- Previously on "New Amsterdam"...
- To the Bloom sisters.
Barely functional, but a ton of fun.
- You haven't told her you're sober?
- Not yet. - When?
- Soon. - Dr. Reynolds,
I can say without a doubt
that you are the worst patient I've ever encountered.
- Hey, what'd you say your name was?
- I didn't. - Hi, my name is Iggy,
and I'm on this app,
because who wants to go through this awful,
confusing, joyous world alone?
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- [sighs]
♪ ♪
[percussive beat]
♪ ♪
- Choo, choo.
♪ ♪
- I-- - Hey.
- I wanna help you. - Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hey, Luna--Luna.
You gotta watch with your eyes, remember?
Not your hands.
Yeah, be careful.
Here, give me that,
you little strawberry thief.
♪ ♪
Okay.
Whoa, hey, whoa, now, buster.
Blenders are for big people.
But...
if you watch those grabby hands--
come here, you.
Rawr.
[mimics explosion] You can watch from right here.
All right, here we go.
[blender whirrs]
Baby, that was not a good choice.
Here, give me that. Let's put that back.
Come here. You're just making a mess.
Oh, boy, okay. Ooh.
All right, don't, uh, touch anything, okay?
- [shouts]
Owie. Grabby hand.
- Oh, no, no, baby, baby, baby, come here.
You okay?
You all right?
[blows] That's grabby hands.
You know what?
You're coming with Daddy to work, okay?
Come here. Ooh.
[dramatic music]
- Hey, Nurse.
Trudy, wait up.
- Trudy?
- Hildegard? - [scoffs]
Do I look like a Hildegard to you?
- You're right. You look more like a...Olga.
- Not even close. Mm.
- I mean, you could just tell me your name.
- And miss out on all these crack guesses?
Nah. - Paloma?
Margarita?
Julep? - You're just naming cocktails.
- I am not. Harvey Wallbanger?
- Yeah, I think you're just picking up
that I want a cocktail.
- Yeah, well, let's make it happen after work.
- Hey, girl, you are not gonna believe this.
- What? - They just offered me
a $20,000 bonus if I pack up
and go to Oklahoma City tonight.
- Good for you.
I will meet you there if the food is halfway decent.
- Deal. - Okay.
- See you when I see you. - I'll see you.
[percussive jazz beat]
- So you're a travel nurse?
- Yeah, I'm here for eight weeks and then on to the next.
♪ ♪
But you were talking about after work?
- You know what? I can't.
But I'll see you on the rounds.
- Uh--
okay.
♪ ♪
- You must be as hung over as I am.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
Here.
Hair of the Dog. - Oh, read my mind.
♪ ♪
Make yourself at home.
- Uh, I will, 'cause it is.
- Oh, yeah? Mom still paying the rent?
- Yeah, when she remembers.
- Oh, God.
Man, it is so weird, Mom forgetting things
'cause she's old, not because she's hammered.
- I know.
Sucks--makes it so much harder to be mad at her.
[sighs]
- You ever think about it?
- About what?
- Getting clean.
- Uh, yeah.
Yeah, sometimes.
♪ ♪
[chuckles]
Oh, my God.
Hey, do you remember--
you remember when Mom used to get, like, wasted
and order, like, 8 million dumplings
from that one place?
- Yeah?
- I want those dumplings.
I say we get trashed,
eat them tonight.
What do you say?
Reclaim our heritage, Lauren.
- Yeah, yeah. I will pick some up
on my way home from work.
♪ ♪
- I'm, um...
I'm glad you're here.
Us talking, it feels, like, um,
I don't know, healthy or whatever.
- So let's keep talking.
♪ ♪
- Just two little stitches.
- Cool. - What do we say?
- Thank you, Auntie Lauren.
- Oh, you are so welcome.
I don't get to see you enough, do I, big girl?
Whoa! Whoa. - Do not grab the scissors.
Good news is we'll be seeing Auntie Lauren again very soon.
