Universal Channel Shows Royal Pains
Royal Pains
Show Guide
Royal Pains centres on young doctor Hank Lawson (Mark Feuerstein) who seems to have it all... thriving career, beautiful girlfriend, and swank New York City apartment. With one fateful and principled decision in the ER, Hank loses it all. Months later, single and blackballed from the medical community, he finds himself in the Hamptons playing the role of concierge doctor to the wealthy and infamous.
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Meet the Characters
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Hank Lawson
Mark Feuerstein
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Evan Lawson
Paulo Costanzo
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Jill Casey
Jill Flint
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Divya Katdare
Reshma Shetty
Episodes
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Episode 1
Pilot
Doctor Hank Lawson has the perfect life, complete with a beautiful fiancée and a promising job at a top New York City hospital. But it suddenly becomes a living nightmare when he chooses to save a neighborhood teen instead of a wealthy hospital patron because the teen’s situation was more urgent. After the patron dies, the hospital board fires Hank and threatens a lawsuit. Hank’s fiancée, Nikki, soon gets fed up and leaves him for good. Finally, Hank’s younger brother, Evan, convinces Hank to spend Memorial Dan weekend in the Hamptons in the hopes of getting him out of his slump.
On his first night there, Evan drags Hank to an exclusive party, which they clearly haven’t been invited to, on the massive private estate of a mysterious mogul named Boris. Thanks to Evan’s ability to make even the most outrageous story sound plausible, they manage to get in. At the height of the festivities, Hank winds up saving the life of a sick girl who has been mistakenly diagnosed with a drug overdose by the presiding concierge doctor.
Realizing that he has no job prospects in New York City yet suddenly a growing clientele in the Hamptons who are willing to pay big bucks for his services, Hank decides to give this concierge doctor thing a try with Evan as his business manager and Divya as an assistant. Little do they know, they ain’t seen nothing yet.
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Episode 2
There Will Be Food
Tucker, Hank’s wealthy teenage hemophiliac client, and his girlfriend Libby invite Hank and Divya to a retirement party on a massive East Hampton estate. Naturally, Evan tags along for the free drinks. Despite their low expectations for fun, the party turns out to be anything but boring.
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Episode 3
Strategic Planning
Now that Hank is a doctor on demand in the Hamptons, Evan wants a guerrilla-marketing plan to spread the word about “HankMed.” However, Hank soon realizes that the plan is more about Evan meeting women than establishing any viable contacts. When Hank gets a call to come to the aid of a senator’s son, that’s all the more reason not to be a part of Evan’s scheme. His medical service is marketing itself – or is it?
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Episode 4
TB or NOT TB
Hank and Divya are called in to one of the Hamptons’ hottest restaurants to give TB tests to the entire staff, per the new requirement by the health inspector. But the hard-working owner and head chef, Allison Moore, who has been burning it on both ends to get her new place established, may have a bigger health concern. She pulls Hank aside to confess that the recently experienced a strange “episode” during which her vision was temporarily blurred and she was disoriented. He speculates on what it could be but without tests, there’s not way to know for sure.
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Episode 5
No Man Is an Island
Evan barges in on a private moment between Hank and Jill to announce a new client, instantly killing the mood and derailing yet another date. At least the prospective clients are from old (and new) money and own a private island. The wife, Claire Grant, is due to give birth to her first child in three weeks, yet she insists on holding the annual family reunion with her sister on Grant’s Island, which is only accessible by helicopter. Claire agrees to a small concession to her concerned husband Rob by allowing Hank to come along as a precaution. But what Rob doesn’t know is that Claire is planning to give birth on her beloved family island – and she wants Hank to induce her labour.
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Episode 6
If I Were a Sick Man
The first – and painfully awkward – morning after between Hank and Jill is thankfully cutshort when Hank receives an emergency call from Ms. “Newparts” Newberg. Her faithful housekeeper, Esperanza, has been sick for a week but Ms. Newberg needs her well before her bit party the next day. Hank determines that Esperanza has pneumonia and administers a treatment that should have Esperanza back on her feet soon – if she rests. But they all know that resting is not in Esperanza’s vocabulary or her boss’s for that matter.
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Episode 7
Crazy Love
Jill is thrilled when her best friend Katie shows up at Shadow Pond unexpectedly. However, the reason for her visit is business not pleasure. Boris, whom Katie met through Jill at his Memorial Day Weekend party, has agreed to fund Katie’s medical research. That night, Boris calls Hank into the house to attend to an incident. Hank is shocked to discover that Katie has a shark bite. Boris claims it happened when Katie was swimming in the ocean but Hank’s not buying it. Despite Hank’s agreement to respect Boris’s privacy, Hank begins poking around looking for the truth. Evan fesses up that he knows that Boris is keeping a shark in his house. But that doesn’t answer the question why Katie was in that shark tank – or does it?
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Episode 8
The Honeymoon's Over
Just when the employees of HankMed think they have seen it all, they encounter the most bizarre case yet. Yesterday, Alan Rybar, a wealthy yet nebbishly thirty-something entrepreneur married his blushing bride Rachel, a gorgeous young swimsuit model, in their indoor tropical rain forest that was created specially for the occasion. Unfortunately, the newlyweds haven’t been able to start their honeymoon because Alan’s allergies have been acting up. Or, at least that’s what Alan wants his new wife to think. When he gets Divya alone, he confides that he has been having pain “down there,” which he thinks must be a kidney stone. What finally shows up on the X-ray stuns Divya so badly that she literally walks out on the patience without an explanation.
