[The following story contains spoilers from the The Pitt season two, episode six, “12 p.m.”]
When Katherine Lanasa‘s charge nurse Dana Evans is showing her young wide-eyed trainee Emma (Laëtitia Hollard) the ropes at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center in the season two premiere of The Pitt, she mentions some best practices to help nurses protect themselves from overly aggressive patients, like the one who punched Dana in the face in season one, leaving her not only with some bruises but also with some doubts about whether she wanted to continue working in the hospital.
But a few hours later, as seen in episode six, she’s walking Emma around the emergency department and sharing more instructions about patient care when one patient suddenly reaches out and grabs Emma’s arm. Dana rushes to her defense, frees Emma’s arm and scolds the patient, ripping a sign off the wall and shoving it in his face, loudly…