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At the hospital, injured protesters start arriving by ambulance, including Nell (special guest star Phylicia Rashad), a woman impaled by a tear gas canister. Guy, a young man, was struck by a rubber bullet and suffered a cardiac event. Guy goes into a âV-fib stormâ because of a myocardial contusion, so Maggie (Kelly McCreary) rushes him into surgery. She performs a radio-frequency ablation on Guy, though, and he survives.
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Nell ultimately pulls through, too, and she tells Cormac, Jackson, and Richard about her battle scars from past protests. She tore an ACL at Ferguson, for example, and got frostbite at Standing Rock. In fact, sheâs been protesting ever since her mother took her to the March on Washington in 1963. She even remembers hearing Martin Luther King Jr.âs speech. âIt felt like possibility,â she tells the doc. âPossibility like that is rare, and itâs worth a few scars.â