Love Helps: Chicago Med "Mountains and Molehills"

Chicago Med returns as a doctor learns the difficulty of informing about a loss, a relationship is being acknowledged, and a mysterious illness baffles the staff.

When a mysterious illness comes to Med, a young girl who can't walk is brought to the ER with Halstead and Manning taking care of things after having a #Manstead nooner in the parking lot. Every test doesn't give any answers until Halstead starts showing signs of feeling in his legs. It wasn't until Manning thought, after glimpsing the young girl starting to walk and feel again, of a diagnosis of tick paralysis, which was easily be treated.

Noah works with Rhodes during a trauma and does what every young doctor would do, making promises he can't keep. After his patient seemed to be okay and had his family with him, the family needed to be somewhere, and Noah gave them the OK and would watch him. Later, Noah takes the patient out of the room, and soon he dies minutes.

Noah takes on the challenge of telling the family and gets a brother's reaction when he pushes Noah through the family room doors. But Noah understood that it was grief they were dealing with and didn't want to press charges.

Ethan, April, and Goodwin deal with a patient who shows signs of HIV/AIDS, but the patient wouldn't allow them to test her for it. But instead, to treat her for the flu. The challenge for them is that they couldn't tell the patient's aunt about her condition because of the laws. But Goodwin saves the day again with her stories of patients she's treated as a nurse dealing with HIV/AIDS when it was an unknown disease.

But between their case, April and Ethan, who are dealing with opening up their relationship with everyone, finally admits that Ethan is her boyfriend.

On the other hand, things with Reese aren't going as well as we would hope. Her car gets broken into, not to mention that she's not seeing any patients and that she freaked out when Noah got attacked by the patient's family member. She's suffering badly and, in the end, leaves us with her trying to buy a gun but instead gets pepper spray. 

"Mountains and Molehills" was an excellent episode to return to after the holiday break that brought exciting, frustrating, concerning, and pretty shocking moments. There was enough story to have me focus on what was going on, from Manstead dealing with the illness to Noah facing the deal of telling a loved one has died to even Reese, whose storyline has been quite emotional for the time. There was good character growth in this episode. The writing was excellent, and the performances from Rachel DiPillo and S. Epatha Merkerson were terrific. Overall, I give this episode an 8.5/10.


You can catch Chicago Med Tuesdays at 10/9c on NBC.