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This is obviously a huge loss for not only the doctors and the nurses at the hospital, but also the show in general. How do you move forward from Nic's death and what was that first thing you wanted to make sure the next episode really covered in the aftermath of her death?
You'll see in [episode] 4 that Conrad, who is a man of science and a diagnostician, a doctor first and foremost, becomes incredibly obsessive about his wife's death and trying to figure out what's the medical cause. That's really his journey in that episode. It's super fascinating and I'm not going to give away what is the answer, but it's all about him navigating that process. It's also about navigating the spiritual grief process. And Devon helps him and is supportive and compassionate in that because Conrad was super supportive and compassionate when Devon lost his dad last season. That was a great way to flip the characters and to really have them as a team working together. But for Conrad, this is going to be a process. This is going to be a journey for him to get to the place. You'll see when episode 5 comes -- it's our Halloween episode -- we really try to bring all of our characters together by the end, to help Conrad process, move, provide a little bit of closure to this traumatic event. And also, at the end of 5, again, without giving anything away, there will be a 90-degree turn in the story. And that 90-degree turn will be surprising, but also kind of wonderful. Watch to the end of the Halloween episode because you'll get a bang for your buck there. It's a great moment and I think it will bring you joy.
Conrad is now a widower and a single dad. How is he navigating this new reality?
One of the themes that we really have been trying to play and are interested in is the work-life balance. We feel like work-life balance is something that's in the zeitgeist in our country right now with everybody having to be locked in their homes for what is amounting to a year and a half, two years. We all are left to contemplate our lives, what we want to do and how we want to do it, our jobs and our families. So Conrad as a single dad, but also as a passionate doctor who wants to save lives, has to look at that in his life. He has to figure out what is it that makes a great dad and a great doctor, and how can you be both at the same time? We really are going to push forward navigating that, and we're going to navigate that in all of our characters. We have this wonderful, blossoming, potential Kit-Bell relationship and how do they become a couple or not become a couple with Kit running the hospital? We have the Devon-Leela relationship, which is this wonderful, stable relationship, which takes over as our stable relationship. How do they move forward as two doctors working in the same hospital, sometimes together, sometimes not?
Is this truly the end of Emily's time on the show? Do you foresee an opportunity down the line to have her come back? Is the door still open?
I'm not going to give anything away. I will just say that Nic Nevin will show up in the show in really, really unexpected ways, in ways that you are not going to see coming. And when they do come, it will be both emotionally powerful and a little mind-blowing. I promise you that she won't show up on a beach in a dream.
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During the episode, Nic gets into a car accident. Conrad is trying to figure what happened and why she crashed. Going forward, is that something Conrad is going to be still searching for answers about, or is that just one of those mysteries when it comes to loss that you just never get?
Peter Elkoff: Yes to both questions. It is one of those mysteries that sometimes, particularly for a character like Conrad, who is a diagnostician. He always gets the answer. He always knows what and why and how. That’s his brilliance. So we thought in the following episode, in episode 504, trying to figure out what happened, how this mysterious accident occurred would be a really interesting thing to do because it’s a diagnosis that doesn’t change anything in life. It’s already done. It’s a really interesting story. We put him in a position to use his gifts in a way that he never has with a result that he doesn’t ever really experience. And that’s I guess what I’ll say. We also use it to put him in a nice, really emotional storyline with Devon who comes to Conrad’s side. It’s kind of a reflection of the episode in season 4 when Devon’s father died in combat, and Conrad’s there for him.
Will there be an answer? Will he get the closure that he needs?
Peter Elkoff: I think there’s an answer. It just might not be the one that people expect or the kind that people expect. But there is an answer, and he gets closure that is a form of acceptance. Again, we tried not to make it feel too conventional. I wanted to tell that story in a way that keeps a little of that idea that life is full of mysteries. Fate is never something that you can sort of mathematically understand.
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How’s Conrad going to handle moving forward without the love of his life and raising Gigi as a single father?
