Medical Police season 1, episode 8 recap: Just the D
Lola and Owen go off-grid to find a cure, but McIntyre makes a fatal mistake. Waters has a confession about the virus’s origin on Medical Police.
As Owen continues to point his gun at McIntyre, she explains that she had them put in prison to protect them from Patten’s men on Medical Police. Director Patten is behind the whole attack and now he’s trying to buy the cure to cover his tracks. She also explains that she didn’t survive the plane crash (no, she’s not a ghost), because she wasn’t on the plane when it crashed, because there was another parachute.
But now they’re all fugitives from justice, set up to take the fall for the terror attacks. Not only that, Waters doesn’t even have the cure. He’s close to finding one, but he needs Lola’s help to make a breakthrough. So together they all go somewhere the virus hasn’t touched yet: the remote southeast Asian country of Bhutan.
While Lola and Waters work on a cure, McIntyre and Owen trade traumatic stories from their past. Owen left the police force after he lost a partner on the job, a business partner in a bakery accident, and then almost lost his racquetball partner when his game went downhill. That has nothing to do with why he left the force though. He was forced to resign after multiple civilian complaints. Plus there was footage of him stealing Amazon packages on Christmas day.
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McIntyre tells Owen the fabled story of Guam. She and Goldfinch went off-grid for a mission, but she got careless and used her company credit card at a cafe. It immediately identified her as a special black-ops agent with the CDC and they ran into an ambush. She and Goldfinch survived, but the rest of her team died.
When Lola discovers she has the virus, she leaves an unaddressed note saying that they don’t need her and that “I love you,” and runs away. Owen discovers she’s gone and runs out into the forest to find her. When he finds her, she says she can’t stay because she has the virus but Owen doesn’t care. “I know you love Waters,” he says. “But listen to me, I love you.”
Lola reveals that her note wasn’t for Waters, it was for Owen. She loves Owen. He kisses her, saying that he’s not afraid of the virus because she’s a genius and he knows she’ll find the cure. They have sex in the forest, so Owen can prove to her how much be believes in her. When they’re done they decide to go back and it turns out that they’re only a few feet from their cabin.
Meanwhile, McIntyre goes to the store for snacks and kindling and nearly makes the same mistake she made in Guam. But she doesn’t have any cash and they need the kindling to survive the cold. She tries to communicate to the cashier that he has to wait 24 hours before swiping her card, but as soon as she hands it to him, he swipes it and gives away their location. McIntyre runs back to the cabin to warn everyone as the cashier, who speaks perfect English, chastises himself for his mistake. So he’s just dumb? Or bad at listening?
As McIntyre gets back to warn them, the helicopters have already arrived to capture them and take them back to the CDC in Atlanta. There Patten explains that all he wanted was a couple of mini-outbreaks to convince the government to give him the funding he needs to properly protect people, but Lola and Owen were too good at stopping the virus so he had to create more outbreaks.
Waters tests his experimental cure on Lola, but all it does is speed up the virus. He’s really bad at producing a cure because it’s actually not his virus. Before more explanations can be made, Goldfinch arrives in his van to help them escape. Waters sacrifices himself to help them escape, but really he barely makes any difference because Collins just shoots him in the head and throws a grenade on him as he walks by.
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The rest of them escape and Lola realizes what Waters meant when he said he didn’t create the virus. She tells Goldfinch that he has to get them to Brazil. “I know who created the virus,” she says. “It was me.”
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