I respectfully disagree. The episode opens with her attempt as suicide *and* her second-guessing the decision immediately after she tries, which is as significant as the attempt itself. The rest of the episode is presented as a reflection of that event (i.e. she doesn't have answers, learns that she's ineffective, and…

The title of this episode is interesting, and I'm wondering how much of it can be used to unpack the layers that this episode seems to contain. In the movie, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," a dying thief tells a group of lookers-on where he buried his treasure, and subsequently, there is a frenzied dash to try and…

After thinking a little about the question concerning the two brothers, I believe that, like a riddle, the answer to whether you would kill the first brother in order for the second to grow up and cure cancer is neither of the obvious ones ("yes" or "no"). It seems to me that the reason *why* the second brother would…