UNTITLED SCHULNER/HORTON PROJECT PILOT WRITTEN BY David Schulner Based on, Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital Written By Dr. Eric Manheimer DIRECTED BY Kate Dennis Production Draft 4/4/18 Clean -© 2018 NBC Studios LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NOT TO BE DUPLICATED WITHOUT PERMISSION. This material is the property of NBC Studios, LLC and is intended solely for use by its personnel. The sale, copying, reproduction or exploitation of this material in any form is prohibited. Distribution or disclosure of this material to unauthorized persons is also prohibited.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 1. CHYRON: In 1766, before the founding fathers created The United States, they created a Public Hospital. To heal the sick and wounded. At no cost to those in need. That hospital is still providing care to this very day. That hospital is NEW AMSTERDAM

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 2. ACT ONE OVER BLACK we hear that famous James Brown SCREAM that begins “I GOT YOU (I FEEL GOOD)” which plays over—- INT. EMPTY STUDIO APARTMENT - DAY 1 An alarm clock: 5:00 AM. A hand comes INTO FRAME and silences the ATLARM. But James Brown keeps singing. A MAN gets out of bed. Alone. We RACK FOCUS to see a picture of this MAN and a WOMAN hopelessly in love. But the woman is nowhere to be seen in this empty studio apartment. There is only MAX GOODWIN (30s, abrasive, charming, exasperating.) In QUICK CUTS Max brews coffee, laces up his running shoes, maps a route on his iPhone, and puts in his earbuds to, you guessed it, James Brown. EXT. BROOKLYN BRIDGE DAY 1 Max sprints to work across the Brooklyn Bridge. Passing other runners. Passing cyclists. This is a man chasing something or being chased. Or both. We intercut Max’s run with the introduction of our patient stories. INT. JFK - TERMINAL - DAY 1 An AFRICAN BOY stands in the terminal. No more than fifteen. Clothes in a garbage bag. Has never been on a plane before. Has never been to America. He’s surrounded and overwhelmed by the mass of PEOPLE. So overwhelmed he doesn’t move. This is ALAIN. EXT. JFK - TERMINAL - DAY 1 Alain walks outside. He looks weak. His balance off. He tries to hail a TAXI but they don’t stop for him. Finally, he steps into the middle of the street in front of an oncoming cab. It SCREECHES to a halt. Alain tells the DRIVER in a Liberian accent: ALAIN New Amsterdam. Hospital.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 3. EXT. MANHATTAN - DAY 1 Back to Max, still running, when... he swallows. And it hurts. Max stops running. This is not new. But, it’s getting worse. He rubs his throat. Max’s cell RINGS, stopping the MUSIC. He looks at the screen. Answers. MAX (ON CELL) Georgia? INTERCUT WITH: INT. GEORGIA’S BEDROOM - SAME TIME GEORGIA (30s, dancer, optimist) lies in bed with the phone pressed to her ear. This is the Woman from Max’s bedroom photo. MAX (ON CELL) What are you doing awake? GEORGTA (ON CELL) I knew if I waited you’d be too busy to talk to me. MAX (ON CELL) I'm never too busy to talk to you. GEORGIA (ON CELL) We both know that’s not true. MAX (ON CELL) Okay, but that was old Max, this is new Max. GEORGIA (ON CELL) I just called to wish regular Max a great first day of work. (no response) Max? MAX (ON CELL) I just thought... me taking this job was the reason you wanted space. GEORGIA (ON CELL) One of the reasons. (then) But I‘m still happy for you. Sad for us. Happy for you.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 4. MAX (ON CELL) I'm going to change. I'm going to win you back. Georgia sincerely hopes he does. But she’s heard this before. She slides off her sheet to reveal a PREGNANT BELLY. GEORGIA (ON CELL) You have twelve weeks. MAX (ON CELT) Give me six. And with that James Brown starts singing again. EXT. RIKERS ISLAND - DAY 1 POLICE CARS escort an ARMORED AMBULANCE out of the infamous PRISON. They travel off the island into-- EXT. MANHATTAN - DAY 1 The POLICE CARS and ARMORED AMBULANCE clear Second Avenue like a Pregidential Motorcade. EXT. NEW AMSTERDAM HOSPITAL - DAY 1 The POLICE CARS come to a stop. ARMED GUARDS open the back of the ambulance to reveal a PRISONER. Covered in blood. Handcuffed to a stretcher. The Guards form a circle around the Prisoner and lead him through the PRISON ENTRANCE of NEW AMSTERDAM HOSPITAL. They WIPE FRAME to reveal Max, running into the hospital. INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - BASEMENT CORRIDOR - DAY 1 Max walks through the bowels of the hospital. An ORDERLY passes, pushing a cart of folded SCRUBS. Max grabs a pair, never breaking his stride. EXT. UNITED NATIONS BUILDING - DAY 1 AMBULANCES and FBI AGENTS surround the UNITED NATIONS. PARAMEDICS rush out with DOZENS of UN AMBASSADORS. Some are VOMITING, some are UNCONSCIOUS. PARAMEDIC 1 --massive carbon monoxide poising from a faulty furnace. (MORE)

