robby and legacy. robby and what it means to do this job. robby and wanting to be a good enough teacher so that those below him can learn and go on to do bigger and better things—just to be put on a case with langdon. someone he's side-stepped all day, someone he’s even gone so far as to say he isn’t sure he wants in his ER. and then langdon doctors the fuck up, and does a risky, cowboy procedure all on his own.
langdon, who was always robby’s best, favorite, most trusted resident; who fell from grace and spent this shift trying to get back into good standing with jokes and effort. and maybe that’s the point—what it means for robby to worry so much about leaving behind the people he cares about, about teaching them everything he knows and trusting it will hold once it’s no longer in his hands, and then seeing that answer not in theory but in practice.
and it's made infinitely more meaningful here, through langdon, who was once all robby could want in a student. who proves he is still capable of becoming exactly the kind of doctor robby always knew he could be—the kind of doctor frank once believed he could be.
