A Patient Kept Repeating ‘2901’ on the Latest Episode of ‘The Pitt’ — What Does it Mean?

As the second episode of the hit HBO series The Pitt’s second season came to an end, viewers were left scratching their heads over a seemingly nonsensical exclamation from the final patient preparing to enter the emergency room during the eight a.m. hour.

A young man, described as a “combative college kid” by the paramedics who transported him after he “flipped out in the library” and was “tased in the neck by campus security,” was secured to a stretcher in the back of an ambulance not only by the seatbelts but by four-point soft restraints that prevented him from lashing out with his arms or legs.

He was positively frantic, yelling and wrenching his limbs as he demanded that everybody “get off” of him. In between his orders, he also shouted out the number “2901” multiple times, thrashing his torso off the gurney in an apparent attempt to free himself.

What Does ‘2901’ Mean?

At first thought, the seemingly random string of numbers may seem like the ravings of a madman—or a kid on drugs (after all, as the medic said, “5 of midazolam [a sedative] didn’t touch him.”)—but is there perhaps a hidden context?

It seems like the student may be trying to assert his rights, claiming to be the victim of kidnapping by the paramedics, as section 2901 of the Pennsylvania criminal code covers kidnapping, defined as a “unlawfully remov[img] another a substantial distance under the circumstances from the place where he is found” or “unlawfully confin[ing] another for a substantial period in a place of isolation,” along with a series of harmful intents behind the actions.

Obviously, transporting an individual who is proven to be incapacitated, such as by the influence of drug use or a potential psychiatric episode that puts himself or others at risk of harm, does not qualify under the definition of kidnapping, but it’s not hard to see why that individual may perceive himself to be the victim of kidnapping.

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