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The clinic got robbed overnight, which means no pain meds, no antibiotics and very few supplies are on hand to treat the day's patients. Which means it's leaves and bugs to the rescue! Also stolen? Dr. Ben's good mood, as he's positively bitchy to all and sundry.
The major patient of the week is a simple appendectomy, which becomes significantly more complicated once you introduce the possibility of surgery without anesthesia. Cole makes the bold suggestion that he head out into the jungle to score some heroin in order to sedate the guy. Dr. Ben's all "Absolutely not!" and is kind of a huge dick to Cole about his drug past. Ultimately, though, a good idea is a good idea, and taking Mina into the jungle to buy heroin is a good idea. She ends up bartering her services as a doctor for one of the dealer's OD'ing friends, and it ends up working like a charm in surgery. Only too bad that Cole -- who's having a terrible, no good, very bad day -- palmed some of the hard stuff and looks very tempted to use it.
Plastics runs into two college bros who happen to belong to his fraternity. One bro ends up having viral meningitis, and without meds, Plastics appeals to Papa Cheech for some jungle medicine. It actually works, and Papa also gives plastics a pointer or two for how to deal with Alma's disapproving dad.
Clark gets a patient with a swollen eye, which turns out to have been caused by a bite from a parasite-carrying bug. Clark and Cole trek out into the jungle, where Clark stamps out the offending insects and tries to explain to the girl's mom (Scrubs' Judy Reyes!) that if left untreated, the parasite will cause her daughter's heart to fail in 20 years. She cites her own sister as an example of what happens when the parasite goes unchecked. Later on, Cole's like, "Nice story, but you don't have a sister." So, yes, Clark's heart is in the process of failing, only she doesn't want Dr. Ben to find out, him having gone through enough with his wife and all. (Speaking of whom, new test results for the wife come in, they're not good, and Ben seems to have resolved to pull the plug. We'll see.)
So ultimately, a new shipment of drugs comes in, and the appendix guy and the parasite girl (and her sister) get loaded into the helicopter for some big-city medical treatment. Which makes it all the more horrifying when Ben and Clark watch the chopper sputter and crash, setting us up for week.
Oh, and Lily and Mateo totally do it underneath a waterfall, and it is HOT.
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Want more? The full recap starts right below!Previously: Dr. Ben's wife was in a coma but her trust fund was not. Zee dumped Cole. Dr. Clark clearly had some sort of deadly ailment that she was hiding from everybody. Lily pulled a sexy bullet out of the sexy abdomen of sexy Mateo, then covered for him when the police came looking.
Currently, Plastics and Alma are making revolting kissy-faces at each other after an all-night game of checkers, which may be both literal and euphemism. Meanwhile, Lily and Mina are trekking to work and talking about how Mateo has been MIA since skipping out of the hospital. Lily insists that she's only concerned for him medically. Mina is dubious. Back with Plastics, his makeout session with Alma is interrupted by the arrival of her scowling dad, who looks like someone who would've tag-teamed with Captain Lou Albano back in the day. Alma tried to talk him down, in Spanish, so all Plastics can make out is "Americano." Alma kind of runs away and leaves Plastics alone with her dad. Then he runs away, which is smart.
At the clinic, Cole scowls at the late-arriving Gringo Brigade as he tries to deal with a patient with acute appendicitis. The man's a local but his wife is an American transplant -- they run the local lodge. Looks like they're going to have to operate, and Cole hauls the doctors out to go retrieve the usual pain meds. Out in the hall, Cole growls at them some more about being late and getting asses in gear and such. Once they're far enough behind Cole that it's safe, Plastics jokes that clearly someone isn't getting any. Lily and Mina tease Plastics about that clearly not being the case with him, but they're interrupted by Cole coming across broken glass in the hall. They all look into the pharmacy to find it completely ransacked. "No pain meds," Lily mutters, gobsmacked. "No antibiotics," Mina adds. Why that Grinch even stole the last can of Who hash! Plastics is darkly amused that they even stole the tongue depressors. Cole -- his mood decidedly not improved by this development -- grunts, "They took everything," followed by the promo-friendly, "We've been robbed, people!" TITLE CARD!
