Nic's pa Kyle joins Chastain as lay volunteer, declaring 'team Nevin' post-Jessie, and learns the hard way, like the trainee nurse who feels like leaving the profession on her first day, how terrifying patients can be. Nursing staff is even more shorthanded since Red Rock acquired Chastain, but its overseeing manager Logan Kim, from a hedge-fund, challenges Bell's authority as CEO and medical chief even in daily matters and VIP priority. Thus he flippantly dismissed as unproven and PR-inopportune the general assumption that popular nurse Jessica's car accident causing brain injury results from triple shifts. Lover Irving is her medical proxy, forced to chose between Cain's haste to perform urgent neurosurgery, overruled by Bell, and Conrad and Devon's preference to complete the troublesome diagnosis. Cued by Conrad about the risks of Hemopleatin, bell strikes an exclusivity deal with the manufacturer to fund extra nurses and provide the full data.
—KGF Vissers