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 5. PARAMEDIC 1 (CONT'D) There was a Climate Change conference so we got more ambasgadors coming out. LEAD PARAMEDIC Give ‘em a hundred percent high flow and get ‘em to The Dam. (then, to the chaos) Welcome to New York. INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - LOCKER ROOM - DAY 1 Max, freshly showered, listens as NURSES and a JANITOR gossip in Spanish (with subtitles) about him. NURSE MARIANA I heard all the big fancy doctors turned down the job. JANITOR MIGUEL The Dean only hires people he can control, who won’t rock the boat. NURSE SABRINA None of the doctors here even heard of the new guy. NURSE MARIANA Why would they? He’s been running a nothing in Chinatown for five years. JANITOR MIGUEL I heard he turned that clinic around. NURSE SABRINA Yeah, by firing everyone. Even the nurses. NURSE MARIANA Chica, don’t worry, Medical Directors don’t even talk to nurses much less fire them. (then) Ten to one he doesn’t last a year. DORA WILLIAMS (40s, formidable) comes in. DORA (to Max) There you are. I knew you'd get lost. All the new Medical Directors get lost. The Nurses and Janitor turn to Max, gobsmacked.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 6. MAX (in Spanish) I’11 be holding weekly meetings with the Nurse and Janitorial staffs so we can make your work here more rewarding, efficient and harassment free. (then) And I'll take those odds. Max throws down a twenty, smiles and walks out with Dora. Off the stunned Nurses... INT/EXT. TAXI - DAY 1 A TAXI pulls up to the Emergency Department. In the back of the cab, asleep, lies DR. LAUREN BLOOM (30s, hot mess). She looks like she’s been on a bender all night. She has. But not the kind you’re thinking. She wakes up and takes off her LENNOX HOSPITAL ID BADGE and puts on her NEW AMSTERDAM ID BADGE . INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - ED - MOMENTS LATER Dr. Bloom saunters in, pops two “TIC-TACS"” (not Tic-Tacs) and passes an INTERN wheeling a DEAD WOMAN, (PATRICIA). Arms frozen in the air from rigor mortis. DR. BLOOM Grab a sheet will you? ED INTERN EMS just dropped off. DR. BLOOM Wait. ED INTERN What? DR. BLOCM Did you hear that? ED INTERN Hear what? Bloom looks at the corpse. ED INTERN (CONT'D) Dr. Bloom? ... She’s dead. Bloom puts her ear to the patient’s mouth.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 7. ED INTERN (CONT'D) No pulse, no BP, cyanotic and rigor mortis. DR. BLOOM I need a defib, ventilator, ALS and resuscitation team now! Everyone scrambles. Including Bloom who gloves up. ED INTERN That’s impossible. She’s dead. DR. BLOOM Well, at least you didn’t kill her again. INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - ATRIUM LOBBY - DAY 1 Max, in scrubs, strides through the impressive lobby with Dora. DORA Founded in 1766, New Amsterdam is America’s first public hospital. We performed the world’s first C- section in the world’s first maternity ward. Yellow Fever, Tuberculosis, Typhoid, were all brought under control right—- MAX Dora, I know the history. DORA The Dean makes me tell it to every new Medical Directoxr. MAX How many have you worked with? DORA Five. In five years. Max gets the point. Then he sees a very attractive, very glamorous woman across the hall. This 1s DR. HELEN SHARPE (30's, Queen Bee). Max makes a beeline for her. MAX Dr. Helen Sharpe, Max Goodwin. How can I help? She gives him her ski jacket, never breaking her stride.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 8. DR. SHARPE You're too kind. Welcome to The Dam. Why are you in scrubs? MAX Because I'm a doctor. (re: luggage) Going somewhere? DR. SHARPE I have to tape segments with the Morning Show and Megyn Kelly then give the keynote address at the Oncology Conference in Vail. MAX Wow, you’re going to do all that on your lunch break? DR. SHARPE funny. I’'ll be back next week. We’ll lunch at the Tavern. My treat. MAX Unlike the previous Medical Director, I actually expect you to practice medicine. At this hospital. Because, I don’t know, that’s your job? Helen looks at Max for possibly the first time. Sizes him up. DR. SHARPE You’re funny. MAX You said that. DR. SHARPE tell you what, I'll continue to give speeches all over the world because you can’t afford the kind of publicity I give this hospital. And I’ll continue my on-air appearances with Ellen, Oprah and anyone else powerful enough to go by one name, because someone has to remind New York that even though an underfunded public hospital, we can still go toe-to- toe with the privates from basic care to state-of-the-art procedures. She takes her coat and Gucci bag.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 9. DR. SHARPE I’'11l be back next week. We’ll lunch at the Tavern. My treat. And with that she’s gone. Max turns to Dora. Impressed. MAX I like her. If she comes back keep her. INT, NEW AMSTERDAM - PSYCH WARD - DAY 1 A YOUNG GIRL, 16, JEMMA, walks up to a NURSES STATION with only a small JOURNAL. Bone tired. Scared. JEMMA Dr. Frome. PSYCH NURSE Please sign in and take a seat. JEMMA Dr. Frome!l PSYCH NURSE Young lady, it is way too early in my day to call securlty but I will. JEMMA Dr. Frome Dr. Frome Dr. Frome Dr. Frome Dr. Frome Dr. Frome...! As the Psych Nurse picks up the phone, DR. IGGY FROME (30s, sloppy, chubby) rushes in and leads Jemma away from the Nurse. DR. FROME Nurse) It’s okay, I got this. He kneels down to Jemma, close. They have a history. She trusts him. DR. FROME (CONT'D) Jemma, what’s wrong? What are you doing here? She can’t meet his eyes. JEMMA ... It happened again. Dr. Frome exhales, devastated. He brings Jemma in for an embrace. She lets him.