Coma

Coma is a 2012 American television miniseries based on the 1977 novel Coma by Robin Cook and the subsequent 1978 film Coma. The four-hour medical thriller was originally broadcast on A&E on September 3–4, 2012. The series was directed by Mikael Salomon and produced by Ridley Scott and his brother Tony Scott, the same team that adapted The Andromeda Strain into the 2008 miniseries on A&E. The film is dedicated to Tony Scott, who died in August 2012, only weeks before its broadcast premiere. Plot Susan Wheeler (Lauren Ambrose) is a first-year medical student at Peach Tree Memorial Hospital, built by her deceased grandfather. There she meets Chief Surgical Resident Dr. Mark Bellows (Steven Pasquale), who is in a romantic relationship with Head of Psychiatry Dr. Agnetta Lindquist (Geena Davis). Wheeler discovers that an unusually high number of surgeries at the hospital have resulted in comas. Those patients are transferred to the Jefferson Institute, a long-term care facility for comatose patients run by Mrs. Emerson (Ellen Burstyn), who refers to the patients as her "babies". With help from Dr. Bellows (and soon Dr. Theodore Stark (James Woods), Chief of Surgery), Wheeler investigates the comas. Before long, strange incidents seemingly happen to stop her investigation: her roommate, who works at the hospital and who helped her to access confidential files, is suddenly fired; the hospital board tries to have Wheeler expelled; and she discovers cameras in her house. She is also being stalked by Peter Arno (Michael Weston), Dr. Lindquist's patient, who seems to be following Wheeler at Lindquist's behest. During one encounter, Arno puts a burlap sack over Wheeler's head and warns her to stop looking into the coma cases or else end up at Jefferson.