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Jun 16, 2009 · Pilot: Directed by Mikael Salomon. With Jada Pinkett Smith, David Julian Hirsh, Christina Moore, Suleka Mathew. As TNT's dynamic new series opens, Christina Hawthorne, chief nursing officer for Richmond Trinity Hospital, races to work to try to prevent a suicide attempt by David, an end-stage cancer patient and best friend to her husband.
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- Mikael Salomon
- 2009-06-16
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Pilot is the premiere of Season 1 of HawthoRNe.
As TNT's dynamic new series opens, Christina Hawthorne, chief nursing officer for Richmond Trinity Hospital, races to work to try to prevent a suicide attempt by David, an end-stage cancer patient and best friend to her husband.
We open on a darkened bedroom. The woman we will soon come to know (and love?) as Christina Hawthorne clicks on a light. She begins talking to someone named Michael who she blames for her insomnia. It's been exactly a year since she's had this problem. Her phone rings. It's David who is in distress of some kind. She tells him to stay where he is and that she'll be there in ten minutes. She motors through the streets of Richmond, VA and comes to a stop at Richmond Trinity Hospital and calls David and tells him to stay in his room. A homeless woman named Isabelle tries to waylay her but Hawthorne is undeterred in her mission. A security guard tries to stop her because she has no ID. He's new. She skirts him and runs up the stairs. She reaches the roof where David, a patient is standing at the edge. She tries to talk him down. (He's D.B. Woodside!) He has cancer and wants to end it all. He jumps. She runs back down the stairs and bumps up against the guard again.
They wheel the now even-more-screwed up David into the ER. He has a DNR. The doctor says he's going to save him anyway. They revive him against her, and his, wishes. The police arrive and arrest her for breaching security & assaulting the guard. She struggles and we cut to the credits.
A doctor named Dr. Tom Wakefield, played by Michael Vartan, works on David and his watchful students wonder why he's trying to save a suicide. It's enough that he's there, says Wakefield. Another doctor arrives, he's named Howard and according to Wakefield he's the best.
Dr. Tom Wakefield and HawthoRNe walk and talk. He thinks she should've called him since David was his patient and he wouldn't have jumped if he'd been there. She says David was her husband Michael's friend and she wanted to help him on the anniversary of Michael's death. Wakefield is chagrined. She says she's fine and thanks him for helping with the police. He says he's late for rounds. She says he always is and wonders why his patients like him so much. He pulls out a lollipop and says he gives them candy. He tells her to go home. She says this is home.
A male patient is grunting and moaning. A blond nurse was bathing him? He's a corporal and she thanks him for his service.
HawthoRNe, who is chief of nursing, is explaining to a group of nurses in a conference room that the incident from this morning is being dealt with. She gets a status report that no one died this morning. She admonishes them for letting patients walking around unsurpervised. There were three complaints about verbal abuse by doctors. Hawthorne promises to bring up the issues at a meeting this afternoon. The blond nurse who was, um, helping the corporal apologizes for coming in late. The status report giver is looking for volunteers for the nurse's auxiliary Japanese tea ceremony. HawthoRNe and another nurse sign up.
•This episode aired on June 16, 2009
•They had different actors to play Tom Wakefield and Camille Hawthorne in the pilot and then the actors that played them got the jobs.
- June 16, 2009
- John Masius
- Mikael Salomon
- 3 min
"Hawthorne" Pilot (TV Episode 2009) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Richmond Trinity Hospital's chief nursing officer Christina Hawthorne tries to stop an end-stage cancer patient's attempt at suicide.
- Mikael Salomon
- June 16, 2009
- Jada Pinkett Smith
In the pilot, Jeffrey Nordling portrayed Dr. Tom Wakefield, director of medicine. In February 2009, Michael Vartan was cast to co-star alongside Pinkett Smith as Dr. Tom Wakefield in the series. By June 6, 2009, the program's title had been changed to Hawthorne. Masius continued on as executive producer in the second season.
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