“The Chicago Way” quotes from E.R.

Pratt

Hey, Abby. It's a beautiful spring day, the Cubs are playing at Wrigley Field, and we live in America.

Abby

I think I solved the case of the missing Lexapro.

Pratt

Sorry. I was looking for some un-depressed person that I could be happy around, and uh... heh.

Abby

You chose me? Must be slim pickings.

Hi, Dr. Kovač, I heard you were working here, and I wondered if I might be able to talk to you-

Luka

Well, you really have balls to show up here and ask for anything.

Look, I'm at a very difficult time in my life-

Luka

[sarcastically] Really? Me, too.

[nods] I know that. And, I'm sorry for any part that I've played in that. But, I just wanted to tell you that... whatever happened with... me and Abby... was just the misguided, messed-up flailings of two people- two very troubled people.

Luka

[nods, sarcastically] That's beautiful.

[pause] Look, she loves you. Anybody can see that. And, as somebody who has squandered that kind of thing before, in his own life... I wanna implore you, not to make the same mistake, so...

Luka

Are you done?

Uh, yeah. I think I am. [Luka nods, then drops his grocery bag and punches Moretti once in the jaw] Guess I had that coming, huh?

Luka

Thanks for stopping by.

Abby

[to Luka] Do you know that I love you more than I could ever explain? [pause, then Luka kisses and embraces her] Let's get out of here.

[during the M&M] Sit down, Lucien! You're out of line!

Dubenko

No. I won't sit down and I'm not out of line, I'm not out of line at all. That's a joke. Wanna know what's out of line? I'll tell you what's out of line: a system so pathetically underfunded that we have a single trauma attending to cover the entire hospital at night. That's out of line. Letting a patient bleed out in the ICU because of a stupid rule; that's out of line. And you wanna know what else? Wanna know what else? Sitting by and watching my resident try and hide the fact that I left her alone in the OR; that's out of line. It's all out of line.

[while standing on a bed] Listen up, everybody! I'm the last guy you want in the ER. [falls off the bed]