- [Bernard Newton and Martin are talking to a patient before they are about to operate on her]
- Dr. Martin Ellingham: You are having an open cholecystectomy. Because of previous abdominal surgeries on your duodenal ulcer, keyhole surgery is not an option due to the high number of internal adhesions.
- Evelyn Pearce: It is really necessary?
- Dr. Martin Ellingham: Yes of course it's necessary. That's why we're performing an operation.
- Evelyn Pearce: So I don't have a choice?
- Dr. Martin Ellingham: You *do* have a choice. You can choose not to have the operation, and die a very painful death.
- [Julia has offered Martin and Louisa half of her dog's litter of puppies, since Buddy is the father of them]
- Julia Pote: There is one other thing. I was going to speak to you and Louise about it privately, but... Will you father my child?
- Dr. Martin Ellingham: What?
- Julia Pote: As a donor, obviously. Not the other way!
- Dr. Martin Ellingham: You're actually asking me for sperm in the street?