Third Watch Season 5 quotes

Yokas

Bosco, I want you to ask Swersky to put us back together.

Bosco

You do?

Yokas

If I'm coming back, I'm coming back all the way.

Bosco

I thought you wanted me out of your life.

Yokas

All the way.

Hey, Kimmy, I'm not going on the street today. Excuse me.

Kim

Wait, listen, Doc I need to talk with you, just... (Doc pulls out a gun and shoots Steeper in the stomach)

Like I said, I'm not going on the street today.

15 minutes.

Kim

What?

15 minutes.

Please!

What are you talking about?

Hey, hey, when he closes this house the people in this community will have to wait at least 15 minutes for medical or fire response. See, I did the math, calculated the response times. Isn't that how you do it, Jack?

He doesn't listen, Kim, so we gotta put it in terms he can understand.

Kim

All right, well, we're all listening, okay? We're all here. We're all listening. So why don't we just...just calm down, okay?

No. I'm... I'm calm.

Kim

All right.

I told you I wasn't gonna let this house close.

Kim

By letting a man die?

No, no, he doesn't have to die. All he has to do is see what 15 minutes feels like when you need help!

This is Doc we're talking about? Doc Parker?

Levine

Yes, Doc Parker!

Crazy.

Levine

(voice breaking) Well, he really hasn't been all right lately.

Where in the hell is he gonna get a gun?

Levine

Oh, guns are hard to get all of a sudden?

Shouldn't we just knock on the door first?

Cruz

We don't wanna tip him to anything.

Davis

We're talking about a guy we know here.

Cruz

We're talking about a guy with a gun. We gonna hang here and head over there later with a mop and bucket?

Davis

And your way of handling it no one gets hurt, right?

Yeah, yeah. I'm keeping them from closing the house, just like I told you I would.

Carlos

You shot a man.

Yeah, I had to.

Carlos

Had to? That's...you might need real help.

It's gotta be eight more minutes, and I thought you'd understand.

Carlos

Here's what I do understand: I'm not letting this man die on the floor of my firehouse.

Hey, you better sit back down, Carlos.

Carlos

If he dies, you're a murderer.

Sit down!

Carlos

You wanna shoot me? Shoot me.

(seeing Steeper on the floor of the firehouse) Oh my God. Doc did that?

Kim

Not the Doc we know.

(in the ambulance on the way to the hospital) I went to funerals...hundreds...the families...I didn't know them. I never was in the field.

Kim

I'm losing his pulse.

Carlos

We're almost there.

I only knew how to work the numbers...but the numbers never balanced that day...

Kim

It's okay, Cap.

They never balanced...

I don't think they're gonna close it now.

What? This house?

Yeah.

No way. No way they're gonna close this house. You saved it.

Bosco

You know what really pisses me off? That I was stupid enough to fall for the whole damn "I changed" thing. Nobody changes. People don't change, do they, Dad? We can go out, we can go have all those steak dinners we want, but it don't make us a family. I'm my own family.

Dr. Breene

Kim Zambrano actually returned to work from her own mental collapse on September 11th. She pushed aside her own pain and answered the city's call for help. This is a theme, which, as you know, runs through most of the city's emergency employees. Carlos Nieto acted selflessly during the hostage incident at the firehouse and certainly saved Captain Steeper's life. However, as do many of the survivors of 9/11, he clearly doesn't feel heroic. Despite their hesitance to speak openly with me, if they do not locate an avenue for such a discussion, they will never adequately recover from this trauma.

What?

Yokas

Oh, see bicycles are subject to the same traffic laws that cars are subject to.

Seriously?

Yokas

You got a driver's license?

Driver's license?

Yokas

You're annoying me. You're answering every question with a question.

Levine

Doc is a teacher. He did this for us, so we could learn lessons. I'm grateful.

Dr. Breene

What lessons have you learned?

Levine

Uh… I'm still working on that.