@megsokay Published March 13, 2026, 8:30 a.m. ET Where to Stream: The Pitt Powered by Reelgood More On: The Pitt ‘The Pitt’ Star Supriya Ganesh Takes Us Behind-the-Scenes of Dr. Mohan’s Big Panic Attack — Including A Scene With Patrick Ball’s Langdon That Was Filmed But Cut From The Episode ‘The Pitt’ Season 2 Episode 10 Recap: You’re Giving Me A Heart Attack What Time Does ‘The Pitt’ Season 2 Episode 10 Come Out? ‘The Pitt’ Season 2 Episode 9 Recap: Jiggle the Cable One of the most stressful moments in The Pitt Season 2 Episode 10 “4 PM” sees one of the HBO Max show’s major characters becoming a patient themselves.
**Spoilers forThe Pitt Season 2 Episode 10 “4 PM,” now streaming on HBO Max**
Dr. Samira Mohan (Surpiya Ganesh) was already having a pretty bad day when all of a sudden, she became incapacitated by chest pain, shallow breathing, and overheating. Student doctor Joy (Iren Choi) immediately takes the reins, ordering Mohan into a wheelchair and back into the ED. There, Mohan tells Langdon (Patrick Ball) that she thinks she’s suffering from an “m.i.” or myocardial infarction, aka heart attack.
Suddenly, the doctors of The Pitt rally to Mohan’s bedside. Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) arrives just in time to realize that she’s not having a heart attack at all. The incredibly stressed out doctor is having a panic attack.
“I think when he says, ‘This is a panic attack,’ that’s the first time she’s genuinely considering it,” Supriya Ganesh told DECIDER. “Samira’s dad passed away of a heart attack and I think she thinks that’s what’s happening to her.”
What Robby does next might take fans of the usually avuncular attending aside. He scoffs at Mohan’s inability to compartmentalize her “mommy issues” and tells her to go home in the most condescending tone possible. It’s so unprofessional that Dr. Al-Hashimi (Sepideh Moafi) calls him out on it and Robby eventually apologizes!
“I mean I think for Samira, he’s not always that [heroic] person. Like, I think she respects him a lot and I think she really admires him as a doctor, but he’s so hot and cold with her,” Ganesh said. “I just don’t think she likes the way that he reacted and hoped that he would be kinder to her.”
Fans of The Pitt already know that Dr. Mohan has been going through it this season. The workaholic doctor is on the outs with her mother, who is selling their family home in New Jersey so she can cruise the world with her new husband. This means that Mohan’s plans to transfer to a job in Jersey, where she thought she could finally explore romance, are utterly upended. Just last week, we saw a scene where Samira expresses her worry that she’s ruined her chances to have a family to Dr. McKay (Fiona Dourif).
Supriya Ganesh told DECIDER that she kept a diary for Dr. Samira Mohan for Season 2 in which she wrote down the character’s life plans, including what age she wanted to have children by. Ganesh joked that she emulated Jennifer Aniston’s Rachel Green in Friends and then counted backwards to when she should have met her partner to make that happen only for Samira to realize the window had closes.
“It just feels like she’s a little unmoored and she doesn’t really know what’s going on. It’s not going according to plan,” Ganesh said. “Yeah, it was a really fun scene to play with Fiona. It’s just so vulnerable and I think, yeah, she doesn’t really where anything’s headed.”
Put this unmooring together with a blistering hot day from hell in the ED, and you have the psychological recipe to spark a physical panic attack.
Ganesh shared with DECIDER that she had her own personal experiences with panic attacks, but she didn’t want to lean on just her experience to portray what it might be like for Samira.
“There’s something really vulnerable about having your own experience with something like that and then going, ‘Okay, I’m having imposter syndrome about my anxiety. What is going on there?'” Ganesh said. “I didn’t want it to be as simple as like, ‘Okay, I’m just going to do what I’ve experienced having gone through that.'”
“And so I did a bunch of research into how people feel. It’s interesting because there is this commonality, but then a lot of people experience very different versions of panic attacks and I kind of had to go like, ‘Okay, what do I think Samira’s version is going to be like?'”
Ganesh told DECIDER that she hadn’t yet seen what made it into the final edit, but that she hoped some of the hand-clenching she added for Samira made it in.
“There were moments where I even felt like I was hyperventilating myself, because it’s like the breathing and the chest pains and there was so much sweat,” Ganesh said. “So, yeah, it was definitely a challenge.”
Perhaps the silver lining of Dr. Mohan’s panic attack is seeing how many members of The Pitt crew dropped what they were doing to see to their friend. “No, it was it’s really great,” Ganesh said. “I actually don’t know if this is still in the edit, but there’s a bit where Langdon is really the one who comes to help me. And it’s like I think the one scene we have together all season, he really does come and he’s like, ‘Okay, I’m here for you.'”
Ganesh shared that there’s a take she and Patrick Ball did where they started breathing together.
“He just started like breathing at me and I was just like, ‘Okay.’ Like I think as my character, I would, you know, do that as well,” Ganesh said. “So yeah, it’s just really nice to even just feel support from other characters as your character, even though it’s not really happening, but it feels like it is.”
The Pitt Season 2 Episode 10 ends with Mohan assuring Robby that she’s okay, but there’s still five episodes left in the show’s second season for more chaos to hit Mohan and the rest of the characters working at the fictional PTMC.
