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When the floodwaters rose, power failed, and heat soared, exhausted caregivers at a New Orleans hospital were forced to make profound, heart-wrenching decisions.
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Episodes
Episode 1 · Day One
Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in New Orleans. At Memorial Hospital, the doctors, nurses, and staff tend to patients and brace for the storm.
Episode 2 · Day Two
The staff and patients think they've made it through the worst—except the waters aren't receding. Reports of a new crisis circulate.
Episode 3 · Day Three
As the city floods, the hospital loses power. Mulderick and the staff attempt to cope with the terrible conditions and prepare for an evacuation.
Episode 4 · Day Four
Conditions continue to worsen. Mulderick, Pou, and more staff grapple with how to best help their patients—and how that help will be prioritized.
Episode 5 · Day Five
With pressures mounting to abandon the hospital, the staff is forced to make challenging decisions.
Episode 6 · 45 Dead
State investigators begin to explore what happened to the 45 people found dead at Memorial in the aftermath of the hurricane.
Episode 7 · Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
New evidence comes to light as Schafer and Rider dig deeper into their investigation of the deaths at Memorial.
Episode 8 · The Reckoning
Pou fights to defend herself. Schafer and Rider push their case forward.