- 32-year-old woman with respiratory arrest
on the A train.
- Please keep an eye on her.
- Now with pulse ox in low 90s on 100%.
- Uh, is that what I think it is?
- Skin that blue, it's gotta be sodium nitrate poisoning.
- I don't think I've ever seen it before,
it's so rare. [door booms open]
- 51-year-old with respiratory collapse.
- On the A train? - No, 34 West 57th,
fifth floor office. - Two unrelated cases
of sodium nitrate poisoning?
- Yeah, well, it used to be rare.
[door booms open] 65-year-old man
in respiratory arrest. - I think we get the picture.
Okay, let's get all three patients to curtains,
and let's start methylene blue times three.
♪ ♪
- Guys, if you look out your window to the left,
you will note some very-- [phone camera shutter clicks]
Strange green objects whizzing by.
[message sent tone] Those are what we commonly
refer to as trees!
Those are trees, everybody.
You are officially out of the city and into the woods!
[honking] Whoo!
[honking] Yeah!
[chuckling]
Now, you know, I know our little therapy group
is usually hospital bound, but, um, you know, a good hike,
amigos, that is a therapy all to itself.
It's unbelievable. Our connection
to the natural world is just--
[cell phones dinging]
[cell phone chimes]
So, um-- [clears throat]
Anybody reading anything good?
[blows landing]
Ah, I see. Interesting.
[phone camera shutter clicks] Yeah, I thought you guys
might like to know that we are about to drive
right into a fire. [all phones sounding off]
Also, the bridge up ahead looks like it's out,
and I am definitely going to crash the car.
[message sent tone]
Bigfoot!
Bigfoot straight ahead! [phones chiming]
All right, okay.
[jazz music]
♪ ♪
Give me your phones.
[all complain] - Phones, please.
- I'm almost done with this level.
It'll just be a second. - My friends,
we are going phone-free today.
- Oh, my God, you are so mad with power right now.
- Can I have my phone back if I do my breathing?
- Thank you. Give it.
♪ ♪
Thank you. This is not for me.
It is for you.
♪ ♪
There, doesn't that feel better already?
♪ ♪
[indistinct PA announcement]
♪ ♪
- Have you seen their ID bracelets?
- Yeah.
They all have the same address.
I've been trying to call the landlord
to let him know about the exposure,
but I keep getting voicemail.
"Hi there, you're poisoning your tenants.
Please call me back whenever." - You try City Health?
- Yeah, that would be perfect,
if we needed it dealt with in ten years' time.
Look, pick a nurse with a tox background,
and get her over there. Someone needs to deal with this
before anyone else gets hurt. - I'll go.
- Uh, thanks, but I think we can find someone
a few ranks down from Chair of Surgery for this.
- Text me the address. This is some ripe--
[dramatic music]
- Okay.
- "Hi, Justine, it's very nice to see you again.
"Uh, it's totally normal to be nervous,
"and any questions you have, just fire away.
I promise I heard 'em all."
- I-ay ust-jay ad-hay un-way estion-quay.
[jazz music]
- It's Pig Latin.
- "Oh, why are you speaking in Pig Latin?"
- Ell-way, ay-may ids-kay aid-say.
- I can help.
My kids did this for a year once.
Go ahead, hon. - [speaks Pig Latin]
- "I'm sorry about the Pig Latin,"
and, "My kids said
it was good luck."
- "And just so you know, I've resected lung cancers
like yours hundreds of times."
- Excuse me, I need Nurse Andrea Cantwell.
- Okay. - Sir, you need to step aside.
- "No, surgery is about to begin.
Whatever this is, it can wait."
- I'm afraid it can't.
- But New Amsterdam already took responsibility for this!
Okay. [stammers]
I know you're just doing your job,
but you're not hearing me, okay?
But--but the hospital... - "Keep prepping, Ms. Cerrado."
- Already took responsibility for this, okay?
This is not her fault. - Sir, you need to step aside.
- You're not hearing me. This is not her fault.
