We're Lost in the Dark is the second episode of Season 5 and the eighty-fifth overall of Chicago Med.
Summary[]
A power outage at the hospital puts multiple patients at risk and tests the skills of the staff and their enthusiastic new third-year medical students. Dr. Manning returns to work following her traumatic brain injury. Dr. Choi and April wonder if a family is in their future.
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[]
- Roland Buck III as Dr. Noah Sexton
- Molly Bernard as Elsa Curry
- Ian Harding as Phillip Davis
- Nate Santana as Dr. James Lanik
- Courtney Rioux as Paramedic Courtney
- Sarah Brooks as Paramedic Juliette
- Lorena Diaz as Nurse Doris
- Casey Tutton as Monique Lawson
- Amanda Marcheschi as Nurse Dina
- Kristina Valada-Viars as Nurse Maya
- Jeremy Shouldis as Dr. Marty Peterson
- Jeff Dumas as Perfusionist Roy Bellino
- Ari Morgan as Owen Jeffrey Manning
Guest Cast[]
- Allison Wick as Lacey Wilson
- Nick Ivey as Med Student Steve
- Debo Balogun as Paramedic Darren Clark
- Jennifer Cudahy as Nurse Renee
- Joe Krowka as Richard Lentz
- Victor Musoni as Taylor Holmes
- Dan Rodden as Chief Engineer Geary
- Candice Rose as Catherine Wilson
- Sarah Lo as Addison Jennings
- Chloe Skoczen as Kayla Holt
- Paul-Jordan Jansen as NIPCO Employee
Medical Cases[]
- Maggie receives chemotherapy and later becomes overwhelmed when she pushes herself too hard.
- Dr. Marcel self-administers IV fluids.
- Paramedic Darren Clark is treated for a hip fracture after his ambulance skids off the road.
- A man named Richard Lentz is extracted from the same crashed ambulance and is treated for arterial stenosis.
- A young woman named Lacey Wilson is treated for a seizure induced by an apparent gas leak at her school. When it is learned that there was no gas leak and two of her teammates also come down with the same symptoms, Dr. Charles realizes that it is a case of mass hysteria.
- A young man named Taylor is brought in with a gunshot wound. When he and Dr. Manning get stuck in an elevator due to a power outage, she has to perform an emergency thoracotomy.
- Many patient treatments have to be improvised in the hospital due to the power outage.
Notes and Trivia[]
- Dr. Charles gives his mass hysteria patients a placebo pill in an attempt to calm them down, a practice he has vehemently criticized in the past for breaking doctor-patient trust.