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Code Black Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
16 Episodes 2016 - 2017
Episode 1
Second Year
Wed, Sep 28, 201643 mins
Another butch Afghanistan front veteran, colonel Ethan Willis, makes his televised entry by helicopter operating on one of three victims of a great white shark attack. Yet he shows sensible sensitivity dealing with Angus Leighton's frustration not to be allowed to treat his kin and the triangle between the surviving shark victims, sisters of major age difference. Mario Savetti has bad luck starting as newbies' mentor when an overruled call turns out surprisingly right due to a crazy sex game. Jesse Sallander mediates between lush cardiac patient Henry Underwood and his all but amused son Randall in wedding tuxedo. Due to budget cuts, Will Campbell's department has absorbed ER, so the cocky chief Leanne Rorish is duly demoted to his deputy..
Episode 2
Life and Limb
Wed, Oct 5, 201643 mins
Willis must help a promising soccer player make a life-altering decision after he's seriously injured, and another patient's hesitation to share that she's transgender makes it difficult for the doctors to diagnose her severe abdominal pain.
Episode 3
Corporeal Form
Wed, Oct 12, 201642 mins
Willis defies Campbell's orders when he helps Mario and Heather perform a radical procedure on a maintenance worker stuck under a boiler that exploded. Also, Angus' father, Dr. Desmond Leighton (Steven Culp), tries to seize Power of Attorney over Mike, who is still in a coma, even though Mike granted that right to his brother, Angus.
Episode 4
Demons and Angels
Wed, Oct 26, 201642 mins
During a fire causing cave-ins at the LA magic society theater, brave little Ian Renwick gets locked in while others are crushed but finds courage in his Halloween character. Willis rushes to the rescue with a remote control surgery kit as Elliot is out of his death. It's only one of several cases where chief Campbell's objections or instructions are ignored blatantly in the patient's interest, yet another such insolence gets Noa reinstated as she finally acted on pure medical grounds this time. Angus's father Desmond Leighton expects to take over his proxy for his comatose brother, but then he awakes and Angus sticks to his euthanasia promise, with a twist.
Episode 5
Landslide
Wed, Nov 2, 201643 mins
After a landslide, the ER is flooded with mud-hit victims, including rescue workers Rick and doted Liz, whom he saved but she bitterly blames him for letting got off her beloved third colleague Drew McAdoo, whose later arrival clears things up to Ethan's relief. A whole bunch of handful pre-teens is brought in from 'glamour camping' for young Jagger Drake's unclear symptoms by his anti-inoculation mother and her sadly ignored wiser mother Joanna, whose ironical collapse shows it's seriously contagious. Mario is dryly bitter when his useless pa Vincent is wheeled in once more drunk, broke and grossly ingrate, flirting indecently and coming to worse. Angus gets encouraging news about post-comatose brother Mike, but is warned private concerns may never cloud his medical performance.
Episode 6
Hero Complex
Wed, Nov 9, 201642 mins
After a frat party gone utterly out of control, the team treats a rape victim, alleged assailant Seth Greer and heroic rescuer Justin Keller, but the injuries don't match the above casting. Angus Leighton's big brother Mike finally wakes up and thanks him for being the wise proxy their father Desmond tried to overrule. Campbell isn't amused that his terminal cancer patient seeks Willis help for euthanasia.
Episode 7
What Lies Beneath
Wed, Nov 16, 201642 mins
When a sailor of Captain Boris Vasilievsky's Russian submarine is badly wounded during an explosion aboard, Willis and Campbell are helicopter-dropped to the rescue, so the Afghanistan veteran's experience becomes relevant. Mario attends his father's funeral. After a violent prison riot, troublemakers are among the victims treated in Angels Memorial.
Episode 8
1.0 Bodies
Wed, Nov 23, 201643 mins
Members of a rare novel cut are wheeled in with potentially fatal conditions, yet all refuse treatment as their smarter prophet preaches salvation trough death, even after being diagnosed himself with a brain tumor explaining his delusion. Finally recovered, Mike Leighton commends adoring brother Angus's care and competence, yet decides against resuming his own medical career. Mario faces his late father's last lover who inspires him to deal with the legacy.
Episode 9
Sleight of Hand
Wed, Nov 30, 201642 mins
When a police officer arrives at the emergency room with an explosive bullet stuck in her leg, a risky operation is needed to be performed by Wills, Leanne and Jesse; a magician having difficulty breathing comes to Angel's memorial for help.
Episode 10
Ave Maria
Wed, Dec 7, 201642 mins
The doctors must treat Campbell's 13 year old daughter when she arrives at the hospital after a seizure caused by spina bifida; a deaf work addict and her translator seek medical assistance ate their car rolls over into the Los Angeles River.
Episode 11
Exodus
Wed, Dec 21, 201643 mins
The staff must improvise as generators fail to kick in properly during a city-wide blackout, moving most patients to a less sophisticated clinic, where they can't impose the rules but impress. Ethan's battlefield experience is priceless again, but he gets stuck carrying up demented Blanche who mistakes him for her later war hero husband George, beyond help herself. Dixon remained stuck in the elevator to deliver a baby whose father agonizes outside the power-cut-locked door. Campbell is inspired to turn back recent sanctions.
Episode 12
One in a Million
Wed, Jan 4, 201742 mins
Mario dreams of being assigned as club medic to the city's basketball team, but accuses 'silver spoon' rival Angus of nepotism as his father knows the team brass. Rowan Davies is brought in with a rare condition, which is alas found inoperable. Against Campbell's orders, Leanne uses the hospital helicopter to reunite a family one last time. Campbell urges Elliot to stand up to a bully patient. Ethan fights for a patient's life by using a therapy that can only save one in a million given genetic probabilities.
Episode 13
Unfinished Business
Wed, Jan 11, 201742 mins
Having refused to use the short time window for experimental Parkinson surgery which might restore his medical career, Cole Guthrie reports as hospital chaplain. He can't help enough to prevent Elliot doubting his vocation having lost a baby in pressure chamber, but seeks solace with a terminal cleric. A slum mother brought in after a fire, initially with only one of her twin babies, refuses violently to bond with her healthy son after her daughter doesn't survive surgery. Teenager Jared is blamed for the fire by the janitor, along with his non-supportive workaholic absent father, but the fire chief concludes otherwise. Then a dreamer awakes from his ER nightmare.
Episode 14
Vertigo
Wed, Jan 25, 201743 mins
Mario follows Willis to a construction site to save two brothers trapped in a crane 300 feet above the ground.
Episode 15
The Devil's Workshop
Wed, Feb 1, 201742 mins
Dr. Ethan Willis's exotic experience makes him rightly suspect a horrible truth: an atypical ER patient has spread a hemorrhagic fever, highly contagious and probably deadly. That calls for an immediate lock-down, protective 'astronaut' suits and intervention by the CDC, whose DD Gareth Reddick takes over from Campbell. The isolation must be enforced at all cost, to prevent infections elsewhere, but reconstruction suggests rightly that patient zero is not inside. Several infected staff members develop symptoms, including Mario, who takes charge 'inside', and Malaya Pineda, who quickly reaches the horrible terminal stage.
Episode 16
Fallen Angels
Wed, Feb 8, 201743 mins
The doctors of Angel's Memorial partner with Center for Disease Control and Prevention to find an antidote for the viral outbreak.
