Chicago Med season 3, episode 5 takeaways: Mountains and Molehills

Is Chicago Med putting the screws to Sarah Reese? Did Will Halstead’s story end too quickly? Here are our Chicago Med season 3, episode 5 takeaways.

With Tuesday’s return of Chicago Med, it’s time to once again ask questions about where our favorite medical drama has been and where it’s going.

Season 3, Episode 5 was called “Mountains and Molehills” and was a bad episode for Dr. Sarah Reese (Rachel DiPillo). Already on edge about her safety, Reese had her car broken into and her would-be love interest Noah Sexton (Roland Buck III) thrown through a door. And Noah learned a hard lesson about promises you can’t keep.

If you missed any of the Chicago Med midseason premiere or just want a refresher on the events we’re discussing, you can catch up with our “Mountains and Molehills” recap.

Here are our Chicago Med season 3, episode 5 takeaways:

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1) Is Reese losing it?

After “Mountains and Molehills,” we are definitely worried about Dr. Reese. Luckily she wasn’t able to go out and buy a gun (legally anyway), but she’s now armed and we definitely think she’s dangerous.

It’s interesting how Chicago Med has run with the Reese having PTSD storyline. If it were Dr. Charles behaving this way, it might make more sense since he’s the one who was actually attacked (and since we hardly ever see him on less than a steady keel).

But having it happen to Reese, who is less experienced and more naive, is a different story altogether. It’s not the storyline we expected, and it’s at least giving some big scenes to Rachel DiPillo, when we’ve been used to seeing her character as much quieter and less confrontational. The question is, how far will this go before somebody finally confronts Reese?

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2) Will’s story ended too fast

The main storyline of this episode involved Dr. Will Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss) being hit with the same illness as his young patient. On one hand, there’s a certain amount of dramatic license in play here, because Chicago Med fans inherently knew the illness had to be cured by the end of the episode. The show wasn’t going to paralyze Will, or have him out of action.

That being said, the resolution to his case did feel a bit rushed. All of a sudden, we find that the patient is doing well and it’s all chalked up to a literal bug that attached itself to her? Her recovery happens completely off-screen, too. It felt like Will’s condition was more of an excuse to have some angst between Will and Natalie (Torrey DeVitto), rather than a fully developed medical plot of its own.

And as much as we are enjoying the Manstead pairing, the whole “Natalie coming on to Will in his hospital room” closer was far too obvious. “A” for effort, but this story gets a “C” at best.

3) Are Noah and Reese still a possibility?

Speaking of obvious things, Chicago Med was obvious last season in steering Reese and Noah as a future pairing, having Reese dump her boyfriend off-camera and having Noah hit on her like a high school kid trying to get a prom date.

But with Reese worrying over Dr. Charles and Noah starting his residency, both characters had more important things to focus on, and so it felt like perhaps the show had abandoned the ship for very good reasons.

After “Mountains and Molehills,” though, we’re not so sure. How Reese was one of the people right at Noah’s bedside after he was attacked felt very telling. We all expected that his sister was going to be there, and Connor (Colin Donnell) was there because he was in the thick of the scene, but to have Reese there didn’t feel like just a coincidence. The show didn’t have to put her in that scene but it did.

It may not happen right away (nor should it), but is Med dropping us a hint that these two could still have romantic potential? We’ll find out, presuming that both of them overcome their personal obstacles.

Next: Our Chicago Med season 3 midseason predictions

What did you take away from this week’s Chicago Med episode? Leave us your takeaways from “Mountains and Molehills” in the comments.

Chicago Med airs Tuesdays at 10/9c on NBC.