Dada, hi.
Later, Daddy!
That's from last week.
One recording doesn't prove he's a present father.
How about 100?
My client records one of these almost every day.
I've made a supercut. The judge will love it.
You don't want to take this before a judge.
You're right.
They'll throw us right out their chamber.
The standard for grandparents to claim custody
over a willing parent demands evidence
of deprivation, addiction, or abuse.
He fails to meet the standard of fitness
set by Barnett v. Jeffries.
Barnett? Are you kidding me?
What judge will believe that a widower doctor
who still wears his wedding ring
and sings his daughter to sleep every night is unfit?
- He is unfit. - No.
Advise your client that Dr. Goodwin
is showing extraordinary compassion
by not pursuing charges for her reckless disruption of custody.
No, those voice recordings are beautiful,
but you only made them
because you don't see Luna for days at a time.
Dr. Goodwin has a very important job.
Well, you could leave it.
You could work fewer hours, but you choose work over Luna
at every opportunity even when it meant
sending her away for months.
You work in a hospital.
You've brought a child into the middle of a plague
to make yourself feel more like a father.
You were in a recovery ward for days
because you exposed yourself to toxic chemicals.
Did you stop to think about Luna then?
I think about her every moment of every day.
About protecting her,
but no one will be safe until everyone is,
So that is a lot of people that...
You saw a room full of poison,
and you ran right in.
You were thinking of Luna?
You nearly orphaned her.
Her mother is dead.
Luna will never remember her,
and if you died, all she'd have is voice memos.
The sound of some dead stranger who loved her,
just not enough to put her first.
Georgia died in your care
knowing she never came first.
She was our daughter.
We're not letting that happen to our granddaughter.
Maybe you're right.
Maybe she is better off with you.
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- What are you doing? - Oh, um, I'm...
- Looking at my stuff. - Mina, I am so sorry.
I was putting the laundry away, and...
That's fine, but I need to work now.
- College applications. - Oh.
I didn't know that you were applying early.
I have friends at NYU. Sarah Lawrence and...
- No, no, it's fine. - Are you sure?
I'm not staying in New York, probably not even the country.
Well, I went to Cambridge.
Maybe I can write you a letter of...
- No. - Recommendation.
Thank you.
Here.
You still have a fever, babe.
Oh.
I can't stay home again today.
There's too many people that need my help.
And they'll still need your help tomorrow.
Be grateful it's just the flu.
Ah, so I'm gonna drop the kids off at my mom's,
and then I'll be down in my office.
You want anything?
Yeah, a stronger immune system.
I need a full workup in an hour.
I need your advice,
but you can't make any of it about you.
Only you would ask for a favor
by opening with an insult.
There's this woman I've been spending time with,
a coworker, and it's become a bit of a situation.
Please, half my ED is sleeping
with at least one other person in the building.
It's fine.
- She's married. - Oh.
- It's an open marriage. - Dr. Bloom?
Not now. You come.
Okay, go.
I don't know how it got to this.
- Our chemistry's insane. - Yeah?
And honestly, I just can't stop thinking about her.
Now, I'm not down for the polyamorous thing,
but it feels kind of weird
hanging out as friends with this secret attraction.
Well, it's not a secret.
It's keeping something complicated to yourself
to protect the other person.
Well, can't do that, and I'm seeing her tonight,
so please tell me how to end it
before I fall off this cliff and somebody gets hurt.
Huh,
why does this sound familiar?
- I knew it. - Right, right,
because it's exactly what you did with us.
You start something that you've already decided
doesn't have a future, so even though it's great,
you're gonna torch it.
Well, because it's not what I wanted.
Look, I never wavered on that...
A traditional marriage, a Black family.
Yet you let Evie go.
Look, Floyd, I know that you like to think of yourself
as this man who walks the path,
but you keep ending up on the cliffs.
- Incoming. - I don't know.
Maybe it's because you really want to jump.
