ER 3x10

1. Hi.

2. Hi. I was starting to think

3. you weren't coming.

4. Dr. Angelo's office is really backed up.

5. What did she say?

6. The tests no longer detect

7. any viral load.

8. I guess the drug cocktail is working.

9. Jeanie, that is great news.

10. Yeah. Maybe I don't have to get a lawyer now.

11. Maybe the hospital

12. will let it go.

13. No, I-I know.

14. It's still transmittable.

15. That doesn't mean the hospital can keep you

16. shuffling papers for the rest of your career.

17. If I still have a career.

18. I have a meeting with Dr. Greene and Dr. Anspaugh in ten minutes

19. and I, for one, think you're too valuable

20. to rubber-stamp admits

21. all day long.

22. Thanks. This is on me.

23. No matter what happens in there, Jeanie

24. this is great news.

25. Rode your sled to work, Dr. Greene?

26. Uh, no. It's a Christmas present for my daughter.

27. That's it?

28. You remember sliding down those snow-covered bluffs

29. with the cold wind flying through your hair?

30. We didn't have too many snow-covered bluffs in Atlanta.

31. We did in Grand Rapids.

32. Coasted right through rush-hour traffic

33. got hit by a car...

34. Didn't they have one of those dollies

35. that wet itself or something?

36. You know, every toy that I saw in the store

37. had some tie-in to a TV show or a movie

38. or something I've been too busy to see.

39. I mean, I don't know what Duke Nukem was

40. but he looked pretty nasty.

41. You made a good choice with the sled.

42. Hey, you look awful.

43. How long you been on?

44. Since yesterday morning.

45. ER

46. Mark, you ready?

47. Uh, yeah. Morning, Kerry.

48. I just got to change.

49. It's for you, Dennis.

50. Is it Benton trying to reach out and touch me?

51. It's a lady.

52. Hey, Monique.

53. You at the airport?

54. Was it canceled?

55. Come on. I thought we'd been through this already.

56. You want the two of us to decide?

57. I'm sure none of us in this room

58. would want anyone on our team

59. endangering patients in any way.

60. As attendings, you're closest

61. to the everyday workings of the ER.

62. So, there is no hospital-wide policy.

63. Legal advises we handle it department by department.

64. So if we get sued

65. it's the individual attending's butt that's on the line?

66. Let me remind you, Doctor Greene, if we were aware that there was

67. an HIV-Positive health care worker here at County

68. and the public got wind of it, started filing suits

69. all of our butts would be on the line.

70. HIV-Positive workers can be fired

71. because the hospital doesn't want to be sued?

72. No. In Illinois

73. it's forbidden to fire any employee

74. because they're HIV-Positive.

75. In theory, but have been forced to quit.

76. Nobody's forcing anybody to quit.

77. What about restricting their duties to the point where

78. they're not working within the job description?

79. I wouldn't presume

80. to tell you two how to run your department

81. but, uh, let me give you an idea of the current thinking.

82. These are the CDC findings

83. Illinois State law and pending legal cases

84. and various NIH and journal reports.

85. Now, look, I know you two have had

86. your differences in the past.

87. Do you think you can work together and solve this?

88. Absolutely.

89. Sure.

90. Can you put on the card

91. "Merry Christmas, Mom. Love, Doug"?

92. And could you make that a rush order?

93. Dennis, Dennis, Dennis, what is up with that shower, man?

94. I nearly froze my ass off this morning.

95. Did you hear that opera coming through the pipes?

96. Il figaro? Mrs. Needlebaum.

97. 45 Minutes of sing-a-long with Pavarotti

98. and she uses up all the hot water in the building.

99. You get any sleep last night?

100. No. I had 15 admits.

101. Fifteen? Wow.

102. Only ten more hours

103. and then Yuletide cheer with the Carter family.

104. Oh, I feel bad subjecting you

105. and your girlfriend to my family.

106. It's not going to happen.

107. Monique isn't coming.

108. Not at all?

109. No. She said she had to stay

110. in Baton Rouge... work.

111. Aw, damn. I thought you guys worked it out, too.

112. It's her loss, you know?

113. I'll probably be a little late with all these new patients.

114. Well, no worries.

115. Things don't really get interesting

116. till my Uncle Branch starts downing the bourbon.

117. Hey, Carter? You got your picks for the bowl pool?

118. Yeah. Right here. How much is it? Five bucks?

119. Twenty, Mijo.

120. $20? That's highway robbery.

121. How much is in the pot?

122. Almost $400.

123. You know, I'm with you for Rose and Fiesta

124. but Cotton and Liberty Bowls...

125. You might want to save your money.

126. Why is everyone standing around while we're drowning in patients?

127. Hey, I'm on hold with the florist.

128. Not anymore, you're not.

129. And a Merry Christmas Eve to you.

130. Please don't talk to me about Christmas.

131. At 5:00 am this morning, my mother decided she had to start the Vareniki.

132. Are those little dumplings?

133. Yeah. She also picked the pre-dawn hour to harass me

134. about dressing for tonight's party.

