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And now by the powers vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife.

Kiss the bride.

Previously on St Elsewhere...

So you can't work in ER any more.

How would you like to be stuck down in Pathology?

Peter, let her go. Get out of here.

Tonight on St Elsewhere...

Margaret?

This is a hell of a way to hold a reunion, isn't it?

She's still very beautiful.

A woman never forgets the first man she slept with.

The two of us could maybe sit down with Dr Ridley, Dr Weiss,

and sort of talk things over.

I think we're getting somewhere here...

I'm saying that...

THEY TALK OVER ONE ANOTHER

I've seen women who resisted and still got raped come into the ER

beaten to a bloody pulp.

When I saw him coming at me from the corner, I was ready to kill him.

Who are you?

Just relax, will you?

Stop trying to be a hero.

Where do you want him?

You're all right.

We're going to need a suture tray, Brenda.

Thank you.

What's your name, sir?

Joseph Keuhnelian.

OK, Mr Keuhnelian, you just keep your eyes open.

Can you remember what happened?

Yeah. We were topping out the Wasserman building.

I got sloppy. I took a tumble, that's all. No big deal.

No big deal? We were 29 stories up.

He was wearing his lifeline, he must've smacked his head

on a high beam when he pitched off the side.

Do you feel any tingling in your arms or legs?

No, no. I'm fine, I'm telling you. I could have walked in on my own.

Hand me a 50cc syringe,

activated charcoal and saline solution, please.

Her breathing's very shallow.

And her heartbeat's irregular. Who knows what she took.

I think we'll need a urinalysis toxicity screen.

Lights and gases, stat.

Any nausea or vomiting?

I got a little sick, I tell you.

You're going to need a few stitches.

Make it fast, all right, Doc? I got to get back to work.

I want a Skull Series and a C-spine.

Come on, there's nothing wrong with me.

We're going to keep you overnight, Mr Keuhnelian.

Forget about it.

I've waited in a hiring hole for six weeks for this job.

I'm lucky to be working.

Hey, you're lucky to be here.

It's just a precaution.

1% Lidocaine with epinephrine.

You going to call the hall for another man?

Er, I can wait. A day or two.

We'll see.

Thanks.

It's changed my life, Peter. I've never felt so focused,

so full of energy, so inspired.

You get the extract in the form of a rich, aromatic paste.

Huh?

Tibetan ginseng. A mysterious herb that increases the body's resistance

to adverse factors of all kinds.

Oh, yeah?

Um, next time, start the mid line incision a little higher.

I guess I won't make county coroner, will I?

This guy's got a sternum like a two by four.

According to legend, ginseng was first cultivated by Zen monks

in the Himalayan meadows, and used as a sacrament.

These days, only the Russians are aware of its potential.

Do you know that in one experiment

they even found that it reduces sterility in minks.

CRASH

I'm sorry.

Peter, those were my IPD stains, that was six weeks of work.

I'll help you replace them.

Sure.

It's these damn shoes, they're slippery.

How could you be so...?

Are you all right?

I'm fine, everything's great.

Peter?

Leave me alone now, Kathy.

I'm going for a walk.

Hi, Victor, welcome back, you look great.

How was the honeymoon?

Sensational.

Great, your assistant made three o'clock, don't forget.

Right.

Hi.

Oh! Oh, my God.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you.

No, I'm all right. Good to have you back, Victor.

Thanks. What's all this about?

A woman was raped in the parking lot last week.

You're kidding?

Two nights ago, someone grabbed a pharmacist on her way to the T,

she managed to get away.

Welcome back to life in the big city, Victor.

Yeah.

Boy, look at you, skin cleared up and everything.

Oh, take it easy, please.

So, how did it go?

It was fantastic, not a cloud in the sky,

you should see what it did to Roberta's hair,

I mean, the sun, it got through it.

Ehrlich, Ehrlich, I mean, how did it go?

Oh, it was well worth the wait, let me put it that way.

There is not a woman alive who is worth waiting that long for.

By the way, I got your wedding present back from the cleaners,

suppose if I drop by Friday for a home cooked meal,

I can give it to you then.

