From 102474.3615@compuserve.comMon Sep 11 16:13:50 1995 Date: 11 Sep 95 14:24:17 EDT From: "Abel D. Rego" <102474.3615@compuserve.com> To: My fellow CH fans Subject: HOPE:Copy of Official CH Script DIa!?ayyyyR~yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Script: 2M09 Rxyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyoyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyour faces. (then) Who else examined her? NYLAND Just the paramedics, theyre quarantined over at Cook County. GEIGER All right. (a beat; taking charge) First off, this room is officially sealed, you and I are gonna spend some time together. You play cribbage? NYLAND Whats the progression? (CONTINUED) CHICAGO HOPE, The Quarantine Rev. 10/12/94 3. CONTINUED: (2) GEIGER Not god. Seventy percent fatal. Incurable Nyland stares back, trying to mask his fear. Then. NYL AND (covering) Im sure. . . Im sure we didnt contract it. GEIGER Im sure! youre right. But their tone spe aks louder than their words. Then: NYLAND (weakly) Oh God. Off their anxiety, then fear, we: SMASH CUT TO: MAIN TITLES INT. O.R. #1 - DAY Geiger stands at the glass, WATTERS is on the outside in a space suit, looking in. Theyre both on portable phones, talking to each other. Officials from the CDC are sealing off the entire corridor area. WATTERS Im back on the phone with Atlanta in twenty minutes, weve also set up a command post in our lab. Meantime, I dont want you leaving this area. GEIGER Dont worry. Do me a favor, when you talk to CDC, find out if they got any plasma from survivors, in case we need transfusions. WATTERS Thats premature. (CONTINUED) 4. GEIGER Just ask the question, al! so find out the efficacy of IV in t erferon, I read once where it was tried. And get me a cribbage board. WATTERS (re Nyland) He okay? GEIGER Hell live. Maybe. WATTERS Ill be back. Watters moves off. Geiger heads back to Nyland, under: GEIGER Okay, frst the bad news. We got ourselves a beauty, this virus wiped out entire tribes in Zaire and Sudan. It probably came into the U.S. through a monkey, maybe this is my payback for killing the baboon. NYLAND Gimme the good news. GEIGER The woman was here on day seven, not day four, that makes her less contagious. Also, the virus does not spread easily, the odds we got it are low. NYLAND How long before we know for sure? GEIGER Coupla days. Were gonna do our our blood work, its too risky to bring in another doctor. You married? NYLAND No. GEIGER Figures. Girlfriend, anybody youve been sharing intimate breathing space with, if so-- (CONTINUED) 5. NYLAND Oh no. GEIGER Yeah. (extending portable ! phone) Make the call. Man or woman? Nyland takes the phone. Punches some numbers, as we: CUT TO: INT. CORRIDOR - DAY Two Orderlies in space suits quickly whisk an ashen CAMILLE down the hall. She obviously just got the news. CUT TO: INT. O.R. #1 - DAY The door opens and the astronaut Orlderlies shove Camille in and close the door. Geiger is both shocked and privately amused to see Camille. CAMILLE (to Nyland) What have you given me? GEIGER (to Camille) You slut. Camile shoots Geiger a quick look; then: CAMILLE (to Nyland) What have you given me? NYLAND Ive been exposed to a virus. CAMILLE (to Nyland) We used a condom for Gods sake, two of them. NYLAND Its airborne, the kissing is just as dangerous. (CONTINUED) 6. GEIGER Maybe you didnt kiss, did you pause to kiss? CAMILLE (fighting off panic) Please dont make jokes, Id appreciate you not makin g jokes. (then) They told me it could be fatal. GEIGER (sympathetic) Camille this is ju! st a precaution. But as a precau t ion-- CAMILLE Look. Can we just say. . . (to Nyland) I really dont want it put out there that you and I were, yknow... out of sensitivity to Aaron-- GEIGER He knows. CAMILLE He doesnt know it was him. He knows I had sex but not with who. GEIGER So whats the difference? CAMILLE Itll make a difference. NYLAND Look, lets just say you were in on the examination of the Tuckman woman and you were exposed that way. Theres no need to add to the drama here. CAMILLE Can we do that, Jeffrey? (then) Please. GEIGER Sure. (CONTINUED) 7. Upon which the doors open. The astronauts shove in NURSE MAGGIE ATKISSON. She just glares daggers at Nyland. ATKISSON (to Nyland) What have you given me? NYLAND (weakly; to Atkisson) Ive been exposed to a virus. A beat. CAMILLE (to Nyland) You pig. GEIGER Busy pig. ATKISSON What have I got? Nyland ushers Atkisso n to the sides, Geiger follows. NYLAND Hopefully, nothing. But I need to be quarantine! d. Which unfortunately includes the people Ive been with. GEIGER Do we need a bigger room? NYLAND (on edge; to Geiger) Could you be someplace else? GEIGER Its just that I need to order food. Should I be expecting more? NYLAND Not from me. They look at Camille. GEIGER Camille? (CONTINUED) 8. CAMILLE (awkward) Uh......well....... CUT TO: INT. CORRIDOR - DAY The Spacemen are ushering SHUTT. Watters is also in a spacesuit, walking alongside. They walk quickly. SHUTT (agitated) I dont believe this. WATTERS Just a precaution. I thought you and Camille were apart. SHUTT We are, we kissed after Rabbi Taublers funeral. This viru is not spread casually, Phillip, you dont need to be wearing that stupid suit. WATTERS Id rather be safe, thank you. Thsi disease also happens to be more dangerous than AIDS. SHUTT Well, that cheers me up. Upon which BIRCH, in space suit stops Watt ers. Shutt continues on. BIRCH Phillip, I wanna be heard. WATTERS (not now) Yes, Alan! . As he speaks, his bubble helmet progressively fogs. (CONTINUED) 9. BIRCH Anybody exposed should also be immediately put in a suit for transport, this disease is airborne, Id like an outfit put on Doctor Shutt immediately and why is my helmet fogging up, theyve given me defective equipment. By now we cant see his face. WATTERS (appeasing) Well get the suits on everybody. BIRCH Your helmet doesnt fog. Are you breathing through your nose? Watters continues on, STAY ON Watters as we hear Birch in the b.g. BIRCH (O.S.) Phillip. Im blinded, Phillip? Hello? This is unacceptable. Phillip? Off this, we: CUT TO: INT. O.R. #1 - DAY Geiger, Camille, Nyland, and Atkisson. CAMILLE Are we going to die? GEIGER Nobodys dying. ATKISSON I heard it could be spread with a sneeze, that it came from a monkey-- (to Nyland) --tell me you didnt have sex with a monkey. CAMILLE He didn t have time. (CONTINUED) 10. NYLAND ATKISSON Please. What? SHUTT (entering) ! Where did you get it, Camille? CAMILLE Aaron. SHUTT Never mind, Aaron, theyre saying we have to be isolated for two full days. GEIGER Look-- ATKISSON (deep fear) I feel nauseous. I could throw up. We are going to die, I just took this job, Im exposed to a deadly virus-- NYLAND (going to her) Hey. . . CAMILLE (sharp; to Nyland) Dont you touch her, youve done quite enough. SHUTT NYLAND (to Geiger; re Nyland) (to Camille) He gave it to her? Whats that supposed to mean? GEIGER (taking control) Hey. Everybody. As of yet nobody has manifested any symptoms, the likelihood is were all completely safe. Well do some lab work, remain isolated, in a few days itll be behind us. In the meantime, nothing is served by panic. (more) (CONTINUED) 11. GEIGER (contd) Everybody should call the people that n eed to be called, if you havent lready done so. ANGLE ATKISSON. Theres somebody else.! GEIGER Otherwise, lets sit bac k and stay calm. Everybody stay calm. Upon which another Astronaut Orderly ushers in another MAN in a space suit. MAN Im a dead man. Dead. And the man takes off his helmet. Its THURMOND. SHUTT (to Atkisson) You gotta be kidding. ATKISSON Dont look at me. GEIGER (to Nyland) You little brown nose. NYLAND I didnt touch him. Thurmond then looks at Camille and all eyes then pounces on her. CAMILLE Uh... Its not what you think. THURMOND (nervous; hiding something) We share a stick of licorice. Red. The chewy kind. A beat. Everybody in the room knows thats a lie. SHUTT (contained shock) Were you two... together? GEIGER I cant picture that. Which is a blessing, I get vasovagal. (CONTINUED) SHUTT CAMILLE Quiet! Jeffrey! A beat. Shutt takes a step towards Camille. SHUTT I want to hear this. CAMILLE We werent together. THURMOND (defensi ve; hiding something) Licorice. Red. GEIGER Chewy. THURMOND CAMILLE ! SHUTT Be quiet. Stop it. Jeffrey. A beat as they hold an accusing stare. Then: CAMILLE I have to tell, Arhtur. Like you said, it was nothing, so-- THURMOND (pointing to Geiger) Hell make it something. CAMILLE No, he wont. (then; to the others) Dr. Thurmond passed out last week in the research lab. I thought he stopped breathing and-- THURMOND Which I didnt. I just fainted, it was hypotension,thats all. Nothing more. CAMILLE I thought he wasnt breathing and I started giving him mouth-to-mouth. Thats why I thought maybe if I got the virus, maybe I exposed him. (CONTINUED) 13. GEIGER Youre having fainting spells and youre going into the O.R.? THURMOND You see? Hes making it into something. GEIGER Damn right I am, what if you go face first into somebodys intestine-- (wheelin g on Camille) --and how the hell can you stay silent, his episodes could cause ! a patient to die. CAMILLE I s tayed silent because he said this was one isolated incident and I knew youd be quick to try and take away his scalpel. GEIGER (to Thrumond) How lng have you been having these blackouts? GEIGER THURMOND And how dare you It was just one and put your patients I never stopped breathing, at risk, what other she was mistaken, dont symptoms have you be making a mountain out been suffering? of this. And now they all start to argue, including but not limited to: SHUTT CAMILLE GEIGER We really dont (to Nyland) (to Thrumond) need you two How many more You have no yapping at people did you right to exhalt each other, expose, Danny, your job this is a maybe you should insecurity over bad situation-- make a conference the interests call. of the people you operate on. Suddenly the door opens an d the Astronauts usher in yet another Astronaut whos deposited there. They all stare at ! him. After a long beat, the man t akes off the helmet. Its Watters. Another beat of disbelief. (CONTINUED) 14. GEIGER Am I the only one in this hospital not having sex? Shutt look at Camille, whos offended by the silent accusation. CAMILLE Hey. The Shutt looks at Atkisson. A beat. She turns into the corner. The eyes all go back to Watters. THURMOND Did you concubine with that nurse, Phillip? Watters looks at her. CAMILLE (to Watters) Shes been working here less than a month. Youre Chief of Staff, what in Gods name were you thinking? WATTERS How I was exposed is none of your concern. ATKISSON He and I were not together. We... (to Watters) God, its so embarrassing, can you tell him? WATTERS (deadpan) Certainly. After the morphine episode with Doctor Antonovich, Nurse Atkisson became nauseated and light-headed. A s I went to steady her, she had occasion to vomit, unfortunately on me. It go! t on my hands, thereby creating the risk of exposure. A beat of dead silence. Then: THURMOND Who do you think youre kidding? Off Watters, we: (CONTINUED) 15. INT. WATTERS OFFICE - DAY Birch is there before a re. CAMILLE