HBO medical drama targets ICE in controversial new hospital storyline

As officers and ER doctors faced off over the treatment of a detainee, showrunner R. Scott Gemmill insists they were trying to let the audience decide what to take from the plot line. Gemmill said the storyline was written before the latest tensions surrounding immigration enforcement.

Tensions between the agents and hospital staff began immediately. Agents provide limited details about the woman's injuries, saying she fell while trying to flee.

"She took a nasty fall, her shoulder. Screamed in pain when we put the ties on her," one agent tells the medical staff.

The tension boils over when the detainee begs doctors to let her call her daughter, a request the agents flatly deny, noting she cannot contact anyone until she is processed.

Some viewers online took it as a sign of the show supporting the anti-ICE movement. 

One user on X wrote, "THE PITT SAID F--K ICE!" while another wrote, "I think this is how you do the episode without 'politics.'"