Saving Hope

Previously on "Saving Hope"...

- Maggie, this is Hannah. - Hi.

Dump her. Marry me. We'll be together 60 years.

If you think I am going to let you do

- whatever the hell you want, then you're crazy. - Then I quit.

I'm upstairs. I'm in a coma.

- Where we going, Jimmy? - Home.

- Hey, Charlie, why don't you wanna wake up? - Daddy, please! Slow down!

- (Alex) Is everything okay? - (Shahir) Something is happening to the signals in his mid-brain,

something I've never seen before.

Alex.

Can you follow my finger?

I'd have to give that a 4.

Hmm. Definitely a 4.

All right, squeeze my hand.

Okay, that looks like a 6 to me, for a total G.C.S. of 15.

That is a perfect score.

Charlie, you're officially out of a coma.

Shahir, I've got this.

Actually, there are a few more neurological tests...

Shahir, she's got this.

You two wanna...

I should probably change out that bag.

Alex.

I don't want you to dehydrate.

Hi.

Hi.

So what do you think?

I look, uh, tough, badass? Murder ball?

I'd cross the street.

Listen, are you sure you don't want me to come with you?

Yeah. I'm just gonna be learning to walk again.

Only slightly emasculating.

Hey!

I'm... I'm sorry, man. I, um...

I'm just so amazed to see you around.

It's... congratulations.

Thank you. Uh, I hear you've been doing

some good work around here.

Yeah. Uh, trying to.

Uh, oh, sorry, man. I don't want to intrude or anything.

I'm sure that there's other people that you'd rather... see.

I just sort of wanted to

wish you good luck with your recovery,

and... I mean, you're a lucky guy.

Oh, yeah. I know that.

Well, uh, cool. I'll, uh, I'll see you around.

Yeah, absolutely. Could I talk to you for a second?

You okay?

Yeah. I'm good.

I'll, uh, I'll catch up on my celebrity gossip.

I'll be right back. Yeah.

What's up?

I'm leaving the hospital.

- Were you fired? - I quit.

That's too bad.

Yeah, you know, it's just time to move on.

I'm actually pretty excited about it.

I'm going to follow up with a few of my patients today,

and that's it. I'm gone.

Well, everything I could have possibly said about this to you,

I've already said.

So say good-bye.

Bye, Joel.

Bye, Alex.

Charlie, the physiotherapist will help

with any muscle weakness,

and the occupational therapy will deal

- with any cognitive deficits. - Brain damage.

Right.

Shahir, do your patients

usually, um... remember being in a coma?

Some do.

Yeah. See, I had very vivid hallucinations that I was, um...

out of my body.

Were these hallucinations visual or auditory?

Both. I would say both. Definitely both.

In a coma, a person basically loses contact

with their body sensory input,

so they feel sensations as though they're external

to their bodies, but they keep the illusion

that they have a body.

It's very similar to the early stages of sleep.

So I was dreaming?

Yes, and because you didn't wake up,

your dreams became a reality. (Elevator bell dings)

- It's really quite common. - Ha!

Do you believe what you experienced was real?

No, of course not.

Charlie, you're perfectly normal, okay?

Okay. Don't sweat it.

I'm gonna find you a therapist.

Okay. I'll, uh, I'll just wait here.

I'm perfectly normal.

Still talking to myself...

but now everyone can hear me.

Hi.

How you doing?

You put this in yourself?

- No, a doctor did it for me. - Were you in another E.R.

before you came here?

No, I paid a doctor $1,500

to put a nasogastric tube in for me.

We'd do it for free.

Just saying.

- And why did you do this? - I'm trying to lose weight.

By eating through a tube?

Jackie, you're not overweight.

For a bride, I am. Ow! That really hurts.

I'm trying to lose weight for my wedding.

I get 800 calories a day pushed through this tube.

And how long have you had it in?

10 days. I've lost 12 pounds, so it's a success, but...

ow!

You're not gonna take it out, are you?

- Did you get her into an X-ray? - Yeah.

Check this out.

She has free air under her diaphragm.

- Is that bad? - It's kind of an emergency, yeah.

He's right. Given the pain you're in

and the tenderness in your belly,

I think it's possible that the tube

has perforated your stomach.

Ohh. My fiancé's not gonna believe this.

He's just gonna be happy you're alive, trust me. Olivia?

He thinks it's ridiculous,

but it's important for a woman to look good

on her wedding day, right?

- It is, but... - All those pictures.

I just wanted him to see me and be proud, you know?

Well, it's important that you give him a call, okay?

We're gonna get you into surgery right away,

and Olivia will prep you.

Okay.

We should find out who put that tube in.

It's unbelievable.

Hey. Charlie.

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

- You are such a tiger. - Mmm.

You're like a dirty nerd.

If I'd known you were so dirty,

I wouldn't have waited this long.

Maggie.

We don't have to be so... full-on.

You don't want me to kiss you at work.

No, no. I... I want you to kiss me everywhere.

I...

you don't have to try so hard with me.

That's all I'm saying.

Um...

Okay.

I've been on every diet...

the watermelon diet, the grapefruit diet,

the lemonade diet, seafood diet.

You see food, you eat it?

Yeah. I'm still on that one.

- It's easier for men. - No, I'm just saying,

it's your wedding. You don't want there to be too much...

sausage in the casing.

I'm running the stomach on the greater curve

from the pylorus right to the body.

Okay, I see the perforation.

There's some gastric content.

Damn it. There are nodules in the omentum.

Oh, no.

Okay, we're gonna need to get a quick biopsy

and a quick section. Cautery, please.

Yeah.

To the left.

When I push on the antrum, it's rigid.

I shouldn't have made fun of her.

We don't know what it is. Let's try to stay positive.

As soon as I've finished this, let's take the scopes out.

We gotta open her up.

Damn it.

Okay.

Okay. Okay. Ow.

Cops brought him in. Heroin user.

O.D.'d under a bridge.

Medics gave him naloxone.

He got all jacked up and tried to punch someone in the face.

I was confused.

- How much did you take? - (Chuckles) A lot, I guess, 'cause I'm here.

He's tachycardic, febrile, and temp's 103.

You went through his pockets.

Yep. Found a copy of "The Flowers of Evil."

Wallet, no cash, no drugs. Name's Wesley Taylor.

It's Wes.

And hello, you can't strap me down. I didn't do anything.

Well, we'd love to let you leave, Wes, but you're sick.

I feel okay, honestly.

This whole thing is just crossed wires.

I just want you to unstrap me.

Because you wanna go score,

and we can't let you do that right now.

Look, I need to go because my friend owes me $50, okay?

And I can't call him because I lost my phone.

Sir, he's waiting for me. Okay, I can go, right?

- No. - Come on. Let me go.