I thought he wasnt breathing and I started giving him mouth-to-mouth. Thats why I thought maybe if I got the virus, maybe I exposed him. (CONTINUED) 13. GEIGER Youre having fainting spells and youre going into the O.R.? THURMOND You see? Hes making it into something. GEIGER Damn right I am, what if you go face first into somebodys intestine-- (wheeling on Camille) --and how the hell can you stay silent, his episodes could cause a patient to die. CAMILLE I stayed silent because he said this was one isolated incident and I knew youd be quick to try and take away his sca lpel. GEIGER (to Thurmond) How long have you been having these blackouts? GEIG! ER THURMOND And how dare you It was just one and put your patients I never stopped breathing, at risk, what other she was mistaken, dont symptoms have you be making a mountain out been suffering? of this. And now they all start to argue, including but not limited to: SHUTT CAMILLE GEIGER We really dont (to Nyland) (to Thurmond) need you two How many more You have no yapping at people did you right to exalt each other, expose, Danny, your job this is a maybe you should insecurity over bad situation-- make a conference the interests call. of the people you operate on. Suddenly the door opens and the Astronauts usher in yet another Astronaut whos deposited there. They all stare at him. After a long beat, the man takes off the helmet. Its Watters. Another beat of disbelief. (CONTINUED) 14. GEIGER Am I the only one in this ho spital not having sex? Shutt look at Camille, whos offended by the silent accusation! . CAMILLE Hey. The Shutt loo k s at Atkisson. A beat. She turns into the corner. The eyes all go back to Watters. THURMOND Did you concubine with that nurse, Phillip? Watters looks at her. CAMILLE (to Watters) Shes been working here less than a month. Youre Chief of Staff, what in Gods name were you thinking? WATTERS How I was exposed is none of your concern. ATKISSON He and I were not together. We... (to Watters) God, its so embarrassing, can you tell him? WATTERS (deadpan) Certainly. After the morphine episode with Doctor Antonovich, Nurse Atkisson became nauseated and light-headed. As I went to steady her, she had occasion to vomit, unfortunately on me. It got on my hands, thereby creating the risk of exposure. A beat of dead silence. Then: THURMOND Who do you think youre kidding? Off Watters, we: (CONTIN UED) 15. INT. WATTERS OFFICE - DAY Birch is there before a full throng of Press,! Alexander Haiging it. BIRCH I am in charge. I am in complete charge. REPORTER #1 How many doctors have been infected, and how did the transmission occur? BIRCH No known infections, this is simply a precautions quarantine. Chief of Staff, Phillip Watters is included, thereby chain of command, according to hospital bylaws, passes to house Counsel. Chicago Hope continues to be open charge. Not to worry. Not to worry at all. As they bellow more questions, we: CUT TO: CLOSE ON WATTERS WATTERS Why are we not wearing pants? REVEAL INT. O.R. #1 - DAY Thurmond has no pants, just boxer shorts. He stands before Watters. The rest are pacing about, its already becoming a little anxiety-ridden. THURMOND (not apologetic) I took them off to get into the blasted space suit and the space suit is too hot. You got a problem? WATTERS None. More pacing about. Geiger and Nyland nearly collide. (CONTINUED) 16. G! EIGER Hey. I like to pace eas t to west, You wanna pace north to south, go in the other room. (off Nylands stare) Dont look at me like that. (off Camilles stare) And dont you look at me. CAMILLE I can look at whoever I want. GEIGER (re Thurmond) Look at him then, no pants. WATTERS All right. Lets not make this any tougher than it has to be. An they all continue pacing. Off Watters, knowing this will be very tough we: FADE OUT: END ACT ONE 17. ACT TWO INT. O.R. #1 - DAY Watters et al are by the window, listening to Birch, in the bubble suit. As he talks, the helmet again fogs up. Food supplies and blankets have been delivered. The tension and anxiety has already escalated. BIRCH CDC is very encouraged. The paramedics at Cook County have developed no symptoms and the risk of their exposure was probably g reater. The Boards a little upset that youre quarantined in an O.R., making the! room unavailable but Ive ass uaged them on that front. GEIGER Your bubbles fogging up. BIRCH Never mind. I think it would be a good idea to bring Ray Kadalski down here-- They all shout versions of no. BIRCH A!dA!dA!d!dnA!dcods off as Watters turns to the others. (CONTINUED) 18. WATTERS Everybody, pay attention. I dont want to say this twice. Our incubation period will be over Thursday, if we havent developed symptoms by then, were clear. CAMILLE What are the symptoms? WATTERS Could be like the flu. Fever, headaches, abdominal pain. Our could be worse. Nosebleed, rash. GEIGER With all thats been going on, somebody here must have a rash. Watters holds a loaded stare. WATTERS (not amused) This is not a funny situation. Please dont try to locate humor at the expense of others. GEIGER I los t my head. WATTERS (to the others) Anybody? Symptoms? No response. WATTERS Goo! d. After we finish with the b l ood samples, well do some cultures. Food and blankets are here. Temporary toilet facilities have been set up off the scrub room. THURMOND I want to see the chart on this Tuckman patient. I want to see her symptoms-- (CONTINUED) 19. WATTERS I personally reviewed the Tuckman records when she was treated here and I think were covered there. THURMOND (pointed) Forgive me. My life is on the line here, I want to ame for it on our relationship and you checked out. Did you fight for us, Camille, did you think about therapy, or trying to communicate? No, you-- CAMILLE I have to get scheduled for your procedures just to talk to you, dont-- SHUTT Thats a lie! We laid in bed together every goddamn night, if you were upset enough to toss and turn, why not talk? CAMILLE Y ou always wanted to sleep and-- SHUTT I was happy, dammit! When youre tired and! happy, you sleep. You were u nhappy, and you let it faster! CAMILLE Why couldnt you see, I was unhappy? Why couldnt you figure out that your neglect made me unhappy? Maybe I let it die, Aaron, maybe I didnt fight hard enough, but you let it die too. SHUTT I loved you! CAMILLE And you still did nothing! So what did I have to look forward to?! This was you loving me! (more) (CONTINUED) 27. CAMILLE (Contd) We stopped talking, we stopped touching each other, we had nothing in common but a joint checking account, and this was you loving me! Shutt turns away to see Thurmond right at the glass, watching the foregoing. Shutt bangs on the glass, under: SHUTT Dont you have something else to do?! THURMOND No. And Shutt then storms into: INT. O.R. #1 - CONTINUOUS SHUTT This is not a sideshow for your benefit! GEIGER THURMOND All right, Aaron. of course it is. THURMOND This ! whole thing is a circus, start e d by Mr. Penishead over there. WATTERS SHUTT NYLAND All right. I dont Hey, you know what! think Im sick and tired of youre being pimped by everyone funny. here for no other reason than being young. SHUTT THURMOND (to Nyland) You think its You give new meaning tough being to the word pimp. young, try getting old. WATTERS Everybody, quiet! NYLAND (re Nyland) Get him out of here! (CONTINUED) 28. GEIGER (ushering) All right, Aaron, come on. SHUTT (pointing his finger at Geiger) Hey! Take your hands off me, Jeffrey, youre not the only person here licensed to be nuts. Just keep your hands off me. GEIGER All right. All right. THURMOND (to Geiger) His finger was right there. (why waste an opportunity?) You couldve bitten him. SHUTT (to Thurmond) Why dont you go in the corner and faint? THURMOND GEIGER (to Watters) ! (to Camille) This is a horrible What were you saying Christmas. to him? CAMILLE (escalating frustration) Its none of your business, Jeffrey, its always been none of your business. CAMILLE GEIGER When will that If it affects ever sink in, this hospital, then whats between it becomes my business Aaron-- because the patients-- CAMILLE (erupting) Enough with the good of this damn hospital!! I am sick of this hospital!! THURMOND (simply) Shes got the virus. (CONTINUED) Shes your significant stay the hell out ex-other, if she were of this and I mean a real wife, shed be it, Jeffrey, dont-- creaming you for alimony. ATKISSON Hey!! Listen to you people. Youre all nuts. IxL[AY|S"Ca"~-R- ?23'uP.,1o"????AAAAAAACEEEEIIIIDNOOOOOxOUUUUYTsaaaaaaaceee eiiiidnooo6None. More pacing about. Geiger and Nyland nearly collide. (CONTI! NUED) 16. GEIGER Hey. I like to pace east to west, You wanna pace north to south, go in the other room. (off Nylands stare) Dont look at me like that. (off Camilles stare) And dont you look at me. CAMILLE I can look at whoever I want. GEIGER (re Thurmond) Look at him then, no pants. WATTERS All right. Lets not make this any tougher than it has to be. An they all continue pacing. Off Watters, knowing this will be very tough we: FADE OUT: END ACT ONE 17. ACT TWO INT. O.R. #1 - DAY Watters et al are by the window, listening to Birch, in the bubble suit. As he talks, the helmet again fogs up. Food supplies and blankets have been delivered. The tension and anxiety has already escalated. BIRCH CDC is very encouraged. The paramedics at Cook County have developed no symptoms and the risk of their exposure was probably greater. The Boards a little upset that youre quarantined in ! an O.R., making the room unava ilable but Ive assuaged them on that front. GEIGER Your bubbles fogging up. BIRCH Never mind. I think it would be a good idea to bring Ray Kadalski down here-- They all shout versions of no. BIRCH Youre under stress, you could have cabin fever-- THURMOND (to Birch) I cant see his face. WATTERS All right. Tell Kadalski not yet, Alan. BIRCH (fogged up) Everythings under control. WATTERS Im sure it is. Birch heads off as Watters turns to the others. (CONTINUED) 18. WATTERS Everybody, pay attention. I dont want to say this twice. Our incubation period will be over Thursday, if we havent developed symptoms by then, were clear. CAMILLE What are the symptoms? WATTERS Could be like the flu. Fever, headaches, abdominal pain. Our could be worse. Nosebleed, rash . GEIGER With all thats been going on, somebody here must have a rash. Watters ! holds a loaded stare. WATTERS (no t amused) This is not a funny situation. Please dont try to locate humor at the expense of others. GEIGER I lost my head. WATTERS (to the others) Anybody? Symptoms? No response. WATTERS Good. After we finish with the blood samples, well do some cultures. Food and blankets are here. Temporary toilet facilities have been set up off the scrub room. THURMOND I want to see the chart on this Tuckman patient. I want to see her symptoms-- (CONTINUED) 19. WATTERS I personally reviewed the Tuckman records when she was treated here and I think were covered there. THURMOND (pointed) Forgive me. My life is on the line here, I want to see the chart. WATTERS You dont trust my opinion? THURMOND (pointed) Im just concerned you couldve been busy that day lecturing senior d octors on