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SULTRY MUSIC

(moans softly)

Beautiful.

(exhales)

DRAMATIC THEME MUSIC

Bloody hell!

What's the matter? You lost something?

Yeah, must've been when you nearly dropped King Kong on the last job.

I'm sorry, what have you lost?

Your cough lolly, weight lifting medal?

DISPATCHER: 978, are you free?

978 responding.

978, we have a single vehicle MVA - taxi versus telegraph pole,

three occupants injured, on Fuller's Road.

Copy that, 978, we're on our way.

Let's go.

Bugger!

You may as well go, I think I can find Outpatients.

Sure.

You're looking tired.

Yeah, I didn't get enough sleep last night.

I was going to come and check on you.

I just had a few, you know, dreams. It's-it's fine.

I don't really need you to babysit me, Von.

Hey! Back on deck already?

Um...

Uh, no, I'm having a checkup today,

and, uh...I should be back next week.

Right. Just as well, then.

Yeah, I better make a move.

Don't want to be late for Frank.

Naughty - the F word.

APPROACHING SIRENS

POLICEMAN: Get a statement - don't let him go anywhere.

Keep the rubberneckers out of the way...

Grab the hard collar bag and the drug kit.

Scottie. Hey.

We have a taxi, three victims.

Driver and front seat passenger both look like they're dead.

Rear seat passenger's still alive but she's trapped tight.

I thought this was a single vehicle accident. How's he?

Oh, he's fine, not a bloody scratch.

He could do with a sedative, though, for his temper.

Sent him off the road.

Witnesses say the taxi cut him off -

he chased him, gave him a whack up the arse.

Bloody four-wheel drives. Oh, yeah.

Nobody else involved?

No, we checked.

How long has she been in and out of consciousness?

Since we got here - hasn't really been awake.

Pulse is thready, driver's gone.

And the front seat passenger.

Come round and give me a hand with her?

She's lost a lot of blood.

Can you prep an O2 mask?

We need to stabilise her airway.

This leg is completely smashed.

How long are you gonna be?

We can't do anything until we stabilise her.

Quick as you can.

We're checking for gas leaks from the LPG tank in the back.

Thanks, mate.

(groans weakly)

That's it.

Grab the spine board and the full leg splint

and I'll get a line in and start her on some fluids.

What's rescue's ETA? As we speak.

Can you give them a rev-up for me?

PHONE RINGS

You look dreadful.

E.D.?

Are you sick?

No, I'm just a bit off-colour.

Sterlo, cubicle eight, meds.

Yeah, rightio, I'm on it.

You should have been "on it" five minutes ago.

We've got a single vehicle MVA, patient critical,

confined to vehicle, head and chest trauma, compound fractured leg.

Waiting on rescue to cut her out. We'll need to clear resuss.

Bed just came through for Mr Patchett in three.

Dutch Shuffle?

TEARING METAL

Rightio, let's get her out.

We'll need every pair of hands, fellas.

Make sure to keep pressure on that arterial damage.

Okay, lift - that's it.

Okay.

One, two, three.

Up board - one, two, three.

Okay, let's go.

Onto the trolley.

Ready, one, two, three.

Can you hear me?

Can you check her BP?

Oh...it's a paradoxical pulse - it's different during respirations.

What's her BP?

98 on 72.

Okay, right - let's sit her up.

Are you sure?

I think she's having a cardiac tamponade, we've gotta sit her up.

Spinal protocol... It doesn't matter.

If we don't, she'll die. Come on, I need help.

Okay, you ready? On three.

One, two, three.

He was late.

I was late and I forgot.

It's easy - you pick the plastic bag up and stick it in his backpack.

This is bullshit. Max needs his swimming gear.

I can't do anything right - this is about the move, yes?

Look, I've been working for this my whole life.

I don't have a choice, but I need you to decide.

America...

It's a big thing.

I've resigned, I've accepted the job in New York.

Thanks for the warning.

Paula, it's okay to be scared and have doubts,

but I need you to decide.

