SPOILER ALERT: The below contains major spoilers about tonight’s episode of HBO Max‘s The Pitt titled “5:00 p.m.”
Tonight’s episode of HBO Max’s The Pitt deals with the issues and realities hospitals and medical staff are facing when ICE, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, embed themselves into emergency rooms all over the country.
Producer John Wells spoke to Deadline about the episode, which he says was inspired by real-life situations that have happened in ED, about the show’s decision to tackle the controversial yet timely topic, which can be found below.
But first, to set the scene from the episode, a woman is in the custody of ICE, and two agents bring her into the ED to be treated after she experienced a nasty fall and injured her shoulder. An agent tells Dana Evans (Katherine LaNasa) about her situation, saying the woman screamed in pain
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