‘The Pitt’ Aftershow: Supriya Ganesh & Shawn Hatosy Break Down the Mohan-Abbot Connection (VIDEO)

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Pitt Season 2 Episode 7 “1:00 P.M.”]

As the Fourth of July continues on The Pitt with the seventh hour depicted in the second episode, tensions are running high, two doctors connect over care for a patient, and everyone’s about to learn what it used to be like to treat patients back in the days before everything went digital (so think the very early seasons of ER when Noah Wyle‘s John Carter was young).

Mohan (Supriya Ganesh) discovers that her diabetic patient, who’s struggling with debt already before this hospital stay’s bill, has taken off when she goes to his room with a bag of supplies. Instead, in his room is Abbot (Shawn Hatosy), trying to patch himself up after being grazed by a bullet while working as a S.W.A.T. physician during the day ahead of his night shift. When she tells him about her patient, he offers to pay for an Uber for her to take the supplies to his house.

“It’s so funny. There’s this hot doctor sitting there shirtless, and she’s not concerned about that at all. I think she’s more concerned about — I mean, rightfully so — where did her patient go, and that she can’t help him. And I do feel like the only real moment of connection she has with him, or when they start connecting, which is how Shawn and I broke down the scene, actually, is when he offers to help her,” Supriya Ganesh tells TV Insider in our Post-Op: The Pitt Aftershow for Season 2 Episode 7. (Watch the full video above.) “I feel like the scene’s really disjointed until that moment. It’s two characters on two separate wavelengths, her brain somewhere else, she’s saying something else, and he’s concerned about something else. And then when he offers to help, where it’s this moment of actual genuine connection between them.”

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For Mohan, it’s also about what it says about Abbot supporting her. “She works in this place where she’s used to mentors maybe talking down on her and calling her silly for pushing back and pushing back against the system. And so for someone to support her that way, who is in a leadership position, I think just means so much to her,” Ganesh explains, getting emotional looking back on the scene.

Hatosy notes, “There’s so much nuance in the scene. It could be more overtly flirtatious, and I thought that the way we attacked it was just right. A lot of it brings more questions than answers, actually, which is cool.”

As for the potential of romance between the characters, Ganesh admits that her character doesn’t exactly pick up on anything.

“I think she’s just really socially stunted. I think she just doesn’t really understand that this might be what’s happening, and even in playing the scene, I think the only real moment that she has that connection with him is where he is able to connect with her on this level of helping her with her patient,” the star explains.

Hatosy adds that while he likes their characters’ dynamic, “and I hope to see more of it, it’s in the writers’ hands.”

Elsewhere in the episode, Robby (Noah Wyle) continues to try to do everything he can to avoid talking to Langdon (Patrick Ball), back for his first shift since rehab, only for the two to be stuck waiting together for a patient to arrive via helicopter. Langdon tries to apologize for betraying his trust and swears it will never happen again, but Robby tells him that while he’s glad he got help, he doesn’t know if he wants him working in his ER. (Langdon does seem to a bit thrown after that while working on a patient.) With Robby heading out on a sabbatical after this shift, however, he won’t be the one Langdon’s working for going forward. With the way Abbot picks up shifts, it will be him at least at some point.

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“I think that they have different ways of dealing with their residents, and I believe Abbot is a big supporter of Langdon, and they all have their own issues, including Abbot, and he knows he’s not perfect,” says Hatosy. “We get to go into that a little bit in the upcoming episodes between how Abbot feels about Langdon.”

As for that sabbatical Robby says he’s taking, “learning what we learned about Robby and Abbot last season, how they were kind of mirrors of each other, and we start with one on the roof and then by the end, the other one’s on the roof, they’re each talking each other off. He reveals that he’s working on himself and he says that maybe Robby should. So I think Season 2, we’re kind of coming into it and seeing where they are in that process, and as it lays out and as it unfolds, we kind of understand that Abbot is really trying to put a mirror in front of Robby and saying, ‘You need to look at yourself. I, too, have been here and am in your shoes literally, and it’s time to try to do this work,'” Hatosy explains.

Also of note is a phone call that Robby’s replacement, while he’s gone, Al-Hashimi (Sepideh Moafi), makes in this episode. She calls a neuroscience group and leaves a message for her doctor that she needs to speak to him if he’s on call, and if not, she’ll take the next available appointment — and to call if he has a cancellation. Plus, as the episode ends, the ER staff learns that the internal disaster at another hospital, Westbridge, that has led to an influx of patients at PTMC is a cyberattack. Before the same can happen to them, everything is benignly shut down, and they’re going analog.

Watch the full Post-Op: The Pitt Aftershow video above with Supriya Ganesh, Shawn Hatosy, and Laëtitia Hollard for a breakdown of that Mohan and Abbot scene, Mohan dealing with her mother, Abbot’s entrance, and this episode. Then, head to the comments section with your thoughts on this episode.

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