In the Valley of the Shadows is the third episode of Season 5 and the eighty-sixth overall of Chicago Med.
Summary[]
April and Dr. Marcel get off to a rocky start when tending to a patient who claims she has just given birth. Dr. Choi deals with a patient who has terminal cancer and is trying to deliberately end his own life. Dr. Manning deals with a patient with second degree burns. Maggie trains a new nurse. After falling and fracturing her wrist at home, CeCe comes to terms with her own mortality.
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Nick Gehlfuss as Dr. Will Halstead
- Yaya DaCosta as April Sexton
- Torrey DeVitto as Dr. Natalie Manning
- Brian Tee as Dr. Ethan Choi
- Dominic Rains as Dr. Crockett Marcel
- Marlyne Barrett as Maggie Lockwood
- S. Epatha Merkerson as Sharon Goodwin
- Oliver Platt as Dr. Daniel Charles
Crossover Cast[]
Recurring Cast[]
- Brennan Brown as Dr. Sam Abrams
- Ian Harding as Phillip Davis
- Marc Grapey as Peter Kalmick
- Nate Santana as Dr. James Lanik
- Paula Newsome as Caroline Charles
- Jeremy Shouldis as Dr. Marty Peterson
- Puja Mohindra as Dr. Heather Singh
- Amy J. Carle as Dr. Olga Patchefsky
- Casey Tutton as Monique Lawson
- Lorena Diaz as Nurse Doris
- Cesar Jaime as Paramedic Cesar
- Sarah Brooks as Paramedic Juliette
- Melissa Canciller as Nurse Melissa
- LaShawn Hazelwood as Nurse La'Shawn
- Jodi Kingsley as Madeline Gastern
- Elena Marisa Flores as Officer Anita Rosado
- Ari Morgan as Owen Jeffrey Manning
Guest Cast[]
- Zachary Keller as Todd Shepard
- Malkia Stampley as Mrs. Jones
- Anne Thompson as Nicole Burke
- Kimberly Michelle Vaughn as Nurse Paula Wilcox
- Reginald Robinson Jr. as Darrell Jones
- Mariah Bozeman as Keisha Jones
- Mary Cross as Bea Shepard
- T.J. Karam as Allen Shepard
- Dan Lin as Cryonics Tech Matthew Yang
- Abigail Lea as Louisa Nash
- Mari Marroquin as Orthopedics Nurse Abigail Flores
Themes[]
The episode deals with characters either facing their own or a loved one's mortality:
- CeCe refuses to waste the little time she has left wearing a cast on her broken wrist, instead pushing for a quicker-but-much-more riskier surgical treatment.
- A delusional woman who lost her own son to leukemia cuts a baby out of a pregnant woman's uterus and claims it as her own.
- A young man with terminal brain cancer prepares to have himself cryonically frozen in hopes that there will be a cure for him in the future, despite his parents' objections.
Medical Cases[]
- CeCe is treated for a broken wrist.
- A young man with terminal brain cancer named Todd Shepard is revived but then eventually allowed to pass away so his brain can be cryonically frozen in hopes of finding a cure in the future.
- A young girl named Keisha Jones is treated for a second-degree leg burn and adrenal insufficiency.
- A newborn baby is revived after being brought in by a woman named Nicole Burke, who claims she is her mother. Nicole is treated for a hand laceration.
- A young woman named Louisa Nash is treated for an eviscerated abdomen and uterus, revealing her to be the mother of the newborn baby.