Sure thing, actually, now that you mention it, you know,

we'd be free tonight if you...

I'm working.

Well, Friday would be perfect then.

7.30?

Yeah, 7.30.

Mrs Ryan was admitted this morning

with symptoms of congestive heart failure, multi focal PVCs.

I performed a lavage as a precautionary measure.

Why was the stomach lavage indicated?

The patient was a said to have been dizzy and disoriented.

Because I was puking my guts out, Danny.

This is a hell of a way to hold a reunion, isn't it?

Margaret?

I don't know how you did it, but you look wonderful.

This is remarkable, Mrs Ryan and I were friends 45 years ago.

When did you lose you hair?

World War II, give or take a few years.

He used to have this thick head of hair,

at least he's kept his figure.

How are you, Margaret?

You're the one with the charts, so you tell me.

I meant, how's your life?

Oh.

The lab studies are still pending?

Yes, lights and gasses indicated respiratory and metabolic acidosis,

we're still waiting for the urine toxicity screen.

Fine, fine.

Her stomach contents contained ingested pills.

Your medical history shows mild congestive heart disease

and high blood pressure.

We need all your medical records, you have a physician in town?

Slews of them.

I need to feel your pulse.

The bigeminy seems to have absolved itself.

I don't know what that means, but I'm glad to hear it.

And her blood pressure is slightly lower, 160 over 80.

So, we're waiting on the lab?

Yes.

We have to go now, complete rounds,

but I'll return later and personally give you the results of the test.

Danny, is the somewhere around here I could get a good back rub?

Hi, Roberta.

I'm sorry, I just wanted to make sure I caught you before you left.

Listen, I wanted to be sure and say Friday evening,

yeah, I invited Wayne over for dinner.

No, no, no, I'm not bored with you,

I just think it's important for us to see other people once in a while.

Um, 7.30.

Well, could you maybe leave work a little early for once?

No, no, I didn't say that,

I think your job is every bit as important as mine.

I do not hate your roast beef!

Tell me, please, what in heaven's name does roast beef...?

Yeah, yeah, I love you too, sweetheart, bye bye.

Mrs Rosenthal?

Yes, honey?

I lost Mr Fletcher's juice.

You lost it, well, never mind, dear, we'll just get him some more.

I didn't mean to, I was trying to hurry,

I got off on the wrong floor then I got lost.

Yeah, I'll hold. Mr Benton, room 316.

Then I went past this empty supply room and some guy called out

and asked if I would hold the flash light for him

when he changed the light bulb.

And...

it was, uh, I guess it was burned out and so...

I went in and I saw that he was wearing a ski mask

and then he shut the door and I couldn't see anything.

And I tried to cry out be he said if I said anything he'd really hurt me.

Call security.

Oh, it hurt so much.

He's gone now, sweetie, I'm right here to take care of you.

I've been walking in and out of this hospital

for months without any question.

We put in a call to personnel,

you'll just have to wait till they clear you.

See, I am not an employee of the hospital,

that's what I'm trying to explain.

It'll only take another minute.

Russell, she's here to see me,

we're checking the IDs of everyone who comes in to the hospital.

Women too?

Sorry.

Why the extra precautions all of a sudden?

Another rape, I closed down all the unnecessary exits,

I've sent all the underage volunteers home.

Well, that's it, starting tomorrow there'll be undercover detectives

in the hospital working as orderlies.

I can't help wondering if it isn't some disgruntled former employee,

someone who got the axe,

like that janitor in Cleveland who started all the fires.

Have personnel pull a list together

of everyone who's been terminated in the last year.

Yeah, good idea.

What about a list of former patients?

The police could run a check for criminal records.

No, that would be a violation of confidentiality.

At least a list of psych ward patients?

No, no, it's out of the question, Joan.

Amanda.

Phil.

Listen, what are you doing Saturday night?

I've got two tickets for a Smokey Robinson concert at the Midtown,

I was wondering if...?

I'd love to, but it's my father's birthday.

I'll keep trying.

