Warning: Spoilers for The Pitt season two finale, ahead.
Sepideh Moafi filmed a call with Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi’s ex-husband that viewers didn’t get to see during The Pitt’s season-two finale.
Episode 15 picks right up with the revelation that the Pitt’s new senior attending is experiencing a resurgence of absence seizures she’s battled since a childhood case of viral meningitis. But after coming to Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch (Noah Wyle) for advice from a trusted colleague, Al-Hashimi’s met with threats against her career, accused of putting patients in danger, and told she shouldn’t even get behind the wheel of a car.
“The way he acts and reacts and punishes her for it is her worst nightmare,” the 40-year-old Iranian-American actor tells Glamour. “Everything that she’s feared her whole entire life is confirmed, right? ‘If I’m honest about this, then I will lose everything.’”
It’s particularly notable, therefore, that the last time we do see Dr. Al-Hashimi is not inside the hospital, but behind the wheel of her sensible silver Volvo XC90. “She gets in the car in an act of defiance because she would never do this on any other day,” Moafi continues. “She knows that she’s had two seizures, and while that doesn’t threaten her medical license—even though Robby is threatening her license—it does compromise her position as a driver. She’s been through this before, but it’s almost as if she’s being pulled into her childhood or something. She stomps her feet and says, ‘Fuck you, I can do this.’”
Gone is the structured Lululemon jacket that represented Al-Hashimi’s poised, almost rigid approach to running the Emergency Department, in contrast to Dr. Robby’s free-wheeling management style—and so, it seems, is the infallible doctor that shook off all of Dr. Robby’s barbs throughout the season as she attempted to gain a foothold in the Pitt so he could embark on a three-month sabbatical on his beat-up motorcycle.
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But the second Al-Hashimi pulls out of her parking spot in that final scene, Moafi says, she imagined her son in the backseat and reconsidered, calling up her ex-husband to ask him to keep their kid overnight.
“There’s this moment where he says, ‘Is everything okay?’ And she says, ‘Yeah, I’m just having car troubles and running late. I’ll pick him up in the morning.’ And he says, ‘Do you want me to pick you up?’” Moafi says, getting slightly choked up at the memory. “It’s just like a stab in her heart, and she takes a beat, tries to breathe, and in the most convincing performance of her life, says, ‘No, I’m fine. I’m good. I have it taken care of. Thank you.’ Gets off the phone and just sobs.”
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