As Max's life hangs in the balance, the doctors and staff rally to help him and support Georgia, but when Dean Fulton takes charge of the hospital, the team must fight to hold on to the legacy Max has created.
Max creates chaos when he volunteers New Amsterdam to take over for a short-staffed neighboring hospital; Frome has a crisis of conscience about the funding for a hospital garden; an eager resident learns a secret about Bloom.
Max faces the pressure of his first fundraising gala at the hospital; Frome struggles to break difficult news to his daughter; Bloom and Reynolds deal with the fallout of their argument; Kapoor and Sharpe work to help a sick father and son.
The recipient of Max's sister's heart arrives at New Amsterdam just as Max convinces Sharpe to take a risk on his course of treatment; Frome works to help a trans patient; Bloom grapples with a difficult conversation.
Max invokes a hospital-wide census in an effort to get to know the staff of New Amsterdam on a deeper level; Reynolds takes a leap of faith that lands him in hot water; Dr. Castro extends her treatment plan to more patients in the hospital.