It is no secret that I love Smallville and pretty much everyone in it (except for Lana Lang). In particular, I love Erica Durance and her portrayal of Lois Lane remains my favourite interpretation of the role. So when Smallville left the airwaves on May 13, 2011, I missed everyone on it (except for Lana Lang) so when the actors started popping up on other shows I took an interest in seeing them. First up was Cassidy Freeman in an episode of CSI: NY and an episode of Playboy Club then an arc on The Vampire Diaries and now a new regular gig on A&E’s Longmire. Then Justin Hartley was in an episode of Chuck, Castle and Hart of Dixie. The first two he barely had screen time but the latter he was integral part of the episode. Justin will appear again this fall on the CW’s Emily Owens, MD.

The two people that I missed the most from my TV screens is of course Tom Welling and Erica Durance. Alas, Tom has disappeared but I can’t blame him, the man needs some rest after spending 10 years playing Clark Kent/Superman. But Erica has kept busy. Guest starring on her former Smallville’s bosses Charlie’s Angels re-boot and guest starred as Wonder Woman on Harry’s Law. It should be interesting to note that her two guest appearances were those two shows highest rated episodes.

So knowing that, it gives me hope (no pun intended) that Erica’s new show Saving Hope will be a success.

The show stars Durance as Dr. Alex Reid who is dealing with her fiancee, Charlie Harris (Smallville’s Hawkman Michael Shanks), that is in a coma that is as a result of being in a car accident on the way to their wedding. Charlie is also the hospital’s Chief of Surgery, and while his physical body is in a coma, his spirit roams the halls caught between the real world and the spirit world.

One of the things that I find tough about watching Saving Hope is seeing Erica Durance in love scenes that aren’t with Tom Welling but I understand that she is an actress and this is a different role and she is not Lois Lane cheating on Clark Kent with Hawkman.

Actually, in fact it is the love story between Durance’s Alex and Shanks’ Charlie that is quite sweet and the heart of the show. It is one of the things that I really like about the show as Durance and Shanks have pretty good chemistry together.

The show itself features typical medical cases such as the young pregnant woman who didn’t know she was pregnant that we have seen before in other medical shows. And the staff at Hope-Zion are people that we have seen before from the unsure Dr. Lin (Julia Taylor Ross) to the cocky Joel Goran (Daniel Gillies), who happens to be Alex’s ex. Of course there is the typical hospital romances that we’ve seen other medical dramas like Grey’s Anatomy. The pilot seems to hint at something something between Dr. Lin and Dr. Murphy (Kristopher Turner).

What I didn’t like about the show is the use of light flares in most scenes. It actually gave me a headache.

Despite that, what will keep me coming back to Saving Hope aren’t the medical cases or the hospital romances, it is Erica Durance. What I like about the show is Durance’s Alex. She is a very competent and self-assured doctor but her world comes crumbling down when Charlie slips into a coma and all she has left is her job. Durance does a great job trying to balance her work face with her personal heartbreak.

As I was watching the first episode, my admiration for Durance kept on growing. I loved everything about her performance in the pilot. She was great and believable as a surgeon (I enjoy watching her play doctor) and great in her fun and flirty moments with Charlie before his accident. And you see her sadness in wondering what to do as she lies in comatose Charlie’s bed.

Alex Reid is definitely very different from Lois Lane. What I miss most in Alex is seeing Lois’ sense of humour and I am hoping that we get to see some humour and funny lines being uttered by Alex.

I will continue to watch Saving Hope because I am a huge fan of Erica Durance and I want to see if Charlie will wake up and reunite with his true love. The romantic in me wants a happy ending and I hope this show has a long run.

In the second week of Saving Hope, we see two additions to the cast and that is the great Wendy Crewson as the interim Chief of Surgery, Dr. Dana Kinney and Ben Ayers as Dr. Zach Miller.

I mention the latter because he was in the first three episodes of The Vampire Diaries as the high school’s football coach but also he was in seven episodes of Smallville as one of Lex Luthor’s henchmen in season 6 but I don’t think he ever shared any screen time with Erica Durance.

Contact also featured some familiar faces from Canadian TV like Pat Mastroriani who played Joey Jeremiah on Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High.

The one thing that I noticed that had change is there as less use of the annoying light flares. While it is still there, it is not used as often it was in the pilot. And I have to commend the scenic designers of Saving Hope on the set. It looks like a real hospital and they have seamlessly recreated the real hospital that the filmed the pilot in.

But also with the Pilot, the medical cases are pretty standard from the couple that refuse surgery on the wife on religious grounds to the young boy who they aren’t able to diagnosis until it is almost too late.

This young boy was called Cal (Jake Goodman) and every time Alex said Cal, I so wanted her to just add El to it so she would be calling him Kal-El but that of course is the Smallville/Lois Lane fan in me.

This young boy goes in and out of consciousness and when he is out, he sees Charlie who asks Cal to give a message to Alex that he is here and that he loves her.

Then we get the inevitable hospital hook-up with Dr. Lin and Dr. Goren that she claims is just a fling but admitting to Dr. Gavin that she has a crush on him will only turn to heartache on her behalf.

Then we have Charlie’s ex-wife, Dawn, visiting. She is played by Michelle Nolden, who played Henry’s mother in The Time Traveler’s Wife. Dawn is giving Alex advice on doing coma arousal therapy that Alex shoots down because all of it is unproven.

The kept on showing in CTV promos of this episode that Alex does try one of Dawn’s suggested methods but it didn’t appear and it looks like it will appear in the next episode according to NBC.

I know this is a supernatural medical drama but the show does need more humour in it. Michael Shanks does offer humorous moments while he wanders the halls and “interacting” with the people at the hospital but there needs to be more.

Again, the real draw of Saving Hope is once again Erica Durance. She again shines in this episode as the confident doctor but also the unsure fiancée.

When Cal comes out of surgery and drew a picture of Charlie, this gave some hope to her that Charlie is out there.

I do hope in future episodes there are more flashbacks of Charlie and Alex’s relationship and the one about their first “I love you’s” was sweet. But hearing the “I love you too” being uttered by Erica Durance to Michael Shanks is still hard for me because I recently saw the Smallville episode, Homecoming, where Lois and Clark said their first “I love you’s” to each other. As I continue to watch Saving Hope and distance myself from Smallville, I will start to see Erica as Alex and no longer as Lois Lane but her having the pony tail is so the look of Lois so it is going to take some time.

Looking forward to next week as we had Charlie moving his hand at episode’s end.

Now in its third week, I think Saving Hope is starting to hit its stride not only in its medical cases but also the personal relationships.

The episode opened with Alex trying coma arousal therapy by stripping down to her bra and having the comatose Charlie touch her. When caught by a nurse, Alex’s reaction was very much like Lois Lane. Plus, having Erica Durance sport the pony tail with her side swept bangs was very much the look of Lois in season 10. So if Saving Hope is trying to make me forget that she ever was Lois Lane, you guys are not going a great job in the physical look department.

Anyways, one of the medical cases was again one we have seen before about a guy who comes in that has had multiple medical procedures done to him before but underlying that is a mental issue problem of Munchausen disease. But the actor playing this patient, Benjamin Monk was Zachary Bennett. For those that don’t know who he is, he played Felix King in one of my favourite shows as a kid: Road to Avonlea. It was based on several novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery who wrote Anne of Green Gables and Benjamin kept on saying what sounded like Karen Anne Shirley, which I think was a total nod to the fact that he came from that universe.

A little aside here. At first, I never liked Felix because he was an annoying brat but there was an episode where Felix went from a boy to a man almost instantaneously. When left Road to Avonlea in season 5, Felix still looked like a boy but then BAM! in the season 6 premiere, he looked all grown up and frankly pretty good looking. Anyways, it is nice to see that he is still acting.

Anyways, the other medical case was also interesting but still didn’t quite get the procedure that Joel performed. It looked like he placed is foot the wrong way around and wasn’t too sure how that gave him a functioning leg.

Of course we will see fallout from the whole Maggie/Joel hookup and I think poor Gavin will the one of the casualties as he is so crushing on Maggie while Maggie is crushing on Joel and Joel is crushing on himself (but perhaps on Alex).

Again, I think Charlie is the comic relief character in this as he helps the brother of the leg surgery guy find closure so he can move on. One of the ways he gets this guy, Isaac to help, is helping guide another soul move on and the way Isaac helped wasn’t really helping.

But Isaac did ask an intriguing question to Charlie and what does he have to do in order to wake up from the coma.

And what kind of procedure is Dr. Hamza doing on Charlie to see if he will waking up any time soon. I thought it was pretty weird that he just shouted at him.

I do hope they give Wendy Crewson more to do than being a stern task master. But again, Erica Durance was great as Alex. She was playful at the beginning and then heartbroken at the end. She definitely showed great range in this episode.

It was funny that Joel told Alex to keep believing that Charlie will wake-up. It reminds of Smallville again and Clark’s vows to Lois about believing in someone is forever.

I do wonder how long they can keep Charlie in a coma. This show can’t go on for 10 years and have him still comatose. I give that concept a season to two tops.

We get another flashback to Alex and Charlie’s time together and how he “proposed” to her. Seeing this scene again makes we wish we had a scene like that (i.e. a morning after scene) in Smallville between Lois and Clark.

Anyways, Saving Hope has really got to stop doing stuff that reminds of Smallville aside from Erica Durance being in it and also having the characters say the episode title or part of the episode title. So Alex cannot call anybody Clark or Kent or Chloe or Kara or Lana or even Lex because that won’t help.

Let’s hope next week’s review will be Smallville free but no guarantees

There was one reason only that I wanted to watch Saving Hope and that was Erica Durance. If you’ve read my blog then you know that I am a huge fan of Smallville and pretty much anyone who was in it (except for Kristin Kreuk). Also, Erica’s Lois Lane is far and away my favourite interpretation of the role.

So I was so happy that she had a new TV show. So I tuned in for and I stayed for the whole season because of her. But the one pleasant surprise out of all this was Kristopher Turner’s Dr. Gavin Murphy.

At first he was the typically dorky hospital psychiatrist who had an unrequited crush on a fellow doctor, Maggie Lin (Julia Taylor Ross) but Gavin totally grew on me with his limited screen time and storyline. When he was being a psychiatrist is when I found him the most attractive, especially his last case with the Alzheimer’s patient. He was darn cute and so compassionate that I wondered why Maggie just didn’t see what a great guy that he was so it was great in episode 12, “Ride Hard of Go Home,” that she finally woke up and returned his feelings.

But overall, Saving Hope was a standard medical show with that slight supernatural twist. None of the medical cases were memorable neither were the stories of those that Charlie (Michael Shanks) helped to the other side.

I am glad that they toned down the use of light flares that was so annoying in the pilot.

Some of the smart things that the show did was cast Wendy Crewson as Dr. Dana Kinney. I love Wendy Crewson and her Kinney was a ballsy, take no prisoner’s type of doctor. What I didn’t like was the predictable hook-up with Joel Goren (Daniel Gillies).

Speaking of Goren, there really was no good qualities about him. He was a jerk boyfriend to Maggie, an arrogant doctor and then tried to kiss Alex (Erica Durance) while her fiance lied in a coma. So in the season 1 finale, “Pink Clouds,” with him having quit the hospital, I wasn’t at all surprised that he was offered the Chief of Staff job that was held by Charlie and then taken over by Dana.

So in the season finale, Charlie has woken up and is now in recovery mode. But the twist is that the experience that he had while in coma has transfered to the real world and he can now see and communicate with dead people. Before that though he confides to his ex-wife, Dawn (Michelle Nolden) what he experienced while in a coma, and she believes him.

Also before that Alex and Charlie decide to final get married that day but in light of Charlie now realizing that he can see dead people seems have left Alex at the altar.

And I really hope not. I want to see them get married. It took me awhile to accept Erica Durance having a love interest that wasn’t Tom Welling but her and Michael Shanks have a really great chemistry together and I really did like all of their romantic flashbacks of Alex and Charlie’s life together.

I don’t want to see Charlie keep the fact that he can see dead people a secret from Alex and that he turns to Dawn for support on this because Dawn might just use that to get him back because she has confessed that she still loves him (“Heartsick”). One side note, I think Michelle Nolden is a natural brunette like Erica Durnace but the producers of Saving Hope (and I am assuming here) made her go blonde so we won’t confuse her for Erica Durance. It reminds of what Smallville did to Erica and made her get blonde highlights so we woulnd’t confuse Lois and Lana (stupid if you ask me).

Anyways, the thing is I think Alex could handle knowing that Charlie can see dead people.

Alex is someone with such pure heart and gentle grace that even though the can be pragmatic at times, I think this experience with Charlie has made her less.

