Noah Wyle

And then everybody died.

And it was a traumatic memory that my character has just not really ever dealt with.

He's moved on, and today is a day he probably should have stayed home, but today he went to work.

And as a result, he's just getting triggered by different things.

And those memories begin to come up with greater and greater frequency and greater and greater poignancy to the point where he becomes totally debilitated by them.

And the aggregate of all of that grief and all of that suppressed emotion just overwhelms him.

And it was interesting.

My mother was an orthopedic nurse and an operating room nurse.

She worked for 20 years at a hospital in Hollywood.

And she came over for breakfast last Sunday, and she came into the kitchen, and within five seconds of being there, she said, you know, Noah, I can't stop thinking about last week's episode.

in that scene where you were listing all the people who died.

And I think I had my own PTSD reaction.

I suddenly remembered everybody.

I remembered the four-year-old.

I remembered the pregnant woman with the baby.

I remembered the gang member that I tried to keep alive by squeezing two units of blood.

And she's just listing these names.

And she's, you know, getting teary-eyed.

And she finishes, and I said, my goodness, Mom, I was on a medical show for 15 years.

You never told me that.