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Royal Pains Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
12 Episodes 2009 - 2009
Episode 1
Pilot
Thu, Jun 4, 200942 mins
When he is blamed for the death of a hospital trustee, Dr. Hank Lawson is blacklisted by the medical community and dumped by his fiancée. His brother, Evan, convinces Hank to come with him to a party in the Hamptons, where Hank discovers a new career opportunity.
Episode 2
There Will Be Food
Mon, May 11, 200942 mins
Evan charms his way into a date with ballerina Tess Frimoli at her early-retirement benefit to coach her into eating junk-food again, but she faints and lies, initially even to Hank. The brothers learn to appreciate life in the Hamptons and sharing the household. Tucker is grateful for Hank's aftercare and fatherly friendship, but absent dad Marshall Bryant considers a reminder of paternal duties grounds for instant dismissal. Hank keeps dating idealistic hospital-administrator Jill Casey but tests her trust by sneakily helping an unwilling hepatitis patient who lost all confidence in the medical system.
Episode 3
Strategic Planning
Thu, Jun 18, 200942 mins
Senator Everett's vicariously ambitious wife Melody discreetly hires Hank to give their handsome son Kendrick a full medical exam in absolute secret--even if that requires obtaining insanely expensive equipment--before his recruitment into Notre Dame's football team. Evan takes Hank "guerilla marketing" through the Hamptons in search of that tenth passerby whom they might sign up for HankMed, but Hank instead gives priority to a penniless dog-walker. Left on his own, Evan scores a client, along with several pretty women for a pool party (with a nasty sanitary sting) while arranging another date for Hank with Jill (whom Hank mainly presses for hospital equipment). Meanwhile, Kendrick has a sudden and serious episode, which Hank brilliantly diagnoses while revealing a motivational question.
Episode 4
TB or Not TB
Thu, Jun 25, 200942 mins
Hoping to approach the richest clients by joining a country-club, Evan starts practicing tennis and golf on Boris' estate. Curious about a mysterious tank arriving, he sneaks into Boris' basement and discovers a giant shark's aquarium (which he 'forgets' diplomatically when Boris needfully reminds him of the vital value of privacy). After legally obligatory routine tests in an Italian restaurant, a trainee-sous-chef with poor English skills reacts positive to TB, but Hank must leave that to Divya (along with Evan's language assistance) while he rushes the restaurant owner, in medical crisis, to the hospital.
Episode 5
No Man Is an Island
Thu, Jul 9, 200942 mins
Evan enthusiastically arranges for Hank to attend a pregnant member of the rich Grant family - at their private island - even if that requires Evan to volunteer as babysitter for their brats. Though Evan shares their majority dislike of the deliberate eschewal of modern technological comfort there, bunk-beds rekindle memories of living with Dad Lawson (fond recollections not shared by Hank). Hank finds the pregnancy neither urgent nor problematic, unlike the fracture that old island caretaker Will incurs while driving his truck. Both brothers' ingenuity ends up solving all medical and communications problems, leaving Hank to respect a blood-betrayed Grant family secret. The isolation, initially forcing Hank to miss a last-minute a date with Jill, helps him against accepting a position in her hospital's E.R.
Episode 6
If I Were a Sick Man
Thu, Jul 16, 200942 mins
Tucker Bryant drops by HankMed for fatherly advice and additionally gets brotherly advice from Evan, whose envious admiration for the nice brat's luxury car fleet earns a recommendation for a good deal. Hank calls on Ms. Newberg, who wants to prevent any staff health troubles messing with her spoiled-rotten lapdog's "bark mitzvah", but discovers a worrying number of mysterious respiratory-problem cases. Evan's sympathy for haughty Divya's "strategic marriage" (i.e. arranged betrothal) earns him yet more abuse. Tucker follows Evan's advice with lover Libby, whose initial fury Evan turns around. After the brothers save the day with help from Jill to handle the authorities, the host sends them a car too flashy for Hank's taste, so Evan gets his dream on wheels.
Episode 7
Crazy Love
Thu, Jul 23, 200942 mins
Venezuelan self-made tycoon Javier Santos exhausts Evan's patience by skimping on a moderate bill while indulging wife Sofia's shopping sprees; both brothers deal imaginatively with the apparently dysfunctional couple's erratic problems. Evan tells Hank about Boris's aquarium-shark after Jill's visiting friend Katie is bitten by it. Boris disappears after learning this and the results of a full medical Hank gave him, yet failed to evaluate properly, and has the paperwork removed from hospital. Divya's arranged Bombay fiancé Rajan Bandyopadhyay proves patient, yet pressed from time.
