Chicago Med season 4, episode 5 takeaways: What You Don’t Know

What should One Chicago fans learn from this week’s Chicago Med? Look closer at last night’s episode with our Chicago Med season 4, episode 5 takeaways.

What did One Chicago fans learn from this week’s Chicago Med episode? Here’s what we took away from this week’s installment, “What You Don’t Know.”

“What You Don’t Know” featured Dr. Will Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss) starting his side job working for the FBI, while the hospital admitted a man who was determined to die and thwarted seemingly all attempts at changing his mind.

Meanwhile, Dr. Ethan Choi (Brian Tee) had his suspicions about his sister’s boyfriend triggered one more time when Bernie showed up in the Emergency Department drunk. Ethan was incensed that Bernie fell off the proverbial wagon, but was it more than that?

Below are our takeaways from this week’s episode:

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1) Bernie’s a jerk

One Chicago torpedoed another relationship when Chicago Med revealed that not only was Bernie drunk again, but he was also married—with a daughter!

Brian Tee’s reaction shot perfectly summed up Choi’s (and the audience’s) shock and anger in the moment. One had to feel for Emily, who was not only pregnant but unaware that she was “the other woman.”

That was, until Choi conveniently had April brought into the hospital to fill out paperwork—so she saw Bernie and then Bernie’s wife Ashley. Sneaky move there, Dr. Choi!

Too bad it kind of backfired, as Emily decided that she was going to stand by Bernie anyway. They may not have been a dream couple like Will and Natalie, but it’s unfortunate that Chicago Med had to doom another relationship, and then on top of that, have Emily make another poor decision. Would it have been so bad if she grew, or if she was able to have a happy family?

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2) Will sucks as a CI

No one expected Will Halstead to be an instant expert at undercover police work, because he’s not a police officer and because if he was, there’d be no drama for Chicago Med to mine in its new ongoing plotline. But even taking that into consideration, he was really, truly terrible in his first episode as part of the task force.

Will was on the verge of panic the whole episode. He was more concerned about lying to Dr. Natalie Manning (Torrey DeVitto) and being a good doctor than seeing the big picture. That’s a noble thought, but at what point does he concede that there’s more than his immediate world to worry about?

And since his brother’s a cop, you’d think he would have some idea of what was being asked of him, or at least a basic understanding that running around like a chicken with its head cut off is not a good idea. Let’s see if he at least accepts his new reality next week, because this investigation is not going away. Unless he has a meltdown and blows the whole thing up.

3) Ava finally has something to do

With so much of Chicago Med season 4 focusing on Dr. Ava Bekker (Norma Kuhling)’s work to get the hybrid OR funded, it was fantastic to see her actually get a solid case to work on this week. It reminded One Chicago viewers that Ava is an interesting character in her own right, and is about more than her relationship with Dr. Connor Rhodes (Colin Donnell).

There’s still a lot that ought to be developed with Ava, and she’s still a whole boatload of trouble once there’s the inevitable confrontation about the hybrid OR’s financing and how she kept that information from Connor. But Ava needs to have the chance to stand on her own, and episodes like this are exactly what she deserves.

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