This is my last day.

I have to leave here knowing whether you're coming with me or not.

And you're going -

whether or not?

Yes.

I have to.

Megan, Mr Patchett in three is Mr Patchett in three.

He was formerly unknown, but then we found out who he was.

So why is he going to the ward as "Charles Unknown"?

I'm sorry, I've been busy, I didn't get a chance...

This is why the legs get cut off the wrong people.

This is why the artist formerly known as Prince

told the whole bloody world that he was no longer Prince.

Update the file on the computer,

reissue those and tell everybody.

Now!

Excuse me?

I want to see a doctor.

Okay, sorry, what you have to do is...

You go to the triage window - can't you read the sign?

(mutters) No, you probably can't. Sorry.

Megan...Mr Patchett was Charles Unknown, right?

So we cross him off the list,

otherwise we'd have two Charles Unknowns.

Dr Campion, I've done 11 admissions this morning in 40 minutes.

Wow, hold me up - that's truly amazing,

especially considering you're half asleep. Wake up!

Can I help you?

Um, no...

I...I needed to see a doctor, but I don't want to talk to a man.

It...it's okay.

Well, talk to me.

I'm a woman.

Well, I was the last time I could be bothered looking.

Come on.

This is Louise Pentridge, taxi passenger in an MVA.

It was road rage resulting in car multiple rollover.

She's got blunt head, abdo and chest traumas, suspected cardiac tamponade.

She's also got a compound fracture to the right femur and lower limb.

BP's 98 on 72.

I noticed a paradoxical pulse.

That why she's sitting up? Yeah.

(groans)

How are her obs?

They're outside the normal ranges. On three. One, two, three.

(faint groans)

O2 via Hudson mask, sats are 95%, she's got a GCS of 13.

Abdo's distended and tender on the right side.

Thanks, let's clear this room.

Could you get Forlano down here?

Take bloods to cross match - two units packed cells.

We'll need an urgent cardiac echo.

Her husband was a passenger - he's dead.

Cops checked his licence. I'll search for other relatives.

CHARLOTTE: We need a portable X-ray down here.

A penny? Is that what you were going on about?

Yes, it's my lucky penny, okay?

I've had it since I was a kid.

Hey, decimal currency came in in the '60s, dude.

Which is exactly why it's lucky finding it when I did.

'89 Grand Final - Hawthorn and Geelong.

The Hawkers get up.

And on the exact day, I get to kiss my first girl.

It wasn't very lucky today, now was it?

One dead, one nearly dead.

See - nearly, that's my point. Oh!

I found it again just as you decided to sit up a spinal patient.

That was luck, was it?

It wasn't skill and years of experience?

Where do I buy tickets?!

DISPATCHER: 978, are you receiving?

978 responding.

978, we were unable to remove both of the deceased

from the accident you attended this morning.

We have a body in public view and require transport to the morgue.

978, uh...will do.

Great.

Now we're a hearse.

Go the lucky penny.

She insists on being assessed by a woman.

It's a cultural thing.

Alright, well, uh... bring her through.

You can assess her. Oh.

How are we going with next of kin?

There's a sister and daughter.

I'm trying to get in touch with the sister now.

Nelson, you've got to talk to your staff about late arrivals.

Who? Nurse Ryan.

She was on time, you just didn't see her.

Six is free, I think. Thank you. (flat) Frank.

She's febrile, 38.1.

She's complaining of burning when she urinates, lower pelvic pain, nausea.

Sounds like a simple bacterial or candidal infection,

so why all the drama?

She wants a doctor, Charlotte.

A female doctor.

Excuse me - could I get her details in a second?

Frank's on my back... In a minute.

Yeah, mate, roll on Sunday.

Now, Yasmin, here we are.

This is Dr Charlotte Beaumont.

Hello.

Right, Yasmin, your blood pressure's up a bit

and you're running a slight temperature.

This pain when urinating, can you describe it?

Sometimes worse, sometimes better.

Okay, are you sexually active? No.

