A senator refuses 'wasting time' on Scott's recommended standard surgery, preferring the front type offered by T.C., who hasn't decided yet whether to resume regular hospital duty. The case causes Drew to relive his traumatic Iraqi war experiences. Former Vietnam POW Douglas Stratton's life is a hell beyond therapy due to a largely imaginary brain injury, but Scott hesitates to allow performing a still risky phantom surgery. Drew patches up a terminal front photographer who 'needs' to resume work and Cain, whose turn it is to rebuke Kenny's precipitation, treats an FBI agent infiltrated as a protestor.
—KGF Vissers