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 10. INT. NEW AMSTERDAM -~ PEDIATRIC WARD - DAY 1 Dora and Max walk and talk. DORA New Amsterdam is the only hospital in New York equipped to serve POTUS, Ambassadors from the United Nations and prisoners from Rikers Island. We have a district courtroom and a public school for-- But Max isn’t listening. In fact he’s not even behind Dora anymore. DORA (CONT’D) Max? Max is staring at ONE HUNDRED CHILDREN and their PARENTS filling the Pediatric Outpatient Waiting Room to overflow capacity. Screaming. Crying. Unruly. Speaking dozens of languages. It looks like a third world country, not a world class hospital. DORA (CONT’'D) Max, you’re running late. MAX Is this normal? DORA It’s like this every year before school starts. Required vaccinations and medical exams. (then) Max, you‘re running late. Off Max... INT. NEW AMSTERDAM -~ OPERATING THEATER — DAY 1 Full to capacity. All the CHIEFS and ATTENDINGS and FELLOWS grumble about being here. FIND DR. VIJAY KAPOOR (70s, absent-minded) falling asleep standing up. FIND - Dr. Lauren Bloom and DR. FLOYD REYNOLDS (30s, imposing, virtuous). DR. BLOOM I’'ve been thinking about you. You wanna grab a drink later? REYNOLDS I can't.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 11. DR. BLOOM You know when I say ‘grab a drink’ I don’t really mean ‘grab a drink’. REYNOLDS I do. FIND - Dr. Iggy Frome juggling twenty patient files, a coffee and a shoulder bag. Patient files begin to spill onto the floor. In a effort to catch them, his shoulder bag swings around and knocks his coffee all over himself. Then the room HUSHES as Max walks out onto the operating stage. MAX Me and my sister Luna were born here. In New Amsterdam. When Luna was eight, she died here. Hospital acquired infection. Entirely preventable. (then}) Working here, being able to save someone else’s sister... someone’'s daughter... ig a dream come true. For me. Max owns the room. MAX (CONT'D) So. “How can I help?” No one says anything. Crickets. MAX That’s... not a trick question. really asking. I work for you. So you can work for your patients. “How can I help?” Tell me. Anyone. Doctors looks around, afraid to say anything. MAX Just... shout it out. (nothing) Really? No one? Wow. So, your departments all have enough money, enough nurses, your equipment isn’t outdated? “How can I help?” Again, no one says anything. MAX (CONT'D) Tell you what, go first. Will everyone in the cardiac surgery program ralse your hands? Don’t be shy. Get ‘em up there.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 TWO DOZEN hands go up in the air. Including Reynolds. MAX (CONT’D) Great. Thanks. You’'re all fired. Collective gasps from the room. Is he serious? MAX (CONT'D) Any department that puts billing above care, no matter how much money you make this hospital, you will be terminated. (off their silence) Oh no, I'm serious, you can go, we’'re starting over without you. TWENTY DOCTORS storm out, already on their cell phones. 12. ANGLE ON Reynolds and Bloom. Reynolds, fired, walks out of the room - Bloom is in shock. MAX (CONT’D) Next. ALl Department Chairs, hands in the air, please. TWO DOZEN hands weakly go up, including Bloom, Kapoor and Frome. MAX (CONT’D) Man, I have no idea how you‘ve MORE DOCTORS leave the room, already making calls. They’re all scared. But then Dr. Bloom raises her hand. managed to keep this hospital afloat with so little help. So, I'm hiring you fifty new Attendings. Untrained Residents will no longer be your only support. Regardless of how much money the University makes off their indentured servitude. Or how much time it allows some of you to play golf. MAX (CONT’D) I think I just pissed off the University. Or the golfers. So. I’1l1l ask again, “How can I help?” MAX (CONT'D) Yes, person not calling their lawyer. DR. BLOOM Lauren Bloom, Emergency Department. I want to get rid of our Waiting Room.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 13. MAX Where do you want to put it? DR. BLOOM I want to get rid of it, I want to move patients ‘direct to bed’, no waiting room. MAX Done. DR. BLOOM Really? MAX Sure. Let’s try. Dr. Bloom can’t believe it was that easy. Dr. Frome raises his hand. DR. FROME Iggy Frome, Child Psych, can we do something about healthy food? MAX What do you want to do about it? DR. FROME Have some. In the hospital. MAX Okay. Done. Everyone tell me what you need. What your patients need. I don’t care if it’s not covered. I don’t care i1f the Board said no. We all think the system is too big to change. But, we are the system. We have to change. So, let’s get into some trouble. Let’s be doctors again. Go. see you out on the wards. (then) Bloom, can I borrow you for a second? Max pulls Bloom aside. Is she getting fired too? MAX (CONT’D) I need you to do a small biopsy. Just take a minute. DR. BLOOM Sure. For what patient? MAX Me.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 14, Max smiles. END OF ACT ONE