After making inventories across the clinic, the doctors re-convene to see what they have. It's not much, and Cole gets off the phone and says the chopper's busy with a bush crash so they won't be able to get them supplies until tonight. Dr. Ben is PISSED. He goes on kind of a blame carousel, noting that Cole was on duty last night (he says he was out front, these guys came in through the back), that Zee was supposed to lock the doors (she says the locks were cut off, so "don't start with me"), and finally he glares at Lily and says they could've used police protection last night. Zee explains that the cops aren't patrolling for them like they used to since they "harbored a fugitive." Lily sticks up for herself and says this is no one's fault. Cole agrees with her, so Ben's like, "Well, here we are regardless. Good luck treating your patients today," then leaves in a huff. Charming! Cole and Zee powwow over what's gotten into him, and they agree that the last time he got this way was when "Abby" (a.k.a. the wife) went comatose. Zee then resolves to see what botanicals she's got that could substitute for the meds, but Cole stops her for a moment with a hand on her hand. He says he misses her in his bed, to which she awkwardly tells him that she's got some herbs that can help him sleep. The open the doors on the clinic.
Lily and Mina are back in with Appendix and his wife. He's chewing on some kind of plant that's helping with the pain, while Lily and Mina prepare an ultrasound. Neither Appendix nor Wife seem all that concerned about the clinic's lack of meds at the moment -- in fact, Wife enthuses about how "the jungle provides," which Mina of course throws some cold water on ("everything except paved roads") in a way that makes me love her some more. Of course, it can't provide a working ultrasound machine either, as Lily notes it got knocked over during the heist. So there's that too. Wife talks up "Julio" as not just her husband but her "fix-it guy" which is such a Shonda expression, in the midst of a total Shonda plot, where the tension stops being the medical whatever but the Constantly Reiterated Big Love of the patient. It's not an un-valid approach but it becomes wearying in its repetition.
It's Bros Dragging Bros! Plastics comes across one American frat type dragging another American frat type up the stairs to the clinic. It appears to be your garden-variety wicked hangover, and the sober one of the two could absolutely play Mac's younger brother on It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Plastics has Charlie pull up a wheelchair and says they'll get some IV fluids into Drunky. As he plops down in the chair, Plastics notices his t-shirt -- "Zeta Tau!" Shocker, Plastics was in a frat. The same frat as these two guys, from different schools (Northwestern for Plastics; Alabama State for the other two), but still: Bros! Plastics lights up at seeing some kindred spirits, and Charlie asks what a fraternity is. Plastics tries to talk it up as a "collegiate male social club," but Drunky's like, "It's for boozin' and scammin' chicks!" Also for making awesome homoerotic YouTube singalongs to Katy Perry, but that gets left unsaid. Drunky barfs into his hat, and Plastics says they should find out what Zee has for nausea.
Mina and Lily convene and talk about Lynn (a.k.a. "Wife"), who Lily totally thinks is awesome because she made the jungle her home. "That could be us," she says, but Mina's ready with that cold water again. She says she's leaving after her rotation is done -- she's gotta get back on her path to residency. Lily, alarmed, says her first rotation is over in a month -- she's leaving in a month? Mina clearheadedly explains: Dr. Ben gives all the juicy cases to Lily, Clark hates her, and Cole thinks she's a freak. I'd say two out of those three are true, but not even Lily's going to quibble. They're interrupted by Julio's monitors going crazy -- his, um, heart stopped? From a burst appendix? SHIT, y'all -- one more thing to be deathly worried about. So Zee, Ben, Lily, and Mina all scramble to try and re-start his heart, while Lynn looks on in horror. And, of course, the shock paddles aren't charging because the thieves stole the battery. Lynn shrieks, "DO SOMETHING!" and finally Dr. Ben up and punches Julio directly in the chest. Which...works. So that's two episodes in the first six where Ben punching a guy has gotten results. Noted. Ben says they need to operate NOW. "But without anesthesia..." Lynn begins. "...He'll feel everything," Ben finishes. Ominous!
After the break, Clark stomps in and gives Ben hell for not calling her in after the clinic got robbed. Clearly, he thinks she should still be resting after what he reminds her was the bends with pulmonary hemorrhaging. She gets indignant, though, saying she's bored out of her mind and swam a mile this morning. "I'm back on the clock," she says as she stomps out. "Deal with it." Meanwhile, Plastics has to deal with his drunken brother in Greek-dom. Only he's not drunk, as per Plastics' examination. The dude's buddy is barely finished asking what the problem is, then, when the non-drunk starts seizing. Never a good sign. Plastics moves to ask the nurse to bring something to inject him with until he realizes they're out of meds. What does that mean, in this case? They just have to wait the seizure out.
