S05.E04: Infection (2)

[WendyCR72]

To air on October 16, 2019. And based on the (2) after the title, it looks like, I guess, another crossover night with the other Chicago franchise shows:

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An entire apartment complex is forced into quarantine when cases of the deadly virus turns into an epidemic. P.D. chases a lead that could point to a case of bioterrorism and Will gets dangerously close to the suspect.

[starri]

On 10/11/2019 at 3:24 AM, WendyCR72 said:

 

Dr. Manning's actions with a recent patient lead to serious repercussions.

They're going to have to narrow that down.

[WendyCR72]

2 minutes ago, starri said:

They're going to have to narrow that down.

LOL! If only this show had the review panel as Susan had to face on ER so many years back. But then, I bet none of these doctors or nurses would still be employed then!

[statsgirl]

On 10/11/2019 at 3:24 AM, WendyCR72 said:

April and Noah disagree over a patient who is injured after a beating.

I was trying to think of an episode where April didn't tell a doctor how to do his or her job. I came up blank.

[WendyCR72]

6 minutes ago, statsgirl said:

I was trying to think of an episode where April didn't tell a doctor how to do his or her job. I came up blank.

I know, another ER comparison, but...

I wish Dr. Maggie Doyle was around to rip April a new one like the way she did when Carol Hathaway contradicted her with a patient as far as treatment.

[Donder]

Nataloon and April are Mary Sue's

[Guildford]

But isn't this all about the flesh eating bug feasting on Chicago? I don't know what's going on with the PR/Media department of this show but have they got one synopsis right this year?

And are we surprised nobody running this show seems to know that they are doing? I mean the writers don't I guess it would be a stretch to think the Media department does.🙄

[Guildford]

This is the synopsis I found...

"CHICAGO MED"

"INFECTION, PART II"

ORIGINAL

10/16/2019 (09:00PM - 10:00PM) (Wednesday) : An entire apartment complex is forced into quarantine when cases of the deadly virus turns into an epidemic. P.D. chases a lead that could point to a case of bioterrorism and Will gets dangerously close to the suspect.

Edited October 13, 2019 by Guildford
Just spelling

[WendyCR72]

I have updated the synopsis provided by @Guildford, who I thank profusely. No idea what is going on with the database, but... *shrug*

[Rabithed]

Natalie: “He’s seizing”!  

Thanks tips 🙄

[SunnyBeBe]

Ref. The Infection trilogy tonight. Good lord....Stupid, More Stupid and Most Stupid.....lol. Why would you wear coveralls, but no other protective wear? The number of absurdities boggles the mind. 

Why does April appear to be seducing the new doctor during a crisis. Man, I can't stand her.

[Guildford]

God lord the do the MED team have one person with an ounce of medical knowledge on the writing team?

The moment that kid came in it would have been full gown & gloves to go into his room.

Will leaves that idiot Upton standing in the hallway covered in blood, for people to bump into? He then spends half the time flirting with CDC lady, bleds like a stuck pig with his second head injury in weeks, demands to go in with IU with a dramatic fling of the bag that could potentially save peoples lives just to get in the way & ends up drinking in a bar...with a head injury.

The whole place is in chaos and Natalie again finds the time to sit and hand hold a patient and do nothing else & then Upton skips out on actually finding the loony Doc so they can stand and watch surgery. 

[Laurie4H]

Ugh to when Halstead finds the crazy guy destroying the specimens and tells him wait there while he starts to call someone.  Straight out of a Lifetime movie like   “I know what you did and your not going to get away with it!” Turn your back to call something or walk out and get hit in the head with a lamp or someone along those lines.  So cliche and stupid.  

Edited October 17, 2019 by Laurie4H

[Ohwell]

11 hours ago, SunnyBeBe said:

Why does April appear to be seducing the new doctor during a crisis. Man, I can't stand her.

I noticed that, too.  She seems to think she's the hottest thing on the planet.  Not!  I cannot stand that clueless, wide-eyed look she gives and I hope the new doc gives her the brush off.   However, I said earlier that I feared a Choi/April/new doc love triangle and I wouldn't be surprised if it happened.  

I'm also tired of boneheaded hospital employees getting injured and not being prevented from working until they're completely healed.  Will gets bashed in the head, but swears he's ok.  Natalie still has some kind of memory issues, but swears she's ok.  The hospital administrator basically says/does nothing.  The only thing she's done is to finally stand up to Maggie and tell her to go home.

[watcher1006]

3 hours ago, Guildford said:

God lord the do the MED team have one person with an ounce of medical knowledge on the writing team?

The moment that kid came in it would have been full gown & gloves to go into his room.

Will leaves that idiot Upton standing in the hallway covered in blood, for people to bump into? He then spends half the time flirting with CDC lady, bleds like a stuck pig with his second head injury in weeks, demands to go in with IU with a dramatic fling of the bag that could potentially save peoples lives just to get in the way & ends up drinking in a bar...with a head injury.

The whole place is in chaos and Natalie again finds the time to sit and hand hold a patient and do nothing else & then Upton skips out on actually finding the loony Doc so they can stand and watch surgery. 

