When I sit down to watch an episode of Doc, I ask myself how angry this episode is going to make me. Why? With every episode I feel like all of these things that Amy doesn’t know, she deserves to know. Everyone making decisions for her and not allowing her to make her own is frustrating. Doc Season 1, Episode 6 made me just as angry as other episodes but also excited for where this show is going to go.
I realized that my anger wasn’t a bad thing. It’s that I feel for these characters and I am invested in them. Well, some of them, because some of them are the worst and I don’t think that they will ever be worthy of redemption. They are just the absolute worst.
Doctor Richard Miller is at the top of that list.
It’s definitely hard for me to dislike a character so much. I grew up on Party of Five and Scott Wolf was in that show. Therefore, you can deduce that I am a fan. This character though, is trash.
But, he was barely in this Doc Season 1, Episode 6 (thank you TV gods), so I didn’t have to shout profanity the entire time. Instead, I got the chance to swoon, smile, invest, and cheer.
Doc has found its footing and its fan base. At least I think so.
We’re midway through the season and we have a lot to talk about.
EMERSION THERAPY
What happens when you forget a large portion of your life? Well, that would be people trying to help you remember. Everyone has a theory on what a person should do in order to remember.
For Amy, the thought is going to her old home and seeing if anything spikes a memory.
But what Amy sees is a shrine to the past. Nothing in the house has changed. Michael has not let things move forward – making the house a mausoleum. Amy recognizes it.
Katie tells her that Michael won’t let anything change. He won’t let anyone touch Danny’s room. It’s been a hard road for Michael and one that he really doesn’t want to talk about.
I would not be able to set foot in that home. There is no way. I would run away.
It’s one thing to not remember, but it’s an entire other thing to walk into the past and tear off a bandaid.
I do believe that Amy and Michael are figuring things out and that they love each other. Are they in love? I don’t know. What I do think though is yes, they are. I also think that having to see how the person you love has moved is salt in the wound.
SHADOWING DR. HELLER
When Amy heads into work, she stops for coffee, getting Jake one too. I think this is her way of flirting, and hey – it does it for him. Who are we to judge? Well, we’re all us and judging is what anyone does with shows.
While I know this is only Doc Season 1, Episode 6, I feel like we’ve waited forever for Amy to shadow Jake. Here we are – it’s happening and I’m clapping like an idiot every single time they trade a glance.
Their patient is a woman who can’t feel pain. She was at a club and felt like she had to leave – something was wrong and she knew it. She just didn’t expect on her way out of the club to get pushed down while on her way out. She didn’t expect to have glass go through her hand.
When at the hospital, her Dad is freaking out. He let her go away to school and here he was – waiting to see what was wrong with his little girl. She’s sick, but since she feels no pain – no one knows where to begin.
I LOVE that Jake is willing to listen to Amy. Yes, she is observing and learning, but she is also offering her insight. She’s still the smartest person in the room.
Chloe, the patient, is giving as much information as she can. She’s being put through the wringer with test after test. She’s a champ and is doing everything that is asked of her, but she keeps getting worse.
Amy and Jake are committed to the case, but Amy also is trying to balance. She has plans with Katie that night. Jake supports her and says he’ll call if something more happens. They are waiting on the test results anyway.
WHAT IS THIS CASE?
When Jake and Amy can’t figure out what is going on, he decides to bring in Doctor Miller. Ok, Jake, you were doing so well, but this – no. Miller is trash and would do anything to destroy Amy.
I do understand that they need help to figure out the case. Especially because all of Chloe’s scans keep turning up nothing. She seems to be in good health.
Only she’s not.
For once Dr. Miller says something that inspires Amy, versus tearing her down. He mentions – basically- that nothing is wrong that they can see. This sends Amy thinking what if it is something they can’t?
This is how they deduce that her appendix has burst. Well, this is how Amy starts the conversation, which means inevitably Dr. Miller is going to find a way to retain his Captain Douche Bag title. He really is.
The surgery to take her appendix out goes well. Chloe is going to be fine. Her Dad is going to be at peace. Everything seems fine. However, Dr. Miller decides that “in the spirit of full disclosure” he’s sorry that they didn’t think appendix earlier.
