SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Monday night’s episode of NBC ‘s Brilliant Minds .

Eric Dane made a guest appearance on NBC’s Brilliant Minds for a heartfelt and personal episode in which he plays a firefighter grappling with an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) diagnosis.

The Thanksgiving episode of the medical drama comes about four months after the 53-year-old actor revealed his own ALS diagnosis in April. In it, his character Matthew refuses to tell his family about his ALS, a progressive illness that causes loss of muscle control. Over the course of the episode, the doctors at Bronx General manage to convince him that he’s better off leaning on his village than trying to navigate this on his own.

Showrunner Michael Grassi tells Deadline that the storyli

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