Previously on City of Angels: Front desk jockey Evyline Walker is chastised by Dr. Lilian "Vivica Fox" Price for being saucy to the waiting patients; Dr. Ben "Blair Underwood" Turner tells his girlfriend Anna that she's silly to be jealous of Dr. Price, the ex-fiancée he just finished kissing; the budding romance of Nurse Patterson and Dr. Weiss is nipped in the, well, bud when Patterson's black father tells Weiss he doesn't want a Jewish Beastie Boy-looking son-in-law; Turner confronts Price because she's abandoning her Angels of Mercy post to go run UCLA's hospital: "From now on you and me are business," he says, and because it's Blair Underwood, you really want to believe that.
This episode is called "Unhand Me." My dear friend Heather Cocks, who is watching along, has already surmised that there will be a disembodied hand in this episode. She's smart like that.
A Hammond organ and a gospel singer bring us through a smoggy L.A. skyline with "Heeeeyyyy, whoo hooooo" before dumping us at Angels of Mercy hospital, where Dr. Geoffrey Weiss is finishing attending to a patient in a leg cast. Weiss tells the patient he'll be up and around soon, and walks off. The patient, who looks pretty immobile to me, thinks, "Who is this gentle Jewish doctor who heals like the wind and whose Tibetan-inspired music makes me want to get my body movin'?" Just as Weiss leaves the curtained area, Nurse Patterson walks right by him, ignoring him the way you would somebody offering little tiny copies of the Bible on a street corner. "Grace?" Weiss asks. "Sorry, I can't stop right now," she says, clipboard in hand, neck craned back. There should be a rule about that in a hospital: No walking without looking forward.
Patterson joins a meeting already in progress between Dr. Price, Turner's squeeze Anna and the little-seen Dr. "Not Tito" Jackson. The four are arguing because a night nursing supervisor and the head of the ICU have different versions as to why there aren't any beds available for newborns. Dr. Price, wearing a pin-striped power suit, goes on a paperwork rant because nobody at this hospital has a passion for it the way she does. "Then we can't take care of sick babies or anybody else," she says, while a patient in the background does a spit take. She goes on to say that everybody is passing the buck and saying it's not their fault. She is interrupted mid-rant by the intercom calling for her. She rolls her eyes heavenward like, "Why must I be surround by frickin' idiots?" and finishes on a condescending tone: "Either people start taking some personal responsibility for their work and begin to think like a team, we're all going to be looking for a job." The implied threat is that if this doesn't start working and the show doesn't attracts better ratings, everybody's going to be sending résumés to the WB. This inspires looks of fear on the faces of Anna, Dr. Jackson, and Nurse Patterson. Dr. Weiss walks up nonchalantly and deadpans, "Did she just fire everybody?" Dr. Weiss's full name, we come to find out, is Dr. Weiss-Ass. Price hears the remark, and turns at the door. She chews him out about his paperwork and tells him that if he doesn't do it, he can work someplace else. Dr. Weiss looks scared because he doesn't even have the WB to fall back on. "I liked her better in Soul Food," he thinks, maliciously.
Cut to the Bald Men's Room -- Ron Harris's plush office -- where Harris is sitting at his desk across from a bald white guy. Harris grins stupidly for no real reason, and then Price walks in. Both men stand as if this is the first time they've ever been this close to Vivica A. Fox. Harris introduces the man as Dr. Irving something, but is interrupted. "Dr Irwin Cutler," the man says, "Joint Commission." Just when I think this is the start of a really swinging party, it turns out that "Joint Commission" is Jayko, the organization that accredits the hospital. Cutler says he's there for a pre-review and that they should be glad they've been chosen. Harris, still grinning like a loon, says, "Yes, yes, we're proud," and then gets in his inappropriate metaphor of the week: "Our Jayko preparation is like a delicate symphony." So are certain brands of Hershey's chocolate bars. "Any premature performance," Harris begins, while most men watching the show cringe, "would only confirm your readiness for the full survey week!" Cutler finishes for Harris. "Shall we?" Cutler invites. Harris nods and smiles like Jayko is a DisneyWorld add-on. Cutler wrinkles his eyebrows invitingly. Dr. Price looks like she'd rather be anywhere else, like maybe on the set of Why Do Fools Fall in Love?
