Qualitative researchers are exposed to a myriad of emotions associated with experiences from the field. Yet, little insight on how these are intertwined with the research process exists. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between researcher and researched by looking closer at the challenges encountered during an organizational ethnography of an emergency department during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors engaged in peer debriefing sessions to construct a reflective account of the research process. Drawing on Barad’s ontology, the paper discusses the need to recognize the entanglement of researcher and researched and how the researcher can actively gauge and redirect emotions into methodological impetus to inform and sustain research focus despite unforeseeable events. The paper answers calls for making researchers’ emotions visible in qualitative research and organizational ethnography and contributes by articulating and visualizing the mutually constitutive relationship between researcher and researched.