The WORST episodes of Code Black
Every episode of Code Black ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Code Black!
In the new medical drama Code Black, Angels Memorial Hospital is the busiest ER in the nation. A "code black" occurs when there are more patients than resources, and you’re either praying for a miracle or performing one.
#1 - We Plug Holes
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/2015
Christa saves a woman's life and then pleads with Neal to perform a surgery that will save the patient's reproductive future.
#2 - Pilot
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/2015
Dr. Leanne Rorish puts her new first-year residents right to work at Angels Memorial Hospital, Home to the nation's busiest ER.
#3 - Change of Heart
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/27/2018
Elliot fears the worst after hearing the emotional testimony by Detective Gomez’s wife at his malpractice trial, but hopes footage Diego shot for his documentary will change her mind. Also, Rox attempts to connect with Willis but he pushes her away, and Leanne attempts to comfort Ariel in the wake of a devastating loss.
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Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/13/2018
Mario joins Rox and Willis on the scene of a boat crash and, in Center Stage, Leanne works to save a brother and sister who drank boiling water through a straw as part of a challenge. Also, Max’s father tells Leanne to keep Ariel away from his son after he finds them kissing.
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Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/20/2018
Max is brought to Angels Memorial with breathing difficulty and Ariel tells him she loves him. Also, Rox accompanies Willis and Martin to the funeral of an army buddy of Willis’ brother, and Willis decides to get to the bottom of what happened to his brother’s unit.
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Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/6/2018
Rox decides to make amends with her former step coach when she arrives to Angels Memorial with the local high school step team after a pyramid stunt goes wrong. Also, Noa pleads with Leanne and Campbell to try any other method before performing an emergency hysterectomy on a young teenage girl experiencing complications after giving birth.
#7 - Pre-Existing Conditions
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/2015
The doctors work 36 consecutive hours in code black and must deal with a distraught mother of two sons who were in a devastating car accident. Mario bullies Angus into performing an unnecessary operation and lets Angus take the blame when Leanne finds out.
#8 - Hail Mary
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/10/2016
Christa becomes insecure in her new relationship with Neal when his ex-girlfriend, Dr. Grace Adams, returns to Angels Memorial after spending a year volunteering in Haiti. Also, New York Giants Pro Bowl wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. comes to the ER to convince his stubborn high school football coach, Pete Delaney, to have life-saving surgery.
#9 - First Date
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/20/2016
Angus' older brother, an "all-star" ER doctor, tries to secure a position at Angels Memorial. Meanwhile, Christa's romantic feelings towards Neal begin to grow; and Malaya deals with a patient who is obsessed with her.
#10 - Sometimes It's a Zebra
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/2015
A new surgical attending Cole Guthrie joins Angels Memorial with the help of his estranged father and clashes with Leanne over their contrasting approaches to medicine. Christa has a crisis of confidence in the middle of a procedure on her first infant since the loss of her son.
#11 - Buen Arbol
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/2015
Angus utilizes his background in psychology when a woman cannot remember how she injured herself and others; Christa bonds with the mother of a patient with cystic fibrosis.
#12 - 1.0 Bodies
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/2016
The doctors treat cult members who unwillingly survived a mass suicide attempt, and Mario decides to connect with his late father’s girlfriend.
#13 - Third Year
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/25/2018
A drug bust-turned-shootout tests the bravery of the doctors of Angels Memorial as they race to save a girl caught in the crossfire. Also, Willis shifts his focus to field medicine, choosing to work primarily on an ambulance with his new partner, paramedic Rox. And Leanne begins her journey to adopt Ariel.
#14 - Better Angels
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/2/2018
Angus and Mario treat a patient who is a self-proclaimed psychic and envisions the staff singing and dancing, seeing beauty amid the chaos at Angels Memorial. Also, Willis and Rox put their lives in danger to rescue a congressman and his staffer from a multi-car accident.
#15 - You Are the Heart
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/2015
Christa must handle all emergencies at Angels Memorial that happen outside the emergency room; Malaya arranges a bone marrow drive for Carla; Leanne turns down a date.
#16 - Hell's Heart
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/30/2018
Willis and Rox are called to the scene of a wildfire in the mountains of Los Angeles to tend to the injured firefighters and choose to stay to look for a missing young boy who was separated from his father in the chaos.
#17 - The Fog of War
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/2016
A love triangle begins to develop between Mario, Angus and Heather, while the doctors treat patients from a chaotic multi-vehicle accident. When Malaya learns Carla is at the hospital, she goes against Carla's wishes and stays by her side during the delivery of her baby.
#18 - Cabin Pressure
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/30/2018
Over the radio, Leanne and Jesse talk a young girl through how to use the supplies on board a small plane to build a makeshift defibrillator when her mom, the pilot, loses consciousness. Also, Rox and Willis are taken hostage at gunpoint while on their way to meet the plane at the landing site. Julitta Scheel, Marcia Gay Harden’s daughter, stars as Ruby Harris, the young girl on the plane.
#19 - Vertigo
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/25/2017
After pulling a double shift, Mario risks his own life when he follows Willis to a construction site where two brothers are trapped on a crane 300 feet above the ground. Also, Leanne treats the wife of an orthopedist from Angels Memorial who is brought into the ER with mysterious injuries.
#20 - In Extremis
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/2015
Leanne struggles with whether to treat a police officer who helped her during an accident or his shooter, who has more serious injuries. Meanwhile, Malaya's pregnant ex-girlfriend arrives at the hospital with pain in her arm, and Malaya is shocked by her MRI results.
#21 - The Same As Air
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/16/2018
Willis and Rox arrive at a road rage accident resulting in multiple serious injuries. Also, Elliot doubts his ability as a doctor when he’s sued for his role in the death of the SWAT officer involved in the drug bust-turned-shootout, and Leanne discovers Ariel on an ice cream “date” with Max, a young patient at the hospital.
#22 - The Fifth Stage
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/27/2016
Leanne visits a prison to finally confront the drunk driver who killed her family. Meanwhile, Malaya begins to feel uncomfortable around her patient.
#23 - Love Hurts
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/17/2016
Christa and Grace deal with a teenager who claims to have been abused at a camp. Angus begins to take ADHD medication to remain focused. Leanne deals with a VIP patient who had embryos implanted in her without her husband's acknowledgement. Christa feels at odds with Grace.
#24 - What Lies Beneath
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/2016
Willis and Campbell are sent to a Russian submarine in U.S. waters to treat a sailor badly wounded during an explosion, and violent convicts injured during a prison riot descend upon Angels Memorial.
#25 - La Familia
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/9/2018
Jesse is in denial when his brother arrives at Angels Memorial in bad shape after being pinned down in a warehouse collapse and further tests reveal he has advanced congestive heart failure. Also, Willis opens up to Rox about his brother who was killed in Afghanistan.