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The Pitt<\/a><\/p>\n 6:00 PM<\/p>\n \n Season 2<\/p>\n Episode 12\n <\/p>\n \n Editor\u2019s Rating<\/p>\n 5 stars<\/p>\n *****\n <\/p>\n \n Photo: Warrick Page\/HBO Max\n <\/p>\n Perhaps we call it Chekov\u2019s hula hoop from now on. Come on, you knew the moment Dana explained to Emma in the premiere that \u2018hula hoop\u2019 was used as a signal for healthcare worker assault that the phrase would be needed at some point on this shift. In \u201c6:00 P.M.,\u201d we watch the Code Hula Hoop through Robby\u2019s eyes, which is to say, we don\u2019t actually see what\u2019s happening until it\u2019s mostly over. When Robby races into the room, our drunk country clubber is being restrained, and his nose is bleeding. Emma is being checked out by some of her fellow nurses, but seems more or less okay, and Dana explains that she sedated him with some Versed she had in her pocket and the bloody nose is from when he slipped during the chaos. It\u2019s clear she hasn\u2019t given him all the details, and Robby has some follow-up questions.<\/p>\n It\u2019s this incident that finally forces the tension that\u2019s been bubbling between these two to boil over. Oh, baby, were you waiting for Dana to finally let it rip on Robby? You got it. The two have multiple conversations throughout the hour that only get more heated as we go along. I think we can all assume Dana gave that piece of shit a bloody nose, and she didn\u2019t just happen to have that Versed in her pocket \u2014 she\u2019s been carrying it around. At the very least, we can assume that\u2019s what Robby assumes, which is perhaps why he seems more annoyed this guy is going to have to get a head CT to see if he has a brain bleed or fracture than is concerned for his staff. He wants her to pass this whole case off to another nurse and Dana refuses. Robby may claim the ED as his, but the nurses are Dana\u2019s and she\u2019s not going to let anyone else go near that guy. If he thinks she\u2019d do otherwise, well, she tells him, \u201cYou better give your fucking head a shake.\u201d Dana is pissed, and that\u2019s not going away any time soon. As if it isn\u2019t already obvious, nobody should ever fuck with Dana Evans and that includes you, Michael Rabinavitch.<\/p>\n See their next interaction: Once again, Robby is annoyed by the inconvenience of the situation. Now Dana\u2019s \u201cguy\u201d has bumped Duke in line for the CT. And since Robby has made it clear he isn\u2019t leaving until Duke gets that CT, this is inconveniencing him, too. Dana is so over his whining about not being able to leave this place and his condescending concern about how she could be on the hook for what she did to Mr. Country Club. \u201cAnyone else uses force to stop an assault, they\u2019re a hero, but a nurse does it and we\u2019re punished,\u201d she spits at him. The woman has a point. He presses her for more details about the Versed until she has had enough of the questioning \u2014 coming from LaNasa\u2019s mouth that Nancy Drew dig honestly stings \u2014 and walks off to the bathroom. Alone, she lets out a string of \u201cfucks\u201d that anyone who has been overwhelmed by anger, adrenaline, and hurt all at once will recognize. She\u2019s barely holding it together.<\/p>\n Robby isn\u2019t done with her. Not much later, he pulls her aside to finish their conversation. She\u2019s exhausted by everything she\u2019s had to put up with today \u2014 Emma getting attacked twice today, ICE detaining Jesse, the chaos of the cyberhack \u2014 and on top of everything, she\u2019s watching Robby slip into this version of himself she doesn\u2019t recognize. \u201cSometimes it\u2019s like you\u2019re just tempting death because you don\u2019t give a shit anymore,\u201d she tells him. Pointing out what we\u2019ve all been thinking since the premiere: It\u2019s not exactly subtle that the place he\u2019s riding off to is called \u201cHead-Smashed-In.\u201d Mercifully, he gets pulled away for an incoming trauma before he can be too much of a smart ass back. Dana turns away from him, but we get the full view of her as she tries to hold back tears and wins her second Emmy Award.<\/p>\n How many people calling him out is it going to take for Robby to admit he needs serious help? A few more, apparently! Duke has been reading him since he showed up at the hospital. Still waiting for his CT scan, he asks Robby why he\u2019s so determined to get out riding tonight \u2014 it\u2019s clearly not a great idea after such a long day. Is he worried that if he doesn\u2019t leave tonight, he never will? Robby laughs the question off, but Duke says that just in the few hours he\u2019s been here, he understands why Robby would feel that way. \u201cI can feel it in the air here, this place is like quicksand.