135. So you going to wear

136. that sexy Ukrainian shepherdess outfit?

137. It was either that or endure hours of nagging.

138. Okay. Snowmobile foot lac in the suture room

139. toddler eating mistletoe in one...

140. We have a slip-and-fall in three.

141. Watch out for Carol.

142. It's Christmas in the Ukraine.

143. Is her mom making those little dumplings?

144. Don't ask.

145. Oh, hey, listen, I heard Anspaugh is having

146. some kind of secret meeting.

147. Anything we should know about?

148. We have to hammer out a departmental policy

149. on HIV-Positive health care workers.

150. Anybody we know?

151. Really?

152. That son of a bitch tried to kill me!

153. He ain't getting this goose

154. 'cause I stuffed it.

155. Nurse, call my 83-year-old grandmother in Tuscaloosa

156. to get her marinade recipe.

157. I sense a good one.

158. Oh, yeah. This gentleman...

159. a female illusionist.

160. Got into a too-many-cooks argument

161. with his boyfriend and things got heated...

162. and he she started getting chest pains.

163. Girl, it was like an elephant sitting on my chest... with attitude.

164. She was diaphoretic.

165. I never said that!

166. That means sweaty.

167. Oh... yeah.

168. It nearly ruined my gown.

169. Pressure 130/95.

170. Resps 25. Slightly tachy...

171. Tacky? Honey

172. this is a Bob Mackie original.

173. Okay, ready?

174. One, two, three.

175. Oh!

176. We need a chest X-ray

177. cardiac enzymes and an EKG.

178. Okay, Miss...

179. Understood.

180. I'm Miss Understood in the Mighty Morphin Gender Changers.

181. We're at Club Cabaret every Friday and Saturday.

182. Right. You've got to give me the goose now

183. so we can attach an EKG to your chest.

184. You want me to give you my Christmas dinner?

185. Uh-uh, Miss Thang.

186. Give me the damn bird.

187. Where you gonna put it?

188. With the rest of your personal belongings.

189. Well, it better, because I don't want to wake up

190. and see you picking your teeth.

191. Are you on any medications?

192. Well, not besides the hormones.

193. Have you had chest pain before?

194. Well, when I get emotional... around that time of the month.

195. Mm-hmm.

196. I heard it was someone

197. in this department that has it.

198. Who?

199. Uh, I don't know.

200. It's just the word on the street.

201. A tech on three heard it from a night guy

202. and now Weaver and Greene

203. get pulled into some secret meeting.

204. See, that's how rumors get started.

205. Ah. A rumor. Am I missing a good one?

206. Attendings got pulled into a meeting

207. but they won't say what it was about.

208. It's about someone with HIV

209. but you didn't hear it from me.

210. Randi, can you do something

211. with these personal effects?

212. They're perishable.

213. Oh, good. Jeanie.

214. Head lac in exam two.

215. And, Connie, if you're not too busy...

216. Some folks are getting a little too fond

217. of the manager part of nurse manager.

218. No kidding.

219. Carol? What?

220. Sorry, but Mark assigned me to triage today.

221. Aw, come on, guys.

222. Why do I have to push all the time?

223. I'm not your mother.

224. Uh, excuse me.

225. I need a doctor.

226. Okay, if you could go back to the waiting room

227. and fill these out...

228. No, I'm looking for Dr. Ross.

229. For a medical problem?

230. Yeah.

231. You still need to fill out these forms.

232. The waiting room's that way.

233. Hurt here?

234. Yeah. Okay.

235. Uh, we're going to need a facial

236. and a mandibular series

237. 75 migs of Demerol and Phenergan, IM.

238. Try and rustle up an oral surgeon, too.

239. Good luck with that.

240. Oh, and, um...

241. give me a gram of Ancef IM.

242. You got it.

243. Um... are you allergic to any meds?

244. Okay, I think that your jaw is broken.

245. The antibiotics will keep bacteria

246. from getting into your bloodstream

247. at the fracture site.

248. But looking at your chart here...

249. I guess you know the drill, huh?

250. Uh, "humerus fracture, 1993, nasal fracture, 1993

251. "Multiple visits for sutures, 1994

252. "and your first broken jaw

253. was in December 1995."

254. I guess hubby thought

255. he'd go out with a bang

256. this year, too, huh?

257. It was an accident.

258. Yeah.

259. Your face got in the way of his fist.

260. So, what if we change the disclosure form

261. to include that people might be treated

262. by an HIV-Positive health care worker?

263. And start a witch hunt?

264. Well, we have to inform the patients.

265. It's the law.

266. Okay, I take it you haven't read this.

267. Americans with Disability Act?

268. I don't know. What? Proposals, Addendums?

269. Here. Read this.

270. It states that you can't disclose one risk

271. without disclosing equal risks.

