The Pitt’s Patrick Ball Breaks Down Season Finale Moment with Noah Wyle

That is a wrap on Season 1 of The Pitt — with Dr. Langdon’s future on the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital hanging within the steadiness.

The Max medical drama, which has already been renewed for a second season, follows a bunch of medical doctors, nurses, interns and sufferers — in actual time — throughout one shift within the emergency room. All through the primary 15 episodes, Patrick Ball’s senior resident, Dr. Langdon, begins off as a captivating character, earlier than butting heads with intern Dr. Santos (Isa Briones), who ultimately exposes him for stealing medicine from sufferers.

Whereas Noah Wyle’s Dr. Robby kicks him out of the ER, Landgon returns to assist after a taking pictures floods the hospital with sufferers. Within the finale, as issues lastly start to decelerate after a chaotic couple of hours, Langdon thanks Robby for permitting him to return — solely to be met with anger and disappointment from Wyle’s character.

It is a highly effective confrontation between the pair, as Robby insists Langdon indicators up for a 30-day in-patient therapy program, and undergo urine exams and NA conferences for five years. “You let me down, you let everyone down, particularly your self. This job will f–k you up if you happen to let it. You let it,” he tells him, earlier than Langdon throws Robby’s breakdown again in his face. Their heated dialog ends with Robby yelling, “F–k you!” whereas storming off — and Langdon’s destiny unknown.

“It was unbelievable,” Ball instructed TooFab of filming the emotional confrontation. “As quickly as we completed that scene — that scene was my very last thing for the season, it was the very last thing we shot, it was an evening time exterior and everyone was on location — as quickly as we wrapped it, Noah simply turns to me and like offers me this huge hug.”

Images Ball shared to Instagram present the pair hugging it out within the hospital car parking zone, after they wrapped filming (above left).

“And like everyone circles up and [producer] John Wells is available in and provides me a hug and and it was, yeah, it was fairly life affirming,” added Ball. “It was fairly wonderful.”

As for whether or not Langdon will take Robby up on his “second likelihood” provide, Ball stated he does not know what the writers have in retailer for Season 2.

“I do not and I believe that is for the very best. I believe it is for the very best as a result of I am horrible at preserving a secret,” he instructed TooFab. “I do not know what occurs, however [creator R. Scott Gemmill] is absolutely good … at what he does. I can not wait to see what he has in thoughts.”

He additionally touched on Langdon’s interactions with Santos after his shock return to the hospital, as his character did not do a lot to easy issues over along with her after he realized she was the one who reported him.

“It will be a extremely fascinating factor to navigate as a result of I believe there’s– clearly there is a a variety of methods during which Langdon was within the improper and I believe, to what diploma can he take possession over that and be taught from that will probably be fascinating to see,” he instructed TooFab.

“However I additionally suppose his job and profession and life as he is aware of it has been utterly derailed by her. That might require a huge slice of humble pie,” he stated of Langdon presumably trying to take accountability and cease blaming Santos. “It will be a extremely fascinating factor to unpack going ahead.”

Ball then mirrored on how fan response to Santos modified all through the season, because the character initially rubbed some viewers the improper approach along with her confidence, perspective and for handing over somebody they rapidly grew keen on.

“Scott Gemmill, the show-runner, it was only a masterstroke in how he constructed the season. Like Langdon is the man that everyone likes. He is enjoyable, he is a superb time. And we need to root for him as a result of he makes issues enjoyable,” stated Ball.

“After which Santos is available in and is sort of the naysayer and is sort of brash — weirdly, sort of in the same approach that Langdon is brash — however for some motive, it is off placing over right here, whereas it is charming over right here,” he continued.

“I believe the viewers was was rooting for Langdon to be proper. Then every time it turned out that that Santos was telling the reality, I believe there’s rightfully a little bit of self interrogation that everybody has to do as as to why. Why could not we consider this?” he requested. “My dream is that if you happen to return and also you rewatch the season, you will see, like, the indicators are there. I believe the discourse round all of it’s actually fascinating. A few of it is extra clever than others.”

He concluded, “However I believe the truth that there’s such a wealthy dialog occurring round this dynamic is wonderful as an actual testomony to the way in which Scott wrote it.”

Season 1 of The Pitt is streaming now in full on Max.