New Amsterdam (2018) s01e18 Episode Script
Five Miles West
1 - [PERCUSSIVE MUSIC.]
- Hmm, interesting sign.
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
- Kinda dark.
- Kinda true.
Hmm.
Hear me out: same sign, but in a wacky font, right? 'Cause nothing says "You're doomed" like Comic Sans.
[LAUGHING QUIETLY.]
Nothing says You know, when, um, Sharpe was my oncologist I at least got pity laughs.
- I won't be doing that.
- Hmm.
Well, this'll be fun then.
Um, I'm gonna go, and maybe once you've read that, - you can call me.
- Sit.
Okay.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
I can't help but notice inconsistencies in your treatment.
Missed chemo sessions, erratic radiation schedule.
That won't work.
Virginia, I've never seen you with a patient before, but I gotta say, very impressed.
This whole scary-principal thing you got going on, it's very effective.
But I am not your normal patient because I have a huge hospital to run, and so when it comes to things like scheduling, I gotta keep it flexible.
But you learn to love it.
Radiation is set for this afternoon, 2:00 p.
m.
Great.
See? Easy.
As long as there's no hospital emergency, then I will see you there.
Max, you are the emergency.
Radiation is set for this afternoon, 2:00 p.
m.
2:00 p.
m.
, I heard you.
But listen.
- I - No, you start listening.
[SEVERE MUSIC.]
Your treatment's impact is cumulative.
Your brain is going to operate at half the capacity you're used to.
You're going to be in a lot of pain.
And that is if the treatment is working, But you're not letting it work.
Why? Why? Because I have a million things to do.
I have a child on the way.
If I'm too far gone by the time it gets here Dr.
Sharpe said you'd make excuses.
Did she? Really? - It's time to get ready, Max.
- Yeah, for what? To step down as medical director.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
We'll see about that.
Hang in there, Lyn.
- Doctor? - What you got? An overprotective dad-to-be who needs to chill out.
Her back's been sore and she's had these awful headaches and she's, like, forgetting things.
She nearly fainted at the coffee shop.
It's called having a baby, Michael.
- Vitals? - Found them right outside.
- We didn't have time.
- All right, we got it.
Thanks.
How far along are you? - 39 weeks.
- Do you have a birth plan? - Yeah.
- Any allergies? - No.
- Complications? Just having these really bad headaches.
Mom's blood pressure: 290/160.
Heart rate 130 and fetal heart rate 90 and falling.
All right.
Trauma One.
We have to do an emergency C-section.
Call OB, but I'm not waiting.
- What, now? - What? - What's happening? - Is the baby okay? - Michael? - Just breathe.
- Michael! - Should I call her doctor? [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
Clamps and forceps, please.
We won't need the Metz.
Get them off the tray.
- Your name's Michael Archer? - Uh, yes.
Lift your arms.
Turn around.
Your date of birth is May 28th, 1988? Patient intubated and sedated.
How we doing? - Almost prepped - Guys, please.
- I need to be in there.
- I need you to lift your foot.
What are the last four digits of your social? - Uh, 0501.
- 0501.
And the other foot.
Fetal heart rate still falling.
Preparing to sterilize incision site.
- [INDISTINCT INSTRUCTION.]
- Let's go.
You cannot touch anything in there unless we say it's okay.
- You got it? - Yeah.
Okay.
Let's go.
[HEART MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY.]
- PGA and polyglactin 910.
- Is she okay? She's sedated to help with the hypertension, but we need to get your baby out now for both of their sakes.
Protractor.
- Richardson.
- Where's OB? Okay, need a little help here.
- Is everything okay? - Got it? Okay, hold it nice and wide for me.
What's wrong? Doctor? - The cord? - I'm trying.
- Doctor.
- Suction.
Just a little more.
[GRUNTS.]
- [BABY CRYING.]
- [CHUCKLES.]
Time of birth, 10:23 a.
m.
You have a strong baby boy.
[STIRRING MUSIC.]
Give me those Apgar scores.
- Yes, doctor.
- All right, I see that.
Birth weight, uh, 7.
6 pounds.
Apgar of nine.
He's very healthy.
[EXHALES.]
Let's close her up.
How's Lyn? She okay? No signs of hemorrhaging or excess bleeding.
She's still hypertensive.
Wanna hold him, Daddy? There you go.
Support his head.
Hi, Robin.
Hey, there! - Ta-da.
- You amaze me.
I wear paper very well.
I'm not talking about how you look.
I'm talking about how you're tackling this.
All by yourself.
Freezing your eggs.
Lots of women do.
Lots of women aren't chair of oncology.
I knew there was a reason I invited you.
So, that nurse earlier, thinking I was here to fertilize Oh, my God.
I mean, can you imagine? We've only been together a month.
So awkward.
So awkward.
That said, I I know the biological pressure you're under.
So what if - That's not a reason to - No, no, of course not.
I just, um here I am, able to help.
- Not helping feels - No, yeah.
I get it.
I mean, I have thought about it.
- You have? - Oh, no.
I mean, I've I've thought about it, but I haven't, like, thought about it.
Right.
Yeah, it's just a lot to put on this and on us at this time.
- Hopefully we'll get there.
- Yeah.
I just don't wanna lose our chance.
[DOOR OPENING.]
It's E-day, Helen.
Ready to go? Um, actually, I think I just need a little bit more time.
You can have till 5:00 p.
m.
Any longer, we'll miss our chance to retrieve any eggs at all, fertilized or not.
I'll see you at five? [DOOR OPENS.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[WHISTLES.]
Sandra Fall from billing.
How goes it? Uh, my husband filed for divorce, - and he's taking the dog.
- Oh, I'm sorry.
Don't be.
They deserve each other.
- Oh.
- Signature, please.
Sure.
Uh, you know, I would sign just about anything you put in front of me, but out of curiosity, what did I just sign? Uh, permission for the hospital to sell delinquent medical bills to the highest bidder.
[LAUGHS.]
To do what now? - Orders from Karen Brantley.
- Excuse me.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
I'm sorry.
Excuse me.
Forgive me, sorry.
Um, yeah.
"Approval to institute a trial program known as 'the asset reclamation commitment.
'" ARC, for short.
Love a good acronym.
Oh, well, that's an even better euphemism.
Asset reclamation.
This program sells our patients' debt to collection agencies.
Yes, so that we may be reimbursed for their delinquent medical bills.
The thing is, people come here for care, and this is what bankrupts them.
This hospital currently holds six figures in outstanding debt, and we're steaming towards seven.
It's time to do something about it.
Not this.
We found an agency that can get five cents on the dollar for our debt.
That's real money, Max.
Think of all the good you can do with it.
What if I can do better? Six cents on the dollar guaranteed, and nobody goes bankrupt.
Just let me try.
Start with this batch.
You have 24 hours.
Thank you.
[PERCUSSIVE MUSIC.]
Look at what Harper made for cool Uncle Kapoor.