The thing that really frightens me about these creeps

is that they rape again and again, even after a stretch in jail.

They ought to dose them with that new drug, you know,

the one they found that blocks the sex drive.

Depo-Provera?

Yeah.

Some of the side effects can be pretty horrendous.

Lowering the testosterone level

doesn't automatically stop assaulting behaviour.

Then they ought to castrate them.

Cruel and unusual punishment.

I'm all for it.

(HIGH PITCHED VOICE) Well, so much for the side effects.

Fiscus.

Dr Kenneth Penny, 6748,

Dr Huffman, Dr Sam Huffman, 4792.

Now, Roberta, you're going to sit right there

until you tell me what the matter is.

It's kind of personal.

Oh, you can trust me,

I mean, I spend my whole day in the middle of other people's business,

I haven't spilled the beans yet, now, what happened?

You and your husband had your first fight?

I guess so.

You don't know?

No, see, that's it, I really don't know.

It's like, well, I was opening up wedding presents last night,

you know you get a warranty and an instruction booklet with everything?

Yeah.

PHONE BUZZES

Oh, just a minute.

Operator?

No, he's not in, yeah, I can take a message, go ahead.

Yeah, yes.

Can you get me another pen?

Well, yes, sir, but...

I know, but that's not my responsibility.

I'll give him the message, thank you very much, yes.

All right, all right.

Now, what were you saying?

Well, when I looked at Victor this morning, all I could think was,

why didn't I get an instruction booklet with him?

I'm really starting to wish none of this had ever happened,

before we got married I figured that if I got in trouble

I could call my mother.

My mother walks in ten minutes before the wedding

and tells me she never loved my father.

Oh, brother.

I always thought my father was a really nice person.

You mean, Victor isn't?

You know, he can be a real jackass sometimes.

Cleft pallet shows a complete palatine separation,

we'll be in there a couple of hours.

Have you ever seen him with his glasses off?

Ehrlich, I would like to get this done by sun down.

Roberta, honey, is everything working out for you two,

you know, between the sheets?

This is terrible. Come on, Fiscus.

Well...

Come on, Roberta.

I guess he's having a good time.

What really bothers me is that every time after we finish making love

he always says, "Boy, am I glad I got you."

Like I'm some kind of sports car or something.

Then he just falls asleep.

PHONE BUZZES

Operator?

Yes, Nurse Daniels.

Mr Keuhnelian in 309.

Oh, the guy who did the half canter off the high rise?

Yeah, the skull series and the C-spine are both negative.

But I'd like to get neuro checks every other hour.

Sure.

Sounds to me like you can't find anything wrong with him.

Right.

His family are visiting, aren't they?

Do you want to go talk to the mother?

Sure.

If anything changes, let me know.

I sure will.

Mrs Keuhnelian? I'm Dr Morrison.

Is my son all right? Nobody will tell me.

Joseph has concussion.

He's in no danger at present but we're keeping him in over night,

observations, tests, pretty much standard in cases like this.

He was very lucky.

I've got to see him.

OK, just for a minute.

He's down the hall, room 309.

We'll meet here, Lynnie.

Are you Joseph's wife?

I'm his sister.

You can visit him too, if you want.

I'll hold the baby, I'm an old pro.

No.

Is he hungry?

Well, come on,

let's see if we can find some place a little more private

where you can nurse him.

I need a reposition for a liver spleen scan on Mrs Curtis.

OK.

Oh, Victor, I was awfully sorry to hear about your honeymoon.

Thanks.

If you ever need to talk to anyone, you or Roberta, I'm here,

after all, I've been there once or twice.

I really appreciate that.

Things are always a little ragged when you're starting off.

Wayne, could I talk to you for a second?

Victor, I want you to know how much

I admire your courage in showing your face around here.

What's going on around here?

I come out of a gruelling operation downstairs

and this place has turned into the Twilight Zone.

Wait a second, you were in OR?

Yeah.

Then you didn't hear it.

Hear what?

Uh, step into my office.

Is Freddy still with us?

