- Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: I'm going to see to it that your problem doesn't hurt anybody else again.
- Dr. Ronald Shafer: [ruefully as he's taking a drink] What problem?
- Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: You're holding it in your hand.
- Dr. Tompkins: [discussing Julie Reed's abortion] What do you want me to tell you?
- Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: What really happened.
- Dr. Tompkins: I don't think it's my place to comment on another doctor's work.
- Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: Well, since the patient died, I thought you'd might be willing to talk about it.
- Dr. Tompkins: Well, I'm not.
- Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: It'll be a lot tougher telling it to the coroner's inquest.
- Dr. Ronald Shafer: [in the operating room... Shafer is drunk] Scalpel, please.
- [he drops it as nurse hands it to him]
- Dr. Ronald Shafer: Let's try that again.
- [Tompkins grabs his wrist]
- Dr. Ronald Shafer: What do you think you're doing?
- Dr. Tompkins: I'm sorry, doctor. I can't let you do this. I'm sorry.
- [Quincy is seen outside the operating room witnessing this]
- Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: Now I talked to Julie Reed's boyfriend and he thinks that Dr. Shafer was drunk when he performed the abortion. And that could answer a lot of the things that I found.
- Dr. Blair - Chief of Surgery: Then why didn't he say anything? Why didn't he try to stop Dr. Shafer?
- Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: Oh, come on. How can a kid stop a doctor from operating? Besides, that's your job, not his.
- Dr. R. Quincy, M.E.: [after learning the office of medical quality assurance won't assist him in his investigation against Shafer] You mean one death? Is that enough? What do we have to do? Hang around until he bags the limit?