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11AM EST
411 : All Down The Line
When a chef with oral cancer refuses care to pursue his life's work, Alex must confront her own feelings about the way Dana is handling her treatment. Charlie and Asha have their hands full when a DIY treehouse project lands a relentless single mother in hospital with a life-threatening pelvic injury. Meanwhile, Maggie is back to work with Sydney Katz, treating a blind widow at risk of losing the last piece of her husband she has “ the baby inside of her.
12PM EST
509 : All Our Yesterdays
When a John Doe comes into the hospital after being struck by a subway train, it's a race against the clock to save his life, but things take a more dramatic turn when Charlie realizes that the man is no John Doe, but "The Great Randall Crane. Maggie attempts to leave her past behind, but that proves impossible when Sydney Katz comes back to town, urging Maggie to put her pregnant sister in the now-defunct cancer study. Away from the hospital, Alex takes her mother to their family farm in the wake of Martha's diagnosis, only to find out that Martha wants to take her own life before her illness gets the chance.
1PM EST
510 : Change Of Heart
While planning her mother's memorial service, Alex treats a young chronic kidney patient who has a "savior sibling who is going to donate one of her kidneys, but when she presents with a cardiac virus, the sick sister becomes the savior. Meanwhile, Maggie and Sydney rediscover and rekindle their relationship while treating an interesting young couple.
2PM EST
511 : Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Charlie is haunted by a mischievous ghost that can't pop while he tries to save the life of a young man who was in a bad car accident with his brothers, who did not survive. Sydney treats an older pregnant woman whose "miracle baby is fine, but her brain is not, so Shahir has to perform a craniotomy on her. Two roommates are both admitted to the hospital separately and it comes to light that one roommate has a sleep disorder that caused him to attack the other.
3PM EST
512 : Leap Of Faith
Their last patient before leaving for London, Maggie and Sydney with the help of Alex treat a doctor's pregnant wife. Though when news of an OB staff position at Hope Zion opens up, Maggie reconsiders whether moving to London for love is the right decision. Charlie treats a magician who shattered his legs during an illusion gone wrong, and Shahir and Cassie take on a high maintenance concert pianist with early stage Parkinson's.
4PM EST
513 : Problem Child
5PM EST
514 : We Need To Talk About Charlie Harris
Charlie struggles more than ever with his relationship to the spirit world after a spirit distracts him at the scene of an accident, resulting in the death of a child. Alex must convince a holistic "guru to have hernia surgery, but the woman does not want anesthetic because of a traumatic experience in her past. In the end, they compromise with an awake surgery. Dana enlists the help of two young filmmakers, who've been admitted to the hospital, to make an adoption video for Shahir.
6PM EST
515 : Fix You
While Charlie is reviewed by the hospital board due to his erratic behavior, Alex continues post-op care for self-help guru Layla, who performs cleansing rituals on Alex to open her blocks, resulting in eerie and bizarre consequences. Shahir does in-utero spina bifida surgery on a baby up for adoption, perhaps resulting in the answer to he and Jonathan's adoption wishes.
7PM EST
516 : La Famiglia
Alex, Dawn and Dana champion a revolutionary cancer surgery - the Sugarbaker - at Hope Zion and are surprised when Dr. Jeremy Bishop returns to head up the surgery. Cassie is eager to impress, but is sidetracked when a former patient and her secret admirer returns to see her, resulting in dire consequences for her and Dr. Billy Scott. Meanwhile, Shahir and Jonathan's would-be adoption ends in disaster when the mother of the baby has second thoughts about giving the baby up and abducts the child form the NICU.
8PM EST
517 : First And Last
Alex and Charlie are back on track and planning their wedding when disaster strikes at a chapel and Alex and Charlie have to put their wedding on hold to save the life of a bride. Zach tries extraordinary means to save a down-on-his-luck patient with liver disease who is ineligible for a transplant. Ultimately, it's Jackson who steps up to the plate and offers to be his live donor. Shahir and Dana's (Wendy Crewson) coma patient wakes up without any memory of the last 20 years of his life “ including his wife. They must get this patient to remember who he is while at the same time grappling with their own issues.
9PM EST
518 : Hope Never Dies
Alex, Charlie, and Luke get into a car accident after a heroic moment, throwing their whole family into peril. The doctors of Hope Zion struggle to save their lives, while also dealing with the chaos of a mass casualty incident. When they fail to save Charlie's life, his organs go to many of the accident victims, saving several lives. The Hope Zion family bands around Alex while mourning Charlie, reinforcing she will never be alone, despite the loss of her partner.
10PM EST
201 : I Watch Death
Alex and Charlie are caught in the middle of a shooting on their way into their first shift back at Hope Zion. It's all hands on deck when the victims of the shooting end up at Hope Zee. While in the midst of the shooting commotion Alex has to treat a bullied teenager and deal with her own emotions with everything that's happened in the past year of her life.
11PM EST
202 : Little Piggers
Alex must learn to stick up for herself and not be intimidated by Dawn (Charlie's ex-wife) in order to work alongside her and perform a minimally invasive heart procedure to save a patient's life. Meanwhile, Joel unlocks a mystery to a young girl's disease whilst getting some advice from Charlie, who is trying to figure out how to help his comatose patient come back from being a spirit. It's a week of defying the odds at Hope Zion.
12AM EST
203 : Why Waste Time
Alex is trying to get her life back to normal with Charlie and at Hope Zee “ but with Charlie's head in the clouds and the pressure to find her medical niche “ she's struggling. Inspiration comes in the form of an immigrant doctor who needs Alex to save his wife's life and in return, helps her find her calling.