Code Black (TV Series) One in a Million (2017) User Reviews

A great episode

[sbeattyimdb-30065 · 9/10 · 25 November 2017]

Leanne takes drastic measures to reunite the family of a dying patient even if it means disobeying Campbell; meanwhile, Willis and Noa will use smartphone apps to communicate with a patient with autism in Angels Memorial.

This brought serious trouble. Leanne was originally chosen as the Director of Emergency Medicine replacing Dr. Perello. However, the hospital decided to just let Campbell become the head of both the ER and OR to save costs, leading to unrelenting conflict between the two. Even though Campbell technically is the superior, Leanne is still a force to be reckoned with in the hospital.

The official synopsis of "One in a Million" reveals Leanne will defy Campbell's order and use the hospital helicopter to reunite a family one last time. As it is, Angels Memorial lacks resources and funds so Campbell might not let this go. Still, seeing Campbell in a good light in "Ave Maria" is an indication that maybe he is transforming to be a more empathetic doctor.

Fans got to see another side of Dr. Campbell in "Ave Maria." In that episode, his daughter was rushed to the ER. The grumpy ER and OR head acted more like a father than a doctor seeing his daughter suffering. He was also teary-eyed before the operation. Episode 10 grabbed the hearts of the viewers.

Leanne tried her best to convince Campbell: "What would you do to see your daughter one last time? What would that be worth?" ... Yet, he held his stance against the notion to bring the helicopter to the hospital to reunite the family. Leanne did so anyway, which resulted in a happy reunion for the family.

"One in a Million" is a great episode that brought many tears. Code Black constantly rebounds itself, only growing stronger with every episode!

Woah! What an emotional thrill ride!

[jheignbaugh · 10/10 · 25 November 2017]

In "One in a Million," Leanne actually appropriated a helicopter against Dr. Campbell's direct orders. A friggin' HELICOPTER.

Normally CBS's Code Black is the show that punches us in the gut first and yanks out our hearts second, but with "One In A Million," it's the other way around.

Willis is on the scene of a terrible medical helicopter crash and mobilizes the rest of the Angels Memorial team to help him with the badly injured victims. One of them is a man who was injured on a cruise ship and is desperate to contact his wife and young daughter, while another is the pilot and the third is actually melted to the copter seat thanks to the heat from the crash fire. Leanne says something to Willis, which is something we are all thinking at this point...

Leanne: Another ride-along? You need a hobby.

After the initial emergency montage - which includes the hard-to- watch sequence of having to remove the seat from the third guy's back - Rorish reveals that the pilot has died, which left us all heartbroken. And the first guy finds out he's now down his appendix and several bits of his intestines.

As for Savetti and Angus, who are arguing over a potential job in the athletic department of a local university, while Campbell saddles Elliot with handling a kid injured in a spat and his equally childish father, Willis moves on to treat a young girl who's autistic and only wants to communicate with her cell phone.

But wait, we're not done! Rollie is back, getting a consult from a new doctor played by new recurring actor Jay Harrington about an experimental surgery. He's not interested in the risk.

Cruise Ship Guy starts hemorrhaging everywhere which prompts Rorish to tell her team that they need to retrieve his family from the ship before he dies. Campbell, naturally, does not give a damn about the family and compares the ask to an expensive Uber ride, using the old "It's not good for the hospital" excuse.

So that means Rorish has to explain to Cruise Ship Guy that there's nothing more they can do for him and that if he wants to see his family, he has to live long enough for them to get back.

Meanwhile, Willis finds a way to use his phone to communicate with his autistic patient and find out what's wrong with her. Yay technology! He theorizes that she may have cystic fibrosis. Maybe he can use that to communicate to Savetti and Angus that they're being boneheaded idiots. Oh wait, that's what we have Jesse for.

We find out that Leanne sent the chopper anyway which proves to be a wise move because Cruise Ship Guy is getting worse. His wife and son arrive at his bedside and are told the terrible news. It's a huge downer, so Code Black shifts us to happy mode with Rollie mending fences with Jesse and Jesse encouraging him to take the surgery. But Rollie says he has "some unfinished business" first. (Interestingly enough..."Unfinished Business" is the name of the next episode...)

Savetti and Angus finally make up, with Savetti theorizing that Angus's father is pushing him for the new job because Mike has gone "out of town" since leaving the hospital. He also tells him that he's a "great doctor" which incites a round of ribbing. And just like that, the bromance is back.

While Elliot's patient makes it through surgery fine and makes his father stop being a jerk over his injury, Willis confirms his patient's case of cystic fibrosis. "Why is she so unlucky?" her mother has to wonder. But he's not going to let her get down on herself and gives her a phone so that she can finally speak with her daughter for the first time ever. We all weep.

But there's one last piece of business to get through. Rorish fetches Cruise Ship Guy's wife and son so that they can see him, and what was supposed to be the last goodbye turns out to be a happy ending because he's miraculously recovered. From a writing standpoint that might feel like a cop-out, but from an emotional standpoint we don't care because how great is that for this guy, his family, and the flight nurse we forgot about who's still over there doing okay.

Rorish walks away from the scene to remind Campbell that medicine is about a lot more than just medical science, and of course, he can't be that mad at her. So Jesse just reminds her of the time he (or was it they?) hijacked an ambulance for a taco. Now that's a story we need to hear someday. Just after she absolutely doesn't tell Savetti and Angus which of them got the university gig, because it actually went to Noa!

"One In A Million" is a different kind of episode for Code Black. It's one that trades on heart and emotion rather than the show's usual intellectual and ethical challenges. This is the kind of stuff that you might expect to find more on Chicago Med than here. But there's nothing wrong with that. The fundamental question we have to ask about any episode of television is if it's worth our time, and this one definitely is. It breaks our hearts early with the bleak prognosis from the helicopter crash and the plight of the autistic patient no one can seem to get to and then spends the rest of the episode slowly piecing them back together until at the end we're sniffling right along with the families.