Oh, God.
- What are you doing? - Is it an ashtray? Oh, yes.
Yes, Vijay.
My five-year-old daughter made you an ashtray in school for all your cigarette butts.
It's a paperweight, man.
- Why does it have grooves? - It I don't know.
Maybe it is an ashtray.
But you know, that that's the beauty of Harper's work.
The functionality of each piece truly does lie - in the eye of the beholder.
- My desk is really very messy.
I have four kids all dabbling heavily in the arts, all right? My desk is 99% paste and pasta.
Come on.
Plus, you can't pass on a gift from a child.
Actually, it sounds that you can't pass on a gift from a child.
Hey, Dr.
Eagan! You're still a big smoker, right? - Bonjour from Pain - Good morning, Ella.
What would you like? I would like to again apologize.
I never meant to imply that you and my son $2.
75.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
Isn't he amazing? I don't usually play favorites, but your son is perfect.
Sabrina, would you just give us a minute? Hi.
Mr.
Archer, I'm, uh, Dr.
Goodwin.
Medical director of this hospital.
Is everything okay? Your paperwork said that Lyn is your surrogate? She's also my best friend.
But you paid her to carry the child? Yes.
Uh, we have a contract.
Yeah, I'm afraid that, uh, surrogacy contracts aren't valid in the state of New York, so by law the baby belongs to the birth mother, and we can't legally give him to you without her permission.
Then just ask her.
She'll tell you.
What? We thought delivering the baby would relieve Lyn's hypertension, but so far it hasn't.
We're doing everything that we can, but, uh, she hasn't regained consciousness.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait.
- I'm sorry, Michael.
I know this is hard, but the nurses here are gonna take amazing care of him.
You can't be serious.
You're taking him now? Michael, listen to me.
I'm gonna do everything that I can to help you.
But right now, we need to take him.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
[BABY CRYING.]
I don't need a shrink.
I have a contract.
I signed it.
Lyn signed it.
It was notarized.
See, she wanted me to have Robin.
Well, I know she did.
But the fact remains that this is a New Jersey contract.
I know that but but, okay, here.
"The the parties agree that the jurisdiction "for resolution of any custodial dispute shall vest in the court in the state of New Jersey.
" Not New York.
Jersey, okay? Okay, okay.
I hear you.
Slow down.
- Michael, take a breath.
- [GROANS.]
- I'm sorry.
- It's okay.
No, no, no, I'm sorry.
I understand.
It's just, I mean, that's New Jersey.
It's right there.
I can see it.
Yeah.
Five miles west, I'd be holding my son.
They won't let me hold him.
[SIGHS.]
I guess you got kids? Yeah.
My little girl made that masterpiece right there.
[CHUCKLES.]
I have zero idea what it is.
Everyone who looks at it sees something completely different.
It's kinda cool, actually.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
I see a little girl that loves her dad.
Yeah.
What would you do if someone tried to take her away from you? Is this my cystic fibrosis patient? Dania Constantin.
12 years old.
Collapsed on a school field trip with shortness of breath.
Hey, Dania.
Doctor Reynolds.
We're gonna take good care of you, okay? I need the stat chest.
All right, let's go ahead and get her to Trauma One.
Dania, are you all right? I just got the call from school.
I'm sorry.
You have nothing to be sorry about.
I'm so sorry, Mom.
Go ahead and give me a big, deep breath.
Deep as you can.
[BREATHING DEEPLY.]
And out.
[EXHALES.]
That's great.
Good job.
Is she having a CF exacerbation? Don't be afraid to throw it at me, doctor.
We've seen it all.
Uh, Mrs.
Constantin, in a standard CF exacerbation, we'd see one impacted area, maybe two.
But this is multifaceted.
Her platelets are down.
Low red and white cell counts.
Infiltrates on her chest.
So this isn't about her CF? [DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
I believe something else triggered this.
[COUGHING.]
Arthroscopic shoulder surgery, $4,650 still outstanding.
I'm real sorry.
I was in such a hole from all the time I missed.
I just don't have the money yet.
No, that's okay, because today I'm proposing a new way to settle your debt.
Says here you're a plumber.
Yeah.
Plumbers I've met know how to barter.
Anything that you can do for New Amsterdam, we'll take it.
- I'm an electrician by trade.
- Perfect.
Wait till you see what that last storm did to us.
What's the scam, man? This is New York.
- There's always a scam.
- It's no scam.
Just barter and trade.
It's worked like gangbusters for centuries.
So why don't we bring it back? So I patch up the cracked drywall around here and rip up my bill? You patch up the cracked drywall and you will have paid your bill every bit as much as if you wrote us a check.
This isn't charity.
This is just us recognizing the real-world tangible value of what our patients can offer.
So the question is "How can you help?" [EXHALES SHARPLY.]
It's a cocker spaniel.
Look at that.
Kids'll love it.
Cough if you need to.
- Hi, thanks for jumping in.
- It's my pleasure.
So, Dania, has anyone been sick at school? - Not really.
- Any new pets? Just my bacteria-covered lizard monster.
- His name is Lungy.
- She's kidding.
Cut it out, goofy.
You're on top of your meds and your CPT, right? Uh, her father and I handle therapy.
Dania's in charge of her own meds.
She's a model patient.
- [COUGHING.]
- You're okay.
Honey, you're okay.
I'm right here.
Any recent travel? I wish.
We've had to cut back.
We're remodeling, adding a nursery.
Uh, did this new construction have any leaks - in the recent storms? - Oh, God.
You're thinking mold? Aspegillosis fungal infection could explain her symptoms.
Some of them.
Her white blood cell count's low.
You'd expect high with infection.
But if it is black mold, there's no time to waste.
Okay, we're gonna give you voriconazole, ceftazidime, and tobramycin.
If it's fungal, that'll wipe it out.
But how could this happen? [DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
We need to prep Lyn for surgery.
We should know in an hour or two if the clipping has lowered her intracranial pressure.
Dr.
Kapoor will be overseeing it.
And our grandson? Can we see him? Uh, this is Dr.
Frome.
I've asked him to consult on this case in his role - as a child advocate.
- Yeah.
Forgive me for asking, but you are aware that Lyn was not the egg donor for this baby? Yeah, that since she was just the carrier, she and this child are not genetically related in any way? - Yeah.
- Okay, good.
Um, I I apologize for having to discuss paperwork at such a painful time.
I really do.
But, uh, if you'd take a look, please.
- What is this? - Um, that's a waiver.
Although Lyn and Michael shared a contract, um, surrogacy is still currently illegal in New York, but the good news is as Lyn's parents, you can sign on her behalf to allow the father to take custody.
No.
Uh, Mrs.
Sackhoff, this baby's father is sitting in my office waiting to hold his son.
I am not giving him to some stranger.
Um, Mrs.
Sackhoff Some man who pays women to carry children? Ma'am, I know this is a, uh, complicated situation, but this child is not yours.
