St. Elsewhere (1982–1988): Season 2, Episode 15 - Attack - full transcript

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.

It's in a group of substances called
adaptogens,

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 organise 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!