Luka Kovač quotes from E.R.

Luka

People with degenerative diseases do best when they have...

Hope? Do you read the papers? Bush just banned funding for embryonic stem cell research. I'm trying to hold on to hope, Doctor, but nobody's cooperating these days.

Luka

CT scan seems a little bit confused.

I am not confused.

Ray

What's the date today?

February 9th, and I want my can opener back!

Luka

So what do you think?

Abby

About what?

Luka

The baby's sex is right there on that amnio report.

Abby

Did you know that the X chromosome contains three times as much genetic information as the Y? Do you think that's why men are simpler?

Luka

And you didn't ask.

Abby

[noticing a gift basket full of baby items] Hey, what's this?

Frank

Oh, that's for you and the little bastard.

Abby

Thanks, Frank.

Kerry

Hey, congratulations!

Abby

Thank you. It was supposed to be a secret. [looks pointedly at Morris]

Wha- everybody was saying you were getting puffy! I was trying to defend you!

Abby

I'm getting puffy?

Luka

You're not getting puffy.

Luka

[talking to the mother of a Turkish girl who died on the table] This is the hardest thing for any parent to experience.

How do you protect them from all the evil of the world?

Luka

You can't. No matter what you do, you can't.

Luka

[after learning that the girl had been stabbed by her Islamic fundamentalist brother] This was an honor killing?

[sobbing] Yes- yes, that's what they call it. But there is no honor here.

Abby

Good Lord, what is that?

Luka

What?

Abby

That smell. It's really bad. It smells like... ass.

Neela

You do realize how close you are to the ER?

Luka

Abby, we...we need to finish our talk.

Abby

No, we don't actually cause you know what, I understand.

Luka

No, no you don't.

Abby

No, I do.

Luka

Listen...

Abby

No, you listen, I - I mean...sorry. I just..I...I'm...you know what? I know that we're not married and um...and we don't live together and we really haven't defined our relationship and I know that that's mostly, probably all because of me, but you looked at me and said that we were going to do this together. And I know that you'll be back before the baby's born, but I just...I just hate that you wanna go, and I hate that I hate that you wanna go, but I'm just a little bit...scared, Luka and um...I don't want to do this by myself, but if I have to I - I can and I will.

Luka

I'm sending Pratt.

Abby

To help me with the baby?

Luka

To Darfur. He... he... he.. He volunteered. Long story.

Abby

The thing is, yes it's gonna get harder and harder, but that doesn't mean that right now they're not better off together.

Luka

Like you were better off with your mother? [Abby gives him a look] Sorry.

Luka

Everything alright with you?

Pratt

Yeah, why?

Luka

Sometimes it can be a difficult transition, coming back to this place.

Pratt

I'll be OK. I was just a little rattled earlier. Cause of the whole Mike situation.

Luka

Well, good to have you back.

Pratt

Hey, thanks for making me go there.

Luka

Someday maybe you can tell me all about it?

Pratt

Yeah, someday.

Get a head CT.

Luka

What is wrong with you?!

I'm trying to help you, that's all.

Luka

You don't listen to a word anybody says! You're all over the place!

Mothers often eat their own young in the wild and we just think it's part of nature, right? But when women kill their children, it's a crime, and we think they're crazy.

Abby

What?

Well, I mean, it just makes you wonder, right? Are the lions crazy too? Or are women like Susan Smith and Andrea Yates just acting upon some primitive impulse that's deep within our genetic maternal make-up?

Luka

Am I interrupting something?

Just some girl talk.

Abby

We don't even have a name.

Luka

I was kind of hoping we could name him after my father.

Abby

Really?

Luka

Yeah. He will be thrilled to have a grandson named Mongo.

Abby

M-Mongo?

Luka

Yeah, it's a very popular name in Croatia.

Luka

I am just teasing you. My father's name is Joseph, and for that matter, name the baby anything you like, whatever.

You know I want you to have a healthy baby

Abby

Then why do you keep focusing on the worst-case scenario?

Luka

It's her job.

Abby

Is one going to be enough?

Luka

What?

Abby

One baby. Um, my uterus wouldn't stop bleeding and Coburn did everything she could but...

Luka

You had a hysterectomy? (Abby nods) Well, one is all we need.