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So Rhodes caused the death of a patient by interrupting his surgery and reviving him before he was ready so that Jay Halstead could question him. It this just going to be a blot on his conscience or is the hospital going to get sued? And Bekker's in the mess with him.

One thing that I wonder about with the Jack-in-Vietnam plotline is Jack's birth date. Kevin says that the first "twenty eight years" of his father's life is a complete blank to him. The height of the Vietnam War was around 1968, Jack being in his late 20s then is consistent with how he's being presented in Vietnam. He would then have met and married Rebecca in the 1970s and had his now-approaching-40 children a few years after that. He died as his children were reaching college age, I think that would have been in the latter 1990s. The Vietnam War story therefore seems to place his date of birth around 1940. That makes Jack look a little young in his late life scenes but no big deal. But I wonder about Rebecca. If she had also been born around 1940 that would make her in her mid-to-late 30s when she was pursuing a singing career. And I can't believe she would be in her late 70s in the present day. So are we to believe that Jack is older than Rebecca, by about a decade or more? That would make the most sense.

These stories featuring Connor Rhodes M.D., superhero surgeon are getting tiresome. There wasn't even any question about whether his high risk procedure was going to succeed, it always does. The tension between Maggie and April seemed a bit contrived. A request for PTO from a staff member isn't an emergency. I would think April would just defer a decision like that on a routine matter, telling the requester to wait till Maggie got back. That seems most logical to me.

Just HOW MUCH blood is needed for the surgery that Rhodes was doing? More than one unit, I imagine. I've seen people pass out during blood drives trying to donate even one. Okay not everyone is the same but this one was too much.

A question which has occurred to me is what role the hybrid ER/OR plays in the hospital as a whole. The rationale was that there often isn't enough time to transfer a patient to a regular operating room in an emergency, yet those regular operating rooms may well be better prepared to administer proper treatment in certain life and death situations. Also there seems to be uncertainty over the line of authority and who outranks whom in that facility. And it shouldn't be overlooked that by assigning Connor Rhodes to the hybrid facility the hospital is losing a significant amount of the time available from one of its premier cardiothoracic surgeons. Where is Doctor Latham in all this? He really should have input into what is taking place.

I liked the role Deja played doing her best to steady Beth after that fiasco with the cookies. She IS growing as a character. I also sense that she has bonded with the Pearsons' two daughters, perhaps not so closely yet, but she was a good sport through the whole mess. She seemed to be okay with them from the beginning when she went to their bedroom that first night to talk to them. Good relationships between natural and adopted children are not a given by any means.

Well good for Natalie that she stood back for once and let the mother/daughter rape victims work their issues out for themselves. Still, aren't medical professionals supposed to report suspected cases of sexual assault to the police, particularly of minors? And if there is no obligation, I would think the police would still have to get involved at an early stage, and be the ones talking to the victim about possible sexual assault. But then I used to watch Law & Order SVU, watched it for a long time before I finally gave up on it. Ethan isn't happy that Emily wants to keep the Bernie in her life but none of her alternatives are great. Emily a single mom? Ethan will be paying a lot of her bills. I can't believe he really wants to pursue her and would come out and tell her so the way he did. Can't he see she has "manipulator" written all over her? And shucks, she seemed like she was just about to come clean with him.

"Go back to where you came from". It's easy to see where the owner of the restaurant was coming from when he said that to Randall. Not just that Randall was not even living where he was running for office, but he couldn't possibly understand their living situation, having lived his adult life as part of the 1%, or even the 0.1%. He could be idealistic and well meaning, but those living in the district could be realistic and know how hard it is to bring about change and how the blight in their neighborhoods isn't necessarily due to the indifference of their elected representatives.

Will didn't help matters though, blackmailing the tech (who's a good guy) into doing the blood work off the books. That was a jarring incident and, I thought, a bit out of character for Will.

It was clear that the patient's brother who was donating the stem cells to her was going to get picked up by the immigration authorities. And when it happened, it wasn't surprising that it was that new COO who was responsible for informing them. Such are the times we live in that such plots are to be expected.

For all her manipulation, Bekker did have a point to make. Rhodes' hybrid ER/OR may be up and running, that doesn't mean that all of the specialized equipment used in the various operating rooms has been duplicated. The hybrid facility is going to draw resources from the operating rooms, and getting additional equipment will cost money and the cost of the equipment may or may not be justified by how much it is used.

Natalie being who she is I wondered if she would try to suggest other options to the patient. If the patient couldn't carry a pregnancy might she be a candidate for in-vitro fertilization with the embryo being implanted into a surrogate? Not that anything like that is easy or cheap but if the couple wanted a child of their own that badly... nothing is more difficult or costly than losing a life.

This show still has Amy Morton on it, and her Trudy Platt character has not been ruined yet perhaps because she has been underused since they stopped having the Intelligence-affiliated beat cop stories in the episodes. Seems to me that if they wanted to simplify the episodes and just have scripts about the squad itself they could still have beat cops affiliated with them, even if they didn't have regular plotlines in each episode. If not they could explain why the organization of Intelligence was changed after Burgess was promoted to the unit proper. Not having them certainly diminishes Platt's role. Now really, is she just going to have a drink with her old friend Hank Voight and not be troubled by the part he played in getting their mutual friend Al killed? I'm glad for Jon Seda that they are using his character more now but the writing for him still isn't up to what it was in Season 1. While there are still actors/characters that I like on this show I think I'm ready to give up on it as well.

