This season of Transplant has dealt with some serious issues facing Canadians—women’s health, the refugee crisis, trans visibility, the anti-vax movement, and of course, unforeseen medical predicaments. Sometimes it’s just a hang-nail, other times someone has to drill a hole in ya dang head. C’est la vie, we guess.Wednesday’s episode had no less drama than previous weeks, as we find our favourite ER team at Toronto’s York Memorial Hospital searching in their own ways for a safe place to lay their heads. Sometimes it’s literal, sometimes it’s figurative.

The literal home

For Bash (Hamza Haq), home is very literal. At the close of the last episode, he and baby sister Amira (Sirena Gulamgaus) came home to find all their worldly belongings put out on the curb by their super. Turns out Bash’s last rent cheque bounced because his bank account was short by a measly $3, and the stingy landlords have zero chill.Bash is generous to a fault and it came back to bite him this time. After he took out a payday loan to help out his friend Khaled, it seems Khaled forgot to make good. Bash promises Amira he’ll figure something out, but housing instability is something many refugees and recent immigrants to Canada experience far too often. Transplant really drives this one home as the Hameds’ pickle is sharply contrasted in the very next scene to Theo (Jim Watson) in his extravagant abode. Sparkling countertops! Fresh food! Nothing but lavish and splendour! Talk about a kick in the teeth.

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— Transplant (@TransplantCTV) April 8, 2020

The less literal home

Sometimes the “home” we’re seeking is another person. Dr. Bishop (John Hannah) and head ER nurse Claire (Torri Higginson) have recently rekindled their old flame, and when we last saw them together, Bishop was hoping their clandestine affair would blossom into something more. That’s not seeming likely for right now. Claire confronts Bishop in his office and tells him that she’s just left her husband (wait, she was married? She kept that rather quiet!), and needs to figure out her life right now on her own, so the affair needs to stop. Bishop takes it like a pro, but something in the looks they give one another suggests they’re not done with each other just yet. It ain’t over ‘til it’s over, Claire!To keep on-theme, Bishop takes this moment of “homelessness” to build a new roof, if you will, with his estranged son. They have a rocky relationship stemming from his constant absenteeism during his son’s life. Over lunch, his reminds Bishop he missed his high school graduation. Bishop makes the excuse that, “There was a multi-car pileup on the 401!” but quickly recants and begins swinging the proverbial hammer on that roof, asking for a greater presence in his son’s life. “Is it too late?” he asks. Hmm, maybe not.

Toxic personalities

Back at the hospital, Bash is dealing with two different patients with two very different toxic situations. The first one is an obnoxious and overbearing construction worker named Watson who takes one look at Bash and sneers, “You’re my doctor? Where you from Dr. Hamed? I think I should see someone else. I want another doctor.” Cringe.“What do I do if a patient refuses to see me because of my race?” Bash asks Theo, but Watson doesn’t stop at racism. Oh no, he couples it with sexism! One nurse reports back to Bash that Watson is treating her merely like, “I’m a black woman at his beck and call.” So Theo, on a quest to cure him of his prejudice, tells Watson he doesn’t have the right to choose his doctor, so he can either accept help or die. We aren’t shown which choice Watson makes, so we’ll let you decide for yourself.[video_embed id='1909547']RELATED: ‘Transplant’ star Hamza Haq on how he traded his day job to become a leading man[/video_embed]

Is this show psychic?

The other patient situation Bash encounters at first seems like it might actually address our current climate with the COVID-19 global pandemic (this episode was written, shot, and completed before the novel coronavirus outbreak). A passenger on a Beijing flight comes down with some mysterious symptoms and has to be put in isolation. Yikes.The patient speaks only a rare dialect of Mandarin and the York Memorial team struggle to figure out what ails him. Eventually it comes out he needs a stem cell transplant and came to Canada searching for his long lost daughter who can save his life. His daughter has never met him. She shows up at the hospital, bewildered, because she knows she was put up for adoption as a baby, so isn’t sure she wants to save the life of the man who didn’t want her. In a situation that could have gone either way, we get a happy ending as the father relays through a translator that she was actually very much loved, but China’s strict one-child policy (which has since been rescinded) forced her parents to put her up for adoption.As this child reconnects with her long lost family, Bash accidentally lets it slip to Dr. Leblanc that he’s just lost his home. Leblanc speaks to Theo, who of course has nothing but space and spare rooms at his place, and now Amira and Bash have a place to stay indefinitely. So far, Bash has knocked every curveball thrown his way out of the park, so we can’t wait to see what hurdles await him next week.Watch Transplant Wednesdays on CTV at 9/10 MT.[video_embed id='1936028']BEFORE YOU GO: ‘Cardinal’ star Karine Vanasse teases what fans can expect for Lise Delorme in Season 4[/video_embed]