[This story contains spoilers for “My Odds,” the April 8 episode of Scrubs.]
Throughout the run of Scrubs — both the original series and this season’s revival — John C. McGinley’s Dr. Perry Cox has been, as McGinley himself puts it, “a profoundly damaged guy.” The character uses an arsenal of putdowns and deflections to paper over the vulnerability he steadfastly refuses to admit to or show.
Turns out, he’s not that different as a patient.
The penultimate episode of the season, “My Odds,” brings Dr. Cox back to Sacred Heart. At first it seems he’s just there to briefly check in on J.D. (Zach Braff) — the hospital’s chief of medicine after Cox stepped down in the season premiere — before heading out to dinner with the equally acidic Dr. Kevin Park (Joel Kim Booster). The episode builds in such a way, however, that it becomes
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