Price, Cutler, and Harris walk down the hallway, where Harris points out that they color-coded the linoleum. Hey, it's not required by Jayko, but the ladies dig it. Harris sees a guy pushing a breakfast cart toward them. He tries to divert the group, but Cutler says he wants to ask the young fellow a few questions. The cart guy, who greets them with, "Good day, brothers!...Sister!" is the spiritual heir of Chris Rock's mailroom clerk character in Boomerang. Cutler introduces himself to the man as "J. Cutler." Look, are you Irwin, Irving, or J.? Cutler must thinks he's The Talented Mr. Cutler. Cutler asks Breakfast Cart Guy to point out the nearest fire extinguisher. Now come on, J. Not even the firefighters know that. Breakfast Cart Guy says, "Hell, that would be like pissing in the wind, man. This old barn would go up so fast you'd best just kick back and trip on the pyrate." Price looks embarrassed, Harris looks chagrined and Cutler looks confused, as if he's forgotten his "Black to Very Very Very White Language Decoder Ring." Cutler asks Breakfast Cart Guy to "state the mission of his department." Oh Lord. Breakfast Cart Guy starts rambling about something and calls the Jayko guy "Mr. Cutler." "Dr. Cutler," the man interrupts. This guy is all about the name games. Cutler asks what the Breakfast Cart Guy would do if the nurse said his patient was on a low-sodium diabetic diet. "I'm cool. I got extra trays on board," Breakfast Cart Guy answers. Harris and Price offer support that their Meals on Cart Wheels are second-to-none. "Talk is cheap," Cutler says. So is changing your name every ten seconds. Breakfast Cart Guy pulls out a tray from the bottom to satisfy Cutler. He pulls off the cover and inside is a big, nasty-looking disembodied hand.
Heather and Omar: "UNHAND ME!"Harris jumps, Price jumps, Breakfast Cart Guy does a long jump back and after jumping, Cutler cries, "Dear God!" just like they taught him in his Playing Older White Administrative Types acting elective. "That must be a special order," Breakfast Cart Guy says, while Price rolls her eyes until they pop out of her head and nestle alongside the severed hand. Cut to opening credits.
Back in Harris's office, Cutler has just changed his first name to "Pissed." He says that, in twenty-two years, he's never seen such an egregious violation. Price is trying to remember how to spell "egregious" so that she can put it in her paperwork later while Cutler continues, calling the innocent Breakfast Cart Guy a nutcase and speculating on what would have happened if a poor, unsuspecting patient had come across the hand. Trust me, anyone who's ever eaten real hospital food would only have been surprised that the hand didn't come served in gravy. Harris says, with forced optimism, that the hospital will be ready for the Jayko survey. Cutler tells Harris that it all falls on him and that if he fails, his résumé won't be worth a roll of toilet tissue. Harris rolls that bit of imagery around in his head while Cutler walks out to pass himself off as "Enrique" Cutler to a cute passing nurse. "What do you need?" Harris asks Price. His full co-operation, she says. "Full and unequivocal, like always," Harris says. Price projects disbelief about this remark in the form of Significant Eye-Roll Number Three, but takes what she can get. "Let's start at the top," she says. Ron Harris gets all ready to get bitched out by Dr. Cutler again, but it turns out she's still in character when she says it.