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Episode 9
It's Like Jamais Vu All Over Again
Jill has asked Hank to volunteer his service at a swank Hamptons horse show that’s a fundraiser for her medical clinic, despite the fact that their relationship status is unclear. Naturally, Evan seizes the opportunity to drum up new business for HankMed. Divya, however, is not only taking the day off to compete, but also to put on her own show for her parents who have come to watch her ride. She’s hoping that through some fancy footwork – involving Evan and some tall tales – her parents won’t catch on that she has been lying to them about her secret life as a Physician’s Assistant. But when her father is stung by wasp and has a serious allergic reaction, hiding her training is no longer an option.
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Episode 10
Am I Blue?
When Hank shows up to Tucker’s seventeenth birthday party, the surprise is on him. The party has been cancelled because Tucker’s dad, Marshall, is flying in to celebrate with his son. The only problem is that Marshall seems to have started celebrating way before he even arrived at the house. Tucker confides to Hank that he thinks his dad has a problem with drugs and alcohol and best Hank to get his dad into rehab. Fulfilling that birthday wish is easier said than done, since Marshall Bryant already thinks Hank interferes too much in his family’s business. But when Tucker is hurt rushing down the stairs, Hank has no choice but to stick his nose in once again.
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Episode 11
Nobody's Perfect
While Hank thinks that he has gone all the way to New York to help save Boris, it turns out Hank may need a little saving himself. Boris reveals that the Gardners are pressuring the state licensing board to revoke Hank’s credentials. Hank wants to handle the matter on his own but Boris isn’t about to butt out of Hank’s business, just like Hank hasn’t let the issue of Boris’s mysterious illness go. Boris puts his cadre of lawyers on the case despite Hank’s wishes because he has a vested interest in Hank keeping his medical license. Boris wants Hank to help him his potentially terminal genetic disease that killed his father and his grandfather. Hank agrees as long as there are no more secrets between them. Unfortunately for Hank, Boris isn’t exactly a tell-all kind of guy.
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Episode 12
Wonderland
As Divya and Raj do a final walkthrough at the property where their impending engagement party is scheduled to take place, Divya notices that one of the Hill sisters, who own and run the historic mansion, is having hallucinations and a suspicious cough. Divya immediately calls in Hank to help her play medical detective. Now he has to figure out why this somewhat eccentric but rather attractive young woman is suffering from these strange, possibly unrelated symptoms. Could it be the spirits of ancestors past?
Characters
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Hank Lawson
Mark Feuerstein
Feuerstein has worked consistently over the past ten years, receiving critical acclaim for his roles in film, television and theater. He most recently played Isaac Malbin in Ed Zwick’s World War II epic Defiance with Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber. He was Simon Stein in Curtis Hanson’s In Her Shoes with Toni Collette, Cameron Diaz and Shirley Maclaine. Additional film credits include Abandon, What Women Want, Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace, The Muse, Rules of Engagement, Woman on Top and Practical Magic.
Feuerstein also appears regularly on the small screen. He starred opposite Stanley Tucci in the CBS drama 3 lbs, played Leo in Once and Again and Josh in Sex and the City. Feuerstein also memorably played young Republican lawyer Cliff Calley in The West Wing. Additional television credits include Caroline in the City, Conrad Bloom, Fired Up! and Good Morning, Miami.
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Evan Lawson
Paulo Costanzo
Costanzo’s career rapidly grew in 2000, when he landed the role of Rubin Carver in the DreamWorks hit college comedy Road Trip. This project was soon followed by a supporting role in Miramax Films’ 40 Days and 40 Nights where he starred opposite Josh Hartnett. He was also seen in Josie and the Pussycats, A Problem with Fear, and opposite Woody Harrelson and Alicia Silverstone in Scorched. In addition to a successful film career, Paulo is also known for his role as Michael on NBC’s Joey.
In 2006, Costanzo made the move to independent features, starring in the Canadian comedy Everything’s Gone Green as Ryan, a twenty something slacker suffering through a quarter-life crisis who finds himself tangled in a money-laundering scam. The film won Best Picture at the 2006 Vancouver International Film Festival.
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Jill Casey
Jill Flint
Flint most recently appeared in the feature films Cadillac Records with Adrien Brody and The Women with Meg Ryan. She was also recently seen in How I Got Lost with Rosemarie DeWitt. Additional film credits include What Just Happened, On Broadway and Garden State.
Flint is also a recurring guest star on the hit CW series Gossip Girl, and has appeared as a recurring guest star on Six Degrees, Conviction and USA’s Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Flint resides in New York City.
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Divya Katdare
Reshma Shetty
Shetty is a graduate of the famed Opera department at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Immediately following graduation, she nabbed the lead role of Priya in A.R. Rayman’s / Andrew Llyod Webber’s First National tour of Bombay Dreams and was asked to appear as Ayah in Broadway’s World AIDS Day Benefit The Secret Garden. Additional theatre credits include roles and readings with the Contemporary American Theatre Festival.
Playwrights Forum and The Lark Theatre Company. This past spring, Shetty opened to rave reviews in her Off-Broadway debut at The New Group starring in Ayub Khan-Din’s Rafta Rafta. Shetty has been seen on NBC’s 30 Rock, and in 2008 made her big screen debut opposite Ally Sheedy and Oscar- nominated Ruby Dee in Steam. Shetty is also the face of Dove moisturizer bar in India.
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