Felicity Huffman joins Fox ‘s sophomore medical drama Doc Tuesday night as a ghost from Dr. Amy Larsen’s (Molly Parker) past.

Dr. Joan Ridley may be the new chief of internal medicine at Westside, but she’s also Amy’s former mentor, no doubt providing for an interesting dynamic as Amy works to regain her memory. Huffman calls her character an “outlier” and an “iconoclast” who “has a varied and questionable past” that enticed her to the role.

“I think she probably slept with one of the Rolling Stones and was in Somalia for Black Hawk Down,” Huffman joked to Deadline.

As for why she’s shown up at Westside?

“What she saw in Amy was really David Beckham of the medical field, and [she] wanted to champion her. So they’ve been friends and colleagues for a long time,” Huffman said. “The

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