Chicago Med season 5, episode 16 recap: Who Should Be The Judge

April and Choi

April recognizes a friend who’s brought into the ED. Jasmine is hauled in by paramedics after getting unexpectedly ill while making her kids breakfast, and also tells April that her biological mom is going to be her living organ donor. “She’s my last shot,” Jasmine says, to which Dr. Ethan Choi (Brian Tee) replies, “That’s some good luck.”

Mom is soon in the ED and being prepped for the transplant, and Choi stops by to check her vitals to ensure that she can go through with the procedure. He also asks her about how lucky it is that she was able to find her biological daughter. But then Chicago Med gives us some ominous music as he sees something he doesn’t like on her chart: a drug that she had a bad reaction to several years ago.

Choi quickly excuses himself from the room, and next time we see him, he’s telling April that he doesn’t think Jasmine has found her biological mom. See, the intolerance should be genetic, and Jasmine has had that same drug before. April pleads with Choi not to risk her friend’s life over this not so small detail.

Apparently he doesn’t, because (after one very obvious Walmart product placement), April informs Jasmine’s friend Lauren that the transplant went great. She also randomly walks into another woman who says Lauren used to work at DCFS, which does not mesh with what April knows. So she makes a call and confirms Choi’s theory in a whole different way: Lauren tampered with adoption records to catfish her not-mom out of an organ. Where’s Nev Schulman when we need him?

“What you did is illegal,” Choi informs them both, while April handles the disappointment part of the reaction. Jasmine insists that they both love the woman, but April is super disgusted and walks out, followed by Choi shortly thereafter. But when they tell the other woman, she says she knew all along; she thought this was “God giving me another chance to do some good” and make things up for what happened with her own daughter. She believes she has a family now, and wants our heroes to ask them to come see her.

Speaking of family, April and Choi find out that their first attempt at in vitro fertilization didn’t take. April wastes no time in agreeing to a second attempt.

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