Noah Wyle in 'The Pitt' season two. Warrick Page/HBOMAX Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text [The following story contains spoilers from the The Pitt season two, episode four, "10:00 a.m."] When Noah Wyle's Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch ended the first season of The Pitt with an emotional meltdown followed by a heart-to-heart with Shawn Hatosy's Dr. Abbot on the roof and Abbot offering to connect Robby with his therapist, some sort of mental health treatment seemed like it would be on the horizon for season two. But, in an exchange with Christopher Thornton's Dr. Caleb Jefferson in episode four, viewers learn that conventional therapy hasn't really been working for Robby, as he says the last two people he saw weren't his "speed" and that his upcoming motorcycle-trip sabbatical is the only sort of "zoom therapy" he's interested in. Related Stories TV Streaming Ratings: 'Stranger Things' Sets Another Record With Series Finale TV PaleyFest LA Sets Lineup, Featuring 50th Anniversary Celebration for 'Charlie's Angels' "He's coming up against what a lot of physicians face, which is it's really hard for a doctor to be a patient," Wyle told The Hollywood Reporter ahead of the season two premiere. "It's really hard to suddenly shift that vocational focus that's been so directed outward, out of necessity for self preservation and for compartmentalization and for accuracy, to suddenly turn inward and open up a Pandora's box of things that you've not been able to look at for a very long time, and have it not seem overwhelming [or] counterproductive to the job you still have to do, the relationships you still have to maintain and, maybe more significantly, to the example you need to set to your staff and to your patients that you are competent and confident in what you're doing. So it's that admission that you're increasingly projecting an imposter syndrome, as you prescribe a treatment plan that you're not willing to adhere to yourself, that I found really interesting and really topical. We've been inundated with a lot of anecdotal evidence that this is becoming a significant issue with people in these positions, and that leadership becoming an isolating factor in their ability to seek help." Indeed Robby's motorcycle trip is greeted with various forms of skepticism from the other doctors and nurses at the hospital and even, as seen in last week's episode, a patient who likened it to a "mid-life crisis," as Robby put it. "He's not really practicing what he preaches. He's advocating that his staff make full use of all the mental health resources available. But he's not buying in completely himself," Wyle says. "He's kind of curated a whole other kind of plan for himself and the restoration of this whole motorcycle and this romantic, slightly literary, slightly utopian trip that he's planning to go on and get his head clear. And as the season progresses, we begin to call into question the motivations for this trip, the details of this trip and begin to realize that it's more of an escapist voyage than it is a voyage of self discovery." As Robby's confronting his own demons, he's also forced to reckon with the return of his onetime protegé, Patrick Ball's Dr. Langdon, after Langdon's stint in rehab for an addiction to benzos, which Robby discovered, kicking him out of the hospital and lamenting how he'd failed to see what was happening. Robby has spent the early episodes in season two mostly shutting out Langdon, banishing him to triage, and, in episode four, confessing to Katherine LaNasa's charge nurse Dana that he'd hoped he'd be gone when Langdon came back. She suggests that perhaps both of them working on the Fourth of July was a sign that they should "clear the air." Wyle says "there's an evolution" to his feelings about Langdon's return. "You know, initially you believe it's because the student has betrayed the teacher and the friend has lied," Wyle explains to THR. "Then poke that a little bit more, and you can see where the teacher feels a degree of guilt over having had this happen under his auspices, and he didn't notice it and wasn't there to save it from happening. You poke it a little farther, and Langdon represents somebody who's just come back from the therapeutic road, somebody who's had the courage to face his demons and to humble himself into admitting that he needed help and that he was in over his head and needs to rebuild his life in a more honest way. So to the unexamined person, that's kryptonite." Dana, however, seems to be more accepting of Langdon's return. "In my mind. Dana has a child, a middle child that has an addiction problem. I've always had that in the back of my mind that has just been a kid that's had a rougher go at life," LaNasa tells THR. "There's a fair amount of addiction in my o