We'll run some blood tests and we'll need a urine sample.

You don't have to - I already know what's wrong.

I've had these infections lots of times over the last couple of years.

My mother says it's usual.

Okay, well, in order to treat you, we'll need to run the tests.

Okay.

But there's something else you can do for me, too.

Apart from treat the infection.

Alright.

Von, we'll run those bloods.

Righto.

Okay, what do you need?

It's hard.

When I was 14, I...

Hey, I'm Megan, I just need to get your...

Hi.

I'm not signing anything.

This was a bad idea. Just a couple of forms.

I'm not signing ANYTHING! Von!

Ahh! Ahh!

Alright, stop it, stop it.

Calm down.

You don't have to sign anything.

Just, let's talk about it.

(breathes shakily)

DOOR OPENS

Like the Phantom, he appears.

What are you doing here?

I work here.

In the cardiac ward?

When I heard you were down here, I raced off to a phone box,

transformed into the Angel of Outpatients and snuck down.

Um...follow up is part of the cardiac rotation.

Professor Craig will be here in a minute.

There's no such word as "snuck".

Oh, I stand corrected.

Uh, he told me to do preliminaries, so...

How've you been?

Fine.

No erratic heartbeat, dyspnoea?

No.

I'm going to have to look at the wound.

See how it's healed - is that okay? Yes, okay.

(whispers) Beautiful.

(takes deep breaths)

Heartrate's up a bit.

Well, I'm anxious.

You kept me waiting.

Where's that legendary patience of yours?

Will Professor Craig be long?

No, but consider me a much better looking, much younger version.

Um, he's going to want to have a listen.

So, been putting your feet up, taking it easy?

I've been going crazy, actually.

Hmm.

Look, it'd be great to have you back at work.

One out, one in.

Uh, Luke Forlano's last day today.

(sighs)

Alright, formally pronounced.

Alright, formally pronounced. Take him to the morgue.

Take him to the morgue.

Sorry for the bother.

Listen, smartarse, I've got living patients in there

and not enough staff.

Dr Campion?

What happened to the wife?

She the one in Resus? Yeah.

Vincent's trying to get her up to Theatre.

Are you the one who sat her up?

Yeah.

I know it was a big call, I...

Bloody good job. If you hadn't done that, she'd be cactus.

Semi-lucky.

Yasmin, you can take that off now.

It's been nearly half an hour since we took the bloods.

The tests will be back soon.

Is she alright, that girl?

Megan? Yeah.

Just a couple of steri-strips.

You want to know what's going on.

Look in my bag.

Go on, look!

Okay. And?

My family are very strict.

Very traditional.

So you wear these clothes in secret?

If you are sexually active, it's your business.

How old are you? Eighteen.

The infection.

Are you worried that you've picked up a sexually transmitted disease?

No.

I'm not.

It's not just a religious thing.

It's cultural.

I was scared, but I accepted it.

It's what women do, that's all.

It was clean.

The infections are just something that can happen...

..down the track.

Have...you been...circumcised?

SAD MUSIC

It can be reversed.

That's why I came here.

Removal of the clitoris cannot...

..be reversed.

Yes.

But my vagina,

it was sewn up as well.

How many photos do you want?

A few, I don't want to open this dressing again until surgery.

How's everything else?

Cardiac echo reveal a small pericardial effusion.

I did an emergency pericardiocentesis

and aspirated about 40 mls of free blood.

Okay, the leg could still be viable.

Well, only technically.

I mean, it's your call, but I'd say amputation's the safest bet.

How's her BP?

Back to 108 on 70.

It looks like her breathing's normalised.

(faint) No...

We can up the morphine a bit.

Louise, you're in hospital.

Can you hear me?

Let's start another cardiac echo to be sure.

The femur can be fixed.

We won't know the vessel damage until we get in there.

Joe? Louise, don't try and talk.

We can save her leg.

We need to get her to Theatre as soon as possible.

I've got a pacemaker that I can bump somewhere else.

You sure? No.

No, I'm not.

