TV show quotes
[Attending to two lawyers with burns on the bottoms of their feet] Why walk on hot coals?
It was a bonding exercise. We're partners at the same firm.
[Annoyed] It was a stupid idea. If I could walk, I'd kick your ass!
Tell me everything's going to be okay.
[Carter kisses her]
Everything's going to be okay.
Do you think it's possible to die from boredom?
I don't think so.
What if your mind wandered off in a daydream and you forgot to eat or drink for days?
Then you'd die of starvation and dehydration.
Caused by boredom.
[coming to in the ER after losing his arm] Oh no, I'm at County.
Monkeypox sounds like a video game.
Or Voodoo.
Or VD.
Chaos theory?
Yeah, a virus mutates in the Congo. We evacuate an ER in Chicago. Romano gets his arm cut off.
You lost me.
Seemingly random events, all part of a larger equation.
I'm hot.
You know, a butterfly flaps its wings in China, and creates a tornado halfway around the world.
Are you hot?
I'm just saying that there's an inherent unpredictability about everything-- evolution, life. Love, relationships.
So what am I? The butterfly or tornado?
No, you're chaos in general.
Oh, thanks.
No, I'm just saying, you're chaos to me. The unknown. I'm chaos to you.
You are hardly chaos, Carter.
I'm just saying there's a risk in anything that you do, right? But don't you want to stack the odds in your favor? I mean, I'm drawn to you. It's kind of that simple. I've been drawn to you for two years, but chaos always seems to rule, and I don't want it to rule. I want to know where it's taking me. You know what I mean?
Nope.
The tornado. Definitely the tornado.
Hello, who is this? You like your job? You wanna keep it? Well, then you tell your chief of staff, you know who that is? Good! Well, you tell "Jonesy" that Robert Romano is sending over four critical patients all of whom, I expect to be treated like his own mother, but without the inappropriate touching.
Ah, the smell of fresh med students in the morning.
What is it about them? They all seem so...
Gullible, immature, vapid?
I was going to say "sweet".
Hey Carter. What's up with your boss? I heard she was crying earlier.
Weaver?
Yeah. Did she have a bad break up or something? Shes been really moody lately.
Lately?
Lizzie. You're one face I missed seeing in recovery.
I'm so sorry, Robert.
About my arm? Or about not being there?
Look, I'm sorry, the day just kind of got away from me. Why don't we try again tomorrow?
No, no, I don't think so, no. I have been here for 16 hours. I have been ignored, and yelled at, and called "honey" and "sweetie" and "bitch"... twice. I don't smell good, and all I've had to eat is gummy bears and diet coke. I'm not leaving until I get what I came for.
I just want to say thanks for backing me up like that.
A chief resident and a cardiologist with more than 25 years of experience pronounce a man dead and you decide to resurrect him.
Yes, but just like you said...
You think I defended you because I like you or because I approve of the way that you practice medicine? You are my responsibility. You are my job.
And I'm doing mine.
If you wanted to shock, you could've stat paged me overhead. I could have been here in a second and we could have discussed it. Instead, you go off without any regard for authority or even the best interest of your patient.
Now, that's not true. I mean, the guy's got kids, he's got a wife. I was just trying to save him...
You brought the man back, Pratt because you felt like it. Because you wanted to see if you could.
Normally they just decapitate the leaders of the insurrection and send the peasants back to work in the fields.
If men needed abortions, there would be drive-thrus with beer on tap and ESPN on the TV.
I got stabbed, Lucy got killed, and today, Abby and Chen get a gun to their heads. I'm sorry, no. It's got to stop. Otherwise, it's not worth doing.
I know, Carter. You're an emergency room doctor. It's about getting through the shift.
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