In the aftermath of a mass shooting at Pitt Fest, Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center floods with casualties as Robby leads a shorthanded team through combat-zone triage. Colored slap bands replace electronic records, blood supplies collapse, Javadi improvises a chest tube from surgical scraps, and Mel donates her own O-negative blood directly to a patient. Langdon, recently fired, returns uninvited and earns his place back. As the ER stabilizes its first wave, police confirm David Saunders's phone was traced to the shooting scene and the FBI moves in — with Robby warning his team they may not be halfway through.

This episode shows how a trauma ER restructures itself under mass casualty conditions — triage logic, resource improvisation, and command hierarchy all under pressure. It also pays off several season-long threads: Robby's compassionate decision to send Collins home becomes a staffing gap, Theresa Saunders's psychiatric hold paperwork lands with new weight, and Santos's moral consistency gets tested again. Robby's personal stakes sharpen as Jake remains unreachable throughout.

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