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Chicago Med season 3’s best moments, ranked

By Brittany Frederick

CHICAGO MED -- "Speak Your Truth" Episode 301 -- Pictured: (l-r) Torrey DeVitto as Natalie Manning, Nick Gehlfuss as Will Halstead -- (Photo by: Elizabeth Sisson/NBC)
CHICAGO MED -- "Speak Your Truth" Episode 301 -- Pictured: (l-r) Torrey DeVitto as Natalie Manning, Nick Gehlfuss as Will Halstead -- (Photo by: Elizabeth Sisson/NBC) /
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CHICAGO MED — “Devil in Disguise” Episode 315 — Pictured: (l-r) Marlyne Barrett as Maggie Lockwood, Nick Gehlfuss as Dr. Will Halstead — (Photo by: Elizabeth Sisson/NBC) /

2. Maggie gets off the hook

It was a little bit of deja vu for Maggie Lockwood (Marlyne Barrett) this season, when she found herself in legal trouble. With the hospital staff overworked due to several issues in “Lock It Down”, Maggie stepped in for an absent Noah Sexton (Roland Buck III) and performed an emergency procedure to save the life of one of his patients.

While that was the right move morally, legally she wasn’t permitted to do so—because the rules state that procedure has to be performed by a doctor. So even though she saved the man’s life, it resulted in Maggie being disciplined and the next episode “Devil in Disguise” had her fighting for her future. Would she get fired? Would she get sued? Could she get fired and sued?

Numerous things were tried to get her out of trouble, including Sharon Goodwin (S. Epatha Merkerson) pointing out that Maggie was a certified EMT, and Maggie asking her ex-boyfriend Barry (guest star James Vincent Meredith) to tamper with records when she found out that her EMT certification had expired. But it wasn’t semantics or trickery that saved Maggie’s bacon.

It was the family of the man she saved going to bat for her. We didn’t get to see the scene, but Goodwin told Maggie how the family had spoken on her behalf. That was a wonderful moment for a number of reasons. Firstly, Maggie was spared from consequences that, quite frankly, would have been unjust.

But almost more than that, she was saved the right way. It wasn’t our heroes finding a technicality or some other way to save her at the eleventh hour. It was the patient’s family speaking up in her defense, and reminding us that good people doing good things does occasionally get recognized. It was nice to know that when Maggie went the extra mile, someone else did it for her.

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