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Deep spoilers ahead for the second season ofDr.
What wouldnt you give to breathe deeply again?
Or sing to your child?
Or swim in the ocean?
Youd give anything, everything, right?
of season two ofDr.
Eventually, their relationship becomes Macchiarinis undoing, exposing his global web of lies and deadly deceit.
and I also found myself very aware of exactly how I was breathing.
Lets break them down, breath by breath.
Macchiarini himself flits effortlessly through each timeline, cool, confident, and charming as hell.
Looking for something hopeful, she gloms on to a story about Macchiarinis new tracheas.
She wants to believe.
After Macchiarini operates on a child named Hannah Warren, the two fall into bed together.
Did this man seduce this woman in exchange for good PR?
But Betina is also starting to really trust and rely on the good doctor.
But she still says an enthusiastic yes when the guy proposes a few weeks later.
Just Breathe:Macchiarinis antics in this episode earn a derisivesniff.
Those swine trials that Macchiarini claimed were completed?
Im willing to bet that they never happened.
Episode 3, The Horizon
Betinas documentary comes out and she joyously plans for her wedding.
Macchiarini convinces her to quit her job, uproot her life, and move with him to Barcelona.
Shes dazzled by the constant travel, Macchiarinis focused attention, and his personal relationship with the Pope.
Yes, the Pope.
Now, this is all starting to smell like a dead rat implanted with an artificial trachea.
Kim knows it, so she Googles the Popes official schedule, and thats when Bettinas world falls apart.
We also meet another person who took a chance on Macchiarini: Christopher Lyles.
Episode 4, Tarantela Tenarana
The revelations start coming fast and furious.
Betina finds out some sketchy stuff about Macchiarini, but the medical story is the more compelling one here.
The rats are dead.
They keep reminding us of that fact: All.
And soon, Macchiarinis first patient, Andemariam Beyene, might be dead too.
Also, Christopher Lyles is already dead.
They come to the chilling conclusion that the patients themselves are the trials.
Of course she does.
Hes offered her hope that she could live a life that she thought was out of reach.
Just Breathe: Take abig inhaleand then scream Run!
at your TV to anyone within Macchiarinis orbit.
They wont listen its a TV show, after all but at least you tried.
This allows her to qualify for the trachea replacement under the Compassionate Use Act.
Macchiarini is barely in this episode, but his influence is everywhere.
We see the human collateral that Macchiarini has left in his wake.
This young girl gambled on Macchiarini, and then he just left her to die.
Just Breathe: Get ready to feel like youresuffocating.
Grab a paper bag to breathe into and an emotional-support animal and/or person to cuddle.
She travels to Italy and finds a man that Macchiarini once scammed to the tune of 150,000 euros.
Just like his other patients, he gave this man hope, only to snatch it away.
What was the plan, Paolo?!
We can pose this rhetorical question in regards to pretty much everything Macchiarini does.
As he readies a young Russian woman named Yulia for her voluntary (!)
trachea operation, the details regarding the transplant are a bit murky.
And neither is Macchiarini.
Macchiarini has officially leveled up to monster status.
Episode 7, Compassionate Uses
Suspicious minds begin to converge on Macchiarinis spotty past.
They do an autopsy on Andemariam Beyene and find that his trachea had completely rotted in his throat.
How did this woman not bail on him earlier?
Everyone declines until one dude tells her that the real story is hers.
The public wont care about fake trachea implants; theyll care about the jet-setting playboy and the jilted bride.
Hes right, but he also questions Betinas mind-set when she was with Macchiarini.
How could she have believed everything he was saying?
Cmon, the Pope?!
But in real life, charismatic individuals like Macchiarini are able to get away with murder fairly regularly.
He convinced her, just like he convinced Karolinska, to keep his misdeeds under wraps.
Just Breathe: Ah, the time-honored tradition of money and power winning over facts and science.
Feel free to let out adisappointed huffas the episode concludes.
But then, Betinas story comes out and interest in the case soars.
The speech underscores everything that was wrong about what Macchiarini did.
Thanks to the article about Betina and Macchiarinis relationship, the surgeon finally comes under some scrutiny.
Get ready togasp the biggest gaspwhen you see the final line: His research is still in use today.
