The series premiere of The Pitt drops viewers into a single chaotic hour at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center, beginning on the fourth anniversary of Dr. Michael Robinavitch's mentor's death. Robby inherits an overwhelmed ER from the night shift, orients a new class of trainees, and cycles through a cascade of critical cases: a subway accident leaves two patients simultaneously near death, a marathon runner's heart fails twice from rhabdomyolysis, and an elderly nursing-home patient dies after a delayed DNR arrives too late. The hour's sharpest crisis involves a mother who poisoned herself with ipecac to get her troubled eighteen-year-old son into the hospital — he's been writing lists of female classmates he wants to harm — but when he realizes the staff knows, he walks out the door. The episode ends with Robby frozen mid-shift by a PTSD flashbac ...