ER (season 15)
ER (1994–2009) is a long running medical drama, airing on NBC, that follows the lives of doctors and nurses in a Chicago emergency room.
Life After Death [15.01]
[edit]- Abby: Everything was going really well. Until the ambulance blew up.
- [Greg has had a surgical airway put in]
- Chaz Pratt: You can't talk with that thing?
- [Greg shakes his head no]
- Chaz Pratt: Good. So you get to listen to me tell everyone about how many times I kicked your ass on the court.
- [Greg rolls his eyes and writes something down]
- Morris: [Reading what Greg wrote] "I'm busy now. Can I ignore you some other time?"
- Morris: Raise your cheese as we embrace the memory of our colleague, our mentor, our chief, our dear friend... To Greg!
Another Thursday at County [15.02]
[edit]- Sam: [to Morris about Banfield] One minute she's a raging bitch, the next, she's Mother Teresa.
- Frank: [handing a chart to Morris and Sam] Hey! See this guy, will you? He's been waiting five hours already. [he walks away]
- Morris: [pauses, and then loudly, with sarcasm] Oh, so sorry, Frank! We were eating bonbons in the bubble bath! Totally lost track of time!
- Banfield: Dr. Morris, mind if I give you feedback?
- Morris: Here we go.
- Banfield: Control your emotions.
- Morris: Can we not do this?
- Banfield: Act like a leader...
- Morris: Oh, come on. All the criticism, the bullying. That's how you get people to respect you?
- Banfield: You have been storming around, sulking all day. You are an attending physician, not a toddler. Did you think that I was finished?
- Morris: You know what, lady? Shut up! [long pause] We have been through hell here the last few weeks, but somehow we're getting through it and you know how? [voice rising] By showing up here every day and dedicating ourselves to this work. [shouting] You don't know us! You don't know this place! And the last thing we need is for some stranger to come in here and tell us how it's done!
- Banfield: [very softly] I know that you lost a friend. [pause] And I'm sorry about that, but we will never have a conversation like this again. Understand?
- Crenshaw: I am stuck with a new intern, and the ER was the target of a bioterrorist attack.
- Dubenko: Mm-hmm, I used to call that a Thursday.
- Gates: Talk to the patient!
- Wade: Oh, um, okay... so how did you become a bioterrorist?
The Book of Abby [15.03]
[edit]- Morris: I keep thinking about what he said... The last words of Greg Pratt were, "Don't screw it up, Morris."
- Abby: You won't. If I were in trouble, Archie, I would call for you. [Morris looks at her doubtfully] I would. I would trust you with anything. And I didn't always feel that way, but I do now.
- Abby: You know, you won't really have me to beat up on, after tonight.
- Banfield: So I understand. You know, despite some... obvious issues with authority, I'm wondering why you're leaving.
- Abby: For my family. I have a husband and a little boy. You know, we just sort of need a... fresh start.
- Banfield: [nods] How old is your son?
- Abby: A little over two.
- Banfield: That's a great age. I love that age. [pause] Well, your shift's almost over... Nice knowing you.
- Abby: Good luck here. [they shake hands]
- [Haleh is showing Abby the wall where all the doctors have put up their locker tags over the years]
- Haleh: Some we had to put up for them- Dr. Greene, Greg. You're the only one who's ever gotten to do two.
- Abby: [looking at the tags] I don't see Carter up there.
- Haleh: No, he wouldn't do it. He said it was defacing government property. s[he and Abby laugh, Abby puts up her and Luka's tags] We're gonna miss you so damn much. [she and Abby hug]
- Frank: [after Abby shows him how to dance properly] I've been stumbling around here all day! What were you waiting for?!
- Abby: Where is everybody?
- Frank: There's a double run coming in.
- Abby: [she takes a stapler off the desk and puts it in her bag of personal items] I'm takin' this.
- Frank: [shrugs] I'm not here.
- Abby: Me neither. [she heads for the doors]
- Frank: Hey. [Abby turns around] Tell that big Croat to bring you back for a visit sometime.
- Abby: [smiles, walks out] Keep your head up, Frank.
