Doug Ross quotes from E.R.

Doug

Carol. Hey! I know what you're thinking and you're wrong.

Carol

I'm busy.

Doug

I'm just going to follow you around until you hear me out.

Carol

Why follow me? Why not follow her?

Doug

If I didn't have to do this secrecy tap dance I could have told her --

Carol

I think this secrecy thing works just fine.

Doug

I didn't flirt with her!

Carol

Oh, no. She asked you out for a drink because she likes the way you hold an ice pack.

Doug

I told her that I was attached. I didn't say with whom I was attached. I didn't say Carol Hathaway was my --

Carol

What? I'm your what?

Doug

Come here. I want to be with you and I want to be here with you because I want to be with you. If you don't trust me then this doesn't work.

Doug

[is surprised by Carol kissing him] I had prepared a very elaborate argument. Does this mean I don't need it?

Carol

I already had the argument. With myself.

Doug

I hope there wasn't any name calling involved.

Carol

No, it was very civil. You won.

Doug

Oh, so I do better when I'm not there?

Carol

[laughs] This time, yeah.

Doug

So do you trust me?

Carol

This time.

Doug

Are you keeping score.

Carol

Yep. You're ahead.

Doug

[grins] I'm sorry, what?

Doug

You've been in a bad mood for months and I don't know how to talk to you anymore.

Mark

Then don't. [walks away]

Doug

All right.

Carol

What's the statute of limitations on post-traumatic stress?

Doug

Cut him some slack.

Carol

I think we've all cut him plenty. He needs some help.

Doug

He doesn't need a shrink. He needs friends who support him.

Carol

He's not going to have any friends, supportive or otherwise, if he keeps this up.

Carol

I'm going to miss you.

Doug

I love you, Carol. [drives away]

Carol

I love you, too.

Doug

He never drove less than 70 miles per hour his entire life. He would think it was funny to drive with his knees, his eyes closed, like it was some sort of game. Idiot. He can't even kill himself right. He has to take other people with him. Leave me to clean up the mess.

Mark

I don't think your dad planned on dying down here, Doug.

Doug

He never planned on doing anything his entire life. He didn't plan to lose our TV in a poker game. He never planned to be gone for more than a couple days. He never planned to hurt anybody in his whole life.

Mark

Your dad lost your television in a poker game?

Doug

I should have killed him myself. Saved everybody the trouble.

Doug

[on the phone, leaving message] Hey, Carol, it's Doug. I was hoping to catch you before you went to work. I'm here in Barstow and we're cleaning up. I was just thinking about you, wishing you were here. I just miss you. I just wish you were here, is all. [Mark walks into the motel room] So, I'll call you tomorrow. Okay, bye. Hey!

Mark

Who was that?

Doug

Somebody I've been seeing the last couple of months.

Mark

Couple of months? That sounds serious.

Doug

Do you want any of these ties before I give them to Goodwill?

Mark

I only wear ties to work. Is it anybody I know?

Doug

I've got a suit here. I've got an Armani. I believe it's double-breasted.

Mark

You don't want to tell me who it is?

Doug

He had a set of clubs somewhere, I think.

Mark

Why is it that you don't want to tell me who it is?

Doug

Because I don't.

Mark

It's not my ex-wife, is it?

Doug

No, it's not Jennifer.

Mark

Cynthia?! You're not, are you?

Doug

No, and neither should you.

Mark

Jeanie? Chuny? Anna?

Doug

Are you planning on naming everybody who works at the hospital?

Mark

She doesn't work at the hospital?

Doug

It's Carol.

Mark

What?

Doug

Carol Hathaway. You're mouth's open.

Mark

I'm speechless.

Doug

Well, I'm relieved.

Mark

You didn't miss much not having your dad around when you were growing up. Believe me.

Doug

That's kind of a crappy thing to say, isn't it?

Mark

It wasn't my idea to come down here.

Doug

Don't stay.

Mark

Don't worry, I won't.

Doug

I'm confused. Your father's still alive, right? He's still with your mother?

Mark

Oh, so that's your criteria for a good father? Longevity?

Doug

Did he smack you around a lot? Used to smack your mom around?

Mark

Oh, poor Doug.

Doug

Wait. Poor Doug? Your father, did he come into your room in the middle of the night and throw up on your bed and pass out? Did he do that? Did he leave you in a hallway in Atlantic City while he screwed some hat check girl, Mark? Did he do that? Did he do that, Mark?! Your father was there for you every night, you and your mother, and that's love. And whether it's the way you want it or not! It's love, Mark. You grew up in Ozzie and Harriet-land. Get your head out of your ass!

Mark

What are you thinking about, Doug?

Doug

Carol... I'm in love with her. I mean, I used to think I knew what love was. I cared about a lot of women, I just don't think I've ever really been in love. I think about her all the time. I don't like it when I'm not with her, I don't want to be with anyone else. That's love, isn't it?

Mark

Yeah... That's love.

Mark

Do you want to say anything?

Carol

A prayer?

Doug

No. I hated the son of a bitch. And I loved him. It's never simple, is it?

Carol

[about Kerry] What's up with her?

DOug

The crown is weighing heavily on the queen's head.

Doug

Did you get tomorrow off?

Carol

Not yet. Did you get tonight off?

Doug

No, I owe too many shifts. Christmas Eve will cost me double.

Carol

This is so unfair.

Doug

Yeah, well, flex your muscle. You make the nursing schedule.

Carol

Yeah, which is why I get stuck with it. "Carol can work Christmas, she has no life." They don't even feel guilty about it.

Doug

Make them feel guilty about it.

Carol

Now, that's the Christmas spirit.

Doug

Tell them about us. This is stupid. I'm not going anywhere. You know that.

Carol

I know. I know.

Carol

Can I have your attention everybody. Hello, can I have your attention please. I have an announcement to make. Can you turn down that music. Okay I have kept this a secret far too long, Doug Ross and I are seeing each other again.... And we are very happy.

Okay, pay up. Pay up.

Chuny

I was a week too late, I thought New Years for sure.

Lydia

I'm surprised that they kept it a secret this long.

Carol

You knew?

Randi

Oh please honey it was obvious.

Kerry

Well, I didn't know.

Anna

Me either.

Doug

Maybe something you guys didn't know, that we've been seeing each other for a while now, again and I think it would be a great idea if she would marry me.

Doug

Everyone talk her into it.

Chuny

Carol and Doug get it right this time.

Carol

You always have to outdo me.

Doug

I had the opportunity and I had to take it.

Carol

I needed to think.

Doug

About what?

Carol

About you and me. And the engagement and the vows and the rings. I think we're rushing into this. I don't think we're ready.

Doug

I'm ready. But you aren't?

Carol

When I was talking to Greg Powell, it got intense and... and I kissed him. It didn't go any further than that, but it was one of those moments, you know? I didn't want it to...

Doug

Okay, that's good. I just wanted to make sure you were safe and sound. [picks up his coat]

Carol

Doug! I am so sorry!

Doug

Yep, me too. [leaves]

Carol

What if the elevator moves? You could get killed!

Doug

Well, then you won't have to worry about a commitment.

Carol

Doug, I'm serious!

Doug

Do you think of me as diplomatic?

Carol

What does that have to do with it?

Doug

Answer the question.

Carol

Well, it's not the first word that springs to mind, no.

Doug

What would the first word be that springs to mind?

Carol

Um, stubborn. Opinionated. Insouciant.

Doug

Insouciant?

Carol

Look it up.