I'd say it's a 10-20% chance.

She's coming to again.

Alright, I'm going to see if I can rearrange the rest of my list.

Keep me up to date on her status.

The echo will be a few minutes and you've got an acute abdo in six.

Look after her, I'll be back in a minute.

Joe?

Megan, what do we know about her husband, Joe?

No, her husband's name is Larry.

Hey, how's the head?

I'll live.

Will you do me a favour?

Check the details that Yasmin Hayek gave you.

You want me to call her home?

No. Is there another way?

She doesn't want her parents involved.

Yeah, I'll see what I can do.

I'll be in the common room hitting the books.

Charlotte, can you get Vincent? She seems to be coming to.

No, leave it on, Louise.

You're in hospital, you've had a car accident.

You can't take it off. Where's Joe? Where's Joe?

We'll talk about it after the operation.

Just focus on yourself now, okay?

Take it easy. Nelson, can you organise Theatre consent forms?

Mrs Pentridge, my name's Dr Hughes.

You've been involved in a fairly bad accident

but you're out of danger.

What happened to Joe?

You've had a bad blow to the head.

I think you're confused.

It was your husband Larry who was in the car with you.

I understand your concern... No...he's dead.

I saw.

What happened to Josie?

My little girl.

Where is she?

She was in the car! Where's Jo?

(wails) Where's my little girl?

SIREN BLARES

FORKLIFT ENGINE GRINDS

FOREBODING MUSIC

Can you see anything?

(sighs) Oh, my God.

DISTANT SIRENS WAIL

I've been doing some reading of my own

And the reversal process is relatively simple,

but it can be quite traumatic.

What do you do?

Well, I would need to examine you first before I tell you that

and see how extensive the procedure was.

Will I have to stay in hospital?

Maybe not.

So I don't have to be in here?

That depends on whether you have a spinal or a local anaesthetic.

But as I said, the process can bring back some very traumatic memories

and because of that, I'd be recommending a general.

I want this done.

I don't want to stay in hospital.

Do the examination.

Okay.

Okay, it's on the seventh floor, definitely on the second sink, okay?

So come with me.

Take the blues. Hey.

Hi! Blocked drains?

No, I've lost my engagement ring.

I'm certain I left it on the edge of the sink.

I've had two surgeries since, I checked the linen bins - nothing.

Dennis sent me a plumber. Just go through to the lift.

Better than calling off the wedding.

I'm terrified Luke's going to notice me not wearing it

and see it as some kind of message.

Oh, he won't think that. When do you and Max go?

Uh...um...end of next week.

Listen, do you know where he is, because I wanted to say goodbye.

You haven't lost him, too? Joking.

Is he between procedures?

He had a pacemaker next, but a critical MVA's come in

so Prof Craig's covering for him.

Okay - it'll turn up, Paula.

Yeah - it's not just that.

It feels like...an omen, you know?

Like everything going down the drain.

We've been fighting and...I'm not sure how I feel.

If you didn't love him, you wouldn't be worried about the ring.

ELEVATOR DINGS

I know. I know it's hard, but try and relax.

Yasmin, we can do something about this.

The vaginal opening can be widened.

But if you were to marry into your culture

and your husband found out... Don't care.

It's not going to happen anyway.

Charlotte, we need the cubicle... I can't...

OUT! We've got a category two...

I don't give a shit - OUT!

Get another cubicle!

(sobs)

It's alright - no, no, no. It's just us.

It's alright, Yasmin, we can deal with this, okay?

Okay?

Alright.

Now, you'll be in a fair amount of pain afterwards

and I want you to let me admit you for observation.

No. If you admit me,

my parents will find out and they'll never forgive me.

Please!

I'm doing this for me, but I don't want to hurt them.

Please.

(sighs)

Oh, okay.

I'll do a spinal anaesthetic.

(sniffs) Thank you.

Alright, Von will give you some Valium

to make you a little bit sleepy. Just relax.

(weeps softly)

LUKE: Yeah, she's stable, is Theatre clear?