- Ma'am, you're under arrest.
- It's okay. It's all right.
- My husband--someone needs to call my husband.
- I will call him. The lawyers are on this, okay?
- Andrea Cantwell, you have the right to remain silent.
- Our whole legal team is on this.
Don't worry, okay? We got you.
- You have the right to an attorney--
- Don't worry. We've got you--I--
- If you can't afford an attorney--
- "What the hell is going on?"
- Two months ago, Andrea's patient died.
- "Yeah, this is a hospital. People die."
- Well, tell that to the D.A., because they're prosecuting her
for murder.
♪ ♪
271 .
- Uh, Ms. Sawhook, you're running point
on Nurse Andrea Cantwell's
case, right? - Yup, I drew the short straw.
- Great, so you know that this death was not her fault?
- Andrea grabbed the wrong medication
and injected it into a patient's IV,
and it killed him.
Sounds like her fault.
- Okay, uh, meds in this hospital
are dispensed by MedRack machines--
I'm sure you know that-- but sometimes,
they make mistakes, all right?
They don't dispense enough meds,
or they dispense too many, and occasionally,
the nurses have to override these machines
or patients would die. - Careful, it sounds like
you're admitting liability.
- Well, we already did that
the first time this went to court.
Okay, HCC admitted that this machine
that every hospital in America uses,
made a mistake, all right?
That's not on the nurses.
That's on the entire American healthcare system.
- That was in civil court. This is a criminal charge.
- Andrea's not a criminal.
She was doing her job.
And the only reason that this D.A. is pursuing this case
is because it makes for a great headline,
and now it's open season on nurses.
But it's your responsibility to protect--
- What's your job again?
[dramatic music]
- Medical director. - Well, this is no longer
a medical problem.
♪ ♪
[sirens wailing]
- Sorry, these stairs are off-limits.
- My hip hasn't let me take those stairs in a decade.
What's all this? - This is, uh, rat poison
laced with sodium nitrate.
Yeah, no store brand would have that--
only cheap, basement-made crap someone got off the internet
to save a buck.
Yeah, your landlord was reckless, stingy,
and damn lucky no one died.
- That's this building for you.
Every day, something like this.
- Every day, something like mass poisoning?
- Wouldn't believe me if I told you.
♪ ♪
- Try me. - There was black mould
in the bathroom. Now I have severe asthma.
- There was asbestos in my floors, in the walls.
Now my G.I. tract is shot.
- Roaches in the food, in the sheets.
My ma got gastroenteritis.
- Spiders. - Water damage.
- Sewage. - Oh, New Amsterdam's great.
You did such a good job
when all those people here got poisoned.
- He means the last time people got poisoned.
The furnace was out, so everyone used gas ovens.
No vents, carbon monoxide-- it was awful.
- Lucky for us, our window was broken,
so we just got hypothermia.
- And pigeons.
- [sighs]
- All right, does everybody have water?
Sunscreen? How 'bout hats
to keep your heads from exploding when you see
the sheer beauty of Bear Mountain?
- I, for one, am not doing courtesy laughs
until I get my phone back.
- Okay, fair enough-- gives me an opportunity
to improve my material. No big deal.
- It's not funny.
You're punishing us, and we didn't even do anything wrong.
- [chuckles] Come on. Are you serious?
This is not a punishment, you guys.
I'm not punishing you. This is a gift.
I am giving you the gift of nature.
Cell phone overusage, social media, all that stuff,
those are harmful things.
It's like the early days of cigarettes.
People would run around like a bunch of dum-dums,
addicted to the things, had no idea the damage
they were doing to their own bodies, right?
And what about the Snapchat thing this morning?
Some kid died doing a Snapchat challenge.
That's awful. - Okay, the kid jumps
out of a car--a speeding car-- because someone on Snapchat
told him to?
Yeah, he's got bigger problems
than things on the internet. We're not morons.
Our phones aren't, like, damaging us.
- Mm-hmm, says the kid who falls asleep in class,
'cause he's up all night texting with his buddies.
