Chicago Med season 4, episode 11 recap: Who Can You Trust
Chicago Med drove a bigger wedge between pairings this week. Find out what happened in Chicago Med season 4, episode 11 in our recap.
This week’s episode of Chicago Med opened with everyone in a perilous place, as relationships had all been damaged by recent events. But who would be able to make repairs, and who would end up even worse than they started?
Wednesday’s installment “Who Can You Trust” featured Dr. Will Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss) coming back for his first shift since entering witness protection, while tensions rose between April Sexton (Yaya DaCosta) and Dr. Ethan Choi (Brian Tee) for yet another week—which led to a surprising choice.
Click through this slideshow to read what happened in the latest Chicago Med episode for each of your favorite characters, starting with:
Will and Natalie
Will returned to the hospital with a much shorter fuse, after moving out of the home he’d shared with Dr. Natalie Manning (Torrey DeVitto) at the end of the previous episode. Natalie confronted him about his attitude; Will didn’t want to talk to anyone, while Natalie wished he’d talk to her.
His first patient was a surrogate pregnant with twins, and Will was concerned about the health of the male fetus. Tests proved that the fetus’s abdominal organs had migrated into his chest, and if that wasn’t bad enough, his situation was also threatening the health of his unborn sister. Will’s advice was to “selectively reduce” one fetus to save the other.
But the surrogate wasn’t willing to give up her baby, even against medical advice and the wishes of the children’s parents. A lawyer was called, who threatened Celine with breach of contract; Will objected, saying that it was Celine’s body and therefore her choice. That prompted the parents to ask for a new doctor—and Sharon Goodwin (S. Epatha Merkerson) was happy to oblige.
Despite being thrown off the case, Will came up with a third option: a surgical procedure that may save both babies, but could kill Celine, who nonetheless gave her consent. The risky option worked perfectly, with mom and children okay, but Goodwin ordered Will into mandatory counseling.
Meanwhile, Natalie and Dr. Daniel Charles (Oliver Platt) took on an elderly patient with Alzheimer’s Disease. Their tests revealed a likely overdose on thyroid medication. Was it a suicide attempt? Dr. Charles was convinced that someone was slowly overdosing her, and that something wasn’t right with the patient’s daughter Alana.
An MRI revealed that Alana was experiencing early onset Alzheimer’s herself; it was her who was forgetting to give her mom the proper medication and accidentally overdosing her! But with the case closed, attention shifted back to Manstead, as Will was easily able to deduce that Natalie was the one who’d told on him.