The Pitt Season 2 Episode 1 Recap: Back To The Pitt

HBO Max’s The Pitt has returned for Season 2. Last season was crazy, and this season looks to be no different. 

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We kick off this new season with the 7-8 AM hour of the shift. We also find out that this is Robbie’s last shift before he takes a 3-month long trip to Alberta. We then proceed to see his replacement, Dr. Al Hashimi, who is already at the hospital, and ready to shadow him for the whole 15-hour shift. Dr. Langdon is also back after the events of him stealing drugs towards the end of last season. 

Now, it is then revealed that the hospital wants to start implementing Patient Passports, which Robbie is put off by the idea of altogether. We then get our first patient of the season, who has a knife embedded into the right side of their chest. We also see Robbie explaining everything, and the residents taking charge of the case. We also find that Dr. Whittaker is no longer a student doctor, and they get the patient’s chest open to start a cardiac massage. 

Nurse Dana is back after what happened to her last season, and she takes one of the new student doctors under her wing. We then cut to Robbie telling Whittaker how to gently massage the patient’s heart, and also how to slowly twist the patient’s lung to stop the bleeding, which ends up working. It is then known that Dr. King has her deposition about the patient she gave the spinal tap to, and who also died in the season 1 finale. 

Now, Robby and Al Hashimi are having tension, and decide to split up after the surgery. We then see that Dr. McKay is working on a very hostile patient. Langdon then tries to talk to Robby about his trip, and also tries to talk about what happened with the drugs, and Robby tells him to go and cover triage. Whittaker is then talking to one of the student doctors about the morning rush of the nursing home patients, to which he jinxes it by saying it is dead in the ER. 

We then see Dr. Santos, who is now a 2nd-year resident, and she is behind on her charting. She is also talking to Dr. Javadi, who is being hounded by Dr. Shaun about making plans. The new ER attending doesn’t want to call the ER The Pitt. We then have a pretty unique experience of seeing the ER from a deaf patient’s POV. Langdon is in triage and proceeds to have a patient in for a foot injury. He ends up marking it, and telling her to come back if it expands and gets worse. 

He then sees Louie, and sits down with him to say he took Louie’s medicine and became addicted to it. Louie proceeds to forgive him for doing that. Dr. Whittaker’s patient has passed and he is educating the new student on the process. He then makes them have a moment of silence to respect their humanity, and Robby is watching in approval during this. 

Dr. McKay is back with the patient who hit his head. He is very resistant, and when she shakes his hand, he’s in pain, so he finally agrees to get the X-ray. Dr. Santos then has a little girl come in with her dad’s girlfriend. The patient has bruises on her legs, and shows potential signs of child abuse along with blood in her urine. Santos then proceeds to get Dr. Jefferson involved, and she calls the girl’s dad to come in. 

Whittaker doesn’t have his Resident badge yet, but he is tasked with helping out Louie because he has a toothache. He is also getting tapped, and Louie jokes that Whittaker will talk him through it. We then see an older woman brought in by her son, and she admits to Dr. Mohan that she eats a dozen weed cookies a day, which ends up being a pretty funny moment. 

Now, we cut to Dr. King, and she is being asked out by a patient. She doesn’t realize it, because he is asking her if she likes coffee, to which she says no, and proceeds to then ask about boba, and she says she loves boba but doesn’t get what is happening. Dana and her student who is under her wing are then tasked with showering off a homeless man who came into the hospital. We then see at the end of the episode that Dr. Al Hashimi has an interaction with a baby that was abandoned in the hospital. She sees the baby and is immediately distracted by it. 

This was the perfect way to kick off the new season. Getting introduced to our new attending, while seeing what everyone else is up to, was the perfect way to go. I cannot wait to see where the rest of the season goes from here.