Keike

beautiful. fucking. scene. Robby talking to himself as much or more than he's talking to that baby. all the things he wishes he could hear, murmured as a form of self-soothing. he's okay. he's safe. he's not alone. he's okay. he's safe. he's not alone.

"I wish someone would swaddle me."

and isn't that the crux of it? isn't that the center of so many struggles, so much isolation, so much heartbreak. you just wanna be held. you wanna go home, you want your mom, even if you don't have a home or a mom. you just want someone to wrap you up and hold you close and tell you everything's gonna be just fine.

how gutwrenchingly human and beautiful this entire scene was.

Robby and Garcia and Shamsi and even Trinity look at Javadi and see the prodigy and they don't question how strange it is for her to be there. We see that in their reactions to Javadi making a mistake which is on par with or even smaller than the mistakes made by her peers. They treat her like in every situation, she should already know exactly what to do. It's not treated like a teaching moment like it is for other med students and interns. She fucked up and should have known better.

But McKay from day one sees Javadi and acknowledges how strange it is for her to be so young and where she is. She behaves almost maternally to her because I think Cassie puts in her a category more akin to Harrison than to her peers. She doesnt expect a level of emotional maturity from her that really doesn't make sense from someone that young. Instead, she talks to her. She actually teaches her instead of just assuming she's a prodigy with all the answers and berating her when she doesn't have them.