[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for New Amsterdam Season 4, Episode 9 “In a Strange Land.”]
Immediately after Dr. Veronica Fuentes (Michelle Forbes) laid off a massive variety of the workers — such as Casey (Alejandro Hernandez), Gladys (Megan Byrne), and Baptiste (Andre Blake) in Bloom (Janet Montgomery), Iggy (Tyler Labine), and Reynolds’ (Jocko Sims) areas just after Max (Ryan Eggold) fought for them — she’s the moment once again on the (quickly-to-be previous) professional medical director’s lousy facet in the hottest New Amsterdam episode. And this time, Karen Brantley (Debra Monk) is with Max: Veronica demands to go.
When various victims from a church hearth conclude up at the medical center, the health professionals quickly study absolutely everyone is undocumented. ICE has been circling the church for months and now is established up exterior the medical center. Then, ICE will get warrants for absolutely everyone and is capable to enter the medical center. In reaction, Max turns the cafeteria into a church, creating it a sanctuary for their sufferers. Veronica, of system, is versus it, and tells Max not to attempt to attraction to her humanity. They’re a medical center, not a refugee middle, she argues. She doesn’t treatment if ICE presents them the professional medical treatment they will need.
But just after Veronica walks absent, Karen tells Max she’ll connect with a vote in the course of the board assembly that evening to terminate Veronica’s deal. Does she have votes to pull that off? She’ll locate them. And so she goes close to to board users, but it’s not so straightforward to get individuals on board. Evan, even so, would seem to be critical: Get his vote, other people will slide in line. Evan’s hesitant, presented that Veronica has carried out some fantastic issues, specially economically, but he sooner or later tells Karen she has his aid and they shake on it.
With ICE closing in, the workers will come up with a way to sneak absolutely everyone out of the medical center, by using the tunnels in the basement. ICE follows the ambulances (with Max in one particular of them) absent, but when they end them, they’re vacant. They ended up just a distraction absolutely everyone securely reaches a new sanctuary, a church.

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Max joins the board assembly just ahead of Karen phone calls for the vote to terminate Veronica as professional medical director. As the two females deal with off on possibly conclude of the desk, individuals start out elevating their palms … but not Evan, and they’re one particular vote shy. Then Veronica phone calls for a vote to oust Karen Brantley as board chair of the medical center, presented the debacle of the working day — and she will get the votes, such as Evan’s. Evan is now the board chair of New Amsterdam.
Also with implications for the foreseeable future: Reynolds allows slip to Leyla (Shiva Kalaiselvan) that a fifth residency location was made for her. Leyla experienced no notion that location opened up just after her girlfriend Bloom 𠇍onated” to the medical center … just as took place previous time that fifth location existed. Uh-oh.
New Amsterdam, Tuesdays, 10/9c, NBC