An Investigator

Gosh, I just love that sweet Apple Boy, always so kind to our Dunk, really his truest friend. No agenda, just 'are you hungry?'

and 'come have some cider' and 'here, I bought back your horse because you're the best fellow I've ever known and you deserve some kindness after everything you've had to endure'. Oh, and 'hey, by the way, I'll back you up against that evil Targ princeling who's beating up women AND I'd be happy to hazard my life to defend yours and your honor, Dunk'. With no hesitation whatsoever.

And of course there's, 'Prince Maekar can bloody well stuff it, you goons are gonna have to go through ME to get to my bestie'.

Rest in peace to the incredible Anthony Stewart Head (20th February 1954 - 1st June 2026)

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more than anything i want him to get to the positive stage where the viewers can be directly shown the man who earnt the trust of trinity despite her traumatising past, and the man who has such a good rapport with the nurses that they automatically assume he's asking about them on a personal level when he talks to them since that's just who he is, and the man who gives javadi the space and encouragement to grow into who she wants to be, giving her the courage to understand that she's more than her parents wishes for her.

we know he's there somewhere, every interaction with the other staff show us that that's who he is inside, someone deeply caring and loving and driven, above all else, by an all-consuming empathy that is now eating him alive. i wish so badly that we'll get to see him happy and healthier and with the capacity to take care of not only others, but himself as well. he deserves that recovery and he deserves that peace and the medical community who have so deeply connected with this character deserve a story that is, at it's core, still driven by hope for a better future.

SAMMY BRYANT & NATE MORETTA

but season 15 old pup carter? beaten by life, missing a kidney, limping, but he still picks up the stick. pads over to dr benton. slowly now, mindful of the aching joints. he drops the sticks at the surgeon’s feet

Benton doesn’t pick up any of the sticks Carter brings. Why dirty his hands? Why encourage a bad habit?

Season 15 Benton, who’s different but still fundamentally the same man just matured. Back in Chicago and soaking in the nostalgia. Greeted—just as Odysseus was—by a most faithful hound. Limping, aching, mauled and disemboweled, but there with a stick in his mouth. Nothing said, a single touch at the back of his neck. Rest now, you’ve done so well. Carter just leans into the hand, savors the weight.