MONDO EXTRAS

Do No Harm: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Snide

by Angel Cohn February 1, 2013 6:00 AM
<I>Do No Harm:</I> Pilot Review

While Josh is able to clear some of his schedule, Jason still has to see patients. Ass-hat doctor, whose name is Dr. Jordan, continues to be a total prick, even belittling a stuttering doctor during the middle of rounds in front of patients and other colleagues. Jason mostly ignores him. Jason also goes to Lena and they see a patient who has some sort of tennis injury. Afterwards, he tells Lena that his near vomiting and headlong rush out of the bar had nothing to do with her. She thinks he's not interested in her, but is very concerned about his well-being and his messy, sweaty state. She writes her number on a prescription pad (though prescribing some anti-anxiety meds would have been my first course of action) and tells him to call if he needs her.

Jason then heads off to Ruben, who says that Ian has become immune to the coma drugs. Jason is rightly concerned, because Ian wants revenge for the last several years being kept at bay and has plans on ruining Jason's life. How exactly does he know that? The glimpses of the trashed apartment led us to believe that Ian wanted to live a partying life and seemed to have little concern for Jason at all. Ruben says he's been trying to up the dosages, but a larger dose would kill Jason.

So even though he only worked what seemed like five minutes that day, he leaves the hospital, gets in a taxi and tells the driver to get as far from the city as possible. He gives the man at the front desk of the seedy motel his wallet and cell phone and says a messenger is coming to get them. That's very trusting considering that this guy looks to make barely minimum wage. He also tells the manager if he sees Jason's face later on, walk the other way.

In the hospital, the poor guy who had his brain cut open by Jason earlier in the episode gets out of bed and sees in the mirror that his face looks like one of Picasso's Cubist period paintings. The guy freaks the hell out and has to be restrained to get back in his bed.

Back at the no-tell motel, Jason is in the shower and in the steamy glass door he writes the words "Do No Harm." Seconds later, his facial expression changes and we see Ian wipe that away.

Ian puts back on the bloody shirt from before, even though Jason had asked Josh to find him something clean to wear. Then Ian goes into a smashing rage when he discovers that Jason didn't leave him with money or a credit card or anything. The only thing he finds is the piece of paper with Lena's number on it. So he gives her a call, pretends to be Jason and invites her over. She of course goes to him, and Ian is quite impressed with Jason's taste in women. Ian then gets some flashes of how Jason is with Lena (so the flashes go both ways) and starts seducing her. He claims that he picked this seedy out of the way place was strategy to give her time to fantasize about him. And then undresses her and pushes her up against the wall.

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