Medical Police season 1, episode 9 recap: Real Heavy Hitters

Lola and Owen go back to Brazil to get Lola’s research and find a cure, but Sy’s desk auction gala gets in the way on Medical Police. Then Collins attacks the hospital.

Back in New Hampshire in 2004, Lola had just finished her thesis on artificial pathogen construction and presented it to Dr. Waters on Medical Police. It’s all theoretical and the technology doesn’t exist yet, but she believes it would be possible. Lola is so proud and excited about her work, it is actually a little heartbreaking when Waters completely dismisses it and puts her down.

He says maybe she’s not cut out for virology after all and throws her thesis in the trash. But when she leaves, he picks up her thesis and begins to read through it. Owen sums up the flashback, saying that Dr. Waters knew her work was brilliant but he lied to keep it for himself. He’s so glad that guy got shot in the face.

She was so ashamed that she blocked it all out and forgot all about it. Goldfinch asks how she remembers the part at the end after she left. She’s right there with him on that one. They’re heading back to Brazil to access Lola’s research to find the cure.

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Meanwhile, Patton and Collins come up with a plan to save themselves. They’ll kill the few people who know about their involvement in the bioterror attack and then ride out the pandemic in a bunker somewhere.

Somehow, driving from Atlanta to Brazil didn’t take as long as Owen thought it would. But it’s chaos by the time they get there, with the outbreak really starting to get out of hand. They need to get inside to get Lola’s research out of her desk, but they’re wanted by Interpol and could have trouble getting inside undetected.

Goldfinch leaves them behind and Lola, Owen, and McIntyre get ambulance driver Ted to sneak them inside the hospital. They hide in body bags in the back of the ambulance, but a sneeze gives them away as the guards check it out. Lola comes out and says that Ted kidnapped them and threatened to chop them up and feed them to horses. Okay? The guards take Ted into custody, which allows the rest of them to enter the hospital unquestioned.

Inside, Lola and Owen’s co-workers confront them about their dumb virus stunt that has been keeping them busy all week. Lola promises they were framed, but why should they trust her. As proof of her trustworthiness, Lola asks for Nurse Dori’s (Zandy Hartig) wallet and then returns it without taking anything. Good enough for them.

Before Lola and Owen take off to find her laptop, Lola thanks Valerie Flame (Malin Akerman) for helping them ID the water parks earlier. But that was Derrick Childrens who helped them. What a weird plot hole mistake to purposefully introduce.

Unfortunately, Lola and Owen completely forgot about the desk transition from episode one and Lola’s desk has been removed from her office and is being put up for auction. Sy refuses to let her have her computer since she technically donated it along with her desk. Lola and Owen are going to have to win the desk at auction, but they’re going up against some heavy hitting desk aficionados.

Lola and Owen attend the desk auction disguised in sunglasses, which works for some reason. Lola is about to win back her desk for $675 when Sy railroads her by revealing that there’s a laptop inside that contains groundbreaking viral research and the possible cure to the current pandemic. Who wants to be a hero? The bidding goes crazy, but Lola and Owen can’t outbid the Baroness Von Eaglesberg’s $200,000. Dr. Glenn comes in at the last second, bidding $300,000 for Lola and Owen, then bids against himself, raising it to $500,000. The Baroness can’t beat that and they win the desk.

Lola and Owen get the laptop and find Lola’s thesis. Unfortunately, while everyone was distracted with the auction, Collins and his henchmen infiltrated the hospital. Cat recognizes Collins and runs to warn them. Lola thinks she can synthesize a cure by following the instructions in her thesis, but her laptop is destroyed when Cat saves Lola from a sniper bullet that hits the laptop instead. Collins and his men take over the hospital, so now Lola has to avoid being captured and killed while she synthesizes a cure from memory.

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