1. Recovery — Episode — The Night Shift

1. Recovery

After a harrowing hostage incident left the night shift team badly shaken, everyone is finally back to business...everyone except TC Callahan, who has been temporarily suspended from the hospital after a PTSD breakdown on the job. After recovering from his near-fatal gunshot wound, Topher Zia has temporarily taken over as chief of the night shift while Jordan Alexander fields scrutiny over her medical mishandling of the man who shot him. TC can't stay away from the action however and joins Jordan out in the field, and with the help of head surgeon Scott Clemmens, they push the limits of medical technology to save a father trapped beneath an elevator. Dr. Joey Chavez brings a new zen vibe to the ER when he steps in as chief surgeon on a freak motorcycle accident case, working to the beat of his own drum. Meanwhile, Ragosa returns to the ER with a surprising new lease on life after surviving cancer.

Plot summary and ending

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Complete story — includes the ending

Weeks following TC's breakdown in the surgery room, he is placed on a suspension, but returns to the hospital after he and an old Army colleague find an injured young hiker. The Night Shift welcomes a new trauma surgeon, Dr. Joey Chavez ( Adam Rodríguez ). Topher returns to work following his life threatening injury. Ragosa also returns to work following brain cancer surgery, but he finds he can no longer tolerate his job as head of The Night Shift. Jordan needs Scott to put a man trapped by an elevator car on a heart bypass machine to get him safely to the hospital, but Doctor Clemmens initially is reluctant after TC's meltdown in the OR but after both TC and Jordan beg Doctor Clemmens to help, he finally agrees. and she gets Ragosa to sign off on it. When a hospital director confronts Ragosa about the expensive field procedure, Ragosa angrily resigns. He later tells Topher he wants to focus on going back to school to be a doctor. Also, Krista and Kenny have become an item, while TC and Jordan reconnect.

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