Last Patient of the Night

Doc arrives early at the hospital before Tracy’s autopsy. He, Jane, and Lenny (Skinny Jeans) enter the autopsy suite to find Morquist Levy assigned to the case. Morquist determines that her cause of death was an arterial venous malformation, or AVM, which causes brain bleeding when ruptured. Morquist states that Tracy’s AVM was not the result of brain trauma but instead ruptured due to the rise in blood pressure caused by Tracy’s fear. She was scared to death.

Doc explains the results of the autopsy to Skinny Jeans, and he asks Jane what they’ve found so far. Jane replies that they haven’t found anything to ID Tracy or the man who dropped her off. Doc considers telling her about the U, but he doesn’t, as he and Tom plan on investigating it themselves.

One of the ER’s regular patients, a woman named Dot who is living with schizophrenia, comes in. Doc examines her and finds nothing wrong with her, so he gives her a free lunch and a cab voucher to get home. Delgado, another regular patient living with a substance use disorder, also comes in, and Doc takes bets from the medical staff as to what Delgado’s blood alcohol level will be. Once Delgado regains sobriety, they can discharge him.

Tom picks Doc up at his house that night. They each have a gun on them in case of any violent run-ins with the Ukrainians. The U is an old warehouse converted into a bar, and Doc wonders how they got a permit to build a bar in an industrial area. Tom scoffs at the idea that the U has ever had a permit, or that any building inspector has ever looked at it.

They go inside and find a well-lit club with loud techno music. Tom has a beer while Doc asks one of the dancers for a private dance. A girl named Linda takes him upstairs, and when she starts to dance, he instead tells her that he wants to talk. He tells her about Tracy and her horrible death, and Linda reveals that Tracy’s real name was Jennifer, or Jenny, Smithton.

Jenny was from a small town in Arkansas and lost her mother to breast cancer when she was in high school, and she never knew her father. She moved to Houston after high school and became a dancer when she couldn’t pay rent. The Ukrainians prey on girls who are financially desperate, giving them jobs at the club but threatening them and their loved ones with violence if they ever try to leave. Linda thinks Dyyavola, or Ukrainian for “Devil,” is responsible for Jenny’s death, as he runs the club and is known for horrific violence. Doc gives Linda his card, though she thinks she can never leave because they’ll hurt her family. Linda escorts Doc out, and a bouncer named Bodhan tries to stop Doc and Tom, but they get away, with Doc kicking Bodhan’s groin.

Once Doc and Tom leave, Bohdan forces Linda into Dyyavola’s office. Linda tells Dyyavola what Doc said about Jenny and gives him Doc’s card after Dyyavola threatens to torture her, but Dyyavola insists she must be hiding more. Dyyavola sexually assaults her. Linda cries with the other dancers as she tells them about Dyyavola’s sexual assault and Jenny’s death. Dyyavola tells Bodhan to find and stop Doc.

Tom and Doc drive away from the U. They decide they need to give Skinny Jeans information about the U and Jenny’s past with Dyyavola, but they don’t want to get in trouble for investigating themselves and keeping intel back from the detectives. They go to the hospital and ask charge nurse Jean to call in with an anonymous tip that contains Jenny’s real name, her address, and her job at the U. Jean agrees and makes the call. Tom drives Doc home and asks him to watch Banshee for a few days, since Doc has two days off work. Doc agrees.

Skinny Jeans goes to Jenny’s address and finds her apartment destroyed. They at first assume it’s the murder scene, but they find no blood, so clearly Jenny was tortured and killed elsewhere. The killer must’ve been searching for something. Jane and Lenny interview Jenny’s neighbors, who didn’t know her well. She didn’t have a boyfriend, and they knew she was a dancer, but they aren’t sure where she worked. Jane and Lenny decide to check out the U, which Jean mentioned in her tip.