He's still with us but he's not with me,

I divorced him 15 years ago.

I've thought of you, on and off, for the last 45 years.

You know, it's true what they say,

a woman never forgets the first man she slept with.

I don't have your lab results yet,

but from the looks of you,

you're still a very beautiful woman.

You always tried to take advantage of a woman when she's lying down.

Are you married?

Yeah.

Any pictures?

Yes, we took some at Thanksgiving.

These are of Catherine, the children and the grand children.

Oh, she's very attractive.

And what about you?

Two sons, two daughters, they're fabulous,

now and then half of them speak to me but it's always a different half.

Now, I know what happened to your hair, you gave it to your grandson.

I knew you'd make a good mother,

the way you were always taking care of everyone.

And now here you are, taking care of me.

There are enough doctors here to form a baseball team,

why is it you never called on me?

Well, you remember,

I was around during your first year in medical school,

and quite honestly, with your haphazard methods of studying,

I never thought you'd turn out to be any good, as a doctor, I mean.

Well, that's not true, I studied all the time,

there never was a more dedicated student.

You must be suffering from hardening of the arteries

because your memory is going.

There's nothing the matter with my arteries.

It was around Christmas time, you were hysterical,

your histology final, you were praying all the time.

Now, Margaret.

"God, please, don't fail me, I know I never went to class,"

"but it will never happen again."

Now, why would I remember a thing like that after all these years?

I mean, I don't even know what histology is.

I don't want to get in to an argument about this.

But if it is true, it's your fault.

Dragging me off to Greenwich Village all the time

to meet those oddball friends of yours.

Not oddball, avant garde.

Sitting around to all hours,

talking, drinking, talking, drinking.

I like to have a good time.

Obviously, you lived your whole life that way.

Because you're certainly paying the price for it now.

I thought this was to be a social call.

I'm serious.

It's important at our age not to let ourselves go.

The trouble with you, Daniel, was that you never let yourself go.

You never took any chances.

It was a different time,

in a different world.

You know it.

You still have that uncanny knack of saying exactly the thing

that drives me right out of the room.

Some things never change,

you've still got that cute, little rear end.

What do you want, you want me to publish a formal retraction?

This would have never happened

if I'd listened to that little voice deep inside of me.

That voice kept saying it was a big mistake

for us to get married and keep working at the same place.

Well, I've got my career to think of.

Oh, yeah, babe, tell me about it.

Victor, I don't want you to pay for my lunch.

Well, the only problem with a real weapon

is that the rapist could grab it and use it against you.

Yeah, but not these.

See.

I don't buy it, Wendy.

Why not?

The more you struggle,

the greater your chances of getting seriously hurt.

I've seen women who resisted and still got raped

come in to the ER beaten to a bloody pulp.

Does that make them some kind of hero?

So, what are you going to do, just lie back and take it?

Of course not, I'd try and con him, reason with him, stall for time.

What would you do, Helen?

I don't know, there are a lot of strategies,

depends on the rapist, the circumstances,

but I'll tell you one thing, I'm not going to do a lot of planning for it.

The more I rearrange my life to avoid this maniac,

the more power I'm giving him over me, right?

Fine, if it comes right down to it,

I'm fighting back with everything I've got.

I think you're nuts.

You have to live with yourself after it's over, Jackie.

From what I've read, women who put up a struggle

are far less likely to be chronically depressed afterwards

than if they'd offered no resistance at all.

If they live through it.

I always scratch my name on a high beam some where,

no one's going to ever see it, but I know it's there.

Well, it must be a nice feeling

when you have a hand building something like that.

Yeah, it's a nice feeling, it's a nice feeling when you get paid.

It's hell up there.

A lot of guys to go pieces.

Almost done, Mr Keuhnelian.

When can he come home, Doctor?

Well, there's no neurological problems,

looks like your came out of it in excellent shape.

Thank you, Doctor.

Let me go get the release forms,

you can get out of here first thing tomorrow morning.

Good doctor, right?

He's a nice guy.

I was so afraid something was really wrong with you, Joseph.

And if there was, I don't know what we would do.