Five-year-old Kiri Almeida. Status: Post heart transplant.
Increasing shortness of breath. Pulse...
She's got a congenital heart defect.
Had four heart surgeries and a transplant last year.
They have her file. You can read everything.
- Hey, Dr. Reynolds. - Ted, Madeline, what happened?
Kiri can't breathe.
Oh, Kir, I thought we agreed, no more emergencies.
- Let's type and cross. - Well, she's AB.
Kiri's been my patient since she was born.
Well, could she be rejecting the heart?
I have to do a biopsy.
- But could she? - Yes.
The question is how badly.
Book an OR and page Dr. Sharpe for a biopsy.
80-year-old man found in St. Vartan's Park
with extremely high blood sugar
and altered sense of consciousness.
Alert and orientated times zero.
Sir, can you hear me?
Okay, let's run a chem 7, CBC with diff,
and let's get a blood tox screen stat.
- Got it. - And who is next?
She's had so many risky surgeries.
Yeah, it's all standard protocol.
- I know, but for a child? - Extracting heart sample now.
Prepare to withdraw the catheter.
Yes, Dr. Reynolds.
Heart rate holding steady at 75 BPM.
What's the severity of the rejection?
It's 2R? 3R?
Ox at 95.
Dopamine and vasopressin all 4.
Zero.
Zero?
There's no evidence that she's rejecting the heart.
Then what the hell's causing her symptoms?
- Tox screen's crazy. - Is that dioxin?
Who gets poisoned with dioxin?
Dioxin poisoning was a favorite of the KGB.
Yeah, didn't we agree
that we'd leave our nerd interests at home?
Oh, Cold War era spy craft is the opposite
of nerdy. It's awesome.
And the Cold War is also, you know, over.
Yeah, but the KGB players didn't just disappear.
Man, everyone knows that they're the guys
who poisoned Viktor Yushchenko in 2004.
And now I'm worried that you're serious.
This man is our patient, not a Russian spy.
Sounds like Russian to me.
Reed?
Max.
Please don't tell me that we're short on vaccines again.
- I can't take that today. - No, no, we have the vaccines.
Problem is, they've been thawing all night.
This freezer's dead.
- How many are in there? - 1,000.
- We're gonna have to toss 'em. - Toss 1,000 vaccines?
Unless you have a Ferrari
and plan on delivering them door-to-door.
Max! That was a joke!
Max.
We are not tossing 1,000 vaccines.
Too many people still need them.
We need to make it safe for everyone.
I'm sure we'll get some walk-ins.
- Take 'em to the prison ward. - Vaccinated.
Homeless clinic across the street.
Vaccinated. Everyone in our system
who's wanted the shot has gotten it.
Max, that's good news.
- Uh, when do they expire? - Six hours.
- Okay, now, that's good. - No, that's actually bad.
Not if we move quickly.
I will post on the hospital's website.
You hit up social media.
If we've got six hours to give out 1,000 shots,
then let's get 1,000 people in here now.
Thank you.
Oh.
The kids make it to your mom's okay?
Please don't be mad.
- Reed. - Hmm.
- What is this? - Great response.
We've already administered 50 doses,
and the line's growing.
Most of these people look like
they just stepped out of a country club.
I literally saw a guy checking his stock portfolio.
No, it's wrong, okay?
We need to get this vaccine
to the people who need it the most,
the ones who don't have access to it.
This isn't our patient base.
Our patient base can't just leave their jobs
because they got an email.
Our patient base probably isn't on Twitter.
- I am so sorry, Reed. - Why?
Because you're gonna have to apologize to all these people.
Why am I gonna to have to apologize?
Because I'm taking these vaccines.
Come on, man.
Max, what you're doing right now
seems kind of crazy.
We need to get this vaccine to the people
who can't come to the hospital or won't,
to the holdouts and to the communities
who are literally dying at twice the rate
because they're being vaccinated at half the pace.