how they should stay away from young nurses. WATTERS I told the truth o! n how I was exposed. THURMOND I want to see the chart on that patient. As under Shutt gives Nyland a sniff. NYLAND What are you doing? SHUTT You smell familiar. He sniffs again as Camille pounces in to shift attention. CAMILLE Hey, I have an idea. Phillip, your Christmas party was scheduled for tomorrow night. Lets have it right here! WATTERS What? CAMILLE (roaring cheer) Were all together, we can do it here instead of your house. (more) (CONTINUED) 20. CAMILLE (Contd) Well have food brought in. Maybe a little wine, a little eggnog. How bout the piano from the pediatrics lounge, we could even bring that in and sing carols. SHUTT (suspicious) Why are you acting like that? CAMILLE Acting like what? SHUTT Like you act when youre hiding something-- SHUTT CAMILLE Youre acting I just want a Christmas like you act w! hen party, a little holiday yo u re nervous, and spirit, whats so wrong when I started smelling with that? him. THURMOND (to Watters) What are they yapping about? WATTERS I dont know. GEIGER (happily) I do. CAMILLE NYLAND (to Geiger; (to Geiger) quickly) Never mind! Please. Shutt is just glaring at Camille. The nickel drops for him. A tense beat. Then: SHUTT (suspicious) You say you were exposed to the virus by treating the Tuckman girl? (CONTINUED) 21. CAMILLE (wobbly) I think so. Yes. SHUTT You think so. Well, were getting the womans chart. If you were in on the examination, itll be reflected in the notes. Shutt looks at Nyland. Sniffs again. NYLAND (deadpan) Please dont sniff me. CAMILLE (heading this o ff) Aaron, could I see you in the scrub room, please? SHUTT Certainly. And t! hey exit to the scrub room. GEIGE R This could worth the price of the virus right here. (to Nyland) I bet youd like to be a fly on that wall. NYLAND (getting fed up) Your seniority aside, theres only so much disrespect Ill take from you. ATKISSON (the nickel drops for her; to Nyland) You were with her too? NYLAND It doesnt concern you. ATKISSON Before or after me? NYLAND Never mind. (CONTINUED) 22. WATTERS (to Atkisson) Was I before or after him? ATKISSON After but I dont know if I was after her and if I wasnt, then it could be her to him to me to you, I dont know where the mouth to mouth comes in, and I heard something about a monkey. THURMOND Im confused. GEIGER (to Thurmond) The monkey wore a condom. NYLAND WATTERS Quiet! Jeffrey!! QUICK CUT TO: INT. SCRUB ROOM - CONTINUOUS Shutt and Camille. SHUTT It was Nyland. CAMILLE A one time thing. After I dropped Rab! bi Taublers heart, I was upset and... SHUTT Im gonna recommend that you are terminated, Camille. CAMILLE What? SHUTT (blood surging) Phillips right, you and I in the same hospital, its no longer a workable situation. CAMILLE What are you talking about? (CONTINUED) 23. SHUTT I dont have a problem with you having a social life, but for you to be having one night stands with other surgeons in this hospital-- CAMILLE What about you and Antonovich?! SHUTT Thats a different situation. CAMILLE (seething; fighting an implosion) You tell me how its different. SHUTT (emotion pervading reason) I am Chief of Neurosurgery, I have a chain of command in this place which is dependent upon maintaining respect from this staff. I cant have that respect undermined by a promiscuous ex-wife whose sexual escapades serve to humiliate me. CAMILLE (fighting against her temper) The only reason I dont take ! your head off is because those people can see through the glass. SHUTT (from his depths) You want to take my head off, Camille, go ahead. Truth is, theres nothing you can do to me that you havent already done. The blood goes right into Camilles face. CAMILLE (with an escalating fury) How dare you throw up such a blatant double standard. Its okay for you to be with somebody else in this hospital but not me. (more) (CONTINUED) 24. CAMILLE (Contd) Why, because what I do is necessarily a reflection on you, Im your property, let me tell you, Aaron, the only thing Ive done which is a direct reflection on you is when I walked out the door. The divorce, my unhappiness, my feeling trapped in a miserable relationship, all that is a direct reflection on you. Why the hell didnt that humiliate you? You se lfish sonofabitch, I cannot believe you just said what you said to me. INT. O.R. ! #1 - CONTINUOUS Geiger and Thurm o nd are watching them through the glass. GEIGER That is not friendly body language. See those little specks of spit coming out of her mouth, thats hostility. THURMOND This Nyland fellow slept with them all? GEIGER I believe so, yes. THURMOND And I get sued for asking a girl to lunch. PAN to Watters in a corner as Atkisson approaches. ATKISSON Im sorry they dont believe what really happened. WATTERS Its not important. ATKISSON Its not my habit to vomit on people and I want you to understand that was a fluke. (CONTINUED) 25. WATTERS (deadpan) Whats done is done. CUT TO: INT. SCRUB ROOM - CONTINUOUS Shutt and Camille, still into it. CAMILLE (hot) Im only at this hospital as your subordinate, is that it, Aaron? SHUTT As my ex-wife no, but as nurse to doctor, yes, you re a subordinate, and-- CAMILLE What?! According to who? SHUTT You wanna t! ry your hand at a craniotomy, see if-- CAMILLE Try a day as a scrub nurse, you think you can do that? SHUTT Yeah. I could. Youre a nurse, Camille. Not a rocket scientist and not a brain surgeon. That really gets her. She absorbs it. Then: CAMILLE (incredulity and anger) Yknow what, Aaron? I left you way too early. There is so much more to hate about you, I get the feeling I couldve left you for a hundred reasons I havent even discovered yet. SHUTT Well, thats the thing about being a quitter. One reason is enough. (CONTINUED) 26. CAMILLE Is that right? SHUTT (oozing rage) Yeah, thats right. You want to seize on chauvinism now as the issue of the day, go ahead, it really doesnt matter to me. The only thing that matters is you got unhappy, you chose to lay the blame for it on our relationship and you checked out. Did you fight for us, Camille, did you think about therapy! , or trying to communicate? N o , you-- CAMILLE I have to get scheduled for your procedures just to talk to you, dont-- SHUTT Thats a lie! We laid in bed together every goddamn night, if you were upset enough to toss and turn, why not talk? CAMILLE You always wanted to sleep and-- SHUTT I was happy, dammit! When youre tired and happy, you sleep. You were unhappy, and you let it faster! CAMILLE Why couldnt you see, I was unhappy? Why couldnt you figure out that your neglect made me unhappy? Maybe I let it die, Aaron, maybe I didnt fight hard enough, but you let it die too. SHUTT I loved you! CAMILLE And you still did nothing! So what did I have to look forward to?! This was you loving me! (more) (CONTINUED) 27. CAMILLE (Contd) We stopped talking, we stopped touching each other, we had nothing in common but a joint checking account, and this was you loving m! e! Shutt turns away to see Thurmo nd right at the glass, watching the foregoing. Shutt bangs on the glass, under: SHUTT Dont you have something else to do?! THURMOND No. And Shutt then storms into: INT. O.R. #1 - CONTINUOUS SHUTT This is not a sideshow for your benefit! GEIGER THURMOND All right, Aaron. of course it is. THURMOND This whole thing is a circus, started by Mr. Penishead over there. WATTERS SHUTT NYLAND All right. I dont Hey, you know what! think Im sick and tired of youre being pimped by everyone funny. here for no other reason than being young. SHUTT THURMOND (to Nyland) You think its You give new meaning tough being to the word pimp. young, try getting old. WATTERS Everybody, quiet! NYLAND (re Nyland) Get him out of here! (CONTINUED) 28. GEIGER (us hering) All right, Aaron, come on. SHUTT (pointing his finger at Geiger) Hey! Ta! ke your hands off me, Jeffrey, youre not the only person here licensed to be nuts. Just keep your hands off me. GEIGER All right. All right. THURMOND (to Geiger) His finger was right there. (why waste an opportunity?) You couldve bitten him. SHUTT (to Thurmond) Why dont you go in the corner and faint? THURMOND GEIGER (to Watters) (to Camille) This is a horrible What were you saying Christmas. to him? CAMILLE (escalating frustration) Its none of your business, Jeffrey, its always been none of your business. CAMILLE GEIGER When will that If it affects ever sink in, this hospital, then whats between it becomes my business Aaron-- because the patients-- CAMILLE (erupting) Enough with the good of this damn hospital!! I am sick of this hospital!! THURMOND (simply) Shes got the virus. (CONTINUED) 29. CAMILLE Shut up!! THURMOND You see? SHUTT (to Geiger) Lay off my wife,! would you? GEIGER Shes not your wife-- SHUTT GEIGER Ive told you to Shes your significant stay the hell out ex-other, if she were of this and I mean a real wife, shed be it, Jeffrey, dont-- creaming you for alimony. ATKISSON Hey!! Listen to you people. Youre all nuts. I come to work at Chicago Hope... this is supposed to be this great place and... youre all completely crazy. A beat. Thurmond takes a step towards her. THURMOND (gently) Young lady. Im sorry, your name again is? ATKISSON Maggie Atkisson. THURMOND Yes. (an honest question) And again I apologize, but who is it here youve slept with? She holds another look of disbelief. Then: ATKISSON What if I said it was you? Would you know differently? Thurmond holds a hard concerned look. Then: (CONTINUED) 30. THURMOND Its a trick. (to Watters) Trick question, Phillip. Shes a trickster. (to Atkisson) Im Doctor! Arthur Thurmond. Dont ever t ry to trick me. Im Doctor Arthur Thurmond. ATKISSON (incredulous) Where the hell am I? Two weeks ago I get in trouble cause I didnt kill his patient fast enough. Now I could have a fatal disease and Im locked in a room with the people who represent the nerve center of the whole hospital, and youre nuts. Youre all nuts. And suddenly theres a hard rapping on the glass. They turn to see: BIRCH (in bubble suit) Good News!! Ive got the piano! And I fixed my helmet. Off the inmates, then Atkisson, we: FADE TO: END ACT TWO ACT THREE 31. FADE IN: INT. O.R. #1 - NIGHT The tension has only increased. The Astronauts are pushing a Christmas tree into the room ON THE CUT. Birch is helping. Geiger and Atkisson are at the piano in the corner, softly singing, Somethin! g stupid. GEIGER/ATKISSON (duet) I know I stand in line until/ I think you have the time to spend an evening with me./ And if we go someplace to dance I know that theres a chance you wont be leaving with me. PAN TO Watters, staring at the above with slight contempt that only this type of corny song can evoke. As they continue to sing, we PAN TO the doorway area, where the others are receiving the tree. SHUTT That a real tree? NYLAND Feels real. THURMOND (to Shutt) Maybe you should smell it. SHUTT Was I talking to you? BIRCH (half in the room) Good news from the lab. All the blood tested negative. Theyd like some specimens, though. WATTERS (pushing him out) You shouldnt be in the room, Alan. BIRCH Im in my bubble. WATTERS Out. (CONTINUED) 32. And Watters closes the