It's nice to be needed, Ma.

Everything costs too much these days,

what with Lynnie and the baby, and Carl walking out on them,

you are our only hope.

I know, Ma, I know.

I know you hate working in construction but...

Ssh, Ma, don't worry, OK?

I'll be up there first thing in the morning.

OK, Mr Keuhnelian, I need you to sign this.

OK.

Sign right there.

No construction work for a few weeks, you hear me?

That's not possible. They'll give his job to somebody else.

I hear you.

You'll be feeling some pain in your neck and shoulders for a while.

Sign, Joseph.

What's happening?

Would you get the cardio stack?

What's going on?

What is it, what's going on?

Hart's coming, want me to start CPR?

No, he's got a pulse.

I can't see!

Pulse is strong and regular.

Forget the cart.

I can't see!

Do something, help him, please.

We're starting with some pepyrin and call radiology for an angiogram.

What's going on, Doctor?

We're not sure what's happening yet, Mrs Keuhnelian, please.

Joseph, I'm here.

Help me, Ma.

I'm here, Joseph.

God, please, help me.

Now, so far, the attacks seem to be completely at random.

The parking lot, Bowen Street T-stop,

and of course, as you all know most recently, the supply room.

This guy picks a place and waits.

That's why these reminders are so important.

Be alert, if you see anyone, oh, hanging around in the hallways,

empty rooms, call us immediately.

People hang around in the hallways all the time.

The world's a dangerous place, Miss.

That's why lions sleep in trees.

Annie?

I've been looking all over for you.

It'll have to be fast, I'm already late for a meeting.

What I want to say is,

I guess I came on a little strong the other night.

You sure did.

I'm sorry.

It's too much wine and other things,

I guess I've been dragging home a lot of aggravation

from the hospital.

I just didn't mean to seem so insensitive.

Insensitive?

Chris, I was there, you attacked me.

It won't happen again.

That's for sure.

Wait a second, let me.

Let go of me.

Why won't you just...

To hell with you.

The victim usually perceives the attack as a life or death situation.

But in fact, even though they get most of the publicity,

the psychotic rapists, the ones who really want to kill their victims

are just a very small minority,

somewhere around two percent.

I was wondering, what...

Just a minute.

While we're talking, I'd like to pass these out.

If you do get into trouble, these things are pretty loud,

good chance they'll scare off whoever it is.

HIGH PITCHED SQUEAK

Go ahead.

Look, so far, you make it sound

like we've blown the whole situation out of proportion.

I never intended that.

I just don't think that getting hysterical...

We're not hysterical, but all you've done is tell us

what we have to do, the precautions that we have to take.

What's being done about stopping this man?

MURMURS OF YES

At this point,

the police still don't have anything specific to go on.

In other words, nothing's being done.

We're trying to provide you with as much protection as possible.

I sure feel a lot safer, anyone attacks me,

I'll shatter his ear drum and stun him with bulk mail.

This guy is useless.

I was hoping he would delve more deeply into aura control.

What are you talking about?

My aura is my protection.

That's why I didn't take a horn, criminals seek out victims,

and I don't give off victim vibrations anymore.

Lots of luck.

Here's my aura.

Mace?

I've got a license, believe me, it'll drop anyone to his knees.

Shirley, what if he takes it and uses it on you?

I won't let him.

All I ever heard from her before the wedding

was that I'm so natural and honest,

now she turns round, tells the whole hospital that I'm a jackass.

Well, not the whole hospital.

Dr Ridley, you've got to help us, we're drowning,

we can't talk to each other anymore.

I don't know how to be a good husband, neither does she.

Victor, first of all, I'm not a marriage counsellor.

But you've helped us before, you know us.

And second, she is a patient of Dr Weiss,

if I were to see her that would be a breach of professional ethics.

OK, we'll invite Weiss too then,

there's plenty of room for the four of us in here.

I don't think there is.

Believe me, I want this marriage to work.

I know it looks like it's headed for the dumper,

but there's something incredibly valuable there.

Jeez, we had it all, for a day or two.

