- Ava Bekker: So, sidelined for the conjoined twins surgery, and now you're doing procedures before your morning coffee? I like the fight in you.
- Connor Rhodes: I'm a glutton for punishment. Latham made his choice clear.
- Ava Bekker: You know, it's not over until the first incision. Start playing nice, maybe you'll be holding the scalpel.
- Connor Rhodes: Are you all of a sudden rooting for my success?
- Ava Bekker: Not at all. I just hate winning by default.
- Natalie Manning: Hey, Dr. Charles, you got a sec? I've got a case I'd like to run by you.
- Daniel Charles: What you got?
- Natalie Manning: My patient, Emma, nine, she presented with abdominal pain on the left side, so I did a quick bedside scan to check her ovaries. It's actually testicular torsion.
- Daniel Charles: Testicular torsion?
- Natalie Manning: Yes. The ultrasound showed an absence of uterus and ovaries, but she has undescended testes.
- Daniel Charles: Huh. Nothing about this in her chart?
- Natalie Manning: No. I doubt the family has any idea.
- Daniel Charles: Okay. Page Pediatric Urology. We need to get a plan together.
- Will Halstead: What's the story?
- Jay Halstead: Well, Carter said that Bo was, uh, cooking up BHL.
- [seeing he doesn't understand]
- Jay Halstead: Uh, butane hash oil. You blast marijuana with enough butane, and you get pure THC.
- Ethan Choi: Lengths kids will go to to get high these days.
- Will Halstead: Given the placement and orientation of the handprints on Carter's back, there's no way they're his own.
- Sharon Goodwin: Okay? So?
- Will Halstead: So, Carter told my brother Jay that he tried to slap out the flames on Bo. Now, I haven't said anything to Jay.
- Sharon Goodwin: So you think Carter may have started the fire and is blaming Bo?
- Will Halstead: Carter tested positive for THC. Bo was clean.
- Peter Kalmick: Look, Sharon... CFD and CPD will conduct their own very thorough investigation, and it is in the hospital's best interest, and frankly yours, to not put yourself in the middle.
- Sharon Goodwin: But I am in the middle, Peter. Carter's my godson. I've known this boy since he was in diapers. He's not some master manipulator. If he lied, it's because he was scared.
- Peter Kalmick: Beside the fact that the Singletons are your friends, they are also major donors to this hospital, and there is a multi-million dollar relationship at stake here. So if the kid is gonna get in trouble, please, let PD be the bad guys.
- Natalie Manning: Any word from the ethics committee?
- [Charles glances at Emma's treatment room]
- Natalie Manning: No way. No way they're gonna allow this.
- Daniel Charles: Because, technically, they have both Judy and Emma's consent, and because testicular torsion is a medical emergency, the hospital feels obligated to act.
- Natalie Manning: But the assent was coerced.
- Daniel Charles: Yeah, but coercion's very difficult to prove, and the truth is that in the majority of these cases, the courts do side with the parents. The board's worried about a negligence suit.