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It\u2019s thrillingly intense. It\u2019s obsessed with intubating. It\u2019s occasionally infested with maggots or rats. And it has single-handedly made medical dramas cool again. With each episode covering an hour inside the hectic emergency room at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center (PTMC), awards-gobbling HBO Max hit The Pitt<\/a> has become the most talked-about show on TV.<\/p>\n

And where there\u2019s a hit series, you\u2019ll find an obsessive fandom. Fully invested devotees of The Pitt are busy spotting details, making predictions and hatching theories. As season two approaches midway, here are 10 for your thorough medical examination. Let\u2019s go save some lives \u2026<\/p>\n

Whittaker and Robby are in loveJust colleagues, or something else? Robby (Noah Wyle) and Whitaker (Gerran Howell) have a close bond. Photograph: Warner Bros<\/p>\n

It might be wishful thinking but entire swathes of the internet are devoted to spotting sexy vibe between Dr Michael \u201cRobby\u201d Robinavitch (Noah Wyle) and Dr Dennis \u201cHuckleberry\u201d Whitaker (Gerran Howell). The dream duo even have their own hashtag, #Hucklerobby.<\/p>\n

The logic goes that the mentor-and-mentee colleagues are a classic pairing of \u201ctroubled moral saviour\u201d and \u201cdamsel in distress\u201d. Bonded by trauma, they\u2019re often locking eyes over a blood-spattered gurney<\/a>. \u201cI get sent a lot of fan art of Gerran and me,\u201d says Wyle. \u201cSometimes we\u2019re cowboys. Sometimes we\u2019re camping together or taking a nap in a hammock.\u201d \u201cI get shown it,\u201d adds Howell. \u201cSometimes against my will.\u201d<\/p>\n

AI will cause a patient\u2019s death<\/p>\n

Always tapping away at her tablet, new arrival Dr Baran Al-Hashimi (Sepideh Moafi) has been openly promoting the use of AI-driven medical tools. However, she has admitted that generative AI is only 98% accurate, which is cause for concern in a life-or-death environment.<\/p>\n

Could this be foreshadowing a loss of life due to a patient being misdiagnosed or the algorithm prescribing the wrong meds? It would be a cautionary tale about the dangers of the divisive technology. Creatives aren\u2019t exactly fond of AI, so you can see this playing well in the writers\u2019 room.<\/p>\n

Dr Abbot doesn\u2019t exist<\/p>\n

Robby\u2019s overnight counterpart is his old buddy Dr Jack Abbot (Shawn Hatosy) \u2013 an amputee and ex-military medic. The pair have a habit of talking each other down from the edge of the hospital roof after tough shifts. But is he just a hallucination?<\/p>\n

Some fans have surmised that Abbot could be a Fight Club-style alter ego and a figment of the unravelling Robby\u2019s imagination. However, Abbot having entire conversations with other characters surely makes this nonsensical. Paging Dr Tyler Durden\u2026<\/p>\n

Dr Robby will adopt the abandoned babyWill Robby ride off on his motorbike or will he stick around and adopt Baby Jane Doe? Photograph: HBO<\/p>\n

Will our whiskery hero find salvation by adopting \u201cBaby Jane Doe\u201d? Throughout season two, an unidentified infant left in the hospital loos has been undergoing paediatric tests. This initially sparked speculation that a member of hospital staff was the mother. Charge nurse Dana Evans (Katherine LaNasa) told Robby that somebody needs to foster her, leading to further broody conjecture.<\/p>\n

No spoilers but season two apparently ends with Dr Robby delivering a tearful monologue while holding the baby in his arms. Annoyingly, Wyle himself has debunked theories that his character will be filling out adoption papers: \u201cI think Robby hits the road and thinks to himself, \u2018Boy, it would have been nice to be in a better place where I could actually have taken that kid. Maybe one day.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr Santos will dieLosing it \u2026 Santos (Isa Briones) is a character in crisis. Photograph: HBO<\/p>\n

Rather than something dramatic happening to Dr Robby, could tragedy strike one of his underlings? Some have suggested that cocky, sarky Dr Trinity Santos (Isa Briones) might actually be the character in crisis. In season two so far, she\u2019s exhausted, overworked, <\/a>struggling to keep up with her charts and terrified of repeating her second year of residency if she falls short.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, her nemesis Dr Langdon is back after she reported him for stealing benzos and most colleagues seem to be siding with him. Santos\u2019 \u201csituationship\u201d with surgeon Dr Yolanda Garcia (Alexandra Metz) also looks rocky. Could her struggles result in a serious error? It would be a dagger in our hearts (and a scalpel in our feet).<\/p>\n

