9. Unexpected

Complete story — includes the ending

This section's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. ( November 2017 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) A female patient is wheeled in to the ER as she complains about leaving her backpack behind, TC takes her in. She goes back out moments later to look for her backpack, which a fill-in nurse does not realize is right under his foot, so he goes after her with it. Kenny's young soccer-playing friend Lauren ( China Anne McClain ), in the ER for possible pneumonia, steps outside when a bomb goes off right outside the front doors. She is critically injured by the blast, and the fill-in nurse is killed. As the SWAT team clears the perimeter, TC's patient is located in the parking lot sitting in a pickup truck. She is shot when stepping out after a brisk move, and assisted by TC who asks why she brought the bomb, and she answers with "you deserve it." Shannon confesses to Jordan that she slept with Paul and now things are awkward between them, but they find themselves tasked with removing glass from Jordan's patient, and find out the man has anthrax. Realizing the anthrax was in the bomb, the hospital is shut down, decontaminated and everybody is treated with antibiotics. During Lauren's treatment, Kenny and Scott find out she has lung cancer, which would have gone undiscovered had she not been wounded. Jordan and TC remove bullets from the patient who brought the bomb, and Jordan remembers she was a former patient. As the two talk, the woman says Jordan saved her life after her husband and child were killed by a drunk driver. Claiming Jordan should have just let her die, she pulls her chest tube out, killing herself. Drew continues to help Brianna, his young patient with cystic fibrosis, only to find out she needs a lung transplant.