Kate: God... Aaron... uhm...ah, there's just a lot of stuff going on in my life right now, you know. I mean..., it's just bad timing right now. Okay...?
Aaron: Okay.
Kate: Okay
Aaron: Fine.
Kate: Okay. - You know, Aaron... uhm, I've learned a lot from you, too, and not just in the OR.
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Kate: Aaron!... Aaron. Ah, hi. Look, you wondered if I touched your leg by accident the other night. Well, okay. It wasn't an accident. And - I would love to touch your leg again... along with... other parts of your body, if... you're still interested.
Aaron: What changed your mind?
Kate: I just refused to let my life be held hosted again, that's all.... Ah, I'll explain that whole worrying thing on our date.
Aaron: Well, I can't wait.
Jeffrey: Did you know she was married?
Kate: Ah! I'm not!
Jeffrey: ?
Kate: I am not!
Jeffrey to Aaron: Meet you in the cafeteria.
Kate: Ah... uhm... I'm not married. I (laughing) I'm not married.
Please see... I - I'll explain that on our date too.
Aaron: Okay. Do you care (...?) breakfast?
Kate: Oh nononono. I have to run.
Aaron: Okay... ah..., good, okay.
Kate: Okay... Aaron...
Aaron: Yes. (Kate kissing Aaron)
Kate: See you so okay.
Aaron: Ya. (whispering)
Kate: Okay.
Aaron: (singing that country song fron the OR) I am married in a fever...
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Maggie (to Danny) : "Use a condom. Less senstation might even make you last a few minutes longer."
29. (2-7) "From Soup to Nuts" 11/6/95
Senator Thomason:...actually gentleman I thought we had you slotted for Thursday.
Birch: Yes sir. Thursday at 10 wasn't good for us so we were moved to Monday at 10.
"Evita Peron": (the male minister that married Laurie and Gilbert) Do I know you? I'm pretty sure I know you. (speaking to Geiger)
Camille: "Eva Peron is going to be performing the ceremony?"
Senator Thomason: "I'm sorry sir, you are again please."
Alan Birch: "Alan Birch, General Counsel to Chicago Hope."
Senator Thomason: "I see. Well um, Mr Birch this, um, forum is about talking to doctors, not to lawyers."
[Phillip is watching this happen on TV]
Phillip Watters: "Get him."
Alan Birch: "This forum is ostensibly about medicare. That topic had nothing whatsoever to do with this morning's attack.. "
Senator Thomason: "Well, you'll have to forgive me, but I'm not about to let you turn this into a pissing contest.... "
Alan Birch: "How about allowing me to respond to the allegations made by you with the cameras rolling here. Now if you feel
threatened, senator, we can turn the cameras off. Because I understand you might feel overmatched without the element of
surprise working for you. Again, in theory, any man worthy of a run for Congress should have enough bite to stand behind his
words... Even if they were supplied to him by a campaign committee. "
Senator Thomason: "Do you want to come at me, sir? Do you know what you're up against? "
Alan Birch:" Only that you're a political creature who does not know what he's talking about when it comes to how a hospital
works. Not too late to kill those cameras, sir. "
Senator Thomason: "Oh no, the cameras are running. "
Alan Birch: "Good. Now let's start with some of the facts you left out this morning. Like the fact that in all the experimental
procedures you cited at Chicago Hope, the patients lived and benefited. Not 80%. Not 90, not 99, but 100%. They all got
better. "
Senator Thomason: "At what cost? "
Alan Birch: "At a cost more expensive than death. But you left out that Chicago Hope has the lowest mortality rate of any
hospital in the state. You particularly left out that surgeons there or anywhere sometimes have to make decisions in an instant.
