EPISODE

5. The Next Episode

A reality show centered around Sam sheds some light on issues in his colleagues' personal lives. Meanwhile, Sam's mother seeks his help after her boss falls ill and the search continues for a girl who went missing from St. Ambrose.

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After Sam is asked to have his life filmed as a reality show pilot, he is followed around for days to see what his life is really about. Sam's mom comes into town, and sees Addison in an awkward encounter, as Addison knows everything, with her boss and his wife, when he needs heart surgery. After giving him the bad news, Sam finds out that his mother and her boss have been having an affair for forty years. Violet, Cooper, and James continue to search for the little girl that went missing from the ER days before. At a party that Sam threw to get everyone together, an idea the reality show producers came up with, his mother's boss collapses on the floor. When they rush him into surgery Sam discovers that he needs to get a new lung, only for the boss's wife to tell Sam that he is his father. When Sam says he'll donate a part of his lung to his father, his father says that he's ready to go home.

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