New Amsterdam (2018–…): Season 1, Episode 22 - Luna - full transcript

Previously on "New Amsterdam"...

You're being accused of forming

a nontherapeutic alliance
with your patient, Avi Mantell.

Rules exist for a reason,
and I broke them.

Now, the only thing for me to do

is to be a different therapist.

I was actually here
to talk to Max

about extending my leave.

- Oh, for how long?
- Forever.

Max?

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♪ Though you seldom answer

Wow, Dora, you really are
as terrifying as Max says.

And I'm going easy 'cause you're

new to the role
of medical director.

Deputy medical director.
I'm only taking on Max's duties

while he's recuperating.

Yeah, well, you're ten
minutes late

to your first meeting,
which is a baller move

so soon into your tenure.

I'm on my way.

Could you, um, message this
to Dr. Valentina Castro?

Max's DNA?

Please don't Jurassic Park him.

One Max is more than
I can handle.



It's for a new treatment,
one that will get him back

into the hospital ASAP,
so I no longer have to be...

Sharpe, just the medical
director I was looking for.

Deputy medical director.

How can I help?

Oh I, um... I need ecstasy.

Like, the feeling of bliss?

Like MDMA, like drugs.

Is this a joke?

Am I being hazed?

No, we don't... we don't
do that anymore, right?

Uh, no, I have a patient
who is exhibiting

the most aggressive PTSD
I think I've ever seen.

Kapoor and I've tried
everything.

Nothing makes a dent,
so I would like you

to sign my new
treatment strategy.

Max thoroughly approved.

Oh-ho. Was he high at the time?

No, but he actually
made that same joke

when he approved it,
so it's cool.

It's a good joke, I think.
Great minds, right?

Listen, I assure you MDMA,
under the proper supervision,

allows a patient
to confront their memories

in a trigger-free environment...
It's amazing.

Yeah, see you later.
It teaches them to remember

a traumatic event
instead of reliving it.

All right, either you sign
so I can get the pure stuff

from upstairs, or I'm gonna
have to go score from a guy

named Rocket who lives
in his grandmother's basement.

Yeah, just... Okay, fine.

Aces.

Wow, signing off on illicit
drugs on your first day.

Hmm.

Yeah.

Oh, my gosh,
that's true, though.

How long have you all
had this tradition?

Oh, how many Sunday's
is in forever?

- Mom!
- Hey, uh, Jayden...

No matter how old we got,
Mama has always made sure

we're here every Sunday
eating her food, right?

It's been family tradition
since before I was born.

Sunday means church, family,
and a meal with two meats.

- No exceptions.
- That's right.

- Right?
- Yep, yep.

My family never did
the church thing,

but we're very spiritual.

- Hmm.
- Uh, which spirit?

- Uh, Brandi...
- Hmm?

Don't make me bust out
the drill team photos.

Oh, uh, okay, Foofy.

Ooh!

All right, forget
the drill team photos.

I'm busting out prom.

Everybody look right here.
Two words-sportin' waves.

I'm gonna put you both
in the corner

if you can't find your manners.

So, Evie, you're a lawyer
at Floyd's hospital?

Well, I-I got there
first, actually.

- Oh?
- By one week.

Okay. I did my
undergrad at Yale,

and I went to, uh...
I went to law school at NYU.

So I did have a leg up
on the city.

Oh, I had the HBCU experience.

Do they have Greeks at Yale?

I pledged AKA.

Oh, hey Soror.

- No way!
- Oh, yes.

Oh, my goodness.

Oh, I knew I liked her.

Okay, I hear you. I hear you.

There you go.

Sorry.

Keep in mind,
Dr. Kapoor and I will be here

with you the entire time.

Jacob, you don't have to do
this, obviously, but...

before you say no,
can I just ask,

when was the last time
a loud noise didn't scare you?

Or when was the last time you
felt safe in a crowded room?

Or slept without nightmares?

You cannot keep going
through life

feeling like
everyone is a threat.

But they are.

Just turn on the news...
Hate crimes, wars,

they put kids in cages,
and no one cares.

It's not PTSD.
People are a threat.

People are evil.

Do you know what the
cruelest symptom of PTSD is?

