By Joe R
Three brothers are trespassing in a mine, looking for gold, when the one goes on a nutter (due to gas fumes), and the upshot is that Brenner and Cole get called in for the rescue. Brenner gets two brothers out, but the nutter has gone running deeper into the mine. Cole finds him just as the dude pick-axes into a gas pocket and explodes the mine. It looks for a moment like Cole might lose his eyesight, but really he's only blinded long enough for Zee to realize how deeply she feels for him.
Keeton, when he's not having tense conversations with Mateo, is trying to get Clark to go to New York for a heart transplant. She's finally convinced after she sees Plastics' patient, an ALS sufferer who's come to the jungle in order to let a magazine-ad quack hook a catheter to his thigh on the pretext that it'll cure him of his incurable disease. After much debate, Plastics makes the executive decision that the catheter has to go, though it takes the pleas of his wife and daughter (as well as a fall to the ground) in order to break the guy free of his delusions, just so he can accept his fate. The cherry on top is when the quack shows up to further peddle his snake oil to the guy, only for Plastics to totally punch him in the face.
Minard has pulled OB-GYN duty, which today means standing by while a Kechuan birthing ceremony is performed. Of course, she's Minard, so obviously she butts in, throws her Westerno-normative attitudes about medicine around and -- again, because she's Minard -- ends up totally right and delivers the baby healthy. Of course, she also mistakenly cuts the umbilical cord with the special Godmother Knife, which means she is now the baby's godmother. She tries to weasel out, but Zee puts her foot down: Minard must do this or face the possibility of shaming the Kechuan people (and thus keeping them away from the clinic). The one upside of this is that Minard invites Plastics to be her guest for the party, they both get splendidly drunk, and then they fool around in Zee's garden.
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