Shots Are Fired in “Doc” Season 2 Trailer as Felicity Huffman's New Character Clashes with Amy and Co. (Exclusive)

When Fox's Doc premiered successful January, nan main attraction of nan communicative was subtraction: Dr. Amy Larsen (Molly Parker) was successful a car clang and woke up from a traumatic encephalon wounded missing nan past 8 years of memories.

Now, successful play 2, there's an addition: Felicity Huffman arsenic Dr. Joan Ridley, Amy's erstwhile mentor and friend — and nan caller main of soul medicine astatine nan hospital.

In nan exclusive first look astatine nan trailer, fans tin yet spot Dr. Ridley successful action — and she and Amy aren't precisely connected nan aforesaid page.

"I utilized to tally this department, and now, I'm an intern," Amy tells her, explaining what happened and that she's fundamentally having to restart her profession successful bid to re-learn nan past 8 years of aesculapian advancements. But soon it becomes clear that Jane has her concerns astir Amy.

As Amy's ex-husband and nan hospital's main aesculapian serviceman Dr. Michael Hamda (Omar Metwally) hires Joan, she insists, "I get complete autonomy." This whitethorn beryllium a spot tricky for Michael, who was protective of Amy successful nan first season.

Moments later, Joan speaks to nan infirmary staff: "In 2 months, location will beryllium an charismatic evaluation. Some of you will not past it." Not surprisingly, nan unit looks nervous, particularly third-year resident Dr. Sonya Maitra (Anya Banerjee) and first-year resident Dr. TJ Coleman (Patrick Walker).

When Jane tells Amy she's reviewing her cases, she reminds nan doc, You are still auditioning."

"Well, I'm not going anywhere," Amy responds curtly. "I person lives to save."

The caller play picks up astir 2 days aft nan events of nan play 1 finale, erstwhile Amy's pre-accident boyfriend, Dr. Jake Heller (Jon Ecker), sees her buss Michael, who has remarried and is expecting a babe pinch his caller wife.

"My ex-husband's having a babe pinch different woman, and I person a really bully man who loves immoderate different type of me," Amy explains to her champion friend, neuropsychiatrist Dr. Gina Walker (Amirah Vann). "Without my memories, I'm trapped successful time. I request my life back. Healing group is nan point that I emotion most."

Later, Amy adds, "I request to beryllium nan expert that I was. I will do immoderate it takes." She besides admits she's been having "weird flashes" of memories and suggests, "My brain's trying to pass maine astir something. I request to find retired what happened earlier it's excessively late."

It's clear this speech evolves into Amy and Gina trying immoderate alternatively utmost betterment techniques which could inhibit Amy's expertise to believe medicine.

"That curen protocol you've sewage her connected — it'll make her emotional, distracted, irrational," Joan tells Gina. In different scene, Joan warns some Gina and Amy, "You request to extremity this delirium earlier you ruin some of your careers."

But a mates emotion triangles, a dependable travel of patients pinch life-threatening ailments and people's jobs hanging successful nan equilibrium aren't nan only storylines connected pat this season. The trailer concludes pinch a man firing a weapon successful nan infirmary and TJ charging toward him. It's unclear if TJ — aliases anyone — is hit.

One personification not successful nan trailer is Dr. Richard Miller (Scott Wolf). In play 1, he took complete arsenic main of soul medicine pursuing Amy's accident, which happened conscionable arsenic she'd discovered that he'd made a correction that killed a diligent and past covered it up. At nan extremity of nan season, that correction came to light, and Dr. Miller was fired.

Doc play 2 premieres Tuesday, Sept. 23 astatine 8 p.m. ET/PT connected Fox.