They don't have the luxury of appointing sub committees, to debate the pros and the cons. They don't have the time to consider public opinion polls. They can't take lunch with a lobbyist before choosing what to do. Patients face imminent death, and surgeons sometimes have to improvise without waiting for FDA approval. And yes, occasionally, they resort to untried,
experimental procedures, but your suggestion that it's about playing with toys, who get's to be first, who's ego wins out. That is repugnant, not only to surgeons, but also to the credibility of your office. Only thing a comment like that proves is that obviously you've never been in an OR, senator. Certainly not one at Chicago Hope. "
Senator Thomason: "You should get John Williams to score this match. "
Alan Birch: "Boy you talk about saving Medicare from bankruptcy. Your real intent is to slash its costs to balance your state
and federal budget. Well I'm going to tell you something. [Alan stands up] More people die with your plan, senator. Especially the elderly. HMO's win. For profit organizations flourish. But trauma centers, emergency rooms, they get shut down. So you want to make the hospital the villain here, that's fine. But's it's a government shell game, at the expense of the elderly, at the expense of the poor. And everyone in this room knows it."
[Another Senator speaks up]
Other Senator: "This is not a place for politics."
Alan Birch: "It is entirely about politics. It's about nothing but politics. You single out Chicago Hope because it's rich. You
make a big public attack on a wealthy institution. Eh, cameras rolling. Let's wack at the rich. And then you just hope the poor
don't realize they're the one's getting hammered here. That's who you're sticking it to.So you want my vote, senator, You check
into those hospitals who deliberately overbid Medicare contracts, so they lose them, so they don't have to treat the poor at
fixed rates. You check into HMO's who threaten to shut down doctor's practices, unless those doctors promise to treat
patients on the cheap. You check into insurance companies who promise to provide coverage, and then deny it, 'cause of some
fine print which defines a procedure as experimental. There is a lot of waste, a lot of crap, a lot of wrong for you to go after in health care. But surgeons ain't it. Easy targets, you bet, but they ain't it. So you don't get my vote, Senator Thomason. "
[Alan begins pounding on desk]
"Sloppy work, and YOU DON'T GET MY VOTE! "
Jeffrey: "It's a bad idea to lead with your ass like that."
Alan: "No, you made yourself pretty clear. I'm not one of you. I'm welcome, I'm accepted, as long as I earn it. I'm just sick of having to earn it every day."
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30. (2-8) "Leave of Absence" 11/13/95
Diane Grad: "Sometimes we say things in the heat of the moment that we don't mean, and I just wanted you to know--I meant every word.
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"I'll miss you." Austin
"I'm running late. Kate, your a hell of a woman. I'll deny ever having said it." Geiger.
Kate: I'm gonna (...) breakfast and then go home. Come join me? For the breakfast part!
Aaron: Uhm thanks, but uhm... I uhm...
Kate: Are you okay?
Aaron: Yeah, I think just of Alan almost being killed...
Kate: And that's it?
Aaron: Yeah. I think so.
Kate: Okay... (wants to leave)
Aaron: Oh uhm Kate, uhm, I almost forgot. We're giving uhm... Jeffrey a little surprise party, uhm, you know, and I was ranking
(?)...
Kate: Okay...
Aaron: It... it's gonna be in the conference room, and we're all
getting together and gonna get a cake, and it's secret.
Kate: Okay...
(Kate caresses his cheek, he kisses softly her palm. Then Kate kisses Aaron. Camille rushes in with Alicia.)
Camille: Oh excuse me. I'm sorry.
(to Aaron) I came for your brain.
(to Kate) Alicia likes to suck on it.
(Aaron gets the brain) Thank you. I hope I didn't...?
Aaron: Ah no, not at all.
Kate: No, nothing. Not at all (whispering)...
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Jeffrey (to Alicia): "Your daddy... your daddy um went to visit God. He'll still be looking out for you, but he went to visit God."
Alan: "Guys, please."
Jeffrey: "Come on you little eel, be a man."
Camille: "Daddy's sick, little girl, but he's gonna be all better."
Billy: "Pissing, he's pissing. The eel is pissing!"
Diane: "You expect me to save you? I want you to suffer and then die! You die! You die!!
Phillip: "Take it easy Alan. You were shot seven times."
Alan: "Not respect."
Jeffrey: "I couldn't save her father Phillip. I will damn well save her."
Aaron: "Truth is Jeffrey, you are not a stable person. Outside of this hospital I don't even know if your functional."