Cut to the hall where Dr. Turner is flagged down by Price. He's supposed to be at a Jayko planning meeting, but instead he's irresponsibly attending to medical emergencies in the ER. Well, if he can't make the meeting, she says, maybe he can meet with the house staff later. Turner says he'll try. Before she can walk off, he says "Lilian," and you know he's about to get all needy on her. He says that the last time they talked, he lost his temper. Her career goals are her own, and are none of his business. Ya think? She offers that she could have been more forthcoming about her career plans, even though they really are none of his business. He says she's doing her job at Angels of Mercy and getting it done, severed hands and all. He offers her a little patronizing pat on the elbow and walks off. "It's just..." she says, bringing him back. She says she feels like ever since she got to the hospital they've been on an emotional roller coaster. One day they're making out in the broom closet [Heather and I both go, "Whoa!"], the they're at each other's throats. Or maybe it was that they were at each other's throats in the broom closet. These things can get confusing. Turner apologizes again, then gives her a look meant to melt the cold butter around her heart. He gives her a high five and tells her to give them Hell. Just not in the broom closet.
Cut to Clerk Evyline Walker, who tells a patient that if he wants a neurology appointment, he'll have to wait four months. The man, who looks a little like Grady from Sanford and Son, says that he has an acute neurological crisis, and that everything spins, like the washing machine, and his car's wheels and that spinner whenever he plays Twister. He needs help! Walker says, "Think I don't recognize you?" and gets on him for coming in so often on his disability benefits. Walker suddenly rubs her belly and looks like she's in pain, which on TV means that you're either in a commercial for Maalox or that you're pregnant. "Aw sweet thing," Grady says, coming back to put the Old Man Smooth Talk on her. He asks when the Blessed Event will be. Walker is due in fifteen weeks. He asks if it's a boy or girl. It's a big boy, like his Daddy, Walker replies, which means that if he doesn't get the hell away from the desk, Big Daddy is going to come and give him an acute fist crisis. Grady calls it a miracle and then subtly segues into asking if she could do a little miracle for him with the schedule. Is this man smooth or what? Walker moves her full lips around like she's going to do a camel spit, but instead overbooks for week, adding Grady to the schedule. A nurse, who has even more sass and a higher-pitched voice, strolls over to tell Walker that she's turning into a cupcake. This is foreshadowing for later when Walker will in fact be turned into a road pancake. The nurse says that in addition to these people (pan to sad, sick-looking people), they have a bunch of Jayko crap to deal with courtesy of Dr. Lilian "Broom Closet" Price. Walker says she needs a break, but promises to return as The Iron Lady.
Outside, as the gospel chords play, Walker directs a withering look at a smoker standing outside, until he puts out his cancer stick. Walker, ripe with child, hears some grunting and moaning off to the side and begins walking that way. She spots two people struggling in a car. "Hey! Hey! HEY!" she yells. She starts pulling a scruffy-looking guy in blue flannel off a woman. Walker, no stranger to yelling, cries, "Boy! Girl! Ooh, my God, no you don't!" and after the girl escapes, Walker tries to get the keys out of the ignition. The car takes off, dragging Walker back. She is tossed aside, where she rolls backward and onto her belly. The car backs up, revs, then heads straight for Walker just as she's getting up. She gets hit, then flips over the Oldsmobile's roof, T.J. Hooker-style. She lands on her front and it all looks very painful and terrifying. The almost-rape victim screams in horror. The car takes off and the woman frantically calls for help.
Cut to the cops wheeling in Walker. "Evyline Walker's been hit by a car!" a nurse says. Turner asks, "Evyline from outpatient?" They roughly take her off the stretcher, where her naked, plastic belly juts out. Bedside manner firmly in hand, Dr. Williams says he's surprised the car didn't bounce off her. "Cute," Patterson says, as if to her little brother. Turner feels around and says there's a broken pelvis, maybe a broken spine. Patterson's called OB and they're on their way. Turner begins intubating. Angie, the woman who played Ross's ex-girlfriend Julie on Friends, walks in, throwing her keys and purse to the first person she sees, as if they're the ER valet. "The pregnancy was going great until now," she says. Yeah, getting run over by a big American car will do that. Williams and Jackson bitch at each other because Williams has some hernias to perform and doesn't seem to like Walker. Williams fails to win the Humanitarian of the Year Award from his fellow staffers. Angie can't get a reading, so she says it's either a dead Doppler or a dead baby. Jackson takes off to find another Doppler. A very large orderly named Lester comes through, saying the Dr. Price has been riding him like a Huffy all day about radiation bags. "That's the Iron Lady!" he says, pointing to Walker. "Boy, I figured any car would have bounced off." Williams and Patterson exchange amusingly annoyed looks. Jackson comes back with another reader. This time, Angie finds the heartbeat, with an emphatic "Yes!" Turner pronounces the baby alive as we fade to black and white.
