| The Clinic | |
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| Season 1, Episode 10 | |
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| Air date | July 15, 2011 |
| Written by | Michael Hurst |
| Directed by | Michael Hurst |
| Episode guide | |
| Previous Help Me, Rhonda |
Next Till Death Do Us Part |
"The Clinic" is the tenth episode of Season 1 of Femme Fatales. It premiered on July 15, 2011.
In syndication and on streaming, "The Clinic" is sometimes listed as the eleventh episode of the season. This happens when the series premiere episode, "Behind Locked Doors", is split into two episodes.
Plot[]
A man with a terminal illness checks into a mysterious Mexican clinic in the hopes of finding a miracle cure. But Logan Cale discovers that there are greater things to fear than his diagnosis as patients begin to disappear and a devious conspiracy takes shape.
Summary[]
Logan Cale passes out while making love to his girlfriend Jessica. A visit to Dr. Chandler reveals that Logan has just months to live: his only hope is treatment at a Mexican clinic. Jessica checks him into the clinic after he has another seizure. Fellow patients Doug and Lindsey give him a tour of the windowless facility, which has armed guards at the doors and security cameras everywhere.
After six weeks, Logan feels so much better that he wants to leave. However, a visit from Jessica, who has since found another boyfriend, dissuades him. Patients Jake and Grace are "discharged", as is Doug. Lindsey makes the connection between the arrival of elderly patients and the disappearance of their friends, and convinces Logan that they must escape. Before they can flee, Lindsey is given another "treatment". She wakes up to find herself in the Operating Room, along with an elderly woman on the gurney beside her. Lindsey leaps from her gurney and escapes from the room. She bumps into Logan in a corridor and, together, they overpower a guard, take his gun and go out the door.
They find themselves inside a warehouse in the hills above downtown Los Angeles. Then they find the bodies of their missing friends. Dr. Chandler reveals that all of the adopted patients are providing organs for their wealthy biological parents. Despite Lindsey's entreaties, Logan surrenders the guard's gun when Jessica's life is threatened. Only then does he learn that Jessica is one of the plotters. He is sedated and briefly wakes up in the OR, where he finally meets his biological mother – a steely old woman who is to receive his still-beating heart.
Opening segment[]
"Everyone wants to believe that they are going to live forever – that that tremor in their heart, the few extra pounds added over the holidays, and the labored breathing after a morning run are all perfectly normal. But what happens when you find out they're not? What happens when you realize the life that you've been leading has an expiration date? What would you do to change that? Would you make the same choice that Logan Cale is about to make? And at what price?"
Closing segment[]
"They say home is where the heart is, and unfortunately, for Logan Cale, this was all too true, proving you can truly buy anything for the right price. And if there's a moral to tonight's story and you find yourself sick and bedridden and might need to resort to desperate measures for a cure, I make this very humble suggestion: get a second opinion."
Notes[]
Trivia[]
- The movie that Logan Cale and Jessica are watching on television, right before Logan turns off the TV, is Creepshow, an anthology movie which tells five terrifying tales inspired by the E.C. horror comic books of the 1950s.
External link[]
| Femme Fatales TV Series - Season 1 |
| Behind Locked Doors I Bad Medicine I Something Like Murder I Speed Date I The White Flower I Girls Gone Dead I Haunted I Angel & Demons I Help Me, Rhonda I The Clinic I Till Death Do Us Part I Visions, Part 1 I Visions, Part 2 |