door. WATTERS Stop the piano, please. Geiger stops p laying. WATTERS Maybe we should send for Ray Kadalski. I know that the fear ! of death can make people agitated, and the way weve been acting, perhaps-- NYLAND It has nothing to do with fear or death, sir. In this environment, fear of living could be more stressful. GEIGER What a profound thought. It should A1S2|417<1?3BE!F. NYLAND Go to hell. (off Geigers look) Maybe that came out of fear of death. GEIGER Fear of getting fired should be more of a concern. WATTERS All right, thats enough. Obviously this little group has a few demons to exorcise. Maybe theres an odd blessing to this quarantine, I dont know. But since were stuck here together lets put this to some therapeutic purpose. THURMOND Now I want to puke. WATTERS (strict) This is an order from your Chief of Staff. (more) (CONTINUED) 33. WATTERS (Contd) Everybodys got immunity in here, no threat of reta liation. You got stuff you want to say, say it now. Mr. Nyland, since you se! em to be particularly motivated, you start. NYLAND First off, I dont believe for a second the part about no retaliation. (re Geiger) He likes to grind my stones for sport, God help me if I should antagonize him. GEIGER Well then, let me start. (simply; in one breath) Complaint number one, there isnt a single resident in this place with any stones, theyre all obsequious, cowering little sycophants whod rather suction my drool with their tongues than stand up to me. (to Nyland) Okay. Your turn now. NYLAND All right, Ill go. Jeffrey Geiger breeds malice. oozes contempt, and until he finds some peace with himself, is a liability to this hospital. Dr. Thurmond. The legend. mA?A1e"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAworry at all. As they bellow more questions, we: CUT TO: CLOSE ON WATTERS WATTERS Why are we not wearing pants? REVEAL INT. O.R. #1 - DAY Thurmond has no pants, just boxer shorts. He stands before W! atters. The rest are pacing about , its already becoming a little anxiety-ridden. THRUMOND (not apologetic) I took them off to get into the blasted soace suit and the space suit is too hot. You got a problem? WATTERS None. More pacing about. Geiger and Nyland nearly collide. (CONTINUED) 16. GEIGER Hey. I like to pace east to west, You wanna pace north to south, go in the other room. (off Nylands stare) Dont look at me like that. (off Camilles stare) And dont you look at me. CAMILLE I can look at whoever I want. GEIGER (re Thurmond) Look at him then, no pants. WATTERS All right. Lets not make this any tougher than it has to be. An they all continue pacing. Off Watters, knowing this will be very tough we: FADE OUT: END ACT ONE ! yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyd!dpounces in to shift attention. CAMILLE Hey,ono from the pediatrics lounge, we could even bring that in and sing carols. SHUTT (suspicious) Why are you acting like that? CAMILLE Acting like what? SHUTT Like you act when youre hiding something-- SHUTT CAMILLE Youre acting I just want a Christmas like you act when party, a little holiday youre nervous, and spirit, whats so wrong when I started smelling with that? him. THURMOND (to Watters) What are they yapping about? WATTERS I dont know. GEIGER (happily) I do. CAMILLE NYLAND (to Geiger; (to Geiger) quickly) Never mind! Please. Shutt is just glaring at Camille. The nickel drops for him. A tense beat. Then: SHUTT (suspicious) ! You say you were exposed to th e virus by treating the Tuckman girl? (CONTINUED) 21. CAMILLE (wobbly) I think so. Yes. SHUTT You think so. Well, were getting the womans chart. If you were in on the examination, itll be reflected in the notes. Shutt looks at Nyland. Sniffs again. NYLAND (deadpan) Please dont sniff me. CAMILLE (heading this off) Aaron, could I see you in the scrub room, please? SHUTT Certainly. And they exit to the scrub room. GEIGER This could worth the price of the virus right here. (to Nyland) I bet youd like to be a fly on that wall. NYLAND (getting fed up) Your seniority aside, theres only so much disrespect Ill take from you. ATKISSON (the nickel drops for her; to Nyland) You were with her too? NYLAND It doesnt concern you. ATKISSON Before or after me? NYLAND Never mind . (CONTINUED) 22. WATTERS (to Atkisson) Was I before or after him? AT! KISSON After but I dont know if I was after her and if I wasnt, then it could be her to him to me to you, I dont know where the mouth to mouth comes in, and I heard something about a monkey. THURMOND Im confused. GEIGER (to Thurmond) The monkey wore a condom. NYLAND WATTERS Quiet! Jeffrey!! QUICK CUT TO: INT. SCRUB ROOM - CONTINUOUS Shutt and Camille. SHUTT It was Nyland. CAMILLE A one time thing. After I dropped Rabbi Taublers heart, I was upset and... SHUTT Im gonna recommend that you are terminated, Camille. CAMILLE What? SHUTT (blood surging) Phillips right, you and I in the same hospital, its no longer a workable situation. CAMILLE A!dd (to Geiger) quickly) Never mind! Please. Shutt is just glaring at Camille. The nickel drops fo r him. A tense beat. Then: SHUTT (suspicious) You say you were exposed to the v! irus by treating the Tuckman g i rl? (CONTINUED) 21. CAMILLE (wobbly) I think so. Yes. SHUTT You think so. Well, were getting the womans chart. If you were in on the examination, itll be reflected in the notes. Shutt looks at Nyland. Sniffs again. NYLAND (deadpan) Please dont sniff me. CAMILLE (heading this off) Aaron, could I see you in the scrub room, please? SHUTT Certainly. And they exit to the scrub room. GEIGER This could worth the price of the virus right here. (to Nyland) I bet youd like to be a fly on that wall. NYLAND (getting fed up) Your seniority aside, theres only so much disrespect Ill take from you. ATKISSON (the nickel drops for her; to Nyland) You were with her too? NYLAND It doesnt concern you. ATKISSON Before or after me? NYLAND Never mind. (CONTINUED) 22. WATTERS (to Atkisson) Was I before or after him? ATKISSON After but I dont know if I wa! s after her and if I wasnt, t hen it could be her to him to me to you, I dont know where the mouth to mouth comes in, and I heard something about a monkey. THURMOND Im confused. GEIGER (to Thurmond) The monkey wore a condom. NYLAND WATTERS Quiet! Jeffrey!! QUICK CUT TO: INT. SCRUB ROOM - CONTINUO5AA!ddUTT (emotion pervading reason) I am Chief of Neurosurgery, I have a chain of command in this place which is dependent upon maintaining respect from this staff. I cant have that respect undermined by a promiscuous ex-wife whose sexual escapades serve to humiliate me. CAMILLE (fighting against her temper) The only reason I dont take your head off is because those people can see through the glass. SHUTT (from his depths) You want to take my head off, Camille, go ahead. Truth is, theres nothing you can do to me that you havent already done. The blood goes right int If only he cared as much ! about saving his patients as h e does his reputation. THURMOND Say that again and Ill sue you. Nyland holds a look. Then: NYLAND Dr. Watters. Gifted hands, great mentor. But tolerates his-- (indicating Geiger) --childishness and forgives his-- (indicating Thurmond) --waning skills. (more) (CONTINUED) 34. NYLAND (Contd) You send the message that the surgeons come first. WATTERS I have never sent that message. CAare you talking about? (CONTINUED) 23. SHUTT I dont have a problem with you having a social life, but for you to be having one night stands with other surgeons in this hospital-- CAMILLE What about you and Antonovich?! SHUTT Thats a different situation. CAMILLE (seething; fighting an implosion) You tell me how its different. SHUTT (emotion pervading reason) I am Chief of Neurosurgery, I have a chain of command in this place which is dependent upon maintaining respect f! rom this staff. I cant have that respect undermined by a promiscuous ex-wife whose sexual escapades serve to humiliate me. CAMILLE (fighting against her temper) The only reason I dont take your head off is because those people can see through the glass. SHUTT (from his depths) You want to take my head off, Camille, go ahead. Truth is, theres nothing you can do to me that you havent already done. The blood goes right into Camilles face. CAMILLE (with an escalating fury) How dare you throw up such a blatant double standard. Its okay for you to be with somebody else in this hospital but not me. (more) (CONTINUED) divorce, my unhappiness, my feeling trapped in a miserable relationship, all that is a direct reflection on you. Why the hell didnu"1A!dd!d!dhostility. THRUMOND This Nyland fellow slept with them all? GEIGER I believe so, yes. THURMOND And I get sued for asking ! a girl to lunch. PAN to Watte r s in a corner as Atkisson approaches. ATKISSON Im sorry they dont believe what really happened. WATTERS Its not important. ATKISSON Its not my habit to vomit on people and I want you to understand that was a fluke. (CONTINUED) 25. WATTERS (deadpan) Whats done is done. CUT TO: INT. SCRUB ROOM - CONTINUOUS Shutt and Camille, still into it. CAMILLE (hot) Im only at this hospital as your subordinate, is that it, Aaron? SHUTT As my ex-wife no, but as nurse to doctor, yes, youre a subordinate, and-- CAMILLE What?! According to who? SHUTT You wanna try your hand at a craniotomy, see if-- CAMILLE Try a day as a scrub nurse, you think you can do that? SHUTT Yeah. I could. Youre a nurse, Camille. Not a rocket scientist and not a brain surgeon. That really gets her. S he absrobs it. Then: CAMILLE (incredulity and anger) Yknow what, Aaron? I left you! way too early. There is so m uch more to hate about you, I get the feeling I couldve left you for a hundred reasons I havent even discovered yet. SHUTT Well, thats the thing about being a quitter. One reason is enough. (CONTINUED) 26. CAMILLE Is that right? SHUTT (oozing rage) Yeah, thats right. You want to seize on chauvinism now as the issue of the day, go ahead, it really doesnt matter to me. The only thing that matters is you got unhappy, you chose to lay the blMILLE Yes you do, Phillip. It is all about the surgeons in your department, you coddle them. (re Geiger) How on earth could he get away with acting the way he acts without your tacit approval? GEIGER Hey, how is this about me? CAMILLE This is also the most blatantly chauvinistic institution I have ever seen. Its a boys club a nd if a woman surgeon ever makes it here, its only because she acts like one ! of the guys. GEIGER Thats cr a p, name one woman surgeon here who shares that opinion. CAMILLE Karen Antonovich, she-- GEIGER Dead, doesnt count, name a live one. CAMILLE You see that? Look what goes on here. During a bypass, he comes on to Winslow with a toilet fetish! GEIGER (whats the problem?) She accepted. (CONTINUED) 35. CAMILLE In surgery he hits on women with hey, Im prone to sexual harassment, here I come and he gets away with it. Dr. Thurmond fires a nurse then asks her on a date. Hes already being sued. THURMOND I have a motion to dismiss pending. GEIGER What, these women lack the capacity to say yes? Now theres an argument for equality. CAMILLE These women know to get along, you go along, thats-- SHUTT Is that