Shirley..
[Nurse Daniels shoots the gun]
[Distraught] I'm sorry Dr. Westphall. Just don't come near me.
Don't do this please.
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.
Peter hurt a lot of people
[Morrison runs to approach Shirley. Shirley raises the gun]
STOP! I want to talk to Jack.
[Morrison gets closer to her]
That's close enough. Hi, Jack. [sighs] You ever been up here before?
[Morrison shakes his head no]
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]
I think she's getting better.
Yeah.
All that screaming and blood.
Blood? What blood?
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.
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.
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.
You look tired.
Yeah, I am. I've been on call for 48 hours.
The hospital will kill ya.
[They hug]
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