- [As Abby leaves County for the last time, Brody, Chuny, Gates, Sam and Morris have gathered in the ambulance bay; everyone except Morris knows she is leaving for good]
- Abby: Well, I guess I let the cat out of the bag, huh? [pause] This kinda group thing, I was kinda hoping to avoid. But, um, Luka's picking me up, and since you're all here- I just wanna say it's been a great decade.
- Morris: Excuse me? What the hell?
- Sam: She's leaving, Archie.
- Morris: When?!
- Gates: Now, you idiot.
- Morris: What? You are- you are? [Abby nods, the others giggle, Morris walks up to her and hugs her] You never said anything!
- Abby: [bemused] I just, I- kinda thought you got the idea.
- Morris: I didn't! [looks to the others, then hugs her again] I didn't!
- Abby: Well, I- you know, Archie, it's amazing that you've managed to make my last moment here about you. I love that.
- Morris: I love you too! [everyone laughs]
- Abby: Okay... [Morris finally lets go of her] I'm gonna miss you guys. We'll be thinking about you... so long.
- Chuny: Bye, Abby. [Abby smiles, nods and walks out to the bay entrance, where Luka is waiting for her]
Parental Guidance [15.04]
[edit]- [Gates is leaning against the desk, yawning]
- Banfield: Am I boring you, Dr. Gates?
- Gates: Oh, sorry. It's the 6:00 a.m. shift; my brain is here, but my body isn't.
- Mrs. O'Fallon: [about Claire] You know, about a month ago, I... um... caught her throwing rocks at the neighbor's dog. And then a few days later, she was trying to stick a metal rod through one of the fish in our tank. And I just tried to pretend it was normal. You know, just a kid acting out. I don't get it. Why her? Why our family?
- Banfield: I don't know.
- Mrs. O'Fallon: That's all you can say? You can't lie to me and tell me that she's gonna be okay? That she's gonna grow up to be a normal girl? I mean, that's why we come here, to get answers. You're gonna have to do better than that.
- Banfield: I'm sorry. That's all I have.
- Mrs. O'Fallon: Well, that's not good enough, doctor.
- Banfield: Claire, we have video cameras in the ceilings of our trauma rooms. We saw you adjust the ventilator and light the sheet on fire.
- Claire O'Fallon: I didn't want to kill her. I just wanted to mess her up.
- Banfield: You did.
- Claire O'Fallon: If she's in the hospital, Mom will see what a good girl I am. She won't be blaming me for everything.
- Banfield: Is that why you pushed her off the wall?
- [Claire doesn't answer]
- Banfield: Claire, they're accusing your mother of child abuse which means she could go to jail, and your sister and you could both go to foster homes. Now, something tells me that she doesn't hit you two and she didn't push your sister. Did you do it, Claire? Did you?
- Claire O'Fallon: It was cool seeing her lying there all pale, with blood coming out. And then when she couldn't move, and her legs were getting burned. It was great.
- Banfield: That made you feel good?
- Claire O'Fallon: Really good.
- Brenner: I'm not going to beg, but one day you are going to wake up next to me and you are going to wonder, how did this happen? And I'm going to smile and remind you that I predicted this over coffees and chocolate glazed donuts.
- Neela: You are a cocky bastard.
- Brenner: Yeah, but I'd be a correct cocky bastard and that's all that would matter.
- Mugger: I can't believe I mugged a doctor.
- Sanchez: Not just a doctor, she's the chief.
- Mugger: What the hell is that supposed to mean? Is she an Apache or something?
Haunted [15.05]
[edit]- Barnett: So, that Brenner guy...
- Neela: Uh-huh?
- Barnett: Kinda seems like a dick.
- Barnett: Uh, who's that?
- Neela: Uh, new Chief of the ER.
- Barnett: Another one. How many does that make?
- Neela: I've lost count.
- Brenner: They're good kids. Why don't you stop screwing them up?
- Annie Raskin: What do you know about it?
- Brenner: You're sleeping with a high school boy.
- Annie Raskin: Mike is 18. We're adults.
- Brenner: No, he is a kid. He sees you as nothing more than an easy lay and he's not afraid to say it.
- Annie Raskin: Mike didn't mean to say those things. He loves me.
- Brenner: You know what? He really doesn't.
- Annie Raskin: I'm not talking to you about this...
- Brenner: Talk with Social Services and the boys too. I called them.
- Annie Raskin: You have no right.
