Chicago Med season 3, episode 13 preview: Best Laid Plans

Chicago Med’s doctors are in conflict; will there be consequences? Look ahead to tonight’s episode with our Chicago Med season 3, episode 13 preview.

There’s a lot of tension in this week’s Chicago Med, which is good TV but how bad will it be for the hospital?

Tuesday’s episode is called “Best Laid Plans” and the focus is on two different disagreements that involve two of our usual pairs of doctors.

The plot that’s being pushed in the promo is another conflict between Dr. Connor Rhodes (Colin Donnell) and his colleague, now love interest, maybe Dr. Ava Bekker (Norma Kuhling).

Then downstairs, it’s Dr. Natalie Manning (Torrey DeVitto) and Dr. Will Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss) on opposite sides over a mother’s choice for her son.

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These are not new conflicts. These are conflicts, and pairings, we’ve seen before. What makes this episode interesting is the timing of these conflicts: it’s terrible.

There’s never a good time to have a fight, but there are worse times than others, and after Chicago Med was slapped with a lawsuit last week, it could look even worse if it seems like the doctors can’t even get their stuff together and get on the same page.

After all, we know that chances are good only part of these conflicts takes place behind closed doors. This show does tend to put our doctors in situations that bring the tension out publicly, even if they do their best to hide it.

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Keep your eye on the storyline with Connor and Ava. The NBC promos want us to think that it’s got something to do with their romantic tension (just like last week’s promos), but really these two are both better than that, and it’s a lot more interesting if they can be portrayed as having a legitimate professional conflict that is separate.

Just because they slept together, doesn’t mean everything now has to orbit around that. We saw last week how Chicago Med could still give them a great medical story and not let the romance be distracting to the plot; let’s hope the show can keep that up.

The biggest liability for the hospital could be Natalie. Her plotline involves a woman who makes a controversial decision on behalf of her adult son, who’s in a vegetative state and can’t decide for himself. Anyone who’s watched this show knows that’s a plotline for Natalie Manning. She does not mind telling people if they’ve made a decision she can’t abide—and it gets her in trouble.

Keep in mind, this will be just a few episodes after she publicly told off a father in the ED waiting room. If Natalie goes off on another patient’s parent, will there be consequences this time? Either with Will finally having to say something, or somebody threatening her with a lawsuit? Whether she’s right or wrong, Natalie is opinionated and she fights for what she believes in—which can be an admirable quality but also a risky one.

With Goodwin already on edge because of last week’s lawsuit (even though it was settled), will she begin to scrutinize the behavior of her team even more closely, trying to avoid any more legal issues? It’ll be fun to see if the show actually gets mileage out of the bureaucratic storyline it’s tried to push by tying it to some of the drama happening in the ED and the OR.

Next: Chicago Med's Colin Donnell on the Connor-Ava dynamic

What do you think will happen in tonight’s Chicago Med episode? Leave your predictions for “Best Laid Plans” in the comments and tune in Tuesday to see what actually happens.

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

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