- Natalie: For the record, I hate needles.
- Dr. Hank Lawson: Really? Because most folks love them. Did they turn you into a pincushion when you were sick?
- Natalie: What is a pincushion?
- Dr. Hank Lawson: A cushion, for pins. Sometimes shaped like a tomato. My mom had one.
- Natalie: Oh, like from the old days.
- Dr. Hank Lawson: Yeah. She kept it by the butter churn. Open up, please.
- Natalie: [Hank holds up an oral swab] What's with the giant Q-tip?
- Dr. Hank Lawson: I'm doing a rapid strep test. Open. And making sure your mono isn't back. But you have no fever, no abdominal pain. So I'm thinking it's just a virus and some strained vocal chords. You've been singing a lot this summer?
- Natalie: I wouldn't be singing at all if my parents had let me stay in the city. You should tell them that, since they want to run my life.
- Dr. Hank Lawson: Natalie, you're my patient. I'm not gonna tell your parents anything without your permission.
- Dr. Hank Lawson: What is that?
- Natalie: Deer hide, I think. The general likes to shoot unarmed animals.
- Dr. Hank Lawson: Natalie, would you show me your hands? These black spots, do they hurt?
- Natalie: No. They just appear. Why? What are they? Don't tell me this is one of those life-endangering exceptions you talked about.
- Dr. Hank Lawson: I don't think so. But you may have been infected by a bacterium. Bacillus anthracis. I'm using the big words because I don't want you to be scared by the small one.
- Natalie: What's the word?
- Dr. Hank Lawson: Anthrax.
- Divya Katdare: Why is it that people who are wrong for us seem more exciting than those who are right?
- Paige Collins: Can you see me wrapped in an American flag?
- Evan R. Lawson: I'm picturing it. It's totally rockin' my vote, yeah.
- Evan R. Lawson: Faxes are so last century, Divs.
- Divya Katdare: Said the man apologizing by rose petal.