- Brenner: Scott has seen way more than he should've. He tries to protect his brother. He's not the parent, you are, so why don't you start acting like it? You have done a number on these kids and that is gonna last a long time.
- Annie Raskin: Go to hell.
- Brenner: Just fix your life, lady. It's not too late.
- Scott Raskin: [about his mom] She's a whore.
- Brenner: You shouldn't say that.
- Scott Raskin: Then why does she act like she does? Lets us go to bed when we want. Never yells at us to do homework. We can have friends over any time.
- Brenner: Some kids would love that.
- Scott Raskin: She lets us drink. Better at home than some strange place, she says, but then, uh... she starts drinking with us. starts flirting with the guys.
- Brenner: Does Danny know what's going on?
- Scott Raskin: When he was younger, I could make stuff up. Now he's in the same school. I hate her.
- Brenner: I know she's let you down. I get that, but try not to hate her. That's not gonna get you anywhere.
- Brenner: We work under a lot of stress, so when something good does happen, why not enjoy it, just have some fun?
- Banfield: There is no room for levity in the ER.
- Brenner: No offense, but if that's your attitude, then your day is always gonna suck.
Oh, Brother [15.06]
[edit]- Morris: [about Chaz] He's smarter than I ever was.
- Frank: That ain't saying much.
Heal Thyself [15.07]
[edit]- Banfield: When your parents are gone, you're an orphan. Your spouse dies, you're a widow or widower. But when you lose your baby... there's no word for that.
- Morris: Your son died in this ER and you're working here?
- Banfield: I'm not sure why I've done anything I've done since that day. Why'd I not leave my apartment for almost 2 years? Then I see the news about the tsunami and I fly to a place 10 thousand miles away. Why'd I do that? Why'd I come back? Why did my son have leukemia? I never understood any of it.
- Gates: Can I hug you? I wanna hug you.
- Banfield: You try that and you'll be the one with a traumatic injury.
- Banfield: I used to think every day that, if God told me I could die and go to heaven and be with Daryl, I would do it. [pause] I wondered if that made me an awful person that I'd give up my life with you, give up everything we could still have in the future. [long pause] I never really got away from the feeling like I need to be with him, dreaming of him. Never got away from the idea, that somehow I'd be able to hold him again. [she pictures him, outside on a beautiful, sunny day, running towards her, into her arms, and they are both smiling, laughing, joyful] I've, I've been so afraid for so long. I don't want to be... afraid... anymore. [she breaks down and cries softly, Russell gently comforting her]
- Banfield: [to Sandra] I've been doing this too long to make promises, but I'll tell you losing control is not going to help her. If that's what you gotta do, do it outside. In here, you be the mom, you be calm, you put energy into helping your girl fight back because that's what she needs.
Age of Innocence [15.08]
[edit]- Dubenko: [to Neela] The reason they call this a teaching hospital is because this is where doctors give back. If you're only interested in becoming a rock star, Dr. Rasgotra, I suggest you look elsewhere. We don't need you here.
- Morris: We're all dying. Stress just gets you there faster.
- Brenner: [about Neela's lawsuit] Look, I'll speak to Anspaugh, and I bet it'll get tossed out.
- Neela: Yeah, it better, or else I'll be doing a ho stroll down Division street.
- Morris: [after learning that Simon had been molested as a child] Simon, do you need to talk to somebody about this? It doesn't just go away.
- Brenner: [whispering] I need to get back to work.
- Morris: If it's still affecting you, you have to deal with it.
- Brenner: I am dealing with it, in my own way.
Let it Snow [15.09]
[edit]- [Archie is trying to get a group of physicians to participate in singing "Let It Snow"]
- Morris: [singing] Oh, the weather outside is...
- [he thrusts the microphone in a man's face, to no response]
- 'Morris: [singing] ... frightful/But the fire is so...
- [he thrusts the microphone in a woman's face, to no response]
- Morris: No winners yet! [singing] ... Delightful/And since we've no place to go/Let it...
- [he thrusts the microphone in Cate's face]
- Banfield: Stop! Let it stop! Make it stop!
The High Holiday [15.10]
[edit]- [Dr. Sanchez is eating a patient's Jell-o]
- Banfield: What are you doing?
- Sanchez: Wiggling and jiggling.
- Dubenko: Are you coming to the Christmas party this year?