After it became clear to everyone that they had a massive public health crisis on their hands caused by a communicable disease I was wincing at every handshake happening on screen. In Japan and other countries people wear face masks in public in much less serious situations. Of course of a TV show there's a lot less acting possible when the actor has half her/his face covered.

2 minutes ago, Ohwell said:

I'm also tired of boneheaded hospital employees getting injured and not being prevented from working until they're completely healed.  Will gets bashed in the head, but swears he's ok.  Natalie still has some kind of memory issues, but swears she's ok.  The hospital administrator basically says/does nothing.  The only thing she's done is to finally stand up to Maggie and tell her to go home.

Yes Maggie, go home and stay there.

[Guildford]

17 minutes ago, watcher1006 said:

After it became clear to everyone that they had a massive public health crisis on their hands caused by a communicable disease I was wincing at every handshake happening on screen. In Japan and other countries people wear face masks in public in much less serious situations. Of course of a TV show there's a lot less acting possible when the actor has half her/his face covered.

Yes Maggie, go home and stay there.

I was actually surprised when they told her to go home...I was pretty sure they were going to ignore it. It was a surprisingly smart decision in a sea of bad ones. Although I was expecting her to isolate herself in a room and bark orders through that fancy phone she clutches like her life depends on it.

They could have done the gowns and gloves, I would have copped that if only for the fact that covering their faces would make it hard to hear what they are saying. 

Edited October 17, 2019 by Guildford

[watcher1006]

I stopped watching Fire and PD a while ago and I wasn't enthusiastic about tuning back in so that I could understand the crossover story. I don't generally like crossovers because it always feels a little forced when they put characters from other shows into the context of a particular show and they often seem out of place. I will give this much to this crossover: it was well integrated between the three shows. As one show transitioned into another it actually did feel like the same setting and situation remained front and center. For example it was clever how the annoying parade business at the beginning of Fire came back into the story late in PD. And some key characters such as Sharon Goodwin and Jay Halstead stayed out front in the story and didn't just star in their own particular hour. Another good thing about this crossover is that they didn't have as much time to bog down in personal romance stories, although there was inevitably some of that in there.

[NJRadioGuy]

5 hours ago, Guildford said:

God lord the do the MED team have one person with an ounce of medical knowledge on the writing team?

The moment that kid came in it would have been full gown & gloves to go into his room.

Of course it would, but since it's television the audience needs to see the actors clearly. At least Fire got the message a few seasons ago and they're now masking up with full face masks (albeit minus the regulators, so we can see their faces on screen). I think they could have reached a better compromise on med. The idea of a blood-borne illness not being protected against was just silly in the extreme.

5 hours ago, Laurie4H said:

Ugh to when Halstead finds the crazy guy destroying the specimens and tells him wait there while he starts to call someone.  Straight out of a Lifetime movie like   “I know what you did and your not going to get away with it!” Turn your back to call something or walk out and get hit in the head with a lamp or someone along those lines.  So cliche and stupid.  

This was Ned Stark level of stupid. He did that with Cersei and we all saw how that ended up for him. Correct response to him saying they were bad samples would have been "Ah, OK," saying nothing and acting like everything's good...then calling in the cavalry a minute later from the next room.

[SuzieQ]

The best part of all of it, was there was no Natalie/Will drama.  But you know, Will will hook up with CDC chick and then Natalie will magically regain her memory. BARF!

[Chas411]

It was weird seeing Hay pop up. Ever since Jesse Lee Soffer and Torrey Devitto parted ways he hasn’t been appearing in every second episode of Med.

[Donder]

My guess the future for Nataloon and Will are this: The next phase will be Nataloon's head injury turning into a sex addiction which leads to several sexual encounters over the rest of the season. While this is going on, Will actually starts developing a real relationship with the CDC lady.....by the end of the season, Nataloon becomes pregnant by one of her "encounters" , unknowing who the father is, runs to Will for comfort. Will despite developing a nice relationship with the CDC lady, throws that all away for Nataloon, tells her he will marry her and help raise her 2 children by 2 different men. The writers do a high 5.

[CoyoteBlue]

On 10/17/2019 at 10:05 AM, icemiser69 said:

Now that Will has been conked on the head, will he lose his memory too?

Will and Natalie, the TBI Twins. 

It's a sad day for Chicago medicine when you have to ask for a doctor without a Traumatic Brain Injury at the ER.

[The Ringo Kidd]

At least we know that Will’a injuries can’t be so bad since he cushioned the blow with his enormous toupee.

[AnnA]

On October 17, 2019 at 12:26 PM, SuzieQ said:

The best part of all of it, was there was no Natalie/Will drama.  But you know, Will will hook up with CDC chick and then Natalie will magically regain her memory. BARF!

I can't remember if the CDC team arrived in police cars or cars that said CDC on the side.  I think they were CDC cars but I'm not sure.   I know the CDC is located in Atlanta.  Do they have an office in Chicago?   Anyway,  if the CDC chick and Will do hook up, that would be a long distance relationship or she'll have to move to Chicago.   

