New Amsterdam
Tuesdays 10:00 PM on NBCNew Amsterdam Season 3 Episode 7: "The Legend Of Howie Cournemeyer" Quotes
Iggy: I think it's time that I start to feel like I'm good enough on my own. I want to look in this mirror, and I want to see someone good enough.
Martin: You are more than good enough. You're beautiful.
Max: I can't do this on my own.
Sandra: Max, I don't think you're supposed to.
You know the gay blood ban, it's not just policy, it's hate.
Max
Ella: That's what you do, Dr. Frome, you just go around saving souls.
Iggy: Well, I learned from the best.
Are you kidding me? You used the science of HIV to put someone back in the closet?
Lauren
Andre: In 1986, this hospital needed blood. As so many did. But sexually active gay men were banned from donating it in this country, even if they knew they were HIV negative.
Max: It's not Helm's fault. It was the way the world was then.
Andre: Gay man can't donate convalescence plasma for COVID right now, so you tell me, what exactly changed? I was a gay HIV negative man, my friends were dying, they needed blood, I couldn't donate, I was the head of the damn blood bank. You know what that feels like? A person has to do something. Has to act.
Max: Like Howie Cournemier?
Andre: Howie was fearless. I never met him, but God was he inspiring. He made it so simple. Just do something. Act up. And I did.
Max: You had gay men hide their identities and donate using Howie's name.
Andre: That's the best thing to do during a plague. Give. Help. I got to see scared men going from helpless to heroes drop by drop. Until...
Max: Helm found out.
Andre: He said he'd fire me, my staff, too. Howie Cornemeir wouldn't have stopped fighting, but I needed my job. So I shut the program down, and that's something I have to live with for the rest of my life.
Max: You refilled this hospital's blood bank in under a month, during a pandemic. You're a hero.
Andre: Yet you honor the man who made me a coward. The world is burning, Dr. Goodwin. And you spend your day hunting me down for me defacing a photograph? Shame then. Shame now.
That's why I stole the New Amsterdam seal. That's why I encased it in a giant condom, and that's why I am never giving it back.
You shouldn't have to repent o someone who abandoned you, not when you needed him the most.
Reynolds
Dr. Kapoor just resigned. He's not coming back ever.
Agnes
Bloom: Kwame, I'm sure it's not the results you wanted, but HIV is not a death sentence anymore.
Kwame: That test is wrong!
She's teething, she's not a felon.
Max
