E.R. quotes

Luka

Abby, we...we need to finish our talk.

Abby

No, we don't actually cause you know what, I understand.

Luka

No, no you don't.

Abby

No, I do.

Luka

Listen...

Abby

No, you listen, I - I mean...sorry. I just..I...I'm...you know what? I know that we're not married and um...and we don't live together and we really haven't defined our relationship and I know that that's mostly, probably all because of me, but you looked at me and said that we were going to do this together. And I know that you'll be back before the baby's born, but I just...I just hate that you wanna go, and I hate that I hate that you wanna go, but I'm just a little bit...scared, Luka and um...I don't want to do this by myself, but if I have to I - I can and I will.

Luka

I'm sending Pratt.

Abby

To help me with the baby?

Luka

To Darfur. He... he... he.. He volunteered. Long story.

Abby

[to Luka] Look, I know in Croatia you grew up like Ozzie and Harriet and I'm sorry you probably don't even know what Ozzie & Harriet is.

[to Pratt] Have fun in the motherland!

Abby

The thing is, yes it's gonna get harder and harder, but that doesn't mean that right now they're not better off together.

Luka

Like you were better off with your mother? [Abby gives him a look] Sorry.

[in Darfur] It's a lot.

Pratt

Yeah, well... I work in Chicago, at County ER. I've treated hundreds of gunshot wounds, knife wounds, domestic violence... I think I know my way around.

AIDS, malaria, dysentery... two million people homeless, not to mention the nearly 400,000 already slaughtered. Boys, babies, tossed onto bonfires. Women and young girls raped, sometimes by men, sometimes by bayonet. The work of gangs, all things you have seen. But in Darfur, it's political, and on a massive scale. And while this insanity rages on and on and on, the rest of the world continues its debate: is it or is it not genocide? This is not debate. This is paralysis. Can you treat that, Dr. Pratt? Can you cure paralysis?

Pratt

You expected Marcus Garvey? Don't think we have any more in common than you and Carter.

Stephen Dakarai

I don't. In fact, I think Carter is more African than you are.

Pratt

Okay, either those are the good guys and we're saved or the bad guys and we're dead. Either way, I'm done walking.

Pratt

What did she say?

Stephen Dakarai

She said we were angels. I told her there are no angels here.

Pratt

Speak for yourself.

[On his video to Neela] So... hopefully you're never gonna see this thing. But if you are, then something went wrong. Well, maybe not wrong, but certainly not according to plan. I love you, Neela. Marrying you was the happiest day of my life. You just, you make me strong. Now, I know you didn't want me to come back to Iraq. And if you're watching this, you owe me a big I told you so, but I did what I had to do. You're the most beautiful and kind person that I know. I just, want you to be happy. And just know that I'll always be with you. I want you to find somebody, get married, have a baby. Of course he won't be as fine as me, but you'll just gonna have to live with that. I love you Neela. Forever. [Neela cries]

Luka

Everything alright with you?

Pratt

Yeah, why?

Luka

Sometimes it can be a difficult transition, coming back to this place.

Pratt

I'll be OK. I was just a little rattled earlier. Cause of the whole Mike situation.

Luka

Well, good to have you back.

Pratt

Hey, thanks for making me go there.

Luka

Someday maybe you can tell me all about it?

Pratt

Yeah, someday.

Abby, You can't give me Haldol. You can't give me Haldol, Abby. I'm not crazy. You understand?

Abby

It's OK, it's OK.

Hey Ray! Come here, buddy, come here. Come here buddy, come here buddy. These freaking chicks are losing their minds. Come here and help me man!

Abby

Get Luka.

[to paramedic] What, are you gonna amputate my leg? [to Ray] Yeah, run to daddy, little bitch. Run to daddy little bitch.

Get a head CT.

Luka

What is wrong with you?!

I'm trying to help you, that's all.

Luka

You don't listen to a word anybody says! You're all over the place!

Mothers often eat their own young in the wild and we just think it's part of nature, right? But when women kill their children, it's a crime, and we think they're crazy.

Abby

What?

Well, I mean, it just makes you wonder, right? Are the lions crazy too? Or are women like Susan Smith and Andrea Yates just acting upon some primitive impulse that's deep within our genetic maternal make-up?

Luka

Am I interrupting something?

Just some girl talk.

Oh, what is that, some kind of nasty Croatian word? Something about me and a goat?

I call no more kids. I'm sick of getting bit, kicked and pissed on.

Abby

I guess that means you stopped dating too, huh?