Dr. Bellows
Honey, come on.
Dr. Wheeler
Don't call me honey.
Dr. Bellows
I'm trying to tell you about my day. Something that happened.
Dr. Wheeler
Your days are always the same.
Dr. Bellows
What is that supposed to mean?
Dr. Wheeler
Just politics, that's all. Who said what to whom. Who's rising, who's falling. Who's made a good move, a bad move. Politics!
Dr. Bellows
Somebody has to be interested in hospital politics. You certainly are not.
Dr. Wheeler
I thought you were a surgical resident, not a political one.
Dr. Bellows
I like politics. They interest me. Just because you're always looking for...
Dr. Wheeler
You want me to heat up the dinner, is that it? I want some respect.
Dr. Bellows
Susan, come on. Don't leave again.
Dr. Wheeler
Why can't you share half the responsibility?
Dr. Bellows
I share more than half the responsibility!
Dr. Wheeler
No need to shout.
Dr. Bellows
Why are you running off? You think I want this? Let me tell you something. I make concessions for this so-called relationship.
Dr. Wheeler
I know it's hard on you politically.
Dr. Bellows
Susan, don't go.
Dr. Wheeler
You know what the trouble with you is? All you care about is being chief resident.
Dr. Bellows
You know what your trouble is? You don't want a relationship. Look at you. You run away from it.
Dr. Wheeler
This is ridiculous.
Dr. Bellows
You don't want a lover...you want a goddamn wife!
Dr. Wheeler
Bastard.
Dr. Wheeler
Nobody else here seems to care.
Dr. Bellows
Nobody else cares?
Dr. Wheeler
Listen. There have been 10 cases of unexplained coma in young, healthy patients in the last year. Now, don't you find that surprising? [Mark shakes his head] You don't.
Dr. Bellows
Susan, this hospital does 30,000 operations a year. I'm not surprised a few turn out with serious unexplained side effects. Medicine isn't perfect. We all accept that. Don't we?
Dr. Wheeler
Mark, it's so awful! It's so terrible.
Dr. Bellows
Take it easy. Honey, slow down.
Dr. Wheeler
He was trying to kill me. And I had to keep going. And all the bodies. It's horrible!
Dr. Bellows
Take it easy. Slow down.
Dr. Wheeler
Mark, it's all happening. It's really happening. Somebody's putting people into comas. They're murdering them. No, no, really. Kelly's dead. I was down there. I found the gas line. It starts in the basement and it goes up the main tunnel then plugs into the oxygen line in the ceiling that goes to O.R. 8.
Dr. Bellows
Honey, slow down.
Dr. Wheeler
They're killing people with carbon monoxide in O.R. 8. They have a radio to turn the valve.
Dr. Bellows
I believe you.
Dr. Wheeler
All the cases happened in O.R. 8. And they all went to the Jefferson Institute. And this guy, he chased me all over. And there were so many bodies.
Dr. Bellows
It's all right. It's okay.
Dr. Wheeler
And this is real. Call the police. We have to do something! This is real, Mark. I can prove it.
Dr. Bellows
Sure, you can. You can. Just lie down.
Dr. Wheeler
This is real.
Dr. Bellows
I know you can. Now one thing at a time. I want to give you a Valium and how about a cup of tea to settle you down? A cup of hot tea? Then we're going to talk after you settle down. So you just rest right here. You just stay right here on the bed? That-a-girl. That's it. You just relax.
Dr. Wheeler
I can't...
Dr. Bellows
That's it. Just relax. Close your eyes. That's it. Okay, that-a-girl. Now, I'll get you a cup of tea.
Dr. Wheeler
You're so great, Mark.
Dr. Bellows
Stay here, honey. Just stay right here. [calling out from the kitchen] That's a hell of a story, Susan. You really had a lot of people worried. Don't worry. Everything's going to be okay now. [quietly into the phone] She came back. No, she's here now. Of course. No, I can manage that. I'll keep her here. Look, I'd better go. [turns to find Susan gone]
