| Eight years of med school for dinner from a vending machine. | |
| Not as glamorous as I told my friends it would be. | |
| (Oh, there she is!) | |
| Third day in a row of putting off the groceries. There's just never any time. Too tired. | |
| Just need to go home, eat this protein bar and these chips, collapse, and get up in time for my next shift. | |
| Easy. | |
| Um, excuse me, Dr Paige? | |
| Oh, hi there. Hailey, right? | |
| Yup! I wanted to, um, ask you something! | |
| What's that? | |
| I know that I'm supposed to be staying in my room and recovering and all that, but... | |
| ...would it be okay if I went on a trip? And then came right back? | |
| My grandma, she asked me a favor. Her hometown is out west, near the desert, but she can't leave to go visit. | |
| We have some distant family out there, and she wants me to deliver keepsakes to them. And she asked me to take pictures, too! | |
| She hasn't seen the desert landscape and her hometown in so long. It's where she grew up. | |
| I know I'm not supposed to leave, but...please please pleeease, I'll come right back. | |
| Hm. I'm not sure. | |
| (Edega will completely explode on me if he hears about this.) | |
| I'm actually clocked out for today, I need to head home. | |
| But...this sounds important to you. I'll take you to Ian, let's figure something out. | |
| Thank you, thank you! |
[Fade to black]
[Cut to Ian's room]
| Pfft. Leaving hospital care to take some pictures and deliver a box? | |
| Isn't there probably some driver app that'll do that for you? | |
| Plus, you can probably just print out some royalty-free desert photos or something. | |
| Ian, please. It's important to her. | |
| F-fine. Hmm...actually, maybe this could work. | |
| I've been working on the Rhythm Doctor program, and it should be able to work at even further ranges than we've been using. Further out from the hospital's computers. | |
| T-this could be an opportunity for the intern to help me test it out. | |
| If the connection holds a few towns over, then we'll be able to tell Dr Edega that we can treat even more patients. | |
| People won't even need to leave their homes to get treatment. Elderly patients, immobile patients. It could be helpful. | |
| Then someday the waiting room will be nice and empty. | |
| So, we'll let her go out for a day? | |
| Y-yeah, let's do it. | |
| Go clock out, Ada. Thanks for all the help. | |
| ...and for you, you're going to follow Hailey on her train trip out west. | |
| Keep an eye on her, and administer any treatments she needs. | |
| T-this will be a great way to test the connection and push its capabilities. Good luck! |