In season 2, I want to see Alex and Charlie get married, Charlie telling her his experience while in a coma and what he can do now. I think she could help him through all of this.

What I hope to see in season 2 is more flashbacks actually. I want to see how Alex and Charlie fell in love, I am sure there is more to that story than what we saw in “Bea, Again.” Also, more character development from the other doctors at Hope-Zion. I want to know more about the ER doctor (Benjamin Ayers), Alex’s friend Malanda (Glenda Braganza) and more about Maggie and Gavin.

So I am grateful that CTV has renewed Saving Hope another season. And now I know what I will be watching next summer.

After over a decade of waiting, Canadians will finally get a chance to run The Amazing Race and we fans get to watch all the action when The Amazing Race Canada premieres on Monday, July 15. Yesterday, the show announced that the teams will be racing for a prize of $250,000.

That was one of the shows announced as part of CTV’s summer line-up.

In addition to The Amazing Race Canada, CTV also announced the return of The Listener on May 29, Saving Hope starring the awesome Erica Durance will premiere its second season on June 25 (and we here at Pop Goes the World will be recapping the show), reality cooking competition show Masterchef will bow May while So You Think You Can Dance will return May 14. Returning comedies Hot in Cleveland and Anger Management return May 26 and June 24 respectively.

New shows premiering this summer on CTV include Satisfaction on June 24 and Mistresses, a drama about four sassy girlfriends navigating their way through scandal, love, lies, secrets, and sex towards their path of self-discovery. It stars Alyssa Milano and will debut on June 3.

More information on all these shows can be found on the CTV Press Release.

When last we left our doctors of Hope Zion in season 1, Charlie (Michael Shanks) has woken from his season long coma and reunited with his fiancee and fellow doctor Alex (Erica Durance). Just as the couple seemed to be destined for a happy ending by getting married in the season finale, Charlie realized a side effect from his coma: he can still see spirits that he saw whilst out for the count. This caused Charlie to leave Alex at the altar. In other developments, Joel (Daniel Gillies) became the new Chief of Staff replacing Dana (Wendy Crewson). In happier news, Gavin (Kristopher Turner) and Maggie (Julia Taylor-Ross) finally became a couple.

Before we dive into episode 1 of season 2, I want to outline how recaps are going to work for Saving Hope. Each week I will break the episode down into the medical cases of the week and then break down each of the different relationships/characters of the show and what went down with them non-medical wise in the episode.

So now that we got that straight, onto to the recap.

Medical Cases of the Week

The doctors of Hope Zion are working on several victims of a mall shooting. This includes Sonya (Erin Karpluk), who initially came in because her son was trappled on during the chaos but she herself was shot in the leg. However, when they go to surgically remove it, it seems to have disappeared. Joel and Dr. Miller (Benjamin Ayers) have found it in the abdomen and Charlie helps them determine a precise location.

Dawn (Michelle Nolden) is called into this case to help Joel remove the bullet that has flowed to Sonya’s chest. Dawn explains the surgery necessary to save her life. Joel gives her another surgical option. Sonya chooses Joel’s surgical option. He uses his pull as Chief to do the surgery he wants. In surgery, Joel offers Sonya comfort as she worries over the fate of her son. Joel tries his surgery and things are first aren’t going well and Dawn wants to do her surgery. Joel insists that his will work and yells for Dawn to step aside. Eventually, Joel does get the bullet out his way. He apologies to Dawn for yelling at her but she is okay with that.

Another young man is also badly shot and his pregnant wife goes into labour. As Charlie is operating on the young man, his in limbo spirit appears to him in the OR and gives him some key medical information that allows Charlie to treat him successfully. The man is still unconscious and Charlie keeps looking around his room thinking he will see him. He gives the guy something in hopes of waking him out.

This guy, Nick, who has fallen into a coma seeks out Charlie’s help in talking to his wife and not get them to name their child Jedi. To make it look like he is not crazy, he pretends he is talking to Nick on his phone.

Shahir (Huse Madhavji) and Charlie are trying everything to wake him up like blowing a whistle or smelling salts but it is not working. Nick worries that he won’t wake up and won’t meet this son. Charlie tries to assure him that they don’t know what is happening. Nick wants to know if he has talked to his wife about their child’s name. Charlie thinks that maybe what he sees isn’t real. Charlie thinks if he does this for Nick then that will be his life: helping spirits. If does this then he will lose everything from is career to Alex. Nick is getting worse as fluid is starting to fill his lungs. Charlie goes to visit Nick’s wife, Lucy, to update him on his medical condition. He then tells her about a conversation he had with Nick about the name of their son and how he wants to call him Joseph instead of Jedi. Lucy honours his wish but will call her son Jedi as a nickname.

We see Charlier working on Nick but to no avail, he passes away while his wife Lucy gives birth to their son.

Alex treats a suicidal young woman with the help of Maggie. This young woman has overdosed on meds and has disappeared. Eventually the ladies find Katie who is still suicidal. They realize that Katie is jaundice. In the ICU, Mel (Glenda Braganza) treats her liver. However, her liver is completely shot and her only chance for survival is a liver transplant. Gavin comes in to assess Katie and her viability as a transplant candidate and gives Alex details on her mental state. Alex receives a text via Katie’s phone that indicates that she is being bullied. The read more texts and see a video. Katie is not going well but Mel seems to have something that can save her life. A possible liver candidate is one the shooters who is brain dead. They won’t know if he is a organ donor until his parents arrive. The mother arrives and Alex explains the situation to her and how her son is brain dead but she can’t grasp that. Alex tries to point out that he can save lives if he donates his organs and they are running out of time for her to make a decision. It is obvious that Katie gets the liver as Joel congratulates Alex on that case. Alex is in the transplant surgery to get Katie her new liver. She later visits a recovering Katie and talks to her and offers her comfort over what she is going through.

Charlie and Alex

The episode actually opens with the two coming back from a vacation in Costa Rica still not married and are caught in the gun fight that opened the episode.

Charlie and Alex comfort each other over their respective medical cases. Him saving the guy and Alex slapping her patient. Alex wonders why bad stuff keeps on happening to them.

Later Charlie goes to Shahir get another brain scan to help solve why he is still seeing spirits. Shahir prescribes him to see a psychiatrist.

Meanwhile, Maggie thinks that what happened earlier (Alex slapping her patient) that she should go home because she was part of the shooting.

In between all the medical stuff, Alex seeks Maggie out to discuss how bad she feels for hitting Katie and how people perceive her in how she stood by Charlie. And she also confesses to Maggie that maybe it would been easier if Charlie died. Charlie comes on the scene and Alex gives him a tender kiss as Nick looks on. Charlie mentions to Alex how he wants to tell her something and would do so after work.

Alex confesses to Joel that she doesn’t know if she is the same doctor that she was a year ago because of how she initially was supposed to be in on Nick’s surgery but Ryecroft (K.C. Collins) bullied her out of it. Joel calls her on discussing her feelings, which is obviously something she doesn’t do.

Charlie later goes to Gavin to talk about the medical acronym of I Watch Death and its symptoms. He gets what he wants and leaves before Gavin can offer his ear to him.

At the bar, after their long day. Alex asks Charlie if they are cursed, he counters they are lucky. He assures to her that they are fine and everything is fine. She gets him to promise and they share another tender kiss. Alex wants to know what Charlie wants to tell her but he defers for another time. The couple then joins the other doctors for dinner.

Joel

He is not liking the admin side of being Chief of Staff and leaves that side to help out in the ER that includes helping Sonya. Joel distracts her son by getting him to come up with jokes for a fundraiser that he has to attend. As Dawn and Joel scrub into Sonya’s surgery, Dawn suggests that Joel should date her. He says that he is not a one night stand kind of guy and also implies that Dawn isn’t over Charlie.

He goes to visit a recovering Sonya. She tells Joel that Ryan has a joke for him and while Joel initially did that to distract him, he does sit and listen as Ryan tells Joel his joke. Later we see Joel getting dressed for this dinner while rehearsing the joke.

Gavin and Maggie
We don’t get much of them in this episode but a brief scene near the end when Maggie goes to visit Gavin in his office and they make out on his couch. Good to see these two still going strong. Looking forward to exploring their relationship as season 2 goes on.

So that was the season 2 premiere. I am glad that Charlie is out of the coma and it was something they had to do. I did like how they reduced the use of light flares. And since Erin Karpluk will be recurring this season, can’t wait to see where her relationship with Joel will go. I also look forward to seeing how Charlie deals with his “gift” and balancing that with his relationship with Alex and his job. I am hoping for some flashbacks still though. I really want to know who Alex and Charlie fell in love that caused Charlie to leave Dawn.

It looks like next week we see a Dawn/Alex showdown over Charlie.

Medical Case of the Week

Alex’s patient Sam (Daniel Kash) presenting with lower abdominal pain but he seems to have overall health issues that culminates him having a heart attack. Dawn joins the case to diagnosis him. Sam is trying to lighten the mood but Dawn is having none of it. Sam has an aortic stenosis and Dawn wants to perform the same surgery that Alex failed to do in tne pig session. Alex wants to deal with Sam’s colon but Dawn doesn’t want to deal with it now. Both ladies butt heads over what to do. When Alex can’t convince Dawn to deal with the colon, Dawn has taken on Sam as her patient. Sam is in massive pain and is moving around to lessen it but Alex notices his belly is more distended so takes Sam to imaging. She tells Maggie to delay in telling Dawn considering their history. Of course, Dawn is pissed about this and is in a meeting with Joel over this. They need is opinion on the best way to treat their patient. He suggests they do both their surgeries at the same time but Dawn refuses to do a surgery with Alex in the room. Again they butt heads on what to do. Dawn tells her their argument is medical base and not personal. Alex informs Sam that the heart surgery is what he will be having first. Later, Alex wants in on Dawn’s surgery as Alex wants to learn from her; to not make this personal. This gets Dawn to relent. Alex and Dawn are performing the heart surgery and Alex is able to answer her medical questions. It is successful but Sam’s colon ends up rupturing and causing problems. Alex goes in and does her magic and saves Sam. Dawn complements Alex on the save. As Sam recovers, Alex tells him the bad news that he has colon cancer.

Joel’s patient comes via Dr. Miller. Her name is Emma Nolan, a possible cancer patient. Emma has a growth in her neck that Joel needs to biopsy. The young girl has a crush on Joel while her parents fret over her health. The biopsy is inconclusive so he needs to do a more invasive surgery. The parents just want to know what is wrong. When Emma tries to lift her arm to comfort her mom, she is in pain and Joel notices another mass next to the other mass. Joel is confounded as to what is going on. Joel goes into the OR to perform a surgery on Emma to determine what exactly is wrong with her. After the surgery, Emma has a hard time breathing. Joel determines that she has a hematoma and they start doing their magic to save her. But Joel is having issues intubating her and he is tells his crew that he has no clue what is wrong with her. Later he tells the parents of Emma’s condition. Emma’s father is not happy with how Joel is handling Emma’s case. Emma’s mom sends the dad away so she can speak to Joel on her own. She explains a bit of her medical background and how Emma was their first child after 5 miscarriages.

Joel consults with Charlie for help as Emma condition worsens. While Charlie tells Joel about his case. A passing comment by Victor about Emma’s feet gets Joel to look at them and realizes that it could be what is wrong with her. Emma tells Joel about some issues that she has been having with her falling or bumping into things. Hearing this, Joel may finally have a diagnosis. Emma has FOP, basically every time there is a trauma her body grows more bones. Surgery will not help her but Joel helps get her parents to understand what it would be like to raise a daughter with FOP.

Charlie is dealing with the singing man in a coma and talks to his wife about his prognosis and surgical options. Mrs. Adams wife explains they were in an argument over his Broadway aspirations when Mr. Adams appears singing. Mrs. Adams blames herself for this predicament. Mrs. Adams informs Charlie of her husband’s care wishes which is pretty much a DNR -Do Not Resuscitate.

Charlie tries to communicate with Mr. Adams as to his wishes but he continues to sing. He seeks Gavin’s advice on how to get his patient to tell him what he wants. Gavin advises him to build a rapport. He also tells Gavin about surgery he is going to perform on the husband and asks Gavin to be there for his wife. The two men argue over the wishes of what the husband wants. Mr. Adams is still singing around Charlie and he still can’t quite grasp his wishes. He later visits Mrs. Adams, and she talks about how Charlie was like her husband. Charlie then talks about how Alex never gave up on him and to give her husband some time before making the decision to pull the plug. She agrees. Charlie is performing the surgery on Mr. Adams and both duet on “Someone to Watch Over Me” and Mr. Adams disappears from his sight. But something is wrong with Mr. Adams initially till Charlie manages to save him and Mr. Adams gets some brain activity again. We later see Mr. Adams away with his wife by his side taking care of him.

