Episode Report Card Wing Chun: A | 6 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Love's Labor Lost
By Wing Chun | Season 1 | Episode 20 | Aired on 03.08.1995
Before they go anywhere, Sean darts in front of Mark and demands, "Where are you taking her?!" Mark explains that they're going to do an emergency C-section, and that they need Sean's consent. Sean sputters, "You don't know what the hell you're doing! Have you ever done this before?" Mark says, surely striking pure molten terror directly into Sean's heart, "I've scrubbed in many times." Oh. Great. Well, I've driven my car "many times," but that doesn't mean I'm about to pull onto the track at the Indy 500, douchebag. Sean says that he wants another doctor to do it, but Mark says there isn't time: "If we wait five more minutes, your baby's brain-dead." Sean gets a change of heart and screams, "Oh my god. Go! Go! Go!"
In the hall, Sean runs up beside Jodi's head and says, "Sweetie, I'm right here. I love you so much." Mark keeps yelling at Sean to get out of the way and let everyone work, but it's not until they actually get to the trauma room that Sean allows himself to be separated from his wife. As Mark closes the doors on him, Sean continues to murmur, "I'm right here. I'm right here." ["Aaaaaand cue Sars starting to cry." -- Pavlov]
In the trauma room, Jodi looks terrified. They roll her onto her back again, and someone squirts betadine all over her belly. Susan still has her hand in Jodi's crotch, where it's been since they left Jodi's first room. She asks Mark about anaesthesia, but Mark says there's no time, and that he'll "throw in a local" in the same tone I tell Glark I'm going to throw on a bra and go to the corner for a Slurpee. Chen squeals, "She's seizing!" and indeed, Jodi is seizing. Mark calls out a bunch of drug orders, and intubates. Susan gets Carter to stick his hand in where hers was. Mark says they'll bag Jodi for now. Chen knocks over a tray. Susan yells, "She's going to stroke out!" Mark calls for everyone to chill for a second. Everyone takes a breath and stays frozen in place. Mark slowly and calmly calls out more drug orders, and asks for someone to call NICU and get someone down for the baby. Finally, he very emphatically says, "Somebody physically go up to the OB and drag somebody down here, okay?" By now, Mark is gowned and gloved. Sean stands in the hall, in shock, watching through the window. A nurse masks Mark, who starts with the C-section. He asks Susan to back him up on where the fascia is, and she's all, "Uh. Yeah. That looks right." Mark's all calling for equipment, but Carol isn't even familiar with what he's asking for. Once Mark's made his incision, Susan blurts, "Isn't there something about a bladder flap?" Over his mask, Mark's eyes pop, and he chokes, "Pickups." And then...oh, man. Susan grabs one side of the incision, and Mark the other, and they pull -- with evident effort -- away from each other. Perhaps there's a smell or something, because Chen and Carter both start and blink and look a bit nauseated. Looking for reassurance, Mark (sort of) asks, "You cut across the lower segment of the uterus?" "You're asking me?" Susan mutters, and Mark replies, "I'm asking God." In the hall, Sean sweats and swallows. Mark calls for suction. Susan cautions, "I don't think you're all the way through," and Mark quietly admits, "I don't want to cut the baby." Chen and Carter swallow and try not to vomit. After a moment, Mark says, "I think I'm in." Right on cue, a machine starts beeping angrily. "Oh my god!" Susan squeaks. "There's two litres in there," adds Mark. "She's got an abruption!" Susan exposits, "She's bleeding out!" Mark tells Chen and Carter to "gown up," and from some unseen part of the room, Carol calls, "Get the baby out!" Cut to Jodi's face, which is calm (probably because she's unconscious). Susan reminds Mark to "hurry" and "get the baby out," but Mark either doesn't hear or ignores her, because Carol has to say it again. Mark yells for them to forget about cross-matched blood, and to get eight units of O-neg instead. Susan tells Mark to hurry. Mark insists, "I've got him. He's big." We see from Sean's perspective as Mark wrestles Jared out of Jodi's womb. "He's blue," Mark calls. Sean starts to smile at the sight of his son, but doesn't quite make it. Machines beep some more. Mark calls for Susan to suction Jared's nose, and then to clamp the umbilical cord. Dude, he really is blue. Mark snaps, "He's not breathing." In the hall, Sean swallows hard.