Mac and Stella in “It Happened to Me”

Mac

Have you talked to Sheldon?

Stella

I'm... I'm not sure what to say. Guess my expectations are too high.

Mac

What do you mean?

Stella

Hawkes is a brilliant former surgeon. And that being said, I know that he couldn't have saved Martin Stafford's life if he had tried. But what's bugging me is I don't understand why he didn't know more was wrong with him. Why he didn't see the symptoms, why he didn't tell us everything at the crime scene.

Mac

I've been asking myself those questions. When Hawkes told me what happened, I was angry, but I resisted giving him a lecture or threatening modified duty, because... it was Sheldon. All I kept thinking was, this isn't like him. It wasn't like him at all. I suppose we do expect a lot out of each other.

Stella

(sighing) Is that bad?

Mac

No.