272. Meaning?

273. Meaning that the patient

274. doesn't have a choice

275. of whether they're treated by someone

276. with the flu or someone with a hangover

277. a doc who had a fight with his spouse

278. an intern who's been on for days...

279. someone with HIV.

280. Yeah, and Illinois law says not only can we not

281. prevent people from knowing that they've been put at risk

282. but we have to tell them.

283. So you'd rather follow the Illinois law

284. than the federal statute?

285. You know, because I'm concerned doesn't mean

286. I'm some kind of bigot.

287. Your concern can't be extended

288. to prevent Jeanie from earning a living.

289. Nobody's talking about firing her

290. but we do have a responsibility to our patients.

291. What about our responsibility to Jeanie?

292. She's using universal precautions.

293. Are you frightened here, Mark? Is that it?

294. No, I'm trying to keep us all from being sued.

295. You think I want to get sued?

296. But opening up Jeanie's personal tragedy

297. to public scrutiny is the surest way to invite

298. frivolous lawsuits and mass hysteria.

299. So we break the law.

300. If we have to, yes.

301. I care about Jeanie, Kerry

302. but there is

303. a larger issue here than your personal loyalty

304. to a friend.

305. Uh, sorry to interrupt, but we're swamped.

306. Whenever you're done.

307. We're done now.

308. Mark, we haven't even made a dent.

309. Would you rather jeopardize patient care further

310. by sitting here with a traffic jam in triage?

311. Who's next? Ho-ho-ho.

312. Santa Claus?

313. No, that's who's next, three hookers...

314. One with downstairs discharge

315. and two with frostbite.

316. I turned on the oven for a few seconds

317. and the next thing I know, he's the got the ribbon

318. hanging out of his mouth.

319. All I could get was the leaves.

320. How many berries were on the stalk?

321. Maybe four?

322. And he wasn't vomiting?

323. No.

324. I know, buddy.

325. This mistletoe's good stuff, but we got to get it out.

326. He's been asking for juice.

327. I didn't give him any until you said it was okay.

328. Lily, why don't you make a bottle

329. half juice, half activated charcoal.

330. Coming right up.

331. Uh, Mrs. Romero, we're going to give him a bottle

332. to absorb some of the toxins.

333. Okay?

334. All right, excuse me.

335. There you are, Ahmed.

336. I've been looking for you at the shelter.

337. Come here.

338. How is he?

339. I changed his diaper

340. and there was blood in it.

341. In his stool or the urine?

342. I'm pretty sure

343. it was in the pee.

344. Listen, I got to get him back home

345. before his mom gets back.

346. If she finds out I brought him here

347. she'll kick me out.

348. You need to get his mother here now.

349. Can't you just hook him up

350. with some pills or something?

351. No, I can't just hook him up with some pills.

352. Get his mother here, all right?

353. Geez, what happened to him?

354. Guy's name is John Collins.

355. He was drunk and sleeping it off in Grant Park.

356. Some kids thought it'd be fun

357. to pour lighter fluid on him

358. and play yule log.

359. He wouldn't let us put oxygen on him.

360. Kept screaming about Nick.

361. He's got extensive 3rd degree burns to the chest.

362. Who is this? The guy's dog.

363. Barked at a mounted cop till he came to check it out.

364. Randi, can you take care of this dog?

365. You take care of my Nick now.

366. You take care of my Nicky.

367. Take it easy, Mr. Collins.

368. We'll put him in a nice kennel

369. till you're back on your feet.

370. No! No kennel. He's all I got.

371. No I.V., No BP either.

372. He needs massive fluids.

373. You got to promise me, Doc.

374. You promise me now.

375. Mr. Collins, we're going to take care of your dog.

376. Just be quiet for now.

377. On my count, everyone.

378. I'm going to need a cut-down tray.

379. One, two, three.

380. All right, Chuny, get me a blood-gas

381. with a CO level.

382. Get a CBC Chem 20

383. portable chest for openers.

384. Mm-hmm.

385. Is he okay?

386. He's got a mass in his abdomen.

387. Once I get inside, I'll know how bad it is.

388. Inside? Is it bad?

389. Yeah.

390. Ultrasound's ready.

391. Did you get a hold of the mother?

392. She isn't home.

393. Any other adult relatives?

394. There aren't any.

395. I take care of him

396. when Gloria's not around.

397. Okay. Hang on.

398. Well, there it is.

399. He's hemorrhaging

400. into his kidney.

401. Let's get lytes, CBC,

402. a CT of the abdomen, get a chest film

403. for metz.

404. And, Haleh, page the O.R., too, will you?

405. What does it say?

406. Ahmed's got something called a Wilm's tumor.

407. You see that area right there?

408. That fluid?

409. The light gray?

410. Yeah. That's blood.

411. The tumor's invading his kidney.

412. That's why you saw all the blood in his diaper.

413. I should have brought him in before, huh?

414. I got to get him to the operating room.

415. I knew he was sick.

416. Is he going to die?

417. You did a good thing, Charlie.

418. Now use the Metz and dissect the right colon

419. off the anterior surface of the tumor.

