New Amsterdam

I gotta get this hospital ready for

the worst storm that we've seen in

I don't know how many years.

If you pull me off, won't I die?

If we stay here, you definitely will.

Get me a gurney!

If people can't get to this hospital,

then we need to bring this hospital to them.

Max, as your doctor,

I cannot let you traipse through a storm.

And I will take care of myself

because I love my doctor.

Honey, I'm sorry,

but it's never gonna work out between you and Max.

We need to talk.

This thing between us...

Max.

Uh, we lost power.

Shouldn't the generator be coming on?

Any second.

What's happening?

Um, sorry folks. It appears we lost power,

but the generator should be kicking in shortly.

Is everyone all right?

My baby's cold. C4an I get a blanket?

Newborn?

My husband couldn't get here for her birth,

and we've been discharged.

The insurance company wouldn't let us stay.

It's okay. Here, just take my coat,

and I'll get you a blanket as soon as possible.

- Is the heat coming back on? - Yeah, shortly.

Come on in, guys. Just head right over here.

We're gonna fix this.

- Max. - Yeah?

The generator should have kicked in by now.

The circulatory machines, the ventilators...

Okay, just do a quick status run,

check all the wards, and I'll meet you in the ED.

- No... should someone else... - I'm fine.

You wanted to tell me something.

It can wait.

- Henry. - Dr. Goodwin.

- How many on maintenance tonight? - You're looking at him.

Why isn't the generator coming on?

I'm on my way to find out, but it looks like

the entire lower Manhattan grid is down.

Every minute we're without power...

- No, I get it. - Patients will die.

- Status? - Improvising.

Call it out, April.

Mr. Ayers, blood pressure: 130/75.

Pupils sluggish to react.

We have someone on each of the ventilator patients

working an AMBU bag, taking pulses,

visually monitoring stats and meds...

Uh, what do you need?

Besides power? More people.

Since the storm, we've been working with a skeleton crew.

Thermal socks. We have to clean the feet.

Keep his clothes on for the time being.

No monitor. No suction.

No cautery.

But you still have me, right?

Oh, yeah, holding firm.

Hey, can we get a battery-powered fan?

Reynolds.

It's all good, Dr. Sharpe.

I'm, uh, holding Hugh's heart together with my fingers,

but without power, we've got no cardiopulmonary bypass...

No way to titrate anesthesia.

We can't operate without them.

Max is working on the generator.

All right.

How are you doing, sir?

Oh, you know... meh.

Can I get another micro-insertion kit?

On it.

- - Hey. How you doing in there, Burl?

Get me out of here.

- It's tight! - Yeah.

Hey, guys, is there any way to slide this out

while the power's off?

We're safer with him in the machine.

- Danny, come on. - He's here 'cause

- he attacked a guard. - No, he's not.

He's here because a guard bashed his head in.

- In self-defense. - Oh, give me a...

The guard is my friend. Your patient went off.

Hey, hey, Burl... Burl, listen.

Take a few deep breaths for me, okay, buddy?

- Deep breaths? - We're all in this together.

All right? Burl?

- Iggy. - Yeah.

It's midnight. Why wasn't this scheduled for earlier?

We only bring the prisoners at night, ma'am,

for everyone's safety.

Can you handle this?

Sure, we're all in this together.

Yeah.

Okay, Burl.

Get me out!

- - Oh, um,

- where's that sound coming from? - Elevator?

Can you tell everyone to get to ED? I'll be there in a minute.

- Hello? - Helen?

Vijay?

Yes, I'm here with Dr. Hartman.

You know my name's Clint, right?

- Are you okay? - Yes, we are fine.

You don't look fine. Are you claustrophobic?

Hardly. It's been a very long day,

and I'm stuck in this very small box with you.

Helen, why hasn't the generator kicked in?

- We're working on it. - Keep working on it.

- - What? Talk to me, Henry.

I mean, this thing took a big hit

during Hurricane Sandy.

A lot these parts, they should have been traded out.

- And they weren't? - It doesn't look like it.

I mean, this fuel oil pump is failed,

this main pipe that's still cracked...

So?

So, I could really use some more light down here.

Wait. Wait.

I just remembered something.

I hope it's still here.

This... this could buy us some time.

- What is it? - Emergency battery.

They got it after Sandy.

Is it enough to power the hospital?

No way, but it could cover a floor for an hour.

Okay, we got a battery. That'll buy us

a little breathing room while Henry keeps working.

Reynolds is literally holding a man's heart

- together with his fingers. - Yeah, I understand.

And we got a NICU full of babies

getting colder by the minute.

I can buy us a little juice for one floor for one hour.

Okay, so ICU, ventilators, IV pumps?

- Yes. - Yes?

What do you mean "yes"?

We need to pick one. We need to triage.

- Nope. - Shouldn't we be evacuating?

- No. - To where? How?

In this storm, we can't even get across the street.

Yeah, it's true. She's right.

We're one of the only hospitals with the, um...

I was gonna say "with the lights still on," but...

We could move everybody to the same floor.

- Yes. - That's crazy.

Well, why? We're not at capacity.

- Uh... - Look, it's Helen's idea.

But that's only because you won't let me triage.

No triage. Look, Henry is having difficulty seeing.

Would you grab a flashlight and meet us down there?

Yeah, yes.

- Max. - Huh?

- We cannot... - We will.

Yo, hand me those soft-grip pliers.

Yeah, yeah, you got it.

Going with the soft-grip. Here you go.

So, are you gonna check those rotors or what?

- Yeah, I'm doing it now. - Yeah, cool.

Boom.

- I'm very impressed. - Yeah, are you?

Well, that's what growing up on a farm does for a man.

Teaches him to say "boom" a lot?

- Yeah. - Hmm.

These rotors seem fine,

but the connections are damaged.

- Tweak the rotors. - If I could just

get them to turn a little bit, there might be enough power

left inside the system f...

- - Whoa!

- - Henry!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

One, two, three...

Nothing.

Come on, Henry. Stay with me.

Stay with me, come on. Three... four...

- Come on, Henry. - Five, six...

Seven, either, nine, ten.

No, nothing. Let me get an AED...

No, no, no. There's no time.

Here we go.

- All right. - Yeah?

Oh, come on, Henry. Going again.

Yeah?

Nothing. No, Max, that's enough.

No, one more try, one more try.

Come on, Henry.