Medical Police season 1 finale recap: Everything Goes Back to Normal…Or Do They?

As Children’s Hospital comes under attack from Collins and his strike team, Lola and Owen find a safe place to hide away and synthesize a cure on Medical Police.

Lola and Owen sneak away from the strike team sent by Patton to eliminate them and utilize an old lab that was walled up to save Sy the cost of removing the asbestos on Medical Police. There’s still a poster for a Bill Cosby comedy tour on the wall, next to a poster for the Anne Hathaway and Robert DeNiro movie The Intern.

They’re running up against multiple deadlines now because if total world infections reach beyond 31% it will be spreading too fast to stop it, cure or not. McIntyre has a handy mobile tracking device so they can keep track of total world infections. It’s at 24% as they speak, so they better get started.

As Lola and Owen work fruitlessly on a cure, Cat, Glenn, and Val team up to take down the strike team one by one. Despite having no tactical training at all, they have excellent success taking down these highly trained mercenaries. One tactic hilarious involves Glenn distracting two guards with a fan dance, which is probably my second favorite moment of the series.

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The Children’s Hospital team even takes down Collins. Val stabs him with a spear she got from somewhere, then she says, “Looks like someone is going to have to take a rain check!” The others nod and laugh lightly, while Glenn laughs uncertainly and tries to figure out if he’s missing the pun.

Lola’s forgetting something that would help her create a cure, so Owen opens up her skull and manipulates her brain to help her remember. But then Lavator breaks into the hospital and attacks Owen. His exclamation of “Lavator!” is seriously a laugh-out-loud delivery, partly because the first time around I hadn’t noticed them call her Lavator until this moment.

They struggle as Lola remains unconscious on the table. No matter what Owen does, Lavator just won’t stay down. He yells at her incredulously, “What are you?!” to which she responds, “I’m a professional killer and I’m here to finish the job.” But she sounds like Ellen Greene playing Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors and Owen can’t help but exclaim, “That’s your voice?!” Finally, Owen injects himself with adrenaline and is able to strangle her to death. “Looks like somebody is going to have to take a rain check,” he says

Owen goes to check on Lola, who is beginning to flatline. In her mind, Lola has a conversation with Dr. Waters in her subconscious where he says her only mistake was illuminating his own shortcomings. He touches her arm and says she’s carried the answer with her the whole time. There, on her arm, is the chemical formula for the missing compound!

Lola wakes up and tells Owen about her dream, where the missing compound was tattooed right on her arm. Only it actually is tattooed on her arm and she’s had that tattoo for years. The Children’s Hospital team burst in and Lola, who’s brain is still sticking out of her skull, tells them she found the cure.

Val and Cat start in on synthesizing a cure, but then Director Patton turns up and means to kill them all. They tell him that Lola was the one who created the virus and that they found a cure, but even that doesn’t matter because he thinks humanity isn’t worth saving anymore. Then, conveniently, a group of children is brought into the lab and Lola says, “Well maybe not, but aren’t they?”

Patton gives up and they distribute the cure to everyone infected. Now they just have to figure out how to get it to everyone else in the world before the infection rate reaches 31%. Nurse Beth turns the cure into computer code to send out to all the 3D printers, but Patton’s team cut the phone lines and fiberoptics so there’s no WiFi. They have to get up to the roof to send out the cure via satellite dish.

Lola can’t reach the cable to the input and time is running out! And for some weird reason, they have a hard time lifting her so she can reach, and then she can’t figure out how to put the cable in. Finally, she gets connected and the cure gets sent out by a 3D printer, saving the world. The cure is also super contagious, so anyone not near a 3D printer can just get coughed on by carriers of the cure and they’ll be okay.

Everyone can finally relax! Glenn asks Lola and Owen what they’re going to do now. Lola says she’s going to have a girl’s weekend in Cabo while Owen says, “I’m going to marry this woman!” Lola looks at him, aghast and says, “Jesus, Owen!” Oblivious he replies, “What? What did you say?” Patten gets arrested for mass murder and everything goes back to normal.

Or does it? Two weeks later, Lola and Owen are back at work on their regular rounds. Taco Tuesday is renamed to Taco Saturday but will remain on Tuesday. Sloan McIntyre is named the new director of the CDC and publicly denies the existence of any secret government agency involved in thwarting the attacks.

Lola and Owen are glad to be getting back to normal life, but when reports of a new bioterror threat come through on the news, Lola answers a call from McIntyre. Owen, who saw the name come up on Lola’s caller ID and gives her a knowing look, still asks who it is after Lola answers. Looks like the Medical Police are always on call.

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