Nurse Daniels quotes from St. Elsewhere

Tell me this chaos will end.

Nurse Daniels

This chaos will end.

I don't believe you.

S1 E7 Legionnaires (2)

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Dr. Daniels

Fiscus, put on your apron! You got a customer.

Dr. Fiscus

Clients, Daniels. Butchers have customers, physicians have clients.

Dr. Daniels

That's what I mean.

S1 E14 Remission

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Hey, look. Just because you made a mistake with a patient this morning, don't be carrying that around on your shoulders like that's the last mistake you'll ever make.

Dr. Chandler

Look. You don't anything about the case. You don't know anything about anything, so why don't you just shut the hell up.

Why don't you take it easy?

Dr. Chandler

No, you take it easy. You take it easy. You know, you're in no position to make remarks about anything around here, because you don't know anything.

Nurse Daniels

Dr. Chandler...

Dr. Chandler

You give your patients the wrong antibiotics, you don't know what medications they're on and you write the worst progress notes. You're pathetic. Pathetic! [begins to walk away] And another thing... if it weren't for everybody covering for your mistakes, you would've been gone months ago!

S1 E19 Working

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Hello, sir, Nice to meet you sir. How's the wife?

Nurse Daniels: [listening, then opens the curtain] Whose wife?

Westphall's.

Nurse Daniels

Westphall's wife is dead.

You're kidding! I didn't even know she was sick.

Nurse Daniels

It's been 10 years, Elliot.

Oh, then I guess I shouldn't send flowers. Thanks for the tip. I would have faux-pauxed myself all over the conference room. Probably blowing my chances of becoming a first-year resident this fall. How do I look?

Nurse Daniels

Here let me straighten your tie. [Adjusts his tie] There's not much I can do with the rest of you.

I really hate interviews. My hands always get clammy. I mean, what if he asks a question I don't know the answer to? And most important, do you think he'll like me?

Nurse Daniels

Elliot, in the six months since you started your externship in the ER, there's one thing I can say about you. If they're judging on originality, you're a shoe-in.

Oh, good.

S2 E22 Hello, Goodbye

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Nurse Daniels

What are you doing here?

NPNurse Papandrao

There was an emergency in the OR. There was nobody available, so I...

Nurse Daniels

Isn't that scabbing? Or is the union finally admitting they're jeopardizing patients' lives?

NPNurse Papandrao

Don't blame it on the union. That man's life was in danger because no doctor had the foresight to transfer him last week.

Nurse Daniels

Oh, come on, Lucy. That's bull. Emergencies happen all the time.

NPNurse Papandrao

Look, I'm on strike, okay? But if somebody's dying, I'm not on strike. It's that simple.

Nurse Daniels

Congratulations, you got it all figured out. But maybe dying isn't the worst thing that could happen to someone.

NPNurse Papandrao

Oh, boy. If you really believe that, you're in the wrong business.

Nurse Daniels

It's starting all over again, and none of you seem to care. You're outside, looking for the fringe benefits!

NPNurse Papandrao

Are we talking about the same thing?

Nurse Daniels

Obviously not.

NPNurse Papandrao

I think you've been working a little too hard, Shirley.

Nurse Daniels

Don't you have to get back on the line?

S3 E4 Strikeout

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[Excited] Boomer, I finally found my kids man!

Nurse Daniels

[Disgusted] Who cares?

[Walks out of the office]

S3 E5 Breathless

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What brings you down here?

Nurse Daniels

I came to see you.

You look different.

Nurse Daniels

[Getting seductive] Do you like it? I did it for you. [Getting closer] I've been thinking about you, Peter. A lot.

[Peter approaches the door and locks it]

Wanted this for a long time.

[He makes out with her. She pulls out her gun]

Are you afraid?

Nurse Daniels

No.

I want you to be afraid. I want to see you afraid.

Nurse Daniels

[shoves him] Not anymore. [points gun at him]

Now-Now what is that for?

Nurse Daniels

It's for all of us.

What are you talking about?

Nurse Daniels

Is this where you raped Cathy Martin?

Now don't be crazy.

Nurse Daniels

You were gonna rape me, weren't you?

Look, you were coming on to me! I-I thought we were just having a little fun, you know.

Nurse Daniels

Like the other women had fun?

Now look, Shirley...

Nurse Daniels

What's the matter, Peter? Nervous?

Shirley..

Nurse Daniels

Now you know what it feels like. Afraid.

Now please, this is...

Nurse Daniels

Now, I want you to be afraid. Did you hit them? What did you make them do?

I didn't-I didn't...

