The Knick

When Dr John Thackery takes his place as a leader of surgery staff, he is pressured by hospital benefactors to hire Black assistant chief, Algernon Edwards, who is determined to learn all he can from Thackery.

Thackery directs Barrow to deliver more cadavers, while Edwards opens a covert basement clinic and is later forced to stand his ground when he has a confrontation with a neighbour.

An old flame needs Thackery's expertise, while Cornelia grows anxious as typhoid spreads to the city's elite.

Algernon makes a risky move to get on the surgical team, while nurse Lucy follows Thackery into Chinatown to investigate his secret life.

Thackery is forced to operate on a thug from Collier's gang, while Algernon tries a new surgery.

Thackery and Bertie vow to reverse a series of operating theatre failures after finding success with a new procedure. Meanwhile, Cornelia helps Speight track down a typhoid carrier and Edwards finds his clinic, and his career, in jeopardy.