Spoilers ahead for Episode 2 of Chicago Med Season 10, called "Bite Your Tongue." Chicago Med is wasting no time in Season 10 in upsetting the status quo of the ED, with new showrunner Allen MacDonald binge-watching his way to telling some new stories. The second episode of the 2024 TV schedule raised the stakes on multiple fronts, including Hannah making a bold move to keep Ripley from losing his license, Archer and Lenox clashing, and previewing Goodwin getting death threats.
Throw in the fact that it was just one week ago that we learned about Dr. Charles' breakup with Liliana, and I can't help but look back to the showrunner's comments on one thing that hasn't changed from Season 9: Hannah and Archer's friendship. Admittedly, we haven't gotten that much of Hannah and Archer's friendship so far in Season 10, but recent events lead me to wonder if they both won't need a friend to lean on sooner rather than later.
Hannah's decision to turn Sully in for the assault on Pawel rather than let Ripley take the fall didn't exactly go over well with Ripley, not least because Sully had just learned that his cancer was terminal. If not for the showrunner's comments about being "very much excited about the Hannah/Ripley relationship," I might even suspect that this was the end for them as a couple. As for Archer, he had a breakthrough with Lenox in "Bite Your Tongue" about working together in the ED, but a curmudgeon doesn't drop his curmudgeonly ways in just one shift.
Of course, Good.
