The rest of this year and the next go by without much of a hitch. Jess studies hard and does her best to prove she deserves one of Crowley's internship spots.
But all too soon, Jess is walking towards a bulletin board where a bunch of students are clustered around it, trying to read something that's just been put up.
To try and figure out what's going on, she asks Garth, who's right next to her, “What's going on here?”
Garth tells her excitedly, “Crowley's practice is treating a code blue. And the caseload is so big, he's taking on first year interns!”
That's definitely exciting news, “He picked them already?”
Closer to where the announcement is, Jess sees Ruby gushing over Brady,
“Oh my God, Brady, we did it! We're in!”
Jimmy is off to the side, telling the rest,
“Which means there's only one left for…”
But Jess needs no help reading the last name, as she's finally right there reading it for herself. Her finger scrolls down the list, where the names are listed as follows,
Tyson Brady
Ruby Cortese
Meg Masters
And right at the bottom, but still undeniably on the paper, declaring the final spot of the internship, is the name,
Jessica Moore
Upon seeing this, she gasps, turns right around, pushes herself to the middle of the crowd, pumps her fist in the air, and shouts,
“ME!”
It doesn't take a genius to know that everyone is stunned, including Meg, who's standing right behind her, open-mouthed.
But as Jess looks over to where Brady and Ruby are celebrating, it's apparent that they don't believe it either, having only cared about their own names.
Jess decides to make them both squirm a little, walking over to where they're standing,
“Oh, Brady?”
Brady looks a little scared of what she might say, and naturally Ruby isn't too happy either.
Jess plows on, “Remember when we spent 4 amazing hours in the hot tub after my initiation formal?”
Brady starts, “Yeah…” but upon seeing Ruby's dirty look, catches himself, “No…”
But Jess is too excited to care, “This is that, 10x over!”
In her excited daze, she excuses herself, “Gotta go. Whole new wardrobe to plan out!”
With that, she pushes right past them, leaving Brady and Ruby to deal with her little revelation.
“Are you serious? 4 hours?”
On their first day of the internship, Jess shows up completely dressed for the job, scrubs and all. But one supposes it wouldn't be Jess without throwing a small piece of flare on it, and sure enough, she's wearing a bedazzled stethoscope. But that's about the extent of it.
Across the hall, Ruby and Brady have all just shown up as well. There's no sign of flare anywhere to be seen on either of them.
Brady excuses himself, while Jess hangs back with Ruby to compliment her,
“You look very professional, Ruby.”
For her part, Ruby actually just accepts the compliment and says, “Thank you.”
With that, they walk to where Crowley is waiting for them, in one of the hospital’s classrooms.
Once everyone is ready, Crowley gets right into it.
“Our patient is Pamela Barnes, who coded because doctors found a very lethal dose of meperidine in her bloodstream.”
Ruby asks, “Suicide attempt?”
Crowley replies, “That's what we were told, but according to the patient herself, someone is trying to kill her. One of the doctors that practice here. Had she not coded, you'd probably be working with her too. Unfortunately, we're having to go through an entire hearing to determine if she should lose her medical license first.”
But Jess stopped listening after she realizes who this patient is, “Wait, are you talking about Pamela Turner?”
Crowley tells her, “I think her married name might've been Turner. Why? Do you know her?”
Jess tells them excitedly, “She's an Alpha Delta Pi! Not in my pledge class, she was already graduated when I got there. But I heard about all the good she was trying to do in medicine! She's incredible!”
Crowley is surprised by this, “Incredible? Like how?” He's seen what Pamela is like with her patients, but he's curious what someone like Jess thinks of her.
“She can make even a life threatening surgery seem like not a big deal! She's got the magic touch!”
Crowley dismisses this, “Well, in all likelihood, she's got the crazy touch as well. She was seen administering the drugs right into her arm.”
Brady asks, “By who?”
Crowley looks at the charts, “A nurse that had just left the on-call room and a visitor for another patient. It should be noted that soon-to-be former Dr. Pamela Barnes has schizophrenia."
Then he's interrupted by that guy that helped Jess on her first day of classes, addressing everyone,
“Hey. Sorry I'm late.”
Crowley introduces him to the interns,
“This is Sam Winchester, another associate. Top three in his class, and former editor of Harvard Medicine. You've probably seen him lurking around campus looking at my patients’ charts. He's also a substitute instructor for Harvard."
Jess smiles at the prospect of working with one of the few friendly faces she'd met here, turns it towards him, who smiles right back.
Sam rolls his eyes though, “Thanks for that, Crowley.”
Brady's all about getting back on track with the case, “So what about the syringe?”
Crowley tells them, “It's missing. Another intern said that she'd seemed perfectly normal before she coded, which might have been Pamela's cover to administer the drugs.”
Jess is already rushing to Pamela's defense, “I just don't think Pam could've done this. Doing what you love releases endorphins, and endorphins make you happy. Happy people don't try to kill themselves.” At the stunned silence and Sam's small, she adds, “They just don't.”
There's nothing else they can say without talking to Pamela herself, so they all stand up and follow Crowley out to Pamela's room, where Pamela is currently on suicide watch.
