Morris quotes from E.R.

Frank

[handing a chart to Morris and Sam] Hey! See this guy, will you? He's been waiting five hours already. [he walks away]

[pauses, and then loudly, with sarcasm] Oh, so sorry, Frank! We were eating bonbons in the bubble bath! Totally lost track of time!

Banfield

Dr. Morris, mind if I give you feedback?

Here we go.

Banfield

Control your emotions.

Can we not do this?

Banfield

Act like a leader...

Oh, come on. All the criticism, the bullying. That's how you get people to respect you?

Banfield

You have been storming around, sulking all day. You are an attending physician, not a toddler. Did you think that I was finished?

You know what, lady? Shut up! [long pause] We have been through hell here the last few weeks, but somehow we're getting through it and you know how? [voice rising] By showing up here every day and dedicating ourselves to this work. [shouting] You don't know us! You don't know this place! And the last thing we need is for some stranger to come in here and tell us how it's done!

Banfield

[very softly] I know that you lost a friend. [pause] And I'm sorry about that, but we will never have a conversation like this again. Understand?

I keep thinking about what he said... The last words of Greg Pratt were, "Don't screw it up, Morris."

Abby

You won't. If I were in trouble, Archie, I would call for you. [Morris looks at her doubtfully] I would. I would trust you with anything. And I didn't always feel that way, but I do now.

Abby

Well, I guess I let the cat out of the bag, huh? [pause] This kinda group thing, I was kinda hoping to avoid. But, um, Luka's picking me up, and since you're all here- I just wanna say it's been a great decade.

Excuse me? What the hell?

She's leaving, Archie.

When?!

Gates

Now, you idiot.

What? You are- you are? [Abby nods, the others giggle, Morris walks up to her and hugs her] You never said anything!

Abby

[bemused] I just, I- kinda thought you got the idea.

I didn't! [looks to the others, then hugs her again] I didn't!

Abby

Well, I- you know, Archie, it's amazing that you've managed to make my last moment here about you. I love that.

I love you too! [everyone laughs]

Abby

Okay... [Morris finally lets go of her] I'm gonna miss you guys. We'll be thinking about you... so long.

Chuny

Bye, Abby. [Abby smiles, nods and walks out to the bay entrance, where Luka is waiting for her]

[about Chaz] He's smarter than I ever was.

Frank

That ain't saying much.

Your son died in this ER and you're working here?

Banfield

I'm not sure why I've done anything I've done since that day. Why'd I not leave my apartment for almost 2 years? Then I see the news about the tsunami and I fly to a place 10 thousand miles away. Why'd I do that? Why'd I come back? Why did my son have leukemia? I never understood any of it.

[after learning that Simon had been molested as a child] Simon, do you need to talk to somebody about this? It doesn't just go away.

Brenner

[whispering] I need to get back to work.

If it's still affecting you, you have to deal with it.

Brenner

I am dealing with it, in my own way.

[singing] Oh, the weather outside is...

No winners yet! [singing] ... Delightful/And since we've no place to go/Let it...

Banfield

Stop! Let it stop! Make it stop!

Banfield

[after the death of a patient] We can't see the future.

Sometimes we can, actually with this handy new technology called the CT. You heard of it?

Banfield

Fine. Do I wish I could do it over? Yeah, I do. There was no way to know.

Gates was begging to get the scan.

Banfield

Gates is a resident.

Don't make this about hierarchy. If any of us refuse to hear another opinion, the entire system breaks down.

Banfield

What system? You guys don't have a system. All I see here is chaos and disorder.

Well, maybe that's the problem. Maybe that's why after five months, you still don't get it. You still don't fit in.

Banfield

Fit in? This isn't junior high.

We are a team. We work together, but you think that you're so much better than all of us, so much smarter, you'll never let yourself be part of it. If you wanna be a queen, go into private practice, go back to Indonesia, leave medicine altogether, but don't torture us here.

If I drive it, they will come.

Chuny

Who will come?

My future wife, kids, and our dog, Buster.

You're not Superhero Gary!

Of course I am! Yeah, I'm Superhero Gary! I'm the strongest man in Chicago. With the... behold my biceps of superness!

Those are fake!

Your hair looks different.

And his legs!

Superhero Gary has man legs!

These are my bionic legs! Yes, for leaping buildings in a single bound!

What's a bound?

Carter

Looks like you followed my advice, Archie.

How's that?

Carter

You set the tone.

That is an ER attending coding on the table, and this is not a teaching case. So please, turn around, walk out, get your attending, and come back now.

I'm sure Dr. Wheeler would prefer if I at least examined...

I'm trying to remain professional here, Emily, but if you're not walking away from me within three seconds, I swear to God, I may start doing compressions on your head!

Gates

Big night? Are you popping the question?

Are you crazy? We're still in the honeymoon phase. A year from now, we'll hate each other's guts.

Gates

And I thought romance was dead.

This is totally random, but sometimes I imagine a night, in the future, a night where I would take you out, spend money, make a big deal about it, and it would end like this. [he places a friendship bracelet doubled up in the shape of a ring on Claudia's finger] When I ask you to marry me. What do you think?

I think I'd say yes.