Clark is out in the waiting area looking for a Felicia Moran. When she finds her waiting with her sister, and she sees it's a young girl with a swollen eye, like a bee stung her. She says it only got this way this morning. Clark, looking quite concerned, says it's not a mosquito bite, like she thinks, but another kind of bite altogether, and she needs to treat it before it gets into her system. Before Clark can explain what that would entail, a man walks up with his bloodied arm hastily bandaged. Clearly an emergency. Clark tells Felicia to wait here and she'll be back to help her, but those girls look anxious to get to school, lest their mother murder them.
Drs. Ben and Cole, plus Zee, Lily, and Mina, all prepare to rush Julio into surgery, while Lynn begs Mina to fix her fix-it man. Mina's like, "Um...we certainly will try." As they wheel Julio out, Ben and Cole argue over their meager anesthesia problem. Ben says they have enough lidocaine to numb him for 30 minutes; Cole says there is absolutely no way they'll be done with the surgery in time, no matter how fast Ben is. Ben's like, "That's really our only option." Julio puts on a brave face, but the nightmarish implications of waking up in the middle of surgery are not lost on him.
Plastics is performing a spinal tap on the now-sleeping Non-Drunk while his pal, Mac Jr., rambles about him not sleeping this well since he had mono freshman year. Charlie comes in with a message for Plastics from Alma's father, who wants to meet him at the cantina tonight. Charlie seriously has no better ways he can be of help than relaying messages from Alma's dad? Shut up, Charlie. He and Mac Jr. chuckle a bit over Plastics having kept the man's daughter out all night, but Plastics has actual work to do, like diagnosing Non-Drunk with viral meningitis. The treatment, as you may have guessed, is a course of anti-viral meds that they now do not have. Mac Jr. says he's trying hard not to freak out, then proceeds to freak out about how, while Non-Drunk is not exactly a model citizen, he can't just die in the jungle. No, a freak beer pong accident is the fate that best fits him. Plastics, calm as can be, tells Mac Jr. not to worry -- he has a treatment plan. As you might expect, as Plastics exits, Charlie asks what said plan would be. Plastics: "Come up with a treatment plan."
While Dr. Ben and Lily (folk-jazz duo extraordinaire!) scrub in for the surgery, Cole keeps harping on the anesthesia thing. Julio needs IV narcotics, and Cole says he can get some. He manages to really underline the "I can get some" part. Ben turns and looks at him like he just confessed to shooting JR, and Zee clarifies for the squares in the audience. "You want to buy..." she starts. "...Heroin," he finishes. And also an opener for this can of worms.
After the break, Cole and Ben argue pretty intensely about the heroin idea. Cole says it's a better alternative to Julio feeling Ben's scalpel all up in him. But Ben's coming from a more historical perspective -- he doesn't want Cole anywhere near the junk. Cole yells that he's been clean for nine months now. Ben: "Last time you were sober for a year!" Lily and Mina exchange looks after that one. Neither Ben nor Zee think this is a good idea, but Mina speaks up for Cole -- she says Julio would never come back from pain this intense. At worst, Ben wants to send Mina in to buy, which would be hilarious if everyone weren't so angry. Cole finally growls that he'll take "Greenwich" with him, but he's going. He stomps off and there's a beat before Mina's like, "Guess I'm Greenwich?" and follows him out.
Meanwhile, Clark returns from treating her bloody-handed patient, only Felicia and her sister are gone. Clark calls for her, or for anyone who might know her. Her tone is getting more and more urgent, and the camera swirling around her clearly suggests that this is serious. Somebody has an acute sense of her own mortality!
Plastics has taken Charlie with him on his quest to find the ever somnambulistic Papa Cheech (Plastics calls him "Big Papa," because: obviously). Papa looks surprised (and then immediately condescending) that Plastics is asking for his help on a case. Plastics explains it's viral meningitis for a patient whose immune system was worn down by the partying inherent in Spring Break. After sniffing haughtily about how OBVIOUSLY he knows what Spring Break is, Papa declines to help such a person. Plastics then tries the "he's my brother," argument, though he starts to stammer that he's not actually his brother, it's just that ... "It's a collegiate male social club," Charlie pipes up, all proud of himself. Okay, that was funny. One for Charlie. "He's a member of your tribe?" Papa offers. Hey, whatever works.
I love that Cole and Mina have to take a rowboat to get to the Opium Emporium or wherever the hell they're going to score. Mina's like "Are you sure you remember where..." but Cole is nothing if not sure exactly where this place is.
