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When Charlie Harris ends up in a coma, he leaves the Hope-Zion Hospital in chaos - and his fiancée and fellow surgeon, Alex Reid, in a state of shock. As the staff of Hope-Zion races to

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Saving Hope Season 5 Episode 18 - Hope Never Dies
    6.9/10(159 votes)

    #1 - Hope Never Dies

    S5:E18

    Alex and Charlie rush to the scene of a mass casualty accident involving a bus full of teenagers.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Saving Hope Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot
    7.3/10(262 votes)

    #2 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    In the premiere episode, the Chief of Surgery ends up in a coma, and his fiancée and fellow surgeons fight to save his life.

    Director:David Wellington
    Writers:Morwyn Brebner, Malcolm MacRury

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  3. Saving Hope Season 1 Episode 3 - Blindness
    7.4/10(172 votes)

    #3 - Blindness

    S1:E3

    After Charlie’s hand moved in the last episode, Alex has high hopes for his recovery, while she treats a patient who already has multiple surgeries under his belt. Meanwhile, Charlie coaches a young man killed in a roofing accident who has unfinished business with his severely injured brother.

    Director:John Fawcett
    Writers:Marcus Robinson, Adam Pettle

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  4. Saving Hope Season 5 Episode 2 - Midlife Crisis
    7.4/10(77 votes)

    #4 - Midlife Crisis

    S5:E2

    Alex and Charlie are confused about their relationship. Alex and Maggie disagree about a car crash survivor. Dana is forced to treat an injured motorcyclist. Zach bothers Maggie about dating.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Saving Hope Season 1 Episode 4 - The Fight
    7.5/10(170 votes)

    #5 - The Fight

    S1:E4

    A sleep-deprived Alex takes on a night shift in the ER where an all-star hockey enforcer may be skating full-speed towards an early death. Meanwhile, Charlie meets a suburban punk who is facing the biggest fight of his life.

    Director:Kelly Makin
    Writers:Marcus Robinson, Greg Nelson

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  6. Saving Hope Season 5 Episode 4 - A Stranger Comes to Town
    7.5/10(72 votes)

    #6 - A Stranger Comes to Town

    S5:E4

    Charlie tries to save the arm of a man thrown from a horse. Alex joins Manny off-site to help a runaway. A rival from Dev's past arrives at Hope Zion.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Saving Hope Season 5 Episode 6 - Doctor Robot
    7.5/10(74 votes)

    #7 - Doctor Robot

    S5:E6

    Alex and Maggie ask Charlie for his opinion on a patient's treatment. Zach is persuaded by a patient while transitioning the ER to an urgent care facility.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Saving Hope Season 5 Episode 14 - We Need to Talk About Charlie Harris
    7.5/10(81 votes)

    #8 - We Need to Talk About Charlie Harris

    S5:E14

    Alex is challenged about the value of holistic medicine. Charlie's abilities are questioned. Two filmmakers go to Hope Zion Hospital.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Saving Hope Season 1 Episode 2 - Contact
    7.6/10(191 votes)

    #9 - Contact

    S1:E2

    Alex Reid treats a young boy with mysterious symptoms while dealing with the arrival of Charlie's ex-wife. Elsewhere in the hospital, Joel Goran and Maggie Lin try to help a patient who refuses life-saving treatment on religious grounds.

    Director:David Wellington
    Writer:Morwyn Brebner

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  10. Saving Hope Season 1 Episode 5 - Out of Sight
    7.6/10(154 votes)

    #10 - Out of Sight

    S1:E5

    A high profile double hand replantation becomes Alex's (Durance) chance to prove to Kinney (Wendy Crewson) that she is still capable of being Chief Surgical Resident. In the ICU, Maggie (Ross) believes a homeless man may have been misdiagnosed.

    Director:John Fawcett
    Writers:Aaron Martin, Marcus Robinson

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  11. Saving Hope Season 1 Episode 7 - Consenting Adults
    7.6/10(144 votes)

    #11 - Consenting Adults

    S1:E7

    A routine surgical procedure goes awry when Alex's patient, a soon-to-be-wed young woman, falls into a coma. While Alex struggles with a case that hits close to home, Joel treats a patient who does his own body modifications, and Charlie finds himself drawn to Alex's coma patient in the spirit world.

    Director:John Fawcett
    Writers:Marcus Robinson, Malcolm MacRury, Waneta Storms

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  12. Saving Hope Season 3 Episode 8 - The Heartbreak Kid
    7.6/10(116 votes)

    #12 - The Heartbreak Kid

    S3:E8

    Alex and Charlie perform a double surgery on a teenage girl; Joel works at the clinic; Maggie must pull through when she is reunited with the Zarb family.

    Director:David Wharnsby
    Writer:Fiona Highet

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  13. Saving Hope Season 5 Episode 5 - Tested and Tried
    7.6/10(72 votes)

    #13 - Tested and Tried

    S5:E5

    Alex tracks down the father of a patient who needs a liver transplant. The new CEO of Hope Zion is at odds with Dawn. Zach faces trials in the E.R.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Saving Hope Season 2 Episode 2 - Little Piggies
    7.7/10(123 votes)

    #14 - Little Piggies

    S2:E2

    Alex must learn to stick up for herself and not be intimidated by Dawn (Charlie’s ex-wife) in order to work alongside her and perform a minimally invasive heart procedure to save a patient’s life. Meanwhile, Joel unlocks a mystery to a young girl’s disease, while getting some advice from Charlie, who is trying to figure out how to help his comatose patient come back from being a spirit. It’s a week of defying the odds at Hope Zion Hospital.

