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New Amsterdam Season 5 Episode 2 Recap “Hook, Line And Sinker”

Don’t miss Celebrity Myxer’s recap of New Amsterdam Season 5 Episode 2 “Hook, Line, and Sinker.” Max tests a bold new cost-saving program that could help both New Amsterdam and its neediest patients. Wilder struggles with a patient’s decision to refuse life-saving surgery. Reynolds comes to an important realization about his father’s behaviors. Iggy takes the leap into online dating. Here’s what you missed!

Air Date & Time: September 27, 2022, at 10 pm ET, 9 pm CT, and 7 pm PT.

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Watch New Amsterdam Season 5 Episode 2 “Hook, Line, and Sinker”

Previously on New Amsterdam Season 5 Episode 1 Premiere, Bloom, Iggy, and Reynolds rally around Max as he deals with the fallout from Helen’s decision. Bloom gives extra space to Leyla, but she’s in for a surprise. Reynolds and Wilder help a young terminal patient realize his dream to star in a Bollywood show. Iggy has a breakthrough with a challenging patient.

Warning… Spoilers below!

On New Amsterdam Season 5 Episode 2, Iggy just wants to be in love again and makes a video for a dating app.

No, Thank You

Max watches Elizabeth and her interpreter signing and realizes that he does not know how to communicate with Elizabeth without an interpreter. Floyd’s father surprises him at work and asks him to go fishing. Floyd says he doesn’t have time, but Iggy convinces him to go.

Mark and Lauren are discussing Leyla’s visa being approved when Lauren catches an intern trying to give a patient his own money. Canaan Ochoa comes in with multiple injuries from being thrown from a vehicle.

Elizabeth is checking Canaan out and said his arteries are about to rupture, and he will die immediately if they do. Elizabeth can save his life if she can amputate his arm, and Canaan refuses the surgery.

Mentally Competent?

Horace and Floyd sneak past a no-trespassing sign to find a good fishing spot. Elizabeth explains that the amputation surgery will save Canaan’s life, but he refuses it. She wants Iggy to declare Canaan mentally incompetent so she can perform the amputation. Iggy explains that Cannon is the starting pitcher for the Brooklyn Cyclones.

Max meets with Karen and the board about a new idea he has to save the hospital money. He asks for a one-day trial for his pilot prescription program, and Karen agrees.

Iggy speaks to Canaan to determine if he’s mentally competent and Canaan knows what he’s doing. Iggy tells Elizabeth that she cannot do the surgery. Mike, a fireman, brings in a teenager who jumps off of a bridge. As soon as Mark goes to leave, he collapses.

Dry Drowning

The patients are lining up to try Max’s new pilot prescription program. When the ATM runs out of cash, Max notices just how many people are still in line waiting.

As Floyd and Horace fish, Horace yells, run, and takes off. Floyd follows immediately behind his dad. Lauren and Max are working on Mike when Lauren realizes that he is dry drowning and needs to be intubated immediately!

Iggy and Elizabeth argue about what is more important; patients’ rights or saving their lives. Iggy warns Elizabeth that if she performs the surgery, she will lose her medical license. Elizabeth walks out and orders Canaan’s surgery.

Prescribing Preventative Care

Elizabeth tries to reason with Canaan about his surgery and uses her loss of hearing and determination to show that you can overcome and even become better.

Floyd and Horace argue after Homeland Security chase them away from their fishing spot. Horace gets upset and heads back to go fishing all alone, and Floyd leaves in an Uber.

Iggy hasn’t got any activity on his dating app and is feeling upset. The board doesn’t like Max’s idea of not writing real scripts and giving the patient money to help solve issues by prescribing preventative care. Karen shuts the pilot program down even though it’s saved the hospital $100,000 in less than a day.

Mike passes away on the table as Lauren and Mark were working on him. Lauren has to tell his partner that they lost him.

Family In Need

Floyd tells Iggy all about his fishing trip with his father. Iggy explains to Floyd that Horace might have bipolar disorder. Max gets a new idea for the pilot program when he witnesses a stranger give away money to an elderly woman who needed it.

Canaan agrees to the surgery, which is successful. Max shows Karen that he developed a sponsor program where the community can donate the items needed for the preventative care prescription program. Karen agrees and sponsors a patient.

Iggy comes home as Martin is leaving, and they talk for the first time in a long time about how bad Iggy is at being single. Martin helps Iggy with his dating app and then leaves.

When Lauren heads to her sister’s house to pick up the items left there, she realizes how bad off her sister really is. Lauren asks her sister if she can stay there for a while. Max uses butchered sign language to say thank you to Elizabeth. Elizabeth teaches Max the right way to sign friends.

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New Amsterdam Cast

  • Ryan Eggold as Dr. Max Goodwin
  • Freema Agyeman as Dr. Helen Sharpe
  • Janet Montgomery as Dr. Lauren Bloom
  • Tyler Labine as Dr. Iggy Frome
  • Jocko Sims as Dr. Floyd Reynolds
  • Alejandro Hernandez as Casey Acosta
  • Sandra Mae Frank as Dr. Elizabeth Wilder
  • Michelle Forbes as Dr. Veronica Fuentes
  • Frances Turner as Dr. Lyn Malvo
  • Genevieve Angelson as Dr. Mia Castries
  • Matthew Jeffers as Chief Res. Dr. Mark Walsh

Guest Cast

  • Kathryn Prescott as Vanessa Bloom
  • Conner Marx as Ben Meyer
  • Patrick Cage II as Canaan Ochoa
  • John Earl Jelks as Horace

Catch a new episode each week on NBC, check out the listing dates below. Stay right here, stay mixed in for New Amsterdam Season 5 Episode 3, an explosion at a wedding ceremony sends a stream of injured partygoers into New Amsterdam! Drop your email to get insights into your inbox…

New Amsterdam Season 5 Episode Guide

Season Episode Title Air Date
5 13 How Can I Help?” (Series Finale Part 2) January 17, 2023
5 12 Right Place” (Series Finale Part 1) January 17, 2023
5 11 Falling” Winter Premiere January 3, 2023
5 10 Don't Do This for Me” Back to back Midseason Finale November 22, 2022
5 9 The Empty Spaces” Back to back Midseason Finale November 22, 2022
5 8 All the World's a Stage... November 15, 2022
5 7 Maybe Tomorrow November 1, 2022
5 6 Give Me a Sign October 25, 2022
5 5 Grabby Hands October 18, 2022
5 4 Heal Thyself October 11, 2022
5 3 Big Day October 4, 2022
5 2 Hook, Line and Sinker September 27, 2022
5 1 Episode 1” New Amsterdam Season 5 Premiere September 20, 2022

Photo credit: Eric Liebowitz/NBC

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