By Joe R
Let's start off with the Nazi, huh? So the once-a-month dental services of Ed Begley Jr. arrive in Jungle Land, as his first patient is beloved oldster nicknamed Abuelito, a gringo who's been living in Jungle Land for 60 or so years, teaching the little children, see. But when Mina discovers a lesion in his mouth, which then ruptures, leading to a terminal cancer diagnosis, Abuelito lets it slip that the gold fillings in his teeth were pilfered from the Jews at Buchenwald. Nazi! Mina, emotionless little minx that she is, immediately wants to grill his ass, while Dr. Clark, who knows the old coot, tries in vain to push compassion. Mina and Cole ultimately call in the U.S. feds, but the night before he's to be retrieved, Abuelito begins to hemorrhage. Rather than letting him die, Mina's determined to keep him alive long enough to face judgment. Because she's Jewish? No, because she's a dick! It's why she's the one character I like. Of course, her heart ends up growing three sizes or whatever, and after she helps Herr Abuelito make it through his first night with a trachea tube, she ends up soft-pedalling the whole Nazi thing to the children who come to see Abuelito off.
Meanwhile, Lily joins Dr. Ben and Charlie on a day trip to San Miguel to pick up their mail, which includes crucial antibiotics for Lily's patient with a severe leg infection. Lily learns how to talk tough with the local corrupt bureaucracy, and she also learns that Dr. Ben's wife is alive! And in a vegetative state! (Though possibly not for long, because we never see her face, leaving room for casting a recurring guest star later on.) Turns out, Ben's keeping her alive and married to him in order to plumb her trust fund in order to finance the Clinic. This is all supposed to give him a layer of moral corruption underneath all that dreamboat, but the fact that he's so upfront about this to Lily only makes him seem like more of a hero.
Elsewhere, Plastics learns that his macho hottie patient with a priaptic wang is also the boyfriend of that bartendress he was flirting with last week. He's all conflicted about it, but also really sweet. And Dr. Cole ends up having his impacted wisdom tooth operated on without anesthesia because he's a drug addict and he can't take narcotics. I was wondering when we'd uncover our secret addict.
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