As you might expect this episode of Royal Pains involves a massive party and the accompanying next day hangovers.
So the writers did a fairly clever play on words there calling it the Hank over.
The episode starts out with Hank lying in a hammock with Dr. Emily Peck after what we can only believe was a night of extreme debauchery. Then it flashes back to 24 hours earlier and tells us the beginning of the story to fill in the gaps.
Over the past few weeks one of the enduring storylines has been the increased heat that is growing between Dr. Emily and Dr. Hank. Jill is still off in the wings in some sort of a limbo type of state but she and Hank are still very much a part of one another’s lives since HankMed is going to be running her free clinic because her hospital wants to sabotage the deal.
They were going to introduce a bunch of red tape and ask to borrow money from the clinic funds which would stall the beginning of Jill’s clinic until 2015.
Divvya and Raj have a wedding which is rapidly approaching. She goes to meet her mother for a ceremonial dinner before the wedding. Her sister Saya is there with a great secret to be revealed. Saya says she has to leave to go pick up her husband from the airport which is a lot.
Divvya breaks away under the guise of wanting to spend more time with her sister. She truly does want to spend more time with her then comes to find out the truth.
She and Jill are going to go have some fun and see some sights. But then Saya calls her in because her “associate” is having an allergic reaction to coconut. Divvya realizes that Saya does not have on her stockings anymore and the affair is revealed.
Saya tells Divvya that her husband Sanjay and herself have an understanding. It’s the way to make arranged marriages work.
Jill and Divvya continue on with their wild night in Manhattan. They have this crazy and connected taxi driver named Aristotle who they also discover has diabetes. So it was quite an eventful night.
Meanwhile back at the Boris mansion Hank and Evan are throwing a massive bachelor party for Divvya’s fiancée Raj. They do not know it but Boris told his assistant Dieter to supplement the guest list and so the party has grown to be massive. Boris is feeling great down in Cuba because of the work Hank has done with him. This is a show of his generosity.
The we see Hank’s hooking up with Dr. Emily as we saw at the start of the episode in a hammock.
In the interim he ends up getting some measure of vengeance on a guy who has a broken nose. The guy had bullied him when they were in junior high school.
Evan is still hanging around causing havoc at the bachelor party but has a minor role in this episode. Raj proves to be a very loving fiancée to Divvya.
They hired this super hot dancer girl, Destiny, who Evan thought had stolen his van. He was relieved to see Raj being a good guy, also being drunk and told her to take Evan’s van so she could drive back to her house. We don’t know if she was drunk or not. She didn’t seem to be having any drinks so it’s probably okay.
All in all a very entertaining episode of Royal Pains and there are only 4 more episodes left in the season. I can’t understand how a show so popular only has 12 episodes in this season. That is just such a low amount it doesn’t make sense.
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This is the exciting new start of Royal Pains season 2. If you haven’t been watching this show then I highly recommend you get involved now. You can see many of the episodes on hulu if you need to get caught up.
The basic premise of the show is a very good doctor named Hank Lawson had a good job and made a bad decision to save the life of a kid off the streets instead of a hospital board member billionaire. He thought the billionaire was stable and was going to be fine but unfortunately he took a turn for the worse dying.
The hospital was obviously extremely upset with this decision and Hank got fired for it.
The unfortunate chain of events that unfolded has Hank ending up staying with a German multimillionaire possibly even a billionaire. The guys name is Boris. Hank happens to be at his party one night when a guest falls ill. The doctor Boris had was doing something that was going to kill the patient when Hank steps in to stop it.
Boris was impressed with how Hank handled the situation and invites him to stay in the guest house. Of course he has to kick out the current Dr. who was staying.
So began Hank’s journey.
He was just out there on vacation but ended up falling into what’s called a concierge doctor.
Basically you can think of it like “the old days where the doctor would come to you and bring all of his medical supplies with him.” This is in stark contrast to today when we have to go to the hospital where the doctors are.
Obviously, if you’re very wealthy like many of the people who live or stay in the Hamptons the privacy of a concierge doctor is highly desired.
At the end of last season Hank’s brother Evan Lawson who is also the chief financial officer of Hankmed which is their company had gotten them in trouble. He trusted their swindling father who ended up taking all their money.
They are now in a major cash crunch and what this episode is all about.
A far bigger problem for Evan who really looks up to his older brother Hank is that he has broken Hank’s trust.
Divvya is their very capable Indian physician assistant. At the end of last season she was scheduled to move forward on a marriage arranged by her parents. She was having serious doubts which she expressed to Evan even though she has a general dislike for him.
They had come to an understanding that she was going to break off the engagement but we learn in this episode that she did not. She explains her reasoning that sometimes you have to give up one dream for a bigger dream. Her bigger dream was maintaining her family which is the most important thing to her.
And she shines a reflective light on Evan saying that Hank is far more important to him than his father and first he must repair the brotherly bond before he can repair the company’s finances.
Jill who works at the Hamptons Heritage hospital was dating Hank for quite a while in season 1. They got very close.
She is now under extreme duress as this season starts out.
Hank is the second doctor that she has become romantically involved with. This causes the other doctors at the hospital and the hospital’s board members to question where her loyalties lie. They wonder if she can keep business and personal separate.
The hospital has become understaffed and the head surgeon is upset with having to perform duties that she deems beneath her skill set.
We are strongly led to believe that she has been relieved of her duties.
Hank ends up dealing with this spastic patient. He’s an infomercial guy whose father has just died and gets into a whole ton of mishaps and misadventures during this episode. One almost takes out his life.
Boris is having continued struggles with a congenital defect disease that was revealed last season. It has killed all of his male ancestors when they are in their 40s.
Boris is definitely at this stage and can see the finish line.
Hank definitely wants to help him but doesn’t really know what he’s dealing with because there is no cure. Details of the disease are sketchy at best. There’s no research being done.
Evan does a couple cool things in an attempt to dig himself out of the doghouse. There’s a big finish to this episode and definitely a rousing action-packed start to what should be an outstanding sophomore season of this well-written show.
You should get into this show. What else are you going to do in the hottest parts of the summer months?
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