- Neela: Yes. As long as it's not like last year.
- Dubenko: Why, what happened?
- Neela: Greg pinched my butt!
Separation Anxiety [15.11]
[edit]- Gates: Look, what happened was horrible, but Sarah and Alex are going to be okay!
- Sam: A girl died, Tony and my kid came very close. That is not okay. You know what? You do you, and I'll do me, and we should just go our separate ways, okay?
Dream Runner [15.12]
[edit]- Neela: [voice-over] The toughest thing about being a doctor isn't the terrible hours. It isn't the loneliness, the isolation, or the knowledge that, one day, we all lose out to the relentless decay of the human body. No. It's something else.
- Neela: [voice-over] The care of every patient is a twisty maze that leads to an infinite number of potential outcomes. We hope that knowledge and experience guide us, but sometimes it becomes obvious a wrong turn was made.
- ...
- Neela: [voice-over] If only it were possible to apply the wisdom of our mistakes, go back to the fork in the road, and this time, be assertive. Choose the road we think we should take, not the path of least resistance.
- Banfield: [after the death of a patient] We can't see the future.
- Morris: Sometimes we can, actually with this handy new technology called the CT. You heard of it?
- Banfield: Fine. Do I wish I could do it over? Yeah, I do. There was no way to know.
- Morris: Gates was begging to get the scan.
- Banfield: Gates is a resident.
- Morris: Don't make this about hierarchy. If any of us refuse to hear another opinion, the entire system breaks down.
- Banfield: What system? You guys don't have a system. All I see here is chaos and disorder.
- Morris: Well, maybe that's the problem. Maybe that's why after five months, you still don't get it. You still don't fit in.
- Banfield: Fit in? This isn't junior high.
- Morris: We are a team. We work together, but you think that you're so much better than all of us, so much smarter, you'll never let yourself be part of it. If you wanna be a queen, go into private practice, go back to Indonesia, leave medicine altogether, but don't torture us here.
- Brenner: [to Neela] You don't have to know exactly where you're going, you just have to keep moving forward. That is the key to happiness, really.
- Neela: [voice-over] For some patients, there is no road to recovery. Nothing we do as doctors will alter the outcome. At least that's what we tell ourselves.
- ...
- Neela: [voice-over] When their way doesn't work and your way doesn't work, you've got to accept defeat or find another way.
Love is a Battlefield [15.13]
[edit]- Chuny:[about Gates] Oh, you still love him? What are you going to do?
- Sam: I plan on being irrationally hurt and angry for as long as I like.
- Chuny: [smiles] Sounds good.
- [Archie is looking at buying a minivan]
- Morris: If I drive it, they will come.
- Chuny: Who will come?
- Morris: My future wife, kids, and our dog, Buster.
- Brenner: You worked at the Jumbo Mart?
- Neela: Uh, yeah, a few years ago. I was sorting things out. Wanted to make sure medicine was right for me.
- Frank: Thank God she came back.
- Neela: Thanks Frank, that's sweet.
- Frank: You never made the right change.
- Brenner: You've been married and divorced three times to each other?
- Harry Feingold: What can I tell you? I'm a glutton for punishment.
- Gates: All right, any pain in the stomach?
- Barbara Feingold: Not really. But I do have a pain in my ass, and he's standing two feet away.
- Neela: Why do you have to be so damn...
- Brenner: What? Charming, sexy, kind of good at math?
- Neela: Ok, yes, I did think about you the whole time you were away. You happy now?
- Brenner: Yes. Why are you so mad?
- Neela: Because I like you. I don't want to, but I do, and I... want to be with you. There, I said it. Just go ahead and gloat now.
- Brenner: Gloat? Why would I gloat?
- Neela: Because you predicted it. Go ahead. You know you want to.
- Brenner: I'd rather do something else. [leans over and they kiss]
A Long, Strange Trip [15.14]
[edit]- [Dr. Oliver Kostin, the doctor who founded the County ER, is now a patient]
- Morgenstern: I was pre-med, volunteering at the hospital when they made him chief in '68. Back then, the ER was a glorified walk-in clinic, where you were seen by unsupervised interns, and residents with no training. And the community ERs were even worse. Staffed by moonlighting dermatologists and psychiatrists, or drunks who'd been banned from private practice. There was no 911, no paramedics, and if you needed an ambulance, you called a funeral home. Ollie once said: "You stand a better chance of surviving a gunshot wound in Vietnam than a car crash in Chicago." But he changed all that. He developed the 911 system, he trained thousands of paramedics, and started one of the finest residency programs in emergency medicine. You're all here because of this guy.
