[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for Doctor Odyssey Episode 17, “The Wave.”]
The penultimate episode of Physician Odyssey is sure to ship shockwaves by means of the present’s fan group as a result of it places Max Bankman (Joshua Jackson) in very critical hazard.
The episode begins with Avery (Phillipa Soo) giving Max a stern speaking to about his declaration of affection for her. She doesn’t really feel the identical — or so she says — and he’s solely making an attempt to make it tougher for her to go away for medical college. That is all about his emotions, she insists. He doesn’t imagine that she doesn’t love him again, although.
Neither does Tristan (Sean Teale), who’s been catching all of their subtly tense exchanges from a distance. Not solely is he curious what is actually happening between Avery and Max, however he’s additionally bored with being turned down for numerous trysts by his ostensibly informal bed room buddy.
In the meantime, the Odyssey performs host to a marriage occasion — and one ignorant karen, it appears — however turns into host to a bunch of locals in want of shelter after an earthquake strikes and sends a tsunami ripping by means of the shore.
Max leads a small occasion — together with Jim O’Inheritor as a really talkative dad/coroner named Barry — to increased floor and security, however, after gathering provides from the close by village, he ventures again all the way down to shore (with Barry in tow) to see if he can assist anybody who didn’t make it out of the surf. After a form native retailer proprietor with a pleasant canine perishes because of his accidents, Max and Barry appear able to depart and seek for extra. They’re solely stopped by a name from Avery, who will want him to vocally help her with surgical procedure to take away a chunk of glass from a affected person’s coronary heart.
Their dialog is lower off, nevertheless, when an aftershock strikes the shore, and the church he’s been sheltering in is decreased to rubble.
Again on board, Captain Massey (Don Johnson) is insistent, above company coverage, that he’ll return the ship to shore after a brief trek to deeper waters to keep away from the worst of the wave — with only a few passengers harm by the sudden swell. However will he get there in time to assist Max and Barry and little Peanut the pooch? We’ll discover out when the finale airs subsequent week.
Physician Odyssey, Thursdays, 9/8c, ABC