He's he's the last piece I have of my daughter.
He's our grandson, and we're taking him home.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
[SOFTLY.]
Thank you.
[ALARMS BEEPING.]
Help! Help! [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
She's in V-tech.
We need to defibrillate.
- [PADDLES CHARGING.]
- Found some blood.
Charging.
Clear.
[THUDS.]
[ALARMS BEEPING.]
Going again.
Clear.
[THUDS.]
She's back.
Normal sinus rhythm.
You see this? We were wrong.
This wasn't fungal.
I'm gonna get her down to the OR, find out where the blood is coming from.
What is it? What's wrong with her? We're doing everything we can to find out.
I'll be right back.
Advancing through the pylorus into the duodenum.
- With McDonald's.
- I don't see it yet.
[GROANS.]
Why did I push for the voriconazole? All the signs pointed in that direction.
Yeah, well now she's being compromised by antifungal meds she didn't need on top of her cystic fibrosis.
There.
Right there.
Bleeding ulcer.
- Cauterizing now.
- Good find.
Well, I'll take the compliment when we figure out what's hurting this girl.
It's the low white blood cell count.
That's the piece that's never fit.
You thinking a myelodysplastic syndrome? That's the best angle we have right now.
Once she's recovered, I'll obtain a bone marrow biopsy.
[GROANS.]
We're missing something.
[PERCUSSIVE MUSIC.]
Dr.
Stauton, who are you waiting for? Dr.
Goodwin.
He has a session now.
Oh, no, his session was rescheduled.
Rescheduled? By whom? By Dr.
Goodwin.
The cost of treatment for multiple sclerosis - has tripled since 1993.
- I noticed.
Yeah, big pharma just keeps jacking up the DMTs.
Sadly our current system refuses to limit these increases, which is why I'm trying a new thing where we barter for your debt.
- Like a yard sale? - Kind of.
What are your skills? What do you do? - I'm a painter.
- Mmm, perfect.
Well, the lobby could use a fresh coat.
Not that kind of painter.
Uh, less Sherwin-Williams, more Georgia O'Keeffe.
Oh.
Huh.
So much for the easy way out, huh? [DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
I can't tell you how many gigs I've lost because of my condition.
All right, Georgia O'Keeffe.
Here's your canvas.
I think I need to buy a lot more paint.
Um, yeah.
Then, uh, well, you better get to work.
But you're gonna be great.
Well, if it isn't my former oncologist.
- Aren't you peppy.
- You sound surprised.
Well, after all your emo misgivings about working with Dr.
Stauton, I feared the worst.
- Oh, she's been a delight.
- Really? Like a summer breeze, that woman.
You do realize I know her, right? Yeah, you know, it's not too late to take me back, and I would think about it if I was you 'cause this offer will expire in, um never.
- Please, please take me back.
- Max.
- Yeah.
- Friends, colleagues.
Friends and colleagues is [CLICKS TONGUE.]
Clear delineation till you get better.
Right, but she is so mean.
I mean, she's, like, crazy.
She's like a werewolf or something.
Okay, I'm on board.
Fine.
So as my colleague, would you take a look - at this, please? - Mm-hmm.
It's my CF patient.
Everything's failing at the same time - and we can't see why.
- These numbers are atrocious.
That's the only place that she's not overachieving.
She's top of her class, highly involved in extracurriculars.
Volunteers in the community.
I mean no one deserves such a nasty disease, - but such an inspiring girl? - Mmm.
Well, maybe she's getting a little help.
What, you mean drugs? She's 12.
Yeah, sounds like she has more on her plate than most 12-year-olds can handle.
[KNOCKING, DOOR OPENING.]
Hi.
Um, Rohan just told me this was a family piece when he gave it to me.
Uh, but from the look on your face, I'm guessing it belonged to your late wife.
I don't know what's going on between you and your son, but I have no intention of being in the middle of it.
But I certainly never meant to hurt you, so [STIRRING MUSIC.]
I know we're not great, but I hope you know I'd never do that to you.
[DOOR OPENING.]
[DOOR CLOSING.]
Hey, how's it going? Uh, well, legal put in an emergency injunction request for Michael.
They've all made statements so now we're waiting.
- Hmm, and, uh, Lyn? - Still in surgery.
Yeah.
Frankly Lyn Sachoff's intentions are clear.
The contract's claim is compelling.
However, the interstate dispute here is beyond this court's remit.
So I'm bound to issue an injunction I take no joy in making.
Until the conflict is resolved by a higher court, neither party may have custody.
The legal guardian will be the New York Department of Social Services.
The baby is to be placed in foster care.
Your Honor, uh, this child's genetic father is here begging to take him home, as are the birth mother's parents.
And this court's answer is to send this wanted newborn - into foster care? - It's the law.
I'm sorry, Dr.
Goodwin.
My hands are tied.
[GAVEL BANGS.]
This isn't over yet.
Our legal team can file an appeal by tomorrow.
- Oh, we'll lose.
- No, you don't know that.
Max, do you think this is the first case like this? This is not unique.
And while we're appealing, Robin will be in foster care.
- Not for days, for months.
- I know.
It's unfair, and it's cruel.
Michael.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
If you let your son go to foster care, you will be introducing him to a world that is cruel and unfair.
Far more cruel than this.
So, what are you saying? I should just give up? I'm saying you should fight.
You should fight to give your son the best life that he could possibly have.
Even if it's not with you.
We have a 7:00 a.
m.
check in.
Patient's last name, the surgery will not start until 9:00 a.
m.
Did you find anything in her bone marrow? I'm afraid that's not the culprit.
Sabra, um [EXHALES.]
Is it possible that Dania's been experimenting? With drugs? No.
Opioids attack white blood cells.
And if she's taking street pills, the cutting agents could account for all her other symptoms.
But Dania would never do that.
- Are you sure? - I know my daughter.
Go ahead.
You won't find anything.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
Those are all her standard CF meds.
I told you, I know my daughter.
This was refilled two weeks ago.
There should only be four pills left.
Dania stopped taking her pancreatic enzyme pills.
Her body's not digesting fats.
Leading to a vitamin A deficiency.
I'll go order the IV.
She stopped on purpose.
Why would she do that? Oh, wow, looking great.
It's, uh it's a horse.
No, it's a field of corn? I don't know.
But you know what? Don't tell me because I'm a big believer in the process.
- Art is life.
- "Art is life.
" Should I be getting medical treatment at MoMA now? Hey, did you rip that out of the wall? This came from your "electrician" working in the hallway.
There's no need for the "air quotes," okay? Fran is fully bonded and licensed.
But she was engaged under your "bartering" agreement.
Again with the "air quotes.
" So, your answer to our debt issue is bartering? Look, I promised to get six cents on the dollar for our debt within 24 hours.
That's what I did.
Mission accomplished.
The only thing you've accomplished is turning this hospital into a flea market.
