Chicago Med season 3, episode 12 preview: Born This Way

Chicago Med changes up partners this week, so what can fans expect? Look ahead to tonight’s episode with our Chicago Med season 3, episode 12 preview.

When Chicago Med returns tonight, it’s not going to be how it was when we left it. And that’s what makes this week’s episode interesting.

Med was preempted last week so that NBC could premiere its new drama Rise (which moves into the Tuesday 9 p.m. slot as Med‘s new lead-in). But we’re back now, and there are quite a few parts that have shifted.

Tuesday’s episode is called “Born This Way” and it mixes up the character assignments that fans have become used to seeing.

Dr. Natalie Manning (Torrey DeVitto) is working with Dr. Ethan Choi (Brian Tee) this time as the two venture out of the hospital to treat a homeless pregnant woman. That means their partners April Sexton (Yaya DaCosta) and Dr. Will Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss) are teamed up instead.

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That’s a great move for Chicago Med, which had fallen into a bit of a rut as far as almost always putting the same teams together each week. Variety is the spice of life, and we’ll finally be getting some in this episode.

Choi seems to be the go-to guy when it comes to venturing into the unknown; he was also out with Dr. Sarah Reese (Rachel DiPillo) scouring the city streets for her patient Danny last season.

Maybe it’s because he’s got a military background, but Med does like to send him onto these cases so he should have some great things to do here. But how will he play off Natalie, who’s known to be more emotional and impulsive?

This is the woman who yelled at a parent in the middle of the waiting room in the last episode, and as far as we saw on screen, didn’t get more than a slap on the wrist for it. But if her instincts clash with Choi’s more logical approach, there might be some more fireworks here, too.

And that’s not a bad thing, because the show is at its most tense when two doctors legitimately disagree over treatment and present different points of view for the audience.

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Back at the hospital, fans will no doubt be discussing what happens next now that Chicago Med went exactly where we knew it was going to go, hooking up Dr. Connor Rhodes (Colin Donnell) and Dr. Ava Bekker (Norma Kuhling).

Many fans called this going back to last season, and quite a few didn’t want it to happen either, so another interesting point will be just seeing the fan reaction now that the ship has sailed. It will be a part of this episode, and it was the main focus of the promo:

The genie can’t be put back in the bottle, proverbially speaking, so the question now is what Chicago Med is going to do with this idea. We still don’t know that much about Ava, and Connor’s love life is not a huge talking point with the audience either, not in the post-Robin era.

So Chicago Med has to show us a number of things: why these two got together (that kiss in “Folie A Deux” needed a lot more context!), why we should care that they’re together, and what it’s actually going to contribute to the show. The good news is, “Born This Way” gives them a job to do and it’s not all about the fact that they’ve slept together.

The two are still butting heads, and it’s important to see how the conflict resolves, or if it resolves. If the two continue to challenge each other and advance each other’s characters, and they just so happen to be involved, then this could work out. But if Connor suddenly starts falling over Ava, or Ava starts losing her bite (the defining characteristic Chicago Med has given her so far), then the ship might wind up sinking. There’s only one way to find out, and that’s tuning in tonight.

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What do you think will happen in this week’s Chicago Med episode? Leave your predictions for “Born This Way” in the comments and tune in tonight to see what actually happens.

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