Disconnected

## Episode Chronology

**"Disconnected"** is the ninth episode of the third season on NBC drama series *New Amsterdam*, and the forty-ninth episode overall. It aired on April 27, 2021.

## Synopsis

Max is on a mission to deliver free broadband access. Reynolds treats a young girl with a gunshot wound. Sharpe gives difficult news to a long-time patient. Iggy is immensely proud of his patient's success but worries that he may be getting too close.

## Plot

Bloom has a new roommate. She asked her friend to move in because her friend needed a place to stay and she couldn’t really afford a place of her own and so Bloom suggested her place. Bloom has been living there for a while. Her drawers were mostly empty anyways and it still looked like she just moved in. Her friend had asked her about that. She wondered if the sparseness was intentional and Bloom wasn’t sure.

Bloom later went to work. She was in the Emergency Room when a man came in yelling his daughter had been shot. The case was quickly handed over to Reynolds and he rushed the young girl to the OR. He was in the elevator with his patient when her mother came in, but the woman didn’t spend too much time focusing on her daughter before she was blaming the shooting on the “defund the police” rallies.

Like, the police haven’t actually been defunded yet. NYPD is still the largest police force in the United States and the best-funded. Reynolds even did a double-take when he heard that but he was rushing a patient to the OR and he didn’t have time to teach some ignorant woman how she was wrong. He was more focused on saving her daughter’s life.

Reynolds was in the OR while Bloom was dealing with an influx of patients from the same building. The people that lived there were all shown fliers for the Rona-Vax and that was basically a flier claiming there was a holistic cure that they can make themselves at home. The cure as it turns out involved certain poisons. The people that took it had all poisoned themselves and they needed hospital care.

Bloom was so concerned that she brought the matter to Max. Max and Bloom gathered some NYFD members and several ambulances and they went to this apartment building. They knocked on every door to find out who took this poisonous “cure”. They rushed the people that did take it to the hospital and Max found one woman who hadn’t taken the cure.

She thought of taking it until she told her son about it. Her son googled it and he told her that cure as well as that company sounded shady. The woman explained to Max how they didn’t get internet in the building. This is why she didn’t do the research herself and so that gave Max an idea. He wanted to know how he could get broadband for every low-income household in the city.

It wasn’t just the building that was affected by the lack of 5G. Most low-income households cannot afford Wi-Fi and so the occupants go without and the myth of a cheap cure is easily spread. Max wanted to combat this. He later put on a suit and he went around begging high-tech companies to give this service for free.

Max soon got the big companies to deliver broadband to the one building. He went back to the patients to deliver the happy news and that’s when they ask if they’ll get computers or tablets or even high-tech phones but he said “no”. They didn’t get any of that. So, that’s when someone said he got them gas but no stove. The building needed a way to access their newfound internet and so Max relied on the power of the suit to go back begging. And in the meantime, Bloom busted some myths.

Bloom told them that all the cures like silver pills or yellow oleander were doing more harm than good. They all didn’t even stop COVID-19 or cure it and so the patients were lucky they weren’t dead. Upstairs, Sharpe was delivering some bad news to a patient. Her patient had thought he was thrown with cancer treatments and he and his wife were expecting to take a grand tour however that tour is going to have to hold off.

Sharpe determined the patient’s cancer was back. It was more aggressive than ever and that meant he would have to start treatment right away. He couldn’t take the tour of Route 66 with his wife. Sharpe broke the bad news to him and it just made her feel worse than she had when she was speaking with Mina.

Mina has been skipping class. She doesn’t want to take classes she’s already taken in Iran and she thought Sharpe would understand, but Sharpe said that in her house, there were just her rules. It wasn’t a democracy. Mina has to go to school and then college and then get a job. Mina hadn’t liked only it was for the best.

Sharpe knew this and that’s why she’s sticking by those rules. Only she doesn’t have to do the same with her patient. Sharpe found several hospitals along the route that her patient wanted to take and she’s talked to doctors there. The doctors are willing to treat the patient at each and every stop. And so if he’s willing to risk being tired on the road, he can still travel and he can get treatment for his cancer at the same time.

Sharpe did a wonderful thing for her patient. Max, on the other hand, had found someone to donate new computers to the building and unfortunately, they were using their new computers to find even more bogus cures. Bloom had released almost everyone except from one person. This young woman took several bogus cures. It turns out she had a heart condition that she thought was coronavirus and that’s why she took so many fake cures.

Bloom was rushing her patient into OR as Reynolds was finding out what really happened to Allison. Allison suffered from close contact wounds and that meant her shooter wasn’t a drive-by. She had shot herself. She accidentally shot herself when she found her parents’ gun and tried to play with it.

Even after Reynolds found out the truth and reported it, young Allison’s mother still tried to blame it on Black Lives Matter. She said she and her husband became concerned after they saw how violent the protests became. She and her husband didn’t want to get in trouble and that’s why they lied but they were horrible people who will always blame someone else for their decisions. And Reynolds saw that for himself. And so he took pride in the fact the couple was now in trouble with the police because they did after all file a false police report on a crime that never happened.

Iggy was put in charge of finding a new chair of Neurology, but he was busy with a patient who didn’t understand boundaries and so he left the decision to Kao. Who went on to promptly hire someone who hated Dr. Kapor. She literally wanted to change everything Kapor ever touched or created himself.

Bloom returned home to find her new roommate had decorated the place with artwork and it looked less sparse now.
Sharpe also returned home to find her niece planned on taking her GED and that she doesn’t count Sharpe as a family because she said the family would never have treated her this way. And it wasn’t fair because Sharpe has ignored her family for years.

And Max got the building free internet, laptops, and he created a portal for them to use to find correct medical information online. But when he went home to his daughter, he found out she was already sleeping and his mother-in-law was still giving him a lot of attitudes.

## Cast

* Janet Montgomery as Dr. Lauren Bloom
* Freema Agyeman as Dr. Helen Sharpe
* Jocko Sims as Dr. Floyd Reynolds
* Tyler Labine as Dr. Iggy Frome

Guest Starring* Becky Ann Baker as Gwen Bennett
* Nadia Affolter as Mina
* Christine Chang as Dr. Agnes Kao
* Alejandro Hernandez as Casey Acosta
* Shiva Kalaiselvan as Leyla Shinwari
* Luke Slattery as PFC Chance Becker
* Annabella Sciorra as Dr. Romy Lucio
* Nora and Opal Clow as Luna Goodwin
* Em Grosland as Nurse Kai Brunstetter
* Willie C. Carpenter as Thom
* Priscilla Lopez as Juanita
* Jordan Baker as Dr. Bea Boucher
* Danny Borbon as Patient Mendoza
* Sol Marina Crespo as Scrub Nurse Kat Della Cruz
* Miriam Cruz as Robin Perez
* Manny Galan as Javier
* Dee Hoty as Alexis Luther
* Edythe Jason as Vera
* Alix Elias as Dolores Jefferson
* Lizzy Jutila as Patient Wu
* Sweta Keswani as Soma Kulkarni
* Melanie Mahanna as Sydney Nolens
* Gary Lee Mahmoud as Evan Nashton
* Brittany Pearl McGraw as Allison Mulvane
* Robert G. McKay as Dr. Callen Reed
* Vincent Minutella as Bruce
* Najla Said as Dr. Salaita
* Isaiah Seward as Paramedic Durango
* Damani Varnado as Patient Shea
* William Zielinski as Mr. Olenchalk

## Multimedia

### Videos

New Amsterdam 3x09 Promo "Disconnected" (HD)