New Amsterdam
Tuesdays 10:00 PM on NBCNew Amsterdam Season 3 Episode 13: "Fight Time " Quotes
Gwen: Those voice recordings are beautiful, but you only made them because you don't see Luna for days at a time.
Lawyer: Dr. Goodwin has a very important job.
Gwen: 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 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?
Max: 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.
Calvin: You saw a roomful of poison and 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'll 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.
Max: Maybe you're right. Maybe she is better off with you.
Floyd: I need your advice, but you can't make it about you.
Lauren: Only you would ask for advice by opening with an insult.
Lauren: You start something that you've already decided doesn't have a future so even though it's great, you're going to torch it.
Floyd: Because it's not what I wanted. I never wavered on that. A traditional marriage. A Black family.
Lauren: Yet you let Evie go. Look, Floyd, I know you think of yourself as the man who walks the path, but you keep ending up on the cliffs. I don't know, maybe it's because you want to jump.
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.
Max
Chance: 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...
Iggy: I get it.
Chance: No, no you can't.
Iggy: I do.
Chance: How? How can you know what this feels like?
Iggy: Because I killed someone too.
Todd: I fully support the vaccine effort. I think Operation Warp Speed has been a tremendous success.
Max: Thank God, I though you were gonna say--
Todd: Personally, I didn't get it.
Max: No, Todd. Why?
Todd: I've chosen to wait.
Max: 'Til when everyone you know is dead or dying?
Todd: May I speak freely?
Max: Of course.
Todd: Without your Liberal condescension?
Max: ... Maybe.
Todd: I have no underlying health issues. I've been fortunate to primarily work from home. So, I've decided to wait until the end of the line.
Max: This is the end of the line. Millions of people have already been safely vaccinate. To keep waiting now would just be insane, it would be crazy, it -- I'm sorry, I tried.
Todd: Whatever happened to my body, my choice?
Max: Well, it's not just your body. Not getting the vaccine could hurt someone else. Me, my daughter.
Todd: Fair point.
Max: Really?
Todd: Sure. I'm pretty open-minded. Unlike some people I know.
Max: Fair point.
Todd: Look, all I'm saying is a lot of the Conservatives that I work with still have questions.
Max: Conservatives are here in this hospital?
Todd: I hate to burst your bubble.
Niku: I would rather die than be sent to some home like my son wants. I'm nothing but a burden to him.
Lauren: Is it possible that he feels that way because he never really knew who you were?
Niku: It was my job to keep secrets
Lauren: I understand, but is it still?
Helen: Max, you want some advice?
Max: I'll take it.
Helen: You fight for her, Max. You fight for her.
Max: I feel like all I do is fight. This morning, I had 1000 vaccines and a line of people ready to take them, 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 punchline.
Helen: 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 want to fight for it, it's because it's not worth it.
Lyn: You wanna take it slow?
Floyd: I want to take you, right here.
Iggy: I gave Chance everything in 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 and as a therapist.
Martin: It says you finally put yourself first, and that's a good thing.
Lauren: I'm an addict. I mean, um, I'm in recovery, but I'm always going to be an addict.
Layla: I know.
Lauren: I've been with women before, and few times, but never in a relationship.
Layla: I know that, too.
Lauren: I can't cook, at all. I mean I would burn this entire place down if I even tried.
Layla: That, I kinda guessed.
Lauren: I don't want there to be any secrets between us.
Layla: I think I know everything.
Lauren: You don't. The thing is I wish I never told you before. I love you.
