EPISODE

1. God Laughs

Sam, Cooper, Charlotte and Amelia team up to save the life of their friend Pete after he suffers a heart attack, while Violet, who was in the middle of leaving Pete and LA, is nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, Addison's desire to have a baby leads her to see Jake Reilly, her recent mystery man, in a most surprising place, and Sheldon tries to help Amelia in her battle with alcohol.

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Pete suffers a heart attack while at home with their son Lucas. Sheldon helps Amelia after she is injured in a bar fight. Sam and Addison are spending the night together, but both get paged to the ER on different cases. Charlotte remarks that Pete didn't show up for his shift at the hospital, so Cooper goes to Pete's house to check on him. He finds Pete collapsed on the floor and Lucas hiding under a table. While waiting for her flight to New York, Violet sees a couple fighting in the terminal and tries to counsel the wife.

As Pete is being worked on in the cardiac cath lab, he begins showing symptoms of a brain bleed. An airport employee tracks down Violet with an emergency phone call about Pete; she rushes out of the terminal. Pete survives his surgery, but it was a close call. Charlotte tells Amelia that she refuses to enable her addiction and reminds Amelia that her hospital privileges are still suspended. Addison's fertility specialist is called away on an emergency, and his replacement turns out to be Dr. Jake Reilly--Addison's "supermarket mystery man.

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