Back at the clinic, Ben is beginning the surgery, with Zee giving Julio some sort of tree-bark extract to help him relax. Ben, meanwhile, is snapping at Lily and Zee for what are relatively minor infractions, until Lily sternly pulls him into the room for a talk. It kind of doesn't make any sense that Ben would even agree to this given how severely time is of the essence what with the 30-minute lidocaine and all. But in Lily's defense, this all has to be done. She tells him that snapping at them all through the surgery won't help anyone, so he should just unload everything now. So Ben proceeds to yell about the patient he can barely help and the two doctors out buying heroin, and how this all might've been avoided if "some doctors prioritized this clinic over their damned social lives!" Lily takes it, stone-faced, and is like, "We're done? Time for surgery, then." Good moment for Lily, there.
Mina and Cole finally arrive at the Opium Emporium. She's freaked out by the unfamiliarity of it all; he's freaked by the familiarity. They stand at the doorway, looking in at the bubbling cookers and the strung-out junkies and the menacing peddlers. Cole can't much move at the point. Mina asks him if he's okay, and he can barely speak. As a brilliantly actorly single tear escapes his eye, she looks at him and realizes she'll have to do this. She tells him she's got it, that it's fine. But the shame in Cole is pretty palpable. You can see the benefit of having an emotionally cool cucumber like Mina around at a time like this. So Mina walks in, past the dirty, cheesecloth curtains, and presents herself: "I'd like to buy ... heroin ... please?" I love how buying heroin is getting the same sitcommy wah-wah laugh here as, like, ordering off the menu in a foreign language.
After the break, Mina stumbles through her request, but the heroin peddler (who speaks pretty perfect English, actually) is immediately like, "Yeah, no." He communicates to his beefier associate something about her trabajando for la policia, which Mina, to her credit, picks up on. She tries to assure them she doesn't work with the police -- and really, what crap-ass police operation would involve sending the pale, blonde white chick in a pink button-down? -- and instead explains that she's a medical professional who needs the stuff for surgery. Regardless of what he believes she's really there for, he tells her he's not selling. To emphasize this, he directs her to said beefy associate, who brandishes his gun. Mina begins to make her retreat, but as she passes one of the drugged-out women asleep in a hammock, she notes, "Your friend is dying." She tells him to open her eyes to reveal her pinpoint pupils, then she walks him through what's going to happen to the woman as her body shuts down and dies, and then he'll have a dead body on his hands. That's apparently enough to scare him into asking her to help. Mina's like, "Fine, but first we barter." She wants the drugs in exchange for the life-saving, and the dealer sends Beefy to go scrounge up the junk.
Plastics has managed to bring Papa back to the clinic, where they've got Non-Drunk set up on a cot in the middle of a courtyard. Mac Jr. is, to say the least, dubious, and that goes double for Non-Drunk when he wakes up. He takes one look at Papa, and hears Plastics describe him as a "medicine man" and he immediately starts talking about freaky circus medicine and how his parents will totally sue. I guess this is why Papa doesn't treat the gringos, because he gets up to leave. So does Non-Drunk. Plastics has to scramble to keep this whole treatment plan intact. So he tells Non-Drunk about the meningitis and about the high probability that it could kill him; he then gives the boilerplate about the jungle and it's thousands of years of cultivating medicinal juju or whatever. He says that Papa knows how to use these plants to save him. Then he does the "You're scared, I'm scared, but this is your best shot." Non-Drunk probably has watched a lot of TV because he knows this is the part where he reluctantly submits.
So we get an intercutting scene where Papa's smoke-and-feathers routine is overlaid with Dr. Ben digging around in Julio's abdomen with his fancy medical equipment (...that sometimes gets stolen or doesn't work). Incantations whispered ... internal organs irrigated ... we're healing, people! Ben's still flushing out the toxins from the burst appendix when Julio starts stirring. Zee says they're at 28 minutes, to which Ben is hilariously like, "Damn it, the lidocaine is wearing off early!" Yeah, because you're two minutes from being finished, Dr. Crabbypants? Luckily for everyone, Cole bursts into the room with a heroin-filled syringe. Just like every superhero in history. Ben gives one more cluck of disapproval before allowing the heroin to be injected into the IV line. Only he won't let Cole do it, and in forces him out of the OR, in fact. I know we didn't get to see the hell that junkie Cole likely put Ben through, and this is tough love and all, but MAN Ben is being a dick this week.
