- Dr. Mark Greene: Did you get the job?
- Dr. Doug Ross: 90 grand a year and nobody dies. Hallelujah, auf Wiedersehen, I'll see you around.
- Dr. Doug Ross: He's in V-Fib!... Come on!
- Channel 5 Chopper Reporter: What are those paddles for Dr. Ross?
- Dr. Doug Ross: Stabilize his beat. They didn't charge the battery!
- Dr. Mark Greene: [Watching in the ER] Oh my God!
- Dr. Doug Ross: GOD!
- [Ross screams in frustration]
- Dr. Doug Ross: All right, I need your help. Turn the camera off... Turn the camera off!
- Dr. Mark Greene: Doug, you're a mess. Go change into some scrubs.
- [Ross continues working]
- Dr. Mark Greene: You're freezing. Go get some coffee and warm up.
- [Ross keep working]
- Dr. Mark Greene: Hey! I need you here! Go change!
- Dr. Doug Ross: [Ross starts to leave] I never should have put him that damn chopper!
- [to Carter]
- Mrs. Phillips: We won't be needing your surgeon after all. I called my own.
- Mr. Phillips: Who?
- Mrs. Phillips: Fred.
- Mr. Phillips: Fred Mendoza? He'll cost a fortune.
- Mrs. Phillips: It's only your daughter's face.
- Mr. Phillips: I hate him. That's why you called him.
- Mrs. Phillips: He's the best in the city.
- Mr. Phillips: On lopsided breasts.
- [Mrs. Philips slaps him in the face and walks away]
- Mr. Phillips: [to Carter] Touchy subject.
- [about Doom II, the game the ER staff is playing at the admit desk]
- Dr. Mark Greene: I've done thoracotomies that were less bloody.
- Jerry Markovic: [to Carol] He just doesn't understand the educational value.
- Paramedic: Mercy's closer.
- Dr. Doug Ross: Yeah, but by 3 minutes. Then he dies because there's no ICU.
- Paramedic: Or else he dies in a news helicopter.
- Dr. Doug Ross: Look, I don't have time to argue with you. I will take full responsibility!
- [to the news team]
- Dr. Doug Ross: This boy is going to die!
- TV News Reporter Dr, Beth Mahoney: Excuse me.
- [Carter starts running towards them]
- TV News Reporter Dr, Beth Mahoney: Are you the parents of the little boy in the tunnel? How does it feel to know that mercy was
- John Carter: Excuse me.
- TV News Reporter Dr, Beth Mahoney: clearly 3 minutes cl-
- [Carter steps between the reporter and the parents]
- John Carter: Excuse me. I think you'd better leave.
- TV News Reporter Dr, Beth Mahoney: I'm sorry. I'm talking with these people.
- John Carter: No. You're not!
- [Escorts the parents past the reporter]
- Dr. Doug Ross: [Commenting on the sutures] That one's crooked.
- Dr. Mark Greene: Yeah? Well next time you can do it yourself.
- Dr. Mark Greene: What's he doing on a new chopper?
- Jerry Markovic: [Jerry points to the TV] Hey look there's Doctor Ross.
- Nurse Malik McGrath: Turn up the volume.
- Nurse Wendy Goldman: Where's the remote?
- Dr. Mark Greene: [Greene speaks into the radio] Doug, do you read me?
- Dr. Doug Ross: Mark, is that you?
- Dr. Mark Greene: What are you doing?
- Dr. Doug Ross: I got a 12 year old with hypothermia. I gotta warm him up fast! I'm doing the best I can.