Charlie, Alex, and Dawn

Alex and Dawn butt heads during an educational hands-on seminar involving using pigs to replicate a particular heart surgery. When I mean butting heads, I mean Dawn picking on Alex. It doesn’t help that Alex gets flustered when around Dawn in a medical capacity. Maggie notes that Dawn is being a real bitch to Alex.

Meanwhile, Charlie while trying to teach some medical students, hears some singing, thinking it is one of Gavin patient’s realizes it is a man in a coma due to a car accident.

Dawn runs into Charlie in the hallways and they have small chit chat over being back at Hope-Zion. Dawn wanted to speak to Charlie to give him back something from a long ago vacation that they shared to Peggy’s Cove.

Also, Charlie is hoping to get back on the OR schedule but Joel blows him off ever do diplomatically.

Charlie pulls Alex aside for a moment during a break of their cases wondering if she ever doubted that he would return to her. She admits she had her moments but she knew he would return to her. Alex explains that she always felt Charlie’s presence telling her to keep fighting. The couple then share a tender kiss.

After their surgery on Sam, Dawn tries to apologies for her behaviour that morning. Alex tells her that she can’t forgive Dawn for pulling the plug on Charlie while Dawn counters that she is not over Charlie leaving her for Alex. Dawn mentions the last time she was happy was that vacation to Peggy’s Cove. Alex then asks if Dawn is still in love with Charlie but she doesn’t answer.

In one of the on call rooms, Alex talks to Charlie about her day and mentions is case. She tells him that she doesn’t care about Peggy’s Cove or about Dawn and he shouldn’t care about her. All that matters is them and then they proceed to make out on one of the beds as all doctors seem to do in these medical shows.

Joel

While Joel and Charlie are consulting with each other, Charlie pretty much accuses Joel of going after Alex while he was in a coma.

So ends episode 2. This week I did enjoy the medical case that Joel worked on. In other areas though, I hope we flesh out or see why Charlie left Dawn for Alex. And hopefully we get some episodes that delve into the personal lives of Maggie, Gavin and the rest of the staff of Hope-Zion that is not named Charlie, Alex and Joel.

Medical Case of the Week

Joel is at a tennis court treating an up and coming tennis star, Ricki (played by Amazing Race Canada contestant Vanessa Morgan), who has a bum knee. Her dad and coach (played by Orphan Black’s Kevin Hanchard) is giving a diagnosis that he doesn’t want to hear. It seems her knee might take her out of a tournament. At the hospital, it seems her knee is in real bad shape and needs extensive surgery that has a 6 month recovery time. Ricki’s dad doesn’t want her to do it as she is supposed to play the French Open in 3 weeks. This case is predictable as I bet the daughter doesn’t want to play tennis. Joel asks some advice of Charlie on his case. He agrees that she needs the surgery and Joel shouldn’t have let her walk away. Ricki later pays a visit to Joel and how other surgeons told her dad that she doesn’t need the surgery. However, Ricki likes Joel because he talked to her. He tells her again that she needs the surgery. Joel obviously has managed to convince Ricki to do the surgery and wne she goes into to do it, her father is there but Joel does not want an audience and the two start to butt heads. The surgery is successful and Ricki is relishing the time off that she will take full advantage of. It seems this surgery has caused a brief strain on her relationship with her father. Ricki ends up writing a donation check to the hospital.

In the ER, a man brings in a young woman with a stab wound to her neck. The man, Doctor Nazir. that brings her in is spouting medical orders. The woman, Halima is his wife but he too is hurt but he ends up stitching himself that impresses Alex. He recounts how his wife got stab -a mugging gone wrong – as asks how she is doing. Alex gives him the update. It seems her wound is not clotting but her husband believes that the trauma is causing this. Miller notices that Alex is letting Nazir treat his wife, she responds that she was given some leniency in treating Charlie. Nazir and Alex have a talk about her medical career and he gives her advice on what path she should follow. Their talk is interrupted when a code white is called and it is Halima who becomes erratic and then starts to have seizures. Nazir wants to treat her but Alex steps in instead.  Nazir and Alex are trying to figure out why she seized. Alex notices her blood alcohol level is through the room and is most likely the cause of her troubles. Nazir and Alex are making a pretty good team. They are trying to find out what is wrong with her and debate what methods to use. Miller comes in to tell Alex that Nazir is not a doctor but a limo driver. Alex is pissed that he allowed a non licensed doctor to perform medical procedures and the potentially liability. She gets her way to do the surgery that she wanted to do. Alex refuses to listen to anything that Nazir has to say. As Alex is readying fur surgery, Halima is bleeding from the nose and is hypertensive. She ends up doing the surgery that Nazir wanted. Reycraft is called in to assist. They are performing the surgery but there is too much blood. Alex is overwhelmed so gets Nazir to come in to talk Alex through the procedure, which he successfully does. Nazir explains how after their son died, he kept on working and after unrest in Syria fled to Canada and blames himself for not seeing what was wrong with his wife. Alex offers some words of comfort. We see Nazir at his wife’s bedise while holding on to his limo driver’s license.

Gavin, Shahir and Maggie are treating two young cancer patients (one played by Degrassi’s Jordan Todosey and the other by Being Human’s Connor Price). When the young man, Jay, asks Arwin how she is she flips out. Shair tells Gavin that Arwin’s tumor has not shrunk even after chemo and goes into to comfort her. She thinks about her morality and is heart broken over breaking up with Jay. Jay asks Maggie how Arwin is but Maggie can’t divulge that. He pushed on asking how Arwin was so she would break up with him, which was her apparent deal breaker. His is that he doesn’t like being touched. Later, Maggie takes Jay to the hospital atrium where it looks like Gavin and Maggie are playing matchmaker for their patient by setting up a very romantic date for Jay and Arwin. Their matchmaking has worked and Jay and Arwin are engaged and both seem to get over their deal breakers.

Maggie is also assisting Charlie with a guy, Kevin, who broke his hip walking his dogs. As Maggie is trying to put his hip back in place, a crack is heard but the look on Maggie’s face indicates that it is not good news. It seems his bones are moth eaten and his blood work indicates that he has leukemia. They want him to undergo chemo and ask for any possible bone marrow match. In the meantime, Charlie will fix his leg. As he is in surgery to fix Kevin, he starts coding and Charlie sees his spirit as he is closing his wound. Kevin is in a coma due to an embolism. Kevin keeps on telling him that he needs to wake up now because it is revealed that Kevin is a bigamist. His first wife Gail is visiting with their two daughters. Charlie tells Kevin that his best shot at a bone marrow transplant his with one of his daughters. Kevin has woken up and Charlie tells him what has happened and asks what is the last thing he remembers and it wasn’t their spirit conversation. Charlie says that they need to test his daughters as a match and tells Kevin that he really should tell his wives his secret as he sees both of his wives meet each other. One of Kevin’s daughter is a match and while his wives hate him, they agree to help care for him.

Charlie and Alex

Apparently, Charlie has not been sleeping well since he has woken from a coma and Alex thinks a new bed would be the key but he is distracted by a young woman speaking French wandering around the hospital cafe speaking French.

Charlie has paged Alex to discuss the bed situation. Things seem a bit awkward and both think each other are mad at each other but assure that they are not.

Alex tells Joel that despite being fooled by Nazir, she was inspired by him. Later on she tells Joel she wants to be in trauma medicine and asks to see what he can do to help.

Back at their apartment, and with a new mattress, the two have sex and when it looks like Charlie might tell her his secret, he plays it up as getting a good night’s sleep. They say good night but it looks like Alex wonders what Charlie really wanted to tell her and Charlie looks on distressed.

Maggie and Gavin

It looks like the two are going strong. They are in love but Maggie was reluctant to move in with Gavin because she isn’t sure about herself. Gavin declares that he is sure and this convinces Maggie to take the plunge and move in with Gavin.

This week was all about the medical cases and very light on the personal lives of our doctors of Hope-Zion. All the cases this week were predictable and seen many times before in other medical dramas. While I do believe that Charlie needed to wake up from his coma, something was lost when that happened. Still on the fence on whether or not I like that Charlie can still see spirits but I guess you need to have that element to make it different from Grey’s Anatomy. Well, it is good thing Erica Durance is on this show or I would have given up on this show pretty quickly.

Medical Cases of the Week

A charity basketball game between the doctors of Hope-Z and a group of lawyers leads to a win but not without its casualties as one of the lawyers, Russell Birk (Noam Jenkins) is hurt. He is an ambulance chaser that has sued Charlie in the past for malpractice.

Russell doesn’t want to do some procedure that Alex wants to do but he soon relents but as soon as they go and do the procedure, Russell states that he can’t feel his legs and blames them for paralyzing him.

It looks like his digestive system is a mess along with his spine. Joel comes in and questions why she is performing surgery when he complained of paralysis. But he seems to have gone through the surgery and now they are checking on his back.

Joel and Charlie are consulting on the best course of action for Birk so they don’t get sued. In the ICU, Birk’s wife comes in and it looks like she is on the malpractice route but they explain his condition and she wants them to fix him. When Birk starts to pull on his breathing tube, Joel and Charlie manage to get him settled but Birk appears to him as a spirit and wants to use this to his advantage. When Charlie tells him and that he won’t remember anything when he wakes up, Birk counters that he remembers everything and he knows that.

Joel goes over Birk’s x-ray with Charlie and it looks like his spine fractured to easily when he hit is side. Joel thinks it is complicated surgery and suggests a technique. However, Birk wants Charlie to do the surgery and tells him that if doesn’t he will tell Alex is “I see dead people” secret. Joel is worried that something will go wrong and they will get sued.

Charlie pretends to be on his phone while he talks to Birk, who believes that Charlie might deliberately botch the surgery.

Joel and Charlie scrub and prepare for the surgery and Birk tells him not to screw up. But all of a sudden the surgery that Alex performed has perforated and they need her back to fix it before they can continue. However, Charlie and Joel can’t move him so that Alex can fix him. But Alex says she can perform the surgery upside down, which Charlie approves. So while Alex does her thing, the boys to theirs. Birk starts to crash and we see his spirit being affected. But Alex fixes. Charlie then notices Birk’s spirit fall to the ground and speaking to the spirit figures that he might have a hematoma while the rest of the doctors look puzzled as to why he stopped the surgery. Charlie wants them to check on something and when they do, they discover his spine is compressed. Alex wonders how on earth Charlie could know that and doesn’t quite believe it was a hunch.

The surgery is a success and when Charlie steps out, Joel wants to know what happened earlier. Charlie lies and tells him that he needs space but feels that Birk would probably sue despite saving his life. Joel tells him that he will defend Charlie. We then see that Birk spirit is no longer there.

Birk has woken up and Charlie tells him of his condition and what caused it is that he was injecting himself with HDH, who doing that to stay young and strong. When Birk states that he remembers everything, Charlie looks worried but Birk starts talking about the basketball game.

Maggie brings Dr. Miller in on a case where someone hurt himself going through a window of a church but Miller refuses to treat him as the patient stole his wife. So Maggie treats him herself. This man explains how he renovated Miller’s house but ended up stealing his wife. He thinks he was sent here to atone to Miller. Maggie brings in Miller when Hank starts to feel pain in his face and mouth and all of a sudden can’t see. Shahir comes in a sees that he has needles in his brain that were placed there when he was a baby and the accident pushed those needles into a harmful way. It is possible that Hank could die from it but Miller convinces his ex-wife to perform the surgery. Maggie gets to scrub in on the surgery. The surgery is a success and Hank will get his vision back.

We see the return of the Great Randall who is having pancreatic problem. It seems that Alex is not forgiving of the hoax he played on her for pretending that he could talk to Charlie. He tells her that he has given up that line of work but is glad that Charlie has woken up from his coma. As Alex examines him, he is in definite discomfort and she determines that his pancreas is infected. Alex confirms this and tells Randall that she will remove the dead tissue and the infected area. Before going into surgery, Randall wants Alex to call his estranged daughter but she tells him that he can do that himself when he gets out. Alex discovers a lot of tumours and there is nothing she can do as he only has a month to live. With that news, she goes to call Randall’s daughter. When Randall wakes up, Alex tells him that she couldn’t get a hold of but he is not surprised and tells him that she isn’t coming. Alex then tells him the bad news. Randall doesn’t want to hear his treatment option and he wants to explain how he became the Great Randall and it was due to a car accident that allowed him to see spirits. Because of that his life has gone downhill. Randall learns that excessive drinking caused his condition and it seems that he is welcoming death.