why you ended up with Dr. Nyland? That stops her. A chilling beat, until: GEIGER Interesting query. Id like to hear the response. ! Camille takes a breath, no intenti on of backing down. CAMILLE You want my response, Jeffrey, Ill give it to you. The chauvinism in this hospital is so pervasive, it killed my marriage. I lost my husband to another man. That man is you. GEIGER SHUTT I beg your pardon? What? THURMOND Are they homosexuals, Phillip? Not that they dont have rights. CAMILLE THURMOND Theyre not gay, They throw a lovely Doctor Thurmond, parade. theyre just best friends. (CONTINUED) 36. CAMILLE (continuing) The camraderie of the surgeons, the male bonding, I couldnt compete with it. SHUTT Well, theres and excuse that shatters all records. CAMILLE (to Shutt) Its true. Anything fundamental that happened to you... you couldnt wait to share it with him. Something torturing you, call Jeffrey. I slowly became an accessor y, Aaron, we both know it. Somebody to hand you a scalpel at work and a napkin at! home. SHUTT Once again, C amille, you locate blame in the most convenient places. Maybe I talked to him because you stopped talking to me. CAMILLE Nope. The world of the surgeon. Its a place... With every day you lived within these walls... this veil went up... and after a while I just couldnt pierce it anymore. I couldnt reach you as my husband, I promise it was you not me, cause you dont know how I cried over it. And I see you with him, the way you laugh and... share... I lost youo Camilles face. CAMILLE (with an escalating fury) How dare you throw up such a blatant double standard. Its okay for you to be with somebody else in this hospital but not me. (more) (CONTINUED) 24. CAMILLE (Contd) Why, because what I do is necessarily a reflection on you, Im your property, let me tell you, Aaron, the only thing Ive done which is a direct reflection on you is when I wal! ked out the door. The divorce , my unhappiness, my feeling trapped in a miserable relationship, all that is a direct reflection on you. Why the hell didnt that humiliate you? You selfish sonofabitch, I cannot believe you just said what you said to me. INT. O.R. #1 - CONTINUOUS Geiger and Thurmond are watching them through the glass. GEIGER That is not friendly body language. See those little specks of spit coming out of her mouth, thats hostility. THURMOND This Nyland fellow slept with them all? GEIGER I believe so, yes. THURMOND And I get sued for asking a girl to lunch. PAN to Watters in a corner as Atkisson approaches. ATKISSON Im sorry they dont believe what really happened. WATTERS Its not important. ATKISSON Its not my habit to vomit on people and I want you to understand that was a fluke. (CON TINUED) 25. WATTERS (deadpan) Whats done is done. CUT TO: INT. SCRU! B ROOM - CONTINUOUS Shutt and Cam i lle, still into it. CAMILLE (hot) Im only at this hospital as your subordinate, is that it, Aaron? SHUTT As my ex-wife no, but as nurse to doctor, yes, youre a subordinate, and-- CAMILLE What?! According to who? SHUTT You wanna try your hand at a craniotomy, see if-- CAMILLE Try a day as a scrub nurse, you think you can do that? SHUTT Yeah. I could. Youre a nurse, Camille. Not a rocket scientist and not a brain surgeon. That really gets her. She absorbs it. Then: CAMILLE (incredulity and anger) Yknow what, Aaron? I left you way too early. There is so much more to hate about you, I get the feeling I couldve left you for a hundred reasons I havent even discovered yet. SHUTT Well, thats the thing about being a quitter. One reason is enough. (CONTINUED) 26. CAMILLE Is that right? SHUTT (oozing rage) Yeah, thats right. You want to seize on ! chauvinism now as the issue o f the day, go ahead, it really doesnt matter to me. The only thing that matters is you got unhappy, you chose to lay the blame for it on our relationship and you checked out. Did you fight for us, Camille, did you think about therapy, or trying to communicate? No, you-- CAMILLE I have to get scheduled for your procedures just to talk to you, dont-- SHUTT Thats a lie! We laid in bed together every goddamn night, if you were upset enough to toss and turn, whkes to score points for treating the personel well, this is by necessity a cruel place. We bust your ass to make you a better doctor, and you know what, you might one day be the best doctor, it doesnt change anything. Cause as soon as youre not, this place will be just as cruel all over again, you dont believe that-- (poin ting to Thurmond) --ask him. You want to be treated nice, go work at WalMart. (to! Camille) And you. Blaming th i s hospital for killing your marriage, blaming me. Grow the hell up. As cruel as this institution is, marriage is a much tougher one. It takes work, a lot of work, lady, and even if you work as hard as you can every damn day thats still no guarantee that your spouse wont snap and drown your child anyway. Bottom line, he loves you more than life. Trust me on that. Maybe that isnt enough to make it work but it should be enough to prevent you from walking out to him. (struggling; to Geiger) All this anger Ive had at you. The truth is I probably owe you an apology. Much of my disgust you deserve, your behavior is usually repulsive. But a lot of my anger... (weakly) Im jealous. I wish he loved me like he loves you. And Im jealous. (CONTINUED) 37. A beat. That w as quite an admission. The room is silent. Then: THURMOND (quietly) You lost your hu! sband to this hospital, young lady. He lost himself. And Shutt looks at Thurmond. THURMOND (Shutt) You play God on a daily basis long enough... you forget how to be human. (a beat) Lets face it, how many surgeons are any different? Oh, we roll out the bedside manner with patients... but we have our hands in peoples insides every day, holding organs... to survive we have to think of ourselves as Godlike, if we admit were fallible, were lost. (beat; to Camille) This man can make the dead come back to life. Its miraculous. But it robs him too. The smell of a flower... wheres the wonder in that? Hold a brain in your hand, the smile of a child simply pales. A beat. What a horrible reality. They all stare at him with private horror. But theyre riveted. THURMOND Ive saved over a thousand people. People living today only because of me. I have three friends, if Im lucky. Dont know my grandk! ids. Never knew my own childr e n. (another beat; to Camille) Hes got no choice, young lady No choice. (CONTINUED)  end up like you. That stings Thurmond. He stares back. CAMILLE Youre forty years old, Aaron. You dont even have a wife, never mind kids. Youll probably never have a family, youll never take the time. A beat. ItO; ediA!dA!dA!d really feels like my turn. WATTERS Go. GEIGER Thank you. First, let me say how sorry I am for you people. What with the homeless and the stuff happening in Bosnia and even the patients I see everyday, many of them dying, I lost sight of the true victims in society, which happen to be you. Starting with the unfortunate Doctor Nyland. Yale-bred, silver-spoon stuffed deep into his esophagus, he now has to treat sick people while the people here arent nice to him. I should say the senior surgeons arent nice, the nurses s! eem to be extremely supportive. N YLAND This is exactly what Im talking about. (CONTINUED) 39. GEIGER Problem is, Im talikng now. This is a hospital, not a lodge. Its not a company that liA,8+Quarantine Written by: David E. Kelley Story #4324 October 6, 1994 October 12, 1994 BLUE October 14, 1994 PINK CHICAGO HOPE The Quarantine CAST LIST DR. JEFFREY GEIGER DR. AARON SHUTT DR. ARTHUR THRUMOND CAMILLE SHUTT DR. PHILLIP WATTERS ALAN BIRCH Dr. Daniel Nyland Nurse Maggie Atkisson Reporter #1 Omitted: Leigh Chang ! CHICAGO HOPE The Quaran t ine SET LIST INTERIORS CHICAGO HOPE HOSPITAL O.R. #1 CORRIDOR SCRUB ROOM WATTERS OFFICE OMITTED: O.R. #2 CHICAGO HOPE The Quarantine ACT ONE FADE IN: INT. O.R. #1 - DAY 1 An anxious DR. DANIEL NYLAND paces alone before GEIGER charges in. Seeing nobody but Nyland: GEIGER Whats going on? I get paged to O.R. one, wheres the emergency? NYLAND Its not an emergency, Im sure its nothing to worry about but-- GEIGER What? NYLAND Georgeann Tuckman. I called you in on a consult, remember, myocarditis-- GEIGER I remember, so? NYLAND And the maybe we thought the flu. GEIGER I didnt think the flu, I thought it was some kind of virus she probably snagged at the CDC. NYLAND Yeah, well you wer! e right, more right than you want to be, she was just diagnosed in Seattle. Ebola Virus. Geiger freezes. Just stares back in horror a beat. GEIGER (deep concern) How contagious? CHICAGO HOPE, The Quarantine Rev. 10/12/94 2. NYLAND She was in day four when she was here. GEIGER My God. We touched her. NYLAND I know. Thats why I ran here and paged you. If we were exposed, we need to be quarantined, this was the closest empty room I could get to. GEIGER (alarm in his voice) She was exposed in Atlanta? NYLAND Two days ago. Itll be one or two days before we know whether we were exposed. GEIGER (wheels spinning) Day four, our hands were in her mouth! -- NYLAND With gloves. Its ai r borne too-- GEIGER She was breathing right in  OFFICE - NIGHT Birch, holding court in front of a throng of Press. BIRCH (brightly; crisply) One more day. This time tomorrow night, we may be able to lift the quarantine. REPORTER #1 Whats been going on down there? BIRCH Oh, its pretty uneventful. Theyre cooped up, theyre bored. A lot of card-laying, some scrabble. REPORTER #1 Not even any cabin fever? BIRCH These are seasoned professionals, well-versed in crisis. Theyre handling this with the !stemic to Chicago Hope. That hasnt changed with me in charge. Cool and calm. Im in charge. CUT TO: CLOSE ON THURMOND Hes waking up. Looking around, confused. We hear Silent Night being played on a piano/ (CONTINUED) 55. WATTERS (O.S.) Right here, Arthur. Im right here. REVEAL I NT. O.R. #1 - NIGHT Thurmond is regaining conscioustCty UYe ZUXS  ~"]%O'o)-,o/s3a6:/<>U@CC=FeHaK\NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP,AAAAAAAAA : P,AAAAAAAAA o P : P,AAAAAAAAARO o P : P,AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP,AAAAAAAAA : P,AAAAAAAAA o P : P,AAAAAAAAARO o P : P,AAAAAAAAAugh, can you give us the number? THURMOND I told you already. Thremy indeed be a little insane but the brilliance of it is inescapable, so is the humanity. PAN TO Shutt and Camille, side by side, together again. Then PAN TO the corner where Geiger softly plays piano. Still alone. After the surgery, post heroics... he always ends up alone. Off him, in the corner playing, staring blankly, we: FADE TO: THE END stventilatingBPArthurburiedwells h9A!ddto our co-workers for forty years and never know them. We come to this place and see each other raw every day, out guts are hanging out b! ut thats not misery, that mak es us lucky. (more) (CONTINUED) 40. GEIGER (Contd) I dont give a damn how much tumult and antagonism there is, thats life, were deep into it every day and I feel lucky to be here. im not buying into any of your despair. Go see whats out there, talk to your patients. See what real people are up against. Then complain. Bunch