420. Should I retract the tumor laterally?

421. Yep. Very gently.

422. That's it.

423. You say that the baby-sitter brought the child in?

424. Yeah. Mother was nowhere to be found.

425. Dr. Ross knows the girl that brought him in.

426. Now retract the tumor laterally.

427. Right.

428. And tie off the renal vein...

429. and artery and ureter and transect it.

430. Slowly now. Avoid the left renal vessels.

431. Good.

432. Now, free up the kidney and you can take it out.

433. Okay.

434. All the pretty twinkly lights.

435. And that's why you were dancing

436. with the elves at Marshall Field's.

437. I'd like some Sherry now.

438. What's your name, ma'am?

439. I'm Blitzen

440. the most overlooked of all the reindeer.

441. Blitzen.

442. It's your lucky day, Beth.

443. You only have a fractured cheekbone.

444. What does that mean?

445. It means you can go home...

446. unless you don't want to.

447. There's a shelter called Hope House.

448. It's for women and children in trouble... I don't have kids.

449. That's okay.

450. You can go there by yourself. They have security

451. He'll find me.

452. They have reciprocal agreements

453. with shelters all over the country.

454. You could go anywhere you want

455. Sweetheart, are you okay?

456. I knew I should have fixed that top step.

457. It's just I've been so busy.

458. You forgive me?

459. Can you forgive me, honey?

460. I love you.

461. That's my girl.

462. Is she going to be

463. all right?

464. We're actually not done, Mr. Lang.

465. We still need to do a head CT,

466. facial tomograms, put her on an I.V. and antibiotics.

467. Is that going to take long?

468. Well, we'll do the best we can but with the holidays, you know?

469. Anyway, family

470. isn't allowed in the exam area.

471. Malik, could you show Mr. Lang to chairs?

472. Sure.

473. I'll be right outside, honey.

474. So you want to hear some more about those shelters?

475. No good?

476. No, and I've tried PB and J.

477. Cookies, fruitcake.

478. Nobody likes fruitcake.

479. I thought dogs ate everything.

480. Why don't you take him to the morgue

481. and have him beg for some table scraps.

482. That's Mr. Collins.

483. Maybe he knows what you like to eat, huh?

484. I think he likes you.

485. How you doing?

486. What's going on?

487. We were moving him up to the burn unit

488. and he had started having shortness of breath.

489. BP's 80 palp, Tachycardiac at 140.

490. All right, give me 40 mig I.V. Bolus of Lasix.

491. We need to intubate 7.5.

492. He's bradying down.

493. Rate's 40, no pulse.

494. Aw, damn it.

495. Give me a mig of atropine.

496. Start CPR.

497. Asystole!

498. All right. Let's give him an amp of epi.

499. Come on, Mr. Collins.

500. Come on, come on.

501. I don't care if psych is backed up.

502. She thinks she's a reindeer.

503. Well, dangerous?

504. You know, she bruised an elf.

505. Excuse me, Miss.

506. Who's the rocket scientist

507. that parked a Bentley in the ambulance bay?

508. The Bentley's mine.

509. Actually, it's my employer's.

510. Miss, I'm looking for a missing person.

511. Take a number, sir. The line starts in the waiting room.

512. The woman I'm looking for has a hand puppet.

513. Did you say puppet?

514. Hey, you found him something to munch on.

515. He found it himself.

516. No kidding?

517. Mm-hmm.

518. Are dogs supposed to eat chicken bones?

519. Is that a chicken?

520. Charlie, hey.

521. Ahmed's out of surgery.

522. He's going to be okay.

523. I can take him home now?

524. No. It's going to take him some time to recover from surgery.

525. Oh, man. Gloria's going to be pissed.

526. I'm going to have to call DCFS.

527. You're going to narc her out?

528. I'm not narcing on anybody. That little boy's been sick.

529. The mother should have seen that weeks ago.

530. Gloria didn't know.

531. She just found out.

532. She sounds really worried.

533. Come on, or she'll throw me out.

534. So you live with her?

535. So you lied to me about the shelter.

536. Come on, please.

537. All right, I'll give her a chance

538. but I'm not promising you anything.

539. Okay?

540. You're eating hospital food?

541. You're that desperate?

542. Come on. Let's get some lunch.

543. Boo.

544. You scared me.

545. I thought the surgery

546. went really well.

547. Yeah, it did.

548. My 3:00 hernia was canceled

549. so I am free tonight.

550. So I figured, if you hadn't made plans

551. I could make

552. my traditional Christmas phone call to Pizza Ring.

553. I actually got a family thing

554. and I already asked a friend of mine to go with me.

555. Well, the... I understand.

556. It was last minute, anyway.

557. Christmas Eve.

558. It's okay. I'll just stay home

559. and rent a movie.

