[Archie is looking at buying a minivan]
If I drive it, they will come.
Who will come?
My future wife, kids, and our dog, Buster.
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[Archie is looking at buying a minivan]
If I drive it, they will come.
Who will come?
My future wife, kids, and our dog, Buster.
You worked at the Jumbo Mart?
Uh, yeah, a few years ago. I was sorting things out. Wanted to make sure medicine was right for me.
Thank God she came back.
Thanks Frank, that's sweet.
You never made the right change.
You've been married and divorced three times to each other?
What can I tell you? I'm a glutton for punishment.
All right, any pain in the stomach?
Not really. But I do have a pain in my ass, and he's standing two feet away.
Why do you have to be so damn...
What? Charming, sexy, kind of good at math?
Ok, yes, I did think about you the whole time you were away. You happy now?
Yes. Why are you so mad?
Because I like you. I don't want to, but I do, and I... want to be with you. There, I said it. Just go ahead and gloat now.
Gloat? Why would I gloat?
Because you predicted it. Go ahead. You know you want to.
I'd rather do something else. [leans over and they kiss]
[Dr. Oliver Kostin, the doctor who founded the County ER, is now a patient]
I was pre-med, volunteering at the hospital when they made him chief in '68. Back then, the ER was a glorified walk-in clinic, where you were seen by unsupervised interns, and residents with no training. And the community ERs were even worse. Staffed by moonlighting dermatologists and psychiatrists, or drunks who'd been banned from private practice. There was no 911, no paramedics, and if you needed an ambulance, you called a funeral home. Ollie once said: "You stand a better chance of surviving a gunshot wound in Vietnam than a car crash in Chicago." But he changed all that. He developed the 911 system, he trained thousands of paramedics, and started one of the finest residency programs in emergency medicine. You're all here because of this guy.
[Archie is dressed up as a superhero for a kid's birthday party]
You're not Superhero Gary!
Of course I am! Yeah, I'm Superhero Gary! I'm the strongest man in Chicago. With the... behold my biceps of superness!
Those are fake!
Your hair looks different.
And his legs!
Superhero Gary has man legs!
These are my bionic legs! Yes, for leaping buildings in a single bound!
What's a bound?
Women: can't live with them, can't shoot them.
What are you doing?
Oh, nothing, just drilling into the brain.
Good luck with that.
Does the brain feel more like Jell-o, or like butter?
Looks like you followed my advice, Archie.
How's that?
You set the tone.
So tell me, when did you first work here?
I was a med student in the ER in 1994.
You know Mark Greene, then?
Yeah. I knew Mark Greene. Yup. I learned a lot from him.
...When can you start?
What about your parents? Do you have brothers and sisters? I don't know anything about you.
Aliens dropped me from a spaceship just outside of Perth as a fully formed adult in 2007. I'm two in Earth years, but I really love this planet.
[about her mom] I don't even know what to say to her.
Uh, I'm sure you'll figure it out.
Yeah, I just hope it's not something like, uh, "Why did you have to be such a crappy mom?" or "Why couldn't you just stay in Dallas and die?"
I'm guessing you'll come up with something better.
[Asking about the mother of four that they are treating] How's her carbon monoxide level?
29%, but she's not stable enough for hyperbaric.
Exactly, neither is Carter's patient. So can you please explain to me why he won't listen to reason?
Sometimes reason doesn't get you anywhere.
Excuse me?
We have four kids that could be orphans despite all reasonable efforts.
Yeah, that's part of the deal. That doesn't mean we can start abandoning protocol.
Carter was out in the field. Without all the technology, you're gonna listen to your gut. Can't say I blame him. Looks like reason's having a bad day.
Look, a terrible thing was done to you. I understand that. I hate that it happened. But somewhere, in all of what's gone on between us, one thing is clear--we're not meant to be together. Doesn't mean we don't care about each other deeply but... You know, I truly believe there's something better out there for both of us, whenever we're ready for it.
Better.
Something more right.
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