Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures

As Ming gets ready to proceed with her plans for artificial insemination, her husband Chen, is stressed and fantasizing about street races and infidelity. The sperm donor, Fitz, their medical school classmate and Mings former boyfriend, is considering reinstatement at the hospital which stirs up a lot of unresolved issues. His return would also create more tension between the trio since he wouldnt be an absentee donor after all, but working alongside the couple every day.

The present. Jealous and sensing ulterior motives in Fitzs return to Toronto, Chen confronts him with a stash of love letters he wrote to Ming. The two come to blows then reflect back on a time during their residency when they helped each other out during a Code Blue. At the ensuring peer assessment review, Fitz takes stock of his mettle as a doctor, his motives as a friend and his true feelings for Ming.

Its Christmas Eve, and chaos reigns in the emergency room. Fitz contends with some hard-assed cops and a belligerent patient. Its a contentious situation that he initially handles well, but as the evening progresses he spirals out of control to a very self-destructive place. When Chen finds himself dealing with a family of a man who died in a brothel, he starts to question his own views on medicine and family. Meanwhile, though shes not embroiled in the turmoil of the hospital, Ming is confronted by her fathers strange solution to her fertility problems.

After Fitz takes a sick patient from China to Toronto who dies later, he is diagnosed with a mysterious respiratory illness. He is immediately put into isolation, but has infected Chen who examined him. Ming is in quarantine at home where she starts to rethink again about adoption. Bearing the scars of never knowing her father, she doesnt know if she wants to make a child go through that situation again.