And Skyla, when we first met, you painted our entire art wall
with a beautiful, gorgeous mural.
And now your folks tell me you won't pick up a brush anymore,
because you're too busy watching other people paint
on YouTube.
- It's fun to watch. - I know it's fun to watch,
but watching is not doing.
It's not the same thing, you know?
And I'm not picking on you. I'm talking about everyone.
This is everywhere. Like, Austin,
why did you have to have thumb surgery again?
- I played too much "Fortnite."
- Yeah, you played too much "Fortnite."
Yeah, and Bizzie, you spent half the damn ride up here
trading seats with everyone, trying to find
the perfect lighting for a selfie.
- There's only one person here
who has their phone on them 24/7.
- That's--okay, that's totally different.
I am a doctor, and I'm on call.
- I didn't hear any calls. But back in the van,
I did see a lot of push notifications.
♪ ♪
- Me too.
My mom has that same app.
Uh, she says it's for professional singles.
♪ ♪
- Okay, yeah, all right.
Uh,
you know what, guys? You know what? You're right.
You're right. I'm not being fair.
Mm-kay? I got a solution though.
There, now nobody gets a phone. Okay?
No phones for anybody--none.
What do you think?
Guys, calm down. It's a 90-minute hike.
I think you'll survive.
All right.
Let's go.
Let's get that heart rate up and blood pumpin'.
Yeah.
- [sniffles]
[indistinct PA announcement]
- Nurse Banner just quit in the middle of a shift?
- She's the fourth one today.
[dramatic music]
- "So I've got room in my O.R.
"for the pulmonary sleeve lobectomy.
"It's a really challenging procedure,
but one you'll need to master to make your careers."
- No, thank you. - I'll pass.
- Mm!
- "Okay, it's a major opportunity.
You're both just-- you're not interested?"
- Or we don't want to end up in handcuffs.
♪ ♪
[indistinct chatter]
- Um, can I see that?
♪ ♪
Hey, um, why was a CT ordered for kidney stones?
I mean, here's the X-ray.
- If Andrea wasn't protected by MedRack,
you think anyone's gonna be protected by X-rays?
♪ ♪
- Excuse us. Thank you.
- Max! - Max!
- Excuse me.
- "I just had to cancel multiple procedures.
Because of Andrea, everyone is in a panic."
- I spent years trying to take the fear out of medicine.
Now we're back to square one.
- "This is not square one. This is worse.
"We are not treating anyone.
"This place has ground to a halt.
What are we gonna do?"
446 .
- Oh, hey. - Oh, hi.
- You're in a hurry. - Yeah,
I'm headed to legal.
I need to learn about housing law.
- Okay, spill it.
You and that building, what's this about?
- It's about your sodium nitrate victims who were just
discharged to an apartment building
that's gonna make them sick all over again.
Hey, where are you going? - I am having a bonding night
with my sister, which involves picking up
our favourite childhood dumplings.
- Oh, okay, so you're still pretending
to be a party-goer to impress her?
- No, I think what you're asking is
if I'm still using unconventional methods
to form a therapeutic alliance with my addict sister.
- No, I definitely meant the first thing.
- Have you asked out that nurse yet?
- Uh, no, it's not gonna work out.
- That didn't stop you and Malvo.
- Tell your sister the truth. - Ask out the nurse.
- Agree to drop both things? - Yes.
- All right.
- District Attorney Belber, Max Goodwin.
Thanks so much for coming in.
- Ah, well, almost in.
Is this usually where you greet your guests?
- Just the ones who persecute hardworking nurses.
If it's all the same, I'd rather not let a fox
into a henhouse. - I figured that's what this
is about. Now, look.
I'm glad that you reached out.
Bringing criminal charges against medical personnel
is new ground, and I want you to know
where I'm coming from. - Great, I appreciate that.
I'd love to know where you're coming from,
'cause right now, I don't see it.
Do you know what an M&M is? It's a conference
that we have after a patient dies.