560. That's what I usually do.

561. No. You know what?

562. Let me talk to my buddy

563. because he was tired earlier.

564. He may prefer to go home and crash.

565. So, um... yeah.

566. Yeah, let's do something later.

567. Pizza sounds great.

568. Gingerbread; that always reminds me of Christmas at home.

569. You ever do that?

570. You ever make gingerbread at home?

571. You know, in a civilized society

572. people acknowledge each other when they speak, Charlie.

573. I'm just trying to make conversation.

574. Want to talk about Christmas at my home?

575. Sure. Where is it?

576. Home is where my mom got bombed

577. out of her mind and brought home

578. some fat, smelly trucker after closing time.

579. Then she'd pass out

580. giving him the idea he'd rather sleep with me.

581. All right, we know why you left.

582. How far did you run?

583. From Cleveland.

584. Did you call her lately?

585. She's probably moved on by now.

586. She never stays anywhere for very long.

587. All right, both of these plus the three danish

588. the two packets of cocoa and the two dinner rolls

589. she's got in her pocket.

590. Great. Thanks.

591. Hey.

592. Hey, man.

593. Okay, I have now officially changed every drain

594. and lanced every boil in this hospital.

595. 34 hours, man.

596. I'm ready for some of that, uh...

597. what's that Jell-o thing you said your cook makes?

598. Aspic.

599. Yeah. Some Aspic.

600. That's what I want to talk to you about.

601. Say no more.

602. I have an Aunt who makes Chitlins.

603. You don't want to know what that's about.

604. Uh... okay.

605. There's a chance

606. that I may not be able to make the party.

607. Oh. You working?

608. No. No.

609. There's this girl.

610. Oh, that's cool.

611. You know. I understand.

612. You sure?

613. Who wants to hang with his homeys

614. when he could be with a honey, right?

615. You going to be...?

616. I'll be fine.

617. Well, this gives you a chance to at least

618. go home and get more sleep.

619. You don't have to hang on me, man. I'll be fine.

620. Well, let's do something tomorrow night;

621. go out, get a couple beers or something.

622. I'm on tomorrow night.

623. I know what universal

624. precautions are usually,

625. but what does it refer to here, double gloves?

626. You're going overboard with these guidelines.

627. Well, what about employee X's

628. participation in bloody trauma?

629. I don't see anything wrong with that.

630. Bloody trauma?

631. Maybe that's the deal with Dr. Lewis.

632. Susan, HIV-Positive?

633. I don't think so.

634. Look, Susan is fine.

635. That's what I said.

636. Lydia's been sick a lot.

637. Oh, shut your mouth.

638. You know, I would have expected more from the two of you

639. than gossiping about a co-worker's HIV status.

640. Look everybody. Kerry and I have been hammering out

641. a policy, there's no secret there.

642. But this shouldn't be grist for

643. the rumor mill.

644. Is there a reason we have to have

645. HIV-positive employees

646. in the ER at all?

647. Well, according to current law

648. employee or employees X... We'll call them employee X...

649. Cannot be fired because of their HIV status.

650. But they can stick their hands in a bloody trauma?

651. Why not if they're gloved?

652. Is this someone got it from a needle stick?

653. What difference does it make how they got it?

654. These are the issues that we've been discussing.

655. Should employee X be restricted

656. to noninvasive procedures?

657. Or continue with their duties...?

658. Won't universal precautions prevent transmission?

659. Yeah, that's what they tell us when we work on HIV-positive patients.

660. The real question here isn't in law and policies.

661. It's do our patients have the right to know.

662. This in no way has any reflection

663. upon my opinion on employee X's work.

664. Is there an actual employee X

665. or are we just talking?

666. We're talking policy here, people.

667. Employee x could be

668. any one of us.

669. Excuse me.

670. Would everyone stop calling me employee x?

671. I am HIV-Positive.

672. We talked about this, Mark.

673. The risks are a million to one

674. that Jeanie will bleed into an open wound while suturing.

675. I'm not saying she can't work.

676. I'm just trying to set the boundaries of where she can work.

677. You set the boundaries at triage and answering the phone...

678. That's not her job.

679. I have no trouble

680. if she performs her duties within limits.

681. Dispensing medication... That's fine

682. but some things aren't.

683. For example... it says here...

684. "deep, penetrating, poorly visualized cavities."

685. Okay? That's from the CDC.

686. I think that should be off limits.

687. I wouldn't feel comfortable

688. doing that anyway.

689. Okay. See? Progress.

690. You know, Mark, since I found out,

691. I have been more careful.

692. Do you think I want

693. to do something that may harm a patient?

694. No, I don't.

695. But unfortunately

696. the hospital administration has left it up to Kerry and I

697. to create a policy that the state and federal governments

698. can't seem to make up their minds about.

699. I've agonized over this.

700. I have considered quitting, but I believe

701. my life can still have value... I can still help people.

