John Carter quotes from E.R.

When your brother died, the thing I hated the most was other people's platitudes. There are no words... You don't know how you find the strength, but somehow you do. You can have another child... It was an accident, a tragic, unforeseeable accident.

Carter

The whole thing was an accident.

No, it wasn't. You love each other. Everybody can see that.

Carter

I don't know that she'd wanna have another baby with me.

Sure she will. Give it some time.

Carter

I don't know what happened.

Luka

You had a rough time. It's not hard to understand.

Carter

I guess. I just thought it would help somehow.

Luka

Help what? What else is going on?

Carter

Nothing. I'm fine.

Luka

You looked bad all day. I wasn't the only one who noticed.

Carter

Well, I did get hit in the head by a psycho patient.

Luka

You can talk to me, John.

Carter

I've been having trouble sleeping. I keep having these dreams. I miss her. And I miss the baby. And I miss all the stuff I thought we were going to have. And I don't know how to get any of it back.

Carter

How's the night shift going?

Luka

Ugly- but it's been quiet for the last hour or so.

Carter

Well, that won't last. Sunburns, blown-off fingers, potluck food poisoning- nothing like the E.R. on the Fourth of July.

Luka

You sound like you're looking forward to it.

Carter

Anytime you mix alcohol, gunpowder and the great outdoors, you're in for a good time.

Elizabeth

This whole transplant situation, the new staff, my four-year-old daughter... it's all helped me see things more clearly. Mark's gone. So many of my friends are gone. There's... there's no reason to stay. Not for me. Not for Ella. I suppose I've known that for a long time now, but it's It's just hard to move on, isn't it? Would you apologize to everyone for me?

Carter

Aren't you gonna come by and see everybody before you go?

Elizabeth

I'm not much for goodbyes. They make me cry, truth be told.

Carter

If you want me to tell anyone anything?

Elizabeth

Tell them, uh... It's been lovely.

Kerry

If we don't get our patient-satisfaction scores up, we can't start pursuing HMO contracts.

Luka

Okay, who's low?

Susan

Ray, Neela, Morris-

Carter

Abby's the only one with a decent score.

Kerry

Even Pratt's been on the low end.

Luka

I think Pratt's okay with the patients. It's the other doctors he has a problem with.

Luka

Do you have an intern on this?

Carter

I got Ray.

Luka

Uh... what do you think about taking Neela instead?

Carter

Why, is there a problem?

Luka

Just do me a favor, okay?

Carter

Alright, send the Punjabi powerhouse my way.

Susan

Students want to be residents, residents want to be attendings...

Carter

Yeah, and attendings just wanna be left alone.

Pratt

I'm a third-year resident. I've been ordering my own scans since I've been here. What's that about?

Susan

It's about me making the rules.

Pratt

Come on. That's stupid. [to Carter] Come on, man. Back me up.

Carter

It's her ER.

Susan

Sorry, Pratt. It sucks to be you.

Carter

[calling the pizza place] What do you think? Large pepperoni and mushroom?

I think I love you.

Carter

I... would like to place an order for delivery, please.

Carter

Look, I'm sorry.

Who was it?

Carter

It was stupid, it was rude and I'm sorry. Can we go back inside please?

Is this a little diversion for you until she comes back to the States?

Carter

It's freezing out here.

Go back inside, John.

Carter

Hey, hey, I had a baby with her. What am I supposed to do? Cut her out of my life completely because I'm with you now?

Are you with me?

Carter

Can we just please go back inside? Don't, come on, don't walk away! OK, so that's it. One phone call and you're gone, huh?

One phone call? You were in bed with me, John. You could have mentioned that, somewhere between "how are you" and "how's the weather."

Carter

Look, we spend every night together, we enjoy each other's company, we have fun. Alright. I know what you want me to say, and....and I can't say it, OK? I'm sorry.

Well, at least you're honest.

Carter

Look, it doesn't mean that we can't...

Yeah, it does. [walks away]

Carter

[sighs] Wendell!

Carter

When I was a student on my surgical rotation, Rubadoux's wife was very sick. She was part of this research study. When her results, uh... when she was no longer useful, there was a lot of pressure to get her out. So I did. I dumped her into a nursing home.

Abby

Did she belong in one?

Carter

We all figured she'd end up back in the hospital which would be on Medicine's shoulders, not ours.

Abby

So...? Surgery dumps another patient on Medicine. Happens every day.

Carter

I told Rubadoux that she was going to get better, told him that her situation was going to improve, told him what he wanted to hear... you know, when you're a student, you're so desperate for approval. You want everybody to like you: you want your patients to like you, you want their families to like you. Gotta be efficient too, though. You gotta impress your superiors.

Abby

Yeah, you don't have to tell me. I'm still on the bottom rung of the ladder.

Carter

I mean, when the Chief of Surgery tells you to get rid of her, you get rid of her.

Abby

Yeah.

Carter

And then she came back three days later, and she died and Rubadoux was so surprised. Ultimately it was the Attending's fault. It wasn't my responsibility.

Carter

I need to know everything about your patients. I need to know the status of every single one of them. I need to know how they are, where they are, where they're going, why they're going. You're still an intern, Ray. I'm the attending. I'm responsible.

Ray

I'm sorry.

Luka

John! What happened on the Morris meeting?

Carter

I don't know. I left.

Luka

Kerry's leaning towards him.

Carter

Yeah, well, OK.

Luka

Well, OK?

Carter

We've had worse.

Luka

No, I don't think so.

Jerry

Two words, Pratt: voice mail.

Carter

What's all that?

Pratt

Friends of mine begging me to go to a party after a long 12-hour shift. That's the problem with the non-medical types, they don't get it.

Par-tay tonight at Ike's! The boss man is buying, but don't get used to it. Who's on board?

Carter

[aside] Sometimes the medical types don't get it.

Ray?

Ray

Uh, other plans.

Neela?

Neela

The Apprentice is on.

Carter

You set the tone, Morris.

Huh?

Carter

Never mind.