And doctors and nurses get together
to have a candid discussion
about everything that we could've done better.
We look mistakes right in the eye,
because that's how you learn.
And if admitting a mistake means life in prison,
just how candid do you think people are gonna be?
- So it's your position that medical deaths should be immune
to criminal charges? - No.
If a surgeon operates drunk, throw 'em in jail.
But when a nurse does everything possible
to save a life in the face of dire illness
and a malfunctioning machine,
then maybe cut her some slack.
- You know, I heard the same line from the police union.
Do you think I should stop prosecuting wrongful deaths
with the NYPD too? - Look, our nurse didn't
pull a trigger.
She made the best decision she could at the time
under the circumstances. And the truth is
it could've happened to either one of us.
- It was great talking with you.
- Do you hear how quiet it is?
[dramatic music]
We had to stop taking ambulances,
because it's gridlock in there. Do you know why?
Because our nurses are quitting.
Everyone is afraid.
Please.
Let Andrea go home to her kids.
- She will.
Ten years.
She already took a plea.
♪ ♪
- Why is nature therapeutic?
What is the point of this activity?
All right, guys, I know we got off to a rough start
with the phones and all that, but hey,
look around you. Take a look around.
Look at the wind blowing through the trees, you know?
Look at the leaves dancing in the wind.
Feel that air. Feel the crispness.
Right?
These are all tactile sensations that you can use
to bring yourself back to the moment.
- Where's the trail?
- Where's the--
oh.
Uh... - Well, we were so busy
looking at leaves.
- I think it's that way.
- No, no, it's, uh--
no, I think it's over there. - Was it that steep?
- Dr. Frome, are we lost?
- What? [chuckles] No.
No. Um, no, we just, uh--
We just need...
A sign.
There we go--a sign, guys. Come on, follow me.
They must've put these here for this exact reason.
Huh?
All right, let's see what we got here.
[jazz music]
- What's it say?
♪ ♪
[medical devices blaring]
[computer buzzes]
- [slams fist]
[sighs]
- "BP's low.
She needs Levophed." - I know.
[computer buzzes]
- "She needs Levophed now!
What the hell are you waiting for?"
- The MedRack's refusing to dispense the med.
- [vocalising] - "How long have you been
waiting?" - Six minutes.
- [vocalising] - "Override the machine now.
If we don't act, she's gonna die."
- I have kids.
If I go to jail, they'll have nobody.
[medical devices blaring]
- Get out of the way! - Get out.
- Elizabeth...
Elizabeth, if you do this, it's on you.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Come on, come on.
[medical devices blaring]
♪ ♪
Mm!
- "Let's get her to the O.R.
for a Left Ventricular Assist Device, please."
- Was it the wrong med?
- [vocalizes] - "It was the right med.
We just waited too long to use it."
[medical devices blaring]
- [sighs]
[medical devices blaring]
587 - I spoke to your landlord,
and--hang on to your hat--
Mr. Palumbo's prepared to fix every problem in this building.
- He will? - Yup, he's gonna clean up
all the black mould. The asbestos in the walls?
Gone. - And in the ceiling?
- And in the ceiling.
Hey, while we're at it, how does an exterminator
for the cockroaches sound? - It's about time.
- Like you forgot the spiders.
- Oh, no, no, no. He'll deal with the spiders.
He'll deal with the rats. He'll upgrade the furnaces.
He'll fix your windows.
He'll deal with the pigeons.
Right? He's gonna repair
what's broken, replace what's busted,
and get this place back up to code.
- How?
- Yeah, um, so just hear me out.
He will need to increase your rent by 50%.
[all grumbling]
- Raise it? - This is illegal.
- We have a lease. - Are you kidding me?
- Oh, I signed a contract. - Hey, easy now.
- Do you think we're made of money?
- Ridiculous. - Come on.
- Easy now. Hey, I said hear me out,
remember?
Yes, it sucks that you'll be paying more money.