Charlie and Alex

Randall meets up with Charlie in the cafeteria to apologize about his behaviour when they first met. He also  feels sorry that Charlie still has the curse of seeing spirits. We see that Randall is a spirit. The real world Randall wants to see Charlie and Alex tells him about his medium abilities. The two men then talk alone and they talk about his gift and how Alex doesn’t know. Randall tells Charlie to never tell her as Alex deserves the fairy tale life. He feels that if Alex knows she won’t understand thus ruining Charlie’s life. When Alex wants to know what they talked about, he lies that Randall wanted to say how lucky he is. Then Alex asks about the surgery break and he lies that he is okay. Alex then tells Charlie that she wouldn’t wish anyone Randall’s life. We then see several spirits at Randall’s bedside talking his head off.

Joel

He has a work function to go to and wants Maggie to go with him but considering Maggie is with Gavin, she turns him down and she jokingly says he should ask Alex.

Joel then turns his attention to Mal, who turn him down and she too mentions asking Alex.

While out getting a hot dog for lunch, Joel runs into Sonya (Erin Karpluk) who is at the hospital for a follow-up appointment. Before she leaves, this inspires him to ask Sonya to the hospital fundraiser. He insists that it isn’t a date but then changes his mind. Sonya is reluctant because of his reputation that she heard from the nurses. She adds that Joel needs to do a better job at asking her for a date.

But Sonya then shows up at this fundraiser to be Joel’s date. She starts asking what she knows about him. After stating her last name and that she is a good mother, she lists other things about her like how she is a social worker. More chit chat happens between the two and they go into the fundraiser.

It seems their date is going well as they debrief on the fundraiser and the two share a kiss. Sonya warns Joel not to screw around with her because of her son. Joel hears her message and they continue their kiss.

The Rest of Hope-Zion

If you watch the “Last Call” digital series, it looks like Mal and Miller have gotten closer and just as they were making a lunch date, Miller’s ex-wife, Ariel, comes in wanting to know what is going on with her husband, Hank and is surprised that Miller is not treating him. Miller sees the irony in this whole situation.

Miller comforts Ariel while her current husband is in surgery. Despite knowing Shahir is a good doctor, being a former doctor’s wife she knows it is not enough. Ariel wants Miller to pray for Hank but he tells her that he hasn’t prayed since she left him. But she begs him to and he does. With Hank recovered, Miller comes to terms that they are truly over and Ariel wishes him happiness.

Miller asks Mal out for dinner and as they go and leave, Mal gives him a kiss. At first she thinks that she misread the situation but no she didn’t as we see the two make out in the elevator.

Gavin brings in a dog to ICU and asks Mal if he could bring the dog in as pet therapy, which she said she will think about it. We later see this dog with Randall.

So this is the episode I was talking about! We finally get to learn more about the other doctors of Hope Z. Miller was one of the doctor’s that I wanted to learn more about. We see how hurt he was when his wife left that, which caused him to leave his religion. It is good to see him have a little something something with Mal.

Medical Cases of the Week

Miller brings a case to Alex and it is a prisoner who came in from a flight from Edmonton. Her name is Lily and apparently she is a violent prisoner. Everyone is concerned for Alex safety because of Lily’s violent behaviour. We see that something is wrong with her ankle. Alex discovers a thrombosis and Lily uses that moment to attack Alex but is saved by the police officer, Officer Hazard, who tasers Lily.

Lily blood pressure starts to drop and Alex orders a bunch of tests and she tells Lily the bad news that she is having a miscarriage. Alex wants to know who got her pregnant but Lily is hostile towards her and refuses to answer her questions. Alex wants access to her medical files but she refuses. Jackson comes in with a bunch of pills that to Alex seems a lot but Lily won’t answer what the pills are for. Gavin tells Alex that all the pills for Lily are not necessary for her mental state. Alex is going to slowly wean her off to see the real Lily.

When Alex goes to see Lily again, it is night and day. She is much calmer and she apologies for her behaviour. She begs Alex to put her back on the drugs so she won’t get rages anymore. She then talks about her boyfriend, Percy and regrets losing the baby. Alex wants to help Lily but needs her medical files, she relents and lets Alex see them.

Officer Hazard tells Alex that because Lily attacked her, she is being moved to a maximum security prison but Alex says that it isn’t necessary but the guard tells her that it isn’t up to her. We learn through Gavin how Lily got into the prison system and stayed there and hearing all that, Alex is puzzled. Lily finds out that she is going to a maximum security prison when she starts to have seizures and she calls for Shahir, who notes something in her eyes and diagnoses her with Wilson’s Disease and most likely the cause for her behaviour. Shahir talks about the case with Alex and Gavin and if Lily was properly diagnosed that she wouldn’t have gotten into trouble. They work on a way to get a positive diagnosis so she won’t have to go back to prison. Shahir shows a brain scan to Alex and Gavin of Lily’s brain that confirms that she has Wilson’s Disease and Shahir gives tonight’s episode’s title.

Despite her medical diagnosis, Officer Hazard insists that Lily is still going to prison but Alex won’t let that happen. If Lily goes to prison, Alex can’t treat her so she and Gavin admit her to the psych ward. Officer Hazard is not happy at this turn of events but reluctantly lets it happen. Alex tells Lily that she will treat her and let her serve the rest of her sentence in a minimal security prison. Lily wonders why Alex is doing all of that.

Charlie and Maggie are working on a case of replacing bones in someone’s leg with a hockey stick and is going to harvest some bones in a dead body. But this dead body happens to be Maggie’s dad, who appears to Charlie as a spirit. Charlie asks Miller more info about Maggie’s dad, also Dr. Lin who was the bone donor. Apparently, Dr. Lin was found in a massage parlour. Miller didn’t know that the patient was Maggie’s dad. Charlie and Dr. Lin talk about what he was up to and Charlie introduces Gavin to him. Charlie tells Gavin that the bone donor was Maggie’s dad and wants Gavin to break the news to Maggie (see below).

Maggie wants to help Charlie with his case and feels that this her way to do something for him. Charlie is not comfortable but Maggie tells him that her dad is the reason why she became a doctor. Dr. Lin tells Charlie that he is okay with Maggie helping and after more pleading from Maggie, Charlie agrees. Before, he disappears, he is proud of Maggie. And she tells Charlie that she is her father’s daughter.

Charlie and Alex

Alex gets a call from a guy that looks like he is harrassing her and asking her for something but she hangs up on him. But this guy is persistent and Alex asks him to stop calling her. However, he wants Alex to pick him up from this hell. Alex hangs up on him when she sees Charlie who helps treat her for the prisoner bite.

Charlie is surprised that Alex is advocating for Lily. Alex leaves to take care of the guy who keeps on calling her.

This guy his name is Luke and we assume it is her brother who she bails out of jail for breaking a store front window. The siblings have an argument over his behaviour and she doesn’t want Luke to go to their mother for help. The two then put their argument on hold to go out for dinner.

Joel and Dana Kinney

Joel drops by to see Dana Kinney (Wendy Crewson) who has entered private practice after being passed over for Chief. She seems to have entered the plastic surgery business and is doing quite well for herself. Joel asks Dana if she misses Hope-Zion. Dana says she doesn’t miss it but Joel wants her to come back for one surgery. But she refuses and the go off to lunch at an Ethopian restaurant. They start to feed each other but Dana gets uncomfortable about this and they then continue to enjoy their meal. Joel introduces Dana to the line cook of the restaurant. We see that he has facial paralysis, which obviously is the man that Dana surmised Joel wants her to operate on. Dana leaves pissed stating that she is done with the hospital. Charlie gives Joel some tips on how to get Dana to do the surgery. It looks like the surgery might just work.

Embelly, the line cook, comes to visit Dana at her clinic and tells her that he can’t wait for help any longer. Sending Embelly here gets Dana to come to Hope-Zion to do the surgery and she is pissed at Joel for that manipulation. Joel explain Embelly’s history and how he was a slave and it was how he got his facial paralysis. He also tells Embelly’s story of going after the woman he loves.

Dana then goes through with Joel the surgery that she will perform on Embelly. But Dana only came to tell Joel what to do but not do the surgery. Dana can’t come back to Hope-Z so when Joel suggests another doctor perform the surgery, this convinces Dana to do the surgery.

Dana returns to her clinic and sees all the fake plastic people and realizes that she belongs back at Hope-Zion.

Because the surgery is a success, Joel offers her old job back and tries to entice her by offering her the opportunity to do surgeries like Embelly.

Before she leaves, Dana thought Joel asked her out of lunch as a date but she doesn’t tell Joel that.

Joel brings Embelly’s wife to him and the lovebirds are reunited and Dana witnesses the reunion.

Maggie and Gavin

Maggie and Mal are giving Gavin a hard time for crying during a movie when Gavin points out that he has never seen Maggie cry.

Maggie vents to Gavin how Charlie blew her off on his procedure. Gavin brings up Maggie’s father and she states that he was trying to have dinner with her and she refuses to meet with him. Gavin tells her the bad news that her father died and she realizes that the dead body that Charlie was working on was her father. Gavin goes to hug her but she doesn’t look to bereaved and she goes to call her mom.

Maggie starts to tell Gavin about her father and how he was an absentee father. He took a job with the WHO and pretty much abandoned his family.

Over her dead father’s body, she finally cries to mourn him.

Another solid episode with some interesting medical cases and we get to delve more into Maggie’s life and learn more about what makes her tick. It was great to see more of the staff like Gavin be more deeply involved in all the cases this week. And I am so happy that Wendy Crewson is back!

Medical Cases of the Week

A young, hot man is brought into Hope-Zion. Travis Bain is his name and as Alex, Mel, and Jackson work on him, he codes and dies.

At a Morbidity & Mortality (M&M), Alex goes over Travis’ case and we flashback to how he came to her care. Alex tells them that he came in healthy and the point of the M&M is how they lost him. Dawn is playing back seat driver at Alex’s M&M and tells her to just tell the truth about what happened. Alex tells the group that everything began with a stomach ache. We flashback to Travis doing sit-ups and his wife talks fondly about him. We then see Travis experiencing stomach pains. We then see Alex examining him and he doesn’t feel any but as Alex explores more, he does feel some pain and Alex wants to bring him to imaging as she has found something.

Back to the M&M, Shahir asks if it is cancer. We then flashback to see that it wasn’t cancer but a cyst that can be removed by Dr, Reycraft.

Maggie is going to biopsy the growth in his belly. Apparently this biopsy was not approved as Maggie wasn’t aware it was a cyst. The M&M believes this poor communication between the two doctors might have lead to Travis’ death. Dawn and Shahir thinks that by Maggie doing a biopsy, it might have caused a leak that turned fatal.

Next the M&M wants to know about the surgery and ask Reycraft if they knew if the cyst leaked. It is discovered that Maggie was also involved in the surgery and now she and Reycraft, along with Alex are in the hot seat. Since Maggie wasn’t officially listed as part of the surgical team, Mel asks what went wrong.

We see the surgery and things seem to be going well and we see Maggie come in. Alex is surprised that Maggie is the resident that was paged since Maggie just came from her father’s funeral and probably is tired. Maggie says she is okay and the surgery continues with all three them helping. We see that Travis’ stomach is filled some sort of parasite that came from Travis’ dog. Maggie faints and might have caused a leak in the cyst and this where things start to go south.

At the M&M, Alex explains what steps they took in the surgery. The team used some towels dipped in alcohol to kill the parasite but Mel notices that one of the towels was bloody and Dawn asks that maybe the nicked a vessel in all the commotion. Alex says it is possible. Reycraft said that Maggie was holding a clamp that might have caused this. If there was an open vessel, the alcohol could have seeped into his blood stream that would have caused cardiac arrest thus killing Travis.

Charlie goes to comfort Alex as she realizes that it was her fault that Travis died. She blames using the alcohol but Charlie tries to tell her that it wasn’t all her fault. But she wants to take the blame for this and wants to tell Travis’ wife the truth on how he died.

Maggie goes to see Joel about the M&M’s, but he tries to blow her off. But Maggie needs to confess that she left something out: she had a drink, a toast to her dad after the funeral (see below under Maggie and Gavin). After learning that she had a drink and went straight to the OR, Joel suspends her.

We see the aftermath of Alex telling Travis’ wife, Claire, that he has died. She grieves at the life that they were planning and doesn’t know what to do next. Alex wants to tell Claire the truth but she doesn’t seem to want to hear. Alex then learns that there was no autopsy performed on Travis because Reycraft recommended to Claire that one didn’t need to be done. This news surprises Alex.

Alex confronts Reycraft on declining the autopsy. He says that the wife didn’t want to see her husband cut up more but Alex thinks it was his way to cover his ass and wants him to come clean. Reycraft says he didn’t make a mistake but Alex thinks that he should use the M&M to be honest. Alex wants to know why he convinced Claire not to have an autopsy performed on her husband. Reycraft tells her that a weeping woman is his Kryptonite. I am sorry but once again, if you really want me to not think of Erica Durance as Lois Lane in this show then why did that line have to be directed to her. Anyways, Alex says an autopsy is going to be performed on Travis.