PRELAP: Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 15. ACT TWO INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - ED - WAITING AREA - DAY 1 The Teenager from JFK, Alain, is at the NURSES STATION. He sweating. Clearly sick. ALAIN Hello. My name is Alain. I wrote my name down. NURSE LINDA Then we’ll call you when we have a doctor available, okay, hon? Alain nods. Sits back down. Among a sea of other PEOPLE. DR. SHARPE (0.S8.) Well, laughter is a natural medicine. INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - PATIENT ROOM ~ DAY 1 ON TV: Dr. Helen Sharpe laughs with a TV ANCHOR. TV ANCHOR (ON TV) Then I should have a PhD by now. DR. SHARPE (ON TV) You should, Dan. Studies have shown that laughter helps reduce pain, decreases stress-related hormones and boosts the immune system. At New Amsterdam Department of Pediatric Oncology—- The TV SHUTS OFF. ANGLE ON Max. MAX (damn her) Damn she’s good. Dora is on one side of Max, Dr. Bloom on the other. She’s holding a VERY LONG NEEDLE attached to syringe. DR. BLOOM How long have you noticed irritation?

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 16. MAX (to Dora) Do you think she’s coming back early? DORA No. DR. BLOOM Max? MAX Four weeks? Maybe six? Eight? You look tired, do you need a nap? BLOOM I need you to stay still. DORA Good luck with that. CELL RINGS. MAX (to Dora}) Who’s calling? DORA Dean of Medicine. For the third time. MAX Ignore. DR. BLOOM Max, please stop talking. MAX What’s on my hot list after this? DORA What’s a hot list? MAX My to-do list but, you know, with a cooler name. DORA Call the Dean back. MAX After that. DORA Well, you have the entire United Nations in the ICU and a patient being prepped for cardiac surgery.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 17. MAX Why is a cardiac surgery on my hot list? DORA Because you fired all the cardiac surgeons. MAX But I had the new patients rerouted to University. DORA Not the ones from Rikers. Maybe you gshouldn’t have fired the entire department. DR. BLOOM They were all corrupt and lazy. MAX See. DR. BLOOM Except for Dr. Reynolds. MAX and you know that because...? Bloom sees her opening, shoves her needle down Max’s throat. DR. BLOOM Just read his file. Max nods, wincing in pain. INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - STAIRWAY/HALL - DAY 1 Dr. Frome and a Social Worker, SOPHIA, walk and talk. DR. FROME Jemma’s suffering from PTSD as well as dissociative behaviors common in victims of repeated physical and sexual abuse. SOPHIA How long before I can place her with a new family? Dr. Frome takes a baggie of baby carrots out of his pocket. DR. FROME Carrot?

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 18. SOPHIA No thank you. They move past a GUARD, show their IDs, and he opens TWIN DOORS INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - SCHOOL - CONTINUOUS Lockers line the halls. Student art on the walls. Looks like every public school in America. But this one is in New Amsterdam. ANGLE ON CLASSROOM DOOR: We see STUDENTS, and a TEACHER giving a lesson. One of the students is Jemma. DR. FROME Jemma first came to me eight years ago. After being sexually abused by her foster father. SOPHIA Just tell me how long before I can place her. DR. FROME Two years later Jemma was back after she was found chained to a radiator being fed like a dog. SOPHIA How long Iggy? DR. FROME This girl has been abused three times in the foster care system and you want to put her right back in? SOPHIA What other option do we have? Beat. Dr. Frome nibbles on a carrot. DR. FROME keeping her. SOPHIA What do you mean, keeping her? DR. FROME I'm not discharging her. SOPHIA Until when? DR. FROME Until she turns eighteen.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 19. SOPHIA DR. FROME Two years. SOPHIA So, you’'re committing a patient just to keep them out of foster care? DR. FROME ... Yeah. Dr. Frome pops a carrot in his mouth and walks away. Off Sophia... is he fucking serious? INT. NEW AMSTERDAM -~ REYNOLDS'S OFFICE - DAY 1 Dr. Reynolds packs his office into a box as Max enters. Everything about Reynolds is meticulous and impeccable. MAX Floyd Reynolds? Max Goodwin. REYNOLDS I remember you from an hour ago when you fired me. Max takes Reynolds‘s DIPLOMA out of the box. MAX (not impressed) Yale. Fancy. Which secret society were you in? Skull and Bones? Scroll and Key? REYNOLDS The one that took a poor black kid. MAX Which one was that? REYNOLDS School of Medicine. Max smiles. He fiddles with a MODEL HEART from Reynolds’s box. MAX So, Floyd, why’d you become a cardiovascular surgeon? REYNOLDS All due respect, I don't require a pat on the back on my way out.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 20. MAX I don’t intend to pat you on the back given the appalling history of patient care in your department. REYNOLDS {(no hard feelings) If I was you and I analyzed our performance I would have done the same. MAX By ’performance’ do you mean the highest mortality and infection rates in New York City, because that’s like the Beyoncé of ‘performances’ - if Beyoncé, you know, killed people. REYNOLDS And don’t forget our rampant culture of inflating billable hours. MAX Except, you didn’t. Max takes a CERTIFICATE out of Reynolds’s box. MAX (CONT'D) I read your files. You had the lowest billing rates in the department. What, you don’t like surgery? REYNOLDS I love surgery. MAX Then why did you perform half the procedures your colleagues did? REYNOLDS Because my patients didn’t need them. Because there are other ways to help people than by cutting them open. Right answer. Max takes a FRAMED PHOTO out of Reynolds’s box. MAX Cute kid. REYNOLDS My nephew.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 21. MAX I'm unfiring you. REYNOLDS To do what? MAX To run the Cardiac Surgical Department. REYNOLDS There is no Cardiac Surgical Department. MAX So, build one. A good one. I mean, these are people’s hearts we're talking about. Beat. Reynolds considers. REYNOLDS You do know this whole system is rigged. They’re not going to let you walk in here and just help people. MAX Then let’s help as many as we can before they notice. (then) You can’t say no, you're already unpacked. Reynolds looks down at his desk where Max unpacked his box. He looks up, grateful, but Max is already gone. INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - ED - WAITING AREA - DAY 1 Alain is getting worse. Sweats, chills, fever. Again he walks up to the NURSES STATION. ALATN Hello. My name is Alain. I wrote—- NURSE LINDA Listen, hon, there’s people here with life threatening emergencies and we just have to see them first. Alain nods. Sits back down. In a sea of other PEOPLE.