Can't you help us get it back?

Yes, I mean, I'll try, I'll call Dr Weiss in the morning, OK?

Great, great.

What do you think, we got married too soon?

Mmm-hmm.

What?

I'm just kidding.

Daniel.

I'm sorry, were you sleeping?

I just want to tell you, there's going to be a couple

of plain clothes detectives roaming the halls tomorrow.

She's still very beautiful.

Who?

An old flame, Donald, now a patient of ours.

I hadn't seen her in 45 years.

Someone you were serious about?

I was in a state of depression for a year after we broke up.

My first year at medical school.

Well, you had a lot to be depressed about then.

I may never have told you, but I came very close to flunking out.

Probably an attempt to get even with my parents

for opposing the marriage.

What were their objections?

They were afraid she'd turn up at Passover with a glazed ham.

And they thought her too bohemian.

Well, what were your choices, Daniel?

At that time you had everything to lose.

And a lot to gain.

I mean, if Windsor had given up the throne for Wally.

As a matter of fact, I did try to see her one more time,

it was in spring.

I drove out to Northampton where she was going to school.

That's love.

It was a total disaster.

She'd just met somebody else and I must have seemed rather pathetic.

When was the last time you drove 200 miles to see anyone?

We get lazy, don't we?

Busy.

And before we know it, we're running out of time.

You going to be all right?

Yeah.

Good, because I'm not going to worry about you, my friend.

From where I'm sitting, you've had a pretty good life.

Annie?

Um, I've been asking around and some of the guys have volunteered

to organize an escort service.

This is a list of their names and their page numbers,

I thought you might want to post that somewhere.

Fiscus, it's very sweet of you, uh...

What, something wrong?

How do we know you haven't signed up the rapist?

This place is getting bizarre.

What do you mean?

Because of the rapes.

I guess there's no way we'll know what the women are going through.

Hey, Doc.

Mr Keuhnelian, you're, uh,

you're feeling better.

I can see.

Is this going to happen again?

I don't know.

Has it happened before?

What about two days ago on the job?

An attack like that would certainly account for the fall.

You're going to have to level with me.

Doc, construction work in the middle of the winter, it's a slug job.

People develop weird symptoms.

Yeah, like blacking out?

You start bitching and asking for time off, you don't get hired back.

This is important, Mr Keuhnelian.

I know what's important.

How often do you get these attacks?

I made a promise to my father.

That Mama and Lynnie would be taken care of.

The point that I'm trying to make, oh, brother,

can you stop doing this for a second?

I'm sorry, Victor,

the bride is supposed to write the thank you notes for the gifts

as soon as she returns from honeymoon, I'm already a day late.

Do you remember before the wedding how everybody was coming up to us

saying that marriage was a lot of hard work,

well, this is it, this is the work part.

I am working, what do you think all this is?

Can we just start over?

OK, I've been thinking about it,

and what I've decided is it might be a good...

You decided?

We don't have to do it if you don't like the idea, we can talk it over.

What's the point, Victor, you've already made the decision.

It's not a decision, it's an opinion.

And if I don't agree with you, you're going to be mad.

I won't get mad.

You're mad now.

OK, what I think, what I think, what I suppose,

what I guess, what I suggest is it might be a good idea

if we sought some professional guidance.

Are you with me so far?

I'm not sure.

The two of us could maybe sit down with Dr Ridley, Dr Weiss

and, sort of, talk things over.

It might do us some good.

Then you're willing to give it a try?

OK.

Oh, fantastic, thank you, sweetheart,

OK, we have an appointment tonight at 7.30.

Wait a minute, you scheduled an appointment without asking me?

No, I already looked for it.

Look, maybe you didn't have it with you when you were in here.

I'm going to be late if we don't leave now.

Listen, this guy doesn't take a hint.

Look, I've got to get Mr Benton's percadim from the medication room,

would you mind?

Ah, sure, watch these for me.

OK.

Look, sir...

Argh! My eyes!

Aaaaargh!

Oh God!

Help, help!

My eyes!

Oh, it burns, oh, my God, my eyes!