Professor Craig's prepared to take over my pacemaker insertion?

What exactly's been done to her?

All that's been left is a small opening

for menstruation and urination.

Barbaric.

To think some people think that's a sign of purity!

A guarantee of purity.

Hey. Terri!

What are you doing here?

Thought I'd bring a cake -

something else to cut up other than a patient on your last day.

Thanks. I was just going to slide out today.

Ha! Well, we can't have that.

Oh, I think we can.

Party hats and cakes may be all the go on the ward.

Here we don't have time. Get rid of it!

Thank you.

I've got to get to surgery.

(sighs)

What are you doing here? Where's your ID?

I'll be given an ID when I start next week and I was buzzed in.

Well, then, you can just be buzzed right out again. Can't you?

TENSE MUSIC

Right.

Alright, MVA, female infant, thrown forward on impact, unrestrained.

They took an hour to cut her out, a likely C-spine injury,

possible fractured jaw...

One, two, three...

Distended abdo, probable right arm and bilateral leg fractures.

Uh...her BP's okay - 100 on 70.

I couldn't get a line in.

She's vasoconstricted and she's got O2 sats of 85% at the scene,

91% on O2 and a heartrate of 210, GCS 9.

She was wedged under the seat, no-one saw her.

No-one knew she was there... Okay, you can go now.

Intubation's gonna be tough.

Look's like the mandible's fractured.

Alex.

Do you mind if I have a look? Go for it.

Come on.

Cricoid.

(gentle) Come on, sweetheart, come on.

I'm in.

Placement's fine.

BP?

Down - 80 on 40, she's going into shock.

She's been compensating.

Soon as X-rays are done, we'll get her up to Theatre.

Sterlo, two units of O neg now.

Where are her parents?

Her dad died at the scene, her mum's gone up to Theatre.

LUKE: Okay...

Now we know what's what, guys.

The suture marks the distal end of the superficial femoral artery.

And the red?

Clamp here.

Come on, talk to me.

The suprageniculate popliteal?

Dr Quade.

I thought you were assisting the professor on my pacemaker.

Oh, well, you've seen one heart, you've seen 'em all.

Professor Craig's closing.

He said I could come down and look. Okay.

First and most important task...

To re-establish blood flow.

I was asking my interns, doctor.

Someone sew his mouth shut.

I checked on the girl.

She gave us the right name

but the address was false and so was the phone number.

How do you know the name if the other stuff's false?

I asked some friends about her.

That's why she freaked out, I've met her a couple of times.

Just out at bars. Gay bars. She's gay.

She lies about her age all the time to get into clubs...

What?!

She's only 15.

Oh...

(sighs)

You lied to us about your age.

Technically, de-infibulation is elective surgery.

I cannot do this without your parents' permission.

They won't give it.

It's bad enough I'm dishonouring them.

By the way I dress, by the way I think, behave....

..secrets.

Look, I'm really sorry, Yasmin, but I cannot do the procedure.

How do you know how old I am?

I've already told you I'm 18.

Is it that girl?

She doesn't know me, not really.

I've met her a few times.

I'm 18.

Okay?

They're worried about me with men.

Made me useless to men.

But there was no boy.

If they only knew.

That you're gay?

That must be really, really hard.

Coming from such a strict family.

You don't know anything about it.

Oh, I do, Yasmin - I'm gay, too.

You don't know what it's like.

What I have to live through every day and not just about what I wear.

Please.

I'm begging you.

I'm 18.

Okay?

They're in the bin. Re-enter her originals.

What? In the computer? Yes.

Why?

Because if you hadn't met her,

we would never have known she had lied.

Just do it.

Alright...

Let's see how we go.

Release.

Arterial bleed.

I can see that. Reclamp.

Here!

Give it to me.

Paula, more suction, I can't see what I'm doing.

Okay, looks like we've missed one.

Let's fix it.

Dr Quade? Yep?

We've got extensive skin loss so we'll have to use external fixation

to support the bones once they're realigned.

