Al-Hashimi’s switch up on Langdon is completely logical given that she’s now recontextualized the Langdon/Santos beef. It’s likely not even about the stealing—it’s about the fact that she can now connect the dots that Langdon was a senior resident retaliating against an intern who reported him for a legitimate reason. Her understanding of how he handles power has completely shifted. Not to mention Langdon also spoke with deliberate vagueness when Al-Hashimi asked him DIRECTLY about the nature of the issue with Santos. Now that she knows the truth, his evasiveness in that prior exchange is probably more damning than the actual info. If anything, she might even take it as Langdon trying to manipulate HER (and lowk he was, just to protect himself).
So of course she’s now gonna make sure he’s not steamrolling over Javadi (even if that wasn’t his intent). She probably has questions about his treatment of those who rank lower than him and is moving quickly to put up guardrails until she has a better picture of what’s going on. I’m interested to see what she does next or if she takes any action this season at all, but so far I appreciate how often we’ve seen her immediately reorient herself to protect the most vulnerable person/people in a situation.
