Okay, so theory time...

I don't believe that Corrine was carrying Rush's baby. When he hooked up with Corrine it was August (granted, the timeline is never really specific in the series, but most shows tend to base their plots around the time when the episodes will air). Warren very specifically says that the baby is due in March. If the baby was the result of Rush's one night stand with her, the baby wouldn't be due until May.

Which would throw the entire ending into a whole different light because it would mean that he blew up the chance that he had with Sarah based on misinformation (at best) or a lie.

Just my theory.

After watching the AfterBuzz show on the season/series finale, it seems Rush did have a way out, the fact that the police were not shown finding JP's body. It could be concluded that the police only had found Manny's gun. If Manny got Rush to lie during interrogation that he was shot by Manny, then he would be off the hook as long as the police didn't find JP's body.

However, Manny wasn't there with the police when they showed up. Manny didn't necessarily know where Rush was at that point. Rush looked like he was on edge so he wouldn't necessarily be thinking that he could explain the whole thing as a fight between him and Manny and not mention anything about JP.

But let's say that Rush regained his presence of mind to lie during interrogation and/or Manny covered for him. The gun still had Eve's prints on it. If the police got ahold of her phone, they'd find JP's texts, go to JP's house, and find JP's body.

Furthermore, in the promo, there is a detective there, but also two uniformed police, suggesting both an interrogation and a possible arrest. The police cars are parked far away, though, so the immediate level of danger looks uncertain. Rush looks a little surprised as if he wasn't expecting the police to find him.

In the episode, the detective and the two uniformed police were not shown: rather, Rush exited the bathroom, and the cherry lights were flashing closely around him. He was completely surrounded by the police, suggesting a definite arrest. Moreover, he didn't give off the impression of being surprised at being surrounded by the police.

So, my inference from that was that he went to prison.

I'd like to think that Rush continued his medical practice in prison, setting up an underground clinic that rivalled the prison hospital, fixing broken limbs and treating wounds from shivs and other weapons, while securing regular medicine and recreational drugs, and extra or better food for himself and any friends he made in prison, while making unfriendly prisoners and guards' lives hell by knowing just where to stick the shiv into his enemies for maximum pain, improvising poisons out of the cleaning supplies or in the prison kitchen, and resorting to good old-fashioned blackmail.

Of course the ending of episode 10 is up to a lot of interpretations, so maybe there's room for a Deus Ex Machina that would spare Rush from incarceration, but it's my interpretation that he wasn't able to avoid prison, there was just too much evidence that led back to him.

Though some people saw the season finale as a cliffhanger, I thought it was a really good series finale. There was closure: Rush threw away a chance for respectability, reinstatement at the hospital, marriage, a trip to Bora Bora, and fatherhood, in order to protect Eve. Though he professed to love Sarah with his words, he showed that he loves Eve though his actions.

Rush didn't seem to hope that he'd be able to defend himself against the charges, since he didn't call his lawyer or think he could explain to the police that he killed JP in defense of himself or others, as in Eve. The expression he had when he told Manny to leave gave the sense that Rush knew he was committing a crime, and not manslaughter, but murder: he had wanted to kill JP, he had gone to JP's house just to talk initially, but he developed the intent to kill JP, and he succeeded in killing JP. One could argue the fact that JP shot Rush and that they fought means that JP wanted to kill Rush as well, but their fighting caused Rush to throw JP into a glass table and then watch JP bleed out from a severed artery, rather than Rush fighting to wrestle the gun away and then walking away. Rush was tense and on edge, which he wouldn't be if he hadn't committed a serious crime. That he didn't tell anyone directly what he had done is further indication that he knew he had murdered JP and he was now a fugitive.

The subsequent coincidences were not in Rush's favor. The police cornered him when he came out of the bathroom of a private plane, once again high on cocaine. The plane makes it look like he was going to flee the country.

