The unstable patient (Fred-Éric Salvail) who barricades himself in the office of psychiatrist Philippe (Patrick Labbé) with a TNT belt under his jacket, detonator in hand, that was explosive material from the mid-season final, that.
However, this devastating episode of STAT was relayed last Thursday, after returning from the holiday break. Before Christmas, the Radio-Canada medical soap had rather abandoned its fans on the kidnapping of the teenager Siméon (Benjamin Gratton), the autistic son of the surgeon Isabelle Granger (Geneviève Schmidt).
Which of these two punches hit the hardest? The bomb, of course. Notice to latecomers, the whistleblower alert sounds here like a white code on the hospital’s intercom.
So the dynamite exploded Tuesday evening at the entrance to Saint-Vincent, killing Dominic Lord, this bipolar man who no longer swallowed his medication. Philippe, alias Big Phil, was spared, but we suspect that a post-traumatic shock will torment the shrink in the next episodes.
This electroshock instilled in STAT a frenzy that does not prevent him from visiting intimate and painful areas. The death of anorexic patient Camille (Laurence-Anaïs Belleville) led to a heartbreaking scene where her mother’s cry of despair (Sonia Vigneault) was chilling.
The author of STAT, Marie-Andrée Labbé, has this gift of bringing back forgotten characters for an even more sensational second lap. It happened with Mélodie Beaulieu (Émilie Lajoie), the patient who refused to have oncologist Pascal St-Cyr (Normand D’Amour) treat her brain tumor.
The young woman then fell under the thumb of the nickname Dr Labrie (François Grisé), a charlatan who nearly killed her in a frightening sweating ritual, with a cardboard box on his head and an adjacent heater, propelling us into a completely different sectarian plot.
Once again, the screenwriter brought back to life a secondary character, ex-police informant Félix Lemoine (Émile Schneider), who freed Mélodie from her infernal tomb and stole the guru.
The story of the fake doctor does not end there. The family of another of his victims, who attended the funeral seminar, will tear at his bedside: why does the brother (Luc Gauthier) insist so much on quickly unplugging his sister in a coma? It’s super dodgy.
The Marylyn Boily (Rose-Anne Déry) affair has also spread. The application of the Milwaukee protocol has, it seems, saved Marylyn from rabies and made emergency physician Emmanuelle St-Cyr (Suzanne Clément) a star among conspirators. This turnaround, carried by the antivax activist (Yan Rompré), was brilliant and surprising.
Wednesday’s episode will feature more survivor (or not?) Marylyn Boily and reopen the “surrogate” case, which probably wasn’t closed the right way.
Now, Simeon’s paternity. All the clues point to Pascal St-Cyr, that’s obvious. He reacts too strongly to the saga of the kidnapping and intimidation of the Brodeur clan. But under what circumstances was Simeon conceived? This is where it piques curiosity. It smells like a paternity test.
Notice to fans of STAT : no, the creators have not forgotten the trial of Jonathan Chouinard (Alexis Lemay-Plamondon), the dead rats in the boxes as well as the suicide or murder of François (Daniel Parent). Patience, the answers will come soon.
It also seems that a former lover of Emmanuelle, the one who was violent with her on the sofa, will reappear on the show, but in a more professional context, let’s say. It is to be continued.
On the side ofIndefensible at TVA, the pace has slowed down, it seems to me. The hit-and-run of medical student Catheline (Tracy Marcelin) was not the most thrilling plot of the TVA court drama. Her father, Stanley Magloire (Ralph Prosper), is terrifyingly intense, willing to lie to the police and sacrifice his eldest son Joey (Jonathan St-Armand) to protect his beloved Catheline’s future medical career.
About Joey, the flirting sequences between him and the receptionist-criminalist Tatiana (Tatiana Zinga Botao) did not improve the story, let’s say.
Good news, however: we’re going to enjoy a break from Ti-Bill (Jean Maheux). This playboy character has left the home of his son Léo (Sébastien Delorme) to settle in a halfway house. Hoping that his accomplice La Pourritte (Jean-René Moisan) takes time off too, we won’t complain.
The murder trial of Pascal Giroux (Xavier Huard), accused of having stabbed his father 30 times in the face, contained several interesting twists, including the assassination of informer Danny Ducharme (Maxime Isabelle), but ended in a extremely odd note. Pascal and his mother (Marie Michaud) were an incestuous couple, help.
It is also a pity that Frédéric Legrand (Martin-David Peters) succumbed to his gunshot wounds. This lawyer with elastic ethics brought to Indefensible a viscous side not at all unpleasant.
At the Lapointe-Macdonald firm, populated by upright and courageous criminal lawyers, Mr.e Legrand clashed with his corruptible principles. He slept with the wife of a pegre. And he had even stolen the pistol that M was hiding.e Lapointe (Michel Laperrière) in his desk drawer.
If Me Legrand had been taken to Saint-Vincent Hospital, he would have been resuscitated STAT. Emmanuelle St-Cyr would never have lost it.