Myrna is the real star of the showTruman Show-style \u2026 is the whole thing in the mind of Myrna White (Jeanette O\u2019Connor)? Photograph: HBO<\/p>\n

Hey fruitcake! Darkly comic relief comes from eccentric patient Myrna White (Jeanette O\u2019Connor), who is handcuffed to a wheelchair. She makes saucy comments <\/a>to staff, flips the bird and claims to have committed violent crimes, such as putting her husband through a meat grinder.<\/p>\n

Some fans have joked that the entire emergency department could be a simulation and Myrna is the unwitting star of her own Truman Show-style reality series. Probably a reach.<\/p>\n

Al-Hashimi will get sued<\/p>\n

Another recurring thread is fan favourite Dr Melissa King (Taylor Dearden) stressing about the legal deposition she\u2019s about to give. Colleagues have assured Mel that being sued is part of practising medicine.<\/p>\n

This makes Al-Hashimi\u2019s boast that she has never been sued during her 20-year career look a little odd \u2013 and perhaps like foreshadowing. Is she about to make a catastrophic error? Will it be linked to her reliance on AI? Or that mysterious moment<\/a> when she froze upon receiving Baby Jane Doe\u2019s test results?<\/p>\n

Dr Robby is already dead<\/p>\n

Some theorists have pointed out Robby\u2019s vague resemblance to Jack from Lost \u2013 another handsome hospital doctor who became de facto leader of an ensemble cast \u2013 and approached The Pitt as a similar puzzle-box show. Could Robby be dead? Is the emergency department his dying dream? Or is it, like the Lost island, a purgatory-style holding pen where some people pass on and others return to life?<\/p>\n

Dr Robby has admitted that the hospital is the only place where he can function and come truly alive. His ward-roaming brief means it often feels as if he\u2019s floating around, looking down on the action. Even the show\u2019s title could hint at it being a sort of hell. There\u2019s also precedent. In the 1980s, equally acclaimed US medical drama St Elsewhere had a notorious finale where it revealed that the previous six seasons had all been the dream of an autistic boy staring at a snowglobe. No, really.<\/p>\n

Dr Langdon is a vampireBlood sucker \u2026 is Langdon (Patrick Ball) a secret vampire? Photograph: HBO<\/p>\n

Sounds bananas but bear with us. Senior resident Dr Frank Langdon (Patrick Ball) might have returned after his rehab stint but he\u2019s been banished to triage. Is Dr Robby refusing to fully invite Langdon into the emergency department because he\u2019s secretly an undead ghoul?<\/p>\n

Think about it. When he was confronted for drug theft, Langdon deadpanned: \u201cYeah, I\u2019ve been stealing blood too.\u201d<\/a> He wears black scrubs and rarely sees daylight. He has the chiselled cheekbones and slicked-back hair of a Twilight sucker. Could Emmy-winning The Pitt follow Oscar-winning Sinners by suddenly genre-switching into horror, with \u201cFang\u201d Langdon as neck-nibbler-in-chief?<\/a> Stranger things have happened. Although admittedly not many.<\/p>\n

Dr Robby will get sectioned (or, sob, die)<\/p>\n

Doom-mongers fear it won\u2019t end well for Dr Robby, whose mental health struggles only seem to be worsening. Some have predicted he\u2019ll be involuntarily committed to a psych ward, perhaps by his replacement Al-Hashimi or his frenemy Langdon, and potentially lose his medical licence. Sadly, this would be an all too accurate reflection of the huge pressures on healthcare workers.<\/p>\n

Others have gone one louder and predicted that he\u2019ll be killed off. The beardy biker was seen riding his hog to work without wearing a helmet and later lied to a patient\u2019s face about it. Several motorcycle crash victims have arrived in the department. An omen that Dr Robby will be involved in an accident himself and return to PTMC as a patient?<\/p>\n

There have also been hints at suicidal thoughts, with the troubled medic dropping hints about \u201cnot coming back\u201d and \u201cnot being here any more\u201d. His preparation for going on sabbatical could also be read as someone getting their affairs in order. The prospect of Dr Robby\u2019s demise is devastating but fret not. A smash hit show wouldn\u2019t really sacrifice its leading man \u2026 would it?<\/p>\n

The Pitt is available on HBO Max, with season two episodes dropping weekly<\/p>\n