[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for The Cleaning Lady Season 4 Episode 9, “Hearts on Fire.”]
The Cleansing Woman simply referenced one of the crucial iconic episodes of Gray’s Anatomy. Season 4 Episode 9, “Hearts on Hearth,” noticed an immigrant girl kidnapped and put underneath anesthesia by Cowboy Hat (Brian Norris) and his cronies, who then dropped her physique unconscious physique on the hospital the place Thony (Élodie Yung) works. A gruesomely shoddy surgical procedure was carried out on the lady whereas she was underneath, as evidenced by a large T-shaped incision working up and down her stomach with thick and bloody stitches. The lady was affected by a nasty an infection in consequence, however Thony seen one thing a lot worse: There was a bomb implanted within her.
Even for those who don’t know Gray’s Anatomy, you’ve possible heard of its bomb episode. In Gray’s Anatomy Season 2 Episode 17, “As We Know It,” a person unintentionally shoots himself within the abdomen with a bazooka. Christina Ricci visitor starred within the episode because the EMT who positioned her hand inside the person’s wound to maintain the ammunition nonetheless. When the stakes grew to become too terrifying, she pulled her hand out and Meredith Gray (Ellen Pompeo) instinctively took her place. A bomb squad, led by visitor star Kyle Chandler, stayed with Meredith till they efficiently received the bomb out of the person’s physique, but it surely resulted in disaster when the explosive went off as Chandler’s character fastidiously carried it away.
The Cleansing Woman‘s model was a lot much less lethal. Thony has a piece visa in Season 4 and has been finishing a medical residency at this hospital. She’s already a whip-smart surgeon, however her coaching and medical license are from her native Cambodia, so she has to begin over within the U.S. Thony found out that the lady was despatched to her hospital as a risk from Ramona (Kate del Castillo), who was flexing her energy from jail.
Thony was the one surgeon round who may carry out the surgical procedure required to avoid wasting the lady’s life, and hopefully the lives of everybody within the hospital, with the assistance of the bomb squad. With no higher various, the hospital and bomb squad let Thony carry out the surgical procedure regardless that she was solely a medical resident. The hospital was evacuated, after which a small group stood by as Thony carried out the surgical procedure solely on her personal.
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The machine was small however highly effective sufficient to kill anybody in its radius, but it surely was deactivated by reducing the proper wire and the lady was saved. Thony broke down in tears after from the stress and guilt of realizing that this girl was mutilated to ship a message to Thony, who’s now married to Jorge (Santiago Cabrera). Thony lately found that Ramona killed Jorge’s first spouse, resulting in her newest arrest. Now, Ramona’s making an attempt to harm Jorge’s second spouse, even when it was a wedding of comfort.
Jorge and Thony married in a fast Las Vegas ceremony so that they couldn’t be compelled to testify towards one another. Whereas their union could have began as a sham, it’s beginning to flip into one thing actual. However one other connection is forming between Thony and her colleague on the hospital, Dr. Dupont (Daniel Bonjour). In a scene that echoed Thony’s love life with Arman (the late Adan Canto), Fiona (Martha Millan) inspired Thony to discover a doable reference to Jorge earlier on this episode after Thony had began naturally referring to him as her husband. However Thony’s makes an attempt to attach had been met with obvious lack of curiosity from Jorge on this episode, main her to kiss Dupont in a charged second after he checked in on her post-surgery. Dupont had stopped Jorge from seeing Thony within the hospital simply moments earlier than.
Jorge left Thony a voicemail whereas standing proper outdoors the hospital’s doorways telling her that he needs to attempt to be an actual household together with her and their respective youngsters. Thony was hooking up with Dupont within the on-call room whereas the message was being despatched. Traditional Gray’s.
The Cleansing Woman now has one other love triangle on its palms. This could solely complicate issues because the Fox drama heads into its ultimate three episodes of Season 4.
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