Chicago Med season 3, episode 15 takeaways: Devil In Disguise
What’s Chicago Med doing with Will Halstead? Did Connor Rhodes make the right call? Here are our Chicago Med season 3, episode 15 takeaways.
Last night’s Chicago Med was a head-scratcher in a number of respects, so we have plenty of questions to discuss in our episode postmortem. Are you as confused as we are?
Tuesday’s episode was called “Devil In Disguise” and featured Maggie Lockwood (Marlyne Barrett) making an unethical move to keep her job, Dr. Connor Rhodes (Colin Donnell) being in the same position Maggie was last week, and Dr. Will Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss) in a world of hurt. Most of it personal.
If you missed any of this Chicago Med episode or just want a refresher on the events that we’re discussing, you can catch up with our “Devil In Disguise” recap.
Here are our Chicago Med season 3, episode 15 takeaways:
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1) Where’s Will going?
Was anyone else arching an eyebrow at the final scene of this episode, when Will was drinking at Molly’s only to be approached by Dr. Frisch (guest star Emma Duncan) for a drink?
We don’t know how we’re supposed to interpret this scene. It was made very clear this week that Will and Dr. Natalie Manning (Torrey DeVitto) are still “on a break.” But it would be the most cliche and frankly, needless plot twist if Will hooked up with someone else while waiting for Natalie to forgive him.
It adds nothing to Will’s story if he makes that choice. In fact, it doesn’t make him look good. He already looked like a bit of a jerk when he dumped Dr. Nina Shore (Patti Murin) last season for Natalie, and now how would Natalie feel if she found out he went with someone else?
Even though they’re not technically together, they’re not actually broken up either—and Will is too good of a guy to be out taking advantage of a technicality. Come on, Will, don’t be like Connor. Let’s just hope we’ve got the wrong feeling about this scene and it’s nothing more than a random drink. But why would Chicago Med end an episode on a scene that means nothing?
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2) Connor’s tough choice
Connor had an odd week at the office; essentially he was in the same “damned if you do” position that Maggie was last week. Like Maggie, Connor had a choice of following by the rules or saving a life, and he chose to save a life. But doing so got him booted off the team for next week’s big twin surgery.
This is a complicated storyline. It was awesome to see Dr. Isidore Latham (Ato Essandoh) come to Connor’s defense when Frisch called him “a diva,” but that feeling immediately went away when it became clear Latham was just doing that for appearances. Latham criticized Connor for not being a team player; what about him? Part of being a team player is supporting your team, too.
And we’re not sure we buy Latham’s reasoning that Connor defying orders this one time means he can’t trust him during the next procedure—he knows what Connor is, and isn’t, capable of. Or he should by now.
Especially with the mutual respect that’s built up between Connor and Latham since season 2, it was disheartening to see Latham so easily punt Connor aside for Dr. Ava Bekker (Norma Kuhling). That feels like a decision made to generate more drama for next week’s episode, rather than one that’s true to character. We’ll see if Latham eats his words next week.
3) Maggie’s punishment
It turned out to be much ado about nothing for Maggie. She was desperate to keep her job and avoid a lawsuit after last week’s actions, but was told there was a loophole if she could just find her paramedic’s license. Then when it turned out the license was expired, Chicago Med waved that away by saying the patient’s family had come to Maggie’s defense (off-screen).
Kudos need to be given to Marlyne Barrett for her work in “Devil In Disguise” because she made clear that Maggie will carry some guilt for asking Barry (guest star James Vincent Meredith) to have a friend “update” her license. But the rest of this felt just like the cliffhangers we’ve seen this season on Chicago Fire, where there wound up being no real consequences.
Obviously Maggie can’t have been fired because then she wouldn’t be on the show anymore. But it would have been really cool to see that meeting, with a fearful Maggie watching the family of the man whose life she saved standing up in her defense. Or having any of her patients speak up for her and how that would affect her. So much more could’ve been done with this plot point, but we will have to content ourselves with knowing our favorite nurse will be okay.
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What did you take away from this week’s Chicago Med episode? Leave your thoughts on “Devil In Disguise” in the comments.
Chicago Med airs Tuesdays at 10/9c on NBC.