Who Cares?
Dontae gets assaulted on his way to work. Aaron is going to visit a sick Guatemalan child in Texas. There are protesters outside the hospital who object to him getting an American organ transplant. Sasha shows French guests the White House art collection and gets chewed out for how America treats children and sick people. Mars is angry with a drug manufacturer who wants to test a cure for addiction to his addictive painkillers on Lynn. Hannah gets taken off the case. At the public restroom a
Jerkass calls Sasha a man and calls security on her for being in the ladies'. Emily's mother tells her daughter that she came to D.C. because assisted suicide is legal there.
Tropes
- Accidental Suicide: Lynn is believed to have made an accidental suicide attempt by taking her normal dose of medicine after detox, meaning her system was no longer acclimatized to that amount.
- Central Theme: Who deserves American health care?
- Embarrassing Nickname: President Cornelius Moss is known among his opponents as "Corny" Moss.
- Foreshadowing: Dr. Eli Mays and Agent Hannah Wells stand in front of the memorial wall at CIA and discuss why they can't have the real names of fallen agents on it.
- Gratuitous Spanish: Aaron speaks Spanish with the sick boy's parents.
- Irony: Isabella notes the irony in Moss having neglected to close the loophole that allows the government to pay for life-saving surgery for undocumented immigrants.
- Loophole Abuse: Isabella finds that the Secretary of Health and Human Services can increase transplants among special needs groups, such as children who belong to racial or ethnic minorities – and does not specifically prohibit treating undocumented immigrants.
- Plot Parallel: While Lynn is in the hospital for an overdose that may or may not have been intentional and her treatment is covered by insurance, a Guatemalan immigrant child who needs a kidney, who has a willing donor in his father, can't get the surgery he needs because his parents don't have the money or insurance.
- Shout-Out: Mateo likes The Avengers. His favorite is the Hulk.
- You Just Told Me: Emily figures Aaron just confirmed their one-night stand to Lorraine by accusing Emily of telling her.