Loud gospel singing rouses us from our commercial-induced coma. Ron Harris bursts into the records office demanding to see Wendell. A nurse is on the phone talking about residents cutting an eight-inch something off a dead body. "It shrivels a little when you're dead, though," the nurse says. Wendell greets Harris with a hearty handshake and thanks him for sending Wendell and the Mrs. to an embalmers' convention. "Talk about wild!" Wendell says. Oh dear. Harris screams, demanding to know how a severed hand ended up on a food tray. My guess -- a Hamburger Helper commercial gone horribly awry. Wendell says it depends. They walk to the computer where the nurse is still talking about detachable penises. "No, they don't sell it after they're done," she says to the phone, at about which time Dr. Price rolls her eyes somewhere at the other end of the hospital. Wendell kicks the nurse off the desk while Harris hangs up the phone for her. Wendell asks whether it was a left or a right hand. Harris holds out his own hands and decides, "right." Wendell, who in addition to being an excellent slow-roast pig cook, is a crack computer guru, and finds that a severed hand was sent to a lab after dissection. A penis and a hand were switched accidentally, Wendell says. "Don't the residents know the difference?" he asks, while I silently swear never, ever to get treated for carpel tunnel syndrome in Los Angeles. Wendell prints out something that says, "Penis/hand mixup: no sign of each. Possible Siegfried/Roy involvement." Turns out Dr. Price signed the form. Harris goes off on a righteous stomp out of the office. "Dr Price must be building herself a right-hand man," Wendell says. The nurse makes a comment about the missing penis that's obvious and not at all funny. You'll thank me for not sharing.
Harris storms into Price's office, screaming about having her job, and it turns out that the whole Irving-Irwin,-J.-Cutler/severed-hand thing was all a sham to get Harris' attention. Oh, Dr. Price, you are the devious scamp, aren't you? Harris screams about Price's medical responsibilities. Price says that the staff needs a functioning hospital, not a "dysfunctional menagerie" like some law firm run by hallucinating, wattle-fondling children. Harris asks if she gives a "rat's rear end" (his words, not mine) about the hospital. You see, he knows all about UCLA. Angels of Mercy is just a stepping stone for her. Price says she's doing her job. Harris screams, "Please don't insult me!" Price thinks, "You're ugly and your mother dresses you funny," but holds it in. Price invokes the name of Edwin O'Malley, the hospital's head man in charge. Harris speculates aloud about Price's "special relationship with O' Malley." If it's anything like her closet-jumping with Turner, all I have to say is ewwwww. Price asks why she can't be treated like a respectable administrator. Harris counters that she has no credentials. Yeah, like that medical degree Harris doesn't have is just for show. Price calls Angels of Mercy a chronic, festering embarrassment that has no business being accredited. The phone rings, and Price decides to leave to see about Walker's accident. Harris follows, asking if the parking lot was an OSHA hazard.
Cut to the near-rape victim, Ms. Lopez, being treated by Dr. Weiss for face cuts. A policeman stands by as she tells them that they never listened when she said this guy kept bothering her, and he was never arrested. She says that she's a lot luckier than Walker and her baby. "She saved me from being raped," Lopez says. Weiss says it's too soon to know how Walker will do. The woman blames the police again, then tells Weiss that they have to help Walker and they have to save the baby. "You know what, you're right!" Weiss says, determined now to be a doctor and save lives instead of just pestering Nurse Patterson all day.
