Chicago Med Season 9: Episode 10's Minor Disaster Could Change A Major Character
Contains spoilers for "Chicago Med" Season 9, Episode 10 — "You Just Might Find You Get What You Need."
Maggie Lockwood (Marlyne Barrett) has been trying to step into the limelight ever since her husband, Ben, asked her for a divorce. Fans were livid about the couple divorcing, but that's a done deal. Now that the documents have come through, Maggie decides to get daring with her life — both career-wise and when it comes to the attentions of a handsome doctor who just might provide the building blocks for her future.
Maggie joins Loren Johnson (Henderson Wade) on a med flight in "You Just Might Find You Get What You Need." She's hoping to spend a little time alone with her new crush. Maggie is a change nurse at Chicago Gaffney, and she rarely gets to perform emergency medicine as part of a flight team, giving the trip double the significance. Unfortunately, only the first part of the trip goes well — on their way back to the hospital, Maggie and Loren experience turbulence, and the helicopter crashes.
Loren is injured in the fall, and Maggie must decompress his chest due to internal bleeding. She's never performed the procedure before, but Loren has perfect faith that she can do it after watching the act performed more than once. She manages to do it successfully without the right equipment, avoiding a Maggie scene that went too far due to the sheer gore factor. And fortunately for her, her luck doesn't run out there.
Maggie's gesture wins the admiration of her friends at the hospital
Maggie's careful tending to Loren Johnson during their accident creates a new bond between them — especially when she's forced to share body heat with him to keep him from freezing to death in night temperatures due to his heavy blood loss. "The moment I met you, I was like, 'damn'. But you were married, and now you're not. I kept waiting for this right moment to ask you out. Maggie, I shouldn't have waited," Loren confesses.
The search team arrives just in time to rescue them and tend to Loren's injuries before he loses his life. Maggie and Loren appear to be on the road to romance now, and her colleagues shower her with praise for keeping a cool head in an emergency. Especially effusive is Dr. Daniel Charles (Oliver Platt), who's highly impressed that Maggie manages to do what she does with the tools at hand.
It's definitely a positive sign that Maggie's about to start living her best life after shedding her marriage, and since fans had very strong feelings about the idea of Maggie leaving "Chicago Med," it's heartening to see Season 9 give her a meaty storyline and make her an essential part of the story. Hopefully, she'll get to go out into the field much more often after this.