Spoiler Warning: This story includes major plot developments for “9:00 P.M.,” the Season 1 finale of “The Pitt,” currently streaming on Max.

By the Season 1 finale of “The Pitt,” the day shift of the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center’s emergency department has weathered multiple fentanyl overdoses, a degloved foot, a troubled teenager with a list of girls he wants to hurt, severe sickle cell disease, brain worms, sex trafficking, a stolen ambulance, escaped rats, testicular torsion, mercury poisoning from face cream, an elderly father going off of life support with his adult children at his side, a drowned child, a nail gun attack, a spider bite, a pregnant teen who locks herself in the bathroom, a toddler who ate weed gummies, a risky delivery, a racist and abusive patient, an unvaccinated child with measles, and a flood of critically injured patients from a mass shooting at a music festival. So it’s understandable why,...