Turner, Angie and company are at the x-ray station deciding whether to move Walker. Angie says that the baby is getting weaker with each contraction. Price wanders around looking for something to do. Patterson says that everybody wants to help on this case.
Up in the OR, Turner is wearing a nice red Kufi hat. Angie says that they should deliver the baby even though it's more than three months premature. Turner briefly considers transferring the baby to another hospital, but his girlfriend says that they can take of it at Angels of Mercy. One of the residents asks what'll happen if they can't stop the bleeding in Walker's uterus. "Her first baby will be her only baby," Turner says. "If this kid doesn't grow up to be President, it won't be our fault." What? Did I miss something? Is there some surgeon out there right now agonizing over the Republican primaries?
Cut to a break room where some doctors are watching a freeway chase featuring the man who hit Walker. The other doctors offer to take Turner's shifts off his hands. One doctor bursts in holding his stomach and screaming about the cafeteria food before hitting the bathroom. No one reacts to that at all.
Turner goes back to the trauma ward where they've brought in the guy who ran over Walker. He's got a gunshot wound. A police officer tells Turner to take his time with this one. Weiss says that the blood banks are low on O-negative. Turner says that the whole staff will have to donate, including Lester, who doesn't like that idea at all. Lester says that he was supposed to be off, but he's there to help. "Don't ask me to help out the man who hurt her." Doesn't this happen every week on ER? ["It certainly happened this week on ER." -- Wing Chun] Lester complains about Dr. Price's endless string of meetings just as she walks in. Price accuses Lester of being the weak link in the chain. Price says that if Lester donates blood, she'll guarantee that the attempted rapist won't ever get it. Can she do that? Lester still doesn't want to do it until a nurse calls him a big fool. He grudgingly agrees. Weiss leans on a tray like he's the coolest fool in school just before Turner tells him to push a gurney up to the OR.
Cut to a news broadcast in front of the hospital, where the entire city of Los Angeles is riveted by Walker's story. Mike Ovitz calls Harris and they negotiate the movie rights. Turner walks in on Simon Walker, the husband, and the rest of the family. Turner says the injuries were serious, and that Mrs. Walker's spleen had to be removed. ["That happened on ER this week too! MY GOD!" -- Wing Chun] Then, Turner says, they had to deliver the one-pound baby boy. ("Were they too cheap to show any of that?" Heather asks.) Walker developed DIC and had to have her uterus removed. The new father reacts with understandable sadness. He mentions that the guy who hit her is in the hospital. "This hospital takes care of that kind of animal?" Well, actually there's a veterinary wing they don't talk about much, but yes, they do. Simon's mad that the guy is getting medical treatment. Turner assures him that the whole hospital is taking care of Evyline. Fade to black and white on the grieving family and a sad Simon.
A bunch of scary brown statues stare out on a smoggy day as, inside, the doctors are trying to rescue the man who ran over Evyline Walker. The bullet missed the aorta. Dr. Weiss says that the bullet failed its mission. Turner asks for some bowel-repairing music (would it be tacky to suggest George Michael? I'm guessing yes). Instead, we get Tupac's "California," which if you'll remember goes something like, "In the city...California..." Because if the title City of Angels didn't tip you off to the setting of the show, this song just might. Turner opens up the philosophical phone lines by asking everybody if the police should have just let the guy die on the street (the patient, not Tupac). Williams says that it doesn't make sense to take care of a would-be rapist/murderer. Turner says that they would be vigilantes and "unsurgical" if they didn't take care of him. "A case is a case," says Turner, paraphrasing Gertrude Stein. "You didn't make him a guy like this and you didn't shoot him." Didn't they cover any of these ethical dilemmas in medical school? Williams is getting to work on a good case, so he should stop complaining, Turner says.
