Episode Guide Episodes 001–045 Last episode aired Thursday August 31, 2017 www.nbc.com c c 2017 www.tv.com c 2017 www.nbc.com c 2017 gossipandgab.com c 2017 celebdirtylaundry.com The summaries and recaps of all the The Night Shift episodes were downloaded from http://www.tv.com and http: //www.nbc.com and http://gossipandgab.com and http://celebdirtylaundry.com and processed through a perl program to transform them in a LATEX file, for pretty printing. So, do not blame me for errors in the text ^¨ This booklet was LATEXed on September 2, 2017 by footstep11 with create_eps_guide v0.59 Contents Season 1 1 1 Pilot ...............................................3 2 Second Chances . .7 3 HogWild.............................................9 4 Grace Under Fire . 11 5 Storm Watch . 13 6 Coming Home . 15 7 Blood Brothers (1) . 17 8 Save Me (2) . 19 Season 2 21 1 Recovery . 23 2 Back at the Ranch . 27 3 Eyes Look Your Last . 29 4 Shock to the Heart . 31 5 Ghosts . 33 6 FogofWar............................................ 35 7 Need to Know . 37 8 Best Laid Plans . 39 9 Parenthood . 41 10 Aftermath . 43 11 Hold On . 45 12 Moving On . 47 13 Sunrise, Sunset . 49 14 Darkest Before Dawn . 53 Season 3 57 1 The Times They Are A-Changin’ (1) . 59 2 The Thing With Feathers (2) . 61 3 The Way Back . 63 4 Three-Two-One . 65 5 Get Busy Livin’ . 67 6 Hot in the City . 69 7 By Dawn’s Early Light . 71 8 AllIn............................................... 73 9 Unexpected . 75 10 Between a Rock and a Hard Place . 77 11 Trust Issues . 79 12 Emergent (1) . 81 13 Burned (2) . 83 The Night Shift Episode Guide Season 4 85 1 Recoil (3) . 87 2 Off the Rails (4) . 89 3 DoNoHarm .......................................... 91 4 Control . 93 5 Turbulence . 95 6 Family Matters . 99 7 Keep the Faith . 101 8 R3b0ot . 105 9 Land of the Free . 107 10 Resurgence . 109 Actor Appearances 111 II Season One The Night Shift Episode Guide Pilot Season 1 Episode Number: 1 Season Episode: 1 Originally aired: Tuesday May 27, 2014 Writer: Gabe Sachs, Jeff Judah Director: Pierre Morel Show Stars: J.R. Lemon (Kenny), Daniella Alonso (Landry De La Cruz), Brendan Fehr (Drew), Robert Bailey Jr. (Paul Cummings), Ken Leung (Topher), Jill Flint (Dr. Jordan Alexander), Jeananne Goossen (Krista), Freddy Rodriguez (Michael Ragosa), Eoin Macken (T.C. Callahan) Guest Stars: Alma Sisneros (Nurse Diaz), Catharine Pilafas (Nurse Bardocz), Es- odie Geiger (Nurse Ramos), Rick Vargas (EMT Hernandez), Alex Knight (Bradford), Antonya Molleur (Convulsing Woman), Beth Bailey (Anes- thesiologist), Carlos Telles (Co-Worker), Chase A. Fox (Matthew), Christopher J. Buzzell (Large Man), D’Nette Wood (Matthew’s Mother), Dan Moseley (Husband), Darlene Hunt (Ms. Palmer), Frank San- doval (Naked Butt Guy), Harry Zimmerman (Surgeon), Jason Henning (Dayshift Doctor), Jeni Reed (Kara), Jim Burleson (EMT #1 Victor), John Trejo (Fireman), Kevin Wiggins (Deputy), Lauren Myers (EMT #3), Marc Comstock (Dwayne), Matt Greene (Tree Trimmer), Peter J. McK- ernan (Helicopter Pilot), Robbie Washington (EMT #2 Carlos), Stafford Douglas (Teenage Boy), Stephen A. Eiland (Security Guard), Victor Tal- madge (Ophthalmologist) Summary: Whilst on his way to work, a former military doctor has to deal with a life-threatening situation. Elsewhere a clash over business unfolds and someone is after the night shift’s top job. TC Callahan, a renegade ER doctor who started his day in a jail cell after another bout of public drunkenness and fighting, is commuting on his motorcycle to work. He spots an emergency scene at the side of a country road. An EMT crew is in over its head, working in vain on a vic- tim whose midsection has been impaled by a large branch. The victim is clearly in shock and can’t be moved, with min- utes to live. TC, a combat vet who’s used to improvising in the field, identifies him- self and helps the first responders remove the branch, then proceeds to clamp off a severed artery and instructs the EMTs to start recycling the victim’s own blood back into him, preventing him from bleeding to death on the scene. It’s strictly nonstandard protocol, but in this case, it stabilizes the victim so he can be transported to the hospital. An amazed paramedic asks TC where he learned the trick. ”Afghanistan,” the doctor replies before heading to work. Drew treats a gunshot wound (GSW) victim who seems to continue bleeding despite being sutured up. Dr. Alexander grabs an ultrasound and spots the problem: a bone fragment has punctured the patient’s spleen. The doctors treat a 35-year-old female who’s unresponsive; they diagnose an overdose from anti-depressants. She’s intubated and stabilized. 