We got a Doc hour that focused on Jake, and it was all the better for it.
For our full thoughts on the hour, you can read our Doc Season 2 Episode 8 Review.
But if you’re just looking for a scene-by-scene breakdown, read on for our recap.
We pick up with Dante, the widow of Jake’s patient, Ruby, as he’s in his home. He seems to be isolating himself and hasn’t been leaving the house or spending time with anyone.
He goes to answer the phone when his kids call him asking about visiting, but as he does, he collapses as if having a heart attack. We’re already off to a sad start!
Elsewhere, Amy gets scanned and speaks to her new neurologist about the memory seizures, and how she doesn’t want to stop her treatments because she is recovering things. Will he cut her off altogether? It’s too early to tell.
Hannah and her brother are scrolling through Amy’s emails, looking for anything incriminating. Ugh, these kids are the absolute WORST.
They find an email from Gina, whom Hannah notes is Amy’s psychiatrist, as she forwards updated information to the new doctor, Marks, and they realize that it contains files of recovered memories she’s had so far.
The two smugly rejoice over this because they suspect they’ll find some juicy things in there. Yes, we’re only moments into the episode, and Ryan Clark’s kids already have a girl raging!
Sonya and Jake are heartbroken that Dante is in the hospital. They knew that he’d be there soon. They know he has a DNR, and they want him to tell them who they should call, but he keeps muttering about “reunion,” which suggests that perhaps he’s ready to reunite with his wife again.
Michael comes in to check on Gina as she prepares to leave after her hospital stay. She assumes he’s there to lecture her or something, and she outlines all of the things she has lined up and intends to do, including a new therapist, taking time off, and spending time with her wife.
He tells her that he has spun the angle of her compassion fatigue to the board after her incident and that she’ll require weekly debriefings with him. Gina and Michael are the cutest couple, and their friendship is truly special!
TJ has to treat the obnoxious colleague, Peter, for kidney stones or whatever else, but he demands Vicodin for the pain, and TJ takes great pleasure in making him go through all the motions first, starting with a urine test.
Katie drops in to support Amy as she undergoes her stimulation treatment with Marks. She sees flashes of other things, including Danny. It’s the first time she’s seen him in all this time. But the stimulation causes her head to hurt, and she has a nosebleed.
Marks tells her they need to stop and tells her to take a pill to stop things for the time being. She doesn’t want to because she’s finally getting memories. She cheeks the pill and spits it out when he’s not looking.
Jake contacts Will, Dante’s son, and he asks about the “reunion” thing. He learns that they were planning a family reunion, and Jake is trying to figure out if it means that Dante no longer wants the DNR.
Jake’s ex, Rachel, comes to see Jake. She tells him that his father had a stroke and died.
We get flashbacks to Jake and Amy at her apartment. When his dad came to town, he asked her to meet his dad. He takes a moment to gather himself and then tells Rachel that he’s staying at work, but he wants to tell their daughter later.
Jake wants to get Dante to surgery so they can improve his condition, possibly allowing him to attend the reunion after all.
Sonya clashes with Jake over this, but he’s pretty forceful about it, and he pulls the seniority card. It’s very clear after hearing the news about his dad that he’s going to take this personally and pour everything into Dante.
Katie runs to Michael to tell him about Amy and the testing. The nosebleeds worried her. She asks Michael to support Amy for the day because they’re Amy’s only family. Michael agrees. And they watch her in treatment.
Amy tells them about how she remembered Danny’s seventh birthday, and Michael and Katie both seem a bit off about that announcement, but mostly Katie. Why doesn’t she seem happy at all?
Amy also experiences more flashes of Danny, as well as some of Ryan Clark. Michael notices how off she’s behaving, and she tries to cover herself because she knows she’s not supposed to be having any more memories after taking the meds.
Marks reviews Amy’s scans with Michael and Joan, stating that he has never seen both parts of the brain so active, and mentions that Amy may be pushing herself too hard and too fast. It seems, especially according to Joan, that if she keeps at the rate she’s going, she’ll have to choose between regaining memories or practicing medicine.
Joan gets a call from HER doctor and takes a moment alone. She wants to make sure she’s okay to perform surgeries.
We’re back to the obnoxious Hannah and Charlie, and they’re combing through Amy’s audio. They piece together that Amy was married to Michael, divorced him, and dated Jake before and after her memory loss.
Hannah seems to think that this is how they nail Amy. Does Hannah not work? Like, ever? What the hell?
Sonya and TJ are still giving Peter a hard time with his kidney stone by treating him like any other patient.
Jake talks to the funeral home and arranges plans for how his father will be buried (next to his mother).
Sonya updates him on Dante’s surgery and says the cardiologist won’t do the Triple A on Dante because it’s too risky.
Jake gets angry at Sonya, feeling that she may have inserted her opinion and not advocated for the patient, and he kicks her off the case, saying she’s not part of the solution; she’s part of the problem.
We get flashbacks to Amy having dinner with Jake and his father. His father brags about how exceptional Jake was as an athlete and how he wanted Jake to run the family business with him. He talks about how Jake could’ve played in college, too, but he met Rachel. Jake’s dad was not a fan of Jake’s ex.
