Fox’s Doc Love Triangle Gets Messy When Michael Sees Amy Kissing Jake

Amy and Jake’s adorable romance on Doc is about to get more complicated after her ex-husband — and their boss — spotted them kissing in public.

In Us Weekly‘s exclusive sneak peek of the episode airing Tuesday, February 25, Amy (Molly Parker) and Jake (Jon Ecker) are enjoying a date before work when Michael (Omar Metwally) drives by and sees them. Amy and Jake’s sweet PDA surprises Michael, who had no idea his ex was dating a resident at their hospital.

The adorable moment between Amy and Jake comes after she realized they were seeing each other before her accident. Doc, which debuted in January, is based on the Italian TV series Nelle tue mani about a doctor who loses her memory in a car accident and wakes up to find her entire life has changed.

Elsewhere in the clip, Amy brings up an email she found while awaiting her board results.

“Does the name Dickson mean anything to you?” she asks Jake. “I found an email in my drafts folder from the day before the accident. The subject is Dickinson and it just says, ‘We should talk about this.’ But I don’t even know who I was going to send it to.”

Jake isn’t familiar with the topic — but viewers are. As the audience already knows, Amy was questioning the care her colleague Richard (Scott Wolf) was providing to a patient who eventually died. She was going to bring it up to her superiors before getting in a crash that left her unable to remember the last eight years.

Earlier in the season, Richard revealed to his wife that he made a mistake and killed a patient.

“[My character on Doc] is my No. 1 favorite in terms of my enjoyment of the complexity,” Wolf, 56, exclusively told Us in January. “I’ve gotten to explore these different medical worlds playing doctors. But I’ve never had a more fun, interesting, complicated and sometimes painful character to play. And to be back working with Fox again after I started with Party of Five [in the ’90s], they are two of my favorite experiences by far. It is full circle in some fun ways.”

Wolf has enjoyed playing “a flawed human being,” adding, “It wasn’t like I had to figure out how to justify a bad guy doing bad things. This was a very good person who any of us could wind up being. But with his circumstances, he winds up in this terrible situation where a mistake has happened and his reaction to it is to just get protective.”

The actor teased to Us that Richard’s arc — and Doc as a whole — will “constantly surprise” viewers.

“It is so well-written and I’m a huge fan of hospital shows, But obviously, this central premise is so interesting, and the character development is incredible. The whole point is to create characters and tell stories that engage people,” he continued. “Sometimes it can take time and the very first episode of a show can make you come away feeling like you only scratch the surface.”

Wolf concluded: “I didn’t know what direction they were going to head in all of them, but it’s amazing to read something and feel like I’ll play any character in this show.”

Doc airs on Fox Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET and new episodes stream the next day on Hulu.