| # |
Title |
Directed by |
Written by |
Original air date |
Production
code |
U.S. viewers
(million) |
| 1 |
"Pilot" |
Jonathan Demme |
Susannah Grant |
September 23, 2011 (2011-09-23) |
101 |
9.45[3] |
| After the ghost of his ex-wife visits him from the afterlife and asks him to help run her low income clinic, Michael finds himself running back and forth between his patients at Holt Neuro and his less fortunate patients at the clinic. |
| 2 |
"In Case of All Hell Breaking Loose" |
Jonathan Kaplan |
Neal Baer & Daniel Truly |
September 30, 2011 (2011-09-30) |
102 |
8.18[4] |
| Michael works double duty trying to save a pregnant friend he recently diagnosed with a brain tumor and a little boy with sickle cell disease. |
| 3 |
"In Case of Discomfort" |
Peter Werner |
Jonathan Green |
October 7, 2011 (2011-10-07) |
103 |
7.52[5] |
| While interviewing doctors to run the clinic, Michael helps a man who passed out, but who refuses care due to lack of insurance. Meanwhile, as Michael evaluates a woman, he notices lesions on her brain that require immediate surgery, even as he does not know the exact diagnosis. |
| 4 |
"In Case of Separation Anxiety" |
Jonathan Kaplan |
Alison Tatlock |
October 14, 2011 (2011-10-14) |
104 |
7.71[6] |
| When Michael treats a patient who is hearing voices, he turns to Anton for help. Meanwhile, Kate’s first day at the clinic does not go well. |
| 5 |
"In Case of Loss of Control" |
David Platt |
Daniel Truly |
October 21, 2011 (2011-10-21) |
107 |
8.67[7] |
| Michael enlists the help of a psychiatric consultant in diagnosing a problem involving a girl who is depressed over the death of her mother but claims to be abstinent and not taking birth control. Meanwhile, a grant Kate has received for the clinic winds up needing to go to pay for an operation for an uninsured - and undocumented - boy. |
| 6 |
"In Case of Memory Loss" |
David Platt |
Lisa Melamed |
November 4, 2011 (2011-11-04) |
105 |
8.55[8] |
| Michael brings a friend with a former drug habit and an unknown current problem to the clinic. While he is there, the friend runs away, but Michael encounters a former football player on whom he performed a surgery years earlier but who has since become homeless and lost much of his memory. Meanwhile, a teenage girl is brought to Holt Neuro due to problems coping with the recent murder of her best friend, and it is suggested that she take the beta-blocker propranolol to treat the condition. |
| 7 |
"In Case of Exposure" |
Peter Werner |
Adam S. Simon |
November 11, 2011 (2011-11-11) |
108 |
8.25[9] |
| After his son comes to the clinic claiming to have received bruises on his back and front from a single fall skateboarding, a man is called in, but he shows violent behavior. He is determined to have a serious brain tumor causing emotional issues and impending death if not treated. After Michael convinces him to let him perform surgery, he confesses that he was involved in a hit and run with a red-haired woman around the same time and place where Anna was killed, causing mixed emotions for Michael. Meanwhile, a FDNY firefighter is having emotional issues of her own following her failure to save teachers from a fire, and her anti-depressants are causing neurological issues. |
| 8 |
"In Case of Missed Communications" |
Donna Deitch |
Jonathan Greene |
November 18, 2011 (2011-11-18) |
109 |
8.24[10] |
| Zeke and Kate treat an elderly man who is brought into the clinic not breathing. After intubating him, they find a DNR bracelet. Meanwhile, Rita's son returns home from Afghanistan but soon is in a motorcycle accident causing spinal damage. Michael eventually learns that he too had a living will indicating that he not be kept alive by a machine. |
| 9 |
"In Case of Abnormal Rhythm" |
Gus Makris |
Becky Mode |
December 2, 2011 (2011-12-02) |
106 |
8.01[11] |
| An old patient brings her soon-to-be-wed daughter to Holt Neuro to be checked out due to passing out from stress. Though it turns out she is fine, her mother is having stroke systems requiring complicated surgery. Meanwhile at the clinic, a disoriented school teacher is found to have contracted rabies on a camping trip, and it is up to Michael and Kate to save her in time. |
| 10 |
"In Case of a Bolt from the Blue"[12] |
John Coles |
Dawn DeNoon |
January 6, 2012 (2012-01-06) |
110 |
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| 11 |
"In Case of (Re)Birth"[13] |
Adam Bernstein |
Lisa Melamed & Alison Tatlock |
January 13, 2012 (2012-01-13) |
111 |
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