The heroin does the trick pretty much right away, putting Julio back under. But Cole stomps outside, suuuper frustrated and angry. He finds Clark out front, equally frustrated but more worried than angry. She can't find Felicia and can't get the motor-scooter to start to that she can make a house call. Cole tells her the trick to getting the thing started, and upon noticing that he's out of sorts, she tells him to hop on back. I like a man who can ride bitch without complaint. They make it to Felicia's village, and it turns out her mom is played by Judy Reyes! My beloved Carla from Scrubs! She says Felicia and her sister are at school, and when her baby starts crying she says she has to go. Clark notices there's no mosquito netting over the crib and starts freaking out, yelling to Judy that she needs to get the baby out. Cole is finally like, "No, seriously," so Judy takes the baby out. "They like thatched roofs," Cole tells Clark at she starts poking at said roof with a broom handle until two totally huge and gross beetle-type things fall down. Clark starts stomping on them with maniacal abandon, which Cole seems to find alarming but I find completely in line with what you do to huge gross. Still, something's obviously up with Clark.
Dr. Ben and Zee and Lily are trying to close up a spot on Julio's abdomen where they've got an irrigation catheter in, only they're out of sutures (the black market value of sutures being famously high in It's Probably South America). Zee suggests something called hormigas as a solution, though I fail to see how delicious Tex-Men breakfast food could help in this situation. (Actually, scratch that, it totally could.) Ben tells Zee to go for it, since she's been "waiting five years to show [him] up." Zee doesn't even blink at such a comment, suggesting everybody's becoming immune to Ben's asshattery. She says she's taking Lily with her, so she can learn from a master.
Mina updates Lynn on her husband's condition, then makes an offhand comment about how she must wish she was back in the states about now. But she doesn't -- Lynn and Mina commiserate about what Lynn calls "that feeling where you don't fit in your own skin." She says she went through life not finding that place where she fit, until she came down here on her 40th birthday. She fell in love with the people, the locale, and obviously Julio. She asks Mina how long she's down here for, and Mina says another month or so. She hasn't found that place where she fits yet. Lynn tells her she'll know it when she does.
Clark and Cole walk-n-talk with Judy Reyes, explaining that the bugs are called "Assassin bugs" and they carry a parasite that causes Chagas Disease. If left unchecked, Clark explains, the disease lies dormant for 20 years or so before causing heart failure. Clark wants to take the girls to the hospital in San Miguel to get it treated. Judy is reticent to let her girls go away, so Clark tells her that she and her sister grew up in El Salvador, and her sister was bitten by one of the bugs. Her parents never got it treated, and when she was 28, symptoms began to emerge. "She had a great career, she was in love, she had her whole life ahead of her," Clark says, and while she does, Cole looks at her with growing concern. "Just like that, it was over," Clark says. All it would have taken was some pills 20 years earlier. As you might expect, that about does it for Judy. Well sold, Clark.
Papa Cheech is just finishing up while Non-Drunk slumbers peacefully. Plastics is somewhat in awe, and he asks about the concoction of anti-viral plants, about the chanting (deep relaxation boosts the immune system), and about the feather (Papa just wanted to mess with him). He claps Plastics on the shoulder cheerfully and asks if he as any other questions. Why in fact yes, Plastics does have a question: how can he get Alma's scary dad to not hate him. "That kinda always happens," Plastics muses (I am SHOCKED), but he says Alma's dad doesn't know him. Papa explains that the man likely thinks Plastics is just like any other yahoo turista, like his infirmed frat brother over there. "He wants to know if you respect where you are." Respect for the locals -- six episodes in and I'm starting to understand!
Zee chops at a tree out in the jungle, then has Lily catch the ants that shake out. She tells her to be careful, as their pinchers are as sharp as surgical staples. While Lily jars some ants, Zee explains that Ben's anger isn't personal. She says he got a top neurologist from Buenos Aires to look at Abby, and the results came in today. No improvement in brain function for six months. "So...he has some hard decisions to make." Zee drops some more knowledge: the clinic was Abby's dream too, not just Ben's. They came down here together to make it happen. Lily gets it: the clinic keeps her alive and with him. Zee smiles, then smiles a bit more when Lily gets pinched.