31. (2-9) "Stand" 11/20/95
Gieger's not Christ. (Nyland)
Nobody ever told him that. (Kronk)
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Kate Austin (after being threatened with a gun by Diane Grad):
"This job sucks!"
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Aaron Shutt: "What's wrong with my tie?!"
Patient: "It's ugly!"
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Billy: "You called me a Geiger want to be, I have a right to know why!"
Billy: "I don't like being compared to Geiger."
Danny: "Then don't act like him."
Billy: "I don't."
Danny: "Jack Ass!"
Billy: "Monkey Boy!"
Diane: "You think your scares, then image how Alan felt having that thing shoved in his face."
32. (2-10) "The Ethics of Hope" 11/27/95
Kate: "What did you say?"
Billy: "Kitty. It's an affectionate name for Katherine. Everyone calls you it, I just assumed you were ok with it."
Dennis: "It's nice to have you back Diane."
Billy: "I apologize, he gets nervous whenever blacks are in groups."
Danny: "Could you ask your friend not to shoot us. At least not me?"
Diane: "Congratulations Bam Bam, you've got AIDS."
Judge Aldrich: "People should watch where their going."
Aaron: "Then why don't you?"
Judge Aldrich (to Kate): "You might loose some popularity among your colleagues, but from what I understand there's little to loose there."
Diane: "Now he's going to suffer the consequences of AIDS, it would have been more humane just to eat him."
Judge Aldrich: "Do you smell Alan Birch?"
Danny: "Would you sleep on it Camille? I'll write you a script."
33. (2-11) "Christmas Truce" 12/11/95
Kate: Was does yuletide mean anyway?"
Aaron: "I believe it is like hi-tide only you drown faster."
Billy: "Well at least the next time someone says 'up yours' you'll know what it looks like."
Danny: "Merry Christmas from Billy not from me."
Aaron: "Haven't you heard, all of the women in my life develope tumors."
Dennis (to Danny): "You're crazier then Kronk."
34. (2-12) "Transplanted Hope" 1/8/96
Kate: "What do you think?"
Tommy: "I think you just became a bitch."
Kate (regarding Tommy): "He's a rotten maggot infested piece of stool."
Phillip: "You're ex-husband is trying to take you kid away. You're more worried about loosing a procedure, maybe they should take your kid away."
Jeffrey: "Hi, I don't like you."
Tommy: "Can you sing me a song? I promise I wont laugh behind your back like the others."
Jeffrey: "Maybe I do like you?"
Aaron: "People already say I look like George Clooney."
Jeffrey: "Who, who said that? Your mother. You look nothing like him."
John: "This is just a woman thing. What is a hemophheliac kept his brain dead brother alive so that he would have a blood source. That wouldn't bother you would it?"
Camille: "Yes."
Diane: "Absolutely."
Open in Kate's office
Jeffrey (on phone): "I'm gettin everything ready. I'm on my way. Tell Kronk, he'll be assisting. Yeah. I want Camille for the harvest. "
Tommy: "Isn't this Kate's office? "
Jeffrey (on phone still):" I don't care if she's a floor nurse. (Walks out of office into hallway) She loaned it to me. Don't tell her. Excuse me. "
Tommy: "Dr. Geiger. Dr. Geiger. A moment please. Is it true she's obsessed with becoming Chief of Staff? "
Jeffrey: "If you're looking for me to say something negative that you can utilize in your custody battle, let me happily offer this. From what I've seen, she's not only a great doctor. But also an exemplary role model for any child. I'm, uh, sure you've scored big fudge stripes taking Sara for weekend pony rides, cotton candy lunches. But...Kate's been a mother to her every day. Maybe you should leave it like that."
