Hey, did you see that Deadline posted the script for 2x07 and thereās an interaction between Garcia and Santos? When the episodes were airing, I got this strong feeling that those two had a bit of a falling out or something had happened the day before, because Garcia was acting so strangely distant with Santos during the first half of the day. And that script snippet made me think about it all over again. Do you have any thoughts on this?
https://deadline.com/2026/06/read-the-pitt-season-2-script-1pm-1236876166/
Essentially, I think there's two ways of approaching this. Either you believe:
1. The writers know exactly what's happened with Garsantos. They sat downā10 month timeline in handāand planted every milestone and development, from their first interaction after S1, to their first kiss, to their first sleepover, to yes, maybe something going down in the days leading up to S2
I initially thought this might be the case, especially after E9 and the "we're just keeping it casual, right?" moment. But then, as the season unfolded, there were enough inconsistencies that I started to seriously question what the fuck was going on while losing faith that the show would handle this storyline with care
And then the actors' interviews didn't help. AM spoke about deciding, on her own, that Garcia's apartment was getting renovations in order to justify why she stayed at Santos' place. And Isa said, āIt's just, yeah, what a workplace situationship would be. The audience doesn't really know what it is, I don't think they know what it is fully, either.ā Of course, Isa could be implying that The Pitt creatives are more aware, with just the characters and audience meant to be confused. But still, at a minimum, these statements don't suggest that their relationship was properly planned out
Which leads me to the second, more likely possibility...
2. The show creatives decided Garsantos would be messy, and they threw in enough hints at some underlying tension (such as what we can see in the E7 script), without actually refining the details. Instead, they decided to let us fill in the blanks, to let us speculate and reason away the plot holes and discrepanciesāincluding between what was purportedly intended versus what ended up on screenāessentially having fans write the story for them
Now, if this were a one-off situation, I wouldn't be so cynical. But all of season 2 was sloppy, as I've harped on again and again, and that's whittled down my trust, making me less willing to give the benefit of the doubt. It's fun to theorize why Garsantos acted the way they did, but I don't believe anything we guess can actually be canon, because I don't believe there is any canon on this
And, on the slight chance that there is, why the fuck wasn't it shown? We watched Santos do next to nothing the last three episodes, and Garcia was still around until E14. Was there truly no room for one more scene, either before or during this period, to explain why their vibe was so weird? Specifically, to answer some of the questions I've posed in previous Asks, including why Garcia randomly swings from hot to cold and back again?
Sure, maybe there just wasn't time. Or, maybe, as I suspect, the show did say all it had to say about them, and it wasn't much. It's possible that reading through the entire S2 scripts could provide more insight and prove this theory wrong, but as of right now, I'm clearly skeptical