702. I'm sure you can.

703. What else are you worried about?

704. Dementia.

705. You're fine now, but what if you decline?

706. Dementia may be the first sign of full-blown AIDS.

707. I've heard that there are some hospitals

708. that have instituted a physician monitor

709. someone to help keep tabs on the person's health.

710. I could do that.

711. Okay.

712. So, that's one thing.

713. What else?

714. Hi.

715. So was it a needle stick?

716. I guess so. You don't think that she...?

717. Oh, hi, Jeanie.

718. Hi.

719. Hey, Jeanie.

720. Hey.

721. I wish I had known.

722. Why? Would it have made the two of us friends?

723. Now, that's not fair.

724. Nothing is.

725. Well?

726. Oh, Mr. Lang. Hi.

727. Is Beth okay?

728. I been sitting here for hours.

729. I'm sorry, but your wife's fall

730. was worse than we initially thought.

731. She might have to stay overnight for observation.

732. Oh, God.

733. Anyway, the coroner's going to have my butt

734. if we don't get this guy over there.

735. So why don't you just wait?

736. Hey, buddy?

737. This patient's going to the bus station.

738. A stiff?

739. Miraculous recovery.

740. Uh, here you go...

741. For your bus ticket and some burgers.

742. Oh, I... I can't take this from you.

743. You got a 3:15 to Abilene to catch.

744. I don't know

745. where Abilene is.

746. Hopefully, neither does he.

747. Bye.

748. Uh, you won the pool.

749. Congratulations.

750. That was the football pool money?

751. Yeah. I thought she was a better bet.

752. All right. "Alternators, amusements, ammunition..."

753. There's no animal shelters.

754. Sometimes they list them under Humane Societies.

755. Aw, You can't give him away, Mark.

756. You promised Mr. Collins.

757. Yeah, that was before I shelled out 50 bucks

758. to a drag queen for a free-range goose.

759. You know what happens when they can't

760. find homes for dogs?

761. What am I going to do with a dog?

762. Dogs are great.

763. They're good company.

764. They watch your stuff when you're gone.

765. Your daughter will love him.

766. You think?

767. Yeah. My dad got me a dog... Skippy... when I was six.

768. Best present I ever got.

769. The two of us were like peanut butter and jelly.

770. Ay, mi perrito!

771. No me puedes hacer eso, ah?

772. Yo soy su madre!

773. Yo tengo derecho!

774. I'll get you for kidnapping!

775. Don't you think I won't! He was sick!

776. Don't tell me how to raise my son...

777. Excuse me, I'm Dr. Ross.

778. Can I help you?

779. You can give me back my baby

780. is what you can do for me.

781. Your son had major surgery.

782. I'll call the cops on your ass.

783. Are you high, Gloria?

784. I'm clean. You don't know nothing about me.

785. Well maybe we should just let Children and Family Services decide.

786. You promised you wouldn't narc!

787. I said I'd give her a chance. I gave her a chance.

788. She's just scared.

789. You come in here, messed up on God knows what

790. you don't even ask about

791. your critically-ill son

792. so why don't you have a seat...

793. I'll get my kid back, you bastard!

794. You think you can mess with me because I'm a Latina?

795. Well, I'll call a lawyer

796. and sue all you all!

797. You're just like the rest of them.

798. Gloria, wait up!

799. What's that?

800. This homeless guy's dog.

801. The dog saved his life.

802. I told him that I'd, you know, watch out for him

803. and next thing I know

804. the guy up and dies on me.

805. So now you're the proud owner of...

806. His name's Nick.

807. Given the season, you should call him St. Nick.

808. Yeah, well, Rachel can call him whatever she wants.

809. Rachel?

810. Yeah, I thought I'd give her a puppy for Christmas.

811. Mark, in case you hadn't noticed

812. that dog is, like, eight years old.

813. It's ready for a mid-life crisis.

814. It's ready for a fur replacement.

815. What do you mean? With a wash, a little bow around his neck

816. he's not going to look a day over... five.

817. What do you know about giving dogs a bath?

818. What's to know? Could you hold him?

819. I could, yeah, for 20 bucks. I could do it.

820. 20 bucks, that's a little steep.

821. I lost my wallet. I need a loan.

822. Deal.

823. Okay.

824. Hang on.

825. You got him?

826. Hold on.

827. Ho!

828. Come here, come here...

829. Whoa! Ah!

830. Oh, damn it!

831. Let me see. You take care of your head.

832. I'll get the dog.

833. Can I get some help?

834. Yeah.

835. Ouch. That looks pretty deep.

836. Yeah. Dog trauma.

837. He went that way. He was giving Doug a run for his money.

838. Looks like it could use stitches

839. don't you think?

