SPOILER ALERT AND WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Chicago Med Season 11, Episode 16. It also contains a mention of suicide and sexual assault.

Chicago Med Season 11, Episode 16 is the best episode of the whole season, and fans won’t be surprised by that. That’s because the episode is called “The Book of Charles,” and anyone who’s watched the NBC show for any length of time knows that Oliver Platt is its foundation. The episode asks a lot of him and of the audience, and Platt delivers.

Like its predecessor “The Book of Archer,” this episode zeroes in on Dr. Daniel Charles and what makes him tick. Charles has been on this up and down track throughout Season 11, as he took some time away from the hospital yet that happened off-screen, so viewers never really felt like he actually went anywhere. But his crisis is in full force during “The Book of Charles,” in which he gets hit with blow after blow. Showrunner Allen MacDonald penned the episode and he pulls no punches; the opening scene finally shows Charles’ volunteer work at the suicide hotline, and the implication is that the man he speaks to takes his own life. It’s never said, though, enabling that likelihood to haunt both Charles and the audience for the entire 40-odd minutes.

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Chicago Med airs Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on NBC. Photo Credit: Courtesy of NBC.

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