of spoiled babies, every one of you. A beat. That cowed them. Finally: T9A!d6ain I apoligize, but who is it here youve slept with? She holds another look of disbelief. Then: ATKISSON What if I said it was you? Would you know differently? Thurmond holds a hard concerned look. Then: (CONTINUED) 30. THURMOND Its a trick. (to Watters) Trick question, Phillip. Shes a trickster. (to Atkisson) Im Doctor Arthur Thurmond. Dont ever try to trick me. Im Doctor Arhtur Thurmond. ATKISSON (incredulous) Where the hell am I! ? Two weeks ago I get in trou b le cause I didnt kill his patient fast enough. Now I could have a fatal disease and Im locked in a room with the people who represent the nerve center of the whole hospital, and youre nuts. Youre all nuts. And suddenly theres a hard rapping on the glass. They turn to see: BIRCH (in bubble suit) Good News!! Ive got the piano! And I fixed my helmet. Off the inmates, then Atkisson, we: FADE TO: END ACT TWO P!ddntil/ I think you have the time to spend an evening with me./ And if we go someplace to dance I know that theres a chance you wont be leaving with me. PAN TO Watters, staring at the above with slight contempt that only this type of corny song can evoke. As they continue to sing, we PAN TO the doorway area, where the others are receiving the tree. SHUTT That a real tree? NYLAND Feels real. THURMOND (to Shutt) Maybe you should smell it. SHUTT Was ! I talking to you? BIRCH (half in the room) Good news from the lab. All the blood tested negative. Theyd like some specimens, though. WATTERS (pushing him out) You shouldnt be in the room, Alan. BIRCH Im in my bubble. WATTERS Out. (CONTINUED) 32. And Watters closes the door. WATTERS Stop the piano, please. Geiger stops playing. WATTERS Maybe we should send for Ray Kadalski. I know that the fear of death can make people agitated, and the way weve been acting, perhaps-- NYLAND It has nothing to do with fear or death, sir. In this environment, fear of living could be more stressful. GEIGER What a profound thought. It should come with bubble gum. dRODUCER: JAMES C. HART DIRECTOR: THOMAS SCHLAMME CHICAGO HOPE The Quarantine Written by: David E. Kelley ! Story #4324 October 6, 1994 October 12, 1994 BLUE October 14, 1994 PINK CHICAGO HOPE The Quarantine CAST LIST DR. JEFFREY GEIGER DR. AARON SHUTT DR. ARTHUR THURMOND CAMILLE SHUTT DR. PHILLIP WATTERS ALAN BIRCH Dr. Daniel Nyland Nurse Maggie Atkisson Reporter #1 Omitted: Leigh Chang CHICAGO HOPE The Quarantine SET LIST INTERIORS CHICAGO HOPE HOSPITAL O.R. #1 CORRIDOR SCRUB ROOM WATTERS OFFICE OMITTED: O.R. #2 CHICAGO HOPE The Quarantine ACT ONE FADE IN: INT. O.R. #1 - DAY ! 1 An anxious DR. DANIEL NYLAND paces alone before GEIGER charges in. Seeing nobody but Nyland: GEIGER Whats going on? I get paged to O.R. one, wheres the emergency? NYLAND Its not an emergency, Im sure its nothing to worry about but-- GEIGER What? NYLAND Georgeann Tuckman. I called you in on a consult, remember, myocarditis-- GEIGER I remember, so? NYLAND And the maybe we thought the flu. GEIGER I didnt think the flu, I thought it was some kind of virus she probably snagged at the CDC. NYLAND Yeah, well you were right, more right than you want to be, she was just diagnosed in Seattle. Ebola Virus. Geiger freezes. Just sta res back in horror a beat. GEIGER ! (deep concern) How co n tagious? CHICAGO HOPE, The Quarantine Rev. 10/12/94 2. NYLAND She was in day four when she was here. GEIGER My God. We touched her. NYLAND I know. Thats why I ran here and paged you. If we were exposed, we need to be quarantined, this was the closest empty room I could get to. GEIGER (alarm in his voice) She was exposed in Atlanta? NYLAND Two days ago. Itll be one or two days before we know whether we were exposed. GEIGER (wheels spinning) Day four, our hands were in her mouth-- NYLAND With gloves. Its airborne too-- GEIGER She was breathing right in our faces. (then) Who else examined her? NYLAND Just the paramedics, theyre quarantined over at Cook County. GEIGER All right. (a beat; taking charge) First off, this room is officially sealed, you and I are gonna spend some time together. You play cribbage?! NYLAND Whats the progression? (CONTINUED) CHICAGO HOPE, The Quarantine Rev. 10/12/94 3. CONTINUED: (2) GEIGER Not god. Seventy percent fatal. Incurable Nyland stares back, trying to mask his fear. Then. NYLAND (covering) Im sure. . . Im sure we didnt contract it. GEIGER Im sure youre right. But their tone speaks louder than their words. Then: NYLAND (weakly) Oh God. Off their anxiety, then fear, we: SMASH CUT TO: MAIN TITLES INT. O.R. #1 - DAY Geiger stands at the glass, WATTERS is on the outside in a space suit, looking in. Theyre both on portable phones, talking to each other. Officials from the C! DC are sealing off the entire corr i dor area. WATTERS Im back on the phone with Atlanta in twenty minutes, weve also set up a command post in our lab. Meantime, I dont want you leaving this area. GEIGER Dont worry. Do me a favor, when you talk to CDC, find out if they got any plasma from survivors, in case we need transfusions. WATTERS Thats premature. (CONTINUED) 4. GEIGER Just ask the question, also find out the efficacy of IV interferon, I read once where it was tried. And get me a cribbage board. WATTERS (re Nyland) He okay? GEIGER Hell live. Maybe. WATTERS Ill be back. Watters moves off. Geiger heads back to Nyland, under: GEIGER Okay, first the bad news. We got ourselves a beauty, this virus wiped out entire tribes in Zaire and Sudan. It probably came into the U.S. through a monkey, mayb e this is my payback for killing the baboon. NYLAND Gimme the good news. GEIGER The ! woman was here on day seven, not day four, that makes her less contagious. Also, the virus does not spread easily, the odds we got it are low. NYLAND How long before we know for sure? GEIGER Coupla days. Were gonna do our our blood work, its too risky to bring in another doctor. You married? NYLAND No. GEIGER Figures. Girlfriend, anybody youve been sharing intimate breathing space with, if so-- (CONTINUED) 5. NYLAND Oh no. GEIGER Yeah. (extending portable phone) Make the call. Man or woman? Nyland takes the phone. Punches some numbers, as we: CUT TO: INT. CORRIDOR - DAY Two Orderlies in space suits quickly whisk an ashen CAMILLE down the hall. She obviously just got the news. CUT TO: INT. O.R. #1 - DAY The door opens and the astronaut Orderlies shove Camille in and close the door. Geiger is both shocked and privately amused to see Camille. CAMILL E (to Nyland) What have you given me? GEIGER (to Camille) You slut. Camille shoots Gei! ger a quick look; then: CAMILLE ( t o Nyland) What have you given me? NYLAND Ive been exposed to a virus. CAMILLE (to Nyland) We used a condom for Gods sake, two of them. NYLAND Its airborne, the kissing is just as dangerous. (CONTINUED) 6. GEIGER Maybe you didnt kiss, did you pause to kiss? CAMILLE (fighting off panic) Please dont make jokes, Id appreciate you not making jokes. (then) They told me it could be fatal. GEIGER (sympathetic) Camille this is just a precaution. But as a precaution-- CAMILLE Look. Can we just say. . . (to Nyland) I really dont want it put out there that you and I were, yknow... out of sensitivity to Aaron-- GEIGER He knows. CAMILLE He doesnt know it was him. He knows I had sex but not with who. GEIGER So whats the difference? CAMILLE Itll make a difference. NYLAND Look, lets just say you were in on the examination o f the Tuckman woman and you were exposed that way. Theres no need to add to the drama! here. CAMILLE Can we do that, J effrey? (then) Please. GEIGER Sure. (CONTINUED) 7. Upon which the doors open. The astronauts shove in NURSE MAGGIE ATKISSON. She just glares daggers at Nyland. ATKISSON (to Nyland) What have you given me? NYLAND (weakly; to Atkisson) Ive been exposed to a virus. A beat. CAMILLE (to Nyland) You pig. GEIGER Busy pig. ATKISSON What have I got? Nyland ushers Atkisson to the sides, Geiger follows. NYLAND Hopefully, nothing. But I need to be quarantined. Which unfortunately includes the people Ive been with. GEIGER Do we need a bigger room? NYLAND (on edge; to Geiger) Could you be someplace else? GEIGER Its just that I need to order food. Should I be expecting more? NYLAND Not from me. They look at Camille. GEIGER Camille? (CONTINUED) 8. CAMILLE (awkward) Uh......well....... CUT TO: INT. CORRIDOR - DAY The Spacemen are ushering SHUTT. Watters is also in a spacesuit, walking alongside. They walk quickly. SHUTT (agitated) ! I dont believe this. WATTERS J u st a precaution. I thought you and Camille were apart. SHUTT We are, we kissed after Rabbi Taublers funeral. This virus is not spread casually, Phillip, you dont need to be wearing that stupid suit. WATTERS Id rather be safe, thank you. This disease also happens to be more dangerous than AIDS. SHUTT Well, that cheers me up. Upon which BIRCH, in space suit stops Watters. Shutt continues on. BIRCH Phillip, I wanna be heard. WATTERS (not now) Yes, Alan. As he speaks, his bubble helmet progressively fogs. (CONTINUED) 9. BIRCH Anybody exposed should also be immediately put in a suit for transport, this disease is airborne, Id like an outfit put on Doctor Shutt immediately and why is my helmet fogging up, theyve given me defective equipment. By now we cant see his face. WATTERS (appeasing) Well get the suits on everybody. BIRCH Your helmet doesnt fog. Are you breathing through your nose? Watters continues on, STAY ON Watters! as we hear Birch in the b.g. BIR CH (O.S.) Phillip. Im blinded, Phillip? Hello? This is unacceptable. Phillip? Off this, we: CUT TO: INT. O.R. #1 - DAY Geiger, Camille, Nyland, and Atkisson. CAMILLE Are we going to die? GEIGER Nobodys dying. ATKISSON I heard it could be spread with a sneeze, that it came from a monkey-- (to Nyland) --tell me you didnt have sex with a monkey. CAMILLE He didnt have time. (CONTINUED) 10. NYLAND ATKISSON Please. What? SHUTT (entering) Where did you get it, Camille? CAMILLE Aaron. SHUTT Never mind, Aaron, theyre saying we have to be isolated for two full days. GEIGER Look-- ATKISSON (deep fear) I feel nauseous. I could throw up. We are going to die, I just took this job, Im exposed to a deadly virus-- NYLAND (going to her) Hey. . . CAMILLE (sharp; to Nyland) Dont you touch her, youve done quite enough. SHUT T NYLAND (to Geiger; re Nyland) (to Camille) He gave! it to her? Whats that supposed to mean? GEIGER (taking control) Hey. Everybody. As of yet nobody has manifested any symptoms, the likelihood is were all completely safe. Well do some lab work, remain isolated, in a few days itll be behind us. In the meantime, nothing is served by panic. (more) (CONTINUED) 11. GEIGER (contd) Everybody should call the people that need to be called, if you havent already done so. ANGLE ATKISSON. Theres somebody else. GEIGER Otherwise, lets sit back and stay calm. Everybody stay calm. Upon which another Astronaut Orderly ushers in another MAN in a space suit. MAN Im a dead man. Dead. And the man takes off his helmet. Its THURMOND. SHUTT (to Atkisson) You gotta be kidding. ATKISSON Dont look at me. GEIGER (to Nyland) You little brown