Emma Yarbrough feels in control of her future after undergoing an egg retrieval operation until a burning sensation sends her for a loop, and when the doctor finds blood in Carlos Kotkin’s urine, he ends up having to undergo some deeply humiliating procedures.

Comedian Sam Lyons is determined to not get involved with his partner’s feral cats, until one goes missing, and in an act of desperation, Bhaskar Sompalli goes on a hunt to find free lab equipment to make his graduate school experiment work.

Corn researcher Katie Murphy is scared becoming a TikToker will ruin her credibility as a serious scientist, and as a kid, Scottie Rowell gets an unpleasant surprise when they don’t wait to eat their aunt’s pickles.

When Skylar Bayer’s heart condition sidelines her from doing her dive research, she struggles with not feeling worthy enough as a scientist, and when Mpho Kgoadi loses feelings in his legs as a child, he worries he won’t be able to achieve his dreams.

To get funding for grad school, Hakim Walker needs to pass a lie detector test, and in order to keep up the facade of living the American Dream, Xavier Bettencourt applies for a job as a science educator.

During her pediatric residency, Erica Martinez finds herself struggling to feel empathy for some of her patients, and while working as a doctor in South Bronx, Karinn Glover feels overwhelmed and powerless when trying to help a patient with substance use issues.

When Neeti Jain dissects her first fish in the lab, she feels like she’s not cut out to be a scientist in marine ecology, and as the new chief public health officer, Harold Cox feels out of his depth when their office receives a package with what appears to be anthrax.

When Luis Melo doesn’t see his name on a report that he spent nine months working on, he decides to confront his boss, and when another professor at a conference makes an inappropriate comment toward Sara Maloni, she decides to speak up.