[spunky]

I’m liking Dr. Marcel’s personality more and more every week. He used humor to deflect from whatever he’s really thinking or feeling. April needed to just leave Dr. Marcel alone, he pronounced multiple people dead in a short space of time and was dealing with it the way he felt comfortable with. Why did she think it was her place to try to get him to open up? She needs to stick to ruining Ethan.

So not one doctor thought it was a good idea to enter the first patient’s room in full protective equipment? Maggie should have been sent home the minute the second patient came in. Like Hailey, Will’s common sense was nonexistent during this crossover.

[SuzieQ]

16 hours ago, AnnA said:

I can't remember if the CDC team arrived in police cars or cars that said CDC on the side.  I think they were CDC cars but I'm not sure.   I know the CDC is located in Atlanta.  Do they have an office in Chicago?   Anyway,  if the CDC chick and Will do hook up, that would be a long distance relationship or she'll have to move to Chicago.   

Good point, but in the LaLa land of Chicago Med, anything is possible. Skilled surgeons can turn into psycho killers, lol.

[spunky]

3 hours ago, icemiser69 said:

Yup.  Not at all shocked if that were to happen.

I was a bit surprised that Natalie's creepy boyfriend didn't put in an appearance with kids in tow, at either the game or the hospital.

I was hoping that both Natalie and her creepy boyfriend would get infected and die. I guess I was asking for too much.

[Guildford]

4 hours ago, spunky said:

I was hoping that both Natalie and her creepy boyfriend would get infected and die. I guess I was asking for too much.

Along with the stringy blonde from PD.

[greyhorse]

I liked the crossover, it was well done.

I think it was in episode 2 where the new trauma resident/fellow? was operating all the time.  Cringed when immediately after walking away from the operating room table, he took off his mask with his DIRTY glove, left the room, didn't wash his hands, and immediately went to go see another patient again without washing his hands!  And this is supposed to be some dangerous flesh eating bacteria! 

As many have said, I don't understand why all medical personnel weren't wearing full hazmat suits for any of these patients.

So is the CDC woman supposed to be Halstead's new love interest?  Presumably she flew in from Atlanta just for this outbreak concern?  So how would a romance between them work?

Glad we got rid of Maggie for this week.  She has gotten so tiring.  Would love every week if Goodwin says "we've got sick people, you're immunocompromised, go home".

[spunky]

20 hours ago, Guildford said:

Along with the stringy blonde from PD.

I actually like Hailey. Now Burgess on the other hand can be annoying.

[statsgirl]

The writing for these shows just gets worse and worse. Do the actors ever say "this is too stupid, I can't do this any more" or do they just pocket the paycheque and say the lines?

So they don't know what the vector is, but all of the Fire Department go in without wearing mouth covering? Smart, guys.

When Charles is talking to the conspiracy woman, why is April standing in the background doing absolute nothing? Is that a minimum screentime stipulated in the actress's contract? And when did April become a surgical nurse?

[spunky]

16 hours ago, statsgirl said:

The writing for these shows just gets worse and worse. Do the actors ever say "this is too stupid, I can't do this any more" or do they just pocket the paycheque and say the lines?

So they don't know what the vector is, but all of the Fire Department go in without wearing mouth covering? Smart, guys.

When Charles is talking to the conspiracy woman, why is April standing in the background doing absolute nothing? Is that a minimum screentime stipulated in the actress's contract? And when did April become a surgical nurse?

Maggie is training April to take over the roll. If the writers were thinking like the viewing public Dr. Marcel would be snapping at April for being annoying.

[RedbirdNelly]

I'm working my way through a backlog of Chicago Med episodes so I at first thought I'd accidentally skipped an episode and then realized it was a crossover thing. I was not motivated enough to seek out epi 1 but I did actually go find episode 3. So I will give credit for that--despite all the unrealistic details pointed out above, I was into the storyline enough to actually want to watch how it was resolved. I've never done that before with this show (and I've not done it with other shows--Grey's had a crossover with its firestation spinoff; I actually taped the episode 2 and decided to just delete it I cared so little about the crossover part).

I always end up liking all the crossover characters better than the Med characters but I'm assuming that would change if I actually watched their shows on a regular basis.

will going in with the PD team just because his brother was in the room was beyond stupid. It's just dumb.

[SnarkySheep]

On 10/20/2019 at 3:56 PM, spunky said:

I was hoping that both Natalie and her creepy boyfriend would get infected and die. I guess I was asking for too much.

Even better: if we discovered Phillip had been the one behind the virus.

[mrsbagnet]

It was really surprising to see how Med is shot differently from Fire and PD. The Med set looked totally different on the other two shows; it was brightly lit and spacious. At first I thought they were shooting in a different space. I understand why Med would be shot at a closer angle due the more intimate interaction between doctors and patients, but why is it so dark?

Watching part III. When the CDC lab people show Will the antibiotic cocktail that is working, he says "It's attacking the virus." No.

Edited September 5, 2021 by mrsbagnet