Given The Pitt takes place totally within the hospital, enjoying out in actual time throughout a shift, there’s not a lot time for the private lives of the employees. However all through its first season, we bought bits and items about Robby (Noah Wyle) and Collins’ (Tracy Ifeachor) historical past, and Episode 11 revealed part of it that even he didn’t know.
When the season started, Collins was pregnant, however in Episode 7, she had a miscarriage, which was portrayed viscerally onscreen. (Ifeachor reveals to us that she thanked the crew for his or her kindness and the care they took together with her after filming the miscarriage and fast aftermath.) She then returned to work, till after she needed to ship a child in Episode 11. Following that, Robby discovered her sitting on the again of an ambulance outdoors, and what adopted was probably the most highly effective, most vital character-driven scenes of the season.
After discussing her loss — not the primary however in all probability the final, she admitted, given the price of IVF — Collins revealed to Robby, with out really saying it straight, that she had been pregnant once they had been collectively. She hadn’t been able to be a mother then, hadn’t even been certain of the connection, and by no means instructed him. She was afraid he’d hate her for being egocentric, and he assured her she wasn’t, he forgave her, and he or she ought to forgive herself.
“That is considered one of my favourite moments in Collins’s journey within the present,” Tracy Ifeachor shares with TV Insider as a part of our Scene Examine, breaking down this scene and her character’s arc of the season. (She admits to getting “just a little teary” watching it again.) “I simply felt in that second, Dr. Collins has been carrying such a weight, and that weight has affected each single second of the whole season for her — it’s all set on someday — after which simply to have that sort of lifted was actually vital. It’s virtually like she’s lastly letting every part go and letting all of it be launched.”
The scene itself is one about loss. “It was actually fascinating to discover loss and what that’s like once you lose your dream and you’ve got your hopes pinned on one thing and it doesn’t work out,” says Ifeachor. Collins doesn’t appear able to strive once more the final time we see her, which can also be why we might perceive her staying at work reasonably than going dwelling to face that instantly following the miscarriage.
“Who desires to go dwelling and face that?” Ifeachor agrees, detailing the IVF course of (together with the ache and value). “Collins takes care of individuals all day. She desires to return dwelling to one thing actually fantastic and make investments as a result of when folks come into the ER, you get invested in them after which they’re gone and also you by no means hear what occurred. It’s simply this prepare, this fixed prepare that retains coming. So how beautiful wouldn’t it be for Collins to have the ability to have this excellent second with this baby that’s hers and he or she will get to place within the values and put in goodness, after which that baby grows up and goes out into the world and you allow it behind? However it was to not be, sadly, in that second.”
Watch the total Scene Examine above with Tracy Ifeachor on Robby and Collins on this scene and usually, unscripted moments, Collins’ journey this season, and extra.
The Pitt, Season 2, TBA, HBO Max