nose. NYLAND I didnt touch him. Thurmond then looks at Camille and all eyes then pounces on her. CAMILLE Uh... Its not what you think. THURMOND (nervous; hiding! something) We share a stick of l icorice. Red. The chewy kind. A beat. Everybody in the room knows thats a lie. SHUTT (contained shock) Were you two... together? GEIGER I cant picture that. Which is a blessing, I get vasovagal. (CONTINUED) SHUTT CAMILLE Quiet! Jeffrey! A beat. Shutt takes a step towards Camille. SHUTT I want to hear this. CAMILLE We werent together. THURMOND (defensive; hiding something) Licorice. Red. GEIGER Chewy. THURMOND CAMILLE SHUTT Be quiet. Stop it. Jeffrey. A beat as they hold an accusing stare. Then: CAMILLE I have to tell, Arthur. Like you said, it was nothing, so-- THURMOND (pointing to Geiger) Hell make it something. CAMILLE No, he wont. (then; to the others) Dr. Thurmond passed out last week in the research lab. I thought he stopped breathing and-- THURMOND Which I didn t. I just fainted, it was hypotension, thats all. Nothing more. CAMILLE I t! hought he wasnt breathing and I started giving him mouth-to-mouth. Thats why I thought maybe if I got the virus, maybe I exposed him. (CONTINUED) 13. GEIGER Youre having fainting spells and youre going into the O.R.? THURMOND You see? Hes making it into something. GEIGER Damn right I am, what if you go face first into somebodys intestine-- (wheeling on Camille) --and how the hell can you stay silent, his episodes could cause a patient to die. CAMILLE I stayed silent because he said this was one isolated incident and I knew youd be quick to try and take away his scalpel. GEIGER (to Thurmond) How long have you been having these blackouts? GEIGER THURMOND And how dare you It was just one and put your patients I never stopped breathing, at risk, what other she was mistaken, dont symptoms have yo u be making a mountain out been suffering? of this. And now they all start to argue! , including but not limited to: S HUTT CAMILLE GEIGER We really dont (to Nyland) (to Thurmond) need you two How many more You have no yapping at people did you right to exalt each other, expose, Danny, your job this is a maybe you should insecurity over bad situation-- make a conference the interests call. of the people you operate on. Suddenly the door opens and the Astronauts usher in yet another Astronaut whos deposited there. They all stare at him. After a long beat, the man takes off the helmet. Its Watters. Another beat of disbelief. (CONTINUED) 14. GEIGER Am I the only one in this hospital not having sex? Shutt look at Camille, whos offended by the silent accusation. CAMILLE Hey. The Shutt looks at Atkisson. A beat. She turns into the corner. The eyes all go back to Watters. THURMOND Did you concubine with that nurse, Phillip? Watters looks at her. CAMILLE (to Watters) Shes been working here les! s than a month. Youre Chief o f Staff, what in Gods name were you thinking? WATTERS How I was exposed is none of your concern. ATKISSON He and I were not together. We... (to Watters) God, its so embarrassing, can you tell him? WATTERS (deadpan) Certainly. After the morphine episode with Doctor Antonovich, Nurse Atkisson became nauseated and light-headed. As I went to steady her, she had occasion to vomit, unfortunately on me. It got on my hands, thereby creating the risk of exposure. A beat of dead silence. Then: THURMOND Who do you think youre kidding? Off Watters, we: (CONTINUED) 15. INT. WATTERS OFFICE - DAY Birch is there before a full throng of Press, Alexander Haiging it. BIRCH I am in charge. I am in complete charge. REPORTER #1 How many doctors have been infected, and how did the transmissi on occur? BIRCH No known infections, this is simply a precautions quarantine. ! Chief of Staff, Phillip Watters is included, thereby chain of command, according to hospital bylaws, passes to house Counsel. Chicago Hope continues to be open charge. Not to worry. Not to worry at all. As they bellow more questions, we: CUT TO: CLOSE ON WATTERS WATTERS Why are we not wearing pants? REVEAL INT. O.R. #1 - DAY Thurmond has no pants, just boxer shorts. He stands before Watters. The rest are pacing about, its already becoming HURMOND I think what could be upsetting us... (then) ...somebody in this room is flatulent and its been chronic. Geiger leans over him. GEIGER Dont make me hide your teeth. NYLAND You know that was a very impressive speech, Doctor Geiger. Could almost make us lose sight of the real truth that you cause most of the antagonism here and it doesnt make us feel lucky at all. I have no do ubt you feel good about yourself, thats pretty obvious. That doesnt change the ! fact that youre the most hate d surgeon in this joint and some of us other doctors have to pick up the people you leave in pieces. That really hurts Geiger but he tries not to show it. A beat. Then: GEIGER (covering his hurt) Is that what you do with the nurses, damage-control? NYLAND Hey, if theyre coming to me, dont you wonder why? (CONTINUED) 41. /zaK-Bie wouldnt be needing me. And Shutt swings and connects, landing flush on Nylands nose, dropping him. CAMILLE WATTERS GEIGER Aaron! Hey!! Aaron. Nylands nose is bleeding. CAMILLE THURMOND (to Shutt) One punch. What the hell is wrong with you? WATTERS Help him up. THURMOND (re Nyland) I think he has the virus, Phillip. Look, nosebleed. WATTERS Shut up, Arthur! (to Shutt) You listen to me-- SHUTT (escalating) No, I wont li sten to you, Phillip. Im tired of you jumping in as referee, trying to legislate! everything, I dont listen to you and you know why? Youre not a real person. (CONTINUED) 42. GEIGER (quickly) Aaron. SHUTT You shut up, too! (back to Watters) You slide around on this even keel, so unflappable, so poised, always ready to steady somebody when they faly not talk? CAMILLE You always wanted to sleep and-- SHUTT I was happy, dammit! When youre tired and happy, you sleep. You were unhappy, and you let it faster! CAMILLE Why couldnt you see, I was unhappy? Why couldnt you figure out that your neglect made me unhappy? Maybe I let it die, Aaron, maybe I didnt fight hard enough, but you let it die too. SHUTT I loved you! CAMILLE And you still did nothing! So what did I have to look forward yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy"ontd) We stopped talking, we stopped t ouching each other, we had nothing in common but a joint checking account, and thi! s was you loving me! Shutt tu r ns away to see Thurmond right at the glass, watching the foregoing. Shutt bangs on the glass, under: SHUTT Dont you have something else to do?! THURMOND No. And Shutt then storms into: INT. O.R. #1 - CONTINUOUS SHUTT This is not a sideshow for your benefit! GEIGER THURMOND All right, Aaron. of course it is. THURMOND This whole thing is a circus, started by Mr. Penishead over there. WATTERS SHUTT NYLAND All right. I dont Hey, you know what! think Im sick and tired of youre being pimped by everyone funny. here for no other reason than being young. SHUTT THURMOND (to Nyland) You think its You give new meaning tough being to the word pimp. young, try getting old. WATTERS Everybody, quiet! NYLAND (re Nyland) Get him out of here! (CONTINUED) 28. GEIGER (ushering) All right, Aaron, come on. SHUTT (pointing his finger at! Geiger) Hey! Take your hands off me, Jeffrey, youre not the only person here licensed to be nuts. Just keep your hands off me. GEIGER All right. All right. THURMOND (to Geiger) His finger was right there. (why waste an opportunity?) You couldve bitten him. SHUTT (to Thurmond) Why dont you go in the corner and faint? THURMOND GEIGER (to Watters) (to Camille) This is a horrible What were you saying Christmas. to him? CAMILLE (escalating frustration) Its none of your business, Jeffrey, its always been none of your business. CAMILLE GEIGER When will that If it affects ever sink in, this hospital, then whats between it becomes my business Aaron-- because the patients-- CAMILLE (erupting) Enough with the good of this damn hospital!! I am sick of this hospital!! THURMOND (simply) Shes got the viru s. (CONTINUED) 29. CAMILLE Shut up!! THURMOND You see? SHUTT (to Geiger! ) Lay off my wife, would you? GEIGER Shes not your wife-- SHUTT GEIGER Ive told you to Shes your significant stay the hell out ex-other, if she were of this and I mean a real wife, shed be it, Jeffrey, dont-- creaming you for alimony. ATKISSON Hey!! Listen to you people. Youre all nuts. I come to work at Chicago Hope... this is supposed to be this great place and... youre all completely crazy. A beat. Thurmond takes a step towards her. THURMOND (gently) Young lady. Im sorry, your name again is? ATKISSON Maggie Atkisson. THURMOND Yes. (an honest question) And again I apologize, but who is it here youve slept with? She holds another look of disbelief. Then: ATKISSON What if I said it was you? Would you know differently? Thurmond holds a hard concerned look. Then: (CONTINUED) 30. THURMOND Its a trick. (to Watters) Trick question, Phillip. Shes a trickster. (to Atk! isson) Im Doctor Arthur Thurm ond. Dont ever try to trick me. Im Doctor Arthur Thurmond. ATKISSON (incredulous) Where the hell am I? Two weeks ago I get in trouble cause I didnt kill his patient fast enough. Now I could have a fatal disease and Im locked in a room with the people who represent the nerve center of the whole hospital, and youre nuts. Youre all nuts. And suddenly theres a hard rapping on the glass. They turn to see: BIRCH (in bubble suit) Good News!! Ive got the piano! And I fixed my helmet. Off the inmates, then Atkisson, we: FADE TO: END ACT TWO ACT THREE 31. FADE IN: INT. O.R. #1 - NIGHT The tension has only increased. The Astronauts are pushing a Christmas tree into the r oom ON THE CUT. Birch is helping. Geiger and Atkisson are at the piano in the corner, sof! tly singing, Something stupid. G EIGER/ATKISSON (duet) I know I stand in line until/ I think you have the time to spend an evening with me./ And if we go someplace to dance I know that theres a chance you wont be leaving with me. PAN TO Watters, staring at the above with slight contempt that only this type of corny song can evoke. As they continue to sing, we PAN TO the doorway area, where the others are receiving the tree. SHUTT That a real tree? NYLAND Feels real. THURMOND (to Shutt) Maybe you should smell it. SHUTT Was I talking to you? BIRCH (half in the room) Good news from the lab. All the blood tested negative. Theyd like some specimens, though. WATTERS (pushing him out) You shouldnt be in the room, Alan. BIRCH Im in my bubble. WATTERS Out. (CONTINUED) 32. And Watters closes the door. WATTERS Stop the piano, pl ease. Geiger stops playing. WATTERS Maybe we should send for Ray Kadalski. I kn! ow that the fear of death can make people agitated, and the way weve been acting, perhaps-- NYLAND It has nothing to do with fear or death, sir. In this environment, fear of living could be more stressful. GEIGER What a profound thought. It should come with bubble gum. NYLAND Go to hell. (off Geigers look) Maybe that came out of fear of death. GEIGER Fear of getting fired should be more of a concern. WATTERS All right, thats enough. Obviously