840. You want me to call someone?

841. No. I want you to do it.

842. Okay.

843. Oh, Wow. Wow.

844. Very William Powell.

845. Aren't they great?

846. Silk.

847. Try it on. Yeah?

848. Dr. Keaton?

849. Yes. Dr. Benton?

850. Is this a bad time?

851. No, no, no.

852. I was just reviewing some anatomy.

853. May I come in for a moment?

854. Sure.

855. Uh... first of all, I wanted to thank you

856. for, uh, letting me take such a large role

857. in the Lopez Nephrectomy today.

858. Oh, you did a great job.

859. Thank you. That's actually why I'm here.

860. I'd like to do another pediatric surgery rotation.

861. Uh, well, you know, as you know

862. I won't be here for the next rotation.

863. I know. Uh, I was hoping

864. that you could leave your recommendation for me

865. with your replacement.

866. Um...

867. Well, you're a very good surgeon, uh, Peter

868. but that's not enough for pedes.

869. You've got to live and breathe for children.

870. You took this rotation just to challenge yourself

871. and I applaud that

872. but I can't, in good conscience

873. give up a space that could possibly be filled

874. by a future pediatric surgeon.

875. I'd be happy to talk

876. to Dr. Anspaugh or Morgenstern

877. and I hear that Don's doing

878. some really interesting stuff in Thoracics.

879. No, no. No, thank you.

880. I, uh...

881. I wouldn't want to waste any more of your time.

882. Hmm...

883. You've got an old scar.

884. Looks like you've done this before.

885. I played Rugby in high school for a few weeks

886. to impress a girl

887. but after ending up on the bottom of a few scrums

888. I decided to rethink the relationship.

889. Jeanie, you're a great P.A.

890. You're an asset to the ER.

891. But...?

892. But nothing.

893. I think you should stay.

894. And do my job; not do clerical work?

895. Yeah.

896. Within the limits that we set earlier.

897. But you still wouldn't want me suturing your daughter.

898. I don't know. I...

899. Okay.

900. Good as new.

901. All right. When I finally caught up with him

902. he'd already been made mascot of the children's ward.

903. Watch him.

904. Thank you.

905. Good catch.

906. All right. Now, I am on my way home

907. for a beautiful holiday

908. with Mu Shu pork, Channel 11 Yule log

909. and my easy chair.

910. How's your forehead?

911. Jeanie fixed me right up.

912. Yeah. She's a great P.A.

913. All right. My work here is done.

914. Merry Christmas.

915. I'm sorry I lied to you, Mark.

916. Good night.

917. Good night.

918. What happened here?

919. Long story.

920. I swallowed a bunch of pills a few years ago.

921. When I got back to work

922. people either smothered me with kindness

923. or treated me like I was invisible.

924. If we aren't friends, maybe we should be.

925. Well. I have a house full of crazy relatives waiting for me.

926. Merry Christmas, Carol.

927. Merry Christmas.

928. Hey.

929. Hey.

930. What are you doing?

931. What...?

932. How did you find out where I lived?

933. I thought I lost this.

934. You did... at the cafeteria.

935. And the 50 some-odd bucks that was in here?

936. I needed cab fare.

937. 50 bucks' worth?

938. What are you doing here?

939. Gloria's pissed, and she blames it on me.

940. I can't stay there anymore.

941. And?

942. And I thought I could crash with you.

943. You're 14 years old, you stole my wallet

944. you've been nothing but a pain in the ass.

945. You want me to stay out on the streets?

946. In a shelter.

947. A shelter on Christmas Eve?

948. Sounds like fun.

949. Hey.

950. Hi.

951. How'd you find me?

952. Dr. Weaver told me you were taking a break.

953. I, uh...

954. I got a lot of Christmas cards

955. forwarded to me

956. addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Al Boulet.

957. I thought you might like to look at them, too.

958. You can sit down, Al.

959. I don't bite.

960. Aunt Nonni.

961. I wonder what get-rich-quick scheme

962. she's looking for partners in this year.

963. Southwestern land development.

964. Beats the envelope-stuffing scheme.

965. And the roller disco.

966. Uh... I also thought...

967. You might like to have this.

968. Where did you find this?

969. I finally got a chance

970. to go through some of the boxes from the house.

971. I found my socket set, too.

972. Remember that ridiculous tree in the old apartment?

973. There was nothing ridiculous about that, baby.

974. That was a... a prime piece of pine.

975. Except it was about six feet too tall

976. for a studio apartment

977. and you refused to cut the top off.

978. That would've been sacrilege.

979. I bet you can still see the stucco scratches.

980. Like you didn't eat all the popcorn

981. before I could string it with the cranberries.

982. Well, that's different. How?

983. 'Cause you know how I feel about popcorn.

984. Hey, Dennis.

985. Dennis?

986. You were sleeping.

987. No, I was just resting my eyes.

988. What are you still doing here?

989. I've got all these charts.

990. They can wait.

991. No. I want to finish them up.

992. You are going to go home right?

993. You are going to get some sleep?

994. Yeah, absolutely.

995. I'm good.

996. All right, man.

997. Hey.

998. I hope I'm not interrupting anything.

999. Well, actually, I was just seducing

1000. this fat man in a fly red suit, you know.

