Season 2, Episode 9 – Kaddish

In flashbacks to early March 2020, Rachel drops Jake off at work. He rehearses how he’s going to tell Amy (whom he calls Dr Larsen) that he has an opportunity at Hopkins and wants to leave Westside. Jake says Amy has been Chief for three months, and it’s been the worst few months of his career. Based on this timeline, Amy became Chief in late November/early December 2019.

Still in early March 2020, the work day starts with Jake asking Amy if he can finally see patients on his own. She says yes, but don’t make any mistakes. Throughout the episode, Amy and Jake work together to identify, advocate for, and treat the first Covid case in Minnesota. We see Amy become more and more impressed with Jake as a doctor and a leader. In the last flashback, Amy reveals that she knows he’s been talking to Hopkins and offers him a letter of recommendation. At that point, though, he’s gone through the trenches with Amy and something has changed. He throws out the letter, and we know he isn’t going anywhere. 

In the present, it’s the day of Jake’s dad’s funeral. Amy texts Jake that she’s there if he needs her. She gets emotional listening to him talk about his dad at the cemetery and is clearly still in love with him. Michael sees Jake and Amy a couple of times throughout the funeral and notices their connection. Jake and Amy steal a few minutes alone to talk. Jake asks how she’s doing, given that she collapsed a couple days ago (Season 2, Episode 8). Jake says he hopes he didn’t send mixed signals when he called her the other night. This throws her off, but she says she’s his friend no matter what. He’s clearly glad she’s there. 

Amy meets both Rachel and Jake’s sister, Allie. While Amy and Allie are sitting at a table together, from afar they witness an emotional conversation between Jake and Rachel. Allie and Amy can’t tell what’s bein said, but we hear Jake telling Rachel that her friend has to leave the funeral because she introduced Rachel to the DJ she slept with. The conversation ends with Rachel touching Jake affectionately. Not knowing that Amy and Jake have dated, Allie tells her that Rachel and Jake can’t shake each other. They always find their way back to each other. Amy looks forlorn.

Jake tells Allie about his last dinner with their dad and that he left him alone with the woman he was dating. Allie wants to know who it was, and Jake tells her about Amy, adding that they aren’t together anymore so she needs to keep it a secret from Rachel. 

Nora is at the funeral with Michael. She talks to Katie on the phone, and we hear them say “I love you” to each other. Nora tells Michael how much she’ll miss Katie when she goes to college. Nora seems to genuinely love Katie. 

While most of the IMO staff is at the funeral, including Hannah, Charlie sends one of Amy’s memory recovery sessions to Nora from Amy’s email account. Nora freaks out, and Michael confronts Amy and Gina about it. From his tone, we know there’s something very damaging in the audio recording. Of course, Amy and Gina have no idea what he’s talking about and says that Amy must have been hacked. Michael calls the hospital IT department and finds out that Amy’s account was the only one hacked. 

Amy and Gina sneak away to listen to the audio recording. It’s the two of them talking about how the kiss between Amy and Michael in the elevator was pretty hot, Michael never stopped loving Amy, and he wasn’t “all there” at his wedding to Nora. Amy realizes that her recent mistakes (forgetting the appointment with Joan and prescribing the wrong dose of medication) were the hacker trying to destroy her. 

Amy tells Jake that she has to leave the funeral because she isn’t feeling well. She tells him that despite the medication suppressing her memory recovery, she had a memory of the dinner with his dad…she says that Jake batted .398 in high school, a detail she could only know from that dinner, and that his dad was really proud to have him as a son. As Jake and Amy gaze at each other in that moment, Rachel notices that there is something between them. Allie confirms it. Rachel confronts Jake, saying that he chose to stay at Westside because he was falling for Amy. Jake says that’s ridiculous. He can’t believe she confronted him about this at his father’s funeral. 

After the funeral, Michael shows up at Amy’s condo and tries to confess his love for her (and probably more), but Amy sees what he’s trying to do and rebuffs him before he can go too far. She tells him to go home to his wife and baby. Michael goes home to find that Nora has moved to her mother’s house with Simon. 

Later that night, Jake shows up at Amy’s condo. Just as he’s about to knock on the door, he gets an email Amy’s account with the damaging memory recovery session attached. Jake is momentarily torn, but ultimately decides to knock on Amy’s door. He tells Amy that he knows a part of them will always love their exes, but he wants to be with her. They kiss.