Dr. Rhodes was exhausted. He had spent all day in the operating room. It had been a constant coming and going starting from a simple appendicitis, to the removal of a bullet up to heart surgery.
The last surgery had taken hours. He had to remove the spleen and stop the internal bleeding of a boy who was shot and killed.
He left the room quickly went to change and take his things from the locker to escape as soon as possible and dive into his comfortable bed.
At least so he believed him, but he was enormously wrong.
He grabbed his jacket and prepared to get out of the ER when something happened that caught his attention.
Maggie was near the entrance to the ER and was acting strangely. In fact, not long after she asked for help.
- We need help here! - shouted the nurse.
He could have run away, but he didn't.
- Another patient, - he thought.
The umpteenth of an exhausting shift. One last effort again and then his dream of being in his bed would finally come true. He tossed his jacket and backpack into a corner of the ER and followed her.
Nothing could prepare him for what he would see.
His friend / colleague was out there bloody with his girlfriend, also Connor's friend, in his arms. She was passed out.
The doctor was shocked, what was going on?
Soon after he went to work visiting Natalie and later Will. He could not have imagined it, but the colleague was in very bad shape.
He immediately knew it was going to be a long night. He wasn't going to leave anytime soon.