S1, E5: When Alex falls asleep during a big case presentation, a suddenly sympathetic Kinney orders Alex to go home and get some rest. While the surgeons of Hope Zee prepare for a high profile hand replantation, Joel realizes that Kinney is giving Alex’s rival surgeon, Tom Reycraft, a tryout for Alex’s position. Joel visits Alex to break the news, and together they march into the surgery, ready to prove to Kinney that Alex is still Hope Zee’s top resident. Back in the ICU, Charlie stares at his comatose body when an elderly coma patient is rolled in. Appearing before Charlie is his spirit, who looks the same as he did the day he fell into his coma, 27 years earlier. He attempts to show Charlie what a treat it is to be trapped on the spirit side – while also trying to convince him that the living will eventually forget him. Elsewhere in the hospital, Maggie is called in to drain the abscess of a homeless man who had been beaten up by a pack of teenagers. While treating him, Maggie begins to suspect his symptoms are being overlooked, and she is faced with trying to convince the other senior doctors that he might be dying.