1001. He came down the chimney.

1002. But other than that...

1003. Um, here.

1004. I brought you this Poinsettia.

1005. Who knew the Zippy Mart was still open on Christmas Eve?

1006. Busted, huh?

1007. I just didn't want

1008. to show up here empty-handed, that's all.

1009. Thank you...

1010. for the Poinsettia.

1011. Yeah, uh...

1012. You're welcome.

1013. Are you going to come in

1014. or are you just going to let all this cold air in here?

1015. You forgot the extra chair.

1016. Mom, I already borrowed folding chairs

1017. from the guy next door.

1018. The extra chair is for the unexpected guest

1019. a tradition much older than you or me

1020. or the guy next door.

1021. Okay, well, there isn't enough room.

1022. And as much as I'd like to sit on Uncle Myko's lap...

1023. Fine, fine. Have it your way.

1024. First we have to have Sviata Vechera

1025. on American Christmas Eve.

1026. Then it's like pulling teeth to get you to help me cook.

1027. Now, one last tradition

1028. I ask you to assist me with and...

1029. An unexpected guest maybe?

1030. Maybe.

1031. Hey.

1032. Don't say a word.

1033. I thought you were planning a quiet evening

1034. with the Channel Nine Yule log.

1035. Yeah, well, the plans changed.

1036. You're kidding me.

1037. She just showed up at my place.

1038. I can't have her sleeping there.

1039. It wouldn't look

1040. very good, so...

1041. Oh, no. No way, Doug.

1042. It's bad enough I've got eight drunken sword dancers

1043. re-enacting the purge in my dining room.

1044. It's Christmas, Carol.

1045. Doug, I am painfully aware of that.

1046. Come on.

1047. Come on, Nick.

1048. Nick, let's get out of here.

1049. Come on, buddy. Come on.

1050. Mark.

1051. I, uh, I didn't hear you

1052. ring the bell.

1053. Jennifer, guess who's here?

1054. You won't believe what he's got with him either.

1055. It's just funny because I got Rachel

1056. a couple of Labrador puppies for Christmas

1057. and here you are with a...

1058. what is he, some kind of a Setter?

1059. Mixed breed, actually.

1060. Daddy!

1061. Daddy!

1062. Hi, sweetheart.

1063. Mark, we weren't expecting you until tomorrow.

1064. Yeah, well...

1065. Daddy

1066. you brought me a doggie.

1067. Great minds think alike.

1068. Actually, I, uh...

1069. he's my dog, and I just wanted you

1070. to meet...

1071. Ow!

1072. Oh, I'm sorry.

1073. You all right?

1074. You okay?

1075. Bad dog!

1076. The doggie

1077. didn't mean it.

1078. No, of course he didn't, darling.

1079. Here, let me take a look.

1080. Has he had his shots yet?

1081. Craig, let Mark take a look at it.

1082. He's a doctor.

1083. Come on in, Mark.

1084. Okay. Let's go.

1085. Good, doggie.

1086. Thank you.

1087. If I had known it was this easy to get my mother

1088. off my back, I would have had

1089. you bring her by a long time ago.

1090. So she can stay?

1091. No, I do not think that's a good idea.

1092. Check it out... It's a Christmas egg.

1093. That's nice there, Charlie.

1094. You should make one. It's pretty cool.

1095. I don't know, Charlie.

1096. I'm no Picasso.

1097. You chicken?

1098. Yeah, you a chicken?

1099. Yeah, I'm a chicken.

1100. Get over there.

1101. I'll paint it.

1102. Okay, one night.

1103. All right.

1104. Just one... tonight.

1105. So Long as we have hands to clasp

1106. Christmas day will always be

1107. just as long as we have...

1108. Welcome, Christmas...

1109. Oh, I am never going to get sick of that one.

1110. Do you think they have Dr. Seuss in Pakistan?

1111. Oh, I don't think it's a priority.

1112. Will you be safe?

1113. I don't think you can guarantee safety anywhere.

1114. Oh, I feel safe here.

1115. I remember my father used to read

1116. The Christmas Story every Christmas Eve.

1117. I'm so tired, I don't even think I remember it.

1118. Um, "'Twas the night before Christmas...

1119. "and all through the house

1120. "not a creature was stirring...

1121. not even a mouse."

1122. I'm going to miss you.

1123. That's not the next line.

1124. I'm really going to miss you.

1125. What are you looking at?

1126. This tree.

1127. It's missing something, you know?

1128. Yeah.

1129. Well, pedes did a good job

1130. with this construction paper chain, huh?

1131. Yeah.

1132. That was a real gutsy thing you did today.

1133. Thanks.

1134. You know, I have just the thing.

1135. That looks good.

1136. Where did you get it?

1137. My ex-husband brought it by.

1138. It came off our first Christmas tree.

1139. It's an heirloom.

1140. You should put it on your family tree.

1141. I just did.