Back at the M&M, while waiting for the autopsy, they want to hear Reycraft’s side of things. We learned that while Travis was coding, Reycraft was at home, unreachable. He tells the M&M that he was tired so turned off his phone. Dawn believes that he if was reachable that he could have helped Alex. When Reycraft mentions not being able to be two places at once, Alex remembers a neumonic device that Reycraft used during the surgery. We flashback to the surgery and we see that Reycraft has forgotten the number of vessel loops and he thinks he confirmed the amount. Alex says that Reycraft actually did forget. The autopsy revealed that it wasn’t alcohol poisoning but sepsis caused by the loop blocking his bile duct. Reycraft can’t believe that he killed the patient.

Alone in the M&M room, Alex tells Reycraft that it could happen to anyone but Reycraft doesn’t want her sympathy and before this, his surgical record was stellar. He is pissed that he made a mistake. Alex tells Reycraft that he needs to tell Claire the truth of what happened but Reycraft says that it isn’t his job to do so.

When Alex makes her way to tell Claire, Reycraft decides to join her. While both feel guilty in killing her husband, they know it is the right thing to do in telling her the truth.

Zach brings Charlie to a patient in the ER, Alison Davis, who hurt her ankle while doing yoga. She tells Charlie and Zach that she has no pain and when we see her ankle, it looks seriously dislocated and it looks pale. No pulse can be felt in the ankle. Charlie tells her that she burst some blood vessels. They need to put the ankle back in place and it will be painful. When Zach brings up if she should call a loved one, Alison tells him that she is about to become a nun and her bishop disapproves of her doing yoga. As Charlie examines Alison, she tells Zach and Charlie that she is having second thoughts of becoming a nun because she isn’t seeing spirits or signs of God. Charlie puts her foot back in place but Alison starts having difficulty breathing and her spirit appears to Charlie. We learn that Alison is allergic to the latex gloves. Alison tells Charlie she isn’t ready to die and he does all he can to save her. She thanks him and Alison wakes up.

At Alison’s room, Charlie gifts her with an epi pen. Alison talks how Charlie was with her, not treating her, but with her. Zach looks confused. We next see Alison walking on crutches and Charlie passes by. Alison calls him in and tells him about her out of body experience and that she knows he saw her. Alison is thankful to Charlie has she finally got her sign that she is meant to be a nun. She kisses Charlie as a thank you.

Charlie and Alex

Alex is in on call room when Charlie calls her to talk about an eBay auction for a Charles Mingus album but Jackson interrupts their talk with a medical emergency (see above).

Charlie and Alex talk about their respective cases with a promise of a make-out session in the near future.

Luke shows up at the hospital to find Alex. She is surprised to see him as she thought that he was on his way to St. Catherines. We can see that Alex is fed up with her wayward brother’s behaviour. He wants to stay with Alex but she doesn’t want him staying there. He is practically begging her to let him stay with her. Alex relents and tells him that he can only stay for two days.

We see Luke make himself at him when Charlie gets home and it is almost like an Odd Couple situation where Luke is quite slovenly already.

Joel and Sonja

We find the couple in bed where they talk about how he is no longer her doctor and the continue to make out when the alarm goes off. Sonja checks her phone and sees that her custody hearing has been moved up, she has taken on a co-workers case load and her son, Ryan has a soccer game. As she tells Joel this his attention is not on her. Sonja asks if Joel wants to go to Ryan’s soccer game but he can’t has hospital work is keeping him busy.

Sonja calls Joel to ask him to pickup Ryan because she is having a crazy day. Joel says he can’t because he is busy too. He trying to offer alternatives but Sonja tells him that she can figure it out. But Joel then says that he will see what he can do to help.

Sonja arrives at Ryan’s soccer game and sees Joel practicing with Ryan by shooting balls at him. Joel recounts Ryan’s soccer game to Sonja and she is sorry that she missed the game but whispers to Joel that she owes him. Joel then starts to give some advice to Ryon on how to be a better player for the next game.

Joel calls Sonja up who immediately tells him that she shouldn’t have asked him. Joel tells her that last minute stuff won’t work in his job. He tries to ask Sonja out to a movie with Ryan but she blows him off.

Maggie and Gavin
One of the nurses is admiring the month of June’s calendar photo and asks Maggie if she has checked them out. She tells the nurse no that she prefers her men to be skinny and ironically fearful. We then cut to see Gavin.

Gavin is worried about Maggie. She hasn’t eaten and won’t eat till she buries her father. Gavin wants to be there for Maggie at his funeral but she wants to spare him of all the family drama.

After her dad’s funeral, we see her have that said drink (see above). At this bar, she meets Alex’s brother, Luke. Maggie sees that he is an alcoholic. They talk about families and disappointing them. Maggie chugs one drink and asks for another. Luke thinks that Maggie is going to destroy her life now. Luke talks about disappointing his family and how he turned to drink. Maggie tells Luke that it isn’t her. Luke then asks why isn’t she leaning on her family and boyfriend for comfort but is drinking alone in a bar. I really hope this doesn’t lead to Maggie cheating on Gavin with Luke.

Maggie is mad at herself for screwing everything up. Gavin is trying to be the supportive boyfriend but she doesn’t want that. She doesn’t know what she wants. Gavin tells Maggie that he is pushing her away. As she is about to leave, Gavin wants Maggie just to talk to him. She tells how her step mother wore an in appropriate outfit to her dad’s funeral. Luke then enters the hospital and calls Maggie gorgeous and keeps on walking. Gavin wants to know what was all about and she says that is a story for another time.

The Rest of Hope-Zion

Travis is a firefighter where a bunch of them are at Hope-Zion for a blood drive event. Everyone is mooning over the firefighters. Shahir wants to meet up with one of them, the month of May. This would be Travis.

What I did like about this episode is we see delve a bit more into Reycraft. And we get to see the entire cast really involved in this episode in all stories involved.

Medical Cases of the Week

Alex meets her team (she was named trauma lead by Joel -see below). The first case comes in and it is a pretty bad car accident. Alex delegates to Reycraft and Charlie to treat her. As they are in surgery with her, the men are working on her but something goes wrong and we know something is wrong when Charlie can see her. It probably is her heart and Charlie calls in Dawn. She determines that her aorta has been ruptured and offers some surgical options but the doctor they need for it is not there. It is a profutionist that they need. Meanwhile, this woman’s spirit is talking aloud. Charlie offers to run the by-pass pump and calls the doctor that normally does it to walk him through it. This woman seems to be on a high at being a spirit.

Charlie is working the pump and so far so good. Charlie is reading all the stats of the patient as the surgery goes on.

Next comes in a young woman who has OD’d. Alex starts giving orders and the young woman wakes up. Luke has brought this woman in and Miller treats him. Luke needs her admitted so he can leave.

We then get an other man come in with his neighbour, who has drowned in their apartment’s pool. Fun fact: the man, Graham Kennedy, that brought the neighbour in is Matthew Bennett who played cylon Aaron Doral in Battlestar Galactica and the neighbour is one Ian D. Clark who played Simon Tremayne in Road to Avonlea.

Alex tells Graham that his neighbour will be okay but Graham banged his head from rescuing his neighbour that actually is a homeless man that hangs out at his building. Alex updates the neighbour on his condition and Graham postulates as to why he was in the pool. He wants to do more for him but for now there is nothing he can do. Graham wants to go back to work but Alex wants him to wait considering his head injury.

While Luke is waiting for his OD to get admitted, he offers to help Alex in the ER.

Everything seems to go downhill for everyone as the power, including backup power has gone down.

Because of the full power outage, all the electrical medical equipment is not working.

The power out is a problem for Dawn and Charlie’s surgery. They fear what will happen to her with the pump not working. Bonnie’s buzz is getting killed. Surgery continues on her and Bonnie keeps on talking to the patient and tells him that something is wrong. Charlie talks to Bonnie’s body to explain to her what is happening. He leaves the surgery so he can properly talk to Bonnie. Charlie reassures her of her chances. Bonnie doesn’t want this and explains how she went for a drive with her girlfriend and got into an accident. Apparently the girlfriend, Jackie, is missing and wants Charlie to find her. But Charlie’s priority is Bonnie. Bonnie blames herself for causing accident and begs Charlie to find Jackie and plays the sympathy card like what happened if this was Alex.

Charlie goes to see Alex to see if anyone brought in another woman and he gets the paramedics to go back to the scene of Bonnie’s accident to find Jackie. Alex thinks something is wrong with Charlie.

Back to Bonnie’s surgery, it is complete now they make moves to warm her body up. As they wait for the saline to work, Dawn and Charlie walk down memory lane the last time there was a blackout.

Wit the power back on, the pump is working but Bonnie isn’t responding because she is distraught over Jackie. Charlie once again leaves the surgery to find out that the paramedics have found Jackie who is alive. Back to Bonnie’s surgery, Dawn is going to shock her heart. We focus again on Jackie who is now awake and responsive. Bonnie tells Charlie how she will never forget this but he says that she will. Meanwhile, Bonnie is doing all right.

Miller gives the results to the homeless man to Alex and it seems his body has been through the wringer. We learn that this man is Graham’s father and his broken ribs came from an old injury. Graham tells Alex that his father was a bad one but Graham starts having breathing difficulty as he swallowed some chlorinated water and now is drowning. Air is not getting into his lungs despite being intubated. Now they are putting in an Macgyver like chest tube in him and it works.

Mr. Kennedy has woken up and Alex offers him a place in the hospice. It is at this point in the episode that I realize that Mr. Kennedy is a victim of elder abuse. Despite this, Mr. Kennedy is by his son’s side because he is family.

Luke’s OD patient is getting worse and he starts to shout of an order about giving a lot of insulin. Instead they want to use the paddles on her yet Luke defies them and goes ahead and pushes the insulin in and it solved their problem. He says he knows what he is doing but Alex thinks otherwise and she wants him to leave.

Charlie, Alex and Dawn

Alex and Charlie come home and hear some noises in their apartment. They find the door unlock and see someone rummaging in their kitchen. It is Luke who made a mess of their kitchen. It seems the city is going through a blackout. Luke has a peace offering has made the couple dinner but it isn’t quite up to scratch. Charlie wants Luke gone and he offers to leave by morning. Luke by the way is a paramedic.

It is morning and still no power and Luke is still at their apartment. His excuse not to leave is the heat wave that the city is suffering. He will find his own place once he gets his first pay check. Also, it seems that most emergency medical cases are going to Hope-Zion.

After the surgery, Dawn catches up with Charlie in the on call room. Dawn wants to know what is up with him and that she believes more than others do. She is worried about him, that he has become strange since waking up from his coma. Charlie tells her that she doesn’t have to worry about him anymore. Dawn says she wants to and goes to kiss him but he pulls away and tells her that he is in love with Alex. Dawn responds back does Alex know that he is a mess.

Back at Charlie and Alex’s, Luke and Alex have a brother-sister chat and he shares with her a childhood memory of their drunken mother and how he promised he wouldn’t end up like her but he did. Alex understands his broken promise and they share more childhood memories. Alex tells Luke that he isn’t a burden on her but he disagrees and promises to change.

Charlie comes home with some beer in hand and hangs the Reid siblings.

Joel and Maggie

He assigns Alex as the trauma lead to handle any cases that occur. He goes to see Mel about budgets and beds in her departments and the argue about it.

She comes to Hope-Zion to study for her boards and to check up on some of her post-op patients. One is Roddy (Red Green’s Patrick McKenna), who asks her how her studying is going and offers to quiz her on her boards. As he does, Maggie doesn’t seem so sure at the answers. Maggie checks up on Roddy’s leg, who has flesh eating disease, and all looks well -but of course we know things we probably go south. Maggie takes Roddy for a “walk” to dialysis One their way, they meet up with Joel and discuss cars.

With the power out, Maggie, Roddy and Joel are all stuck in the elevator. We learn a fire caused the backup generator to go out.

Roddy is not doing well without the dialysis. Maggie gets a call from Gavin who updates her on their rescue. Maggie asks Gavin to give her some drugs to help Roddy and Joel gives instructions on how he can do so. But the plan to get the drugs through the elevator shaft hits a snag as the overhear hatch is locked and Joel can’t get it open.

Roddy is getting hyperkalemic without the dialysis and is getting worse. To keep his mind off of his condition, Roddy and Joel go to quiz Maggie but Roddy passes out. Maggie starts chest compressions but Joel feels no pulse and we see those light flares again that was around a lot in season1. Seeing this we know that Roddy is dead. Just as Roddy dies, the power comes back on. As the elevator makes it to their destination, Joel and Maggie are silent and as the doors open, Gavin is their to meet them and Maggie tells them they were literally 10 feet away from saving him.