But hey, that's already money you're spending every month
on medical bills, right? And on lost wages
from missing work when you're sick.
I mean, once this place is safer,
those expenses vanish.
Big picture, you're breaking even.
Only now, you have a safe and livable building.
Right? What do you think about that?
- No way. - No, thank you.
- Hell no. - I think it sounds awful.
- No, no. - I don't--I don't get it.
- Mm-mm.
- I missed "Blue Bloods" for this?
- I mean, I really don't get it.
You won't lose a dollar, and you'd fix the building.
- That's right. We'd fix it.
Maybe higher rents would cost the same as our medical bills,
but we shouldn't have either.
This is the owner's responsibility.
Not ours.
[all muttering in agreement]
- Footprints!
- What? Yes.
Oh, yes! Yes, Bizzie,
you wonderful woods woman, you!
Very nicely done. Okay.
Okay! Guys, what have I been saying?
I said if we keep calm, keep our eyes peeled,
and we stick together, we will get out of here
in one piece, right? - I think these
are our footprints.
- Hmm?
No, no, I don't think that's true.
- No, see the weird worm thing in the middle?
Those are Austin's shoes.
- I don't think they look like worms.
[dramatic music]
- Uh...
okay, okay, okay. Yeah, um, okay, so
we know that we've been walking around in circles, right?
That's good in a way. That's a clue, right?
We know now more than we did five seconds ago.
We do not wanna keep going that way.
We wanna go one of, um, uh, the other...
Ways. - Wait,
my dad said moss only grows on the north side of trees.
- Oh, Lev, yes. Amazing!
Yeah, okay, everybody come on over here.
Guys, come on. Come check out the moss
over here. We, uh--
♪ ♪
- Moss sucks.
- North is not every direction, moss.
- Uh, Dr. Frome, I'm cold.
- Yeah, I know you are, bud.
I know. Me too.
Um, sorry about that.
You know, if these clouds
weren't so dang thick, we could use the shadows
from the trees as, like, a sundial, you know?
Get our direction that way. - Those clouds look scary.
[clouds rumbling]
- Oh, don't--don't worry about the clouds, okay?
♪ ♪
[thunder cracks]
[rain pouring]
- Dr. Frome, it's raining.
- Yeah, I'm aware, Skyla.
Thank you. [thunder booms]
Okay, uh, guys, find cover. Find cover.
Come on. Go, go, go.
Find cover. Go.
[thunder booms] Okay,
backs up against the tree.
- Dr. Frome, my dad told me
never go under trees when there's lightning.
[rain pouring]
[thunder booms]
- Hey, Doc.
- "How are you feeling?"
- Glad to be alive
and able to speak in normal English
instead of Pig Latin. [chuckles]
[medical device beeping]
What is it?
- [vocalising]
- "There's been a complication."
♪ ♪
- The delay in Justine Cerrado's care
caused permanent kidney damage. She'll need a transplant,
and, um, her life will have limits it did not have before.
But hey, legally speaking, we're in the clear.
We were just double-checking medications.
We were just, uh, being prudent.
[chuckles] We were just covering our ass.
Guys, I can't invent a better MedRack.
I can't fend off the D.A. They could come after you
for an honest mistake, and I can't protect you.
♪ ♪
But if we're putting our welfare ahead of the welfare
of our patients...
then we failed.
We might as well shut the doors,
because patients first
is the only way I know how to do this.
And if you can't do that, then, uh...
♪ ♪
Then you should quit.
♪ ♪
And with everything that's happening,
I wouldn't blame you.
♪ ♪
- Soup dumplings and memories
of our mother's inebriated past.
Get 'em while they're hot.
Ah, these are, like, 95% MSG,
but they smell incredible.
♪ ♪
Vanessa...
- Three years sober...
Wow, that's, um,
that's impressive.
Get out. - Stop it.
What--okay, look, can we just talk about this?
So I'm sober, who cares?
- Who cares? You've been lying to me
this whole time, Lauren!
I mean, what are you even doing here?
