Rob Mahoney

I don't have any sense of that with Samira over the course of the season that it was like the Orlando Diaz case for as tough as that is, like a loss for a doctor to take.

And she tried so hard at so many points to make that work that it would be the kind of thing that would dramatically change the entire course of her career.

No.

And yeah, both just left hanging in a way that, yeah, I get you're wanting to capture the reality of a day and you don't want to have every character who leaves the show, which structurally there will be characters who leave the show based on the realities of these sorts of departments.

They're not all going to get like their big dramatic sendoff where everyone cuts a piece of cake and salutes them on the way out the door.

Sometimes so do I. Yeah.

So I'm open to lots of different versions of this.

I think what this felt like was they didn't quite know if they were going to have Dr. Mohan back on the show or not and wrote it in this ambiguous, up-in-the-air sort of way that does not work for a character that's this important to the pit.

And it also left me hanging on every word, even when she is trying to give Robbie...

a note of, like, encouragement on the way out as far as his own mental health struggle.

What she says is, have a good trip.

Please be safe.

We need you here.

Not they need you here.

Not the pit needs you.

Not this place needs you.

It's like, that's not a character who in that moment has already decided she's gone.

And maybe that's fine for the kind of story you're trying to tell, but it certainly doesn't seem like your writer's room was, like, going into this moment in the scene fully understanding that this was going to be her exit.

It was a little too blanket for my tastes.

Yeah.