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The Resident kicked off season 6 with a number of developments out and in of the hospital. AJ, Leela, Padma, and Devon obtained wrapped up in a medical disaster with Padma’s twins. In the meantime, we lastly realized that Conrad is relationship Cade after final season’s cliffhanger.

HollywoodLife obtained EXCLUSIVE scoop from govt producer Amy Holden Jones about what this implies for Billie’s emotions for Conrad now that he’s with Cade. She hinted that “emotions have a tendency to return out at weddings,” and KitBell’s nuptials are developing within the present’s milestone one centesimal episode. Learn our Q&A under:

You had me going there within the premiere. I assumed Conrad was with Billie, however it seems he’s relationship Cade. In the case of Conrad and Cade are we going to get to see that relationship evolve and develop inside and outside the hospital this season?
Amy Holden Jones: We’re going to see that, however it’s not the one story for both of them. Conrad has a variety of story with Gigi and, in fact, his sufferers. Cade has a really massive story along with her father. However sure, we’re. Originally, the premiere doesn’t actually inform you that a lot about what the character of that relationship is. You’re going to begin to see it massive within the second episode, the place you’ll determine rather more about who they’re collectively and what they’re. Like all relationships, you don’t know the place it’s going to finish. They need to be taught to be collectively and what it means to be collectively. How that goes ahead might be decided within the season. When individuals are collectively, it’s not a on condition that that’s the tip. There are challenges, and there are questions. You simply don’t know the place it’s going to go. However they undoubtedly have chemistry you’ll see that in episode 2.

We additionally realized that Billie didn’t come ahead along with her emotions for Conrad, not less than to his face. We see that scene between Billie and AJ within the again half of the premiere. What does this imply for Billie? She’s solely going to have the ability to maintain in these emotions for therefore lengthy. 
Amy Holden Jones: That scene could be very attention-grabbing to me. And, in fact, I wrote it. It’s each about Billie and Conrad, and it’s about Raptor and Billie and their rising friendship. I believe that his idea might be proper. She was Nic’s greatest good friend, which is difficult and true. Conrad didn’t know this was an obstacle to their going ahead. So it’s not clear if he knew whether or not he would have made the identical alternative. Each girls truly are viable selections because the casting of each of them was a bonanza for us. They’re each super. So whether or not AJ is true or not about her future is but to be seen. However their relationship’s additionally with one another, Billie and Cade. It’s not solely predicated on their emotions about Conrad. Additionally they have an arc, which performs out extra within the second half of the season of how they relate to one another as folks no matter anyone’s relationship. It’s all difficult for certain.

In the case of Conrad, we all know there are emotions on each side with Cade and Billie. Will we find out how Conrad views these relationships? 
Amy Holden Jones: Oh, sure. You’ll see his emotions about Billie are difficult. The large episode is our one centesimal episode — the marriage — and emotions have a tendency to return out of weddings. There’s loads to be realized, however solutions will not be going to be easy. It’s not like he’s going to be taught all the things earlier than the tip of the season or determine all of it out. The journey that he and Cade go on additionally collectively, is unrelated to Billie however associated to her father as a result of Ian’s story is a really massive arc and a giant theme of the season of each his father-daughter relationship and what occurs to somebody who’s the kid of somebody with an dependancy. There’s the entire codependency query and the ache of loving somebody who’s an addict. His arc impacts all the things. It impacts the hospital additionally as a result of docs have two occasions the speed of dependancy of the final inhabitants. Right here you’ve individuals who have spent 8 to 10 to 12 years generally or extra coaching to do that factor they do and sometimes it’s a physician who’s extremely useful and good who falls into this lure. Do you simply reduce that asset off? Dependancy is a illness, and but you may’t have a harmful physician. So the place does that go for the hospital, and the place does it go for Cade? What should she study coping with it is a massive story of the season and the way Conrad reacts to that and helps or doesn’t assist with it’s to be seen. He’s walked that journey earlier than with Nic, whose sister and father each had points. How will he deal with it as a problem as properly? It’s extremely fertile territory, particularly within the arms of Andrew McCarthy. I’ve seen it right through 5 episodes. He’s phenomenal.

Simply when Cade and Ian take a number of steps ahead, they wind up taking some steps again. She noticed him popping drugs at work. Will we see her confront him about that sooner or later? 
Amy Holden Jones: She is going to. You’ll see it quickly. However though you noticed him take drugs, they might have been nutritional vitamins. She is burdened with what everyone is. Most individuals on this world have had a superb good friend or a sibling or a member of the family of some form — baby, mother or father, no matter — who’s had dependancy points. It’s so cell. It’s laborious. It’s laborious to search out anybody who hasn’t identified somebody or been concerned with somebody or had a member of the family who’s had these issues. That journey is such a tough one the place as soon as somebody has slipped like that and had the issue, then the one who loves them is also considering, are they being overprotective? Are they being smothering and questioning when there’s nothing there? Or is the addict making an attempt to persuade them of that? It’s all very difficult. It’s fairly a journey for Cade and Kaley [Ronayne] takes it on in methods which are actually astonishing and great.

Padma had an in depth name on this episode and had very dangerous surgical procedure to save lots of the twins. Given the issues which have already arisen, how is that this going to bond Raptor and Padma going ahead? 
Amy Holden Jones: The larger situation actually is definitely a narrative of postpartum points. It’s a Padma story. Her medical journey will not be over. The shock and the stress of what she goes by way of will consider all through the season and the upcoming episodes. Right here’s a happy-go-lucky character who instantly has to face the form of issues a totally grownup mother faces. As well as, after the premiere, she’s realized to really feel actual concern and know that issues can go incorrect. We wished to do a post-partum story the place a personality had challenges, together with melancholy. It’s all of the extra heart-rending when that occurs to a free spirit like Padma, and the impact this has on Leela and Raptor makes for a big story that we cope with within the season. So it’s in a method much less of a romance with Padma and Raptor than it’s dealing with this medical disaster.

With Leela and Devon, they’ve clearly taken a second likelihood on their relationship. What does their relationship seem like in season 6? 
Amy Holden Jones: As a pair, they’re uncomplicatedly glad and recommitted to one another. I believe they’re shifting in the direction of a degree the place we’ll see them married as properly, however they every have challenges of their lives. Leela could be very a lot concerned in serving to Padma. If in case you have an similar twin sister who has this sort of troublesome journey, she’s very tied up with that. However she’s additionally on the journey of transitioning to being an attending doctor, not a resident, which is able to occur in the course of the season. How she will get there and the way she overcomes her personal difficulties might be a part of her story as properly. Devon’s considerably associated to all that in supporting her, however he additionally has very critical medical tales as a result of he runs the scientific trials, and people consider a variety of methods all through the season. They finally consider with Bell and his MS, which is a really massive story for Devon.

I do know you touched just a little bit on it earlier, however what can we anticipate from the one centesimal episode? 
Amy Holden Jones: It’s a bang-up episode and, in fact, options the marriage of Equipment and Bell that we’ve all been ready for, which needs to be totally different from the opposite weddings we’ve seen. This isn’t the primary wedding ceremony for each of them and but is enormously romantic. It additionally entails a giant medical story for Bell. It has a variety of stuff occurring main as much as the marriage.