New Amsterdam
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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.
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.
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?
Max: I thought to call, but then I realized what I had to say needed to be said in person. Everything you said this morning is true. I'm not a perfect father, and I never will be, but I am a good father.
Gwen: Max...
Max: And I will be better tomorrow and the day after that, and you know who loved that part of me more than anyone? Your daughter. And I get the pain of losing her, I really do. But she never wanted Luna to be without her dad. If you want to go to court, we can, but you will 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. Becuse she knew so clearly what you clearly don't, and that is I will never stop fighting for my daughter. I will fight for her until the day I die, and I am here to take her home.
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.
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.
Lyn: You wanna take it slow?
Floyd: I want to take you, right here.
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.
You were there, weren't you? I'm sorry. That sometimes, it takes me a minute. To remember. What matters. More than anything ...you.
Max
Helen: Can you see?
Max: I see you.
My son, he's my miracle, but sometimes I, sometimes I wish he hadn't been born.
Mother
Lauren: You can't go to Mt. Zion. I can't do this without you. You know that, right?
Casey: Yeah. I'm not going anywhere.