I'll be right back.

Respiratory gave him a clean bill of health,

his face is pretty inflamed but he'll be OK.

How are you doing?

I want to know why they're not charging him with attempted rape.

The police say they don't have enough evidence yet.

They'll charge him with criminal trespass.

Criminal trespass, what the hell is that supposed to mean?

Shirley, he claims he was in there working.

It's a security area, come on.

I'll tell you something, Wendy,

when I saw him coming at me from the corner, I was ready to kill him.

Are they at least going to be able to hold him?

For a little while.

If he wasn't going to rape someone, what did they think he was doing?

Stealing drugs.

Come on, come on, let's not stop now,

I mean, you two called this meeting, right?

He did, without asking me.

Oh, would you, please, stop it? We've discussed that already.

Besides, we've got bigger fish to fry.

Let's get back to Roberta's dream.

Aha!

Now, in her dream, the crashing aeroplane.

Swooping.

Swooping.

The swooping aeroplane represents a marriage

that she feels is out of control.

Hey, this marriage never got off the ground.

I don't really think swooping or crashing or diving...

Excuse me, you never wanted it to.

Of course I did, but I can't always be a puppy frolicking in the woods.

I don't expect you to be.

Hey, I've got a lot of responsibilities.

What's this about a puppy?

Well, at their wedding it was part of Roberta's vows.

And if you'd been there, you would have known that.

My fear is that she will surrender to this lack of control,

and backslide into her old habit

of allowing other people to dominate her.

OK, so you're saying this sudden change in lifestyle

has triggered a regression on Roberta's part?

Dr Ridley, please, I think we're getting somewhere.

ALL TALK OVER EACH OTHER

Would you stay out of this?

Don't take it so hard, sweetie, it happens to all you guys now and then.

We were all set to go out, me and Myra, she bought a new dress.

She was smiling, we were happy,

it's the first time we've been happy since...

Then the kids woke up, both of them, they woke up,

"I can't find my candy bar, Timothy hit me, uh, I got a stomach ache."

All that usual sort of crap

that keeps us from going and doing anything.

I can't stand that stuff,

of course, me and Myra get in one of our fights,

same fight we had a million times before only worse this time.

See, she's too belligerent with them and I'm just a push over,

they're going to turn out to be juvenile delinquents

or something like that.

Nice anniversary, huh?

So, what's the big deal?

Not the earth shaking,

I just figured you could use this now, rather than wait until Friday.

Newbury Street Cleaners, you're kidding? So, this is it.

Happy honeymoon.

Don't I wish.

Open it.

OK.

What is it?

Genuine, Moroccan wedding blanket,

Bedouin swear it confers a blessing on the marriage

and redoubles sexual potency.

You've got to be kidding.

And they also use it at night when they tether their camels.

Oh, great, one hump or two, oh, Fiscus, you're so full of it.

Hey, this present meant a lot to me,

I was using it as a bath mat, you know.

Here you are, Wayne.

I don't believe what I'm seeing.

Isn't this a dromedary cloth from Marrakech?

This was my wedding present to Victor and Roberta.

You don't know how lucky you are, this is very valuable.

It is?

Yes.

Well, I just thought, what with Roberta's broadcast and all.

Ah, yes, these last few days have not been easy for you.

You're telling me, they're selling bootleg tapes down the gift shop.

Let me say this, I know you could have done without the publicity,

but I honestly admire the impulse behind it.

You admire a woman who shoots her mouth off over the airwaves?

No, I meant your decision to get married,

and do you know why I liked it?

Because it was spontaneous, spur of the moment, wildly impulsive.

That's for sure.

Hey, whose blanket?

Victor's.

Natural dyes in here, this thing's worth a mint.

OK, Luther, don't rub it in.

You're getting to be a household name around here.

Now, now, he's feeling badly enough as it is.

I don't want to talk about it, OK,

everything I say gets stood on its head. I'm fed up.

I know just what you mean.

Why don't you and Roberta get some therapy together?

Shut up, Fiscus.