Cole and Clark prepare to head back to the clinic, but Cole first has to tell her how sad the story about her sister was. The only thing is that she doesn't have a sister. Clark starts to walk away but Cole's like, "That whole story was about you!" He tells her she needs to start getting treatment and on a transplant list, like, immediately. Clark says she refuses to be treated like an invalid and (and this feels more and more like the primary reason, which is sad) Dr. Ben doesn't need to go through something like this again. Lady, it is time to PRIORITIZE. Cole finally grabs her by her arm and says she could die from this. Clark responds that no one needs to know.
At the Clinic, Zee shows Lily how, if she places the pincher ant precisely in the incision in Julio's abdomen, it's pinchers will hold it shut. Stronger than surgical staples, et cetera. Plastics and Mina are looking on, with Plastics practically hopping up and down in hopes that he gets to apply one. Lily finally relents, though she tells him to share with Mina. This gives Lily time to go have a heart-to-heart with Dr. Ben in the pharmacy. She apologizes if what happened with Mateo put them in jeopardy. He asks if she's heard from him since, and she says no. Ben allows that with no security system and open windows everywhere, this was bound to happen. Lily tells him that the clinic itself is just a building. "You're the clinic," she tells him.
That night, the helicopter finally arrives with a shipment of supplies. Dr. Ben unloads those while the rest of the doctors wheel Julio towards the chopper. Lynn thanks Mina and Lily, offering them a complimentary night at the lodge should they ever need it -- though she allows that Mina will probably be gone before she can redeem it. "Actually," Mina says, "I'm thinking about staying a little longer." Lynn boards the helicopter while Lily doesn't try very hard to suppress a grin. Mina's like, "Please, that's got nothing to do with you," but Lily jokes that she may just be the wind beneath Mina's wings. Mina counters that between scoring smack and closing up a man's abdomen with ants, there are things here she can't do in Greenwich.
Plastics arrives at the cantina to talk to Alma's dad. He tells Charlie to stand down -- no translating on his behalf. He slowly approaches Alma and her dad, and he brandishes a Spanish-English dictionary. He uses it to look up the following phrase of love: "Me gusta su HEE-JO." Well said? He adds "...Mucho." Alma's dad doesn't pick him up into an airplane spin, so that's a start.
Clark comes running up to the helicopter with Felicia and her sister. She says they missed the last water taxi. She loads the girls on, but when she tries to board, the pilot says they're at capacity. So Clark tells the girls that she will meet them in San Miguel in the morning and not to worry.
Cole is down at the beach, staring very intensely out at the waves. Zee shows up with some tea that will help his sleeplessness. She asks if he wants to talk about it, but he clenches that he does not. "We can still be amigos," she tells him, but he says he doesn't know how to do that. Case in point, she tries to just sit there to him and be there for him, but he angrily sends her away. When she's gone, he drops her bag of tea and pulls out another small bag. Did he buy this heroin when Mina wasn't looking? I can't imagine he could've lifted it. Mysteries of the Shondaverse! And also: bad omen, Cole. He rolls the bag between his hands, not taking any, but not throwing it into the ocean like we might hope.
Lily takes a little night shower at her not-that-secluded waterfall spot when a figure emerges from the darkness. Which naturally would scare the shit out of you, except it's Mateo. And he's got that sexy look in his eyes. He explains that he stayed away for the week so as not to attract police attention, but Lily seems like she wants to be mad at him. She tells him about the loss of police protection and the robbery and how she feels like an idiot. He says he got the messages she's been leaving for him and went to the cantina tonight to find her. She finally relents and asks how his incision is feeling. Sexy doctor talk! He tells her she can see for herself, and off goes the shirt. Okay, that is sexy, doctor-talk or otherwise. He moves closer to her as she stammers about there being no redness or infection. "It's good," she says, as he gets close enough to touch. "Esta bien?" he asks. "Esta bien," she says before thankfully shutting up and making out with him -- and likely more -- underneath the waterfall. Sigh. Another item for the bucket list.
Drs. Ben and Clark see the helicopter off, and only when it's in the air does he allow himself to get a little emotional about how he thought he lost the clinic today. "I couldn't think of anything worse," he says. "And then I thought of losing you." She looks at him, likely wondering whether Cole told him anything. But Ben instead talks about how it's been six years since Abby. "It's time to move on," he says. Clark looks at him and is totally about to tell him the sad truth about her heart when in the near distance, the helicopter starts sputtering. It starts spinning, trailing smoke behind it, and Ben and Clark are totally helpless as they watch it tumble to the ground. TITLE CARD!
week: we deal with THAT.