*Warning – contains full spoilers for The Pitt season 2 episode 15, which is yet to be released in the UK.*
As the second season of The Pitt continues to release new episodes weekly in the UK, the finale has now debuted in the US, bringing to a close the latest dramatic shift at the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center.
This season was particularly challenging for Dr Robby, who faced emotional struggles as he planned to leave that day for a sabbatical, taking a three-month motorcycle trip.
Meanwhile, the penultimate episode of season 2 saw Robby realise that Dr Al-Hashimi had a history of seizure disorder which was starting to impact on her work. But what did that mean for her future at the hospital, and how did the shift come to an end?
Read on for everything you need to know about the final episode of The Pitt season 2.
The Pitt season 2 ending explained: What happened to Dr Al-Hashimi?
At the start of the final episode, Dr Al-Hashimi admitted to Dr Robby that the case she was bringing him was her own, and that her seizures began after a viral meningitis case when she was five years old. At the time, she had seizures every few months or so. Twelve years prior to that day’s shift she had had laser ablation to her left temporal lobe, and she had also been taking Keppra.
All of this meant she hadn’t had a seizure in well over a year, and had been cleared by the neurology department to drive a car and to work as an attending physician. However, that specific day, she had already had two, perhaps due to new job stress, sleep deprivation, PTSD or any number of other causes.
She told Dr Robby she intended to either up her dose of Keppra or try a new anti-seizure medication. If neither of those worked, she would have to either have a temporal lobectomy, which could impair her speech or get a neuromodulation device which could sense and stop the seizures almost immediately.
Robby told her she had to disclose it immediately, and she said she had a plan, before heading to see a patient. He later told Dana to keep an eye on her while he was away.
Later, Al-Hashimi told Robby she had spoken to the neurologist on call, and she had agreed that she could continue to work with double coverage. Robby told her that was not the neurologist’s call to make, and that she shouldn’t be working in case she had a momentary lapse of consciousness while treating a critical patient.
Al-Hashimi said this could be dealt with by the other attending physician, but Robby countered they could also be tied up with another critical patient.
After this, the two got into a heated row, with Robby arguing he was trying to protect his patients, and that she needed to report her symptoms and step down for a minimum of six months. Leaving her, he told her she had until Monday to alert the administration to her condition or he would.
We later saw her attempting to drive off, before stopping the car and breaking down in tears in the car park.
This is the last we saw of Dr Al-Hashimi this season. Whether Robby would follow through with his threat or Al-Hashimi would report her condition herself remains to be seen.
We also don’t yet know whether she will be back on the wards next season, but haven’t heard that she won’t be, meaning it seems likely that she will have been cleared to practise once more by the time we return to the Pitt.
Where did we leave Mel, Dr Whitaker, Dr Mohan and the rest of the staff?
At the end of the season, Mel was told she would have to do another deposition, while she was also seen still struggling to come to terms with her sister Becca having a boyfriend and exercising her independence.
Distressed at not being able to watch the fireworks with her, as she was with her boyfriend, Mel instead joined many of the other medics including Dr Mohan, Dana, Dr McKay, Dr Santos and Victoria as they watched them from the roof. She also planned to go for a night of drinking and karaoke with Dr Santos.
Meanwhile, Dr Whitaker helped Victoria to realise that her future specialism may be in mental health, and particularly emergency psychiatry. She was also praised by Robby for her TikToks, who had come around on the idea.
Whitaker took Dr Robby’s keys so he could house sit for him as planned, before going home with his former patient’s widow Amy Miller, who he had been spending time with, along with her son Theo.
Dr Langdon visited one of his patients who had to have her leg amputated below the knee. He then finally had it out with Robby, telling the attending physician that he expects too much of himself and needs help.
Outside the hospital, Robby asked Dr Mohan whether she had chosen her elective yet. She said she might decide on geriatrics as he had advised.
She also told him that she and her mother weren’t talking, before apologising for letting her personal issues distract her. She told him to have a safe trip and offered him “good luck”, which he offered her back. She then went up to the roof to join the others. We already know that this is the last time we will see Dr Mohan, as she won’t be back on shift in season 3.
Did Dr Robby go on his motorcycle trip sabbatical?
As well as having frank talks with Dr Al-Hashimi, Dr Mohan and Dr Langdon as described above, he also spoke with Duke, who made him promise to return, after their prior discussion about Robby’s suicidal thoughts.
He also had multiple chats with his friend Dr Abbot, who told him not to succumb to the darkness, reminding him of the good he’s done. Robby admitted that the amount of people he had watched die was now “leaching something from my soul”.
Abbot told him to go on a cruise, rather than his motorcycle trip, which he called “death wish behaviour”. He told him he needed time off and to get some help, but that ultimately he would need to return to the hospital, which needed him as much as he needed it.
At the very end of the episode, Robby visited the abandoned baby the team had been calling Jane Doe. He swaddled and cradled the baby in a darkened room, and told her that he was abandoned too when he was eight years old.
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He told her that he got through and she would too. He teared up as he reassured her that it was OK, and that she had so many wonderful things to see and people to love throughout her life.
We don’t know whether Robby went on his motorcycle trip after this, or whether he took Abbot’s advice and went on a cruise instead.
Whatever the case, it seems likely that we’ll find out just what happened to Robby in the weeks and months after the shift when we pick back up with him and the rest of the team in season 3.
The Pitt season 1 is available to watch on HBO Max in the UK now. Season 2 is available in full in the US, while it is continuing to release new episodes weekly on Thursdays in the UK.
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