Bertie tries an experimental procedure on his cancer-stricken mother, while conjoined twins become Thack’s new project.
As with allKnickepisodes, this weeks title stems from a piece of dialogue.
As Berties father stands guard, the two colleagues set to work on Mrs. Chickering.

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He and Zinberg part amicably, with Bertie offering to resign in lieu of his inevitable firing.
But Berties time away from the Knick has been good for him.
As if that werent enough, his old/new employer gives him a hug.
An X-ray determines that the twins only share a liver, which makes surgical separation a possibility.
Though I found Thack to be uncharacteristically naive when he presented his surgery idea to Brockhurst.
Once theyre ensconced at the Knick, Thack leaves them in Clearys care.
the third woman Tom Cleary (of all people) rescued tonight.
No human deserves the beating youve been taking these last few months, he tells her.
), but since we all wanted this to happen, well excuse his brutish approach.
Guess finding out that religious sisters are surreptitiously pocketing money for themselves is worth living in sin.