I had a great girlfriend in high school named Jenny,

gave me the same problems,

everything I said, she twisted it 50 different ways.

So, what did you do?

I ditched her, she married a transit cop.

I could have guessed.

And now he's on the board of the MTA.

You see that, Victor, if Roberta cuts you loose,

she has a brilliant career in transportation.

My sympathies.

Luther, is that blanket really worth money?

I saw it in a magazine,

and I think some big star like Joan Crawford

had a whole collection of them, it's worth a fortune.

Uh, Dr Auschlander?

I got the test results on Mrs Ryan.

Tell me.

Well, apparently, she cross combined halcyon, inderol,

clinoril and Diovan, the drugs interacted causing toxicity

and aggravated her congestive heart condition.

I see.

Looks like a case of too many doctors,

none of whom knew what the others were giving her.

Thank you, I'd like to tell her myself.

OK, seems strange that this could happen to a woman so bright.

I was about to release him but then he had some kind of, um,

I don't know, episode in his room last night.

My guess is from a head trauma he suffered in the fall.

Convulsive?

No, it's more like some kind of vascular problem,

his sensory nerves are effected, blindness, slurred speech.

I don't know, I can't help feeling he's not telling me something.

Maybe so, what do you want me to do?

Well, I thought maybe you could stop in and talk to him.

He's your patient, Jack, I'm not going to do your leg work for you.

If you feel he's giving you an incomplete history,

I suggest you find some way to fill in the gaps. OK?

Yes, sir.

Will you, for a moment, just listen to what I'm trying to say to you?

Not if you're going to talk to me like I was nine years old.

A nine-year-old child would have had more sense,

you should know you cannot mix medications at random.

I knew what I was doing.

I was giving you the benefit of the doubt.

I wanted to get high.

Why?

Because I was bored.

What do you want me to say, that I'm sorry?

You act like I did it just to spite you.

What difference does it make to you, anyway?

Because it does.

You always had a place in my heart.

That's what you said 45 years ago.

But you should have done something about it, didn't you realise,

I'd have gone off with you in a flash.

I told everybody to go to hell, my father, the priest, your rabbi.

Why didn't you, why didn't you take a risk?

I didn't have the courage.

There's no point in dwelling on what might have been.

You'll be going home in a day or two,

and if you exercise a little common sense,

which, incidentally, you have never had in abundant supply,

I'm sure you'll be dancing at my funeral.

I knew it.

Something is very wrong with you.

Liver cancer.

I'm sorry.

And glad.

Glad?

Glad, because we got to see each other one last time.

Imagine, if we'd told our parents to leave us be,

what kind of a life do you think we'd have had?

I don't know.

But we sure would have had a lot of fun.

Or driven each other absolutely mad.

I'll be right with you, sir.

Here's the X-ray on the Cedar case.

Thanks a lot.

Not too good.

It's hard to tell which end is up.

You better tell it to him straight.

Do I have to?

You're the doctor.

This is the worst part about being in medicine.

How is he?

Well, it's definitely a bad sprain, but luckily, it's not broken.

I've told him before to look both ways before crossing.

Best friend, huh?

Well, I taped him up, and he should be fine in a couple of weeks.

Try to keep his paw clean.

I really appreciate this, Mr Doctor.

I'll never, ever forget what you did.

Well, it was all in the line of duty.

Tell me, what do you want to be when you grow up?

Are you kidding? A fire man.

Hi. You going off duty soon?

Couple of minutes.

Good, I'll wait and walk you to your car.

Oh, thanks, you go on, my car's right next to the door,

I'll be fine.

You're not worried? Fear does have its place, you know.

Sure, I'm worried,

everybody's letting this thing get them so spooked,

they're jumping at their own shadows.

Look, Donald, I'll be careful,

but I have work to do and a family.

Very sensible attitude.

All right, let me try this, there's a maniac on the loose,

and personally, I'm terrified for my own safety,

would you be so kind as to walk me to my car?

All right, Donald, I think I can do that.

Thanks very much.

Who is it?

Who are you?

Hey, come on.

CRASHING

Argh!