Aahana Swrup
Season 2 of ‘St. Denis Medical’ finds the healthcare professionals at the titular establishment teed up for new hijinks and chaos. In episodes 1 and 2 of the season, respectively titled ‘Aloha, Everyone’ and ‘Mama Bear Activated,’ Joyce and her staff deal with the unfortunate realities of life in the healthcare sphere. Alex, the supervising nurse, has recently returned from a charming holiday in Hawaii and is eager to bring some of her vacation chill with her into work. Nonetheless, that becomes near-impossible when the executive director has managed to dig herself into an incredibly inconvenient hole with her new birthing centers hours before an expected visit from the big-bucks donor Amelia. Simultaneously, the aftermath of the reveal of Matt’s feelings for Serena brings awkward inconvenience of their own. Consequently, it isn’t long before Alex has to return to her old, problem-solving ways. This proves to be fortunate for the hospital when, a few days later, one of the staff members ends up becoming a victim in a mysterious parking lot attack. SPOILERS AHEAD!
The Doing and Undoing of Joyce’s Birthing Center
In the aftermath of Joyce’s decision to invest Amelia’s donation to open birthing centers at St. Denis, they become her prized passion projects in the hospital. From the variety of themes she had allocated to the different rooms, including Under the Sea, Australia, and more, it’s evident that she’s more than a little excited to see her vision come true. However, despite her enthusiasm, the centers are nowhere near complete when she receives an unexpected call from Amelia, announcing her apparent upcoming visit to the establishment. Fortunately for Joyce, this call arrives on the heels of Alex’s return from her Hawaiian vacation. Thus, even though it disrupts the latter’s attempts at maintaining a relaxing vibe at work, the executive director has no qualms with interrupting her lunch break to rope her into fast-tracking the decorating process.
That is, until Joyce receives a second call, this time from Amelia’s assistant. During the conversation, the latter reveals that her boss actually prefers a blank canvas so that she can pitch her own ideas for the projects. As a result, Joyce does a complete 180, ordering everyone to backtrack all the progress that has been made in the span of the last few hours. Nonetheless, eventually an emergency patient ends up disrupting the inane sidequest, as the reality of the situation finally snaps Alex out of her attempts at relaxing. The nurse realizes she can’t bring Hawaii to work with her, and that, despite everything, she has to put her certified problem-solving hat back on. Around the same time, Amelia makes one last call, canceling her visit entirely. As such, Joyce realizes she has been running around the entire time for no reason other than her insecurity about her own judgment. Yet, Alex is there to give her the appropriate pep talk to get her back on her feet.
Serena Confronts Matt About His Crush
While Joyce’s crash out over her birthing center unravels, Alex finds herself dealing with another otherwise avoidable workplace drama. During an overlap in their schedules, Serena and Matt find themselves crossing paths once again. Notably, their interaction is devoid of any awkwardness, making it seem like a casual catch-up between friends. Pleased with this outcome, Serena reaches out to the supervising nurse to let her know that she wouldn’t mind being on the same schedule as her colleague anymore, since it seems his crush on her wouldn’t pose any complications. In doing so, she inadvertently discovers that much like her, Matt had also asked Alex to be put on alternate schedules as her.
Consequently, Serena ends up taking offense to this since she believes she hasn’t given the other nurse an actual reason to seek distance from her. This results in long-winded hours of passive aggressiveness, most of which end up flying over Matt’s head. Still, it’s only a matter of time before Serena ends up confronting the latter about the entire thing, including his apparent crush on her. In turn, Matt sheepishly informs her that while he used to have feelings for her, he has since managed to move on from those emotions, now harboring only platonic feelings of friendship for her. Whether he’s lying or not remains yet to be seen, but it’s undeniable that he has managed to bridge some of the previous awkwardness between them, giving some credibility to his claim.
Bruce Gets Attacked on His Way to Work
Episode 2 begins with a distressing sight of a scratched-up Bruce coming into work. While he spent the last episode trying, and mostly failing, at regaling a story about getting lost in the woods, he seems to have an actual tale to share this time. As it turns out, on his walk to the hospital from the parking lot, he had been by some mysterious assailant. Since they attacked from the back, the trauma surgeon hadn’t been able to get a good look at them. Unfortunately, this wasn’t an unusual sight for the healthcare professionals. Alex and the others are all too aware of the attacks happening to healthcare workers across the nation, mostly by frustrated and violent patients or their relatives. Still, the supervising nurse refuses to let her staff go without proper help.
However, when Alex tries to investigate the situation, she discovers that the hospital doesn’t have working security cameras around the premises. Initially, she tries to take the issue to Joyce, who takes the responsibility of her employee’s safety seriously. Nonetheless, when security guard Leslie shows her the actual numbers of putting up property security cameras, she quickly realizes there’s no room in the budget for such a solution. Meanwhile, throughout the day, Bruce gets more and more on edge, spiraling out about his safety now that he’s seeing every patient as a potential threat. Inevitably, Matt ends up unwittingly getting the short end of the deal, as he gets caught up in the surgeon’s increasingly more intense freak-outs.
Alex Contacts a Reporter and Discovers the Identity of Bruce’s Unexpected Attacker
Once Joyce realizes that putting up effective security cameras around the hospital wasn’t an achievable solution, she resorts to less-than-ideal tactics. In a meeting with the staff, she tries to dole out dubious self-defence techniques that are more likely to do harm than good. Nonetheless, only Alex seems to be genuinely worried about the danger the day’s earlier event presents to the rest of the hospital staff. As a result, she decides to bring the problem to the public light by contacting reporter, Chuch Justice. Initially, Joyce refuses to be on board with the program. She knows that the reporter has a track record of shutting down establishments.
Therefore, Joyce is worried about the bad publicity this could bring to St. Denis. Nonetheless, Alex insists that in lieu of an actual solution, this is the only viable option they have. However, shortly afterward, the nurse receives some information that makes her re-evaluate her entire stance. Leslie manages to procure security footage from a nearby store. As a result, he is able to discover the identity of Bruce’s attacker: a goose. Naturally, in light of this revelation, it becomes harder for Alex to make her case in front of Justice’s microphone and camera. Even so, Joyce decides to join the interview in the last minute, laying into the patients, firmly pinning the blame on them. That is, until a pleased-looking Bruce arrives, all too happy to unveil who his assailant really was. Needless to say, the channel refuses to run the story in the end.
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