Universal Channel Shows Royal Pains S2
Royal Pains S2
Series 2
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
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Episodes
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Episode 1
Spasticity
The day after Divya’s engagement party, HankMed seems to be back to business as usual. The only hitch? The man who puts the Hank in HankMed is MIA. As Boris and Divya try to track him down, Hank heads to New York City on his own search mission: to find Evan – who’s gone looking for their father and the missing HankMed money – and bring him home.
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Episode 2
Lovesick
The Lawson brothers have found themselves with an unexpected houseguest: their estranged father, Eddie R. Lawson. But just because deal old dad has come bearing a restitution check doesn’t mean Hank is ready to welcome him with open arms.
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Episode 3
Keeping the Faith
When Hank comes to the rescue of an ailing stranger, he lands a huge new client – literally, the guy is enormous – an actor known for his performance as the “Trashman” in a gruesome series of films. Donald (aka the Trashman) has been experiencing some troubling symptoms, and enlists the help of the HankMed team to get to the bottom of the medical mystery.
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Episode 4
Medusa
When Boris sends a jet to whisk Hank away to his “winter residence,” Hank is expecting a quick trip to Manhattan. Instead, he and Evan find themselves landing on a very different island: Cuba. A local geneticist named Dr. Casseras has diagnosed Boris, and, eager to participate in her new clinical trial, he has brought Hank to Cuba to evaluate and prepare him for the treatment. Hank urges his patient to exercise caution, but Boris and the beautiful Dr. Casseras – whose relationship, it appears, may be more than just professional – have other ideas.
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Episode 5
Mano a Mano
As Hank waits for his missing brother to turn up, Evan comes face-to-face with the kidnappers who snatched him off the streets of Cuba. As it turns out, they grabbed the wrong Lawson brother. A believed-to-be-dead Cuban dissident named Marcos has had an accident and is need of a doctor – preferably one who can keep his mouth shut. Hank arrives and manages to save the day, but while treating his patient he makes an unsettling medical discovery… one that could potentially put everyone involved in harm’s way.
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Episode 6
In Vino Veritas
Hank is summoned to a local winery by client Tucker Bryant, who has some concerns about his childhood friend, Oliver Ambrose. Oliver has been showing some odd symptoms and Tucker, all too familiar with the signs of substance abuse, is worried that his friend may be heading down that path. Hank isn’t so sure that’s the problem, but he does suspect that something – other than just being a teenager – is causing Oliver’s fatigue and erratic behaviour.
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Episode 7
Comfort’s Overrated
It seems the Hamptons don’t agree with Queens transplant Jim ‘Mac” MacIntyre. Though locals – including Jill and Hank – are lining up for the chef’s addictive lobster mac ‘n’ cheese, Mac’s been having some bad luck since he and his orange food truck arrived in town: first he and his truck get sideswiped in a hit and run, and now he and his new wife are having marital issues. Hank and Divya soon find themselves landing square in the middle of those issues when Mac’s wife Donna calls them to treat her injured ankle. While tending to Donna, Hank and Divya can’t help but notice Mac’s increasingly odd behaviour, and begin to worry that there’s something dangerous going on with this troubled couple.
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Episode 8
The Hankover
The sun rises over a beautiful beach; it’s another gorgeous day in the Hamptons. Except this morning, something’s a little different… Back up 24 hours. Divya and Jill, dressed up in their ladies-who-lunch finest, are heading to Manhattan for a bridal tea in Divya’s honor. Afterwards, they decide to make the most of their time in the city and, with help from their well-informed cab driver, hit the town. But after a surprise call from her sister Saya, Divya learns the shocking truth about Saya’s arranged marriage, and once again begins to question her own.
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Episode 9
Frenemies
It turns out not all publicity is good publicity; Hamptons Heritage, led by Dr. Blair, is fighting Jill’s plan to have HankMed operate the new community clinic, and they’re starting with a hatchet job in the local paper. While Jill and the HankMed team consider how best to respond, they continue to go about their business: helping sick people. They start with a 7-year-old boy with some mysterious recurring symptoms, who just so happens to be the son of Dr. Blair. Unfortunately Jake’s unexplained illness isn’t the only problem the kid is facing; his recently separated parents are feuding, and it’s taking a toll on everyone – not least of all Jake.
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Episode 10
Whole Lotto Love
When good-hearted North Dakotans Ginnie and Roy win the lottery, they learn a valuable lesson: money can’t buy you love, or happiness, or even health – but it can buy you an enormous mansion in the Hamptons. But as they both start showing some strange symptoms, Roy begins to fear that they’re falling under the notorious lottery curse, and Hank has to do his best to soothe his new patients’ symptoms – and their irrational fears.
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Episode 11
Big Whoop
It’s Evan vs. Emily Peck in the battle for the Hamptons concierge doctor internet dominance. When he discovers Emily’s online manoeuvres to siphon off potential HankMed clients – and learns that his brother has been sleeping with the enemy – Evan enlists the help of his distracted father to come up with a strategy for retaliation.
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Episode 12
Open Up Your Yenta Mouth and Say Ah
While enjoying his morning muffin, Hank is interrupted by AJ, a beautiful but spacey socialite with a taste for gossip and a habit of fainting at inopportune times. AJ, who enlists Hank’s help when her health begins to worse, seems to have a fascination with all things HankMed, but Hank’s only concern is figuring out what’s behind his new client’s strange symptoms. Something is just not adding up with AJ.
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Episode 13
Mulligan
After his heart attack, Eddie R. Lawson is rushed to Hamptons Heritage, where Hank and the hospital staff manage to stabilize him. Following his near-death experience, Eddie swears that he's a changed man, and vows to tell his sons the truth about what he's been up to. While Hank insists that his father first focus on getting better, that's not good enough for Evan, who decides to get to the bottom of things by paying a visit to Eddie's lawyer.
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Episode 14
Pit Stop
A new reality show called "Share House: The Hamptons," featuring fame-hungry twentysomethings cavorting drunkenly, is filming next door to Jill. There goes the neighbourhood - and Jill's hopes of getting any sleep at night.
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Episode 15
A History of Violins
Hank's newest patient, 14-year-old musical dynamo Natalie Williams, is suffering from a sore throat, stomach issues, and a mean case of teenageritis. And Natalie's parents are facing problems of their own, what with Natalie's adolescent rebellion and their ongoing feud with their next door neighbour - who, as it turns out, happens to be none other than Paige's somewhat fearsome father, The General.
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Episode 16
Astraphobia
Park Ranger Pete wanders off while leading a group of young campers, and turns up the next morning battered, bruised, and with absolutely no memory of what happened to him. While examining Ranger Pete, Hank he discovers a series of symptoms that lead to one very surprising conclusion: Pete has been struck by lightning.
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Episode 17
Fight or Flight
On a Hamptons airfield, Hank encounters Jess an old acquaintance and ex-Wall Street trader attempting to give up her workaholic ways. But Jess's attempts at normalizing her life aren't working out quite as she'd hoped -- in fact, she's never felt worse. Is it just the adjustment to her new life that's causing Jess's troubling symptoms, or could it be something much more dangerous?
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Episode 18
Listen to the Music
After being booted from Shadow Pond by Boris, Hank and Evan have set up temporary shop in Ms. Newberg's kitchen. It's the perfect opportunity to spend some quality time with their father before he ships off to prison in a few days. Unless, of course, Eddie's got something else up his sleeve...
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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