Season 2, Episode 4 – Something to Prove

After realizing that she wasn’t a very good friend to Gina for a long time, Amy is trying to make it up to her. The episode starts with Amy bringing Gina a tray of beignets from their favorite place in New Orleans. It’s unclear at this point if they went to med school in New Orleans or just visited there. Amy notices that Gina has a fundraising site up on her computer screen for one of the train derailment victims from the Season 1 finale. Clearly, Gina is struggling in the aftermath of the mass casualty event caused by her patient’s suicide. Gina asks Amy if she’s had any more memories or side effects. Amy tells Gina that she remembered Jake telling her he loves her…and then she kissed him (referring to the kiss yesterday in Season 2, Episode 3). Gina asks what that means for the relationship, and Amy says she doesn’t know yet. 

As Joan meets with her own doctor, we find out that her health is rapidly declining. Her doctor says she probably has 1-3 years. He advises her to reduce her stress, not travel for work like she used to, and get a support system in place. Joan says she has a son, but they aren’t talking. Later in the episode, we see Joan reaching out to her son Ethan several times with no reply.

Joan starts to show interest in Sonya’s potential and tells her to go for the Chief Resident job.

It’s Hannah’s first day as an intern. She tells Amy that her father worked under her as Chief and that Hannah actually met Amy once. She tells Amy that her father died a few years ago. Amy says she understands, possibly referencing Danny’s death of her own father’s death, but we don’t know anything about her parents at this point. 

We see flashbacks to 2021, with Brian Clark introducing Hannah to Amy. Once Hannah leaves, Amy confronts Brian about leaving a patient on the table in the middle of a procedure to take a phone call. Edie from hospital HR confronts Amy, saying Brian filed a complaint against her after she confronted him. Later in the episode, Amy calls Brian into her office and tells him that she was trying to keep HR out of this so he could get some help discreetly. He loses his temper and breaks a picture frame on Amy’s desk. Amy tells him to either take a leave of absence or she’ll terminate him. He resigns and asks her not to put this incident in his record. She says she was never going to. 

Jake, Hannah, and Amy treat a young adult male patient. Due to the sexual nature of the patient’s issues, he tells Jake that he feels like he’ll never have a girlfriend. Jake says that real intimacy should come before sex anyway. He was in love with his last girlfriend (Amy) for a year before anything happened.  

Joan and Michael manage a tricky situation with an outdated medical proxy. A patient who is now incapacited didn’t update his healthcare proxy, even though he got divorced three years ago. Joan and Michael have to decide if the ex-spouse or the new partner gets to determine the patient’s treatment. As they wrangle with the decision, Michael tells Joan he never changed his healthcare proxy because Amy knows him best. 

Joan confronts Jake about the code he helped manage with Amy after she gave a patient unauthorized medication. Joan is upset that he didn’t tell her. She tells Jake to stop their relationship if they both want to keep working at Westside. Throughout the day, Amy can tell something is off with Jake. He says they’ll talk about it at the end of the day. At the end of the day, Jake tells Amy that Joan rescinded their permission to see each other and that he could lose his fellowship because of what he did to cover for Amy. Amy looks truly devastated. Just then, Hannah walks up and asks her to go out for drinks with all the interns. With encouragement from Hannah and Jake, she reluctantly agrees.

At the bar, Sonya confronts Amy about the fact that she told Jake what Sonya said to her in the other day (in Season 2, Episode 2, when Sonya said that Amy is misguided and narcisstic, doesn’t belong at Westside, etc…). Amy hits back, saying she knows about Sonya’s interest in Jake and that she’s not going anywhere.

Throughout the episode, Amy has memory seizures of ornaments, Christmas lights, a Christmas sweater, etc… She asks Michael about it, but he has no idea what it refers to. At the bar with all the other interns, Amy sits next to Hannah and has more memory flashes. We see a flashback of Amy running into Brian Clark at a Christmas fair after he resigned. However, Amy hasn’t seen Brian’s face in her memories yet. 

Michael finds Jake at the end of the day and tells him that what he saw between him and Amy in his office (Season 1 finale) was nothing and that it’s completely over between them. Jake says it’s over between them, too. Michael looks confused.