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New Amsterdam Season 5 Episode 5 Recap “Grabby Hands”

Don’t miss Celebrity Myxer’s recap of New Amsterdam Season 5 Episode 5 “Grabby Hands.” Max endeavors to save a nurse who has become the subject of a dangerous malpractice probe. Reynolds goes the extra mile to help a group of patients who are being poisoned in their own building. Bloom makes a startling admission to her sister. Here’s what you missed!

Air Date & Time: Tuesday, October 18, 2022, at 10 pm ET, 9 pm CT, and 7 pm PT on NBC.

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Watch New Amsterdam Season 5 Episode 5 “Grabby Hands”

Previously on New Amsterdam Season 5 Episode 4, Max mandates a personal health day for the staff at New Amsterdam and meets with surprising resistance. Reynolds finds himself intrigued by a persuasive new member of the staff. Bloom struggles with job stress after being taken off an essential medication. Iggy goes on his first date. Max convinces Wilder to get much-needed surgery.

Warning… Spoilers below!

On the Final Season of New Amsterdam Season 5 Episode 5 “Grabby Hands”, Max and Luna are making food in the kitchen and Luna has a severe case of grabby hands. She grabs the top off the blender, making a mess. When she grabs a butcher knife, she cuts her finger and Max tells her that she is coming to work with him today.

Max and Luna on New Amsterdam Season 5 Episode 5. Photo by: Eric Liebowitz/NBC.

Max and Luna on New Amsterdam Season 5 Episode 5. Photo by: Eric Liebowitz/NBC.

Open Season

Lauren and Vanessa are hungover and reminiscing about their childhood. Lauren still hasn’t told Vanessa about her sobriety and agrees to get drunk again after work tonight. Iggy is taking his Therapy Group on a field trip to enjoy nature and instead, they are all on their cell phones and not paying attention at all. Iggy takes away all their phones. 

3 patients arrive at the ER, at the same time, all suffering from sodium nitrate poisoning. Floyd is desperate to help discover who is poisoning the tenants. Nurse Andrea is being prosecuted for murder after one of her patients dies on the table. Max warns the staff that it is open season on nurses. 

When Floyd tapes off the poisoned apartments, the other tenants overwhelm him with all the medical issues they have had since living in the building. The teenagers in Iggy’s Therapy Group are throwing a fit about not having their phones and refusing to go on the hike without them. Iggy gives up his phone and tells them that they will survive the 90-minute hike. 

Slumlord

Nurse after nurse is arrested and prosecuted for murder. Nobody wants to work at New Amsterdam anymore. The nurses that stay are being overly cautious. Max finds the District Attorney and explains that New Amsterdam can’t take any more patients on, as the nurses are quitting. The DA lets Max know that Andrea took a 10-year plea deal. 

Iggy and his Therapy Group get lost in the woods, They find a sign for a map of the trails but you need a QR Reader to access the map. Nobody has a cell phone, including Iggy. Floyd makes a deal with the building’s landlord. The landlord will fix all the repairs, but the tenants will need to pay 50% more rent. The tenants are not having it and tell Floyd that the landlord should have already had the building up to code. 

Iggy and the kids are cold, lost, and scared as it begins pouring down on them. Iggy is beginning to really worry. Lauren comes home with the drinks for the night, but Vanessa is angry when she finds Lauren’s three-year chip. She kicks Lauren out and blames Lauren for leaving when she was only 9 when Lauren turned 18. Vanessa rushes off to get her fix, leaving Lauren devastated. 

Elizabeth returns after hand surgery on New Amsterdam Season 5 Episode 5. Photo by: Eric Liebowitz/NBC.

Elizabeth returns after hand surgery on New Amsterdam Season 5 Episode 5. Photo by: Eric Liebowitz/NBC.

Loyalty

Elizabeth tells Max that she has something to show him. She brings him inside and shows him that the nurses who have stayed, are staying for good. Floyd convinces the tenants to group together and buy the building for themselves. Iggy apologizes for not believing in his Therapy Group enough. He reminds the kids that they are stronger than he thinks and they know. When a notification sound goes off, Iggy is disappointed and happy to find out that Austin has brought his iPad.

Gabrielle, the traveling nurse, who caught Floyd’s eye, asks him out for a drink. Floyd declines, saying he is looking for something more serious. Gabrielle convinces him to come out, saying they can have a lot of fun in 8 weeks. Max teaches Luna about kitchen safety and recognizes that it’s hard watching her grow up.

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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
  • Conner Marx as Ben Meyer

Guest Cast

  • Nora and Opal Clow as Luna
  • Kathryn Prescott as Vanessa Bloom
  • Anna Orlova as Nurse Andrea
  • Toya Turner as Gabrielle

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 6, Max goes on a mission to make New York safer! 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: Ralph Bavaro/NBC/NBCUniversal Media, LLC.

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