Coming here to, like, deprogram me or something?
Acting like we're best friends all of a sudden
when you've been lying to my face the whole time!
- I'm sorry. Why is my sobriety
any of your business?
I mean, you only know about it
because you went through my stuff.
- Yeah, in my house! I was looking for Adderall!
I mean-- [chuckles]
Classic druggie sister, right?
What will she do next?
- Vanessa!
Okay, can you just-- please, can you just stop?
- Get out of my way! - I'm sorry!
- I don't ever wanna speak to you again.
- I lied, I lied! Okay?
I'm a liar! But this--us?
This is not fake! You know that!
Just--can you just tell me what I can do
to fix this? - I'm sorry, Lauren.
I haven't read your A.A. book.
I don't know which step this is, exactly.
- You're not a step. - You're just using me
to make yourself feel better about your sad life,
about the crap you pulled when I was a kid.
- No, I love you. - You left me, Lauren--
with our psychotic mother when I was nine!
Do you have any idea how much worse things got
after you were gone?
I mean, literally. Do you have any idea?
Right.
Get out.
- Pick those up. You--
Pick those up!
I was an 18-year-old runaway drug addict.
And yeah, it sucks that you couldn't come with me,
but I couldn't take care of you.
And the real villain of your life is Mom.
It's not me.
And now it's you.
It's you and your terrible choices,
like the one you're making right now,
acting like I somehow betrayed you,
when what I am doing is easily one of the nicest things
anyone's ever done for you. - Oh!
Right, okay.
- Where are you going?
- To get high. - Oh, yeah, great.
Hurt yourself to get revenge on me.
Go right ahead. - Yup.
- Wait, Nessa, wait. I didn't mean it.
Just-- - Know what, Lauren?
You wanna live here so bad? Fine.
Go right ahead.
- Nessa!
[sighs]
801 .
[dramatic music]
- Hey.
♪ ♪
- Hey, Dr. G. - Um, uh,
sorry. [chuckles]
Just expected it to be
a lot less full of people who work here.
Did you consolidate? - I didn't have to.
Nobody left.
None of us got into this business to cover our asses.
♪ ♪
- [chuckles]
♪ ♪
- You guys said this place needs a better owner--
someone who cares about it as much as you do
and who's willing to do what it takes to keep it up.
Well, I found them.
[all murmur]
- Who? - You.
Actually, all of you.
- Some sort of joke? - I can't afford a studio,
never mind a whole building. - This is ridiculous.
Come on, Gabe. - Hey, hang on.
Let me explain. New Amsterdam's gonna loan you
the money--below market rate--
to convert this place into a co-op.
That way, you can all be owners.
- And why would a hospital do that?
- Well, the short term is it's a huge tax write-off.
Long term, you guys are all such frequent flyers
that if we get you healthy, we'll actually come out ahead.
But the monthly cost of each unit will increase by 50%.
It has to. - Yeah, we know.
- We already told you we didn't want that.
- Why on God's green Earth do you think any of us
would pay that much more in rent?
- 'Cause it's not rent.
It's a mortgage.
So instead of giving your money away,
you'll be investing in your future.
If you own, the only thing limiting you
is how hard you're willing to work.
You wanna fix something?
Do it.
You can actually make this place what you want it to be.
You know why? Because you own it.
It's yours.
- I've been dreaming of fixing up this place
for 41 years.
[laughter]
- Lobby party. [laughter]
♪ ♪
- Yes, lobby!
[laughter]
♪ ♪
- This wasn't just for us, was it now?
- Well,
we all deserve a good home.
♪ ♪
- Wow, where did you learn to build a fire like this?
- YouTube.
- [chuckles]
That's impressive.
- Tell my parents.
They're still mad about what I did
to the side of the garage.
- Right.
[sighs]
Well, guys, I am--
I am so sorry.
I am so, so sorry.
You know, phones are a nightmare.
They are a brain-damage-causing actual nightmare.
But, uh,
taking them away like that...
