The Schtup List
A heart surgeon does work for Doctors Without Borders by Skype. He gets arrested, because the Syrian surgeon he's assisting is operating on a terrorist. Diane and Lucca are tasked with explaining why he's not a terrorist, or at least why he's worth saving. They do, but in the end it's all for nothing, as the whole thing was just a way to lure another terrorist so the military could justify bombing the hospital.
Henry tells Maia to download something off of her uncle's computer. It's a list of numbers.
Tropes
- Catch-22 Dilemma: There's a law against abandonning patients once you have started to treat them, as well as a law against aiding and abetting terrorists, meaning that once the doctor had taken on the patient without knowing he was a terrorist, he'd be breaking the law whether he quit the surgery or not.
- Middle Eastern Terrorists: Diane defends a heart specialist who aids a Syrian surgeon by Skype in performing heart surgery on a terrorist. Subverted when it turns out the terrorist in question is an American who travelled to Syria to join a terrorist organization.
- No-Sell: No one at Reddick & Boseman buys that it won't be held against them if they admit to voting for Trump. Julius Caine did.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: The heart specialist for Doctors Without Borders wants to help everyone who needs it, even if the authorities have a problem with it.
- Shout-Out:
- Barbara calls Adrian "Sun Tzu" after he tells her that to give someone power you gotta take it from someone else.
- Barbara thinks Kanye West voted for Trump, but Julius corrects her and says that Kanye only said he would have voted for Trump if he could be bothered to vote.
- You Know I'm Black, Right?: Jay's expression when Marissa fails to comprehend why Tariq's mother refuses to speak to him.
