'New Amsterdam' Season 3 Episode 13: Will Dr Iggy's obsessive patient Chance murder him?
Spoilers ahead
We have seen that Dr Iggy Frome (Tyler Labine) has struggled to keep his former patient Chance (Luke Slattery) at bay, in the last few episodes of 'New Amsterdam', even going to the extent of putting out a restraining order against Chance.
However, it seems that none of these measures have worked. In the latest episode of 'New Amsterdam', we see that Dr Iggy is in bed with a bad case of the flu. No, it's not Covid-19. He then is handed a glass of water, which he takes blearily thinking it's his husband Martin McIntyre (Mike Doyle) offering it to him. He then gets up with a jolt when he sees that it is Chance who has entered his bedroom. Chance says that he went to the hospital to meet Dr Iggy because he wants to become better and was told that Dr Iggy is at home unwell.
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Chance tells Iggy that a restraining order against him is excessive, but as we see as the episode moves on that it's clearly not. Iggy though in an attempt to keep Chance calm, hears him out. Iggy even tries to identify with Chance, even though he is clearly shocked when he hears that Chance's family was actually burnt alive by Chance and not in an accidental fire as Chance had told him earlier.
In an attempt to keep Chance from killing him, Dr Iggy tells him that he knows what it's like to kill people and that he killed his own brother who was popular, thin, handsome and who used to make fun of him for being fat. Dr Iggy tells Chance that one day he had enough. When his brother came back from the prom drunk, Iggy called out to his parents that his brother had been drinking. In an attempt to escape his parents' rage, his brother and his girlfriend got back in the car, drove two blocks and then had a massive accident. His brother died on the spot. It's through this tale in which Chance feels he has something in common with Dr Iggy. Dr Iggy also smartly tells his husband to call 911, by telling him to get lentil soup from a little place he loves on ninth and eleventh. For fans who were shocked that Dr Iggy could have put his brother in such a situation, their faith can be restored. Dr Iggy's brother is in fact no more, but he died in Iraq and not at the hands of the kind Dr Iggy.
However it's clear that while Chance has been put away for the time being, the scars of the encounter will remain. Dr Iggy seems to be unable to forgive himself as a human being and as a therapist for lying to Chance. What kind of effect will this have on Dr Iggy and will he and Martin ever be truly safe from Chance? To find out more you can catch the finale episode of Season 3 of 'New Amsterdam' on June 8 at 10 pm on NBC.