My Lunch is the 113th episode of the American sitcom Scrubs. It originally aired as Episode 20 of Season 5 on April 25 2006.
Episode overview
After repeatedly running into annoying recurring patient Jill Tracy, J.D. feels guilty when she dies of an appararent drug overdose and he didn't act on warning signs. Carla and Elliott convince Todd to admit to being gay, but contrary to what they had hoped, this does not change his personality for the better. Dr. Cox initially consoles J.D. but struggles to follow his own advice later on.
Episode walkthrough
- J.D. tries to trick Dr. Cox into having lunch together by claiming to have placed every spoon from the cafeteria into his cardboard box, with the aim of using the spoons as blackmail.
- J.D. then follows Dr. Cox to the grocery store where they both bump into Jill Tracy, who talks at length about her problems.
- J.D. is then escorted out of the store by security guards, for eating snack mix without paying.
- We are introduced to three patients, one requiring a kidney, one a liver and one a heart valve.
- As each of the three patients begin to get worse.
- J.D. learns that Jill has apparently over-dosed on cocaine, and suspects he is to blame for not picking up on the warning signs in the grocery store.
- Jill's organs are to go to each of the transplant patients.
- Dr. Cox consoles J.D., and tells him that when a doctor starts to blame himself for the death of a patient, it usually marks the start of a slippery slope.
- After receiving their new organs, each of the patients begin to get much worse very quickly and die. As it turns out, Jill died of rabies and Dr. Cox blames his haste in transplanting the kidney of the final patient as the cause of his death.
- J.D. tries to console Dr. Cox in a manner reminiscent of their earlier conversation. Dr. Cox leaves the ward before his shift is over in an emotional scene, with the implication that he has reached a turning point of some kind in his career.
Plot development
In this episode the following are references to ongoing plot lines in the TV series:
- Todd waits in hiding for his chance to perform his, often well timed, double entendres, at one point he notes he has been hiding behind a desk for 45 minutes waiting for an opportunity.
- Todd is most likely bisexual.
See also
External links
- My Lunch at IMDb
- Episode Summary on TV.com
| Preceded by: "His Story III" |
Scrubs episodes | Followed by: "My Fallen Idol" |