Yeah, that's not cool. It's a therapist's job
to help people cope,
and I basically asked you guys
to stick your fingers in your ears
and pretend that phones don't exist.
[chuckles]
That's not therapy. That's, um...
that's, like, scared-old-guy territory.
Yeah.
You know, and obviously, phones aren't all bad.
- For example, you can use them to call 911
when you're lost.
- Bingo, Bizzie.
Yeah.
You know, what I'm really apologising for, though,
is not for taking your phones away or for getting us
hopelessly lost in the woods.
It's for not respecting that you guys have
more than enough character and fortitude to handle
anything that cell phones and social media can throw at you.
I mean, look at you guys. Look at this.
We're soaking wet. We're lost in the woods,
and you're not panicking--
not even a little bit. You're lighting fires,
and you're being cool as a bunch of cucumbers, you know?
I'm proud of you.
[cell phone chimes]
What was that?
- A bird, maybe, or something like that--
- Austin, what was that?
- My iPad.
- Austin, what is wrong with you?
- Why would you hide that? - You had it this whole time?
- He said phones.
- Give it to me. Give me the iPad.
- [sighs] Okay. - Hand it over.
Thank you.
[percussive beat]
♪ ♪
[laughing]
Okay, all right, we're good to go.
Let's go. Come on, come on.
Oh, my gosh, Austin.
♪ ♪
- Gabrielle
is my name.
- Gabrielle.
All right. [chuckles]
- I'm gonna get one of those fancy drinks
you were talking about earlier.
You still out?
- [sighs]
Yeah. [chuckles]
Yeah, I'm still out.
- Are you one of those doctors
that think you're too good for nurses, or--
- No, no, no. [chuckles]
No, uh, I'm just one of those
doctors who's pushing 40,
and I'm nowhere near where I thought I'd be
outside this hospital.
I'm looking for something more permanent.
- Mm.
- You know, and I have been for a long time.
- How is that going for you?
- So bad.
- [laughs]
- [laughing] So bad, you wouldn't believe it.
- See? Maybe you have just been
going about it all wrong.
- How is that?
- All I'm gonna say is
it's surprising how much fun you can have in eight weeks.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
♪ ♪
- You know what?
I think I owe you and your grabby hand an apology,
because this morning, when I was trying to make
your smoothie, you kept trying to help me,
and I didn't let you.
But I should've,
because helping is everything.
Right?
That's what-- - Yeah.
- Yeah, that's what family does.
And you...
You're all the family I got.
Maybe that's why I get so...scared.
[chuckles]
But the world has been reminding me that--
that fear isn't something
that goes away.
It's just something you face, right?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, so remember when I said
that blenders were for big people?
- Yeah?
- That was silly, 'cause you are big.
You're the biggest.
That's why you are gonna make a smoothie right now--
all by yourself. - Yeah.
- You ready? - Yeah.
- ♪ We were walking so long, I forgot ♪
["Way I Go" by Gordi]
♪ Where we were going ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Found a place we did not recognise ♪
♪ And I ♪
♪ I'm all right not knowing ♪
- All right, you wanna do the milk?
- Yeah. - Kay, you get the milk.
- ♪ Hallucinating with the morning light ♪
- You got it! Keep going!
Oh!
A little more milk.
Perfect. Okay.
What's next?
- Strawberry. - Strawberries?
- Yeah. - Okay, get 'em in there.
Here, yeah, how 'bout two at a time?
[mimics explosion]
Oh, two. Yeah!
What's next?
What?
♪ ♪
Good job!
All right, time for some fairy dust.
There you go. You gonna put it in there?
No!
You little scrunchkin'!
All right, ready? One more in there.
Pew. Whoa, that was a throw.
- ♪ I feel heavily ♪
- Kay, you ready?
Last step, lid.
Oh.
- Yeah.
- All right, give it a shot.
[blender whirring]
Oh, yes!
We did it!
Yeah!
Yeah! What?
- ♪ You're the way I go ♪