The Family Man [15.15]
[edit]- [Archie is dressed up as a superhero for a kid's birthday party]
- Philip: You're not Superhero Gary!
- Morris: Of course I am! Yeah, I'm Superhero Gary! I'm the strongest man in Chicago. With the... behold my biceps of superness!
- Kid #1: Those are fake!
- Philip: Your hair looks different.
- Kid #1: And his legs!
- Kid #2: Superhero Gary has man legs!
- Morris: These are my bionic legs! Yes, for leaping buildings in a single bound!
- Kid #2: What's a bound?
The Beginning of the End [15.16]
[edit]- Gates: Women: can't live with them, can't shoot them.
- Dawn: What are you doing?
- Martin: Oh, nothing, just drilling into the brain.
- Dawn: Good luck with that.
- Martin: Does the brain feel more like Jell-o, or like butter?
- Carter: Looks like you followed my advice, Archie.
- Morris: How's that?
- Carter: You set the tone.
- Banfield: So tell me, when did you first work here?
- Carter: I was a med student in the ER in 1994.
- Banfield: You know Mark Greene, then?
- Carter: Yeah. I knew Mark Greene. Yup. I learned a lot from him.
- Banfield: ...When can you start?
T-Minus-6 [15.17]
[edit]- Neela: What about your parents? Do you have brothers and sisters? I don't know anything about you.
- Brenner: Aliens dropped me from a spaceship just outside of Perth as a fully formed adult in 2007. I'm two in Earth years, but I really love this planet.
- Sam: [about her mom] I don't even know what to say to her.
- Gates: Uh, I'm sure you'll figure it out.
- Sam: Yeah, I just hope it's not something like, uh, "Why did you have to be such a crappy mom?" or "Why couldn't you just stay in Dallas and die?"
- Tony: I'm guessing you'll come up with something better.
- Dubenko: [Asking about the mother of four that they are treating] How's her carbon monoxide level?
- Banfield: 29%, but she's not stable enough for hyperbaric.
- Dubenko: Exactly, neither is Carter's patient. So can you please explain to me why he won't listen to reason?
- Banfield: Sometimes reason doesn't get you anywhere.
- Dubenko: Excuse me?
- Banfield: We have four kids that could be orphans despite all reasonable efforts.
- Dubenko: Yeah, that's part of the deal. That doesn't mean we can start abandoning protocol.
- Banfield: Carter was out in the field. Without all the technology, you're gonna listen to your gut. Can't say I blame him. Looks like reason's having a bad day.
What We Do [15.18]
[edit]- Neela: Look, a terrible thing was done to you. I understand that. I hate that it happened. But somewhere, in all of what's gone on between us, one thing is clear--we're not meant to be together. Doesn't mean we don't care about each other deeply but... You know, I truly believe there's something better out there for both of us, whenever we're ready for it.
- Brenner: Better.
- Neela: Something more right.
- Morris: That is an ER attending coding on the table, and this is not a teaching case. So please, turn around, walk out, get your attending, and come back now.
- Haverman: I'm sure Dr. Wheeler would prefer if I at least examined...
- Morris: I'm trying to remain professional here, Emily, but if you're not walking away from me within three seconds, I swear to God, I may start doing compressions on your head!
- Carter: Morris. You saved me? I'll never live it down.
- Frank: What you're about to see is a document of those who serve as the gatekeepers. My name is Martin... Frank Martin.
- Jerry: Jerry Markovic.
- Frank: The few, the proud...
- Frank Martin, Jerry Markovic: The desk clerks!