Yeah, and who doesn't love a good flea market? Sorry, I'm not seeing the problem.
The problem is you're paying $4,800 to Fran to fix five light fixtures.
The only people who can justify a cost like that are the military and the mafia.
On the books this looks like money laundering.
- We'll be audited.
- Yeah, - but if we just explain - No, no explaining.
This is not how you run a hospital.
- This is over.
End it.
- I can't do that.
- You can.
You will.
- This is a public hospital.
We care for people at the lowest points in their lives.
And we do it no matter who they are or where they're from or whether or not they can pay.
That's the gig.
And yes, I understand everything costs something.
But these people, they trust us.
And that trust is sacred.
So believe me when I tell you, there is no way that I'm gonna let you hound them for money.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
The bartering you've done today, I'll let it stand.
Fran is golden.
Thank you.
But that will be the end of this billing system built on rainbows and magical thinking.
Bills exist.
And it's my job to make sure we pay them.
- I want you to succeed, Max.
- Hmm.
If we work together, I'll be your greatest advocate.
But if you work against me, I'll bury you before your cancer does.
[PERCUSSIVE MUSIC.]
[SIGHS.]
What are you, five? Just give me my keys and I'll be on my way.
Sure, right after you finish your course of radiation.
Yeah, well, I would, but my appointment isn't - for another several hours.
- That's strange.
I could have sworn it was supposed to have already started.
It was, and then I had an emergency come up - requiring me to switch it.
- So you switched it? Correct, to later today.
Know any other patients who go into the system and switch their appointments on a whim? It wasn't a whim.
It was a real emergency that I was dealing with.
So your cancer isn't a real emergency? I didn't say that.
Max, when you tell me you missed radiation because people need you, I don't hear a good man making a hard choice.
I hear somebody choosing to die.
Today you had a choice.
And you chose to die.
I'll ask you again tomorrow and hopefully you will have your head in the game then.
Because frankly I don't know how many tomorrows you've got.
Hear this.
People who treat cancer the way you're treating cancer do not survive.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
Do you want to die, Max? No.
Radiation is expecting you.
3B.
3B.
Max.
This is how you get better.
[DOOR CLOSES.]
I'm afraid the clipping procedure has not relieved Lyn's intracranial brain pressure.
Is there a cure? Surgery to place a ventricular shunt - in her head, but - Excuse me.
How is she? We must prepare for the worst.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
You, uh you've raised an amazing woman.
Thank you.
That's why I'm, uh, withdrawing my case.
He can't grow up in foster care.
My son [CHUCKLES SADLY.]
He needs to be with people who love him, even if that's not with me.
And if you do as good a job with him as you did with Lyn, then he's gonna be [SNIFFS.]
You hang in there, okay? I'll see you soon.
Someone please tell Robin that his daddy loves him.
Sweetie.
Mom? Why? Why did you stop taking your pills? I didn't mean for it to go so far.
Did something happen at school with your friends? Dania? Is this about the baby? [DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
What if you have another me? Then I'd be the luckiest mom in the world.
I'm so much work.
And when I stopped taking the pills, you didn't even notice.
I wanted you to see.
See what? That if you're taking care of the baby, you can't take care of me.
Dania, do you know why I waited 12 years to have another baby? 'Cause you weren't ready after me.
I've been ready since the day you were born.
I waited until you were ready.
Until you could advocate for yourself.
And kiddo, look at your life.
You're amazing.
Am I in trouble? So much trouble.
Come here, baby.
Well, think they'll be okay? Yeah, yeah.
Me and my mum fought all the time, but we always made up.
Think you'll be the same with your own kid? - Uh - How's that going? Uh, it's, um It's complicated.
- You having doubts? - On so many levels.
Well, don't.
'Cause you would make an incredible mother.
[BEEPING.]
You were right.
The bracelet did belong to my wife.
It was part of a set of heirloom jewelry.
Mothers pass on these to their daughters.
It's one of the only things I kept of my wife after she died.
To remind me of her.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
It's been incomplete for the last two years.
Just missing the bracelet.
I'm so sorry.
All this time I thought that Rohan had sold this for drugs.
At the funeral I accused him of it and he he denied it.
And I called him a liar At his mother's grave.
I see.
So seeing you with the bracelet showed me how wrong I was.
How wrong I had been about my own son.
I should have listened to him, what he told me.
That that he wanted something of his mother's to cherish As much as he cherished her.
So give this to Rohan.
His mother would want him to have it.
Please tell him that his papa is sorry.
[KNOCKING.]
- Hey.
- Oh, hey.
Ready? Today you offered me the most amazing gift that I could ever hope for.
But I can't take you up on it.
I am crazy about you.
[SOFT MUSIC.]
But we're not there yet.
And I really like where we are.
Totally agree.
Just, um, I got caught up in the possibility of Us.
Me, too.
But there's no rush.
We can wait until we're ready.
Will you join me at my harvest? [CHUCKLING.]
It's cool that it turns me on when you talk - like a farmer, right? - [LAUGHS.]
Michael! What you did back there, Lyn's parents want to talk to you.
[DOOR CLOSING.]
We just wanted to hold onto our girl in case she doesn't wake up.
But we need to honor what she did while she was here.
[SNIFFS.]
And what she did, she did for you.
Here you go.
[SNIFFLES.]
Are you [GASPS.]
[CHUCKLES.]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
- [SOBBING.]
- Yeah.
[CRYING.]
Thank you.
Hey, little guy.
[CRYING.]
[CHUCKLING.]
Hi! - Um, I'll meet you downstairs.
- Okay.
Now that is a face I've seen on many a patient - of Dr.
Stauton.
- [LAUGHS.]
I may have jumped the gun on that summer breeze comment.
[LAUGHS.]
Yeah.
She prescribed an attitude adjustment.
Apparently I need to prioritize my treatment.
That's why I sent you to her.
The cancer has to come first.
She says I need to focus on my cancer, stop moving so fast, but everything in me says when I stop moving, the cancer will catch up.
So just keep moving.
'Cause I'm not I'm not done yet.
I wanna leave something behind, you know? I wanna Do something that matters.
But everywhere I look, all I see is everything the cancer is trying to take away.
[SIGHS SYMPATHETICALLY.]
Then you're not looking in the right places.
[ALEXI MURDOCH'S "SONG FOR YOU".]
Almost done.
What'cha think? [MELLOW MUSIC.]
I'd say it's not a bad thing to leave behind.
So today I wrote a song for you 'Cause a day can get so long And I know it's hard to make it through When you say there's something wrong [MUSIC BRIGHTENING.]
- So I'm trying - How you doing? To put it right 'cause I want [CLATTERING.]
To love you with my heart Sorry about that, sir.
Whoa, whoa! What's this? You put it on your head.
- Uh, yeah, I do.
- [LAUGHS.]
And all of this life It's okay.
It's okay.
Oh, my gosh! Look at you guys! [LAUGHTER.]
