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Chicago Med season 3: 3 moments we’d change

By Brittany Frederick

CHICAGO MED -- "The Parent Trap" Episode 317 -- Pictured: Torrey DeVitto as Natalie Manning -- (Photo by: Elizabeth Sisson/NBC)
CHICAGO MED -- "The Parent Trap" Episode 317 -- Pictured: Torrey DeVitto as Natalie Manning -- (Photo by: Elizabeth Sisson/NBC) /
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CHICAGO MED — “An Inconvenient Truth” Episode 316 — Pictured: (l-r) Norma Kuhling as Ava Bekker, Colin Donnell as Connor Rhodes — (Photo by: Elizabeth Sisson/NBC) /

3. Ava avoiding trouble

In the episode “An Inconvenient Truth” there’s trouble for Dr. Ava Bekker (Norma Kuhling) when it becomes apparent that she left a surgical instrument inside of a patient. Ava is distraught over the mistake, but that’s the only punishment she really faces—when both she and Dr. Connor Rhodes (Colin Donnell) are called into their boss’s office, Connor tries to take the blame for her.

Chicago Med introduced Ava as a series regular this season, and it made a concerted effort to get the audience to like her, whether it was giving her a considerable amount of screen time or making her flirtation with Connor a major subplot of season 3. “An Inconvenient Truth” was the biggest example of the show tilting the scales in Ava’s favor.

Ava was happy to take digs at Connor when she thought he was the one who’d left the equipment behind, but after finding her in tears, Connor decides he’ll lie and cover for her—even though since he’s already in trouble that could kill his career and she’s been thrilled with any chance she gets to undermine him. Connor Rhodes is the white knight of Chicago Med, but this is taking it to a whole new level.

It’s Ava’s mistake and she should face consequences for it. Not only that, but having her face some kind of trouble would have been great for her character. It would have knocked her down a peg and given her some more dimension outside of her relationship with Connor. It might have even been good for that relationship, too, because they’d both have made big missteps and could bond over that.

Instead, Chicago Med season 3 let Ava get off easy—which didn’t make sense, didn’t do her any favors, and made the most dramatic storyline of “An Inconvenient Truth” fall flat.

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