- Carter: I reached a point about 5 years ago, where I started to feel that every day was the same thing, and I'd had enough. But I've been through a lot of stuff since then. And now, [pause] I try to embrace the idea that everything that happens has never happened before. Like, the saying that you can't stand in the same river twice, because by the time that you come back, it's not the same river, and you're not the same man. [pause] Anyway... I look around at this place now and can't imagine ever finding it boring, because right at the moment that you think you've seen it all, something happens that you never could've expected. [the monitor starts to beep, and Carter turns the sound off, smiles at the camera, then sighs deeply with a serious look on his face]
Old Times [15.19]
[edit]- [Carter is waiting for his surgeon to arrive]
- Carter: Does anybody know when he's coming? How about a rough estimate? More than a minute, less than a hockey season? More than an hour, but less than the lifespan of a giant redwood tree.
- Benton: Carter.
- Carter: I'm so hungry, thirsty. I'm tired. I'm cold. My arm just fell asleep.
- Benton: Stop being a baby.
- Carter: Plus I feel like I'm hanging out of this thing. Can someone cover up my crotch please?
- [Sam and Neela are on their way back to Chicago with donated organs]
- Sam: How much time do we have?
- Neela: Eight hours. Eight hours until this heart needs to be beating in a chest or we might as well chop it up and use it a shepherd's pie.
- Sam: [Bringing in coffee and bagels] The cappuccino machine is broken, so no lattes.
- Neela: No lattes in Seattle. Is that some sort of cruel joke?
- Brenner: [to Lucy] You know, having someone that you really care about, who you really love, who's sick, that's a lot like running a marathon. Be sure to take one step at the time, one day at the time, but if you keep running and having faith that it'll happen, then one day, eventually, you finish the race.
Shifting Equilibrium [15.20]
[edit]- Brenner: The truth is a time bomb, but once it's out, it can't hurt you anymore; you can move on, you can move forward.
- Neela: So many times in my life I failed to take a chance, even when it was clear to everyone else, including me, that I should have.
- Haleh: Did that soft collar come down from central?
- Frank: Yes.
- Haleh: Were you going to tell me, or keep me waiting?
- Frank: I forgot! So shoot me!
- Haleh: Don't tempt me.
I Feel Good [15.21]
[edit]- Gates: Big night? Are you popping the question?
- Morris: Are you crazy? We're still in the honeymoon phase. A year from now, we'll hate each other's guts.
- Gates: And I thought romance was dead.
- Morris: This is totally random, but sometimes I imagine a night, in the future, a night where I would take you out, spend money, make a big deal about it, and it would end like this. [he places a friendship bracelet doubled up in the shape of a ring on Claudia's finger] When I ask you to marry me. What do you think?
- Claudia: I think I'd say yes.
And in the End... [15.22]
[edit]- Frank: Can I help you?
- Rachel Greene: You don't remember me.
- Frank: Should I?
- Rachel Greene: God, it's amazing how little has changed around here... My dad used to be on staff
- Frank: Mmm hmm.
- Rachel Greene: Mark Greene. I'm his daughter Rachel.
- Banfield: Gates, is it my imagination, or is Dr. Carter, who is not on duty by the way, in Trauma One with a patient demonstrating IV placement to a college student.
- Gates: What?
- Banfield: Never mind... Jerry, why is Dr. Carter performing medical procedures on our patients?
- Jerry: Uh... because he's a doctor.
- Carter: Ill begotten gains of my Carter forefathers put to good use.
- Kerry: Redemption?
- Carter: Maybe so.
- Susan: Your grandma would be so proud.
- Carter: Grandfather's rolling over in his grave. He thought the Carter fortune would last longer than the pyramids.
- Susan: You spent it all?
- Carter: No. But most of it.
- Kerry: You've done a great thing here, John. Truly great.
- Kerry: Well I - I can't believe you were actually able to pull this off.
- Carter: You had doubts?
- Kerry: No. I-I was pretty sure you were gonna fail.
- Rachel Greene: [as victims are arriving] Dr. Carter?
- Carter: What? I'm sorry. What?
- Rachel Greene: Are you okay?
- Carter: Yeah. A little deja vu.
- Morris: [as he is wheeling in a patient] Carter. You working?
- Carter: Absolutely!
- Morris: Come on!
- Carter: [to Rachel as he's taking a patient into the ER] Dr. Greene. You coming? [Rachel runs after him]
- Seventh Disaster Paramedic: Tight wheezing throughout the ride, pulse ox 88.
- Morris: Check for singed nosehairs from smoke inhalation. Set up for intubation.
- Eighth Disaster Paramedic: 38-year-old man. 12-foot fall... (final lines in the series)