Tommy: "Of course you'd be right since you're never wrong. "
Jeffrey: "No, I was wrong once, very briefly, for the few seconds that I thought I liked you. "
(This is where the two begin talking together)
Tommy: "Such wit. Must be joyous to hear your self talk. I bet you can outgab all those other little voices you hear in your dysfunctional head. What do all those voices say, "Go away," "We don't like you," "You're a pompous, egotistical, self-serving carcase of arrogance"? If so, fear not, you're not crazy. Those are real voices coming from every body who has ever met you. I'd about given up on ever being able to agree with Kate on anything, but on you, encouraged, she has got you pegged. You think if you flap your little self-storm, nobody will notice that? Well you don't say much quality-wise, but quantity, you are spitting flatulence. Your easy tool and one of your more refined qualities. *(I’m not positive on this line, but it sounded like it could be this.)* Wouldn't it be nice if I could follow you around on a daily basis and learn through osmosis. I'm sure I'm could learn soo much from your ooze. Although it does redundent. See, I'm getting a little bored now. Actually, listening to you, I'm finding you less interesting as we speak. Maybe I should take out the stop watch like everybody else and see how long it takes from lift-off to melt-down. "
(Pushes Geiger away who is flicking finger in front of his lips)
Jeffrey: "Is this the part where I go, "He's a genius, he'll want me to surrender." Let me tell you Mr. Wilmette, Kate told me you were fabuolous, but I'm extremely disappointed. It's not that I have expectations. I had none. Until you failed as a father. Keep talking Tommy, you bound to say something profound. By chance every man spits out a gem now and then. Though I'm sure yours are couched in flatulence. Why's your face getting red? You feel somebody beating you in an argument? Somebody's outyapping Tommy Wilmette? I'm shocked. How could that happen with you having two sides of your mouth to talk out of? I'm sitting here trying to figure out how a guy with a 30 million dollar bank account can still be alone in a material world such as ours, where wealth is considered some kind of measure of a person's value. You must have some pretty negative characteristics to have such a bank account, huh? Man, let me see if I can imagine some of them....Vanity, lack of conscience, dishonesty, untrustworthy. Let me know if I reel off something original. Hygiene, let's not forget that, but that actually counts Missy. Yeah! Yap, Yap, Yap (he begin's flicking finger in front of Tommy Wilmette's lips, whereas Tommy pushes him away from him). "
Jeffrey: "I win. I'd go two out of three, but I got surgery."
Jeffrey: "Make sure you take out aall the kelly clamps."
Billy: "That is not funny."
Jeffrey: "This music is unacceptable."
35. (2-13) "Three Men and a Lady" 1/15/96
Kate: "What was that?"
Billy: "That was a basic need."
Phillip: "The good news is that Harold doesn't have Alzheimers, the bad news is that it's terminal."
Billy: "As far as last night, you weren't really good then either."
36. (2-14) "Right to Life" 1/22/96
Billy: "What is it about me that makes these people gravitate to me?"
Billy: "Well than can I at least borrow your make-up?"
37. (2-15) "Hearts and Minds" 2/5/96
Danny: "Buzz Lightyear to the rescue!"
Aaron: "I don't like psychosurgery."
Diane: "You paged?"
Kate: "I did. Hold the wire. Hey Billy this goes for you too. I am not going to save Mr Alden's anxiety over the donor heart so it triggers a sudden arythmia but I will repeat. Pacemaker. Being given a donotated organ is only half the battle for recipients. Post-op recovery ia another major hurdle...
Billy: "Is this be a lecture?"
Kate: "If you need it yeah. Recipients should not mingle with the donor's, got it. The mind plays tricks, it's not a good idea. Don't roll your eyes please. You got a problem with the donor system contact Cindy Grey at ROPA, move your hand. Suture. Pick-ups. And Dr. Grad listen up. Keep your little anthropology analysis to your monkeys if you would, up here we try to save out patients.
Diane leave's the room.
Billy: "Was that really necessary... Kitty?
Kate: "Interesting theory."
Diane: "Oh hey, hey, uh, sit down a second?"
Kate: "Sure."
Diane: "You know I wasn't uh, I wasn't trying to step on your case or anything."
Kate: "I do know that. And listen I am so sorry for that monkey remark. I guess ,I don't know, stress or something."
Diane: "Well you know, with the custody thing, and you probably still dream of Kelly clamps too."
Kate: "No, not lately, but hey thanks for reminding me.
