Luka Kovač quotes from E.R.

Luka

I was thinking... I've been thinking. We let things get away from us. We don't have to leave it like that.

Luka...

Luka

No. A lot happened fast. Too fast. Maybe we should just take our time. Make sure we know what we're doing. I don't want this to be one more thing I messed up.

We're pretending, Luka. I don't want to pretend anymore.

Frank

Aren't you two supposed to keep 50 feet apart or something?

Bite me, Frank.

Frank

If you ask me, you're better off without her.

Luka

I didn't.

Abby

Is this a gang shooting?

Luka

Guy used his daughter as a human shield.

Abby

Oh, lovely.

Luka

Yeah.

Luka

...Mad about something?

Abby

[angrily]) What do you think?

Luka

Yes. But I didn't need to go to the debriefing-

Abby

Yeah, I don't care about that!

Luka

What are you talking about?

Abby

I'm talking about you and Clemente! And... whatever is going on between the two of you! If you want to get into a pissing match with him, that's fine, just leave me out of it!

Luka

He was wrong!

Abby

And that's the most important thing, isn't it? He was wrong, and you were right. [pause, tearfully] And while you were arguing about it, the little girl died. As if she hadn't suffered enough. [pause, Luka stares at her] God, she was ten years old, Luka! And he had her for months! And, I just... I just cant-stop-thinking about what she must have gone through, and how afraid she must have been... and I can't stop thinking about why we couldn't save her! I just...

Luka

Haleh?

Haleh

Sam called. Good thing too. It's been over two weeks and my husband was driving me crazy.

Abby

Dr. Kovac.

Luka

[grinning] Dr. Lockhart.

Abby

Luka, there's something not right about Glenda.

Hey, that sounds like a movie: "There's Something Not Right About Glenda", like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," shaky camera and stuff.

Abby

Morris.

Abby

How was your little sit-down with Weaver this morning?

Luka

Ah, she was telling me and Dr. Clemente how charming we are.

Abby

Oh really?

Luka

What, you don't think I'm charming? [grins]

Abby

[grins] I think you're extremely charming. I just also think that...

Luka

Whoa. Ah... She was telling us that we have to get along better, you know, be better impression to our residents and be more agreeable.

Abby

Hm. Well, that's a lot to ask.

Luka

What, you don't think I'm agreeable?

Abby

I think you're agreeable, yeah.

Luka

[smiles] Yeah, you still think I'm full of sh... [Glenda smacks Abby in the head]

Abby

Ow!

Luka

[enters the hospital in a Santa hat, distributing presents] Ho-ho!

Frank

Well, well, look what the reindeer dragged in.

Luka

[pulls a new scarf out of the bag] This is for you, Frank.

Frank

Wow! Last time I got a present in this hospital was when that helicopter fell on Romano!

Abby

...Okay. I don't know how to say this...

Luka

What?

Abby

Well, it's just that these past three weeks- you know, I- I really couldn't have imagined it better!

Luka

[confused, but not disagreeing]...For me, too.

Abby

Yeah- and I haven't laughed so much or felt so good in a really, really long time. And I don't want to do anything to ruin that.

Luka

Hey! You won't, I promise...

Abby

Luka...

Luka

Yeah?

Abby

Ah, man! [looks away]

Luka

What?

Abby

[looks back at him, apprehensively] I'm pregnant. [Luka stares at her in amazement]

Abby

What if I can't love it right?

Luka

Abby...

Abby

Maybe I'm not strong enough.

Luka

Being a parent makes you stronger.

Abby

And, it breaks your heart. You told me that.

Luka

That's not what I meant. [referring to the children he lost]

Abby

I'm sorry. I didn't mean-

Luka

No, don't use that as a reason. A[bby looks at him for a moment]

Abby

...I'm sorry. [strokes his arm] What if I go shopping, and leave it at the supermarket?

Luka

[chuckles] Don't worry, I'll do all the shopping.

Abby

I'm afraid I'd mess it up, Luka.

Luka

[squeezes her hand] We won't.

Neela

[about a pregnant Catholic girl whose parents refuse to let her have an abortion] You're the wrong person to talk to about this.

Luka

Excuse me?

Neela

I would like your permission to consult another Attending. [Luka looks at her in confusion] Someone who's not Catholic. [Luka pauses, then steps towards her]

Luka

[quietly angry] Listen to me very seriously. I'm a doctor first, above and beyond anything else- and I don't let my personal beliefs get in the way of a patient's best interests! Ever.

Luka

I don't want everything we have to come down to this one decision. [pauses)] We can get past it. You did what you had to do. It doesn't mean we can't be together.

Abby

I didn't do it. I couldn't. I want to keep it. I want us to have this baby.

Luka

You want to go shopping?

Abby

I want to go looking.

Luka

Baby monitors.

Abby

Monitors, cribs, car seats. Maybe a little mobile of famous Croatian diplomats.

Abby

It's a joke.

Luka

[discussing what they'll need to get ready for the baby. Abby realizes that they'll need two of everything, one for her place and one for his] So, if we have twins, we need to have four of everything?

Abby

I'm not having twins.

Luka

Ahh, identical twins run in my family.

Abby

Are you kidding me?

Luka

What? I mean, chances are really small.

Abby

If your mutant Croatian seed causes me to have twins, I ...

Luka

Listen, look at it from the sunny side. If we have a custody fight, each one of us is going to take a kid.

Luka

Identical twins.

Abby

[still laughing] Got it. Let's go.

Abby

Crap! [she ducks behind a clothes rack]

Luka

What? [Abby pulls him behind the rack]

Abby

It's Debbie Dawkins, from the pharmacy.

Luka

Who? [He tries to peer out, and Abby smacks him in the arm]

Abby

Don't look! If she spots the two of us in a baby store together holding bags of stuff, she's gonna tell everybody!

Luka

I don't even know who she is-

Abby

She knows who you are!

Luka

I don't think so!

Abby

Oh, Luka- every woman who works in the hospital knows who you are, trust me.