Talk about a nightmare—you find yourself trapped in a burning building and can’t get to your loved ones, expect it's really happening. That’s exactly what the latest episode of Transplant (Wednesdays at 10/8 MT on CTV) has viewers confronting right off the top, as a building down the street from York Memorial Hospital explodes, trapping dozens of people inside. The good news is they’re right by a hospital; the bad news is the blast knocked out the power grid for the entire block, limiting York Memorial to only auxiliary power.So it's the kind of scenario that really puts a doctor’s skills to the test and considering Dr. Bashir “Bash” Hamed’s (Hamza Haq) instincts were pushed to their limits during the Syrian civil war, they kick back in, instantly. Without a word to anyone, he grabs supplies and runs down the street and into the inferno to help and just like that, viewers are on tenterhooks for next 60 minutes.

Some heart-wrenching answers

That’s our Bash—from the first episode, he’s always dared to enter where angels fear to tread and even Dr. Mags Leblanc (Laurence Leboeuf) calls him out on it. “You can’t just—show up and volunteer as a doctor?” he says, echoing their very first conversation. Ha. But that’s exactly what he does when he finds a woman trapped under a fallen beam in the exploded tower. As he gives her a transfusion with his own blood (we repeat—his own blood!), suddenly we’re hit with some clarity on Bash’s PTSD-triggered visions (he’s often haunted by gasmask-wearing children).

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In a series of flashbacks, Bash is back in Syria, wearing a gasmask himself as he hides from regime soldiers in a hospital after a chemical attack. With sniper fire ricocheting in the distance, Bash turns a corner and finds his very own mother (who was also a doctor, along with his father) splayed on the floor. It’s absolutely devastating to watch Bash cradle his own mother’s lifeless body as he weeps. But as the soldiers draw near, he is forced to leave her behind and flee. We're all reaching for the tissues after that one.Back in the present, Bash is trying to calm his nerves and shaking hands to treat the fallen and Mags is brought back to the ER (after a brief stint in internal medicine) to help with the triage. She’s thrown into her own dire position when the hospital’s flickering power traps her and a slowly-suffocating patient in an elevator. With no medical tools whatsoever, Mags is forced to use a Swiss army knife (yikes!) to intubate Naomi. Once again on this show, viewers aren't spared any gory, bloody close-ups of incisions and surgical procedures. As if our nerves weren’t frayed already by this episode! At least this miraculous medical feat convinces Dr. Bishop (John Hannah) to bring Mags back to the ER, much to her delight.

Mixed signals?

Elsewhere in the hospital, Dr. June Curtis (Ayisha Issa) has been butting heads all season with her superior, Dr. Singh (Sugith Varughese), who seems to treat her unfairly at every turn. All the tension and sexist subtext to their interactions finally reaches a boiling point when Dr. Curtis performs a surgical procedure without Singh’s supervision and he admonishes her sternly for it. That’s when June claps back in an epic fashion.“You think I’m giving you a hard time because you’re a woman?” he asks incredulously. “When I started here 25 years ago, I was the only brown face in the department!”“I guess you found a way to pay that prejudice forward,” she retorts. OMG, we are living for this—June finally found her voice and she’s speaking truth to power! But the exchange is suddenly flipped on its head when Dr. Singh calls her out about the chip on her shoulder and her feelings of entitlement. He calls her unsupervised procedure sloppy and accuses her of putting her own ego before patients’ needs. Hm. Could it be that Dr. Singh gives everyone a hard time and June’s been mistaking honest criticism for sexism?[video_embed id='1914821']RELATED: ‘Transplant’ star Ayisha Issa has superhero ambitions and the moves to back it up[/video_embed]

It’s never really over

As the explosive day at the hospital winds down, the doctors are forced to confront all the lives they couldn’t save. “What we do here is about more than being perfect. It’s about showing up and leaving everything on the floor. It’s what we do every day,”Dr. Bishop reminds his team.Bash offers more wisdom as he comforts a survivor in the hospital, “Those people that didn’t make it, try to let them go.” It seems he’s mostly saying those words to himself. The images and memories from what he endured during the Syrian civil war will stay with him for a long time, and as the episode comes to a close, we're left wondering if Bash will ever find peace.Watch Transplant Wednesdays at 10/8 MT on CTV.[video_embed id='1953411']BEFORE YOU GO: ‘Transplant’ star Hamza Haq was almost a real doctor before playing one on TV[/video_embed]