Unt. Pilot 4/4/18 22. INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - WARD CORRIDOR - DAY 1 Frome and Kapoor walk and talk. A Neurology Fellow, 20s, AGNES KAO, shadows them. DR. FROME I just heard about your rigor mortis woman. People are worried it’s a sign of the zombie apocalypse. DR. KAPOOR People? DR. FROME Okay, fine, me. And based on your extensive experience-- DR. KAPOOR You mean ‘old’? DR. FROME Yeah, exactly, do you think the new guy is really going to shake things up? DR. KAPOOR No. The Dean of Medicine doesn’t want things shaken up. (wry) . Based on my extensive experience. INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - WARD — ROOM 1208 - CONTINUOUS Kapoor and Agnes walk in on Max. Who is comforting CARLOS, 50’s. Patricia (Rigor Mortis Woman), is asleep in bed. DR. KAPOOR (surprised) Dr... MAX Goodwin, but call me Max. I was just... taking an interest. DR. KAPOOR ("Back off.") Surely you don’t have time to take an interest in every case. MAX Well, that’s why I wear my running shoes.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 23. DR. KAPOOR I’ve been practicing here for twenty-five years. The key to survival is having more than one speed. MAX I can go faster? DR. KAPQOR That’s not what I meant. Beat. These men are not seeing eye to eye. MAX Keep me in the loop on this one, will you? Max runs off. That was uncomfortable. Kapoor resets. DR. KAPCOR Good afternoon Mr. Martin. I’'m Dr. Kapoor, your wife’s neurologist. CARLOS What happened to her? DR. KAPOOR First let me find my glasses, it would be helpful to read her chart now wouldn’t it? (re: coat pocket) Ah, here they are. Right where I left them. Carlos looks slightly worried about this absent-minded man. DR. KAPOOR (CONT'D) (reading to himself) Prolonged QT interval... administered diazepam, Valium... (then to Carlos So. It appears Patricia’s brain convinced her heart that she was dead. Even though she was very much alive. We are going to perform a number of tests to find out why, and you and I are going to talk. CARLOS Talk? DR. KAPOOR About your life together, how you met, how you live.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 24. CARLOS What does that have to do with what happened? DR. KAPOOR Everything. INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - PEDIATRIC WARD — WAITING AREA - DAY 1 Dora and Max walk past the CHAOS of the Peds Ward. DORA The Dam is this city’s last line of defense. Patients don’t need insurance, money, and you’re not listening to me at all are you? MAX This has to change. DORA Permission to speak freely. MAX This isn’t the Starship Enterprise, speak. DORA Do you know how many speeches about ‘change’ we’ve heard just like yours? Five. In five years. Then the Dean of Medicine threatens your job and nothing changes. Beat. Max takes out his wallet. MAX Go shopping for me. Off Dora... INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - WARD CORRIDOR - DAY 1 Patricia is wheeled down the hall by Agnes. Dr. Reynolds passes with a COLLEAGUE. Patricia’s eyes POP OPEN. Blink RAPIDLY. Her body begins to SEIZE VIOLENTLY. AGNES Mrs. Martin? Mrs. Martin?! (then) I have a Code Blue! Someone call a code bluel! Dr. Reynolds runs back.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 25. DR. REYNOLDS Turn her on her side before she agpirates. Agnes turns Patricia over. DR. REYNOLDS (CONT’D) Cradle the head. I need a code team now! INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - ED — WAITING AREA -~ DAY 1 Alain, looking like death itself, walks to the Nurses Station. But he can’t even make it. He collapses. INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - ED CORRIDOR - CONTINUOQUS Alain is pushed on a gurney as Dr. Bloom and her team follow. DR. BLOOM Give me a CBC, BMP, chem 7 and a Saline lock! Anyone know who this is? ED INTERN I found this in his pocket. She gives Bloom a BOARDING PASS. DR. BLOOM South African Air. (then) Everyone back away from the patient! Masks on! Now! INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - ATRIUM BALCONY - SAME TIME Max walking, on his cell. MAX (ON CELL) This is Max. DR. BLOOM (ON CELL) We have a patient in the ED from Liberia presenting with all the signs of Malaria, Lassa Fever, TB or-- Max knows what comes next. MAX (ON CELL) —-Ebola. END OF ACT TWO