Oh, my gosh! Look at this one! Holy cow! For all that you claim I will move with you
- Hmm, interesting sign.
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
- Kinda dark.
- Kinda true.
Hmm.
Hear me out: same sign, but in a wacky font, right? 'Cause nothing says "You're doomed" like Comic Sans.
[LAUGHING QUIETLY.]
Nothing says You know, when, um, Sharpe was my oncologist I at least got pity laughs.
- I won't be doing that.
- Hmm.
Well, this'll be fun then.
Um, I'm gonna go, and maybe once you've read that, - you can call me.
- Sit.
Okay.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
I can't help but notice inconsistencies in your treatment.
Missed chemo sessions, erratic radiation schedule.
That won't work.
Virginia, I've never seen you with a patient before, but I gotta say, very impressed.
This whole scary-principal thing you got going on, it's very effective.
But I am not your normal patient because I have a huge hospital to run, and so when it comes to things like scheduling, I gotta keep it flexible.
But you learn to love it.
Radiation is set for this afternoon, 2:00 p.
m.
Great.
See? Easy.
As long as there's no hospital emergency, then I will see you there.
Max, you are the emergency.
Radiation is set for this afternoon, 2:00 p.
m.
2:00 p.
m.
, I heard you.
But listen.
- I - No, you start listening.
[SEVERE MUSIC.]
Your treatment's impact is cumulative.
Your brain is going to operate at half the capacity you're used to.
You're going to be in a lot of pain.
And that is if the treatment is working, But you're not letting it work.
Why? Why? Because I have a million things to do.
I have a child on the way.
If I'm too far gone by the time it gets here Dr.
Sharpe said you'd make excuses.
Did she? Really? - It's time to get ready, Max.
- Yeah, for what? To step down as medical director.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
We'll see about that.
Hang in there, Lyn.
- Doctor? - What you got? An overprotective dad-to-be who needs to chill out.
Her back's been sore and she's had these awful headaches and she's, like, forgetting things.
She nearly fainted at the coffee shop.
It's called having a baby, Michael.
- Vitals? - Found them right outside.
- We didn't have time.
- All right, we got it.
Thanks.
How far along are you? - 39 weeks.
- Do you have a birth plan? - Yeah.
- Any allergies? - No.
- Complications? Just having these really bad headaches.
Mom's blood pressure: 290/160.
Heart rate 130 and fetal heart rate 90 and falling.
All right.
Trauma One.
We have to do an emergency C-section.
Call OB, but I'm not waiting.
- What, now? - What? - What's happening? - Is the baby okay? - Michael? - Just breathe.
- Michael! - Should I call her doctor? [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
Clamps and forceps, please.
We won't need the Metz.
Get them off the tray.
- Your name's Michael Archer? - Uh, yes.
Lift your arms.
Turn around.
Your date of birth is May 28th, 1988? Patient intubated and sedated.
How we doing? - Almost prepped - Guys, please.
- I need to be in there.
- I need you to lift your foot.
What are the last four digits of your social? - Uh, 0501.
- 0501.
And the other foot.
Fetal heart rate still falling.
Preparing to sterilize incision site.
- [INDISTINCT INSTRUCTION.]
- Let's go.
You cannot touch anything in there unless we say it's okay.
- You got it? - Yeah.
Okay.
Let's go.
[HEART MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY.]
- PGA and polyglactin 910.
- Is she okay? She's sedated to help with the hypertension, but we need to get your baby out now for both of their sakes.
Protractor.
- Richardson.
- Where's OB? Okay, need a little help here.
- Is everything okay? - Got it? Okay, hold it nice and wide for me.
What's wrong? Doctor? - The cord? - I'm trying.
- Doctor.
- Suction.
Just a little more.
[GRUNTS.]
- [BABY CRYING.]
- [CHUCKLES.]
Time of birth, 10:23 a.
m.
You have a strong baby boy.
[STIRRING MUSIC.]
Give me those Apgar scores.
- Yes, doctor.
- All right, I see that.
Birth weight, uh, 7.
6 pounds.
Apgar of nine.
He's very healthy.
[EXHALES.]
Let's close her up.
How's Lyn? She okay? No signs of hemorrhaging or excess bleeding.
She's still hypertensive.
Wanna hold him, Daddy? There you go.
Support his head.
Hi, Robin.
Hey, there! - Ta-da.
- You amaze me.
I wear paper very well.
I'm not talking about how you look.
I'm talking about how you're tackling this.
All by yourself.
Freezing your eggs.
Lots of women do.
Lots of women aren't chair of oncology.
I knew there was a reason I invited you.
So, that nurse earlier, thinking I was here to fertilize Oh, my God.
I mean, can you imagine? We've only been together a month.
So awkward.
So awkward.
That said, I I know the biological pressure you're under.
So what if - That's not a reason to - No, no, of course not.
I just, um here I am, able to help.
- Not helping feels - No, yeah.
I get it.
I mean, I have thought about it.
- You have? - Oh, no.
I mean, I've I've thought about it, but I haven't, like, thought about it.
Right.
Yeah, it's just a lot to put on this and on us at this time.
- Hopefully we'll get there.
- Yeah.
I just don't wanna lose our chance.
[DOOR OPENING.]
It's E-day, Helen.
Ready to go? Um, actually, I think I just need a little bit more time.
You can have till 5:00 p.
m.
Any longer, we'll miss our chance to retrieve any eggs at all, fertilized or not.
I'll see you at five? [DOOR OPENS.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[WHISTLES.]
Sandra Fall from billing.
How goes it? Uh, my husband filed for divorce, - and he's taking the dog.
- Oh, I'm sorry.
Don't be.
They deserve each other.
- Oh.
- Signature, please.
Sure.
Uh, you know, I would sign just about anything you put in front of me, but out of curiosity, what did I just sign? Uh, permission for the hospital to sell delinquent medical bills to the highest bidder.
[LAUGHS.]
To do what now? - Orders from Karen Brantley.
- Excuse me.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
I'm sorry.
Excuse me.
Forgive me, sorry.
Um, yeah.
"Approval to institute a trial program known as 'the asset reclamation commitment.
'" ARC, for short.
Love a good acronym.
Oh, well, that's an even better euphemism.
Asset reclamation.
This program sells our patients' debt to collection agencies.
Yes, so that we may be reimbursed for their delinquent medical bills.
The thing is, people come here for care, and this is what bankrupts them.
This hospital currently holds six figures in outstanding debt, and we're steaming towards seven.
It's time to do something about it.
Not this.
We found an agency that can get five cents on the dollar for our debt.
That's real money, Max.
Think of all the good you can do with it.
What if I can do better? Six cents on the dollar guaranteed, and nobody goes bankrupt.
Just let me try.
Start with this batch.
You have 24 hours.
Thank you.
[PERCUSSIVE MUSIC.]
Look at what Harper made for cool Uncle Kapoor.
Oh, God.
