Coroner's coming over to get the body and do an autopsy. Roger Julian's coming from genetics. He's hopping mad, says Ricky was on his service. Wants to know where the hell the mother got Dilaudid and a PCA machine.
The boy was dying.
You promised Kerry and I you wouldn't prescribe any more.
He was in excruciating pain.
You promised us yesterday!
The mother was begging me.
Where the hell did you get the machine? Genetics didn't prescribe it. I know we didn't.
I got it from Carol's clinic.
Come here. [Pulling Ross aside] Carol's clinic doesn't have PCA's.
She called in a favor. Got it from one of her suppliers.
The police are on their way to Joi Abbott's house right now. They have a warrant to impound the PCA. Are they going to find anything out of the ordinary?
Like what?
Like the machine set to administer enough Dilaudid to kill ten grown men?
I don't know.
What do you mean you don't know? You set it.
This boy was suffering, Mark. He had end-stage ALD. In agony. The mother was watching this child die.
Did you help him along?
I gave the mother the entry code. I showed her how to change the dosage. Now, I don't know what she did afterwards. I went to work. And you would have done the exact same thing if you were there.
[Interjecting with Greene and Ross] Anspaugh's coming down with Romano and Julian.
Doug prescribed the PCA machine and the Dilaudid through Carol's clinic.
What? When?
Right after he told us he wouldn't.
Uh! We're going to have to tell Anspaugh about Doug violating the pain study protocol and our covering it up. I mean they're going to scrutinize everything he's prescribed, Mark. They're going to interview the mother, it's bound to come out. [to Ross] What the hell's wrong with you? I mean, we trusted you and you immediately chose to betray the trust. I'm done defending you, Doug.
Defending me? You've been trying to nail me for years.
I don't nail colleagues. You want to destroy your own career? That's fine. But you stay the hell away from mine.
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