Watch The Night Shift season 4, episode 5 online: live stream

Brendan Fehr’s Drew is the focus of this week’s episode of The Night Shift. Here’s how you can watch season 4, episode 5 live, on TV and online.

If this week’s episode of NBC’s The Night Shift sounds familiar, it’s because it is. Thursday’s episode uses a plot TV audiences have seen before and borrows from one of the network’s reality shows along the way.

Season 4, episode 5 is called “Turbulence” and puts Drew (Brendan Fehr) on an airplane where an illness starts going around. It’s something that was also done on House, and we’ve also seen the plane play backdrop for stories like Fear The Walking Dead, The Agency and of course Snakes on a Plane. Hopefully, Drew won’t have to deal with snakes.

Back on the ground, The Night Shift borrows American Ninja Warrior host Akbar Gbajajamila for a faux obstacle course fundraiser. This bit of semi cross-promotion happens in the same week that NBC had The Wall host Chris Hardwick appear on America’s Got Talent and brought dancer Misty Copeland onto World of Dance. But how will the Night Shift characters do on their fictional Ninja Warrior course?

Here’s how NBC officially describes the episode:

"Drew, his mom, and Rick’s flight home turns into a medical crisis at 35,000 feet when passengers become sickened one by one.Jordan, Paul, Shannon, Kenny, and Cain spend their day off at an obstacle course fundraiser for Cystic Fibrosis, hosted by Akbar Gbajabjamila (“American Ninja Warrior”). Scott finds himself on a Tinder date he won’t soon forget. Meanwhile, TC puts his own life in danger to operate on a soldier."

And here’s how you can watch “Turbulence” live, on TV or via live stream:

Date: Thursday, July 20
Start Time: 10:00 p.m. ET
Episode: “Turbulence”
TV Channel: NBC
Live Stream: Stream 1 | Stream 2

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