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The Knick - Season 1 Episode 05: They Capture the Heat
The series is a look at the professional and personal lives of Dr. John W. Thackery and the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital, where they try to maintain their reputation for quality care while struggling to keep the doors open.
The Knick continued to build up the relationship (ever so slowly) between Thackery and Edwards this week while making dangerous moves to connect Barrow's criminal connections to the hospital.
The Knick is still a bit of a circus built around a large group of characters it doesn't entirely seem to know what to do with, episodes like this help to better define them and point toward individual arcs that factor more concretely in the narrative.
It's been a pleasure watching Steven Soderbergh stress Thackery and Algernon's unspoken shifts in opinion of one another, and "They Capture the Heat" skirts it on the margins.
Despite our decidedly pro-Knick stance up to now, if ever there was an episode in this series so far that stubbornly refused to congeal, They Capture the Heat seems it. Too much stuck when the ideas were thrown at the wall.
This burning desire to play god seems especially suited to the world of doctors. But They Capture the Heat, the fifth episode of The Knick views this ambition as quintessentially, free-floatingly human.
On the other side of the dramatic ledger, when the Captain, in conversation with Thackery, remarked on the heat, Thackery repeated Edwards's comment about the tall buildings - a bit of theft and an unconscious sign of respect.
In an episode full of x-rays and Edison, it's young Lucy, all dressed in white and atop her blue bicycle that is the true symbol of modernity. She is the future.