(Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for Doctor Odysseythe midseason finale episode, “Quackers.”)

Well, we’re certainly in uncharted territory now. Thursday’s new episode of Doctor Odyssey has continued the series’ breakneck pace by bringing us juicy new drama, and this time, there’s a new twist that could change everything for our favorite trio.

On “Quackers,” as the teammates welcome a bunch of rubber duckies looking for hide-and-seek – yes, apparently that East one thing: the atmosphere is quite fanciful and even a little weird on the ship. This does not prevent there being very serious problems to be resolved.

First, one of the event hosts has a nasty case of Pica and has swallowed so many foreign objects that his insides are corroded. With Tristan (Sean Teale) in quarantine for pink eye, Max (Joshua Jackson) and Avery (Phillipa Soo) work together to perform an emergency resection, which is difficult, but not too difficult for these two. The procedure proves, once again, that Avery will be a star student in medical school. There is only one problem, however. She has just learned that she is pregnant. Yes, although both boys used protection during their night of passion that fulfilled their bucket list, one of the condoms broke and now she has an important decision to make.

First, she confides in her best friends who visit her on the ship, delivering a thoughtful monologue about the gravity of the moment and the decision she will have to make, and for Phillipa Soo, giving this speech was a real precipitation.

“I was really proud to explore this conversation that I think a lot of women have with themselves about the choice they want to make, about their body and the future they want to have. And it was so great to have the two guest stars that week, which were Adrienne Warren and Paloma Garcia-Lee, my two Broadway comrades,” Soo told TV Insider of the scene. “I’ve always admired their work and never had the opportunity to work with both of them, and being together was so refreshing and so real – that camaraderie between three women being there for each other, being together. comforting and supporting each other. It was actually very true in that moment because I think all three of us have operated that way with other women and now we had the opportunity to meet in that scene. So it wasn’t hard to feel connected and close to these two wonderful women.

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The next conversation Avery has about this, however, has a very different vibe. She uses a pair of baby duck toys – pink and blue – to share the news with the guys, who have different, but equally encouraging (at least in their intentions) reactions. Max talks directly about the logistics of figuring out who it is and assuring her that having a baby wouldn’t interfere with her success in medical school, which is not what Avery wants to hear at that moment. Tristan, however, talks about how it’s his body, his choice, promising to be there no matter what.

“It’s a perfect example of how these kinds of conversations can be complicated and where people don’t necessarily always say the right thing from the start,” Soo said of lovers’ responses. “But I think, especially having this conversation with the two of them, as the trio that they are, it’s really opened up new territory in terms of how we talk about things and how that conversation happens. I think that it’s very clear that she has this choice that she wants to make, and she just doesn’t know what to do and I think that feeling of unconsciousness and feeling frozen in a moment like this. This is something with which many women really identify with each other.

Pregnancy isn’t the only way the polyamory storyline changes the game Doctor Odysseyof course, and Soo is a big fan of this dynamic – even if it caught her off guard at first.

“I was actually quite surprised,” she said of reading about the developing script. “But of course, coming from our fearless leader, Ryan Murphy, I had every confidence in how this would all play out. And I was really excited about it because I think it’s the kind of relationship that we haven’t seen yet in procedural television.

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Bringing this to life came with its own set of challenges and rewards. “I’m always excited about something new and challenging, and this was really such a collaboration in terms of understanding the nuance of this relationship between these three people, this medical team, and all the ups and downs that go into it. comes from having a relationship – or relationships – with people that you work so closely with,” she explained. “Those guys are very close and so that was, yeah, a really interesting thing to understand. .”

The fact that his character is the biggest champion is the icing on the cake, so to speak. “I love that it was Avery (rooting for it to continue). I think she would be really happy to keep exploring it and trying to understand it,” Soo said. “What I love about her is that she is a woman who discovered her own sense of agency and freedom in the world and who forged that for herself after going through difficult times. very difficult with his own personal relationships. And being able to play someone who is free in her body and also curious about different possibilities of interacting with the world and with the people around her, and I love that she’s open and willing to explore something that might not be. being only extremely nice but also very important and a really wonderful solid relationship for her.

Soo doesn’t reveal what we’ll find out about the pregnancy and Avery’s decision when Doctor Odyssey returns for its midseason premiere in March, but it promises that the tide changes will keep coming. “I can’t tease anything. But we are currently in the middle of filming and he continues to do his job. It’s exciting and full of unexpected things.“

Doctor Odysseymid-season return, March 6, ABC