State investigators begin to explore what happened to the 45 people found dead at Memorial in the aftermath of the hurricane.State investigators begin to explore what happened to the 45 people found dead at Memorial in the aftermath of the hurricane.State investigators begin to explore what happened to the 45 people found dead at Memorial in the aftermath of the hurricane.
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- GoofsDr. Pou and other New Orleans residents are shown talking on their landline telephones with lights on in their houses about two weeks after the storm. Even in December, after sunset the city was completely dark. There was no electricity in the Uptown area even in December.
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Episode 6 of Five Days At Memorial begins with Dr Horace in the hot-seat, ominously declaring that decisions were made after those 5 days that never should have been made. This spine-chilling opening paves way for the dissonance and tone-deaf response from George Bush to the situation happening in New Orleans. A series of montaged news footage is stitched together over his speech - beautifully edited I may add - before whisking us off to Atlanta, 13 days after Katrina. Butcher is called over to Baton Rouge to see the Attorney General. He wants to look into what happened in Memorial Hospital. With 45 dead patients inside, it's flashed up as a red flag and the authorities are intent on investigating this further. And joining him for this is Virginia Rider who works in the fraud department. This week's episode changes tact slightly and instead of the pressure cooker situation inside the hospital, we're now looking at things from the outside, looking in. Most of the earlier nail-biting tense has now gone and instead, we're onto the investigative side of things. There's nothing wrong with that of course, we've seen recently shows like Dopesick manage this really well, but we'll have to wait and see if that keeps up. As for Five Days at Memorial, the attention is predominantly focused on whether or not Anna Pou actually murdered these patients by injecting them. It's a tough question, and officially wades into murky morally grey waters, which this show has handled pretty well so far. It's clear that things are going to heat up going forward and I'd imagine we'll be gearing up for a proverbial storm when this whole ordeal comes to a head. Will Anna be found guilty of all this? How will the other doctors and nurses react? Receiving the run-around from those in charge of Memorial, along with news from LifeCare about morphine being injected, the pair realize they need to get hold of these LifeCare records - and Anna to get to the bottom of this. With Memorial not opening any time soon, Anna falls on her feet and is offered another position at a hospital in Tennessee. She doesn't even think about it, wanting to jump straight back into work again. She gladly accepts. Will this investigation derail that though? In stark contrast, Susan is tasked with phoning the victims alongside Helen and several other nurses, They all go by a script to give this awful news. Speaking of script, we cut to Anna Pou giving an interview on TV about the patients and their deaths, which feels like a big script.
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