February 20, 2008 Screencaps

Nikolas: Will you just do what I say and find it? Look, I'm sorry -- I'm sorry, Alfred. I just -- I really need that book, and I know I left it in the bedroom somewhere. So will you please find it and bring it here as quickly as possible? Thank you.

Knock on door.

Ian: Any thoughts on my proposal?

Nikolas: You mean that drug you want me to take that's not even available in this country?

Ian: Well, that's the first part, the second is keeping it quiet.

Nikolas: Patrick's my doctor, Robin's my friend, what --

Ian: They'll both tell you not to do this and have me suspended. This is against all medical policy and, most likely, moral reason.

Nikolas: Then why -- why would you take the risk? You don't know me.

Ian: You're looking for help. More and more patients are dying from red tape than they are from disease. If this works, we should know in a matter of days. The tumor, as well as the swelling around the site, should decrease, and you can travel safely abroad without your head imploding. You can have treatment in a proper research facility where the wheels of medicine still turn, and not a place like this where medicine just keeps turning a profit. However insignificant, this tumor should begin to shrink, and then stop growing altogether, then it can be removed in a procedure that's half as long, half has invasive, and carries half the risk of permanent damage you'd have if you had the surgery that Patrick and Robin are recommending you have now.

Nikolas: What about side effects?

Ian: I'll take responsibilities. Given your blood work, the possibility does exist, but no more than taking a new prescription advertised on TV for a runny nose and winding up with renal failure. Huh. I leave it in your hands.