- What are you doing? - Is it an ashtray? Oh, yes.
Yes, Vijay.
My five-year-old daughter made you an ashtray in school for all your cigarette butts.
It's a paperweight, man.
- Why does it have grooves? - It I don't know.
Maybe it is an ashtray.
But you know, that that's the beauty of Harper's work.
The functionality of each piece truly does lie - in the eye of the beholder.
- My desk is really very messy.
I have four kids all dabbling heavily in the arts, all right? My desk is 99% paste and pasta.
Come on.
Plus, you can't pass on a gift from a child.
Actually, it sounds that you can't pass on a gift from a child.
Hey, Dr.
Eagan! You're still a big smoker, right? - Bonjour from Pain - Good morning, Ella.
What would you like? I would like to again apologize.
I never meant to imply that you and my son $2.
75.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
Isn't he amazing? I don't usually play favorites, but your son is perfect.
Sabrina, would you just give us a minute? Hi.
Mr.
Archer, I'm, uh, Dr.
Goodwin.
Medical director of this hospital.
Is everything okay? Your paperwork said that Lyn is your surrogate? She's also my best friend.
But you paid her to carry the child? Yes.
Uh, we have a contract.
Yeah, I'm afraid that, uh, surrogacy contracts aren't valid in the state of New York, so by law the baby belongs to the birth mother, and we can't legally give him to you without her permission.
Then just ask her.
She'll tell you.
What? We thought delivering the baby would relieve Lyn's hypertension, but so far it hasn't.
We're doing everything that we can, but, uh, she hasn't regained consciousness.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait.
- I'm sorry, Michael.
I know this is hard, but the nurses here are gonna take amazing care of him.
You can't be serious.
You're taking him now? Michael, listen to me.
I'm gonna do everything that I can to help you.
But right now, we need to take him.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
[BABY CRYING.]
I don't need a shrink.
I have a contract.
I signed it.
Lyn signed it.
It was notarized.
See, she wanted me to have Robin.
Well, I know she did.
But the fact remains that this is a New Jersey contract.
I know that but but, okay, here.
"The the parties agree that the jurisdiction "for resolution of any custodial dispute shall vest in the court in the state of New Jersey.
" Not New York.
Jersey, okay? Okay, okay.
I hear you.
Slow down.
- Michael, take a breath.
- [GROANS.]
- I'm sorry.
- It's okay.
No, no, no, I'm sorry.
I understand.
It's just, I mean, that's New Jersey.
It's right there.
I can see it.
Yeah.
Five miles west, I'd be holding my son.
They won't let me hold him.
[SIGHS.]
I guess you got kids? Yeah.
My little girl made that masterpiece right there.
[CHUCKLES.]
I have zero idea what it is.
Everyone who looks at it sees something completely different.
It's kinda cool, actually.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
I see a little girl that loves her dad.
Yeah.
What would you do if someone tried to take her away from you? Is this my cystic fibrosis patient? Dania Constantin.
12 years old.
Collapsed on a school field trip with shortness of breath.
Hey, Dania.
Doctor Reynolds.
We're gonna take good care of you, okay? I need the stat chest.
All right, let's go ahead and get her to Trauma One.
Dania, are you all right? I just got the call from school.
I'm sorry.
You have nothing to be sorry about.
I'm so sorry, Mom.
Go ahead and give me a big, deep breath.
Deep as you can.
[BREATHING DEEPLY.]
And out.
[EXHALES.]
That's great.
Good job.
Is she having a CF exacerbation? Don't be afraid to throw it at me, doctor.
We've seen it all.
Uh, Mrs.
Constantin, in a standard CF exacerbation, we'd see one impacted area, maybe two.
But this is multifaceted.
Her platelets are down.
Low red and white cell counts.
Infiltrates on her chest.
So this isn't about her CF? [DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
I believe something else triggered this.
[COUGHING.]
Arthroscopic shoulder surgery, $4,650 still outstanding.
I'm real sorry.
I was in such a hole from all the time I missed.
I just don't have the money yet.
No, that's okay, because today I'm proposing a new way to settle your debt.
Says here you're a plumber.
Yeah.
Plumbers I've met know how to barter.
Anything that you can do for New Amsterdam, we'll take it.
- I'm an electrician by trade.
- Perfect.
Wait till you see what that last storm did to us.
What's the scam, man? This is New York.
- There's always a scam.
- It's no scam.
Just barter and trade.
It's worked like gangbusters for centuries.
So why don't we bring it back? So I patch up the cracked drywall around here and rip up my bill? You patch up the cracked drywall and you will have paid your bill every bit as much as if you wrote us a check.
This isn't charity.
This is just us recognizing the real-world tangible value of what our patients can offer.
So the question is "How can you help?" [EXHALES SHARPLY.]
It's a cocker spaniel.
Look at that.
Kids'll love it.
Cough if you need to.
- Hi, thanks for jumping in.
- It's my pleasure.
So, Dania, has anyone been sick at school? - Not really.
- Any new pets? Just my bacteria-covered lizard monster.
- His name is Lungy.
- She's kidding.
Cut it out, goofy.
You're on top of your meds and your CPT, right? Uh, her father and I handle therapy.
Dania's in charge of her own meds.
She's a model patient.
- [COUGHING.]
- You're okay.
Honey, you're okay.
I'm right here.
Any recent travel? I wish.
We've had to cut back.
We're remodeling, adding a nursery.
Uh, did this new construction have any leaks - in the recent storms? - Oh, God.
You're thinking mold? Aspegillosis fungal infection could explain her symptoms.
Some of them.
Her white blood cell count's low.
You'd expect high with infection.
But if it is black mold, there's no time to waste.
Okay, we're gonna give you voriconazole, ceftazidime, and tobramycin.
If it's fungal, that'll wipe it out.
But how could this happen? [DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
We need to prep Lyn for surgery.
We should know in an hour or two if the clipping has lowered her intracranial pressure.
Dr.
Kapoor will be overseeing it.
And our grandson? Can we see him? Uh, this is Dr.
Frome.
I've asked him to consult on this case in his role - as a child advocate.
- Yeah.
Forgive me for asking, but you are aware that Lyn was not the egg donor for this baby? Yeah, that since she was just the carrier, she and this child are not genetically related in any way? - Yeah.
- Okay, good.
Um, I I apologize for having to discuss paperwork at such a painful time.
I really do.
But, uh, if you'd take a look, please.
- What is this? - Um, that's a waiver.
Although Lyn and Michael shared a contract, um, surrogacy is still currently illegal in New York, but the good news is as Lyn's parents, you can sign on her behalf to allow the father to take custody.
No.
Uh, Mrs.
Sackhoff, this baby's father is sitting in my office waiting to hold his son.
I am not giving him to some stranger.
Um, Mrs.
Sackhoff Some man who pays women to carry children? Ma'am, I know this is a, uh, complicated situation, but this child is not yours.
He's he's the last piece I have of my daughter.