That’s Season 5. That’s what we’re going to dig into. It’s what you and I talked about last time we spoke, which is that idea of work-life balance and how are you a great doctor, great at your job, passionate about saving lives, but also be a single dad and a good dad and raising a child to be a good citizen of the world? That’s what Conrad has to do, and that’s how Conrad has to navigate it. He’s going to have obstacles all over the place. It is that question of work-life balance that we thought about all through the pandemic: What does this mean when you’re stuck shut indoors and you have all this time to contemplate your life? What changes do you make? And he’s going to go through the same thing.
Matt Czuchry as Conrad Hawkins in The Resident
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Everyone grieves in a different way. How is Conrad going to be grieving?
He’s a doctor. He tries desperately to figure out what the cause was of this accident. Why did Nic die, why did she get into this accident? And without giving anything away, this is an obsessive search for him and a way to move past his grief. He’s a guy who finds answers, he finds solutions, and now he’s lost the love of his life, and he needs to find a solution for that and to find a solution so that he can tell his daughter when she grows up, “This is what happened to your mom.”
Episode 4 is intense and his navigating his grief is intense and it leads to all these scenes with Devon who lost his dad and had all this grief and Conrad was there for his grief. And so there’s really great stuff between Conrad and Devon in 4 as they try to help each other. Manish [Dayal] and Matt are just spectacular as a team together, so there’ll be a lot of that.
And then in [Episode] 5, which is our Halloween episode, we have patients that reflect back on Nic and who she was and what she meant to Conrad. We sort of come to a little bit of, not closure, but we get closer to that. There’s lots of fun stuff, but there’s also a psychological closing of story.
Kyle’s “I will not lose another daughter in this hospital” was one of the most heartbreaking parts of the episode. What will we see of his grief and how this affects his relationship with Conrad?
It’s going to be a problem for a while because he’s angry and you see the anger going through him and his rage and his lashing out. Conrad is a compassionate guy and forgives him, but there’s definitely drama there and distance over the next couple of episodes. And they’ll have to find a place of forgiveness on both sides, but that won’t be for a while.
Are we going to get more Kyle and Marshall [Glenn Morshower] scenes?
Yes, but not for a bit. Marshall shows up to help in [Episode] 4, but then after that, we won’t touch back on that for a little while.
I imagine Billie [Jessica Lucas] is going to be the doctor most affected after Conrad. How does losing her best friend affect Billie when it comes to her son? You said that would come up again in Episode 4.
Yeah. Trevor [Miles Fowler] shows up again in [Episode] 4 and has an intense story and Billie has to deal with the fact that he’s around in the hospital. And then a couple of episodes down the line — I won’t say numbers — Trevor’s going to show up again and where Trevor and Billie’s relationship ends up will be a real surprise. You will love it, and it’ll be really interesting. It’ll be a lot about not directly losing Nic as her best friend, but definitely the after effects of that will be seen in how Billie behaves.
How will the rest of the staff be dealing with their grief and trying to be there for Conrad and Gigi?
In [Episode] 4, the loss of Nic is in the back of everybody’s minds and all the different medical stories that we tell, the twists and turns will be affected by what happened to Nic and how each of our doctors feels about it, how they push forward. Devon is really trying to be there for Conrad, and Leela [Anuja Joshi] and Devon have this relationship that is starting and Leela is really trying to be there for Devon, who’s trying to be there for Conrad. So it’s a chain of supporting compassion. Kit [Jane Leeves] and Bell are trying to just keep the staff together and keep morale up. Everyone’s just trying to bolster Conrad. Everyone’s just trying to keep him on his feet and keep him from going off the rail.
Then in [Episode] 5, they really come together as a group, and you’ll see that by the end of it, the staff, the team, our heroes are all there in a way that I find amazingly moving. You’ll find that [Episode] 5 is not moving like weeping grief, but really moving in how people deal with loss and in a way that’s really mature and kind of wonderful.
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