It's a thief.

It robs us of the ability
to see the light.

But that doesn't mean
it's not there.

Do you remember how it felt
when the world had light?

This process is how you get
that light back, Jacob.

Max?

Max.

No, it's not me. It's Georgia.

What happened?

Uh, the placenta
previa ruptured.

I was about to call 911.
Do it now.

The blood, it happened so fast.

Okay, we need to get
you off the floor.

Max?

No, I-I was too weak.
I couldn't lift her.

Okay, well, now you got me.

Come on. Ready? One, two, three.

911, what's your emergency?

Max, 911.

911, what's your emergency?

- Any fever? Chills?
- Um, no.

- Any contractions?
- No.

I need an ambulance to, uh,
42 East 17th Street.

I need paramedics, not EMTs,
and I need you to get here now.

Heart rate up
to 180 and thready.

No, no, just get here.

- Is that bad?
- No, just try to relax, okay?

Max, Max, can I, uh...

Uh, they're 12 minutes out.

That's too far away...
Georgia will bleed out

before they arrive.
No, there's time.

Max, she's out of time.
We need to ligate the artery.

Here?

And now.

Hey, look at me. I'm right here.

I'm with you, okay?

I'm right here with you.

The fentanyl should
already be working.

Okay, you're gonna feel
a slight heaviness,

and then you're gonna
drift off to sleep.

Hmm.

And then... and then
we'll be able to operate

without you feeling a thing.

All these drugs, they...
They might hurt her.

Will they hurt her?

It's not gonna hurt the baby.

It's not...
It's not gonna hurt her?

No, I promise, no.

The opiate will slow
Luna's heart rate a little,

but we'll be monitoring her
every step of the way.

Okay.

Hey, it's gonna work.

It's gonna work.
It's gonna work.

I don't want Luna to have to
take ballet because of me, Max.

No, no, she won't.

I want her to experience
everything...

Everything...

rock climbing...

and clarinet...

and painting.

She will.

No, you have
to encourage her, Max.

You have to help her.

You have to help her
find her own voice...

Her own path.

We can encourage her together...

you and me.

But if I don't...

- Stop, stop. No.
- If I don't, Max...

No.

I need you
to promise me something.

Promise me
that you'll save her...

Save her first.

Promise, I need
you to promise me.

Promise you'll save
our baby girl.

Promise me, no matter what.

I...

Promise me.

Max...

it's time.

Let me go! Will you guys
just listen to me?

I have done nothing wrong.

Yeah, what all
innocent people scream.

- This lunatic...
- My name is Wilson Hatch.

This lunatic, Wilson Hatch,

swallowed the biggest balloon
of cocaine I've ever seen.

- No, no.
- We need an X-ray

of his abdomen so we can
get him on intent to sell.

This is... Okay, this might
fly with people

who don't know any better,
but I am a partner

at Wyman, Frost, and Handle.

I know my rights.
You guys have nothing on me.

I'm out of here. I'm done.
I'm leaving.

Yeah, you're leaving...
You're leaving this floor

and heading up to radiology.

- Let's go, buddy.
- I don't consent to that.

Ow, Mom. How you gonna
do me like that?

I love you, but you take food
with your bare hands,

I'll put you over my knee.

I can't help it.

It's so good,
and I can't live without it,

just like I can't live
without you.

Oh.

So she's amazing, right?

She's an exceptional young lady.

Good, I was hoping
you'd say that because...

it's time...

for me to use the family ring.

Oh, honey.

What?

Evie seems like
the perfect woman,

just not the perfect
woman for you.

Don't want to pull too hard.

A half hedge
will fully occlude the artery.

That should do it.

Bleeding should
be under control.

Huh?

Georgia's having a contraction.

It... it... it's squeezing
the cord.

Heart rate down to 40.

If it goes
any lower, it... it... uh...

Uh, we... we need to stop
the contraction.

I can't. It can only pass...

By itself.

Max...

The baby won't survive
another one.

So we have to get her out.

There'll be too much blood loss,

Georgia's lost enough as it is.

No, you did one surgery,
you can do another.

Except this time,
Georgia will die.

