‘The Resident’ Sneak Peek: AJ’s Heart-to-Heart With His Mom Takes an Alarming Turn (VIDEO)
Dr. AJ Austin (Malcolm-Jamal Warner) is about to face another family crisis in the Season 4 finale of The Resident, and TV Insider has an exclusive first look.
But first, AJ and his mother Carol (Summer Selby) reminisce about the day they met, which we see in a flashback. He was back in a state home. “Three foster families gave up on me,” he recalls. “I was angry. I felt worthless, discarded like trash, then you appeared.” But, he admits, “I didn’t trust you…one more rejection was more than I could take.”
Carol promised him she’d make sure no one hurt him again, and she kept that promise, even as he tested her for months, AJ remembers. Though everyone else has left, she never has. “AJ, Mina didn’t want to leave,” Carol argues. (AJ’s girlfriend, played by Shaunette Renée Wilson, returned to Nigeria when her visa was about to expire.)
Watch the video above to see AJ’s response — he’s clearly still hurting over Mina’s departure — and things take an alarming turn for Carol, who’s battling stage 4 cancer.
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In the Season 4 finale, “Past, Present, Future,” AJ must turn to Dr. Barrett Cain (Morris Chestnut) for help as his life begins to fall apart. Plus, CEO Dr. Kit Voss (Jane Leeves) tries to deal with the moral repercussions of financially saving Chastain. In happier news, Dr. Conrad Hawkins (Matt Czuchry) and nurse practitioner Nic Nevin (Emily VanCamp) welcome their baby girl, and Drs. Devon Pravesh (Manish Dayal) and Randolph Bell (Bruce Greenwood) may be able to save multiple lives with a complicated surgery.
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AJ was adopted since birth. The Thanksgiving episode showed AJ painting the walls of his parent’s house at age FOUR. Carol even showed his bio mom pictures of his whole childhood. Yee had convinced Carol to adopt a baby and even his bio mom had mentioned that the baby was taken immediately after birth and that they didn’t know the name of the family who took him as the records were sealed. We understand that Mina & AJ are going to break up, that’s obvious, but there’s no need for AJs abandonment issues to be brought up with Mina leaving because Mina had told AJ, months in advance, that she might have to leave. Mina was AJs absolute world and the writers made him not fight for her or even have the balls to do something against Cain putting patients lives in danger-which is completely out of character for AJ. They changed his whole personality to Justify Mina leaving when the real AJ would have fought tooth and nail for Mina’s VISA to get renewed, and would have won. But that would have meant that Mina got to stay and the writers wanted her gone and not happy. Writers even changed his story line (and name from August to “Andre”) to make the audience more accepting of the AJ & Billie storyline-so that AJ can bond with Billie’s kid (whom most likely was a foster kid) plus have a new “love” in his life. The writers need to rewatch their own show! And just to be clear... I am NOT a bot.
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This storyline is absolute garbage. AJ was adopted since birth. The Thanksgiving episode showed AJ painting the walls of his parent’s house at age FOUR. Carol even showed his bio mom pictures of his whole childhood. Yee had convinced Carol to adopt a baby and even his bio mom had mentioned that the baby was taken immediately after birth and that they didn’t know the name of the family who took him as the records were sealed. We understand that Mina & AJ are going to break up, that’s obvious, but there’s no need for AJs abandonment issues to be brought up with Mina leaving because Mina had told AJ, months in advance, that she might have to leave. Mina was AJs absolute world and the writers made him not fight for her or even have the balls to do something against Cain putting patients lives in danger-which is completely out of character for AJ. They changed his whole personality to Justify Mina leaving when the real AJ would have fought tooth and nail for Mina’s VISA to get renewed, and would have won. But that would have meant that Mina got to stay and the writers wanted her gone and not happy. Writers even changed his story line (and name from August to “Andre”) to make the audience more accepting of the AJ & Billie storyline-so that AJ can bond with Billie’s kid (whom most likely was a foster kid) plus have a new “love” in his life. The writers need to rewatch their own show! And just to be clear... I am NOT a bot.
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This storyline is absolute garbage. AJ was adopted since birth. The Thanksgiving episode had him painting the walls of his parent’s house at age FOUR. His father convinced his mother to adopt a baby. Even his bio mom had mentioned that he was given to the family since birth and that the records were sealed as to whom the adoptive parents were. We get that Mina & AJ are going to break up, but there’s no need for AJ’s abandonment issues to be activated once Mina left when he knew she had no choice but to leave and had even told him months in advance that she might have to. Mina was his absolute world and writers made him not fight for her or have the balls to do something about Cain which is out of character for him. They changed his whole personality to justify Mina leaving when AJ, the real one, would have fought tooth and nail to get her VISA, but that would have kept Mina home. Writers are changing his storyline (and name from August to “Andre”) to make people more accepting of Billie & AJ storyline-so that AJ can bond with Billie’s kid whom most likely was a foster kid. Writers need to rewatch their own show. And no... I’m NOT a bot!
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