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 - The Devil's Workshop
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/1/2017
The ER is quarantined when a viral outbreak jeopardizes the lives of the doctors and patients at Angels Memorial. Also, Ariel, the young girl Leanne bonded with a year ago when she lost her father, returns to Angels.
#2 - 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.
#3 - Unfinished Business
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/11/2017
Guthrie becomes the hospital's new chaplain and considers undergoing a risky surgery to treat his Parkinson's. Meanwhile, the doctors treat patients involved in an apartment fire.
#4 - Hero Complex
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/2016
Malaya must inform a college student who regains consciousness at Angels Memorial that she's the victim of a rape. Meanwhile, Willis and Campbell butt heads over a terminally ill woman who wants to end her life on her own terms; and a comedian is treated after he collapses on stage during a performance.
#5 - 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.
#6 - Only Human
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.
#7 - Home Stays Home
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.
#8 - Step Up
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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - One of Our Own
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/4/2018
While rescuing an injured firefighter, Rox is hit by a drunk driver and rushed to Angels Memorial. Willis begins to realize his feelings for Rox and goes to great lengths to help her. Also, Leanne is excited to tell Ariel good news about her adoption.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Landslide
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/2016
The Angels Memorial doctors treat victims caught in a landslide, and a group of children come in from a camping trip with measles putting the entire ER at risk.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - As Night Comes and I'm Breathing
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/11/2018
Willis continues to tend to Rox’s medical needs in San Diego and Leanne and Max’s father go searching for Ariel. Also, when Noa reveals to Mario she wants to take a job offer in Philadelphia, and Campbell offers Mario the attending position at Angels, they realize their career choices will mean ending their relationship.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - The Business of Saving Lives
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/18/2018
Angels Memorial descends into chaos when a plane crashes into the 8th floor. Also, Noa has a car accident and it is up to Mario to save her life. Also, Willis admits to Rox that he needs her in his life and the doctors gather in court to support Leanne for her custody hearing.