But the people who showed up...
Can be rescheduled.
If they can show up at a moment's notice today,
they'll have no problem showing up tomorrow.
Please don't do this.
Reed, no one is safe until everyone is safe.
These vaccines expire in six hours.
Four.
How are we feeling, Mr. Osheyevsky?
- Leave me alone. - Look, I have to ask.
Do you have any idea how something as toxic
as dioxin ended up in your bloodstream?
They want me dead.
Who wants you dead, Mr. Osheyevsky?
Dr. Bloom? Mr. Osheyevsky's son is here.
- Okay. - I don't have a son.
Dr. Mendez to ER 1.
Okay.
Uh,
have Mr. Osheyevsky's visitor tested,
and I will meet him in the waiting area.
Will do, Dr. Bloom.
Casey, move Mr. Osheyevsky to the procedure room.
Close the blinds and stay with him until further notice.
- You think he's in danger? - Just as a precaution.
Sweet.
Oh, the exhibit sounds exceptional.
It is.
I love Magritte anyway, but the Briton stuff...
Sorry. I'll wait in your office?
No, no, no, no, no, no, Mina, come join us.
This is Alex Dorsett.
She's on our board at the hospital.
Hello, Mina. Your aunt's been telling me all about you.
As I mentioned, Alex is on our board,
but she also happens to be the undergraduate dean
of Columbia University.
M... um, s...
Mina?
I told you I wasn't staying in New York.
Yeah, it doesn't hurt just to...
You invited me here for lunch.
This is an ambush.
No, this is me caring about you and wanting to help you.
I already told you I don't want your help.
No, you told me
that you don't want me writing you a letter.
Because letters are supposed to come from people
who know you.
You obviously don't know me at all.
Well, Kiri's chest X-ray
and CT scans aren't what I hoped for.
- Her lungs seem to be failing. - Why?
I don't know yet, but we started her
on a cocktail of antibiotics to help fight infection.
At least she's not rejecting the heart.
That's your takeaway?
Just trying to find something to hold on to, Ted.
Kiri.
- Honey. - I'm sorry.
Oh, it's okay, baby.
- Oh. - Floyd?
Excuse me.
Kiri, does this hurt?
Okay, just relax.
- It's okay. - What's happening?
Her liver is failing as well.
I went to the hospital to see you,
but I found out you were sick, and I got scared
because I really need to talk to you.
You need to talk to me about what?
This.
A restraining order's pretty harsh, Dr. Frome.
And you're violating it right now...
And you need to leave.
But...
but don't you want me to get better?
Of course I want you to get better.
But I can't help you.
And you need to leave right now,
or I will call the police.
Sit down!
You're gonna help me.
Dr. Frome, I need you to help me.
I'm not better.
You promised I'd get better, but you lied.
- Chance, please. - My father lied too.
He said he wouldn't hurt me,
but... he did.
And when I cried, he called me weak
and damaged goods,
and...
no one in the house would help me.
No one, which is why I did what I did.
Chance, your family died in a fire...
that you set by accident.
Guys, I'm telling you,
this vaccine is so worth it, okay?
We don't even know who you are.
Sorry, I told you
I'm the medical director at New Amsterdam.
- New Amsterdam? - Yeah.
You guys tried to sue me when I was late on my bill.
No, no, we don't do that anymore.
Tuskegee, Henrietta Lacks, antebellum.
You've had a lifetime to earn my trust,
and you never even tried. Why should I trust you now?
Sickle cell anemia screenings,
forced sterilization, night doctors.
So you want to give me one shot now,
another in four weeks,
and then I got to come back in for a booster?
I got no money. I got no house.
All I got is a history of you killing us,
and I still got the vaccine.
Wait? You did?
I don't trust you, but I trust the science.
I got the shot last month.
Save your breath. I'm already vaccinated.