The two doctors from the break room come in to tell Turner that Walker is having some major blood problems. He scrubs out, then scrubs into the other OR where the doctor who ate at the cafeteria earlier (who happens to be Indian -- please check your City of Angels minority scorecard) is going to assist. Walker has a ruptured ventricle. Turner uses the chest spreader and I get a massive ER flashback except it's a flashback to almost every episode of that show. Seen it. Turner says that if Evyline is indeed The Iron Lady, now's her chance to prove it.
Cut to Price's office. Ron Harris, looking sharp as ever, walks in and tells her that Edwin O'Malley's office is calling about the baby. Someone close to O'Malley has a neo-natalist wife at another hospital. The question was raised if the baby should be transfer. Harris says there would be no shame in transferring, especially since the hospital's record with preemies is marginal. Price says that's because they get the sickest babies. Harris raises his voice, arguing that the supervisor is breathing down their collective neck and that such a public case could deal a fatal blow to the Jayko survey. It always comes back to Jayko, doesn't it? I start to wonder whether Price and Harris have ever had a conversation at stable decibels. Price says that O'Malley (like Harris himself) has no medical background and is just doing what he can to please the public, issuing proclamations from Mount Olympus. Points to Price for mythological reference. Price says that she and Anna have talked about transferring (the baby, not Dr. Turner), and they all agree the baby should stay. Plus the nurses will quit if the baby is transferred. Price says that she is the medical expert and he should defer. Harris gets all uppity, straightening his tie and whatnot, but finally leaves.
Turner yawns as he gets out of an elevator to greet the parents of the psycho-rapist-preganant-woman-runner-over. The husband looks like a bloated Tim Conway while the woman looks like a scary version of the lady from Strangers With Candy. Turner says that their son will make a full recovery -- I mean, except that he's crazy and all. The parents say that their son has been under psychiatric care all of his life and doesn't always take his meds. Turner sympathizes. The mother asks how Evyline and the baby are doing. Turner says that both are critical. The father asks if they can speak to the Walker family. Turner says he doesn't think it's a good idea, but the father insists. Right about then, a big giant idea balloon pops up over Turner's head that says, BAD IDEA! but he's tired and ignores it. Instead he gives in and escorts them to meet Mr. "I Just Lost My Wife's Uterus And How Was Your Day?" Walker, who is obviously distraught. The rapist's father gives a little speech about being sorry and that they're praying for the Walkers. Mr. Walker asks, "What is that, a Hallmark greeting?" while the parents look very uncomfortable. Mr. Walker calls the boy an "animal" again and says that the parents are responsible for his behavior. Much tense arguing goes back and forth until Mr. Walker says that their son should have been locked in a cage. They start to leave and Walker yells them off, saying he'll never forgive what's happened. Turner, who stands off to the side with nary an idea balloon to help him now, just sighs.
We cut to Nurse Patterson, who is arranging juice bottles on a tray, which is infinitely more fun than being bugged by Dr. Weiss, when who should walk up to her. Weiss says quite correctly that she's not going to talk to him now either. Patterson says that she's sorry she didn't call back last night, but she crashed and at 2 AM and woke up to find a cat on her head. Patterson makes the weirdest non-sequiturs on the show. Weiss says that her cat is evil, which is not the best way to a girl's heart. Weiss asks whether Patterson is busy that night. She says she is. He says that she's turned down every offer to hang out since the disastrous dinner at her father's. She says she needs time to "sort it out," which is Relationship Speak for "I'd rather be up in the OR for a hernia operation than see you." She says she'll call him soon and he says, "I'll be waiting" which is Relationship Speak for "I'll be waiting."
Anna is talking to a group of medical students while standing to the incubator holding the tiny baby Walker. The camera is positioned in a way that you can't see the newborn. The difference between ER and City of Angels is that on ER they have the budget to show you what a one-pound baby looks like. Papa Walker gets over his rage long enough to visit the baby. Anna says she thinks that the baby's going to pull through. Turner mouths "thank you" to Anna as she walks away, and I get a creepy Lucy flashback from ER. Mr. Walker has a tender moment where he talks about how much Evyline wanted this baby and how somebody tried really hard to take that away from them. Turner tells him that he's lucky, what with having a wife and child survive and a whole hospital team behind them. Mr. Walker has a change-of-heart moment when Turner invokes the other family, who also almost lost a son. Turner leaves, Mr. Walker sits down and we get our first sideways look at the preemie.