I'll need some assistance. You want me to scrub in?

I want you to go, call Dr Hughes, see if he can get up here.

Thank you for your interest.

I don't care, I need a theatre now.

That's not good enough.

I was supposed to be next in line.

(sighs) How long?

Alright, I'll send Dr Hughes up to scrub in,

but I want that theatre turned over in record time.

Go.

Poor kid.

How old is she?

Eighteen.

VINCENT: You all set?

Just tying off the middle genicular, okay?

Unbelievable.

I thought she'd lose the leg for sure.

Not today. I'm going out on a win.

Ligature.

Don't compress the popliteal.

Don't compress the popliteal. And ruin the Forlano magic?

And ruin the Forlano magic?

That reminds me.

Paula, I found your engagement ring on the floor in the scrub room.

It's in my jacket pocket.

Look at that!

Gorgeous!

APPLAUSE WOMAN: Well done, doctor.

STERLO: Her urine's bloodstained. You want a DPL?

I want a bloody theatre.

No, no, we don't need a lavage.

Her plain X-rays and the haemodynamics

will be enough to go on.

ALARM WARBLES

She's in VT.

No pulse!

Set at three joules per kilo - what's that?

Three times ten is 30, Frank.

Charging at 30 joules.

WHIRRING

And charged. Stand clear.

Still in VT. No pulse.

Prep adrenaline.

Uh...ten mcg per kilo.

Charging 30 joules.

WHIRRING

Charged. Stand clear.

Still in VT.

Charging again.

Charged to 30.

Stand clear.

Sinus rhythm.

STEADY BEEPING

God, I hate kids.

Get those bloody coffees out of here, it's not a bloody circus!

(mutters) Where's that bloody Theatre?

If you'd just like to take a seat, I'll call you when we're ready.

Thank you.

Alright, get this filled.

It's for antibiotics and painkillers.

You'll need them.

I'll be fine.

You know, I couldn't tell my mother.

Not to her face, so I wrote her a letter.

And eventually, she accepted it.

That's nice.

My family's not that easy.

No.

Good luck.

Yasmin!

Here, um...

My phone number.

Just if you want to...

Looking to score, are you?

No!

God, no, I-I...

If you need to talk.

If there's anything I can do to help.

You've already helped enough!

She nearly refused to treat me because of you.

(belches) Ooh...

Off you go.

It's been my pleasure.

Hi, Von.

Uh, you gave her money, didn't you?

That's my business.

It just doesn't work that way down here, Von.

She bought food, she'll stay here all night.

Ah, well, better than being out on the street.

I'm going to have to call Security.

If Frank sees her, he's going to hit the roof.

That'd be right.

Comfy, Norma?

SCOTT: Heartrate's 85, no chest pain now.

Okay, well, you'll need to join the queue.

Is Dr Campion still in Resus?

I think so.

We need to go Code Red.

Don't want the night shift on my back.

Nelson?

How'd Mrs Pentridge do?

Few problems, but they saved the leg.

I wouldn't celebrate too much.

We couldn't get another theatre in time -

her little girl died a few minutes ago.

SOMBRE MUSIC

(sighs)

You have to leave the cannula.

It's a Coroner's case.

Mmm.

And we have to go Code Red.

Mmm.

(sighs)

I checked, so did the cops.

Who do you blame?

You know?

Her mum and dad? Why wasn't she restrained properly?

And the bloody guy who ran 'em off the road.

We should have checked better.

Yeah, well we were both there, mate.

So there's no use heaping on us.

How was anyone to know?

It was just...we were just unlucky.

This has nothing to do with luck, Alex.

We screwed up.

And that's it.

I'm sick of your bullshit.

Give me my coin back.

COIN CLINKS

That's what I think of your bloody penny.

You were amazing in Theatre.

I can see why they want you over there.

Have you made a decision?

Luke...

It's a big city, it's a long way away,

there's a whole lot of unknowns.

But that's exciting, isn't it?

And scary.

And scary.

There are safety nets here, familiar people, things.

