Pressure Drop

## Episode Chronology

**"Pressure Drop"** is the eleventh episode of the third season on NBC drama series *New Amsterdam*, and the fifty-first episode overall. It aired on May 11, 2021.

## Synopsis

Max implements sweeping changes to hospital sustainability practices. Bloom returns from vacation. Reynolds treats a young patient with deadly heat stroke. Iggy discovers a dangerous situation with a former patient.

## Plot

Max wakes to see his daughter. The city is hot and every year it works worse, he tells her. Lauren is still in bed with her new love interest after taking some time off. She hasn’t done this in a long time. Iggy pays a visit to Chance and tells him to stay away from him and his husband. He threatens him with the police.

Lauren arrives back at work refreshed. She tells Casey how much she appreciates him. He is surprised. They enter the ED. It is filled with overheated, dehydrated patients. She remains calm and happy. They are all shocked.

Floyd is walking to work when he hears yelling. A kid is trapped in a car. He smashes the windows and takes him out. He runs with him to the ED, They rush him to the OR.

Max holds a meeting with his staff. He wants to conquest global warming within the hospital. He has put together a program. He discusses 1 box of gloves a day per department. They think she is crazy.

Iggy meets with a patient who says he can control the weather with his mind. He tells Iggy he has created this heatwave. Iggy asks if he can scan him, making it sound like a favor. The man agrees.

Helen meets with a sister who is freezing in this heatwave. Helen gets mad when she sees Walsh ordered 1 of the 4 tests she wanted. She gets more annoyed when she cannot use more gloves. Meanwhile, Floyd works to save the boy who is overheating. His father is brought into the OR. It’s a fellow surgeon who has been stressed out.

Max and Helen go toe to toe over his glove mandate. Max sees Iggy who is committed to his gloves off the program. Later, Iggy’s patient’s scan comes back all clear while Floyd saves the boy. He talks with the father who cries. It was a mistake.

Helen learns her nun has endocarditis. She goes into V-Fib. Helen tells Lauren she has gone soft and it is putting patients at risk.

Iggy runs into Max who has now changed the cafeteria menu. Iggy is upset there are no burgers. Iggy is down to change the planet but he needs to eat.

Floyd gets a call from his sister. Their mom’s blood glucose is too high. He realizes that he has been giving her expired insulin. Meanwhile, Iggy tries to get his patient to stay for a while. He lashes out at Iggy and his brother. He tells them he will make it rain. It rains! They are in shock.

Helen realizes she misdiagnosed her patient while Lauren finally loses it. She demands Max help her ED. She is at full capacity. He goes off about global warming. She wants to help people right now.

Iggy’s patient comes out of surgery. He had a fistula in his brain that was hiding a tumor. Helen talks further with the nun. She learns she was in Panama years back. She has malaria.

Floyd speaks with child services about the father who left his son in the car. He made a mistake and needs to be forgiven. Max has an epiphany when he helps Jerry the janitor up the stairs. Max gives his people a speech about sucking it up, hating it together, and making the change they need to make. He coins it one last chance. They seem ok with this.

Iggy arrives home to see his husband and no kids. Their daughter comes in. She hit a ball and she is wearing chance’s hat. Iggy has a look of terror on his face.

Floyd sees his fellow surgeon with his son reading a book. Helen goes to pray. Lauren comes home to a candle-lit dinner. She announces to her girlfriend that she makes her soft and she needs to be tough and run an ED. Her girlfriend laughs. She needs balance. Lauren admits they cannot break up. They kiss. At home, Max turns on the AC while he hangs out with his daughter.

## 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* Nadia Affolter as Mina
* Becky Ann Baker as Gwen Bennett
* Christine Chang as Dr. Agnes Kao
* Mike Doyle as Martin McIntyre
* Alejandro Hernandez as Casey Acosta
* Shiva Kalaiselvan as Leyla Shinwari
* Luke Slattery as PFC Chance Becker
* Yvette Ganier as ED Nurse Linda Weber
* Matthew Jeffers as Resident Mark Walsh
* Olivia Khoshatefeh as Resident Yasmin Turan
* Nora and Opal Clow as Luna Goodwin
* LaRae Muscat as Sameera
* Caroline Lagerfelt as Sister Edith Pursey
* Ricardo Dávila as Javier
* Jasmine Batchelor as Courtney
* Billy Beyrer as Kevin
* Myrna Cabello as Middle-Aged Woman
* Xavier Cano as Benji Alvarez
* Julian Cuenco Fadullon as Nurse Lin
* Faiven Feshazion as Anesthesiologist
* Michael Raymond Fox as Surgeon #2
* Henry James Gross as Jacob Paré
* Darwin Harris as Dr. Mike Frost
* Claire Karpen as Dr. Michelle Goldman
* Shomari Love as Bike Messenger
* Shania Mundy as Vexed Patient
* Elena Ricardo as Desk Nurse Fran Lester
* Tyrone L. Robinson as Custodian Jerry Watkins
* Suzanne Slade as Surgeon #1
* Dorcas Sowunmi as Dr. Iyawa Metzger
* Fred Tolliver Jr. as Young Man
* NaTasha Yvette Williams as Social Worker Esther

## Multimedia

### Videos

New Amsterdam 3x11 Promo "Pressure Drop" (HD)