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 26. ACT THREE INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - ISOLATION WARD - DAY 1 Alain is now in bed in an ISOLATION ROOM. Max helps Dr. Bloom put on her HAZMAT/PPE SUIT. Max teaches her terrified Interns the Ebola Protocols. MAX The first thing we do is call the Mayor and the CDC if we even suspect the Ebola Virus. Dora is already on her cell. MAX (CONT’D) But on the bright side, what a great teaching moment. (off their horrified looks) The patient is in an isolation chamber with negative pressure airflow. The chamber is equipped with every available medicine should they need to self medicate. ED INTERN What about us? MAX Ebola isn’t airborne. But if you develop symptoms you’ll join him. Until then you’ll help him. (then) Everyone interacting with the patient is required to wear Personal Protective Equipment. No shortcuts. Ever. Max inspects Bloom as she puts on the helmet. He gives her the OK and she goes into the room to draw blood from Alain. MAX (CONT’D) Once blood is drawn the test results will come back in twenty- four hours. And, given the point of origin of the patient-- DORA (giving him the cell) Max? on. Max takes the phone.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 27. MAX Mayor? New Amsterdam is calling a Code Green. INT. NEW AMSTERDAM -~ WARD - 1208 - DAY 1 Dr. Kapoor speaks with Carlos and Patricia. He feels her extremities. Agnes is in the background. DR. KAPOOR Your husband said you’re taking Haloperidol. (embarrassed) ... For two years. For depression. Yes. DR. KAPOOR And last year you were diagnosed with Parkinson's. Patricia nods. DR. KAPOOR (CONT'D) I'm sorry to hear that. PATRICIA Does any of it... explain what’s happening to me? DR. KAPOOR Not yet, no. I'm going to run more tests and hopefully-—- CARLOS More tests? But, she’s in pain. And she’s not getting better. DR. KAPOOR I need more information before I can make a diagnosis. Carlos looks at Agnes as if she could help him. She can’t. CARLOS But, how can you not do something for her? DR. KAPOOR We are going to do scmething. We're going to keep talking. Both Patricia and Carlos look scared. And frustrated.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 28. DR. KAPOOR (CONT'D) Now, where are my glasses? Off Agnes... losing confidence in Dr. Kapoor. INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - CORRIDOR - DAY 1 Dr. Bloom walks with Dr. Reynolds. DR. BLOOM Welcome back. Heard you got promoted. REYNOLDS Right after I got fired. The Lord works in mysterious ways. DR. BLOOM She does, doesn’t She? Bloom hands him a file. DR. BLOOM (CONT'D) Patient from Rikers was admitted with seventeen lacs, ruptured spleen, aortic tear. We got him stable in the ED but the tear is all you. Wanna grab a drink tomorrow? REYNOLDS I can't. DR. BLOOM You know when I say ‘grab a’'-- REYNOLDS Yes. I do. DR. BLOOM Okay. (then) Wait, you’re not trying to... REYNOLDS Look, I think you’re great... DR. BLOOM Oh, wow, you are trying to. REYNOLDS But I‘d rather us just be colleagues. Bloom stops. Looks at him. Is suddenly vulnerable.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 29. DR. BLOOM But, I thought we... REYNOLDS We did. DR. BLOOM And I thought you... REYNOLDS I do. DR. BLOOM Then why not see where this goes? REYNOLDS I wish I could. But I can’t. DR. BLOOM Because...? REYNOLDS Because you’'re not black. Reynolds turns the corner to reveal the CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT. Metal gated entry. X-ray machine. GUARD. GUARD Please have your ID out and all equipment in a tray. Off Dr. Bloom... speechless. INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - ROOF - DAY 1 Max, Dr. Frome and Sophia. Dr. Frome is munching on celery. In the BG, Jemma and other PATIENTS do sports activities. SOPHIA He can’t just keep a patient. She’s not a pet and New Amsterdam’s not a home. DR. FROME She can go to school here, get psychiatric care here, job training, a bed, three meals a day, oh, and the best part, she won’t be physically or sexually assaulted. SOPHIA Your job is to restore your patients to baseline and move them through the system, not send them to Harvard.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 30. DR. FROME Foster kids are thirty percent of the homeless population. Twenty- five percent of the prison population. The deck is already stacked against her. (to Max) Celery? MAX Sure, thanks. Max takes a celery stick. Both he and Dr. Frome CRUNCH on them. SOPHIA Well, not all of us can grow up on the East Side and summer in the Hamptons. DR. FROME Okay, you wanna go there, well, you're right. And I never saw my parents. So I know what it’s like to be raised by a revolving door of strangers. It sucks. SOPHIA So, your solution is to commit a patient. DR. FROME Yes. SOPHIA Take away her right to self- governance. DR. FROME Yep. SOPHIA That’s insane. DR. FROME Well, that is my specialty. SOPHIA Enough with the celery, I can’'t hear myself think! (to Max) Whose side are you on? MAX Me? I’'m on the patient’s side. Have you even asked her what she wants?

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 31. Sophia and Dr. Frome look at each other sheepishly. They Max gets a CODE on his phone. MAX (CONT'D) Gotta run. United Nations. INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - ICU - DAY 1 The RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR and hig TWO SECURITY DETAIL face off againgt a small ICU NURSE and HOSPITAL SECURITY. The ICU Nurse and Russian Ambassador yell at each other in Russian. Max runs between them to deescalate. MAX How can I help? RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR I demand doctor! ICU NURSE He wants to be discharged but Dr. Chen wants to keep him under cbservation. Max grabs his CHART off the NURSES STATION. MAX Mr. Ambassador, I'm Dr. Goodwin. I'm the Medical Director here, and I'm officially discharging you. RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR Thank MAX Can you just translate something for your security detail? RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR What? MAX Since you’re being released early and against the wishes of your doctor, they should look out for any signs of lethargy, brain damage, cardiac arrest, sudden loss of conscilousness and rectal bleeding. The Russian Ambassador is silent. MAX (CONT’'D) Mr. Ambassador?

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 32. RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR ... Maybe I stay. (to Detail) Priyekhat. He slinks off back to his room. ICU NURSE Can I have our menus back? Max looks at the “chart” he’s holding. Which is just a folder of TAKE-OUT MENUS. Max turns to the MEXICAN AMBASSADOR, watching. In Spanish: MAX How are you feeling Mr. Ambassador? MEXICAN AMBASSADOR We could use you at the next General Assembly. INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - PEDIATRIC WARD —~ WAITING AREA - DAY 1 Max watches Dr. Helen Sharpe on TV NEWS as he dials a number on his cell. DR. SHARPE (ON TV) Approximately 39.6% of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point during their lifetimes. African-American men-- INTERCUT WITH: INT. AMERICAN BALLET THEATER - STUDIO - SAME TIME A CHOREOGRAPHER watches Georgia rehearse. She’s dancing to the sound of a FETAL HEARTBEAT - ocean meets human heart - when she sees her CELL RINGING. She stops. GEORGIA Sorry. (then ON CELL) Is everything okay? MAX (ON CELL) Just calling to say hi. GEORGIA (ON CELL) ... Really? MAX (ON CELL) Isn’'t that what people do?

