“Joshua Jackson’s Twin Brother Rescues Him in Episode 15 of ‘Doctor Odyssey: Crew Week'”

Doctor Odyssey is all in.

Episode 14 of the new ABC series revealed that Avery was not actually pregnant, but this didn’t deter Max from wanting a future with her. His twin brother Merrill, played by the same actor, helped him come to this realization.

In the latest episode, Max took a break from the themed cruises to visit his hometown and meet his brother and twin nieces. During his visit, he secretly applied for a job at a local hospital where an old school friend, played by Mike O’Malley, worked. Max felt it might be time for him to settle down, but he was unsure about who he wanted to settle down with.

While waiting for his job interview, Max intervened to help a teenager, which made him realize that although he could do great work as the head of internal medicine at the hospital, it wasn’t truly aligned with his desires. Merrill’s speech later reminded Max that it’s okay to choose unconventional paths, like working as a doctor on a cruise ship and navigating complex relationship dynamics. Although Max did not discuss his feelings for Avery with Merrill, it was evident she was on his mind.

Back on The Odyssey, Avery and Tristan (Sean Teale_ are left to monitor the crew, which (surprise, surprise) are in need of medical intervention. After a large piece of machinery falls on Rosie’s (Jacqueline Toboni) foot, breaking the appendage and leaving her with a nasty case of compartment syndrome — a buildup of pressure around the muscles after a traumatic incident — Avery is desperate to get Rosie to agree to surgery. The procedure, a fasciotomy, would simply see Avery and Tristan making incisions to relieve the pressure, but Rosie is hesitant to have them cut her open without Max on board. Fair enough, but an amputation could be the treatment if the case progresses so thankfully Avery and Tristan are able to talk her into the more routine surgery.

Elsewhere, Avery and Spence (Marcus Emanuell Mitchell) share a moment and confirm they once had a fling on The Odyssey, but the scene is cut short as Avery notices he’s walking without putting pressure on one of his legs. A disturbing sign for someone who was bit by a shark just weeks ago, she hauls him to the infirmary where an CT reveals a parasitic infection in his body, potentially caused by undercooked pork. On that note, I won’t be eating anything from any place ever again.

Just as Avery and Tristan are fighting about how to treat Spence’s infection, Max arrives back on The Odyssey, more determined than ever to win over the girl. For that to happen, however, he realizes he has to trust her, which requires giving her the leash to run Spence’s treatment as the lead. It’s sweet but complicated because she is headed off to medical school shortly and relationships where one person is in a pressure cooker always tend to do well, right?

Alas, the episode ends with Max confessing that he is all in for Avery and that she is the one he wants to be with, no matter what. It’s an awkward moment for her, however, as Tristan made a similar confession earlier in the episode. Is it cliché to guess that she’s going to choose herself? We will just have to wait and see until Episode 16 airs on ABC next Thursday, April 24.

The first 15 episodes of Doctor Odyssey are currently streaming on Hulu and Disney+.