The Pitt Season 2 Episode 4 recap: the Sisyphean hour

The Pitt Season 2 returned for another thrilling saga this week with the fourth episode, as our heroes will be pushed to their limits this early in the season. The closing minutes of Episode 3 ended with the declaration of "code black," meaning all ambulances will be directed to the Pitt. The medical team at Pitt will be forced to prioritize patients as new ones will be admitted into the hospital.

This week's The Pitt Season 2 episode makes viewers empathize with the medical professionals when they are thrust into Sisyphean situations like "code black," which has a basis in the real world.

"With a nearby hospital shuttered on the busiest day of the year, Robby and team must field extra patients, including the victim of a parkour mishap."

The Pitt Season 2 Episode 4 recap:

The Pitt Season 2, Episode 4 opens with Robby and the team waiting for the ambulance to arrive at the hospital. Meanwhile, Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi instructs Dr. Trinity Santos to catch up with her charting. Trinity hears it and walks out with the rest of the team and asks Robby if the team likes Al-Hashimi or not.

But before we learn the answer to Trinity's question, three ambulances with three different patients drive-in kicking off an emergency hour. Two of them are in critical condition, with one suffering from a heart attack and the other one injured in a parkour stunt gone wrong. Dennis Whitaker correctly identifies that the heart patient's symptoms are traced to the backside of his body.

But the most critical patient in The Pitt Season 2, Episode 4 is the young man who fell through a glass ceiling in a parkour stunt gone wrong. His business partner walks into the hospital room, filming the treatment, but she is taken out by the hospital staff. The team manages to stabilize the patient, but the partner notices something that makes the doctors realize that the patient might not be completely stable.

James Ogilvie worsens the situation by taking out a glass shard, which results in bleeding. But the other doctors manage to control the situation and stabilize despite that. Santos and Mel are working with an African-American woman, diagnosed with a possible eating disorder, who seeks mental-health help with an African-American female therapist.

Meanwhile, another surprising thing about Season 2, Episode 4, is that the subplot of the aggressive student from the previous episode returns in this one. For the uninitiated, law Student Jackson Davis was admitted to the hospital after being tasered by the campus police in the previous episode.

The officer who tasered Jackson complained that the young man was on drugs, but the third episode confirms that his blood tests came out negative for drugs, setting up a mystery.

In this Season 2 episode, Jackson is unconscious as the hospital staff had sedated him. We see his sister, who is informed about Jackson's aggressive episode, but she isn't ready to believe it because she describes her brother as level-headed. Still, Javadi suggests that the hospital's therapist has a look at Jackson. Meanwhile, Langdon finally manages to treat the patient whose eyes were shut by a superglue with Javadi's help by trimming the eyelashes.

Langdon also treats another patient from a previous episode whose infection might be spreading on her leg.

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The fourth episode of The Pitt Season 2 is currently streaming on HBO Max.

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