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A short-lived American Drama that deals with a surgical resident (Jordana Spiro) taking on her brother's (Jesse Lee Soffer) debt to the mob by helping those they demand need help.

The series also stars William Forsythe, James Carpinello, Zach Gilford, Ċ½eljko Ivanek, Floriana Lima, Jaime Lee Kirchner, and Wendy Makkena.

It aired on Fox for one season.


Tropes for the series:

  • Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Grace's childhood friend/ex-boyfriend Franco is seemingly a double-agent actually working for Moretti against Costantine... until he turns out to be working for the FBI all along.
  • One-Word Title:
    • Pilot.
    • Legacy.
    • Complications.
    • Confessions.
    • Resurrection.
  • The Show of the Books: Based on Ron Felber's book ll Dottore: The Double Life of a Mafia Doctor.
  • Tagline: "Be careful who you owe".
  • Waking Up at the Morgue: In one episode, a patient comes into the emergency room and then has an apparent heart attack. The doctor is trying to explain what happened to the man's pregnant wife. She insists on seeing her husband's body. The boy is still in the trauma room so they take the wife there. Then the husband wakes up and wants to know what is going on and why his wife is crying. the man apparently has a very rare condition where his heart can stop for a few minutes and then start beating again. The rest of the episode the doctors try to determine what caused the condition and how to stop it from occurring again since the next time the man might not wake up. Also they do not want to be known as the doctors who had the same patient die on them twice in a day.

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