Yes, Max, the hospital

is still here, so you can
go back to bed.

I need you to listen to me.

911 dispatched
an ambulance to my apartment,

but they don't have
everything that we need.

An ambulance? Why?

I need you to call dispatch
and have them go back

to the station, and... and,
uh, they need to pick up

trauma dressing and
surgical gloves and oxygen,

and then I need
a second ambulance

from New Amsterdam
that's fully stocked

with B-positive blood
and mifepristone.

I'm doing it now.
Max, what's happening?

I'm trying to save my family.

We just finished finals.

Third year, never have
to take a test again, so...

we went out to celebrate.

Who's we?

I can't remember exactly.

Try.

It's me...

Bobby, and Emma.

We're outside the door.

What happened next?

You got a problem?

Perhaps we should wait.

No, no, no, no, he...

He's not talking to me.

Hey!

He said...

You got a problem?

Jacob, leave it alone.

This guy just bumps into me.

He's big.

It's all right, Jacob.

We're right here with you.
It's okay.

It's okay It's okay, Jacob.

Hey, we're right here
with you, Jacob.

I... I didn't know it was
a pipe bomb when it happened.

I see Emma. She's...

Emma?

Help!

This piece of stone
is crushing her.

She... she can't breathe.

I have to get her out, but...

it's too heavy.

Please, somebody help me!

If just one person helps me,
I can get it off.

Just one person,
but no one helps.

Not Bobby, not... not anyone.

Ah!

Now they're trampling me,
and I can't move,

And she's dying.
No one will help.

They're all running
right over us.

Watch it!

Why would he do that?

It's okay... it's okay, Jacob.

No, why would he do that?

It's okay. It's okay.
Just breathe.

Help me.

Help me, Dr. Frome. Help me.

Please, Dr. Frome, help me.

I'm sorry, Jacob.
I need... I need to...

I need something.

Dr. Frome, what's happening?

Dr. Frome, what's happening?

You're
in New Amsterdam Hospital.

You're in Manhattan.
Where is she?

What's happening?
You're-you're safe.

Dr. Frome, where is he?

Take the FDR, anything else
will take too long.

And remember, when you get
there, cut up early.

It's a one-way.

Wait! Wait, I'm coming.

Dr. Sharpe, you cannot leave.
You are the medical director.

And I learned from the best.

Max, uh, we need to talk
about what happens if...

They'll get here.

If Georgia has
another contraction,

there's not gonna
be time to talk.

I'm gonna have
to deliver the baby,

or we're risking
both their lives.

But if you open her up...

before the blood gets here,

she might not make it.

Which is why we need
to decide who...

No, they'll get here.

They have to.

I've been so selfish...

Thinking that I was the one...
who wouldn't survive.

I never even stopped to think,
what if...

Georgia...

And Luna.

You know what?
It's okay. We don't have to...

Um, If you hadn't shown up
when you did...

I don't know
what I would've done.

Thank God you're here.

By the way...

Why are you here?

We can talk about that later.

- You can't keep ignoring me.
- I'm not ignoring you.

We've got guests,

and these dishes are not gonna
walk themselves in.

You're always reminding me
how you're saving

the family ring for me, and now
I finally want to use it.

All your adult life you keep
telling me about your plan,

that you want your new family
to look like this one.

Yeah, I still do.

And how's that gonna
happen with Evie?

She doesn't even go to church.

Ma, that doesn't mean
that I can't.

I even noticed
that Evie doesn't cook.

Doesn't cook 'cause she can't.

She... she works 12 hours a day.

So is she giving that up...

when you have your kids?

Are you?

I don't know.

Exactly.

Come back for the ring
when you do know.

Don't say it.

She just wants you to be happy.

No, she wants me
to marry somebody like her.

'Cause that's how you
get a family like this.

No judgment...
That's just the reality.

A life with Evie
isn't gonna look like this.

It's not gonna look
like what you planned,

and Mama's smart
enough to see that.

Why can't you?

He's calmer now.

Good.

Thank you.

When Jacob started
to break down in there,

my instinct was...

It was to hold him.

That seemed like
the appropriate response.

But I can't...

not after what happened
with Avi.

I can't do that.

