The Pitt Episode 13 “7 PM” might see Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) at his absolute nadir, but it also provides the MAX show’s youngest doctor characters the rare opportunity to team up to save a patient. Dr. Samira Mohan (Supriya Ganesh) joins Dr. Mel King (Taylor Dearden), Dr. Trinity Santos (Isa Briones), Dennis Whitaker (Gerran Howell), and Victoria Javadi (Shabana Azeez) in the “Yellow Zone” to help save kindly hippie Mr. Grayson (Richard Wharton).
What The Pitt fans may or may not know, though, is that this sequence was extra fun for the quintet of actors who dub themselves the “Lifesavers” off-screen…
**Spoilers for The Pitt Episode 13 “7 PM,” now streaming on MAX**
One of the most charming parts of The Pitt is watching a large ensemble cast work together towards a common positive goal: saving lives. What DECIDER has also learned is that the cast is just as wholesomely connected off-screen, as well.
“Everyone has their own little groups,” Taylor Dearden told DECIDER during our chat last month. “I got close with, we kind of categorized ourselves as like the younger ones, even though we’re not really younger. But it would be me, Gerran, Shabana, Supriya, and Isa. We’d hang out a lot, which was really fun.”
“I love that group of people,” Shabana Azeez said last week. “We have a little group chat called ‘Lifesavers’ and it’s really sweet. We saw Mitski together at the Hollywood Bowl. We just have, like, it’s really sweet. It’s a really lovely set where everybody’s really lovely to each other.”
Cut to The Pitt Episode 13. While Whitaker’s been hard at work trying to stop the bleeding on a food stall worker’s tricky gunshot wound, otherwise chill patient, Mr. Grayson, loses consciousness. King dispatches Santos to search for an attending. Whitaker, meanwhile, gets the bright idea to get a portable pulse ox for the patient. After bringing an overdose patient back to the world of the living, Dr. Mohan rolls Javadi into the Yellow Zone to help.
For maybe the first time, all of the so-called “Lifesavers” are tag-teaming on the same case.
“That scene was so fun because, yeah, we very rarely get to work together,” Azeez said. “It’s a lovely set, though, because we’re all there doing background work all the time. So at least we get to see everybody everyday, which is really sweet.”
(Azeez joked that the exception to this rule were her early episodes running triage with Fiona Dourif’s Dr. McKay. “We would shoot on off days,” Azeez said, before joking. “I was like, ‘Who’s Noah Wyle?’ Like, you know, ‘Where is that guy?'”)
With their powers as The Pitt‘s version of the Young Avengers combined, the quintet makes an exhilarating save. Whitaker cleverly uses the pulse ox to measure the optic nerve sheath and the group figures out that Mr. Grayson has a severe intercranial bleed. While Dr. King dashes off to look for Neuro, Dr. Mohan uses an EZ-IO drill to improvise. It’s a move that later has Primary Surgery MD Dr. Walsh (Tedra Millan) going, “What the fuck?” and Santos eagerly asking to do the next one.
Azeez revealed that she and co-star Gerran Howell bonded in a unique way in the scene.
“I think that working with Gerran, too, the other med student, I think is really fun because we both have this really strange experience,” Azeez said. “We both think we’re doing really serious acting, but everybody’s just laughing at us. ‘Because, like, your face is so funny!'”
“So in that scene, Supriya couldn’t stop laughing, because my face was apparently too funny. So that’s my biggest memory.”
It’s nice to know that even in the midst of The Pitt’s tensest moment of drama, there’s still something worth laughing at (even if it’s unintentional on the part of the actors).
The Pitt returns next Thursday, April 3.