Episode 8
The Honeymoon's Over
Thu, Jul 30, 200942 mins
Evan hires an AV professional for his HankMed staff meeting presentation of "Evanomics", but Hank and Divya both find reasons to postpone the meeting. Cartoonist Zack Kingsley, who illustrates his wife Julie's children's books, leaves Hamptons Heritage Hospital against medical advice for a cardiac issue, but hires Hank as a private physician. Jill accuses Hank of "poaching a patient", but Hank was just concerned as a physician. Software guru Alan Ryder's new wife hires HankMed to diagnose Alan's "allergy" symptoms. While Evan is surprised that ordinary-looking Alan has a supermodel wife, Alan discriminates against Divya when he realizes she isn't an M.D., and doesn't want her to treat what might be a sexually-transmitted disease.
Episode 9
It's Like Jamais Vu All Over Again
Thu, Aug 6, 200942 mins
Evan delights in attending a Hamptons horse-show with Hank (who only accepted because the proceeds benefit Jill's hospital). Seasonally attired to win over clients, Evan curbs his HankMed charm-offensive to rescue Divya, first from a drunkard (who turns out to be Jill's newest medical staff acquisition, Dr. Madden), then from her misinformed parents, posing as a college friend to sustain Divya's deception that she's studying economics, not assisting Hank; however, a wasp sting on her allergic father puts Divya herself in position to blow her cover by performing emergency treatment. Hank meanwhile wrestles with quasi-professional teenage-jockey Beth Samuels and her father Dan's unwillingness to put health concerns above equestrian competition. Jill's ex, Charlie Casey, returns, going above her head to resume his hospital post, checking out romantic successor Hank, and revealing an important condition Jill has so far failed to share.
Episode 10
Am I Blue?
Thu, Aug 13, 200942 mins
Tucker asks Hank to intervene on his dad's recreational drug dependency; Divya challenges Evan to be just a friend to a woman--any woman.
Episode 11
Nobody's Perfect
Thu, Aug 20, 200942 mins
While Hank thinks that he has gone all the way to New York to help save Boris, it turns out Hank may need a little saving himself. Boris reveals that the Gardners are pressuring the state licensing board to revoke Hank's credentials. Hank wants to handle the matter on his own, but Boris isn't about to butt out of Hank's business, just like Hank hasn't let the issue of Boris's mysterious illness go. Boris puts his cadre of lawyers on the case, despite Hank's wishes, because he has a vested interest in Hank keeping his medical license. Boris wants Hank to help him with his potentially terminal genetic disease that killed his father and his grandfather. Hank agrees as long as there are no more secrets between them. Unfortunately for Hank, Boris isn't exactly a 'tell-all' kind of guy. Meanwhile, HankMed has a new client that is so famous (or more likely, infamous) that Evan and Divya don't find out who he or she is. That is, until the massive yacht they're on reaches the even bigger boat where their mystery client awaits. Divya is highly suspicious of the situation, but the sheer number of zeros on the retainer check they were paid in advance has made Evan determined to see this through. They soon find out that their new client is a notorious Wall Street swindler who bilked billions from innocent investors. He is currently hiding from the authorities in the safety of international waters, and Evan has second thoughts. Too bad they can't turn the boat around, because the captain of the sailboat literally just had the wind knocked out of him by a falling sail and is in need of emergency medical attention.
Episode 12
Wonderland
Thu, Aug 27, 200943 mins
While dream prince/groom Rajan Bandyopadhyay happily awaits his arranged engagement party to childhood friend Divya (without inspiring romantic love), Divya contemplates calling it all off. Their stately venue, an elegant manor hand-built by Scottish immigrants, is run by Hill family sister heiresses Amy, who superstitiously believes Wicca forces oppose any change to the legacy, and Zoey, who wants to turn it into a B&B. After Divya notices symptoms in Zoey, Hank starts a perilous examination of patient and home. As Evan borders on neurosis, a grim prediction by Amy only adds to his all-too-real financial worries by falling victim to an investment scam that later shocks Hank in surprising ways. Charlie Casey moves back in with Jill, only to be thrown out of her life completely.