He's our grandson, and we're taking him home.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
[SOFTLY.]
Thank you.
[ALARMS BEEPING.]
Help! Help! [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
She's in V-tech.
We need to defibrillate.
- [PADDLES CHARGING.]
- Found some blood.
Charging.
Clear.
[THUDS.]
[ALARMS BEEPING.]
Going again.
Clear.
[THUDS.]
She's back.
Normal sinus rhythm.
You see this? We were wrong.
This wasn't fungal.
I'm gonna get her down to the OR, find out where the blood is coming from.
What is it? What's wrong with her? We're doing everything we can to find out.
I'll be right back.
Advancing through the pylorus into the duodenum.
- With McDonald's.
- I don't see it yet.
[GROANS.]
Why did I push for the voriconazole? All the signs pointed in that direction.
Yeah, well now she's being compromised by antifungal meds she didn't need on top of her cystic fibrosis.
There.
Right there.
Bleeding ulcer.
- Cauterizing now.
- Good find.
Well, I'll take the compliment when we figure out what's hurting this girl.
It's the low white blood cell count.
That's the piece that's never fit.
You thinking a myelodysplastic syndrome? That's the best angle we have right now.
Once she's recovered, I'll obtain a bone marrow biopsy.
[GROANS.]
We're missing something.
[PERCUSSIVE MUSIC.]
Dr.
Stauton, who are you waiting for? Dr.
Goodwin.
He has a session now.
Oh, no, his session was rescheduled.
Rescheduled? By whom? By Dr.
Goodwin.
The cost of treatment for multiple sclerosis - has tripled since 1993.
- I noticed.
Yeah, big pharma just keeps jacking up the DMTs.
Sadly our current system refuses to limit these increases, which is why I'm trying a new thing where we barter for your debt.
- Like a yard sale? - Kind of.
What are your skills? What do you do? - I'm a painter.
- Mmm, perfect.
Well, the lobby could use a fresh coat.
Not that kind of painter.
Uh, less Sherwin-Williams, more Georgia O'Keeffe.
Oh.
Huh.
So much for the easy way out, huh? [DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
I can't tell you how many gigs I've lost because of my condition.
All right, Georgia O'Keeffe.
Here's your canvas.
I think I need to buy a lot more paint.
Um, yeah.
Then, uh, well, you better get to work.
But you're gonna be great.
Well, if it isn't my former oncologist.
- Aren't you peppy.
- You sound surprised.
Well, after all your emo misgivings about working with Dr.
Stauton, I feared the worst.
- Oh, she's been a delight.
- Really? Like a summer breeze, that woman.
You do realize I know her, right? Yeah, you know, it's not too late to take me back, and I would think about it if I was you 'cause this offer will expire in, um never.
- Please, please take me back.
- Max.
- Yeah.
- Friends, colleagues.
Friends and colleagues is [CLICKS TONGUE.]
Clear delineation till you get better.
Right, but she is so mean.
I mean, she's, like, crazy.
She's like a werewolf or something.
Okay, I'm on board.
Fine.
So as my colleague, would you take a look - at this, please? - Mm-hmm.
It's my CF patient.
Everything's failing at the same time - and we can't see why.
- These numbers are atrocious.
That's the only place that she's not overachieving.
She's top of her class, highly involved in extracurriculars.
Volunteers in the community.
I mean no one deserves such a nasty disease, - but such an inspiring girl? - Mmm.
Well, maybe she's getting a little help.
What, you mean drugs? She's 12.
Yeah, sounds like she has more on her plate than most 12-year-olds can handle.
[KNOCKING, DOOR OPENING.]
Hi.
Um, Rohan just told me this was a family piece when he gave it to me.
Uh, but from the look on your face, I'm guessing it belonged to your late wife.
I don't know what's going on between you and your son, but I have no intention of being in the middle of it.
But I certainly never meant to hurt you, so [STIRRING MUSIC.]
I know we're not great, but I hope you know I'd never do that to you.
[DOOR OPENING.]
[DOOR CLOSING.]
Hey, how's it going? Uh, well, legal put in an emergency injunction request for Michael.
They've all made statements so now we're waiting.
- Hmm, and, uh, Lyn? - Still in surgery.
Yeah.
Frankly Lyn Sachoff's intentions are clear.
The contract's claim is compelling.
However, the interstate dispute here is beyond this court's remit.
So I'm bound to issue an injunction I take no joy in making.
Until the conflict is resolved by a higher court, neither party may have custody.
The legal guardian will be the New York Department of Social Services.
The baby is to be placed in foster care.
Your Honor, uh, this child's genetic father is here begging to take him home, as are the birth mother's parents.
And this court's answer is to send this wanted newborn - into foster care? - It's the law.
I'm sorry, Dr.
Goodwin.
My hands are tied.
[GAVEL BANGS.]
This isn't over yet.
Our legal team can file an appeal by tomorrow.
- Oh, we'll lose.
- No, you don't know that.
Max, do you think this is the first case like this? This is not unique.
And while we're appealing, Robin will be in foster care.
- Not for days, for months.
- I know.
It's unfair, and it's cruel.
Michael.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
If you let your son go to foster care, you will be introducing him to a world that is cruel and unfair.
Far more cruel than this.
So, what are you saying? I should just give up? I'm saying you should fight.
You should fight to give your son the best life that he could possibly have.
Even if it's not with you.
We have a 7:00 a.
m.
check in.
Patient's last name, the surgery will not start until 9:00 a.
m.
Did you find anything in her bone marrow? I'm afraid that's not the culprit.
Sabra, um [EXHALES.]
Is it possible that Dania's been experimenting? With drugs? No.
Opioids attack white blood cells.
And if she's taking street pills, the cutting agents could account for all her other symptoms.
But Dania would never do that.
- Are you sure? - I know my daughter.
Go ahead.
You won't find anything.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
Those are all her standard CF meds.
I told you, I know my daughter.
This was refilled two weeks ago.
There should only be four pills left.
Dania stopped taking her pancreatic enzyme pills.
Her body's not digesting fats.
Leading to a vitamin A deficiency.
I'll go order the IV.
She stopped on purpose.
Why would she do that? Oh, wow, looking great.
It's, uh it's a horse.
No, it's a field of corn? I don't know.
But you know what? Don't tell me because I'm a big believer in the process.
- Art is life.
- "Art is life.
" Should I be getting medical treatment at MoMA now? Hey, did you rip that out of the wall? This came from your "electrician" working in the hallway.
There's no need for the "air quotes," okay? Fran is fully bonded and licensed.
But she was engaged under your "bartering" agreement.
Again with the "air quotes.
" So, your answer to our debt issue is bartering? Look, I promised to get six cents on the dollar for our debt within 24 hours.
That's what I did.
Mission accomplished.
The only thing you've accomplished is turning this hospital into a flea market.
Yeah, and who doesn't love a good flea market? Sorry, I'm not seeing the problem.
