Give Me a Sign

## Episode Chronology

**"Give Me a Sign"** is the sixth episode of the fifth season on NBC drama series *New Amsterdam*, and the eighty-second episode overall. It aired on October 25, 2022.

## Synopsis

Max goes on a mission to make New York safer. Iggy helps a family come to terms with their deaf child's inability to communicate.

## Plot

Iggy who tries a lot of things that he says ruined his life. Lauren calls Vanessa who won’t answer her phone and leaves her a phone message. Casey is back and everyone welcomes him. Max is jogging with Elizabeth when all of a sudden, she almost gets hit by a car but Max pulls her back and the vehicle crashes into two more people.

Max is treating Rafael, one of the people hit by the car, Floyd is paged to take a look at him and he tells him that he is going to need a cast for that arm. His grandmother, Anna, is in worse condition, she starts to walk and is in severe pain.

Iggy is in his office when he sees a child freaking out. Jael was a perfectly happy baby, but he keeps getting worse ever since he started school. They have tried everything, but nothing works and they don’t want to medicate him unless absolutely necessary. Jael is deaf and he doesn’t know ASl.

When Max returned to the office, there was a lawyer that tried to solicit Rafael and her grandson. She thinks they can get a big payout because there was no crosswalk. Max tells her that he is not there for the money, he just wants the intersection fixed. For five grand, she agrees to do it.

In court, the city moves for the case to be dismissed because the driver and victim are not there. Max speaks up, he wants the city of NY to protect the lives of citizens with a new coat of paint. The judge orders the city to paint it.

Max is thrilled, this feels so good. This is the third time the layer has won a case about the intersection and the city has painted it yet.

In the ER, the staff is all getting sick.

Elizabeth tells Rafael that his grandmother’s injuries were worst, then expected, she cracked vertebrae in her spinal column. At her age it is dangerous, but they can treat it. The first option, she wears a back brace for the rest of her life, or to have spinal surgery. His grandmother is unconscious, so her healthcare proxy has to choose and she chooses him to make these medical decisions for her. Rafael is upset, he doesn’t know what to do. Floyd tells him that he has to trust himself enough to make the decision. Rafael says to do the surgery.

Jael is sitting alone playing with blocks, his mother and father tell Iggy that his pediatrician said that he didn’t need to learn ASL, they just needed to encourage him. Iggy asks them if the therapy, and exercises are working, if can they hold a conversation with him. His mom says he has 78 words in his vocabulary, an average two-year-old has 150. Iggy says his behavior is normal, he needs a language of his own even if they don’t understand it, and his world is closing.

The lawyer, Callie, sets up a meeting for Max with the Deputy Commissioner for roadway repair and maintenance for the city of New York. Max tells him about the order to repaint the intersection. Callie tries to bribe the commissioner and Max will have nothing to do with it and walks away.

Lauren and Mark are treating a patient who had a stick stuck in his abdomen.

Iggy looks right at Jael and tries to communicate with him, it goes very well. He brings him into an operating room where Elizabeth is working and tells him that she is deaf and is successful and he can be too.

Iggy speaks to Jael’s parents, he tells them there is a school, but he has to live there and will teach him sign language and help him to communicate. Jael wants to go.

Floyd’s father asks him for $100 and instead, Floyd gets him taken in for a temporary psych eval, when he is father called him on his cell phone he was darting in and out of traffic on foot and could have been killed.

Lauren gets a message from her sister, she hears someone else mention Leo’s clique and Lauren Googles it.

Rafael regret’s his decision about his grandmother, he tells Floyd that he forced him to make the decision and he choose what he thought his grandmother would want him to do. Rafael goes in to see his grandmother.

Iggy is walking by a fitness room and goes inside, he lifts a weight and feels something.
Lauren heads to where she thinks her sister might be.

Callie takes the money Max paid her and buys paint and brushes, he gets hospital staff to lend a hand and paint the crosswalk on their own.

## Cast

* Janet Montgomery as Dr. Lauren Bloom
* Jocko Sims as Dr. Floyd Reynolds
* Tyler Labine as Dr. Iggy Frome
* Sandra Mae Frank as Dr. Elizabeth Wilder

Guest Starring* Conner Marx as Ben Meyer
* Kathryn Prescott as Vanessa Bloom
* Matthew Jeffers as Dr. Mark Walsh
* Alejandro Hernandez as Casey Acosta
* John Earl Jelks as Horace Reynolds
* Amaia Arana as Roxana Zamaya
* Olivia Khoshatefeh as Dr. Yasmin Turan
* Ehad Berisha as Resident Huxley
* Chloe Freeman as Resident Pavan Carey
* Stacey Raymond as Paramedic Kerry Whitaker
* Em Grosland as Nurse Kai Brunstetter
* Natalie Woolams-Torres as Chary Gonzalez
* Justin Huen as Josh Gonzalez
* KJ Aikens as Rafael
* Oliver Reilly as Jael Gonzalez
* Deleon Dallas as Ray-Ray
* Sandra Rodriguez as Marla the Docent
* Kim Blanck as Lawyer AJ Branca
* Alice Niedermair as Anesthesiologist
* Jeaniene Green as Judge Evangelous
* Ron Scott as Head Painter Dougie
* Calvin Peters as Uniformed Officer
* Darla J. Robinson as Painter Jeanie
* Ned Van Zandt as Curt Waldichuck
* Vince Eisenson as Timor
* Riti Sachdeva as Patron
* Raz Ayer as Turkish Ice Cream Vendor
* Delores Hunter as Grandma Ana Linares