Jake gets a call to the ER. He leaves Amy with his father so he can be with his patient.
In the present, Jake talks to Dante. He lets him know that he is aware of the reunion and that he wants to live. Dante communicates with him via hand squeezes. It pushes Jake to confront the cardio surgeon about performing the surgery he needs, but she still refuses, saying instead to make Dante comfortable.
As Hannah listens to more tapes, she pieces together things about Danny. She asks her brother if he knew about it through the audio he listened to, and she expresses sympathy for Amy because she feels like the punishment should fit the crime. Charlie has no empathy and doesn’t care.
Amy is still undergoing her testing, and she has had more flashes of Ryan Clark yelling, when he broke the picture, and so forth. Marks notices the brain activity, but she lies about experiencing anything.
Michael receives a text from Nora, who wants to know if he has a minute so she can talk to him about her day with the baby at Mommy and Me yoga. But, of course, Michael tells her that he can’t speak at the moment.
This totally won’t backfire on him later!
Jake goes to the last doctor asking for him to perform the procedure on Dante, but it doesn’t work. Jake is incredibly frustrated.
Amy asks Michael and Katie about the Ryan flashes, but they don’t know who she could be talking about. Meanwhile, Jake sees the family in the room together before he heads off to talk with Dante’s family about what’s going on.
Joan signals him for a discussion. She expresses her disappointment in him for not coming directly to her first. She’ll perform the surgery herself.
Amy searches through the staff records for doctors around during COVID to see if she recognizes who she has been seeing.
Sonya and TJ gossip about Peter when one of the other nurses comes in. She’s worried about him, and it’s clear that they’ve been dating.
But when she leaves, Peter talks about their sex life. It leads Sonya to conclude that Peter has testicular torsion. TJ’s a bit too giddy about contorting them back because it’ll be painful, and Peter’s obnoxious.
Amy is searching through the records in the hall when she gets hit with another massive memory seizure and passes out. Katie freaks out, and Michael runs to her. People rush to get Amy on a gurney.
In the flashbacks, Amy opens up talking to Jake’s father about losing a child, how it cost her the marriage, and other personal bits. Jake’s father talks about how self-sufficient Jake has always been since his mother died at 14.
Jake took care of himself and his sister, essentially filling the void that their mother had left. He admits that love is the minimum, so his loving Jake shouldn’t have been enough.
Marks reprimands Amy for cheeking the pill and warns her about cerebral edema and other things that could happen. Joan tells Amy she needs to stop, too. And Katie puts her foot down about Amy needing to focus on the present, not the past.
Dante needs to get rushed to surgery, but he takes a moment to write something for Will. Joan takes her meds before she scrubs into Dante’s surgery. Jake reassures the family that Joan is the best, and when Will arrives, they show him the board where Dante wrote that he was proud of Will.
Jake waits for Dante’s surgery to be over. He thinks about the flashback with Jake and Amy in bed. She tells him about how Jake’s father misses him, feels unneeded, and offers him advice on spending time with his dad and not waiting too long.
In the present, Dante’s surgery goes well, but he hasn’t woken up yet. They won’t know how he’s doing until Dante wakes up in two to three hours.
Meanwhile, Peter’s surgery goes well, and he won’t have to worry about not being able to have kids. Liz comes up to TJ for an update about Peter, and TJ tells Liz that he likes her a lot, but he doesn’t want things to get weird between them with a workplace relationship.
Jake sits by Dante’s bedside waiting for him to wake up. Joan comes in on them, and he thanks her. She wonders who Dante is to Jake, and he says that he’s a father. Dante wakes up, surprised that he’s still around, and Jake is thrilled. He brings Will in to see his dad.
Will gets to tell his dad how much he loves him, and it has Jake reflecting. When he leaves the room, he apologizes to Sonya. She doesn’t take it personally but says she’s here for him if something else is going on.
Back at the apartment, Charlie finds something presumably incriminating. He’s thrilled that they can blow up all of her relationships with what they found.
At dinner later, Michael and Amy talk about Katie. She didn’t finish eating. Amy is worried that this whole thing is too overwhelming for her, and Michael says that the morning started that way, too, that it’s a lot for her.
Amy feels guilty and like Katie shouldn’t have to worry about her. Michael says that Katie had to grow up too fast. Amy thinks that maybe Katie should go back to Michaels, but she doesn’t want Katie to feel like she’s pushing her away.
Michael suggests that since Katie is an adult, they should discuss with her what she needs.
Jake tells his daughter about her grandfather’s death.
Amy is in bed when Jake calls her. She tells him about getting memories of Danny and talks about how freaked out Katie is. Katie went back to Michael’s place. She wonders if Jake is okay because he doesn’t sound right, and he tells her that his dad died.
She asked if she had ever met him, and he told her about the dinner they had.
That dinner was the last time he saw his dad, and apparently, he never got to tell his father all the things he wanted to say. He tells her that he misses her, and she tells him that she misses him every day. And he asks her to be at the funeral with him.
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