So I just froze.

This is different than Avi.

No, it's not.

I feel like...

the physical contact...

is all I have.

It's... it's my crutch, you know?

The only thing I have
in my bag of tricks.

Iggy, sometimes people need
the physical contact...

to feel cared for.

But it's not
the only trick you have.

It just heightens
your other gifts.

You can't doubt that.

But I do...

all the time now.

How can I get inside
someone else's head

if I can't get out of my own?

You're always
the one who counsels me...

and you have
taught me very well.

So what I'll say
to you is this...

that boy needs help...

and you are the only one
who can help him.

Heart rate's fluctuating.

The contractions have
started... I have to cut.

No, wait, wait, wait.
They're close, okay?

- Max...
- No, they're gonna be close.

Just... just wait.

Hey, hey, tell me you guys
will make it here

in the next three minutes.

We're close, Dr. Goodwin.
The other bus is right...

- Give it to me.
- Sure.

Max, it's Helen. Talk to me.

Luna's heart rate is fading
with each contraction.

We could lose her
on the next one.

But if Bloom operates now...
Bloom's there?

Yeah, she saved Georgia's life.

But if she operates and
you are not close enough,

then she could bleed out.

Oh, God...

What? What?

Max, we are not close enough.

Yeah, no, but you...

We're not gonna make it.

Max?

Are you still there?

Yeah.

After everything you have done,

I would jump out of here, and
I would run the blood to you

if I thought that it would help,

but we are not close enough.

I'm, uh...

I'm so sorry.

I have to...

I have to choose between
my wife and my... and my...

No, no. Okay, look.

Hey, listen to me.

This is a decision that...
That you cannot make...

'cause whatever you decide,

you're gonna be haunted by it
for the rest of your life.

I've seen it, Max.

The guilt, the shame...

The loss.

It'll destroy you, Max.

But I have... I have to.

I'll do it.

I'll decide.

I'll take on the responsibility.

Please, Max, please...

let me do this for you.

Okay.

Try to cast your mind
back to that night.

What was the last exam you
and your friends had taken?

I don't...

I don't remember.

Jacob...

Jacob, when you were talking
about being trampled

by people earlier,

you said,
"Why would he do that?"

Okay.

Why would you refer to a
whole crowd of people

as "he"?

Person after person
running by you, over you,

and you said,
"Why would he do that?"

That's not what I meant.

I think it was.

Jacob, what really
happened that night?

Don't you think
it's time to find out?

Georgia's pulse?

Steady.

I can't get it.

The cord is crimped.

Can you free it?

I'm trying.

Come on, baby, come on.
Easy, easy.

Easy, easy.

- All right, you got it.
- Okay.

Okay, I got it.

- Okay.
- Easy.

Okay. Oh, there you go, baby.
There you go, baby.

There she is.

Hi, Luna.

Oh, my Lord.

It's okay.

Hi, hi.

You're okay. Hi.

Hi.

Hi, Luna.

There you are.

You're a mess.

I'm your dad.

I got ya.

Ready?

Georgia...

she's here.

Georgia.

Yeah, I know.

Georgia, she's here.

Hi, we've been waiting
so long for you.

You came into
this world in a really...

really crazy way,
but now you're here.

Now you're here.

Georgia, she's here.

Georgia.

Max, she needs blood...

right now.

You have to hang in there.

You need to hang in there...

Because I am not
doing this without you.

This little girl...

This little girl,
she needs her mom.

And so do I.

♪ I wish that I had known

♪ The unpayable debt

♪ That I owed you

♪ And you hired me

♪ To make up for that

♪ Walking in that room

♪ Out of tune

♪ And I didn't believe them

Okay, we got a pulse.

Is she... is she all right?

She's fine.

It's not happening.
It's just a memory.

Say that.

It's just a memory.

So then look at it.

It's okay to look, Jacob.

Watch it!

I don't want to.

Every single detail is in there.

Just close your eyes and look.

Em...

It's okay.

It's okay.

It's okay to look
somewhere else, just this once.

Where's your other friend
from the line?

- Bobby?
- Yeah.

I have no idea.

Sure you do.

He's on the dance floor
somewhere.

Facing us?