Nurse Daniels

I don't want to hear your lies anymore.

I didn't touch them!

Nurse Daniels

Say it, Peter. Say it, you raped them.

Please.

Nurse Daniels

Say it!

I raped them.

Nurse Daniels

All of them?

No, no! No. I wanted Cathy Martin again but somebody else got her first.

Nurse Daniels

Why Cathy?

Because she was the best. All right, all right. Look, I'll-I'll turn myself in. Okay?

Nurse Daniels

Goodbye, Peter. [Shoots him. Walks up to the phone] Code blue. In the morgue.

S3 E6 My Aim Is True

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Hi, Shirley. How are you? I haven't seen much of you lately.

Nurse Daniels

I've been busy.

You dating someone?

Nurse Daniels

No, why?

Well, I don't see you in the cafeteria. You know what? You and I should have lunch one of these days.

Nurse Daniels

Really? During the nurses strike I was persona non grata. Now you've decided all is forgiven?

Oh, Shirley come on. [Helen comforts Shirley] Don't you think it's time to let what happened go? Hmm?

Nurse Daniels

That's easy for you, isn't it, Helen? Forgetting the past, your commitment to others? You're one hell of a role model for the nursing staff.

[Shocked] So... I guess our lunch is off. [Walks to the door]

Nurse Daniels

Drop dead.

S3 E9 Up on the Roof

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Shirley..

[Nurse Daniels shoots the gun]

Nurse Daniels

[Distraught] I'm sorry Dr. Westphall. Just don't come near me.

Don't do this please.

Nurse Daniels

I'm sorry I caused you so much trouble. I know it was wrong for me to kill Peter.

Don't let that mistake take your life, too.

Nurse Daniels

Peter hurt a lot of people

[Morrison runs to approach Shirley. Shirley raises the gun]

Nurse Daniels

STOP! I want to talk to Jack.

[Morrison gets closer to her]

Nurse Daniels

That's close enough. Hi, Jack. [sighs] You ever been up here before?

[Morrison shakes his head no]

Nurse Daniels

Smell the ocean? And look. Look at this. You can see for miles. There's the Pru and the Hancock Tower, and across the Charles, there's Cambridge. God, this is so beautiful! Why didn't I ever come up here before? I'm glad Cathy's on the sixth floor. Have you seen her?

[Morrison nods yes]

Nurse Daniels

I think she's getting better.

Yeah.

Nurse Daniels

All that screaming and blood.

Blood? What blood?

Nurse Daniels

Come on, Jack, you know what I'm talking about, in the ER. Blue-lipped junkies, 13-year-old pregnant girls, legs mangled under motorcycles. I know how special life is. I save lives, and I only took one... so far. You were his friend, Jack! Why didn't you do something?

There was nothing I could do.

Nurse Daniels

You believed him! You believed Peter. Everything he did, you stuck with him, said he always got bad breaks. Well, that didn't give him the right! The world's full of bad breaks.

You're my friend, Shirley. And all that means is I'm willing to share your pain.

Nurse Daniels

You're willing to share this? [Points gun at Morrison]

Shirley, don't, please!

What Peter did was wrong. What you did was wrong, too. And there's nothing that I can do about that. But I'm still here for you.

Nurse Daniels

You look tired.

Yeah, I am. I've been on call for 48 hours.

Nurse Daniels

The hospital will kill ya.

[They hug]

S3 E9 Up on the Roof

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Nurse Daniels

Take my word, Ehrlich, the scar's right where you left it.

Hey babe, please. I'm the medico here, okay? [Trying to look at Shirley's scar] So let's undo mister bow, pull the gown back, and take a peak.

Nurse Daniels

Your hands are cold.

Yes, but my smile is warm.

Nurse Daniels

[Grabs Ehrlich's hand and shoves it] And the traverse stops here.

Easy. I know it's not the cleanest appendectomy of the New Year, but consider the incredible pressure I was under. You, a demented killer, we almost dated once. I have great difficulty excising a vestigial organ, knowing that right around the bend, it's a cervical us. Trust me, Citizen Kane's dying thought wasn't a fond remembrance of a childhood sled, okay?

Nurse Daniels

I don't mind the scar. Besides, I'm not planning on logging any bikini time for a while.

Surely they won't send you to prison. Will they, Shirley?

Nurse Daniels

Eventually. Until then, I got to find a job.

Okay, embroider pillows. It's a growing cottage industry, you're home alone, no one gets hurt.

Nurse Daniels

My lawyer scheduled a meeting with Auschlander, trying to get me reinstated in emergency.