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot She smiles, knows he’s trying. GEORGIA (ON CELL) So I've heard. MAX (ON CELL) Can I come home? GEORGIA (ON CELL) Max—— MAX (ON CELL) I can be your husband and do this job. It doesn’t have to be one or the other. Silence. MAX (ON CELL) (CONT'D) Georgia? GEORGIA (ON CELL) I love what you do. It matters so much. But this baby will either see you before she goes to sleep or she won’t. She’ll either see you when she wakes up or she won‘t. That’s all that matters to her. To me. DORA (0.8.) Max turns around to see Dora. DORA (CONT‘D) I got what you asked for. MAX (ON CELL) Georgia, I have to-- GEORGIA (ON CELL) Save the world. I know. Go. MAX (ON CELL) bon't give up on me. 4/4/18 33. Max takes off. Which only reinforces Georgia’s argument. INT. NEW AMSTERDAM -~ CORRIDOR - DAY 1 Max rung down the hall to find a GROUP OF INTERNS. MAX Is anyone here bilingual? Two of the INTERNS raise their hands.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 34. MAX I'm putting you on a new rotation. INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - ATRIUM BALCONY -~ DAY 1 Max finds another GROUP OF INTERNS taking a break. MAX I need volunteers for a new rotation. They all raise their hands. MAX (CONT'D) You have to speak more than one language. They all keep their hands up. MAX (CONT’D) Impressive. Follow me. INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - PEDIATRIC WARD - WAITING AREA - DAY 1 The waiting room is TRANSFORMED. It’s quiet. It’s calm. We TRACK down the room to find A DOZEN INTERNS reading BOOKS to the KIDS. Each Intern reads in a different language to a different group of children. Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, Swahili. The kids are rapt with attention. Even the NURSES and DOCTORS are transfixed. By this simple solution to a radical problem. We end on Dora, Bloom, Frome and Kapoor. Amazed. DR. FROME This looks like shaking things up. DR. KAPOOR Yes. (wry) Based on my extensive experience. PRELAP: AGNES (0.8.) Dr. Goodwin? INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - WARD CORRIDOR - DAY 1 Max, walking, looks up from a Patient Chart to find Agnes, the Neurology Fellow.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 35. MAX How can I help? AGNES Dr. Kapoor's patient in 1208. You wanted to be kept in the loop. MAX How’s she doing? AGNES ... I think Dr. Kapoor‘s going to kill her. Before Max can turn around, Dora and TWO MEN IN SUITS intercept him. DORA Max, this is Detective Rose from NYPD and Agent Bratton from the FBT. AGENT BRATTON The CDC alerted us to your patient with Ebola. MAX Still waiting on the test results. Be with you in five minutes. AGENT BRATTON The NSA just intercepted a video made by ISIS. They claim they sent one of their followers from Liberia to New York City. Infected with the Ebola Virus. Your patient is now a terror suspect. Max... END OF ACT THREE

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 36. ACT FOUR EXT. NEW AMSTERDAM - ESTABLISHING - DUSK 1 INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - ISOLATION WARD - DUSK 1 Agent Bratton questions Alain, via intercom, who is weak but lucid. Max is in the middle. Rose off to the side. ALAIN A man came to my village-- AGENT BRATTON What was his name? ATLAIN Ayaan. AGENT BRATTON Last name? ALAIN I don’t know. (then) He was showing off money he made in America. From selling kufi hats and dashikis in Times Square. He offered to give me clothes to sell and a plane ticket, if I give him half of what I make. AGENT BRATTON And you believed him? ALATIN Yes. He arranged my visa. He took me to doctor. For traveler’s vaccination. The next day I got on a plane. When I got off I felt... sick. Max tries to help Alain. MAX Where did Ayaan want you to go? When you got to America? ALAIN Youth Hostel. In Times Scquare. MAX Then why’'d you come here?

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 37. ALATN This is the only hospital in America I heard of. MAX (to Agent Bratton) He's not a terrorist. AGENT BRATTON We'll gather the evidence—- MAX If he was a terrorist he would have gone to Times Square where he could have infected the entire city, but he didn’t, he came here. To get better. He was clearly tricked into getting something injected into his bloodstream. You see that, right? AGENT BRATTON Goodwin--— MAX Just, please, promise me you’ll look into his story. Beat. AGENT BRATTON I’1ll look into his story. Max nods, looks at Alain, knowing how much trouble he is in. INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT — DUSK 1 Dr. Reynolds collects his belongings off the X-Ray Machine. DR. BLOOM (0.8.) What do you mean ‘because I'm not black’? Dr. Reynolds turns to see Dr. Bloom. Walk and talk. DR. REYNOLDS Patient is stable in case you were wondering. DR. BILOOM Oh good, what do you mean ‘because I'm not black'? DR. REYNOLDS I'm thirty-five years old, I want to get married, I want to have kids, I want them to be black.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 38. DR. BLOOM You know you can't just order that off a menu, right? DR. REYNOLDS I also know I won't meet someone if you and I are... DR. BLOOM Getting our swirl on? REYNOLDS I don’t need you to understand. DR. BLOOM Sorry, I want to. I do. REYNOLDS But, you can’t. You can’'t understand how confusing it was to grow up watching every black athlete have a white girl on his arm. Or how betrayed black women felt watching that happen year after year. DR. BLOOM That’s very noble of you. But don’'t give your wife that excuse. She shouldn’t know you’re just taking one for the team. REYNOLDS I love black women. DR. BLOOM So do I. But, I don’t see one asking you out for a drink. Bloom walks off. Leaving Reynolds, torn, behind. INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - WARD CORRIDOR - 1208 - NIGHT 1 Max finds Dr. Kapoor charting outside of Carlos and Patricia’s room. MAX I asked you to keep me in the loop on 1208. DR. KAPOOR I needed to conduct a thorough patient history as well as consult with cardiology, hematology--