Heather: It's a gerbil.A Sudafed commercial goes from black and white to color, which is a total reverse City of Angels. Sam Neill is still shlepping around as Thomas Jefferson while I moan and cry.
Omar: It's a guinea pig.
Heather: It's the fakest thing I've ever seen.
We skip the gospel choir to come straight to Dr. Price speaking at a press conference. She says that everybody's okay, except Ron Harris, who is a poopie-head. Or at least, she thinks that as he stands behind her. Her little speech is being broadcast live, probably on Hospital C-SPAN. Price says that while she's the first to criticize when work is shabby or somebody's lazy (Lester rolls his eyes at this), she is also the first to praise great work. Of course, we've never seen her do this, but all the reporters seem to buy it. Price calls Lester a hero, as is everybody else who donated blood. Lester decides not to pour sugar in her gas tank after all. Price continues on the praise train, pulling up Patterson and Anna for their great work. She doesn't mention Turner, but then he gets to make out with her in a broom closet, so it's all good. Price finishes by saying that the old county hospital won't just roll over and die, although some of their patients may. They will rededicate themselves to making the hospital great. Everybody claps except the reporters, who in real life never clap at press conferences. It's like a rule. In keeping with the "Unhand Me" theme, Heather says, "They just gave her a hand.
Cut to the night skyline over Angels of Mercy. Edwin O'Malley walks into Price's office where she's studying on the couch. He says something like "way to go, slugger," sounding like the voice over in the Smuckers Raspberry Preserves commercials. Price gets mad that he wanted to transfer the baby. He sits himself down, looking like Ted Kennedy after a bender. O'Malley plays with a little tiger from Price's desk and says it's no big deal since everything turned out all right. Price says it's not politics and O'Malley says it's all politics. O'Malley brings up her UCLA job, which everybody within a hundred-mile radius knows about. O'Malley tells her to start shopping for a condo in Westwood, which must be some kind of L.A. compliment. ["It is; Westwood is the pretty nice neighbourhood around UCLA." -- Wing Chun] Price looks annoyed when O' Malley says he can help her find an honest realtor.
Mr. Walker visits his recuperating wife. Turner watches outside the window as the husband asks Walker to wake up and give him the name of their child. Evyline chooses that exact moment to wake up. Mr. Walker walks out, sees the would-be rapist across the hall and completes his Change of Heart. "You know where I might find his people?" Mr. Walker asks Turner. Another big idea balloon materializes, but this one says, "It's okay." Walker gets out of an elevator and walks toward the parents, who look like they just want to run away. Mr. Walker apologizes. He was scared and angry. Now he sees that they're in pain too. This is all very therapeutic for everyone involved, I'm sure. Mr. Walker goes back to the elevator after the exchange gets sappy, and thanks Dr. Turner, who by this time is so tired, he thinks he's being thanked for helping the family genetically engineer their baby in Gattaca.
Turner finds Price in the abandoned cafeteria. They congratulate each other for their respective victories. Price says that everything turned out well for the Jayko preparations. Turner hints that Price should stay. Price says she's drinking tea because she hasn't had time to shop for any at home. Turner relays what happened with Mr. Walker, then demonstrates how the man took his wife's hand. Turner holds Price's hand, and Price doesn't look at all happy about it. Turner says that Mr. Walker told his wife that he loved her and would always be there for her. They hold hands like that on the cafeteria table. Anna walks in behind them and stops, heartbroken and sad. We fade to black and white on Turner The Cheater and Price The Ruthless Administrator.
week's episode is called "Ax and You Shall Receive," and Heather has already figured out that somebody's going to get a hatchet to the skull. Oh, and judging from the previews, Turner and Price are seriously going to get it on.