\u201d Robby doesn\u2019t have a response and again gets pulled away on a case before he can be forced to find one. Later, McKay tells him she has been picking up a weird vibe from him and warns him about her old friends who felt the need to see how close to \u201cthe edge\u201d they could get, like it was a compulsion to tempt fate, and unfortunately most of them found it.<\/p>\n Everyone even remotely close to Robby is picking up that vibe and they aren\u2019t even privy to some of Robby\u2019s most telling private moments like we are. Take, for instance, the little Latin back-and-forth Robby and Santos have while working on the patient who was thrown across his storage unit after a firework went off \u2014 his scalp is falling off his skull, and he has pericardial effusion \u2014 after he talks about gunpowder being in his blood (metaphorically speaking). Robby refers to it as \u201camor fati,\u201d but the ever-cynical Santos chimes in that it seems more like \u201cmemento mori.\u201d Robby\u2019s reply? \u201cTomato, to-mah-to.\u201d No wonder Santos raises her eyebrows. If Robby is saying that amor fati, the idea of accepting, embracing, or even loving your fate, is basically the same as memento mori, a reminder that we all die, that death could come at any moment, should we be drawing the conclusion that more than accepting death, he may be saying that he is embracing it? Loving the idea of it? Even if Santos only clocks it as some bleak outlook on life and not an admission that he\u2019s suicidal, the way Robby has to catch his breath after that conversation perhaps points us toward his meaning. And don\u2019t even get me started on the fact that the patient who brings all of this up is named Dante. That guy was memento mori-ing all over the place.<\/p>\n So take all of that tension, the fact that it\u2019s getting harder and harder for Robby to push his feelings away from the surface, add in another confrontation with Dr. Al-Hashimi in which she informs him that she\u2019ll be recommending the ED always have two Attendings every shift because this is too much for anyone to handle, and Robby is primed for a screaming match with Dana. He finds her outside on a break and simply cannot let their conversations from earlier go. He calls her out for carrying that Versed around in case Doug Driscoll or someone like him ever came around. She could lose her nursing license for that. He\u2019s so angry because she is supposed to keep this place running when (not \u201cwhile!\u201d) he\u2019s gone. She finally lets him have it about the way he\u2019s handling Langdon. She knows he\u2019s angry with himself, that he is taking it as a personal failure, and that\u2019s why he\u2019s unable to forgive and move on. And when he goes off about not being able to leave this place in the state that it\u2019s in, she calls him on that, too. Can he not stay here one more minute, or can he not leave? Despite how Robby acts, this ED is bigger than one person \u2014 it survived without Adamson (he flinches at this name), without her while she was gone, and it\u2019ll survive without him. It\u2019s hard to watch these two fight like this, but it\u2019s also an incredible relief.<\/p>\n The Pitt cleverly juxtaposes the breakdown of Robby and Dana\u2019s relationship with the building of one between Santos and Whitaker. Whitaker can\u2019t shake the feeling that something\u2019s wrong with Santos today, but instead of accusing her of things, he just wants to make sure she\u2019s okay. When he comes to check on her he might not notice, but we see her grabbing a scalpel from the suture cart and stuffing it in her pocket. The slow burn of Santos getting repeatedly plowed over with stress and emotion has led her to contemplate self-harm again. She tries to brush Whitaker off with her special brand of abrasiveness, but it doesn\u2019t work on him anymore and he pushes. Once again The Pitt is incredible at turning the Langdon\/Santos situation on its head<\/a>. She tells Whitaker \u2014 and reminds us \u2014 that when everything went down it was her first day as a doctor. He spent that shift gaslighting her, making her question her skills. It took her a long time to recover from that, and it feels like no one remembers or cares about how it went down. But just as she\u2019s opening up to Whitaker, she retreats. Why does he care about any of this or her anyway if he\u2019s the one leaving their apartment to move into Robby\u2019s? Whitaker\u2019s realization that Santos actually likes living with him \u2014 actually likes him \u2014 is equal parts hilarious and sweet. I mean, the conversation ends with Santos yelling \u201cFuckleberry\u201d at him again, but at this point I think we all know that\u2019s a term of endearment.<\/p>\n