It doesn't help either that JP was a respectable guy, while Rush has a sketchy medical practice, is a drug addict, and has been arrested many times before. While Rush was presumably jailed after he was arrested after jumping out the hotel window into the pool, since Dr. Alex had to bail him out, Rush wasn't facing prison until he murdered JP.

So the ending showed how far Rush went to protect Eve, his assistant and who would have become just someone from his old life if he had succeeded in marrying Sarah. By killing JP, he chose Eve, he chose his old life. That is the sweet part.

The bitter part of course is where a life lived without limits led him, surrounded by police, staring at the prospect of many years in prison, and only slightly high from Max's cocaine. It's not a cautionary tale, but it's the logical conclusion of Rush being like a "vortex". He brings chaos into the lives of his friends and his romantic partners, but as he denied being human at the beginning of the series, he is shown to be quite human and vulnerable to the backlash of the chaos he brings. The completeness of the ruins he finds his life in is symphonic in a way, there is beauty in his downfall, because it drives the point home that this is who Dr. Will Rush is. Rush's literal crime of passion---murder out of love for Eve, brings about the downfall of his would-be respectable self, freeing him to return to his old ways, freeing him to be once again the drug-fueled unorthodox physician who fixes people's ailments in unorthodox ways. In Eve's case, the ailment was JP. Though Rush was always bringing trouble to his friends and loved ones by treating criminals and others with shady business, he, though he had plenty of shady business and a long rap sheet from getting arrested many times, did not consider himself a criminal. But when Rush murdered JP, Rush fell indisputably in the classification of criminal, his most sublime unorthodox evolution, his potential as a vortex, and most importantly, for his love of Eve, he having been cast completely out of society rather than simply holding onto its margins, is now able to as an equal rather than an impartial third party, treat the ailments of other people who have been cast out of society. Therefore, the season finale was a good finale for the series.

Just saw that the show was officially cancelled on October 2nd. It's always really sad for me to see a tv show I have some interest in get cancelled. In this case, it only got one season, which IMO is less than it deserved.

This goes without saying, but thanks to anyone who contributed to this small subreddit and to episode discussions. I put more work into some of this stuff then I should have :p I can only hope now that USA doesn't cancel Graceland, too.

Enjoy your other shows, friends!

Wow, he was finally in a good place, but i guess it wasn't meant to be....

this sub is pretty slow but i might as well make this thread, i thought this was one of the better episodes and it was pretty heavy with his relationship with sarah. actually pretty interested to see what happens next

Synopsis:

While treating a musician, Rush is introduced to a hallucinogenic drug; Alex takes a call.

...I have not heard that song from the title in a while. What'd you think of the episode?

Synopsis:

Rush and Alex plan a guys' weekend at a medical conference; Rush's encounters his ex.

Discuss the newest episode here.

Synopsis:

In order to avoid anxiety, Rush takes on any medical call he gets; Eve discovers her value.

Oh hey, it's that Pixies song that played at the end of Fight Club!

...So, uh, what'd you all think?

Synopsis:

Rush goes to lunch with his stepmother; Rush is putting a strain on Alex's marriage.

Seems like we're finally learning a little more about Rush's dad's new family. What'd you guys think of the episode?

What does Rush's license plate mean. It is 149PCE. Idk it is just just a regular plate or has some hidden meaning.

Synopsis:

Rush contends with a medical emergency and reaches out to his estranged father while Eve must confront a figure from her past.

Thoughts on the third episode and the show so far?

So far I like it. It's a interesting and entertaining show. It kind of reminds me of "Do No Harm" besides the whole Jeckyl and Hyde thing. It is definitely not up to par with other USA shows like Royal Pains, Suits, or Graceland. I fell in love with all of those shows right from the pilots of each one. I'd like to see where this show goes. I'm scared it might get cancelled like "Do No Harm" did.

I'm thinking about watching it, but I can't decide. What do you guys think?

Synopsis:

Rush helps an up-and-coming MMA fighter with a past medical condition; Alex tries to save his job.

How'd the second episode compare to the pilot?