The problem is you're paying $4,800 to Fran to fix five light fixtures.
The only people who can justify a cost like that are the military and the mafia.
On the books this looks like money laundering.
- We'll be audited.
- Yeah, - but if we just explain - No, no explaining.
This is not how you run a hospital.
- This is over.
End it.
- I can't do that.
- You can.
You will.
- This is a public hospital.
We care for people at the lowest points in their lives.
And we do it no matter who they are or where they're from or whether or not they can pay.
That's the gig.
And yes, I understand everything costs something.
But these people, they trust us.
And that trust is sacred.
So believe me when I tell you, there is no way that I'm gonna let you hound them for money.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
The bartering you've done today, I'll let it stand.
Fran is golden.
Thank you.
But that will be the end of this billing system built on rainbows and magical thinking.
Bills exist.
And it's my job to make sure we pay them.
- I want you to succeed, Max.
- Hmm.
If we work together, I'll be your greatest advocate.
But if you work against me, I'll bury you before your cancer does.
[PERCUSSIVE MUSIC.]
[SIGHS.]
What are you, five? Just give me my keys and I'll be on my way.
Sure, right after you finish your course of radiation.
Yeah, well, I would, but my appointment isn't - for another several hours.
- That's strange.
I could have sworn it was supposed to have already started.
It was, and then I had an emergency come up - requiring me to switch it.
- So you switched it? Correct, to later today.
Know any other patients who go into the system and switch their appointments on a whim? It wasn't a whim.
It was a real emergency that I was dealing with.
So your cancer isn't a real emergency? I didn't say that.
Max, when you tell me you missed radiation because people need you, I don't hear a good man making a hard choice.
I hear somebody choosing to die.
Today you had a choice.
And you chose to die.
I'll ask you again tomorrow and hopefully you will have your head in the game then.
Because frankly I don't know how many tomorrows you've got.
Hear this.
People who treat cancer the way you're treating cancer do not survive.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
Do you want to die, Max? No.
Radiation is expecting you.
3B.
3B.
Max.
This is how you get better.
[DOOR CLOSES.]
I'm afraid the clipping procedure has not relieved Lyn's intracranial brain pressure.
Is there a cure? Surgery to place a ventricular shunt - in her head, but - Excuse me.
How is she? We must prepare for the worst.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
You, uh you've raised an amazing woman.
Thank you.
That's why I'm, uh, withdrawing my case.
He can't grow up in foster care.
My son [CHUCKLES SADLY.]
He needs to be with people who love him, even if that's not with me.
And if you do as good a job with him as you did with Lyn, then he's gonna be [SNIFFS.]
You hang in there, okay? I'll see you soon.
Someone please tell Robin that his daddy loves him.
Sweetie.
Mom? Why? Why did you stop taking your pills? I didn't mean for it to go so far.
Did something happen at school with your friends? Dania? Is this about the baby? [DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
What if you have another me? Then I'd be the luckiest mom in the world.
I'm so much work.
And when I stopped taking the pills, you didn't even notice.
I wanted you to see.
See what? That if you're taking care of the baby, you can't take care of me.
Dania, do you know why I waited 12 years to have another baby? 'Cause you weren't ready after me.
I've been ready since the day you were born.
I waited until you were ready.
Until you could advocate for yourself.
And kiddo, look at your life.
You're amazing.
Am I in trouble? So much trouble.
Come here, baby.
Well, think they'll be okay? Yeah, yeah.
Me and my mum fought all the time, but we always made up.
Think you'll be the same with your own kid? - Uh - How's that going? Uh, it's, um It's complicated.
- You having doubts? - On so many levels.
Well, don't.
'Cause you would make an incredible mother.
[BEEPING.]
You were right.
The bracelet did belong to my wife.
It was part of a set of heirloom jewelry.
Mothers pass on these to their daughters.
It's one of the only things I kept of my wife after she died.
To remind me of her.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
It's been incomplete for the last two years.
Just missing the bracelet.
I'm so sorry.
All this time I thought that Rohan had sold this for drugs.
At the funeral I accused him of it and he he denied it.
And I called him a liar At his mother's grave.
I see.
So seeing you with the bracelet showed me how wrong I was.
How wrong I had been about my own son.
I should have listened to him, what he told me.
That that he wanted something of his mother's to cherish As much as he cherished her.
So give this to Rohan.
His mother would want him to have it.
Please tell him that his papa is sorry.
[KNOCKING.]
- Hey.
- Oh, hey.
Ready? Today you offered me the most amazing gift that I could ever hope for.
But I can't take you up on it.
I am crazy about you.
[SOFT MUSIC.]
But we're not there yet.
And I really like where we are.
Totally agree.
Just, um, I got caught up in the possibility of Us.
Me, too.
But there's no rush.
We can wait until we're ready.
Will you join me at my harvest? [CHUCKLING.]
It's cool that it turns me on when you talk - like a farmer, right? - [LAUGHS.]
Michael! What you did back there, Lyn's parents want to talk to you.
[DOOR CLOSING.]
We just wanted to hold onto our girl in case she doesn't wake up.
But we need to honor what she did while she was here.
[SNIFFS.]
And what she did, she did for you.
Here you go.
[SNIFFLES.]
Are you [GASPS.]
[CHUCKLES.]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
- [SOBBING.]
- Yeah.
[CRYING.]
Thank you.
Hey, little guy.
[CRYING.]
[CHUCKLING.]
Hi! - Um, I'll meet you downstairs.
- Okay.
Now that is a face I've seen on many a patient - of Dr.
Stauton.
- [LAUGHS.]
I may have jumped the gun on that summer breeze comment.
[LAUGHS.]
Yeah.
She prescribed an attitude adjustment.
Apparently I need to prioritize my treatment.
That's why I sent you to her.
The cancer has to come first.
She says I need to focus on my cancer, stop moving so fast, but everything in me says when I stop moving, the cancer will catch up.
So just keep moving.
'Cause I'm not I'm not done yet.
I wanna leave something behind, you know? I wanna Do something that matters.
But everywhere I look, all I see is everything the cancer is trying to take away.
[SIGHS SYMPATHETICALLY.]
Then you're not looking in the right places.
[ALEXI MURDOCH'S "SONG FOR YOU".]
Almost done.
What'cha think? [MELLOW MUSIC.]
I'd say it's not a bad thing to leave behind.
So today I wrote a song for you 'Cause a day can get so long And I know it's hard to make it through When you say there's something wrong [MUSIC BRIGHTENING.]
- So I'm trying - How you doing? To put it right 'cause I want [CLATTERING.]
To love you with my heart Sorry about that, sir.
Whoa, whoa! What's this? You put it on your head.
- Uh, yeah, I do.
- [LAUGHS.]
And all of this life It's okay.
It's okay.
Oh, my gosh! Look at you guys! [LAUGHTER.]
Oh, my gosh! Look at this one! Holy cow! For all that you claim I will move with you