SPOILER ALERT: The following contains spoilers for Chicago Med Season 12, Episode 6.
Tomorrow came quickly on Chicago Med. Season 12, Episode 6 pays off a lot of the potential that the NBC series set up in “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,” as the show prepares to wrap up the first part of its cycle. And aside from one incredibly obvious subplot, “Lessons in Chemistry” weaves all the material together well, leaving the actors to once again prove that this ensemble cast is underrated.
Deanna Shumaker—whose other credits include last season’s superlative “Altered States”—not only pulls together all the plot threads, but does so with the right character combinations. The main case of the week involves suspected murderer Lance Carpenter (played by The Americans‘ Kelly AuCoin), who turns up after having a seizure while penning his memoir with a writer who doesn’t know she’s his daughter. At first blush, this potential-killer reveal and father angst feels like Med already did this with Dr. Sarah Reese and her dad. But Shumaker takes a different tone than that, keeping the creepy factor to a minimum and revealing that Lance’s other secret is a brain tumor he waited too long to treat. The case also teams up Dr. Mitch Ripley and Dr. Daniel Charles, both of whom know about complicated pasts, both together and separately. It’s always a pleasure to see Ripley and Charles together because it’s a way to chart the evolution of their dynamic, but in this instance, it also quietly serves as character development for them both. Charles, who begins and ends the episode with settling his mother’s affairs, can understand learning more about a parent. And his presence is an opportunity for him to give an overstressed Ripley some advice on being the involuntary Chief of Emergency Medicine.
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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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