Skinny Jeans arrives at the U and knocks loudly until Bodhan answers. He acts blasé about Jenny, hinting he already knows she’s dead and doesn’t care. Bodhan threatens Jane. Jane threatens him back, and she and Lenny leave to request a warrant. Bodhan decides to go after Jane after he goes after Doc and fantasizes about harming her. Dyyavola calls him after watching his interaction with Skinny Jeans on security cameras, and Bodhan says he’ll take care of it.

The next day, Skinny Jeans gets another lead. Lenny shows Jane information about twin brothers who live in Jenny’s building, named JT and JL Hobbins, short for Jethro Thunder and Jethro Lightning. Both of them have priors for assault and drug possession.

Skinny Jeans goes to their apartment to interview them. JT answers the door because JL is still passed out, and they are both inebriated. Both brothers claim to have never met Jenny, and Skinny Jeans decides they aren’t the murderers. They desperately want a warrant and to return to the U.

While Skinny Jeans continues their investigation, Doc and Banshee relax at the neighborhood pool before going for an evening run. Parked on Doc’s street is a white van with Bohdan and his partner, scoping out Doc’s house. They plan to shoot Doc when he returns from his run. Doc chats with Carl before his run with Banshee. When Doc finishes his run, he notices the white van and two men getting out of it. He tells Banshee to be on alert and grabs his concealed carry gun out of his shorts. He walks towards the van with Banshee and recognizes Bohdan before violence escalates.

Doc shoots one of the assailants and tells Banshee to attack, and before the other shooter can shoot Doc, Banshee jumps at him, making the shooter shoot Banshee instead. Before the shooter can reload and get Doc, he drops to the ground, shot dead by Carl.

With both assailants dead, Doc quickly runs to Banshee, who was wearing his vest. The vest slowed down the bullets, but they still went into Banshee’s chest. Doc panics, thinking about how to save Banshee with his medical skills. Carl brings Doc his medical bag while Doc calls the police. All the police cars come towards their location as Doc uses a large needle as a small chest tube to help Banshee breathe. The police arrive and take Banshee to the emergency veterinarian, and Doc hopes it will be fast enough.

Police converge on Doc’s street to evaluate what happened. The police interview Doc and Carl about the shootout, and Skinny Jeans thinks they can get a warrant to enter the U because Bodhan shot at Doc with an unregistered machine gun.

Tom arrives, and Doc tells him about Banshee. The two of them rush to the emergency vet, who tells them that Banshee will live because of Doc’s chest tube. Banshee is still groggy from surgery, but wags his tail at Tom and Doc as they pet him gently.

Tom takes Doc to the police station to speak with Skinny Jeans about the shooting. Lenny assures him that he’s not going to be arrested for killing Bodhan, as it was clearly self-defense and was captured on numerous home security cameras. Jane joins the interview, and Doc tells her and Lenny about his visit to the U and what Linda said about Dyyavola. Jane promises to go after Dyyavola, but she advises Doc to be careful, especially since they have to take his pistol into evidence, though Doc has two other guns at home.

Skinny Jeans tells their boss, Captain Shriver, about the shootout, Dyyavola, and Doc’s private investigation of the U. Shriver tells them to keep Doc out of their investigation and to keep focusing on the U. When they leave, Lenny reminds Jane they didn’t tell Shriver about the Jethro twins, but they both agree they aren’t likely suspects.

Tom drives Doc home after stopping by the vet to check on Banshee again. They go to IHOP, where Gladys flirts with Tom, though Doc tells her that Tom’s been divorced twice. Little D calls Doc “Doc Holliday,” a reference to the historical shootout at the OK Corral. Tom and Doc eat as they decide to stay on the case after they get a good night’s rest.

Dyyavola replaces Bohdan with a man named Fedir and demands that he hide all the evidence in the U, as he knows the police are getting a warrant, and plant a gun and some drugs in Bohdan’s apartment for the police to find. He also tells Fedir to warn the girls that he’ll murder them if they mention Dyyavola to the police or talk to the police at all.

Skinny Jeans gets a warrant for both the U and Bohdan’s apartment; they decide to search the apartment first. They find a messy apartment, an illegal gun, and some cocaine, but nothing else. They plan to search the U tomorrow.