Joel lifts Maggie’s suspension but Maggie is miffed over Joel’s attitude over Roddy’s death as if nothing happened and now is back to being Chief. As Maggie walks away, Joel offers his condolences over the loss of her father.

The Rest of Hope-Zion

Miller seems to have enjoyed the chaos of the day and Mel asks if he is okay. Apparently, Miller has been staying at a motel so Mel offers her place to stay, which he accepts.

As we are nearing the half-way point of season 2, I am not quite sure where the show is heading. In season 1, we knew that the season finale would be Charlie waking up from his coma but there is no indication what season 2 is all about aside from being a medical drama and the fact that Charlie can see dead people/spirits. Does season 2 lead to Charlie telling Alex his secret and her leaving him thus leaving the door open for Dawn to swoop in? I don’t know but I hope it gets clearer soon. Also, with Daniel Gillies also in The Originals and if Saving Hope gets a third season, would Gillies return?

Joel and Alex

Joel and Alex are driving on their way to a medical conference.  Joel tells her about the lady he is seeing and the fact that she has a car.

They seem to be lost and they discuss past trips they took together when they were in a relationship. They stop at a gas station and Alex starts to panic as she perceives that they are running late.

While at the gas station store, Joel is in behind a guy that looks pretty nervous but he also notices that he has an infected tattoo. But this guy is nervous for a reason, he pulls out a gun and robs the store. Joel gives him his car and Alex comes in and the guy steals her purse. The robber wants more money and when the store clerk, Diane, says there is no more, he shoots her in the leg and it is bad as he hit the artery in her femur. The robber has taken their cell phones so they use a landline to call for an ambulance. But the ambulance won’t come for another 45 minutes. The way they argue, Diane thinks they are married.

As they wait for the ambulance, Alex and Joel treat Diane as best they can using the supplies in the store. Joel tells Diane that they aren’t married. Joel did say that he did propose but Alex says that his question wasn’t really a proposal.

The duo use their make shift medical equipment to stop her bleeding. Diane again asks for her husband, Jack. Joel goes to look for him and find him on the ground unconscious. Joel manages to revive him as the robber ran Jack over with Joel’s car and Joel discovers that Jack’s leg is broken. Alex and Joel need a way to move Jack safely. They use a creeper and duct tape and a travel pillow to move Jack. When a car passes by, Joel tries to flag it down to no avail. They then move Jack back inside.

Alex calls for an ambulance again to come and help Diane and Jack. Unfortunately, the ambulance took the robber who crashed Joel’s car. Diane’s condition gets worse and is now unconscious and has lots of blood. Alex wants to donate her blood to Diane but Joel thinks she is crazy as he worries that she might injure herself. But they push through and start the process of the blood transfusion. Joel is worried that they will both become septic over the procedure. But the procedure goes on and they get blood flow and the transfusion begins. Diane becomes stable and Alex is grateful to be here instead of making her speech at the medical conference.

Alex is starting to get woozy and since her blood pressure went below a certain level, he stops the blood transfusion. They share a brief moment but Joel ends it as he tells Alex to get some rest.

The ambulance finally arrives, hours later to take Jack and Diane away.

At their hotel, Joel and Alex debrief about their day. As they call it night, they both seem awkward around each other. When Alex enters her room, Alex takes a look at herself in the mirror with a look of somewhat accomplishment over the day and perhaps looking back at her relationship with Joel.

Charlie

Charlie has picked up his former college roommate, Ford. But it isn’t a visit but more like a medical emergency. He has a busted leg that he sustained while in Africa and it is a nasty wound as it is a really open one as the bone is exposed and a metal rod is keeping it in place. Alex calls Charlie to make dinner plans. Charlie apologizes for ruining their weekend when Ford talks to Alex to explain the situation.

Ford’s leg injury has become septic and there is a possibility that he could lose his leg. Ford apologies again for ruining his weekend with Alex but Charlie says she understands. And so Ford’s surgery leaves. Maggie is helping Charlie on the surgery and is surprised that he wants to save Ford’s leg.

This is a pretty gross but at the same time interesting surgery that got more complicated as Maggie found maggots that puts a wrench in saving Ford’s leg. Maggie removes all the maggots and determine that Ford took a long time seeking treatment. As they continue the surgery the find bullets and metal fragments in the leg.

Charlie shows the treatment he is going to use to Maggie when Dana comes in to assist in the plastics part of the surgery. When Dana sees the wound, she tells Charlie that it is impossible to save. Charlie then smells smoke and lo and behold, Ford appears to him as a spirit smoking a cigarette. Dana wants to amputate but Charlie wants to save it. Charlie thinks of Ford like a brother and wants Dana’s help to save him.

In the on-call room, Charlie talks to Ford and seeks his advice on the fact that he can see ghosts. Ford thinks it is cool and that Charlie should embrace his gift to help others; wrongs he could make rights. Charlie says he will think about it but Ford wants him to commit. Charlie is then called back to his surgery.

It seems that Dana was successful in Ford’s surgery. Charlie gets a call that let him know that Ford is uninsured and unemployed. Charlie is at the hospital lobby wondering who is real and a spirit.

Ford is awake and Charlie wants to know what happened to Ford that caused him to lose his job. Ford tells Charlie that he killed a man to stop an act of violence. Ford wants Charlie to come join him as he takes on freelance gigs but Charlie declines. Ford then takes a picture of him and Charlie together. When Ford takes a look at the picture, he claims that Charlie looks like a ghost.

The Rest of Hope-Zion

Shahir has a complaint against him for having a bad bed side manner and is venting to Gavin and Maggie and asks for advice on what to do. Gavin offers to help Shahir with his bedside manner.

Gavin suggests that Shahir to role play and use Zach as the patient. Zach wants to know more about his character until the final get down to the role playing. Shahir is blunt so Gavin gives him some advice on how to better deliver bad medical news better. Shahir’s second attempt goes just as bad.

Shahir is talking to the complaining patient and he goes to over sympathetic. The patient wants him to be himself so Shahir tells him the truth and actually does a good job at telling him the bad news on his medical condition. Shahir tries to connect with the patient through music.

At the doctor’s lounge, Shahir tells Gavin how things went with his patient. Shahir tells Gavin a bit about what is going on in his personal life and something that his patient said to him affected him. Shahir tells Gavin he worries about not finding love.

Maggie comes in and talk briefly about her surgery and they seem to go away for some sexual role play.

Shahir later visits his patient and takes him to where the hospital has a piano and Shahir plays for him. As this piece plays, we see Maggie and Gavin making out in his office.

After Shahir plays his piece, the patient is very appreciative of the gesture and withdraws his complaint.

There is something I wish that Saving Hope would do. I would love to see how Alex and Charlie fell in love as that might help me care a bit about them more. Alex’s ordeal of getting Charlie back in season 1 should do that but I love to see their love story. Was Alex with Joel when she started working at Hope-Zion or was their relationship over at that point. Let us see Alex and Joel and the reasons why they didn’t work out instead of us hearing about it. We have 10 episodes remaining and maybe one or two of them could be a flashback episode. Judging from next week’s episode we may just get a glimpse at what their relationship was like.

It is the Summer finale for Saving Hope and CTV has yet to announce when the remaining 9 episodes will air. While I am not in love with this show, I do love Erica Durance and I hope that there is a third season of the show so I can see more of her on our TV screens.

Anyways, on to the action….

As the episode opens, we see Charlie and Alex in bed, it looks like they are in the hospital and post-coital, they declare their love but Alex tells Charlie that he seems distant but then Charlie becomes Joel and Alex wakes up.

She heads down to the lobby and meets up with Charlie and Joel. Joel leaves and Alex tells Charlie about a speech that Luke is going to do.

Alex’s medical case

Their patient is a female to male transgender one. Alex goes over the procedure with him, who wants to be called Riley (played by Degrassi’s Justin Kelly) and is documenting his procedure. Maggie comes in to show Alex and Reycraft Riley’s CT and they find a tumor. The doctors try to determine what kind of tumour it is but see that it is a tumour that can multiply. They go in and tell Riley the bad news. Apparently this news means that they can’t remove Riley’s uterus and ovaries and will need to off his testosterone as it might increase his chances of cancer. Alex promises to find out what is wrong with him.

So Alex performs the surgery on Riley that she consulted Joel on (see below) and they are running into some complications. Alex fixes the problem but Reycraft wants to stop the surgery before any more complications happen.

Alex tells the Riley the bad news and the hysterectomy surgery is too dangerous and can’t complete the surgery. Riley takes the news really bad. Alex thinks that Riley is getting extra testosterone that is causing his mood swings.

Riley’s mother discharges her son as he wants to get his surgery done in Aruba and is insistent on going despite Alex’s protest. Riley then starts clutching his chest and starts having difficulty breathing and collapses in the hospital lobby.

Dawn goes into consult as Riley had a irregular heart beat. We see that Riley is hopped on steroids that caused his condition and mood swings.

Alex believes that Riley’s mom supplied him with the drugs. She tells Alex that all she wanted to do was help Riley because she messed up when he was born. Riley had both male and female parts. Doctors recommended that they wait to see what he identified with but she couldn’t and decided she wanted a daughter and kept the rest secret even from Riley.

Alex and Maggie looks over Riley’s medical records and look over the procedures that took away his male parts. They discover that his tumour is actually 20 year old scar tissue.

Alex then tells Riley that she will perform his hysterectomy and gets his mom to reveal the truth about how she decided that he would be a girl. This news upsets Riley.

When Riley wakes up, Alex tells him that his surgery was a success and he asks to see his mom. Mother and son reunite. As a gift, she gives him his student card and calls him son.

Charlie’s medical case

Charlie is treating Jenna, a woman who hurt her leg pretty bad in a trampoline accident. She doesn’t want to be put under or drugs to help her with the pain so Zach gives her the bare minimum and they set her leg back in place. Jenna seems to be in a rush to leave as she needs to complete things before midnight as she believes she will die at that time.

Gavin is brought into consult on what Jenna told Charlie. Jenna believes that since she is turning 40 tomorrow that she will die since no one in her family has survived past the age of 39. She cites all the females in family that died shortly before turning 40.

Gavin gives Charlie his diagnosis on Jenna and the root cause is her mother’s death. Gavin tells Charlie that Jenna needs to feel like she is being heard.

Jenna needs to go and Charlie tells her that she understands what she is going through and that she takes her seriously.

Charlie gives the results of her tests and gives her the all clear and she leaves saying tonight’s episode’s title “Vamanos”.

However, instead of leaving as Charlie thinks she is, she goes up to the roof of the hospital. Charlie thinks that she is going to jump but Jenna just wants to see the Perseus meteor shower that occurs every August. Jenna asks Charlie if he believes in the afterlife. Charlie answers that he does.

Charlie and Jenna wait for midnight to hit and he shows her that it is 12:01am so she survived. Now she has some regrets as she made a scene at work and maxed out her credit cards. She gives a kiss of thanks and leaves.

When Charlie roams the halls again, he sees Jenna again but this time she has no cast and we realize that she is a spirit. We see Zach performing CPR on Jenna who collapsed on the floor. So it seem that Jenna’s family is indeed cursed.

The official cause of death is natural causes. Dawn diagnoses her with something that I didn’t catch. Charlie feels responsible for not catching it and wants to deal with Jenna’s body’s arrangements.

Charlie apologies to Jenna’s spirit for failing her and that she will soon pass over and he promises to stay with her when she does. She tells Charlie a story of the song of Vamanos and she leaves.

Joel’s medical case

Sonja as brought in a patient of hers for Joel to see. This man is a recovering alcoholic and went off the band wagon and ended up with an infection and the trouble is Hewell has ended up stuck in the walls of Hope-Zion. Sonja needs Joel’s help to get him out without anyone finding out as she could get in trouble as she didn’t report her patient as breaking parole. He does ended up helping.

Alex goes to seek Joel’s help in what to do with Riley’s tumor and gets his approval on the procedure she wants to perform. Before this, Sonja meets Alex and realizes that she is a very attractive woman, which surprises her.

Anyways, Joel and Sonja work together to free Hewell. While they are working on that, Sonja wants to know more about Joel’s past relationship with Alex. He tells her they are only friends now.

We discover that Hewell is upside down and now is arm is killing him and that could cause problems since it is the arm that hurts.

As Joel gets better equipment to free Hewell, he reunites with Luke where they catch up.

Joel begins the work on removing Hewell and it complete and he gets himself out much to Sonja’s happiness.