Even though you sued me,
I still got the vaccine from you.
I hear there are soldiers refusing the shot.
I hear there's doctors and nurses
- that don't want the vaccine. - Heard that too.
If you're looking for holdouts,
you should check your own backyard.
- Ben Osheyevsky? - Yes, hi.
- Hi. - How's my father?
Can I see some ID?
Of course.
Oh, I must have left my wallet in the car.
My wife couldn't find a parking spot,
so I just hopped out and ran.
Is he okay?
I need to see some ID.
I need to confirm that you're family.
Well, who else would I be?
How did you know that your father was here?
I called every hospital in the city.
Well, my patient is saying that he doesn't have a son.
Well, he does.
Ben, I had to park four blocks away,
and the meter was broken, and then I had to get tested.
You left your wallet.
You thought his dad was a spy?
I know it sounds crazy,
but, well, he said he didn't have a son,
and while I don't usually
suspect my patients of espionage,
this particular drug...
- How was he poisoned? - We don't know yet.
My father was a tailor who spent 50 years
in the garment district. We hardly ever saw him.
If he was a spy,
at least we might have had some cool stories.
I know he's upset
because we've been looking into homes for him,
but he's never wandered off before.
Where is he?
Uh, just give me a second.
What?
First her lungs, then her liver,
- now her kidneys. - Yeah.
I don't want to put Kiri through any more operations,
but that may be our only option.
Will she at least be on the top of the transplant list?
How many more surgeries can she take?
What do you want to do? Nothing?
Okay, guys, can we... Can we go outside?
I just want to make a plan.
And I don't want her to be in any more pain.
Our daughter is going to die, Ted.
Guys, guys.
The only thing that's gonna get you
through this again is each other.
Dr. Malloy, call 247.
We're separated.
Five months now.
Ironic, isn't it?
The first minute that Kiri doesn't have any problems,
we find out that we do.
Excuse me. Sorry.
Dr. Reynolds, can I have a word, please?
Please tell me you have good news.
Our request to put Kiri on the transplant list
has been rejected.
With multiple organ failures,
they don't see her as a viable candidate.
- How are they holding up? - They're not.
They've been through so much together.
I mean, I really thought nothing could break them.
They had the perfect family.
There's no such thing.
So your dad hurt you.
You said that he called you "damaged goods"?
Chance, I can barely get to the bathroom.
I'm not... I'm not gonna run anywhere.
You asked me if I want you to get better.
I do. I really do.
Um, you need to help me. You need to...
My whole family knew what he was doing...
But they still let it happen.
So...
I shouldn't feel guilty for what I did, but...
- I get it. - No, no, you don't.
- You can't! - I do.
How? How?
How can you know what this feels like?
Because...
I killed someone too.
I fully support the vaccine effort.
I think Operation Warp Speed has been a tremendous success.
Thank God. I thought you were gonna say...
- Personally, I didn't get it. - No, Todd, why?
- I've chosen to wait. - Till when?
Everyone you know is dead or dying?
- May I speak freely? - Of course.
Without your liberal condescension?
Maybe.
I have no underlying health issues.
I've been fortunate to primarily work from home,
so I've decided to wait till the end of the line.
But this is the end of the line.
Millions of people have already been safely vaccinated.
To keep waiting now would just be insane.
It would be crazy. It would be...
I'm sorry. I tried.
Whatever happened to my body, my choice?
Well, it's not just your body.
Not getting the vaccine could hurt someone else...
My daughter.
- Fair point. - Really?
Sure, I'm pretty open-minded, unlike some people I know.
- Fair point. - Look.
All I'm saying is that a lot of the conservatives
that I work with still have questions.
Conservatives are here in this hospital?
I hate to burst your bubble.
- Unvaccinated? - Some.
Who?
Are you asking me to name names?
No, uh... no, Todd.
We're never gonna have herd immunity,
we're never gonna be safe until everyone is vaccinated.
