but anyway, here mel is quite obviously explaining to emma how their respective secret ptmc hookups know each other so well; which is both as simple and as complex as frank n yo having graduated from the same med school + class btw. they still get a real big nostalgic thrill out of bullying each other, and competing for the last word (last joke, really) on a regular basis, but it’s all apparently in good fun to them actually, so don’t worry. but yeah, the whole tangled web is precarious for everyone involved because langdon is slightly married, and garcia has a debatably casual ex type she was emotionally walled up to hanging around the hospital. at the same time, garcia remains on a first name basis with franks wife, remember her? the one he’s cheating on with mel. and then of course mel is friends with that ex of garcia’s, and so is emma kind of, but that’s still overall strange for langdon, because that same person exposed his drug diversion to robby over a year ago, and and — meanwhile, when frank shrewdly caught on about yolanda and emma, he got this huge mischievously smug grin, and immediately started in on giving yo some smoke, sort of to the tune of ‘oh my god, how old is she even? was she born in the 2000s? i think she was born in the 2000s, yo.’ and then there’s garcia, buttons properly pushed, scoffing, because fyi doctor friggin king was born in 1999, frank. which means he has like, zero room to talk, thank you very much, but then he’s huffing like wow listen listen, that’s way different. it’s february 1999, which is almost 1998 if you really think about it—
