When it comes to season two of DOC, I will call an episode without Jake a missed opportunity. I will also tell you that I get why he wasn’t here. We got an episode where Amy was leading, where we learned more about Hannah, and where the FBI showed how easy a deep fake can be shown to be a fake. But what we also got in DOC Season 2 Episode 11 was a moment where we also had to rethink – was revenge worth it?
And was it really revenge?
Amy has taught all of us a lot about the way that we treat people and how it can change things. Maybe it’s to remind us about how karma is a real thing? But, I will reiterate what I have said – Hannah and Charlie’s “revenge” is not something that makes a lot of sense to me. They don’t know what happened, why their Dad and Amy fought, and why their father took his own life. But they believe that they are justified in their actions, and that’s the scary thing.
People died because of their actions.
HANNAH’S PAST
Hannah is struggling. She’s struggling so much that she kicked her brother out of the house. She didn’t care where he went; he just needed to be gone. I do believe that for Hannah to get that frustrated, she still didn’t want him gone. We see through a series of flashbacks that she’s struggled mentally after her father’s death and checked herself in for help. But even that did not go well. She checked herself out, long before she was ready, because (in my opinion) she didn’t like what she was being told.
Hannah exhibits a lot of the same mannerisms that we have seen from her father. Bouts of anger, screaming, and anxiety. Though we don’t know what those are for. What is causing her, and what has caused him to struggle, has been one of those things that makes this storyline hard to understand. However, we know that sometimes things have to unfold slowly, and that can make our patience run thin. DOC is 22 episodes, and a lot of times these days, the seasons are shorter.
Are we happy with the 22 episodes? Yes. Just impatient.
AMY SEES ALL
Hannah’s panic over the FBI being there are not being able to get a hold of Charlie is justified. She is paralyzed in fear – both for what is happening with her brother and what the FBI can find. Her whole life, she’s wanted to be a doctor, but she didn’t stay to get the help that she needed at a previous intersection of her life.
Amy and Hannah’s case is interesting because it’s a father who is exhibiting signs of being poisoned. He’s older, and his kids are blaming the caregiver. The caregiver is blaming the kids. Amy is paying attention to all of the clues. As every symptom is mentioned, she realizes that no one is telling the truth.
Amy is really smart. She’s observant and picks up on all of the details that others may not see. As Hannah and Amy need to diagnose their patient, they are also forced to call in the authorities. Turns out the daughter and the caretaker were in on it together.
For Hannah, I think working with Amy all day was a moment for her to see that maybe she’s not that bad and maybe there is more. It was also a moment for her to keep up on the whole investigation, which is an issue. Hannah is going to try to get herself out of this, but I don’t think she has any idea what is coming.
THE BOY AND HIS SISTER
TJ and Sonya are working together. They are at a school, looking for scoliosis, when a young man comes in to get help. He hasn’t felt well, but hasn’t said anything because he doesn’t want to disturb his sister. His parents died, and his sister is taking care of him. Only what he doesn’t realize is how not being open and letting her know about his illness has caused it to get so bad that he needs surgery.
While I love that TJ was able to be this young man’s hero, I will say that once again, Sonya made me mad. I know that her intentions were good, but sometimes that doesn’t matter. She sees a young girl who was left to take care of her siblings and didn’t allow herself to get the help that she needed. She didn’t let her aunt step in to help her and says that maybe things would have been different had she just accepted help.
THE AUNT
So she calls the aunt and intervenes. There is no shock to me that the young girl is upset. She loves her family. She wants to be there for them. So, finding herself put in a position where she’s told that she’s not good enough, she shows her anger, and it is justified.
Sonya tries to stay that girls just have to stick together, and they do. That is fair. But you also have to know the whole story before making the story what you deem it to be.
I do believe that Sonya is trying quite hard to be a good doctor and an understanding one. I think that she has a long way to go to get to that point. Right now, she’s just miserable.
KATIE
What concerns me more in this episode is Katie. She went to Gina about hearing the recording, to which Gina assures her that it never happens. It is one of those moments that I am so glad that the FBI is there, because they can show Michael that it is a fake.
Katie does believe in her Mom and Dad, but she does want to understand why it is happening. I don’t think that any of us understand how anyone could take it to this extreme.
The theory is that it’s a doctor or someone hired by a doctor. It’s plausible since Amy has made a lot of enemies. It’s when they can take the fake Amy voice off and hear Charlie’s that they are all thinking that their theory may be wrong.
CLARK, BRIAN CLARK
Michael asks for a roster of all the doctors who have worked with Amy so that she can figure out who it is that she’s been seeing in her vision. She’s going through that list, and she realizes Brian Clark isn’t there. It’s googling him that she realizes that she’s been seeing Hannah’s Dad.
Everything is about to get worse for Hannah. Amy’s figured out that she’s Brian Clark’s daughter. Hannah has gone home, and her brother has attempted suicide.
Whatever happens next, as things start to unfold, Hannah and Amy are going to have to come to terms with who she is. The issue will then be, what did Amy do or not do due to Brian Clark?
