Doc showrunner Hank Steinberg has teased the potential of Scott Wolf’s Dr. Richard Miller returning. With Doc season 2 already renewed, the collection has extra runway to additional push that storyline. The present follows Dr. Amy Larsen, a chief of inside medication who suffers a traumatic mind damage and loses her recollections of the previous eight years.
In an interview with TV Insider, Steinberg would not verify whether or not Wolf will return, however did reveal when it may occur, saying “[W]e have a pretty clever way to potentially bring him back in the back half of the season.” Dr. Miller ended the season together with his medical license suspended after the reality got here out that he’d given a affected person the incorrect medication and inadvertently killed him.
I’ll simply say that we like Scott and we all know the viewers does, too, and we’ve a reasonably intelligent strategy to doubtlessly convey him again within the again half of the season and reconstituted in a distinct type of angle. In order that must be fairly enjoyable.
I hope [Richard] has a future in medication. I believe what’s clear is he’s an individual who has simply misplaced all the things, and that’s brutal. There’s nothing extra that I might love than to be part of this present. It’s actually particular. The writers, the producers, our solid and crew are finest I’ve ever labored with. I’ve labored with some nice individuals, and this a very particular expertise.
The elemental premise of this entire present is, what would you do with a second probability? We don’t usually get probabilities to return to see who we had been and do it otherwise, whether or not we’re in an accident, lose our reminiscence or not. All of us have an opportunity to reckon with who we’ve been and for higher or for worse. However to have an actual probability to reset these issues and possibly alter your identification in a roundabout way is actually extraordinary — and never simply Amy has been on this place. Everybody she works with, that she’s in relationship with, has been given this similar probability of, who’ve I been and who may I wish to be?
For an individual who has simply endured what she has endured and is aware of that the one motive she’s nonetheless going is as a result of she’s been given a second probability, whilst darkish or as betrayed as she has felt, there was a time the place [Richard and Amy] actually liked one another and revered one another… And if that was one thing that she nonetheless held and someway was keen to say, even this most egregious factor that basically doubtlessly may have damage me terribly, even this I can forgive and be keen to permit for this individual of their humanity and provides them compassion and provides them grace — I don’t know, something’s doable, however to see an individual come again into an surroundings and once more, should virtually create a brand new identification for themselves and construct off of who they had been, change who they turned and don’t wish to be anymore, it form of matches with the story we’ve been telling all alongside.
What Does Scott Wolf’s Potential Return In Doc Season 2 Imply?
Scott Wolf, as a health care provider, speaking to a lady in Doc
As Wolf talked about, Doc is a collection that reveals the totality of its characters’ decision-making. Doc’s closing episodes confirmed what led to Richard committing medical malpractice and why he tried to cowl it up. He’d been underneath an immense stage of stress attempting to shepherd his household by means of the prognosis of his son’s bipolar and schizotypal issues.
Whereas it isn’t an excuse for his actions—like his try to border Amy for his mishandling of his affected person’s care—the reveal humanized what he was going by means of. Richard having a redemption arc in season 2 would convey his story full circle. He bought his comeuppance, and the following step can be having him make amends.
Our Take On A Potential Redemption For Richard In Season 2
Physician Amy Larsen (Molly Brown) smiling at somebody in Doc season 1, episode 3
Viewers noticed how shut Amy and Richard had been earlier than the lack of her son. They supported one another at work and of their private lives. Nevertheless, their friendship suffered from the huge loss. A lot in order that Richard tried to make use of her amnesia in opposition to her and make her imagine she by accident killed a affected person.
That is not a call any friendship may probably heal from, however having Richard work towards forgiveness with Amy can be an intriguing, emotional plot line to observe because the anticipate Doc season 2 continues. Doing so within the second half of the season would permit Doc to construct a narrative exterior of Richard’s deeds after which convey him again in a really confronting method.
Nevertheless, it is also doable that Wolf may return in a flashback. “[R]econstituted in a different form of attitude” may discuss with one thing that occurred with Richard earlier than or within the eight years of recollections Amy misplaced. Doc is keen on flashbacks, offering context and depth to what is going on on within the present-day storyline.
Doc
Launch Date
January 7, 2025
Community
FOX
Administrators
Russell Lee Positive, Rebecca Thomas, Jono Oliver, Michael Goi, Nicole Rubio, Amanda Row, Marisol Adler
Molly Parker
Dr. Amy Larsen
Omar Metwally
Dr. Michael Hamda