Joel updates Sonja on Hewell’s condition and she thanks him for his help. Sonja asks him about the photo shoot that he had to do. He mentions advice that Alex gave him. When he talks of plans with Sonja, she seems reluctant to do anything. Sonja believes that Joel can’t commit to her because he still has feelings for Alex and essentially breaks up with him. I actually hope not. I like Erin Karpluk and she is supposed to be a recurring guest star and three episodes isn’t recurring to me.

Episode’s End

We see Charlie drive by the trampoline that caused Jenna to come to Hope-Zion. We then are at Luke’s talk about his addiction. Alex is there and is waiting for Charlie to show up but Joel comes instead.

In his speech, Luke thanks Alex for her support. And she looks on like a proud sister and tells Joel so. Joel wonders where Charlie is and Alex tells him that he is supposed to be there. Luke joins them and the three take off to get some waffles.

As the song “Vamanos” plays we see Charlie jumping on that trampoline.

So ends Saving Hope for the summer and it didn’t really leave on a cliffhanger. I don’t really like where this show is taking Alex and Charlie. They seemed like such a solid couple that I really hope they don’t break them up. Whenever CTV decides to air the remaining 9 episodes, we get to find out.

While CTV has yet to air the remaining 9 episodes of Saving Hope’s second season, the Canadian Broadcaster has announced today that it has renewed the supernatural medical drama for an 18 episode third season.

Saving Hope stars Erica Durance (Smallville’s Lois Lane) as Dr. Alex Reid, a surgeon in Toronto’s Hope-Zion hospital, who spent most of the first season by the bedside of her comatose fiancee Dr. Charlie Harris (Stargate SG1′s Michael Shanks).

The premise of the show revolved around the fact that while Charlie was in a coma, he was able to communicate with spirits and when he woke up, he continued to see these spirits. It is this ability that helps Charlie diagnose and treat his patients. However, in season 2, keeping this ability secret from Alex has created a bit of a strain between the two and it looks like Alex’s ex, fellow doctor Joel Goren (The Original’s Daniel Gillies) will be right there to help comfort her.

The show also stars, Wendy Crewson, Huse Madhavji, Julia Taylor-Ross, Kristopher Turner, Michelle Nolden and Benjamin Ayres.

According to the CTV press release announcing the renewal, Saving Hope averaged 1.3 million viewers each week.

“The viewer response to the summer season left little doubt that we needed to sign up for more,” stated Phil King, President, CTV Programming and Sports.

Ilana Frank, the show’s executive added in the same statement that “CTV has shown great confidence in this show, and we’re thrilled to see that yet again with this order for a third season.”

Personally, I am glad that Saving Hope is back for a third season. I love Erica Durance and she is the only reason why I watch the show. But a question remains though is will Daniel Gillies return for the third season. Currently, he is pulling double duty doing this show and also The Originals and since that show is a hit for the CW, I have a feeling that we might not see Dr. Goren in season 3 or at least they will write him off in some early season 3 episodes.

Saving Hope’s season 2 winter premiere is coming in January while season 3 production is set for spring 2014. Catch up on what has happened so far with our episode recaps.

Don’t let CTV fool you into thinking that tonight’s episode is the season 3 premiere of Saving Hope. It is in fact the premiere of the second half of season 2 where the final 9 episodes will unspool before Grey’s Anatomy returns.

Alex, Charlie, Joel and Luke

In an empty hospital room, Alex and Charlie are making out but are interrupted when he sees a spirit. Alex thinks that Charlie is keeping a secret about Luke. Charlie confesses that he found some pills in Luke’s jacket. This interrupts their sexy times.

Meanwhile, we see Luke at a construction site trying to talk down a  jumper while Alex is trying to call him to ream him out. Luke manages to talk him down, however, the man slips and they both fall and Luke seriously injured as it looks like he gets impaled with a rod in his leg and bones showing.

When Alex goes searching for Charlie, Zach becomes evasive but tells her about Luke.

He comes onto the scene to care for Luke and decides that they need to cut the rod to save Luke. Luke is brought into Hope-Zion so further his care and Charlie is brought into consult. Joel tells Charlie that Luke doesn’t want Alex to know that he has been hurt. Charlie and Joel work together to save Luke and his leg is a mess. The two men work on giving Luke a new bone for his leg.

Alex is pissed that no one told her about Luke. She wants to scrub in but Joel says she can’t and let them do their jobs to save him.

Joel and Charlie argue about Luke’s behaviour. Charlie talks smack about him while Joel defends Luke. This seems to turn into a conversation about Alex.

Charlie tells Alex that Luke is going to pull through.

Luke is awake and is apologetic to Alex for always bringing bad luck into their lives. Luke wishes they could go back to a time when he wasn’t a drunk and thinks Alex is ashamed of him.

Luke tells Alex that the pills Charlie found wasn’t his but it seems that Alex doesn’t believe him but tells him that she does as she leaves.

Joel goes to check up on him but something is wrong with Luke and he starts to code. Mal sees that there is tons of blood around his heart and Joel performs emergency surgery to drain the blood.

Charlie gets Alex who runs to him. But Charlie then sees Luke indicating that he is dying. Alex sees Mal and Joel try to save him and she can’t move and won’t leave.

Charlie goes to talk Luke’s spirit to try and convince him to live but Luke is ready to die and thinks that Alex is better off without him. He wants Charlie to do something for him but Charlie doesn’t listen but runs off to be with Alex.

After trying for over 30 minutes, Joel calls Luke’s time of death and Alex is devastated.

Alex asks Charlie about him missing something during Luke’s surgery. She is taking out her grief on him. Charlie doesn’t know what to say to her.

Alex believes that Luke died thinking she is mad at him. Luke is feeding Charlie everything he wanted to say to Alex. She then shares stories about her brother and that she is proud of him and she regrets that he will never know but little does she know that he does know.

Charlie tells Alex that Luke did hear him and reveals what he went through during him coma and tells her that he can still see spirits/ghosts. Alex doesn’t believe him and feels she is going crazy and runs off. She goes to the morgues and pulls out Luke’s body and hugs it. She puts the body back out repeatedly bangs on the door in a rage and grief.

Gavin and Maggie

Alex and Maggie are taking are of a pregnant woman, Carrie,  (Rachel Craword) with twins but she also has a cancerous tumor. Her OBGYN comes in, Dr. Calfous (Eric Johnson). and Alex discusses the case with him Maggie seems smitten because of how good-looking he is and Alex leaves.

Maggie is embarrassing in front fo Dr. Calfous and is a bit spacy during the surgery of the pregnant lady. Alex is trying to remove a tumor that is outside the uterus and is running into some complications that involve her water breaking thus is in labour. It looks like the babies might not survive nor the mother. Dr. Calfous, Maggie and Alex work together to try and save the babies but it seems that Dr. Calfous can only save one. So Alex asks him to leave so she can save the mother. Carrie is informed that one of her twins is dying inside her and is quite upset. She wants to induce labour to let her child live. But Alex says that is not an option. Carrie doesn’t want her child to die inside her. However, Alex tells her that Carrie is tumour free.

Maggie comes to Calfous and Alex with an experimental way to save the other baby. Alex wants to do it and Calfous is convinced to do it.

Maggie then turns to Gavin for some “therapy” about her crush on Dr. Calfous. She tells him that she thinks that is good looking in his own way but not as sexy as Dr. Calfous. This makes Maggie fell better but not so for Gavin it seems.

Gavin, is a bit unsecure, asks Zach how good looking he is and they then encounter Dr. Calfous where Zach says that he is one good looking dude.

Dr. Calfous, Alex and Maggie perform the surgery. When it appears that something is wrong, Carrie starts to panic impeding the surgery but Alex manages to calm her down and the surgery is a success.

Calfous congratulates Maggie on her help and when she goes to apologize for her behaviour, he drops a bombshell: she is pregnant!

Alex pays Carrie a visit and they listen to her babies heartbeats and it gives them both a sense of calm.

Meanwhile, Maggie visits Gavin and asks him about getting a dog. When he says that they are too busy for pets this seems to indicate that perhaps they have no room for kids and that she may get an abortion.

Smallville fun fact: Dr. Calfous is played by Eric Johnson, who played Whitney Fordham in season 1 of Smallville and of course we know that Erica Durance played Lois Lane. Even though the two were seasons apart, we had a mini Smallville reunion. And having Maggie call Dr. Calfous Superman is hilarious. Does she realize who she is saying this line to?

So I am glad that Charlie finally told Alex the truth about his abilities and it seems next week Alex might be open to accepting this.

Tonight’s episode picks up after the events of episode 10 “Wishbones”. Let’s get to recapping the action to our favourite doctors at Hope-Zion.

Alex, Charlie and Luke

Alex and Charlie are viewing Luke’s body in the morgue just before it will be sent to the funeral home. Alex wants Charlie to talk to Luke considering his revelation in the last episode but Luke is not there. Alex is not ready to sign the release forms and returns to work.

Alex talks to Zach about throwing a memorial service for Luke. A man, Marvin, approaches Alex with her young son, Lou (which Alex thought was Luke) about operating on his son’s sarcoma after reading a paper that Alex wrote back in her 3rd year of residency. This young boy has a nasty looking tumour on his stomach and Martin hopes that Alex will help Lou.

Alex is examining Lou and Marvin tells how Lou was misdiagnosed and by the time they realized something was wrong, were told it was too late but Alex’s paper has given them hope.

Alex goes to Joel about getting approval to do Lou’s surgery but Joel doesn’t think it is a good idea. He tells her if he can get another doctor to agree then she can but really she shouldn’t. However, Alex tells Martin and Lou that the surgery is a go.

Luke finally appear to Charlie. Both aren’t thrilled to see each other. Luke wants to know why he is still here and what he needs to do to move on. Charlie tells him that he needs to resolve an issue. Alex comes and this ends their conversation.

Alex is looking over the x-rays of Lou’s. Reycraft talks about the impossibility of her surgery. Later, Alex approaches Charlie with Lou’s chart and gets his opinion. She asks for his help. They then go to Dana about being part of the surgery. Dana believes that this is a lost cause but Alex brings up Dana’s daughter. However, Dana says she will do the surgery if Alex can drain a golf shot.

Alex obviously does and asks Reycraft to help. After some negotiating, Reycraft is in and so is Maggie.

Alex gathers her team and she goes over the game plan on the operation. Alex then introduces the team to Lou.

I have to say the young boy playing Lou is quite good. Not only is he cute but he is holding his own in all this medical jargon and around the adult actors too.

Meanwhile, Luke finally talks Charlie. Luke says that Alex can’t let go and he needs her to sign the release papers so he can move on. Just when it looks like Charlie won’t help, Charlie changes his mind.

Lou’s surgery starts but they hit a road block when they encounter an unseen vein but Alex manages to get to it but she cut off the vein that brings blood from the leg to the heart. Alex thinks she can fix her mistake.Another obstacle, the tumour is touching Lou’s vertebrae. Alex needs Charlie and goes to get him.

On her way, Alex encounters Marvin. When he sees her, Marvin thinks Lou is dead. She mentions the complications but that Lou is stable.

Charlie tells Luke about what happened to him during his coma. Luke believes that he is sticking around to be sure that Alex is okay. Alex sees Charlie talking to Luke and overhears him talking to Luke about signing the funeral home release. Alex interrupts and tells him she needs his help and that she will sign the release.

As the head to the surgery, Charlie worries about doing the surgery but Alex is insists that he can. Charlie then enters the surgery to do is work. Alex wants to ask Charlie a question but doesn’t ask it.

Charlie is now working on Lou and then Alex and Reycraft jump in. But it looks like Charlie might have nicked Lou’s spinal cord but the damage doesn’t seem to be that bad. Charlie corrects his mistake and the surgery continues.

The surgery seems a success as there are no tumours to be found and Maggie removes the tumour. Next up is Dana who closes Lou up but before that can happen, Alex collapses and Luke is looking on.

Outside, Maggie and Alex have a conversation. Alex tells Maggie that she was great while Maggie tells her that she is pregnant. Maggie can’t find the moment to tell Gavin and offer her condolences over Luke. Alex tells Maggie to tell Gavin.

Charlie comes by and asks if Alex is okay but she doesn’t know and Luke looks distraught over Alex.

Alex visits Lou and tells him that his surgery was a miracle. The young lad looks concern. He wonders if his dad will still like him now that he is not sick. Alex says that yes he will. Marvin comes in a reassures his son that nothing will change about their close father-son relationship.

Charlie finds Luke and tells him that Alex signed the release and that she is starting to let him go and he can move on. Charlie says that Luke doesn’t have to watch over her anymore that she will be okay. Luke doesn’t think so. Luke believes that Alex will try and fix Charlie if he revealed the truth in what he can do. Luke believes that he is there to protect Alex from Charlie so that he doesn’t bring her down in trying to fix him. Charlie seems to come to the decision not to tell Alex everything and this gets Luke to move on.

