“Midnight” · Season 10, Episode 21
In this episode: Abby Lockhart (2), John Carter (2), Morris (2), Neela Rasgotra (2), Kerry Weaver (1), Greg Pratt (1), Elizabeth Corday (1), Jing-Mei Chen (1)
[about Carter and Kem's baby] A stillborn?
Yeah, a true knot in the chord.
How terrible.
Ah, I can't even imagine!
I'll try to get up there after rounds.
Poor people. Seven months old?
Mm... Almost eight.
Yeah, tough break. [Chen, Corday and Weaver all look at him] What? I was... I was being sincere.
When your brother died, the thing I hated the most was other people's platitudes. There are no words... You don't know how you find the strength, but somehow you do. You can have another child... It was an accident, a tragic, unforeseeable accident.
The whole thing was an accident.
No, it wasn't. You love each other. Everybody can see that.
I don't know that she'd wanna have another baby with me.
Sure she will. Give it some time.
[about their med school graduation] Abby, any family jetting in?
No, we're not that close. We're more like survivors of a particularly brutal carjacking than a family.
Kem? They're gonna come down and take us to our new room soon. And when they come, they're gonna take the baby, and we're never gonna see him again... I don't know what the right thing is to say. I don't know what the right thing to do is [he starts to cry]... It was an accident! [Kem sobs silently] It was nothing that you did wrong, it was nothing that we did wrong. It just happened. I love you, and I wanna spend the rest of my life with you. But we have to say goodbye to our son now. I have to help you to do that, and I don't know how to do that. Please help me. Please. [long pause, then Kem nods slowly] Okay?... [he gently picks up their stillborn son, brings him over, and puts him in Kem's arms; Kem bursts into tears again when she looks at the baby's face] He's beautiful. [Carter puts his arms around Kem and cries with her as she rocks the stillborn back and forth] I love you so much.
I can't believe we are actually graduating tomorrow.
Neither can your future patients. Today, ill prepared students. Tomorrow, baby doctors with the fate of countless helpless victims in your incapable hands.
Yeah, they ought to make 'em wear "Caution" signs.
Yeah. "Danger, New Doc" in big red letters on your lab coats.
Thanks for the pep-talk, Greg.
Always happy to lend encouragement to the newbies.
Jerk.
Bastard.
Putz.
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