Richard Tse as Ming’s Father
Episodes 4
How to Get Ahead in Medical School
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 Ming's 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 wouldn't be an absentee donor after all, but working alongside the couple every day.
Read MoreUnhappy Endings
It's Christmas Eve, and chaos reigns in the emergency room. Fitz contends with some hard-assed cops and a belligerent patient. It's 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 she's not embroiled in the turmoil of the hospital, Ming is confronted by her father's strange solution to her fertility problems.
Read MoreIsolation
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 doesn't know if she wants to make a child go through that situation again.
Read MoreComplications
Ming finally sees her dream of being a mother come true, though the donor plans she and Chen made with Fitz undergoes some changes. Through this, Fitz learns how to love and be loved, and Chen feels confident to pursue a writing career.
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