Facing away.

Okay. Well, now you know
why he didn't help.

He didn't see us.

No.

What about the big guy,
the guy who bumped into you?

Where's he?

He's on the dance floor
somewhere.

You sure?

You said he crashed
into you later.

So he couldn't be on the dance
floor when the bomb went off.

He must have been...

Why is he over there?

You tell me.

Wait. I-I hear something.

What is that?

Take a look.

It's a gas pipe.

Is that what
the guy's looking at?

That can't be right.

If that happened, I'd be dead.

So why aren't you?

Watch out!

He saved me.

I wasn't being trampled.

I couldn't move because...

he saved me.

He risked his life for me.

Why would he do that?

Because sometimes
the world has light.

Hey.

Hey.

I have to say,
you're the last person

I expected to find here.

Yeah, well, me too.

I actually came to tell Max...

that I'm not coming back.

Hell of a last day.

Yeah.

Max would've lost his family

if it wasn't for you.

I am so sorry, Lauren.

I'm so very sorry.

I betrayed your trust.
I ruined our friendship.

You saved my life.

You saved my life.

Look, if I did anything
good today,

it's because of you.

Let's go.

Trauma team's waiting.

Go.

You coming?

So, in my professional opinion,

that right there
is a giant balloon

full of cocaine
in Wilson Hatch's stomach.

It's at least four ounces.

Okay, so... so maybe there
happens to be a balloon

in my stomach, but you can't
prove what's in it.

It could... it could be
something perfectly legal.

So let's see it.

What do you mean, here?
Just now, in the...

Please, man, please.

I'll be disbarred.

My girlfriend will leave me.

My wife will leave me.

Good luck.

Oh, no, no, no, no.

Tre, you want to play video
games when we get home?

Tre, put your hat on.
Thank y'all for coming.

Evie, you should come over
for dinner every Sunday.

Oh, if I came over every Sunday,

I would never get any work done.

Thank you.

Here.

It's yours, right?

You gonna take it or what?

No.

She's great.

Is that her?

Hey.

You did it.

There's somebody
who is dying to meet you.

Luna, say hi to your mom.

Oh, my God.

Hi.

Honey, you did it.

She's perfect.

Yeah.

There she is.

Your mom is drop-dead gorgeous.

I hope I look half
as good at her age.

Now is when you say,

"You'll look gorgeous
at any age, babe."

I'm, uh... I'm sorry. I just...

What's up? You haven't said

more than two words
since we left.

Couldn't have been that bad.

I couldn't have been that bad.

You know,
my whole life I, uh, imagined

what my future would look like,

what my family would look like.

I had a plan.

And to be honest...

you don't fit into it.

So I, uh...

I don't know what to do.

For the first time...

I, uh...

I don't know what's next,

and I don't care.

As long as you're there,

as long as you're right
there with me,

I don't need a plan.

Look, I don't have
your family's blessing,

and I don't have mine.

I don't have a ring,
I don't... I don't have anything.

Will you please,

please say you'll spend
your life with me...

Make a family with me...

you'll marry me?

Yes.

Yes.

Here you go.

Thanks.

So are you back down
on earth yet?

Yeah.

First time on ecstasy
I haven't called an ex.

Jacob.

A joke, all right man.

So why would my brain do that?

That guy saved my life.

Wouldn't I want
to remember that?

It does seem counterintuitive...

until you realize
how the brain works.

The brain is just...

It's just trying
to make sense of things.

Like, sometimes the world
is so beautiful, you know?

The laughter of a friend...

a newborn baby
gripping your finger.

Life is also fragile.

You blink, it's gone,
just like that.

In the face of horror,
our minds turn our trauma

into a story
to make sense of it,

even if it doesn't make sense.

So why would your mind tell
you that the world was evil?

Because evil means
that your fear is right.

Evil means that you
can just give up.

But to believe that we all have

the capacity to be heroes...

no matter how evil
the world may seem...

that's harder...

because that means,
when the worst happens...

we can choose to stand up,

we can choose to help.

And that's what, all day,
all around us, people do.

So is the world dark?

Sure.

But there's light.

There's so much light.

You just have to open
your eyes and look.