But I'm not part of a herd.
I'm an individual
allowed to make individual decisions
for my own health care.
But you were also a soldier,
part of a unit.
You fought alongside other people whose beliefs
and opinions may have been different than yours,
but you fought as one.
That's all I'm asking you to do.
I have 1,000 vaccines ready to go
and only one hour to deliver them
to I don't know who, so I'm asking you, please,
to round up as many holdouts as you can
and meet me in the conference room.
I'm asking you to fight with me...
So we can try to get back some of what we lost.
I have been looking all over for you.
Casey, what the hell is going on?
What's going on is that I was right.
Mr. Osheyevsky is a spy. Well, was a spy.
- You're serious? - And not just a regular spy.
I'm talking, like, a KGB double agent for the CIA.
It's the best day of my life.
Could you, uh, give us a minute?
Oh, for sure.
I'll be the lookout.
KGB, huh?
The dioxin was yours.
I would rather die
than be sent to some home like my son wants.
I am nothing but a burden to him.
Is it possible that he feels that way
because he never really knew who you were?
It was my job to keep secrets.
I understand...
But is it still?
Dr. Reynolds?
- Where are we? - She's in respiratory arrest.
- O2 stats are down to 84. - I'm gonna intubate.
- Prepping intubation kit now. - Oh, baby.
I don't know what's happening.
Your body's not rejecting your heart.
No, just everything else.
Floyd.
Her blood type, you said it was AB.
Guys, think back to four or five weeks ago.
Did Kiri get sick or...
- I don't think so. - No, she had that stomachache.
About a month ago, but it wasn't...
Lisa, get me tacrolimus and methotrexate.
What's happening?
Hopefully Kiri's more extraordinary than I thought.
Okay, what do you see?
Okay, it looks like she had E. Coli,
but this complication is so rare...
- But? - We were right.
Her blood type's changed.
- She's not AB anymore. - Nope.
She is type O, same as her new heart.
Which explains why her body's rejecting
everything but the heart, so if I bombard her
with immunosuppressants...
Go!
Go take care of our girl.
- Max? - Todd?
Come in.
Wow, everybody, come on in.
Uh, you can get set up right here.
Thank you all for coming. But seriously, thank you.
You're welcome.
Uh, okay, everyone just... Let's form a line,
and we'll be with you in one second.
Thank you so much. Okay, we're gonna do this.
Okay, there we go.
Um, you're the man, Todd.
You'll just feel a little pinch.
Max?
Yeah.
- Don't say it. - Max, I'm sorry, but...
Max?
I'm sorry, sir. We're too late.
I don't understand.
These vaccines have expired. They're no good anymore.
Just now?
But a minute can't make a difference, can it?
- There are regulations. - I'm sorry, Todd.
Sorry, everyone. We're out of time.
His name was Tobias.
Toby.
He was two years younger than me.
He was definitely the favorite.
He was handsome, confident, skinny.
I was...
I was me.
I could have cured cancer,
and it wouldn't have been enough for our old man.
But Toby, oh, Toby could do no wrong.
He was a golden boy.
So it was prom night,
um, senior year.
And Toby was with Jenny Harmeyer,
queen of the cool kids, and he'd rented a tux
and a limo and the whole show.
Um, I was up watching TV
when they came home late, drunk.
They were kissing and laughing and teasing me.
Making fun of the fat brother.
I just... I hated the way he treated me,
especially in front of other people,
in front of Jenny.
So that night...
I'd had enough, you know?
I called out to our parents upstairs
to wake 'em up,
knowing that he would be busted for drinking.
He was so pissed, but what could he do?
He just... he snatched up our mom's keys off the table,
and they went back out again.
Made it about two blocks before he broadsided a truck.
No seat belts.
They both went through the windshield.
Jenny lived, and Toby died on the way to the hospital.
Iggy!
Oh, I'm gonna go get the kids. You want anything?
