John Carter quotes from E.R.

Lucy

Right, Dr. Carter?

Jerry

Please don't call him Dr. Carter. We'll never be able to live with him.

Lucy

What should I call you?

Jerry

He's just...Carter.

Carter

Dr. Carter will be fine.

Carter

Hey, you guys just missed a good one. I sent a guy straight up to the OR. Perfed his intestine with a carrot.

Carol

A whole carrot?

Lucy

How do you swallow a whole carrot?

Carter

Didn't swallow.

Lucy

[embarrassed] Oh, I get it.

Carter

What?

Randi

You're starting to look kinda mythical.

Carter

Okay, party's over; you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here!

Lucy

What's wrong, was the music too loud?

Carter

No, the furniture was too on fire.

Carter

[on the hospital's rooftop] Hi.

Lucy

Thought you went home.

Carter

No - we're on in an hour. It's better not to sleep unless you can get at least three.

Lucy

I wouldn't sleep anyway.

Carter

The crit's up three points, but the renal failure may be permanent. That's if she wakes up.

Lucy

[Upset] I thought we were saving her.

Carter

No... we were giving her her only chance...

Lucy

That's not good enough!

Carter

It has to be.

Lucy

No, it doesn't.

Carter

Some patients get to you more than others, I know. But when you do everything that you can, sometimes even more than you thought you could, you've got to walk away knowing you fought the good fight. You fought the good fight, Lucy. [pauses] Tomorrow you'll fight another one.

Kerry

[after Carter has incorrectly peeled cucumbers] Why don't you chill the Pinot Grigio?

Carter

In the freezer?

Kerry

Don't quit your day job Carter.

Carter

Oh, Chuny. Hi.

Chuny

Hi.

Carter

You got a minute?

Chuny

Sure. What's up?

Carter

Umm. Earlier, with Lucy and I. I'm sure that you have your suspicions about what we were doing in there. But, actually, we were just..

Chuny

Knocking boots?

Carter

What?

Chuny

Doing the old nasty? Hey, the more the merrier, I say.

Carter

Actually we weren't doing anything.

Chuny

Mm-hmm.

Carter

I mean, she's a med student, you know? I'm a..resident.

Chuny

That stuff happens all the time.

Carter

Lucy's like- Lucy's like a little..sister, or something, to me.

Chuny

Ah. You do that with your little sister?

Carter

Nothing happened! We didn't do anything! Do you - Do you hear what I'm tell - and besides, I already have a girlfriend.

Chuny

Ahh. That insurance lady?

Carter

She's a financial advisor.

Chuny

Hm.

Carter

Roxanne and I have a lot in common.

Units are pulling up!

Chuny

She's too pushy, you know. Always trying to sell you something. I'd stick with Lucy. You two make a cute couple.

Carter

We are not a couple!

Carter

Are you back with us?

Lucy

No, I'm still on Psych.

Carter

Well, you'll be back doing real medicine soon, so don't get too used to the cush life.

Lucy

Yeah, I won't.

Carter

[to Chuny] I keep my love life out of the workplace, thank you very much.

Jerry

Since when?

Carter

Can we tell you what happened?

Kerry

I heard what happened. Do you have a brain between you?

Carter

Dr. Weaver, we called them...

Kerry

No, no! I talk, you listen. You work in this hospital not on the street. You are not trained for it. You are not covered for it and you have patients here who need your attention. One of them might've coded, or, or we might have been hit with two or three other traumas while you were off playing paramedic.

Dave

Were you?

Kerry

Don't even start with me Dr. Malucci. I'm only cutting you this much slack because you're new here and you, Carter, you should know better. You're emergency residents, not paramedics. Is that understood? Is that understood?

Carter

That was great, Dave. Thanks, I appreciate that.

Carter

I want you to know that I'm here for you and that for me this wasn't just about...

Sex?

Carter

Yeah, it wasn't about that.

It was for me. And if we're talking "needs" John, I don't need you to feel sorry or worried or tender or anything. I just need you to go away.

Carter

I don't want to go away.

Carter

You did a rotation in Grenada?

Dave

No, Sherlock, I went to med school in Grenada.

Carter

Yeah, I'm actually pretty surprised to see you around here. I, uh, thought you dropped out of medicine after...

Chen

I almost killed that patient by leaving a guidewire in his chest?

Carter

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bring that up.

Chen

Oh yes you did, John. But that's okay. And let's face it, it was kind of a low point. But it did force me to face the truth. I was being way too aggressive. Way too much of an overachiever. Always trying to show people up.

Carter

Well...

Chen

And way too successful at it. I'd left the patient out of the picture.

Carter

Hey, is everything okay?

Greene

Well, my father's barricaded himself in our old house. There's no heat, there's no electricity. He's running around in his underwear so actually everything isn't okay,

Dave

So, uh, Carter... did you know this new resident, Jing something-or-other?

Carter

That's good, screw up her name. That'll impress her.