- Georgy Nikolaevich Safronov: Arisa, do you want to become a doctor?
- Arisa: Then you will have to take me out on a date.
- Georgy Nikolaevich Safronov: What?
- Arisa: If I am going to do what you need, you will have to do what I want.
- [Lara leans in, all smiles]
- Georgy Nikolaevich Safronov: And this is necessary for my well-being, too?
- Arisa: You do not see it yet, but once you begin spending time with me, even unwillingly, you will be happy that you agreed to our union.
- Georgy Nikolaevich Safronov: But you can't force love.
- Arisa: I think in our case it is more like "marry first, love will follow," or "easy does it," or "habit is heaven's gift to us: a substitute for happiness," or...
- Georgy Nikolaevich Safronov: [checking through the hospital's holographic capabilities] Balash may be a mediocre doctor, but he sure has the best equipment.
- Igor Mikhailovich Maslovsky: Are you planning on letting Svetlana go at all?
- Victor Pavlovich Toropov: Till death do us part - and I'm not planning on dying.
- Georgy Nikolaevich Safronov: Untie me.
- Igor Mikhailovich Maslovsky: [sauntering over] Or what, you'll tear me to pieces? That's scary and all, but honestly I'm much more scared of Vic.