Well, Dr. Miller, you’re trash. Did you think of that earlier? Your pettiness is gross. While I do believe that Amy won’t remember everything, I do hope she remembers what you did and you get in trouble for that.
As you can tell, I really dislike Dr. Miller. I don’t even care if people like him, but I would love to understand why.
MICHAEL ISN’T READY FOR THIS
I would like to reiterate what I have said since the start of this show – I love Dr. Michael Hamda. I think that he’s a suit, but he’s one with feelings. He is one who wants the best for those around him. But the people that he wants the best for are those he loves.
The main people are his kids.
I do believe that what has been hard for him is all this change. It was easier to move forward with his life when Amy was a person that he couldn’t recognize. This Amy though – the one with the amnesia – is the one that he loved. The one that he could continue to love.
He needs to move on though. He has a wife. One that is very pregnant and very much in need of his support. Michael, though, is having to deal with the reopening of wounds and grief – again.
Then, another type of grief. The one where his little girl, Katie, wants to move in with her Mom. He remembers what happened when Katie lived with her before and it wasn’t a great situation. It was a bad one. One that resulted in arguments and Katie coming back to live with him.
Michael is searching for a way to get through the pain, but the way that he treats Nora for Katie moving out – that was just gross. Michael has to find a way to heal, yes. Healing though and moving forward is something that he’s got to be open to.
I believe that he’s thought for so long that he is responsible for Danny’s death that he’s settled on so many things. He has definitely compartmentalized his feelings.
MOVING IN WITH MOM
And then there is Katie.
Katie’s decision to move in with Amy is surprising, but also I think that there are great stories to be told there. Katie having a chance to reconnect with her Mom is a beautiful thing. I think that Amy’s amnesia has helped her to be a better person. A better Mom.
No one is asking anyone to forget Danny. No one ever could. It’s hard to watch Amy not remember, but it’s all that Michael and Katie can remember. Yet, with Katie, you see this want to connect with her Mom. She loves this version of her Mom – one that puts her first.
Michael may not like Katie moving in with Amy, but he definitely respects Katie’s choice. I wonder what will happen with Katie and Amy, and that is a good thing. It keeps me invested.
Whatever road these two are on, the road will be an adventure.
PUTTING THE CLUES TOGETHER
Amy and Jake were able to help their patient and the day was done. Jake invites her out for a drink, but Amy declines (and for that,t I think I can safely say I wasn’t the only one yelling at my screen). She needs to go home.
But that’s when she looks up and sees the same powder that was in her kitchen, in Jake’s locker. The clues start coming back to her.
Finally, this leads Amy and Gina to make up. Amy searches her out to talk about it. Amy wanted to know why Gina didn’t tell her, but Gina had only found out two days ago. It was a secret that Amy kept to herself.
In this Doc Season 1, Episode 6, I do realize why it is that no one wants to tell Amy anything. She definitely needs to find her own way back to her memories. Putting pieces together isn’t easy, but being a new person and judged for who you are is very hard. I wanted someone to tell her about Jake, but I get why they didn’t.
I think that we’ve all been waiting patiently for my ship to set sail – and in this episode it did. I stood up on my bed and did an excited dance over that.
Even if she has an eleven o’clock curfew.
Get yours, Amy and Jake.
OTHER THOUGHTS
- I don’t even care about the hypochondriac – but I did love seeing TJ. Love him
- Amy and Gina’s fighting felt relatable cause hey – it is.
- Besties making up is also relatable.
- I can’t get over the ending
- The flashbacks are enough to make a person cry.
- Michael and his wife – I hope that they make it, but I am also put off by his attitude.
- Amy is taking the boards? I CAN NOT WAIT FOR HER TO PASS
- I am loving the relationship between Amy and Katie
DOC airs on Tuesday nights on FOX.
They never said or explained what the college girl had to begin with, not the appendix, but seems like it’s been a while now – checking her temp, can’t feel pain, can’t go out much, bleeds a lot, father watches over her like a hawk – what condition or disease she has they never told us. Anyone know?
It was said very quickly – They said something like “we have unicorn here, a young lady with CIP who cannot feel pain” – Congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP), also known as congenital analgesia, is one or more extraordinarily rare conditions in which a person cannot feel (and has never felt) physical pain.