Chicago Med season 1, episode 4 rewatch: Mistaken
Look back at where Chicago Med began this summer. Read our retrospective on the fourth episode as we rewatch Chicago Med season 1, episode 4.
Over the One Chicago summer break, we’re looking back at where it all began by rewatching the first seasons of our shows—and today we’re revisiting Chicago Med season 1, episode 4.
If you want to rewatch this episode along with us, you can find Chicago Med season 1 on iTunes and DVD.
Episode four is called “Mistaken” and presents the show’s second mass-patient incident. Instead of a train crash, now it’s a shooting at a movie theater.
Like “Derailed” that makes the episode move at a very fast clip, from the harrowing opening (that shows us one family’s perspective on the incident) to the packed ED.
However, unlike “Derailed,” we have more subplots going on in this episode—possibly because this episode wasn’t the pilot so the show didn’t have to spend its extra time introducing characters and laying groundwork.
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The main plotline of this episode is honestly heartbreaking. Not to give anything away for those who may not have seen it yet, but the story that unfolds for the family we meet at the top of the episode is among Chicago Med‘s most emotional plots.
And the real story behind the incident is not something you’ll see coming—we’ll just say it’s not what it appears to be.
This is an early example of the potential of Chicago Med. When the show tries to tell a different story, it really does well and it makes a considerable impact. It’s too bad that doesn’t happen more often.
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Outside of that storyline, there’s an eyebrow-arching subplot involving April Sexton (Yaya DaCosta), Dr. Will Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss) and an elderly patient who is racist, but who gets the ultimate comeuppance.
The “racism in medicine” story is one that’s been done, but rarely so, and it’s particularly effective here because of how all the characters involved react to the patient’s behavior. This scene where April and Will oh so politely drop a truth bomb on the woman is worth the rewatch alone:
It’s one of the early plot points where Chicago Med season 1 reminds us that there’s a lot more to being a doctor or a nurse than just whether someone lives or dies. There are all these other issues and challenges that the job involves.
Plus, we get our first Moment of Zen from Dr. Ethan Choi (Brian Tee), who to this day has that big picture perspective and clarity that the other characters don’t always have. Even in episode four you already know we should be listening more to him. It’s not until the second season that his role seems to get bigger, but the seeds are already there in episodes like this.
“Mistaken” pairs a moving main storyline with a thoughtful subplot, and those are only two of the stories. At this point, we’re already just under a quarter of the way through the first season, and you can see Chicago Med finding its legs and the kind of show it wants to be. Watch this episode again now on iTunes and DVD.
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