February 18, 2008 Screencaps

Patrick: Nikolas? Okay, we need to get him sedated and into a treatment --

Elizabeth: Wait -- he's remembering.

Patrick: Elizabeth, we can't --

Elizabeth: Just a minute, please. He's seeing who killed Emily.

Nikolas' voice: You have to leave.

Emily: No.

Nikolas: I can't protect you anymore. You can't stay here!

Emily: Nikolas, I never should've left you.

Nikolas: Don't you understand? I'm the one who --

Emily: No, Nikolas, you would never hurt me!

Nikolas: But you have to leave! You have to leave right now!

Emily: No, no, I'm staying here! Nikolas, I'm staying here.

Nikolas: Do you understand me?

Emily: Nikolas! Ah.

Emily gags.

Nikolas: Emily? Get up, Emily, please.

Patrick: Okay, this is enough. We can't let this go on.

Elizabeth: He could come out of this remembering who killed Emily.

Patrick: Or he could die.

Emily gags.

Emily: Ah!

Ian: What the hell is wrong with you people?

Nikolas: I can almost -- I can almost see it. Let me -- let me see it.

Ian: I need to get two milligrams of lorazepam and two and a half milligrams of haloperidol. Don't just stand there. We need to get him stable in a treatment room and on a gurney -- stat! Get a couple of orderlies if you have to, but get moving. Go!

Elizabeth: Wait, wait. He's seeing his fiancée’s death; he's seeing who really killed her.

Ian: Yeah? And if he keeps on seeing it this way, he won't see anything else ever again.

Nikolas: Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.

Ian: Call Nuclear Medicine, find out how long it will take to set up a P.E.T. scan and follow him to Radiology. I want an M.R.I. with contrast and make sure they push him to the front of the line and get those studies back to me stat -- now, nurse! Pretend like you work in a hospital and move.

Patrick: Ian, Nikolas is my patient.

Ian: Well, then maybe you should've been acting more like a doctor instead of a tabloid reporter trying to bleed a juicy story out of him.

Robin: You're not being fair to Patrick.

Ian: Do you really think that what you were doing to that man, your friend, was fair? What was one of the first lessons of medicine that we were taught? "First, do no harm," and what you were doing was causing harm to that patient. Medicine is an obligation, it is a sacred trust, and you are obligated to act in the best interests of the patient. That means that your decision making is free from emotional involvement or any distraction that distorts your judgment, their best interests meaning you -- you administer care to a patient without asking for their insurance card or their bank account before you pick them up off the floor -- their best interest, so that you pledge to act without involving yourself in petty hospital politics about which doctor gets to cut to the head of the line to play the hero.

Elizabeth: But Nikolas has blamed himself for Emily’s death, and for him to realize that he didn't do it --

Ian: Yeah, will serve no one including his young son if he does. No matter how important his self-realization might be, it's meaningless if he does. Get our priorities straight. Our purpose here is to practice medicine, not indulge in wishful thinking.

Robin: Devlin was way out of line.

Patrick: Slightly.

Elizabeth: Has he always been like that?

Patrick: No. Something's changed -- I don't know what it is, though.

Emily: Do you know what happened to you?

Nikolas: No. I just started seeing these awful images of you from that night when you were killed.

Emily: But you didn't do it, did you?

Nikolas: No. No, I didn't kill you.

Nadine: Do you remember who did?

Nikolas: I was right there. I was right there; I started to see it all. There was -- there was someone else in the room. I -- he -- he came out of nowhere and hit me. And -- and I remember I fell, and I -- I looked up and I -- I saw someone, a- a man, I think. He had the cord around Emily’s neck. I tried to see his -- his face. I just --

Nadine: And what?

Nikolas: I couldn’t. I don't know -- the images, they just -- they went away. Something happened and they just went away.

Emily: I'm here.

Nikolas: She's here.

Nadine: This may sound weird, but Emily was there, too.

Nikolas: Where? What do you mean?

Nadine: Emily -- she can give this whole thing reason.

Nikolas: She's an hallucination -- part of this thing that's growing inside my brain, you understand?

Nadine: Right, which means she's a part of you. And maybe your subconscious can't deal with seeing Emily killed, it's too painful, so it won't let you remember.

Nikolas: I was in a blackout, in a rage. I never remember what happens.

Nadine: Yeah, but I think the part of you that's Emily does.

Nikolas: That's crazy.

Nadine: Is it? We don't know half the things the mind is capable of. There's selective memory and sometimes protective memory. Have you ever asked Emily who killed her?

Nikolas: No. She always said I'd never hurt her, though.

Emily: And you never would.

Nadine: You didn't want to believe her.

Nikolas: Look, I thought it was protective memory or whatever. I thought I was blocking out the ugly truth of the whole thing.

Emily: All right, so ask me.

Nadine: So ask her. Ask Emily if she remembers what happened the night she died.