Extreme Measures (1996)

Paul Guilfoyle: Dr. Jeffrey Manko

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• Dr. Guy Luthan : [Guy has just been formally notified of his dismissal]  Well, that was quick. All that in 24 hours. Taken me longer to find a bed for a patient.

  Dr. Jeffrey Manko : We've learned it's best to move fast on these things. It's not the first time something like this has happened.

  Dr. Guy Luthan : Is that right? Well that might explain it a bit, then, because obviously, you know, what I'm having trouble with here is trying to understand why it's so easy for all of you to believe that I just, um, threw my life away. Which was, after all, going quite well - you know, why I suddenly just

  [snaps fingers] 

  Dr. Guy Luthan : out of the blue, took up drugs and threw it all away. It's very hard for me to grasp why that would be easier for you to believe than that someone in this hospital has deliberately set me up to stop me asking questions about a patient of mine whose body has disappeared into thin fucking air!

  [pause] 

  Dr. Guy Luthan : But, uh, that probably just makes me sound druggie and paranoid, right?

• Dr. Guy Luthan : Jeff, did you ever hear of something called Triphase?

  Dr. Jeffrey Manko : [fiddling with his computer]  No, what is it?

  Dr. Guy Luthan : It's this thing he said.

  Dr. Jeffrey Manko : [sighs]  Why won't this new system accept my security code?

  Dr. Guy Luthan : Uh, listen - I know I'm not supposed to say this kind of thing, but I just have the feeling that I could've screwed up here somewhere.

  Dr. Jeffrey Manko : Yeah, you're right. You shouldn't be saying it.