Diane: "Oh, sorry. Anyway I do know what stress can do. But I try not to vent on other doctors, especially when they are trying. And particularly when it's possible that they may be right. That public attack in the OR was out of line I would have told you so then but I didn't want to inflame the situation. That kind of stuff doesn't fly with me and if you ever do it again and I absolutely will return the fire, okay."
Kate: "Okay."
Diane: "Well, enjoy your lunch!"
38. (2-16) "Women On the Verge" 2/12/96
Kate: "So what do you want when you grow up?"
David: "To be alive."
39. (2-17) "Life Lines" 2/26/96
Kate: "Oh, what do you know about women?"
John: "I'm a gynecologist."
Billy: "I want to try an intestinal transplant. It's pretty radical yeah, I know the success rates kind of short. I can't wait for the transplant committee. I just though you should know. Thank you."
Billy (to Kate): "Quit harrassing me."
Kate: "That neanderthol Kronk had the nerve to slap me with a sexual harrassment suit."
Phillip: "You understand that if you press on with this suit either the hospital or I will get caught in the crossfire."
Billy: "Then get ready to duck Phillip."
Camille: "You have treated me and my staff with the same disrespect as the male doctors."
40. (2-18) "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" 3/11/96
Aaron: "Can't two guys be friends without the whole damn hospital thinking they're doing the road show from La Cage Aux Folles?"
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Billy: "Why are you so uptight about sex?"
Diane: "I'm not uptight. Uptight?"
41. (2-19) "Sweet Surrender" 3/18/96
Billy: "Ow, my mister man."
Billy: "I'll have a diet, I'm watching my girlish figure."
Billy: "I want a complete record of everything that just went on in this room, you understand me?"
Kate: "Tell my lawyer I'm dead."
Danny: "Hey Diane, if you decide you ever need to, uh, take a break from all this and wannt to see a movie or something?"
Diane: "Oh thanks."
Danny: "It'd be good for me to be seen with a woman otherwise people might think me and Kronk are an item."
Danny: "Can you imagine, Kronk and Austin? Uugh."
Diane: "I knew this was a mistake from the beginning, but I didn't listen to the voice in my head. Just stay away from me Billy, stay the hell out of my lab."
Kate (about Billy): "Who do I have to sleep with to get him out of my life?"
42. (2-20) "The Parent Rap" 4/29/96
Kate: "Nice clown suit. Are you in the witness protection
program?"
Kate: "Sure Brook, you're gonna heal yourself. You're going to pray real hard and God will clean out your arteries and I'm going to win an Academy Award."
43. (2-21) "Quiet Riot" 5/6/96
Diane and Billy are working on a woman who has just had a heart attack and Ricky is observing.
Billy: Stand back Ricky, she's got a knife.
Diane: Ricky you will find as you grow into a medical profession
(scapel) that the concept of male chauvinist pig is still very much alive and well. In fact it is flourishing bigger and better than ever. In the ethically bankrupt world of private medicine, the balance of power is, as always, extremely one sided. (Spreaders) Apeman doctors like Billy here and Danny possess enormous egos surpassed only by their unwillingness in their
deepest and profound moments of emotional nakedness, to recognize that women are as capable if not superior when it comes to diagnosing and treating affairs of the human body. We are more nuturing. We are more compassionate. We are better healers and we have more soul. You seem like a nice kid Ricky. Don't grow up to be a pig.
Billy: She's obviously pre-menstral.
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Billy: "Acceptance is an extremely overrated virtue"
Ricky (referring to Geiger): "Who's the freak?"
Billy: "Ignore that Ricky, the man's got a dark soul."
Ricky: "You're a bit skippy in the head aren't you?"
(both are talking about Danny Nyland)
44. (2-22) "Ex Marks the Spot" 5/13/96
Aaron (to Danny): "I'll keep this simple for you, keep it in your pants. Keep it in your pants or it will have professional repurcussions for you."
45. (2-23) "Last One Out, Get the Lights" 5/20/96
Aaron: "You seem to be a pretty smart guy...how did you wind up marrying Kate Austin?"
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