Conrad rushes after Nic to Chastain following her car crash where she incurred a major brain injury from the impact. As the devastated staff mobilizes desperate to save her, Nic's condition proves hopeless while Conrad persists in denial and must be held back 'an an ordinary husband'. Long COVID-19 patient Gabe Sandoval returns with his trachea so weakened from the long intubation on IC that he will have to spend the rest of his life on a ventilator. After Nic's brain herniates, an injury one can't recover from, Devon is forced to declare her brain dead with the help of Hundley and Jessica while a grief-stricken Kyle blames Conrad for not saving his daughter. Respecting Nic's wishes, Conrad agrees to allow her organs to be harvested for transplant before Nic is taken off of life support and dies. Fearing more intubation, Gabe refuses further treatment despite his obsessionally devoted now-nurse wife Cherry's attempts to convince him otherwise. AJ and Leela finally convince Gabe to take a rare trachea transplant instead, one of some eighteen fresh organs from Nic with Conrad's blessing.
—KGF Vissers