It’s a photo of a girl. Sam doesn’t recognize her, at least from what he can see, which ranges from the space just above her mouth to the tops of her thighs. She’s on her back on crisp white sheets, accentuating her tan skin - the bottom of her shirt is pulled up to rest between her teeth, revealing, well, everything, because she’s not wearing a bra or pants, just boxers that sit loosely despite the wide splay of her legs. The hand that Sam presumes isn’t taking the photo is pushing the boxers down on one side to expose the divot of her hipbone and the tips of her pubic hair.

santos 1) hanging the threat of reporting him over his head, 2) insinuating that addiction is just a fuckup that is completely in the control of the addict, and 3) prioritizing the end goal of fucking up his professional reputation and family over rehabilitation has destroyed all the goodwill that her being hilarious this season built for me. and yes i know she has issues with (white) male superiors getting away with offenses that they shouldn't have, and leveraging their power to humiliate and punish their subordinates.

but the utter lack of an ATTEMPT to understand his circumstances? as an ER DOCTOR who probably sees addiction cases all the time??? she had 10 months to reflect on this and she ended up at the staunch conclusion that addicts don't deserve second chances and people can't change for the better?

she's concluded that people hate her for exiling the golden boy (even though apparently only three people know about that?), and that's his fault. without once stopping to consider that she hasn't made a single attempt to make her coworkers like her aside from whitaker.