Joel

Joel seems to be back at being the playboy. He runs into Dana and tells her that the hospital board is extending his contract as Chief of Surgery but Joel doesn’t seeem quite satisfied with the job as he feels that the staff always want something from him.

Joel is examining Ida (Diane D’Aquila) who has suffered a leg fracture and she also has Parkinson’s. A nurse comes in to take Ida away for a study that involves biking. Shahir is doing this study and Joel finds out this is costing the hospital a lot of money.

When Ida starts doing the exercise for his study, Joel doesn’t see the point. When Ida falls off the stationary bike, Joel rushes to her side.

This causes Joel to cancel Shahir’s study. But Shahir defends his study and yells at Joel for having any feelings.

Joel is examining Ida. He wonders why Ida wanted to do the study and says that it gave her hope. Ida wants to know how much the study is and wants to contribute her $500 winnings to it. This seems to get Joel to change his mind about Shahir’s study.

Joel visits Shahir and tells him that he does have feelings but can’t express them as the Chief. Shahir thinks that Joel is coming on to him but this gets cleared up. But Joel wants to show Shahir something.

Gavin and Dawn

Gavin is dealing with a patient, Walter, that needs his help immediately. He is distraught as he has lost something. He believes someone has kidnapped what looks like a pet, a guinea pig. Walter collapses with chest pains and Dawn comes on the scene.

Walter is pleased that the hospital found his guinea pig. Dawn is examining Walter and he requires something to help his heart. Gavin is working on Walter to let go of his guinea pig so he can reconnect with the human race. Dawn tells Walter that she will give his guinea pig a good home. This pleases Walter but confounds Gavin. He confronts Dawn for lying to Walter about taking his guinea pig but Dawn thinks there is nothing wrong with giving him hope. Gavin believes Dawn doing that will cause Walter to slide further backwards and reattach himself to his guinea pig.

Gavin is about to deliver the news that Dawn won’t take his guinea pig but Walter goes on about how nice Dawn would be to take her. Gavin is about to deliver the bad news but Dawn comes in and tells Walter that she will keep the guinea pig in her office so she can take care of her. This surprises Gavin. Dawn says Walter can visit the guinea pig whenever he likes.

The Rest of Hope-Zion

In a funny scene, Reycraft is asking Maggie to make her NFL picks. It seems that Maggie has been picking winners and is also making some money off this. But Maggie knows nothing about football and jus picks the city she rather vacation in when Reycraft lists the game match-ups.

The end of the episode features a montage over Reuben and the Dark’s “Shoulderblade” of Lou and Marvin reading a story together, Walter handing over his guinea pig to Dawn, Joel overseeing Shahir cycle stud with Ida successfully riding a bike. And Gavin and Maggie biking where Maggie tells Gavin that she is pregnant which causes Gavin to topple over his bike.

At the creek that Luke mentioned, we see Alex with his ashes and spreads it in it. Alex seems at peace at that moment.

Back at the hospital. Alex tells Charlie that she saw him talking to himself and that she will fight for them. But Charlie says that is the problem. Despite the fact that Charlie loves her, he tells her that he needs to fix himself by himself. It seems that Charlie has broken up with Alex but that is left unclear.

The thing is Charlie didn’t retract that he can see dead people to Alex and Alex witnessed something so she is not sure what is up with Charlie. I am not quite sure now where the show is going now: are we back to Charlie keeping his secret a secret or will Alex accept his gift. It will be interesting to see where this goes.

And next week Dana becomes the patient and I predict now that Charlie will see Dana as a spirit as something about her surgery will go wrong.

Get a peek at 10 images from Saving Hope’s next episode entitled “Nottingham 7″.  If you haven’t seen episode 11 “En Bloc” the following summary for episode 12 contains some spoilers:

Alex (Erica Durance) is still reeling from her breakup with Charlie (Michael Shanks), but when one of the doctors at Hope Zion Hospital asks for her help in dealing with a cancer case, Alex begins research to perform a surgery that could save their life. However, while trying to help the cancer patient, Alex is surprised to discover that the patient isn’t just an anonymous stranger – it’s one of her fellow doctors on staff at Hope Zion Hospital. Meanwhile, Joel (Daniel Gillies) checks in with a former patient – a ballerina whose hip he replaced using a brand new prosthetic from the innovative Sabian Medical Corporation. When the prosthetic proves faulty and kills his patient, Joel’s position as Chief of Surgery is jeopardized as he’s forced to take on both the powerful company and his former lover, who just happens to work for them. Charlie attempts to help Joel with his fight, but ends up distracted by the ghost of the ballerina, who has one last wish she needs help fulfilling.

Check out the images here:

“Nottingham 7″ will air on CTV January 16, 2014 at 9pm PT/ET

Erica Durance as Alex Reid and Wendy Crewson as Dana Kinney clink their glasses for a toast

Tonight’s episode has our doctors of Hope-Zion operating on one of their own: Dana Kinney (Wendy Crewson).

Alex and Dana

We open with Maggie, Alex and Dana checking on a breast cancer patient, Amelia. During the surgery, talk turns to Alex’s breakup with Charlie.

Later, back at Dana’s office, she and Alex seem to be doing some sort of breast cancer study and talk about the next patient. They mention the episode’s title “Nottingham 7″. which apparently is bad if you have breast cancer.

We find out that Dana is the patient and she assumed the tumour in her breast is benign, however that is not the case after a biopsy. Dana wants Alex to be her surgeon but Alex is not comfortable as she has not done that many lumpectomies but Dana has confidence in her and her surgery will be in 48 hours.

After Alex completes Dana’s breast exam, Dana is not being the best patient and refusing any tests be it blood or MRI to be conducted on her. And Alex wants to be sure this surgery goes off smoothly and starts studying her ass off and make sure everything is in its right place the day of the surgery.

But it seems that the rest of Hope-Zion has no clue that the patient that Alex is operating is Dana.

Back at Dana’s office, Alex goes through the surgery with her but with Dana quizzing her. When Alex doesn’t answer one question to her satisfaction, the two get into a debate on her surgery and Dana being a bad patient. This escalates to a personal attack on how their significant others broke up with them because of their personality and thus results in Dana firing Alex as her doctor.

However, Alex doesn’t give up and visits Dana at her home (and what a lovely home it is). A test came back positive and that a lumpectomy won’t cut it as there would be an 80% chance of the cancer returning. Dana realizes the only option is a double masectomy and says while they are at they should take out her ovaries.

Over several glasses and presumably bottles of white wine, the two talk about how a double masectomy is the best option. When Dana goes to answer the door to get the pizza, Alex gets a phone call from Charlie. It is hard for her to talk to him considering their break up and she soon ends their call (more on why Charlie called is below). Dana, who is clearly drunk, comes back with pizza and has scored some pot and she tells Alex how she will mourn the loss of her breasts and the two toast the “Pointer sisters”. Now as a fan of Smallville, if you recall, Oliver called Lois’ breast the Pointer sisters in season 10′s “Fortune” so when I heard that, I thought back to that episode.

Anyways, after the toast, Dana suggests that the two skinny dip. The two do but in a neighbours pool. When they return home, both now clearly drunk, Dana has locked herself out of the house. The police arrive because they swam in the neighbours pool to see what is going on. Alex tries to defuse the situation by saying that Dana lives in the house. However, Dana can’t find the key and just breaks in. This gets them placed on the hood of the police car where the cop finds her pot. Alex tells Dana to say that she has cancer in hopes of getting sympathy. And apparently this works as Dana’s story checks out and he doesn’t arrest the ladies as he had a wife that didn’t survive ovarian cancer.

Alex wonders if Dana will tell her daughter Molly the full truth about her breast cancer. Even though Emily could have the breast cancer gene, Dana doesn’t want to tell her and have her worry. After the police incident gets cleared up, Dana asks Alex to be her surgeon again as she needs a friend in the OR. Alex, of course, agrees.

Back at Hope-Zion, Alex is going through Dana’s pre-op and tells her she has a way to save her nipples (a concern that Dana had) and lower her chance of re-occurrence to 1%. Alex had brought in a doctor from another hospital to help.

When the time comes for Dana’s surgery, the doctors of Hope-Zion come to her and offer her luck in her surgery and their kind words.

In the OR, Alex is there with Dana as she start to go under. We see the surgery and Alex so far is doing a great job and this surgery looks incredibly real that I had to turn my eyes away when Alex took out the breast with the tumour. While the surgery is going on Charlie looks on from the gallery. Melanda is there too and wants to be angry at Charlie but sees that he is as heart broken as Alex. She asks why did he break up with her but Charlie tells her to take Alex out for dinner and be her friend.

When I saw that Dana was going to be the patient in this episode, I was worried that something would happen and Charlie would see her spirit but alas she is okay. Alex tells her that everything went well and looks good. Everyone is relieved.

You remember Amelia from the opening of this episode. The running bit is that the TV in her room wasn’t working and Dana was being a bitch about. However, after the surgery, Dana mellows out and she and Amelia share a room and watch Dana’s large screen TV together. They are soon joined by Molly, Melanda, Maggie and soon Alex to watch a cheesy movie.

Joel and Charlie

Joel visits with a former patient, Paulina (Krista Bridges), a dancer, at a theatre. Paulina had experimental hip surgery and when Joel goes to dip her, she feels some discomfort. At the same time. we see she is a bit confused because she is calling people by the wrong name. After getting checked out at the hospital, her hip seems fine but her confusion remains so Joel wants to do more testing but without alerting her as she seems to think that she is fine.

However, she is not fine. Paulina has collapsed in the hospital’s lobby. Charlie, Zach and Joel try to save her but alas she dies and Charlie sees her spirit. Her husband Carl wants to know how this could happen. Blake, a woman who was the one that sold Joel this experimental hip, tells Carl that they need to perform an autopsy on her.

The results of the autopsy indicate that this hip leaked and poisoned her blood stream thus affecting her heart and her brain. Blake, however doesn’t think it is the hip and wants people on her end to test it hip. Joel on the other hand thinks otherwise and so does Charlie.

While reading a paper in the lobby, Charlie gets a visit from Paulina who wants Charlie to go to this ballet recital where she was teaching a bunch on young dancers and do a ritual so they can dance. At first Charlie doesn’t want to because he feel asleep the one time Alex took him to the ballet. However, Alex tells him (during their phone call) that she was the one that fell asleep and he loved the ballet. After finding Paulina at the morgue, he agrees to go to the recital and do this ritual for her dancers.

Meanwhile, Joel has decided to do his due diligence and has brought in all the patients who underwent this trial hip surgery. Most of them past except for the final patient that we see. Joel brings Blake back in and shows her an x-ray where metal fragments came off and have embedded themselves inside the tissue. Joel blames the design of the hip and tells Blake that her company will not get FDA approval for it while Blake blames Joel for being a crappy surgeon plus she throw him sleeping with her in his face.

We see Joel and Charlie in surgery removing one of the faulty hips and we learn that it is worse than Paulina’s. Afterwards, Paulina’s husband visits Joel with a document that states that the medical device company knew that the hip would fail. This document was pre-dated to Paulina’s surgery. Joel wants to sue the company but Dawn thinks it is a bad idea to take on a company of that size and drag Hope-Zion down with him. However, Charlie backs up Joel.

Joel is committed to this lawsuit so he tells the staff of Hope-Zion who have gathered in the waiting to room to hear about Dana that he is stepping down as chief. Talk then turn to who will be the interim chief. Shahir wants it to be him but Joel wants Dawn to be his successor.

We then see Charlie at this ballet recital and goes through the ritual that Paulina wanted. When it ends, the girls run off and Charlie is alone on stage and we then fade out.

It took a while but Saving Hope is actually growing on me. I mainly love it for Erica Durance but I am also liking the comedy relief that the Maggie and Gavin relationship is taking us. And I’ve become invested in the Charlie/Alex relationship and hope that their breakup is temporary.

Next week’s episode of Saving Hope is entitled “Wide Awake” and we have 13 images for episode 13 for you below.

And judging from the previews, it looks like Alex (Erica Durance) is jumping into the dating pool. And as seen in these photos, we see that she goes on a blind date. And [SPOILER] these photos also show that Joel (Daniel Gillies) and Sonya (guest star Erin Karplunk) have reunited and go on a double date with Alex and her blind date. It also looks like said blind date gets in a spot of trouble that lands him at Hope-Zion (per the previews). And, Charlie seems to be helping a solider move on.

Saving Hope “Wide Awake” airs January 23, 2014 on CTV at 9pm PT/ET.