Scott has a lot of scenes that set him apart from other TW characters as well as other protagonists of his genre, but I'm not kidding when I say this is the most important one to me:
he's bringing his mom dinner during a busy shift! that's not the point but it's adorable so i included it.
the point is, there's this injured woman in the ER. we don't know who she is, all we know is that she was in this massive car accident and she's in pain. but there's no doctor in the ER to treat her and Melissa can't do anything, medically, without knowing what's wrong.
he sits down next to this woman he doesn't know, makes something up as an excuse to help, and takes her pain away.
and just. augh. her visible relief. the way she relaxes and then looks up at Scott like he's an angel. i kinda cut off the last couple seconds of her reaction and of course Scott doesn't get time to linger because another crisis happens, but that little moment is soooo important to me. at like 6 seconds left in the video, you can see him sort of squeeze his eyes shut for half a second as the pain hits (it's hard to see bc the camera's not on him), but when she's actually looking at him, he's projecting calm.
we don't get to see what happens to her, after that (we go straight into the crisis with Danny). this woman never shows up again, she's not even named in the script. but what we know is that in the middle of the worst day of her life, a boy she doesn't know reached out and offered her some relief.
and if that isn't the essence of Scott McCall right there...
i've seen the critique that Isaac is the first to use the pain-taking ability on screen and that we don't get to see Scott learning about it first, and to some extent I agree.
but man... i adore this scene as Scott's first time taking someone's pain on screen. it is SO important to me that it's not plot-relevant at all. you could cut this scene and have functionally the same episode plot-wise; it's purely a character moment to establish who Scott is at his core.
he gets no reward for helping this woman. he would face no consequences for not helping her. no one would know, and no one even sees him do it, but he still does. because she's in pain, and he can help. the way he does it, too, is so casual - just everything about the way the scene is framed, to me, reads like this is something he's done before, and will do again.
so often you get protagonists who are Good™ when the cameras are rolling, but you never get the sense that it continues into their everyday life.
Scott, on the other hand, gets so many moments like this. so many seemingly inconsequential moments where he tries to help just because he can.
this is only one of those moments, but I love that this one in particular is the first time we see him take someone's pain. and by virtue of its location (in the immediate lead-up to Scott becoming an Alpha), it really drives home the point that this is who Scott is. this is who he's deciding to be in the midst of the chaos and violence of the life he's been thrown into, and that is how he earns his True Alpha status.
i love him. what a character.
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