Frank gets admitted to the PTMC with a benzo overdose one night. IV injection, apparently. Abby is there and she’s so mad at him they have to send her out of the room even while he’s still unconscious. They manage to stabilise him. And then it becomes a battle of character witnesses vs. the evidence.

Mel and Cassie, and shockingly even Trinity swear up and down he’s been clean (proven by weekly urine tests) and in no way backsliding mentally. He’s been steady, managing well, seeing specialists for his back and the PHP therapist for maintenance meetings.

The evidence says he relapsed. Cassie points out the dose would have been way too high and he’d have known that. So was it a suicide attempt? A last familiar high? Mel says he’d never want to go out this way. He wasn’t suicidal. She’s sure, they spend so much time together.

Trinity meanwhile is hounding Abby. “Where’s the vial? Why didn’t you bring it in?”

Abby didn’t see one, and besides she had other priorities when she found him.

“Okay we need you to go get it, we need to know if it’s a match for hospital inventory. Who is home with the kids?” Abby calls her mom who first claims there is no vial, he must have gotten rid of it before, but after Trinity tells her a hail mary lie about stability outside its container, she suddenly finds it after all. And so Abby’s mom comes in to bring the vial, and no the vial isn’t from the hospital. It’s from a hospital in… Abby’s mom’s hometown?

As a bitch with a bad back myself, I do generally enjoy my seats lower than most people, so I think that’s a distinct possibility. He is also almost a head taller than Mel though, so it might be a combo of tall person adjustments and back pain work-arounds.

Either way, the sound is fucking adorable.