Max And Helen's Best Moments On New Amsterdam
By Robert King
When Max first meets Helen in the pilot of "New Amsterdam," the two immediately clash over the hospital's direction. Helen has gotten used to being the face of New Amsterdam in the media and not performing as much surgery, whereas Max asks that she return to her duties as chief of oncology. Originally, the confident and blunt Helen dresses him down for this request, causing the already impressed doctor to joke that "I like her... If she comes back, let's keep her."
But later, Helen chooses to take his advice and comes back to work. When Max asks why, she tells him, "Because of you. People were excited, Max. For the first time in a long time, people are excited again. I want to be excited too." Her reply foreshadows Helen's developing feelings for the chief of medicine, but it also demonstrates why they form a bond in the first place. Both Max and Helen really do care about the hospital, and this common goal helps bring them together over the course of the series.