3 The Night Shift Episode Guide Topher and TC medevac to the scene of a multi-car accident. A young boy with a severed spinal column is trapped inside. TC must treat him while hanging upside down through the sunroof. Along with Topher, TC sedates the boy and fashions a stabilizing collar so the kid can be transported. Firefighters cut the car open, then load the boy onto a chopper back to San Antonio Memorial — just in time for TC to be fired publicly by Ragosa. Jordan talks to TC, telling him he must apologize to get his job back (he is her best doctor, after all). A neurosurgeon’s been called to operate on the boy, but he’s stuck in transit. TC jumps in, proceeding with the spinal surgery himself. Ragosa knows he’s opening the hospital up to a lawsuit if TC botches the surgery, but lets him go ahead with it. When TC reaches an impasse and the patient looks to be dying, Ragosa suggests a cutting edge procedure of grafting a chunk of rib bone to hold the boy’s skull in place. It works; TC’s grudgingly impressed. The night janitor’s daughter arrives in pain from a mass protruding from her abdomen. Since she’s without insurance, she hasn’t seen a doctor yet. Topher wants to order some tests, but knows he’s going to run into an administrative wall. Kenny reassures the girl while Topher wheels and deals (convincing Krista to go on a future date with a plastic surgeon who then agrees to perform a future liposuction procedure on the lab technician who then agrees to perform the test on the girl now without authorization. We learn she has a condition known as fetus in fetu: she was born with the remnants of a fetal twin inside her. As it turns out, the condition is benign and extremely rare. A local med school will pay for the operation to correct it. Drew and Topher are summoned to treat two victims of a motor vehicle accident (MVA). A drunk driver has struck a car carrying two brothers. The drunk driver has only modest injuries, but the teenage boy doesn’t make it, despite Topher’s best efforts. A furious Topher enters the drunk driver’s recovery room and disconnects his morphine drip — a tiny stab at justice. Hospital Administrator Michael Ragosa’s been brought in to try to stem San Antonio Memo- rial’s financial losses and fend off a threat to close down the facility. He needs a new chief of staff for the night shift; Doctor Jordan Alexander is lobbying for the job. She knows how to handle the rowdy bunch of doctors and nurses, many of who are former military. Ragosa’s not so sure, but he gives her the job on an interim basis. First move: implementing the use of tablets for doctors and nurses to track their work. A newborn baby suffering renal failure spins TC into action. When it appears the baby will need dialysis, Ragosa tells TC to send the baby to another hospital for treatment. TC refuses, instead admitting the baby. In an early test of authority, Ragosa orders Jordan to override TC’s diagnosis. Jordan notices that the child is responding positively to dialysis; TC called it right. Ragosa pulls TC into an office to explain how the chain of command at the hospital works. He tells TC in no uncertain terms that he won’t tolerate insubordination. But TC’s not used to being told what to do; he can’t help himself: he decks Ragosa. When Ragosa comes to, he informs Jordan that TC’s fired. Jordan pleads with her boss to let her try to turn him around; Ragosa’s not having it. Still Jordan persists, talking to TC and convincing him that he shouldn’t let his job end this way. After a harrowing night, Ragosa runs into TC in the men’s room. Ragosa punches TC in the jaw. ”Now we’re even,” Ragosa tells him. Somehow they’ve found a way to keep working together, much to the staff and Jordan’s happiness. First year intern Paul Cummings tries to impress fellow resident Krista, showing off his jug- gling prowess. Paul can juggle anything, but in this case the box of odd objects he’s tossing up in the air are from this month’s box of objects the doctors have removed from people’s rectums. So much for first impressions. Landry de la Cruz, attending psychiatrist, teams up with Dr. Alexander to subdue a rambling middle-age woman who’s obsessed with Matt Damon — and violently demonstrating it. While Jordan distracts the woman, Dr. de la Cruz pokes her with a shot, sending the superfan into dreamy unconsciousness. An irate patient who’s been waiting for an hour loses his cool and starts screaming at the staff.