Does this show have a real part for Norma Kuhling's Ava Bekker character other than being a foil to superhero surgeon Connor Rhodes? The whole plotline was improbable, Bekker crashing in on an emergency operation to harangue Rhodes while the patient's chest is open, and Rhodes telling his highly experienced cardiac surgery colleague to get lost when she offered to help. Where is Dr. Latham when we need him? Please stay where you are, Maggie, don't get sucked into the mess.

I stopped watching Fire regularly last season but I did see this episode because I still continue to watch Med and the story was going to start with the former. When I realized what the forms in the elevator were it made me think of stuff that is excavated from sites like Pompeii. I didn't really catch how the fire got into the elevator with the mother and child inside and this is nitpicky but I wondered how the elevator could be that burned out and still be functioning.

I suspect that Randall made so much money during his time in the firm that he and Beth could coast for a while and still be able to pay for their daughters' college educations. In any case people in that kind of investment/finance position do tend to be more and more sidelined as they get older by younger people (we saw that start to happen before he left) and he may have moved on regardless of the events that brought on his break with the firm.

Yes! That really stuck out for me. Why not have something to say to youngest Kate, who has the most time to live through and the most potential to change? Especially considering that Kate wants so much to be a mother from the very beginning of a child's life.

It's been said elsewhere but in my opinion it's hard to put together crossover events and make everything hang together organically. Characters from the other shows feel out of place in the universe of a particular show, and the thread of common plot often seems to get shoehorned in.

Is Rhodes always going to be the superhero surgeon? It was clear he'd relent and listen to the Fire people pleading with him to try and save Stella's lung. Weren't any of them concerned that Stella would lose her life? I suppose the story couldn't play out that Stella would die from the risky operation and that Bekker would be in an "I told you so" situation with Rhodes. Stella has her fans and her detractors among the watchers of Fire, I don't have an opinion as I stopped watching it last season. Severe burn injuries are just horrible, horrible.

Funny thing though - it wasn't Goodwin who lined up the outside funding for the merged trauma center/operating room, it was Bekker. Of course it wouldn't have done Goodwin any good to deny her involvement to Garrett, the COO was not going to believe it wasn't Goodwin's doing. Indeed maybe Sharon's spoiling for a fight and wanted her to think that? In the real world funds like that don't materialize on a dime. They certainly wouldn't materialize in such short order as to prevent Connor Rhodes from departing the following week. And by the way how did Goodwin not know of his departure? Don't personnel have to give notice? Are there combined trauma centers/operating rooms in major hospitals around the country? I agree that the Bekker-Rhodes storyline is tiresome and not credible. But it seems like it's going to continue because neither of them seem to be going anywhere. I hope Dr. Stohl stays around. I've said it before but it's funny that such an abrasive minor character can be so refreshing to watch on this show, and it speaks to the fading appeal of the main characters.

The Tudor era story is that Richard of Gloucester had Edward IV's sons declared illegitimate because his marriage to Elizabeth Woodville was bigamous in order to claim the throne for himself. Still, given Edward's reputation as a womanizer who was known to have mistresses, is there any possibility that Edward had exchanged marriage vows with a previous woman in order to bed her? One would think that Gloucester, being close to his brother and loyal throughout the Wars of the Roses, could have been in a position to know.

I agree. In spite of the best efforts of the Richard III Society it is a very tall order to exonerate the man of everything he has been accused of. There is no doubt that he had Edward V declared illegitimate using a specious argument in order to clear his own path to the throne. With good reason most historians think that Princes Edward and Richard were murdered on his orders, although there are other suspects. On the other hand while he was definitely interested in his niece Elizabeth (and wife Anne Neville had conveniently died) he was certainly aware of the outcry such an incestuous relationship would create and publicly announced he would not marry her. Henry Tudor had the longstanding intention of marrying Elizabeth, dating back to his exile in France, assuming he could seize the throne. Regarding the couple’s enmity it is hard to say. Henry Tudor himself had a tenuous connection to the Lancastrian line that Edward IV defeated. He just happened to be the only threat left after Henry VI was murdered. He didn’t fight in the bloodiest battles between the York and Lancaster factions. It doesn’t seem so improbable to me that Elizabeth could actually have loved him as a husband.

Did Lizzie really do it with her uncle, or was that a story concocted by his enemies? So much of what is believed about Richard comes through the filter of Tudor loyalists, not the least of whom being William Shakespeare.

Are Connor's (contrived) heroics starting with his self-recusal supposed to be some kind of redemption for him and his earlier bad call? The story felt more than a little hokey to me. How did they come up with Will's superbly ill-timed proposal to Natalie? She was storming away in a jealous rage, where's the logic in making the proposal right then and there? On the other hand I suspect it will be better for him if she does say no. I'm debating whether this show will be worth watching come fall.

I couldn't fathom that. They are undertaking a very high risk cardiovascular operation and they don't have their inventory ducks in a row. I just don't know. Some rural areas may not have the law enforcement resources to want to reopen cold cases but with possible serial cold cases near or in metropolitan areas - would all those departments be so indifferent to possible new evidence?