- Sharon Goodwin: Dr. Stohl, we've got incoming.
- Stanley Stohl: How many?
- Sharon Goodwin: 25, at least ten critical.
- Stanley Stohl: That's too many. We're already swamped. They need to be rerouted to East Mercy or Lakeshore Memorial.
- Sharon Goodwin: They can't. They're choked up, too. They're trying to send patients to us. So let's get Maggie to double up patients into treatment rooms and trauma bays. Remove the dividing walls to make the space. April, with me. We need to help unload these ambos.
- [they enter the ambulance bay and see the number of vehicles, plus more incoming]
- April Sexton: Two per room? That's not gonna do it.
- Sharon Goodwin: No, not even close.
- Sharon Goodwin: What is going on?
- Cop: Some lunatic opened fire with an automatic rifle at Millennium Park.
- Sharon Goodwin: How many victims?
- Cop: A lot.
- Connor Rhodes: Maggie.
- Maggie Lockwood: Yeah?
- Connor Rhodes: We need to prioritize surgical candidates. Where are they?
- Maggie Lockwood: Everywhere.
- Maggie Lockwood: Dr. Rhodes, I need you in Three, Four, Six, and Seven.
- Connor Rhodes: Who's first?
- [she scoffs and shrugs]
- Connor Rhodes: Ava and I are running all over the place. We get to one patient, three more pile up somewhere else. This isn't working.
- Ethan Choi: Ms. Goodwin, we're stabilizing patients, but if we can't get them to surgery, we'll start losing them. Unless something changes, the ED's gonna collapse.
- Sharon Goodwin: Well, if you have an idea, now's the time.
- Ethan Choi: Casualty collection areas. Designated zones for specific treatments, especially surgical eval. Doctors stay put, patients shuttle between zones.
- Sharon Goodwin: An assembly line. All right, you set it up in Triage, I'll spread the word.
- Stanley Stohl: We're abandoning protocol?
- Sharon Goodwin: Uh, have to. Our disaster plan wasn't designed for an incident this massive.
- Stanley Stohl: But a change on the fly? That makes me nervous.
- Sharon Goodwin: Noted.
- Sharon Goodwin: Things moving smoother in here?
- Connor Rhodes: Yeah. Bringing patients here instead of us trying to find them, it's a great call.
- April Sexton: How's the first day going?
- Emily: I've helped four people with the vending machine, three with directions to the cafeteria. Closing in on 2,000 steps carrying paperwork. Oh, and I'm wearing a triple-XL vest because the one in my size has barf on it.
- April Sexton: I wish I could say the waiting room gets more glamorous, but it doesn't.
- Noah Sexton: She's pouring blood everywhere. Prep a chest tray for an ED thoracotomy.
- Stanley Stohl: No, no, no, Mass Casualty protocol. No chance of recovery, no resuscitation.
- Sharon Goodwin: Save the living, Dr. Sexton. Doris, move her out.
- Will Halstead: Block party today at Millennium Park. Saturday plus tourists. Gotta be a few thousand people down there.
- Natalie Manning: Owen's nanny sometimes brings him down there to ride his scooter. I don't know if they went today.
- Will Halstead: I'm sure they're fine, Natalie.
- Natalie Manning: Yeah, that's what I keep telling myself.
- David: I saw the shooter. I should've... run at him, tackled him, done... something, but instead I just stood there, like a coward, while he mowed people down.
- Sarah Reese: Have you heard of fight or flight? Before that is the freeze. It's an instinct that kicks in when there's no time to think. Not running at that shooter might've saved your life, okay?
- April Sexton: Hearing PD hasn't found the shooter. If he's still out there...
- Ethan Choi: Yeah. This could get worse.
- Connor Rhodes: Dr. Latham, good, you're here. We're gonna do a laparotomy.
- Isidore Latham: This is not a surgial suite, Dr. Rhodes.
- Connor Rhodes: Oh, I know, but I'm afraid it's all we got.
- Connor Rhodes: Dr. Latham, I know this is a lot of change all at once, but this patient is running out of time. I can't do this surgery alone. I really need your help, okay?
- Isidore Latham: Yes. Yes, of course. I'll scrub in. Where?
- [Connor and Ethan indicate the lounge's sink]
- Connor Rhodes: [seeing Latham's look] Yeah.
- Jay Halstead: So, the officer saw the guy ditch the assault rifle, then he got a shot off, and then he lost him in the crowd.
- Sharon Goodwin: And you think now he's here?
- Jay Halstead: Yeah, maybe. He was wearing a hoodie. We recovered it at the scene. Tested positive for gunshot residue, and there was blood on it.
- Sharon Goodwin: So the officer might have shot him.
- Jay Halstead: Well, that's the theory. We're thinking either the paramedics brought him in or he's hiding among the injured, so we're checking all the hospitals against the officer's partial description.
- April Sexton: So much blood. I can still smell the iron in the air. You okay?
- Ethan Choi: Still shaking. Crazy thing is it's the most gratifying day I've ever had as a doctor. I don't know what to feel.
- Maggie Lockwood: Since the first victim rolled in, it's only been two hours.
- Sharon Goodwin: Feels like two weeks.
- Maggie Lockwood: This the world we live in, huh?
- Sharon Goodwin: Yeah. Unfortunately.
- Sharon Goodwin: When did you realize he was the shooter?
- Daniel Charles: When I heard about his wife, and the hoarding.
- Natalie Manning: You knew? We're struggling to keep innocent victims alive, and you pull us away to save this monster? Damn it, Dr. Charles, my son is missing!