[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Doc Season 1 finale “…Must Come Down.”]
Richard (Scott Wolf) has no alternative however to admit to what occurred with Dixon within the Doc Season 1 finale.
Previous to the accident that took eight years of her reminiscences, Amy (Molly Parker) had been wanting into what occurred to a affected person who died below Richard’s care. Within the penultimate episode, Richard tried guilty her, claiming he’d simply been making an attempt to cowl for her. However Amy’s investigation within the finale revealed the reality, and when confronted, Richard had no alternative however to admit.
“Even these final conversations all through this final episode the place [Amy’s] speaking about having to take accountability, I nonetheless assume there’s some hope in him that every thing he’s doing, every thing he’s saying goes to work. There’s an excessive amount of at stake for him to ever imagine that it’s going to collapse. And I feel even when he walks in that workplace, clearly, when he sees everybody that’s standing in that room, every thing modifications,” Wolf tells TV Insider within the video interview above.
When confronted, Richard additionally tried to throw it again on Amy, claiming that he couldn’t belief her to have his again the way in which she was earlier than the accident. He was scared he’d lose every thing, he admitted. He apologized to Amy, who stated that she would’ve forgiven him for his mistake, even understood why he tried to cowl it up, however she couldn’t forgive him for gaslighting her and weaponizing her reminiscence loss.
Wolf calls the second that “every thing crumbles” for Richard “very tragic. … All that’s left is the ache that he’s inflicted upon himself, upon Amy, upon all people on this setting. And I don’t assume he’s ever been an individual who would need to try this. And so I feel when he stops her and says he’s sorry … that’s an extremely honest second,” he explains, getting emotional wanting again on it. “He really has love for this individual that he’s put by way of a really tough circumstance.”
He continues, “It’s not like, ‘Yay, ding dong, the witch is useless.’ It’s like, ‘Oh wow, this poor one who has quite a lot of goodness in them, however wound up in a extremely unhealthy scenario and selected to run down this street of defending himself and his household, however at an excellent price.’ And so I feel then that final scene, you actually really feel the associated fee. You felt the associated fee to Amy. And in that scene, I feel you actually, for the primary time … see the tragedy of this story that we instructed, which is a really, I imagine, good one who made some very unhealthy choices and is paying the worth.”
Richard ended the season packing up his workplace, his medical license suspended. At that time, “he’s simply devastated,” says Wolf. “I don’t know that he has the power in that second after we’re watching him go away to even be fascinated with what tomorrow goes to be, or subsequent yr. I hope he has a future in medication. And I feel what’s clear is he’s an individual who has simply misplaced every thing, and that’s brutal.”
Govt producer Barbie Kligman has shared with us that we haven’t seen the final of Richard, so we count on to see Wolf again in Season 2. In any case, as Wolf factors out, “the present may be very a lot about redemption and second possibilities. So I imagine Richard has a second life.”
Watch the total video interview above with Wolf for extra in regards to the Season 1 finale and his hopes for Richard going ahead.
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