearing.

If I'm gonna be here, I'd rather be in center stage.

What is that, a tamale? For breakfast?

As my abuela Anita used to say,

"you wear the skin you're born in."

Yeah, but did she also mention that your heart has to live in there?

Forgive her, abuela, for she knows nada.

You don't have to believe.

You just have to be okay if I believe.

Lizzie, we've been through this 15 times before,

and you've always come home.

It's not like the last 15 times.

James, this is different.

Is everything, uh, okay?

She wants me to get Randor here,

the cryogenics company.

How's it work, anyway?

Freeze my brains and my vital organs.

- Snake oil. - It's not snake oil.

I started a Kickstarter campaign to pay for it last year.

Doc, can you please just tell her that this is crazy?

I don't know anything about it, so...

You know my chances of surviving this, right?

Tell him that.

We don't give percentages here.

Well, then let me put it another way.

Is there a chance that she could live?

Of course.

But you need to believe that you can.

I do.

But...

I have a parachute in case I'm wrong.

Yeah.

She's only in the country this week.

She goes back to Haiti, where she's living in a refugee camp.

This is not an emergent case.

Why are we talking about this?

That's why we are talking about it,

otherwise I would have just called someone

to come down and pick her up.

We are asking for a favor.

It's a pretty big favor, Leanne.

The surgery alone will cost well into the six figures.

Who is she?

She's a little girl who needs our help.

I can throw a tennis ball off the roof of this hospital

and hit about 30 little girls that need our help.

She's deteriorating, and we can help her.

You mean I can help her.

You want me to perform major surgery on a 13-year-old girl,

and yet I don't see a pediatric referral,

no pre-op work-up, no chest X-rays, EKGs, blood work.

Should I keep going?

All those tests and referrals take days.

She doesn't have that kind of time.

Her visa will run out.

Not my problem.

Frankly, I'm surprised at you, Leanne.

I'm sure you are.

He's an arrogant ass.

But he's not entirely wrong.

If she'd been hit by a bus

and had come in by ambulance,

she'd be in that O.R. right now, no questions asked.

Yeah, well, I guess she wasn't lucky enough to be hit by a bus.

You did the right thing coming here.

But it's normal for a new mom to feel rundown,

especially after a c-section.

Still, this... this feels different than I expected.

I'm a marathon runner.

I was doing three miles a day a couple weeks

before I gave birth to this little guy.

Your EKG was normal.

I'm short of breath, and something just feels wrong.

I... I can't explain it. It's... it's more than just rundown.

We should get an X-ray, run some tests,

make sure there's no infections or any other complications.

Is it okay if I bring him?

Well, you're gonna be in the X-ray machine for a while.

You have any family in the waiting area?