This week’s penultimate episode of The Pitt Season 1 on Max ended with what seemed to be the potential arrest of Fiona Dourif’s Dr. Cassie McKay. All season long, we’ve learned more about McKay and her personal life, including that she has to wear an ankle monitor. It is soon revealed that this stems from an incident she had with the current girlfriend of her ex/father of her young son. It went off in a previous episode, and it goes off again during the mass casualty event. To stop the noise and so she can get back to work, McKay drills into it. This alerts the police, and they come to arrest her for tampering with it. It is a moment that Dourif described as “humiliating” for the character in a recent interview with Blavity’s Shadow and Act. The feeling of ‘humiliation’ McKay had being put in handcuffs “I think the primary feeling was humiliation,” she told us. “It was like an injustice because McKay was just doing her very best under these impossible circumstances. And the priority...
