The Resident recap: 5 not-so stupid things done in the name of love

Romance is in the air at Chastain. Which means people are doing plenty of stupid things in the name of love, and maybe a few sweet ones too.

To start off with a few “stupid things,” I’m not sure why Jessie and Nic’s reconciliation is not shown on-screen. Nonetheless, apparently it happened and Nic is away trying to help Jessie get better at rehab. This cancels Conrad’s plans of a fancy Valentine’s Day dinner! Made even more sad by the steamy morning in bed the two were sharing when he told her about the reservations he’d booked eight months in advance.

But leave it to Conrad to come through at the final moment. After learning Nic would have to spend the night at the rehab center, he brings Valentine’s dinner to Nic in the backseat of his car. As long as they’re together with weird meat-stick-thingys and the radio playing, what could be better?

2. Austin gives Mina a night to remember with Micah.

The Resident remembered Micah existed! And that he and Mina are together. But Mina being Mina, doesn’t celebrate corporate holidays and certainly considers Valetine’s one of many stupid things.

At least, until they run into their neighbor Gertie (BettyLynn Allison). I knew she had an expiration date and sure enough, not long after arriving at the hospital she is wheeled in, dead on arrival. Gertie’s only living relative, her niece Nora, doesn’t seem bothered to find out. In fact, she doesn’t seem bothered at all by her aunt’s death.

Speaking of Gertie, how did she die? After jumping through several hoops in healthcare politics, Mina manages to swindle an autopsy with the help of Austin. In the process they learn that Gertie died of a ruptured brain aneurysm caused by poly-cystic kidney disease. A disease Nora may have given it is a genetic condition.

Turns out, Nora had two of the ticking time-bombs in her brain. It was because of Gertie her life was saved, yet she still doesn’t care enough to show an ounce of grief for her departed aunt! The moment she’s in recovery Nora wants the insurance money. A one-track mind, this one.

Unlike Nora, Austin does have an ooey-gooey center to rival that of a warm chocolate chip cookie. After Conrad gives up his prestigious dinner reservations, he passes them on to Mina, who has come around to Valentine’s after realizing life is short. I wonder if he would have been so inclined to do that had he known the woman he loved was about to be proposed to by Micah.

Will Mina say yes?! This one ends on a cliffhanger.

3. Kit and Bell spend Valentine’s Day together at a fundraiser.

Kit has her hands full with a teenager who definitely falls into the “stupid things” category since he got his arm impaled by part of a car door after a Tinder hook-up gets a little too hot and heavy.

Luckily for Chet (Paul Skye Lehrman) his impalement avoided damaging any bones or arteries so he’ll just need a sling. At least, he did, until he decided to have hospital sex with said-hookup and damages his arm to the point of necessitating surgery in the process. Plus Kit gets to lay into him about stupidly agreeing to get it on in a hospital. The place is festering with bacteria! (Take not every medical drama ever including this one.)

Just before Chet’s surgery, Kit and Bell decide they’re going to be dates to the Cupid-themed fundraiser, it really is silly to take two cars after all.

4. Andre learns to live in Otto’s world with him.

Conrad’s latest patient is Otto (Ron Simons), one half of a friendly gay couple eager to make it to their own Valentine’s Day dinner. While Otto is eager to boogie out the door to an Italian feast, his partner, Andre (Carlos Lacamara), isn’t so sure everything is as okay as he wants it to be. Conrad shares the sentiment since he mandates Otto stay overnight at the hospital for more tests when he notices his kidney function is low.

In the process of running tests, Conrad diagnoses Otto with a treatable autoimmune disorder and brain atrophy from years of alcohol abuse. Even though Otto is sober now, the damage had already been done.

If Andre wants to be with Otto, he has to learn to live with his skewed reality, a world created by his brain to cope with the damage, a world filled with extravagant adventures they never got the chance to take.In a sweet gesture, Andre shows Otto a slideshow of places around the world they “visited”. When in love, you find a way to make it work.

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5. Irving books an elevator for two.

If you’re a fan of the relationship between Nurse Jessica and Irving, you’ll be happy to know “Stupid Things in the Name of Sex” finally makes them official! In a subplot more for the pairings shippers than the plot, the couple hit a snag in their relationship when it appears Irving doesn’t want to go public (I’ll take ‘Stupid Things’ for $500 Alec since Jessica is the best thing that’s ever happened to him, let’s be real.).

But after a come-on from Nora, he realizes the only person he wants to be with is the one woman who thought he was special all along. So he borrows a page from the MerDer notebook and takes Jessica back to the elevator that started it all for a romantic Valentine’s dinner.

Seriously do people in television hospitals just never need elevators? The amount of hook-ups I’ve seen in them really makes you think.

Odds & Ends

• “You know you’re supposed to read those first, right?” “‘Wink wink’. High literature indeed.”
• Austin picks out his candy hearts with a pair of tweezers to ensure it has a good message.
• Irving to the kid with his arm impaled on a car door: “License and registration?”
• You gotta love the fact Mina and Austin’s idea of something “epic and romantic” is stealing an autopsy. In Austin’s own words: “Sexy, I’m in.”
• Austin: Well I have been known to write a sonnet or three.
• Everything does taste better in a wine glass.
• Couldn’t help but laugh at Mina immediately thinking Micah was having a heart attack when he bent down to propose because she was so shocked.
• Devon and Conrad learn the last call Julian made was to an FDA agent about a career change, and that she never showed up to a meeting planned between them.

A new episode of The Resident titled “Queens” premieres February 18th on FOX.