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 39. MAX I'm taking the patient out of your service. DR. KAPOOR Because? MAX Because you should have made a presumptive diagnosis. Because you should have aggressively treated the Parkinson’s. DR. KAPOOR Except she doesn’t have Parkinson’s. Off Max’s look, Kapoor shows him Patricia’s scan. DR. KAPOOR (CONT‘D) PET scan. Small black flecks over her heart. MAX Artifacts. DR. KAPOCR Look closer. (then) Two years ago Patricia was misdiagnosed with depression. She was prescribed Haloperidol, which caused stiffness. As a result, she wag migdiagnosed with Parkinson’s. And prescribed Levadopa. Which made it impossible to sleep. So she was prescribed hydroxyzine. That toxic combination caused both the cardiac arrest and the rigidity. But, this whole time her true symptom was her immune system fighting a tumor that no cne could see. (PET SCAN) Small black flecks. MAX Malignant thymoma. DR. KAPOCR So, if I continued to treat her for Parkinson’s, she would have had another cardiac arrest. And died. (then) By taking my time, by slowing down, T bought her year. Maybe two. Max is humbled and impressed with Dr. Kapoor.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 40. MAX ... How can I help? DR. KAPCOR When she wakes, you can help me tell her she’s going to die. INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - PUBLIC SCHOOL - NIGHT 1 STUDENTS line up against the wall. Including Jemma (holding her journal). TEACHER Jemma, pens and pencils need to stay in the classroom. JEMMA (showing the Teacher) The pen’s attached to my journal. TEACHER Then you’ll have to give me the journal. JEMMA No. TEACHER You’ll get it back in the morning. JEMMA It’s mine. TEACHER Jemma, give me the journal. The Teacher reaches for it and Jemma instinctively pushes her away. The Teacher falls on the floor. JEMMA KIDS Don’t touch me! Fight! Fight! AIDES intercede and grab Jemma. Pull her to the floor. JEMMA Get off me! It’s mine! It’s mine! INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - CLASSROOM - NIGHT 1 Max, Dr. Frome and Jemma. She writes in her Jjournal. MAX Dr. Frome said he gave you that journal when you were ten.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 41. JEMMA (under her breath) ... It’s mine. MAX Can you tell us why you pushed-- JEMMA It’'s the only thing. That’s mine. Max gets it. Looks at Frome to continue. DR. FROME Jemma? What do you want to happen? No response. DR. FROME (CONT’D) Jemma? Jemma looks up. Doesn’t know how to answer. JEMMA No one's ever asked me that before. MAX We're asking now. Beat. JEMMA I guess... I want a family... who thinks... I’'m worth protecting. DR. FROME We do. I do. Would you like to stay here? At New Amsterdam? She thinks. Then shakes her head, ‘no’. Frome takes that in. DR. FROME (CONT‘D) Do you want Social Services to place you in a new home? Jemma. shakes her head, ‘no.’ Frome looks at Max, ‘what now?’ JEMMA Just decide for me. You're gonna do it anyway. She closes her journal and walks off. Leaving the journal behind. Dr. Frome offers it to her. DR. FROME Jemma——

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 JEMMA Keep it. What’s the point? She walks off. DR. FROME Return them to baseline. Move them through the system. That’s my Jjob. MAX If you can’t help Jemma as a doctor, help her as a human being. DR. FROME Am T allowed to do that? MAX You are now. Off Dr. Frome... empowered by Max. INT. TOWN CAR/EXT. NEW AMSTERDAM -~ NIGHT 1 - MOVING Dr. Helen Sharpe in the back seat on her cell. DR. SHARPE (ON CELL) Move Sugarman to Wednesday and I‘11 do Hinkle via Skype from the hotel. Just make sure I have his updated-- (then to Driver) Ron, I said JFK, why are we back at New Amsterdam? The car stops. Her window rolls down revealing MAX. MAX Hi. Remember me? DR. SHARPE You told my driver to bring me back here? MAX No. I told my driver to bring you back here. Ron works for New Amsterdam. And so do you. Remember? DR. SHARPE If I miss my flight—- MAX You can keep your job. Beat. She considers him. 42.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 43. DR. SHARPE Why do you care about me so much? MAX Because a good doctor. Because you bring in patients who would otherwise never go to a public hospital, which helps pay for the patients who can’t go anywhere else. DR. SHARPE So, it’s about money? MAX It’s about care. Which is why I can’t figure out why you’d rather give lectures to semi-retired physicians than actually provide care to patients. Max has touched a nerve in Dr. Sharpe. She seems vulnerable. DR. SHARPE I'll see you next week. MAX Come back in 48 hours. Or don’t come back at all. Beat. She rolls up her window. Drives away. Max’s CELL RINGS. MAX (ON CELL) (CONT’D) Yeah. Intercut with: INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - CORRIDOR - SAME TIME DORA (ON PHONE) The Dean of Medicine-- MAX (ON CELL) I'11 call him tomorrow. DORA (ON PHONE) Is in your office. Max swallows hard. INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - MAX’S OFFICE - CONTINUOUS The DEAN OF MEDICINE, DR. PETER FULTON, (70's, powerful, pompous) is waiting. Furious.

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 44. MAX Dean. DEAN FULTON You're fired! Off Max... END OF ACT FOUR

Unt. Schulner/Horton Pilot 4/4/18 45. ACT FIVE INT. NEW AMSTERDAM - MAX'S OFFICE — CONTINUOUS The Dean and Max go toe to toe. DEAN FULTON You’re fired! MAX Okay. The Dean is confused, did Max not hear him? DEAN FULTON I said, ‘you’re fired!’ MAX And I said, ‘okay.’ DEAN FULTON What do you mean, ‘okay’? Two months ago you were practically begging me for this job! MAX A lot changed in two months. Two months ago the country had health insurance. Two months ago I was still living with my wife. DEAN FULTON Please tell me having a nervous breakdown, because that’s what this looks like to me. MAX Nope. This is me trying to help this hospital. DEAN FULTON How can you say that and eliminate the Cardiac Surgery Program!? You gutted the highest source of income this hospital produces! MAX Either I shut it down or the New York Department of Health would have. DEAN FULTON You hired fifty new Attendings! You just cut the balls off my Residents! My training program!