    Director:Kelly Makin
    Writer:Adam Pettle

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  15. Saving Hope Season 2 Episode 9 - Vamonos
    7.7/10(133 votes)

    #15 - Vamonos

    S2:E9

    When Alex is forced to put a patient’s gender reassignment surgery on hold, she discovers a secret in his medical history that could save his surgery, but tear his life apart. Charlie deals with a patient who is healthy, sane – and convinced she is going to die at midnight. Meanwhile, Joel secretly helps Sonja deal with a patient of hers who’s been admitted to Hope Zion Hospital.

    Director:Jeff Woolnough
    Writers:Adam Pettle, Amanda Fahey

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  16. Saving Hope Season 4 Episode 3 - Start Me Up
    7.7/10(80 votes)

    #16 - Start Me Up

    S4:E3

    Alex struggles with being a mom, a surgeon and now mentoring a junior resident.

    Director:Steve DiMarco
    Writer:Noelle Carbone

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  17. Saving Hope Season 4 Episode 7 - Can't You Hear Me Knocking?
    7.7/10(82 votes)

    #17 - Can't You Hear Me Knocking?

    S4:E7

    Alex tries to convince Shahir to use an aggressive treatment on a brain tumor patient.

    Director:T.W. Peacocke
    Writer:Tammy Marlowe Johnson

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  18. Saving Hope Season 5 Episode 13 - Problem Child
    7.7/10(74 votes)

    #18 - Problem Child

    S5:E13

    Alex tries to help patient who hurt himself breaking into a house. A friend of Dr. Dev Sekara has been beaten by the police; a heart patient wishes to open an animal sanctuary.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Saving Hope Season 5 Episode 16 - La famiglia
    7.7/10(68 votes)

    #19 - La famiglia

    S5:E16

    Alex has to put her concerns for Charlie aside when a chance to perform a cancer surgery arises.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Saving Hope Season 1 Episode 8 - Heartsick
    7.8/10(153 votes)

    #20 - Heartsick

    S1:E8

    With Charlie's life hanging in the balance, Alex and Dawn go head-to-head over who gets to be his legal decision maker - but are forced to put personal matters aside when they scrub into a heart transplant surgery together. Charlie, meanwhile, is in no mood to talk to the heart donor - a deceased prisoner.

    Director:David Wellington
    Writers:Morwyn Brebner, Marcus Robinson, Adam Pettle

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  21. Saving Hope Season 1 Episode 9 - Bea, Again
    7.8/10(150 votes)

    #21 - Bea, Again

    S1:E9

    Charlie’s ex-wife, Dawn, has pulled the plug on his ventilator. All that’s left now is to wait for his breathing to stop. Devastated, Alex vows to stay by Charlie’s side. Meanwhile, Charlie – resisting his death – bumps into Mack MacIlreath, a recently deceased colleague, who has come to help Charlie die. Alex decides to lawyer up and appeal to the Consent & Capacity Board. While the process gets started, Alex is pulled away to meet with a patient: a young woman named Bea, who Alex performed surgery on while working as a first year surgical resident under Dr. Charles Harris. Bea’s check-up is all clear, but Mack and Charlie fear that she was misdiagnosed. And if Alex doesn’t catch it before Bea walks out of the hospital, she could die. Elsewhere, Joel’s hand is broken and he cannot operate until it is fully healed. Stuck with doing consults, he takes the case of a choir singer who makes a “miraculous” recovery from her paralysis.

    Director:Peter Wellington
    Writers:Esta Spalding, Marcus Robinson

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  22. Saving Hope Season 1 Episode 10 - A New Beginning
    7.8/10(145 votes)

    #22 - A New Beginning

    S1:E10

    When Joel gets cold feet in the OR, Kinney takes him with her on a Continuing Medical Education assignment in her hometown to help clear his head. During their field trip, a woman gets pinned underneath a truck and Joel and Kinney lead the rescue effort. Meanwhile, Charlie meets a newly deceased therapist who suspects it’s an emotional block that is keeping him in his coma. Encouraged by Charlie breathing on his own, Alex continues her rounds and diagnoses a fitness buff with a rare condition.

    Director:Steve DiMarco
    Writers:Aaron Martin, Marcus Robinson

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  23. Saving Hope Season 3 Episode 7 - The Way We Were
    7.8/10(103 votes)

    #23 - The Way We Were

    S3:E7

    Shahir and Alex attempt a radical surgery on an Alzheimer's patient; Tom discovers his mentor is keeping a secret; Charlie is torn between Dawn's wishes and the final requests of a dead con-man.

    Director:Steve DiMarco
    Writer:John Krizanc

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  24. Saving Hope Season 3 Episode 12 - Hearts of Glass
    7.8/10(107 votes)

    #24 - Hearts of Glass

    S3:E12

    Two patients need the same heart; a patient has never-before-seen orthopaedic hardware; Dr. Maggie Lin feels the pressure of the upcoming boards.

    Director:Jason Priestley
    Writer:Patrick Tarr

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  25. Saving Hope Season 4 Episode 2 - Beasts of Burden
    7.8/10(85 votes)

    #25 - Beasts of Burden

    S4:E2

    Dr. Alex Reid puts her reputation on the line when she questions a senior surgeon’s methods.

    Director:John Fawcett
    Writer:Patrick Tarr

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Hope Never Dies" is the worst rated episode of "Saving Hope". It scored 6.9/10 based on 159 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 8/3/2017. This episode scored 0.4 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Pilot".