Uh...
Yeah, some soup.
Sure, what kind?
Lentil...
from that little place I like on 9th and 11th.
You got it. Okay.
You could have told him I was here.
How would that have helped?
I want to help you.
Tomorrow afternoon, I'm gonna go down to the courthouse,
and I'm gonna get this revoked,
but you have to promise me one thing.
I need you to meet me at my office tomorrow
at 3:00 p.m. sharp...
and we're gonna pick up your treatment
exactly where we left off.
Are you gonna tell anyone I was here?
No.
- Not even Martin? - No, not even Martin.
This is between me and you, okay?
Thank you, Dr. Frome.
Now, go before my family gets back with my soup.
Stop right there! Don't move!
Listen, don't move.
Iggy? Iggy!
I got you. I got you.
You're okay.
I got you. I got you.
Dada.
Dada! Dada, hi.
Hi, Dada.
Hi.
Dada, hi.
Thought I might find you up here.
Dada. Dada.
Dada, hi.
Dada!
Max...
do you want some advice?
I'll take it.
You fight for her, Max.
Fight for her.
It feels like all I do is fight.
This morning, I had 1,000 vaccines
and a line of people ready to take 'em,
and that wasn't enough for me.
I wanted to aim higher, do better,
so because I was stupid...
Nobody got 'em.
Because I had to fight.
That wasn't really a punch line.
When have you ever not wanted all of us to aim higher?
To fight?
It's all a fight.
Luna, Mina...
vaccines, this hospital...
Us.
If you don't have to fight for it,
it's 'cause it's not worth it.
- Wow. - Good start.
Mm.
- Mm. - Want to take it slow?
Nah.
I want to take you right here.
But knowing you're with another man...
I don't know.
Maybe the type of relationship I want doesn't exist anymore.
Maybe it never did.
And even though my body
is telling me to just let go and jump...
I can't.
You were right.
We don't know each other, and that's on me.
I keep hammering on at you to open up,
but that has to go both ways.
I don't like talking about myself.
? When the waters rise
Especially about...
about painful things.
But that can leave me quite alone.
Perhaps you're a little like that too?
That's your grandfather. My father.
And he died when you were three.
When did you know?
Well, you hate lentil soup,
and you used the safe word from my practice.
- 9th and 11th. - 911, not too subtle.
How did you...
keep him calm, from hurting you?
I told him about my brother.
What, how he died in Iraq?
I gave Chance...
everything.
I gave him every part of me.
I just wanted him to get better,
but it was never enough.
So I made up a story.
I lied,
and it worked.
I don't know what that says about me.
I don't know what that says about me as a human being
or as a therapist.
I don't know.
It says you finally put yourself first...
And that's a good thing.
I'm an addict.
I mean, I'm in recovery...
but I'm always gonna be an addict.
I know.
I, uh... I've been with women before,
like, a few times,
never in a relationship.
I know that too.
I can't cook, like, at all.
I mean, like, I would burn this entire place down
if I even tried.
That, I kind of guessed.
I don't want there to be any secrets between us.
- I think I know everything. - You don't.
The thing is, I wish I...
I never told you before...
I love you.
Max, what are you doing here?
I thought to call, but then I realized
what I had to say needed to be said in person.
Everything that you said this morning is true.
I'm not a perfect father, and I never will be,
- but I am a good father... - Max...
And I will be better tomorrow and the day after that,
and you know who loved that part of me
more than anyone? It was your daughter.
And I get the pain of losing her.
I really do,
but she would never want Luna to be without her dad.
If you want to go to court, we can,
but you'll lose.
And when that happens,
I will walk out of that courtroom,
and you will never see Luna again.
And I don't want that...
for Luna, for you...
for Georgia...
Because she knew so clearly...
what you clearly don't.
And that is that I will never stop fighting for my daughter.
I will fight for her until the day I die...
And I'm here to take her home.
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