You think staying here's the easy choice for me.

If I don't go with you,

it's going to be the hardest decision of my life.

I can't imagine being without you.

Yes, you can.

'Cause you're going with or without me.

Paula, I want it all.

I want to accept this opportunity.

And I want you there with me.

At the risk of sounding melodramatic,

that's my heart there.

It's yours.

If you still want it.

Go on, Norma, beat it.

I'm only having a sit.

Not here, you're not.

Come on, on your feet.

Oh, come on.

She's not a patient, it's not a doss house.

Just leave her be.

I think you and I need to have a walk.

Well, let her go and I'll follow you, alright?

Where are my skates?

There, Norma.

Oh.

Von, if we let every bag lady and bum into this joint,

there won't be room for a bona fide customer within one week.

Oh, bull. The word'll go round like that.

That this Emergency Department's run

by a tired old duck with a soft heart.

But I'm not tired. Well, you will be if this keeps up.

Come on, Frank.

You might fool the others -

God knows you're probably fooling yourself -

but don't try to bloody intimidate me.

You've got balls, haven't ya?

Lose the bag lady.

DISTANT SIRENS BLARE

Megan?

Death certificate.

Sorry? For the child.

Oh, sure, sorry.

Is that Norma out there still?

Yeah, I was just on the phone to Security to get her out of here.

You should have called them before she put down roots.

This Yasmin woman's information is entered incorrectly.

What's right - what's in here or in the computer?

The computer - I-I was just about...

You're just about to do bloody everything. Fix it!

Death Certificate - I'll do the medical and sign it,

you do the patient details.

We're not supposed to fill this in...

Just leave it on my desk.

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

Thanks. Thanks, everyone.

I hate to do this to you, but New York beckons,

so not only are you losing

one of the best surgeons... STERLO: With the biggest ego.

..but also one of the best nurses.

VON: Hear, hear. So thanks a lot for coming.

Hoe into the cholesterol, not my problem any more.

REG: Oh, thank God.

Reg!

It is so hard to get in here without a car.

But Sue from Ward 12 told me that today was your big day.

Reg, thanks for coming. How could I not?

And this is for you.

Thank you! Oh...

It's one of my most treasured possessions.

Oh, Reg!

I'm really going to miss you.

I'm going to miss you, too.

Okay, well, I've gotta go.

I'm going to miss you, Von.

You take care.

Mr Forlano, hey?

Von.

Cake?

I'm watching my figure - dear God, somebody's got to.

FRIENDLY CHATTER

Thank you.

Cake?

No, thank you.

Of course - no time.

No.

These are good people, Frank.

Sometimes a piece of cake's as good as a kick up the arse.

Ease up a bit.

What are you doing back here?

Oh, waiting for Frank Campion.

Without getting buzzed in.

Need moral support?

No, I'll be fine.

Stand up to him.

I will.

Hi, Frank.

Oh, no...look, it's been a long day.

I've asked Nelson to roster me on next week.

I just thought you should know. You're not ready.

Well, I'm not actually asking you, Frank.

I'm coming back to work.

I was promised a job in Emergency

and if I don't, I'll consider it discrimination.

(scoffs) What did they feed you women up in Ward 17?

Alright, I'll see you next week.

BRAKES SQUEAL

ROCK MUSIC BLARES ON RADIO

(switches off engine and radio)

Here, Frank.

Good career move.

Hey! Sorry!

Hey, uh... if it's an ethical question,

you're not even an outpatient now,

so you can go out to dinner with me, right?

Where, MacDonalds?

How old are you?

Hey, I'm young, but I'm pretty mature.

Uh...a moderately skilled physician,

I'm much better in bed than I am beside one,

and besides, how can you turn down a lift in that?

Easy.

Um...I'm busy.

Right - hey, listen, do you have a phone? Because I have a number.

(laughs)

Okay....

Thanks.

Excuse me.

See, you're annoyed with me now. That's good.

It means I'm getting under your skin.

I'll just keep turning up like a bad penny.