My Lunch
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| Scrubs episode | |
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| “My Lunch” | |
 Dr. Cox (left) and J.D. (right) run into annoying former patient Jill Tracy (center) in the supermarket. |
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| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 20 |
| Writer(s) | Tad Quill |
| Director | John Michel |
| Production no. | 520 |
| Original airdate | April 25, 2006 |
| Episode chronology | |
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| "His Story III" | "My Fallen Idol" |
My Lunch is the 113th episode of the American sitcom Scrubs. It originally aired as Episode 20 of Season 5 on April 25, 2006.
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[edit] Episode overview
After repeatedly running into annoying recurring patient Jill Tracy, J.D. feels guilty when she dies of an apparent drug overdose and he didn't act on warning signs. Carla and Elliott convince The Todd to admit to being gay, but contrary to what they had hoped, this does not change his personality for the better. Dr. Cox initially consoles J.D. but struggles to follow his own advice later on.
[edit] Episode walkthrough
- J.D. tries to trick Dr. Cox into having lunch together by claiming to have placed every spoon from the cafeteria into his cardboard box, with the aim of using the spoons as blackmail.
- J.D. then follows Dr. Cox to the grocery store where they both bump into Jill Tracy, who talks at length about her problems.
- J.D. is then escorted out of the store by security guards, for eating snack mix without paying.
- We are introduced to three patients, one requiring a kidney, one a liver and one a heart valve.
- Each of the three patients begin to get worse.
- J.D. learns that Jill has apparently over-dosed on cocaine, and suspects he is to blame for not picking up on the warning signs in the grocery store.
- Jill's organs are to go to each of the transplant patients.
- Dr. Cox consoles J.D., and tells him that when a doctor starts to blame himself for the death of a patient, it usually marks the start of a slippery slope that eventually results in the doctor leaving medicine.
- After receiving their new organs, each of the patients begin to get much worse very quickly and die. As it turns out, Jill died of rabies and over the next few days, Dr. Cox and all the other doctors working in the ICU try to keep the transplant patients alive, but to no avail, as two of the three die shortly.
- Dr. Cox blames himself for his haste in getting the transplant organs, but J.D. consoles him by telling him that the transplant patients would have died in either case, and that he made the right decision, for at least he gave the transplant patients a fighting chance.
- As J.D. thinks he's about to pull Dr. Cox out of his depression, their pagers ring, as the third and final transplant patient takes a turn for the worst. Dr. Cox is unable to recussitate him, throws his medical instruments on the floor in a show of stress and breaks down as Carla exits the room. Dr. Cox tells J.D. that the third patient wasn't about to die as the others were, because he only needed a kidney transplant. In an act of defiance, he leaves before the end of his shift.
- J.D. tries to console Dr. Cox in a manner reminiscent of their earlier conversation. Dr. Cox leaves the ward before his shift is over in an emotional scene, with the implication that he has reached a turning point of some kind in his career.
[edit] Plot development
In this episode the following are references to ongoing plot lines in the TV series:
- The Todd waits in hiding for his chance to perform his, often well timed, double entendres, at one point he notes he has been hiding behind a desk for 45 minutes waiting for an opportunity.
- The Todd is most likely bisexual.
[edit] Notes
- This episode is the second ever highest rated episode on "Scrubs" in TV.com (9.7 out of 10) successed only by "My Screw Up" (9.8 out of 10) and followed by "My Way Home" (9.6 out of 10.)
[edit] References
The plot may be based on the true story of three patients contracting rabies through organ transplant in June 2004.
[edit] Featured music
- "How to Save a Life" by The Fray.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- My Lunch at the Internet Movie Database
- Episode Summary on TV.com
| Scrubs |
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| List of Scrubs episodes | List of relationships on Scrubs | Sacred Heart Hospital |
| Characters |
| J.D. | Elliot | Turk | Carla | Dr. Cox | Bob Kelso | Janitor | List of minor characters of Scrubs |