this little group has a few demons to exorcise. Maybe theres an odd blessing to this quarantine, I dont know. But since were stuck here together lets put this to some therapeutic purpose. THURMOND Now I want to puke. WATTERS (strict) This is an order from your Chief of Staff. (more) (CONTINUED) 33. WATTERS (Contd) Everybodys got immunity in her e, no threat of retaliation. You got stuff you want to say, say it now. Mr. ! Nyland, since you seem to be p a rticularly motivated, you start. NYLAND First off, I dont believe for a second the part about no retaliation. (re Geiger) He likes to grind my stones for sport, God help me if I should antagonize him. GEIGER Well then,dA!dd,legend. If only he cared as much about saving his patients as he does his reputation. THURMOND Say that again and Ill sue you. Nyland holds a look. Then: NYLAND Dr. Watters. Gifted hands, great mentor. But tolerates his-- (indicating Geiger) --childishness and forgives his-- (indicating Thurmond) --waning skills. (more) (CONTINUED) 34. NYLAND (Contd) You send the message that the surgeons come first. WATTERS I have never sent that message. CAMILLE Yes you do, Phillip. It is all about the surgeons in your department, you coddle them. (re Gei ger) How on earth could he get away with acting the way he acts without your t! acit approval? GEIGER Hey, ho w is this about me? CAMILLE This is also the most blatantly chauvinistic institution I have ever seen. Its a boys club and if a woman surgeon ever makes it here, its only because she acts like one of the guys. GEIGER Thats crap, name one woman surgeon here who shares that opinion. CAMILLE Karen Antonovich, she-- GEIGER Dead, doesnt count, name a live one. CAMILLE You see that? Look what goes on here. During a bypass, he comes on to Winslow with a toilet fetish! GEIGER (whats the problem?) She accepted. (CONTINUED) 35. CAMILLE In surgery he hits on women with hey, Im prone to sexual harassment, here I come and he gets away with it. Dr. Thurmond fires a nurse then asks her on a date. Hes already being sued. THURMOND I have a motion to dismiss pendi ng. GEIGER What, these women lack the capacity to say yes? Now theres an ! argument for equality. CAMILLE These women know to get along, you go along, thats-- SHUTT Is that why you ended up with Dr. Nyland? That stops her. A chilling beat, until: GEIGER Interesting query. Id like to hear the response. Camille takes a breath, no intention of backing down. CAMILLE You want my response, Jeffrey, Ill give it to you. The chauvinism in this hospital is so pervasive, it killed my marriage. I lost my husband to another man. That man is you. GEIGER SHUTT I beg your pardon? What? THURMOND Are they homosexuals, Phillip? Not that they dont have rights. CAMILLE THURMOND Theyre not gay, They throw a lovely Doctor Thurmond, parade. theyre just best friends. (CONTINUED) 36. CAMILLE (continuing) The camraderie of the surgeons, the male bonding, I couldnt compete with it. SHUTT Well, theres and excuse that shatters all records. CAMILLE (to Shutt) Its true. Any! thing fundamental that happene d to you... you couldnt wait to share it with him. Something torturing you, call Jeffrey. I slowly became an accessory, Aaron, we both know it. Somebody to hand you a scalpel at work and a napkin at home. SHUTT Once again, Camille, you locate blame in the most convenient places. Maybe I talked to him because you stopped talking to me. CAMILLE Nope. The world of the surgeon. Its a place... With every day you lived within these walls... this veil went up... and after a while I just couldnt pierce it anymore. I couldnt reach you as my husband, I promise it was you not me, cause you dont know how I cried over it. And I see you with him, the way you laugh and... share... I lost you to him. (struggling; to Geiger) All this anger Ive had at you. The truth is I probably owe you an apology. Much of my disgust you deserve, your behavior is usually repulsive.! But a lot of my anger... (we a kly) Im jealous. I wish he loved me like he loves you. And Im jealous. (CONTINUED) 37. A beat. That was quite an admission. The room is silent. Then: THURMOND (quietly) You lost your husband to this hospital, young lady. He lost himself. And Shutt looks at Thurmond. THURMOND (Shutt) You play God on a daily basis long enough... you forget how to be human. (a beat) Lets face it, how many surgeons are any different? Oh, we roll out the bedside manner with patients... but we have our hands in peoples insides every day, holding organs... to survive we have to think of ourselves as Godlike, if we admit were fallible, were lost. (beat; to Camille) This man can make the dead come back to life. Its miraculous. But it robs him too. The smell of a flower... wheres the wonder in that? Hold a brain in your hand, the smile of a child simply pales. A bea! t. What a horrible reality. They all stare at him with private horror. But theyre riveted. THURMOND Ive saved over a thousand people. People living today only because of me. I have three friends, if Im lucky. Dont know my grandkids. Never knew my own children. (another beat; to Camille) Hes got no choice, young lady No choice. (CONTINUED) 38. SHUTT (quietly) I dont believe that. I cant believe that. I wont end up not knowing my kids. I wont end up like you. That stings Thurmond. He stares back. CAMILLE Youre forty years old, Aaron. You dont even have a wife, never mind kids. Youll probably never have a family, youll never take the time. A beat. Its true for all of them. ATKISSON Why is it I feel... I dunno, being quarantined with a fatal disease should somehow be more fun. GEIGER All rig ht, is it my turn to speak, it really feels like my turn. WATTERS Go. GEIGER ! Thank you. First, let me say how sorry I am for you people. What with the homeless and the stuff happening in Bosnia and even the patients I see everyday, many of them dying, I lost sight of the true victims in society, which happen to be you. Starting with the unfortunate Doctor Nyland. Yale-bred, silver-spoon stuffed deep into his esophagus, he now has to treat sick people while the people here arent nice to him. I should say the senior surgeons arent nice, the nurses seem to be extremely supportive. NYLAND This is exactly what Im talking about. (CONTINUED) 39. GEIGER Problem is, Im talikng now. This is a hospital, not a lodge. Its not a company that likes to score points for treating the personel well, this is by necessity a cruel place. We bust your ass to make you a better doctor, and you kno w what, you might one day be the best doctor, it doesnt change anything. Ca! use as soon as youre not, thi s place will be just as cruel all over again, you dont believe that-- (pointing to Thurmond) --ask him. You want to be treated nice, go work at WalMart. (to Camille) And you. Blaming this hospital for killing your marriage, blaming me. Grow the hell up. As cruel as this institution is, marriage is a much tougher one. It takes work, a lot of work, lady, and even if you work as hard as you can every damn day thats still no guarantee that your spouse wont snap and drown your child anyway. Bottom line, he loves you more than life. Trust me on that. Maybe that isnt enough to make it work but it should be enough to prevent you from walking out the door. And I will not apologize for me loving him. Or him loving me. Its probably my deepest joy. (a beat; to Shutt) And you. As much as I love you, Im getting tired of your moping, you wanna cry, think about some ! of your alternatives. That goes for all of you. We could go to work in a bank, sit pleasantly next to our co-workers for forty years and never know them. We come to this place and see each other raw every day, out guts are hanging out but thats not misery, that makes us lucky. (more) (CONTINUED) 40. GEIGER (Contd) I dont give a damn how much tumult and antagonism there is, thats life, were deep into it every day and I feel lucky to be here. im not buying into any of your despair. Go see whats out there, talk to your patients. See what real people are up against. Then complain. Bunch of spoiled babies, every one of you. A beat. That cowed them. Finally: THURMOND I think what could be upsetting us... (then) ...somebody in this room is flatulent and its been chronic. Geiger leans over him. GEIGER Dont make me hide your teeth. NYLAND You know that was a very impressive sp! eech, Doctor Geiger. Could alm ost make us lose sight of the real truth that you cause most of the antagonism here and it doesnt make us feel lucky at all. I have no doubt you feel good about yourself, thats pretty obvious. That doesnt change the fact that youre the most hated surgeon in this joint and some of us other doctors have to pick up the people you leave in pieces. That really hurts Geiger but he tries not to show it. A beat. Then: GEIGER (covering his hurt) Is that what you do with the nurses, damage-control? NYLAND Hey, if theyre coming to me, dont you wonder why? (CONTINUED) 41. SHUTT Whats that supposed to mean? NYLAND Im talking to him. SHUTT WATTERS Talk to me. All right. NYLAND Talk to your wife then she wouldnt be needing me. And Shutt swings and connects, landing flush on Nylands nose, drop ping him. CAMILLE WATTERS GEIGER Aaron! Hey!! Aaron. Nylands nose is bleeding! . CAMILLE THURMOND (to Shutt) One punch. What the hell is wrong with you? WATTERS Help him up. THURMOND (re Nyland) I think he has the virus, Phillip. Look, nosebleed. WATTERS Shut up, Arthur! (to Shutt) You listen to me-- SHUTT (escalating) No, I wont listen to you, Phillip. Im tired of you jumping in as referee, trying to legislate everything, I dont listen to you and you know why? Youre not a real person. (CONTINUED) 42. GEIGER (quickly) Aaron. SHUTT You shut up, too! (back to Watters) You slide around on this even keel, so unflappable, so poised, always ready to steady somebody when they fall, how ironic, thats what put you in this room, you caught her and she puked on you, well theres plenty more vomit where that came from, Phillip. (then; yelling) Life isnt lived o n an even keel! We explode, see I just punched a guy, how bout that?! (a threat) ! Maybe I punched the wrong guy. WATTERS (intense; loaded for bear) You want to take a swing at me? Please. I come in here every day trying to be a rudder to you prima donnas, you dont know the frustration I have to bottle up inside. I would love to blow, I go to bed and pray that somebody will take a swing at me and give me the opportunity. Do me the biggest favor known to man, Aaron, and swing at me. Let me lose it. Go ahead. The loaded intensity and quiet power scares the entire room. This man is a powder keg. Nobody, nobody is crazy enough to challenge him. After a beat. CAMILLE Maybe we should all sing a song or something. Then, suddenly Thurmond seizes a little, grabbing his left arm. WATTERS Arthur!! And he grabs his chest. And sucks air. (CONTINUED) 43. GEIGER WATTERS Dr. Thurmond! Arthur! WATTERS CAMILLE Get him down! Hes having a coronary. GEIGER (taking charge; cutting off Thurmonds s! hirt) Get the oxygen hooked up , lets take his pressure! Lets get a monitor on him right now! Anybody got a stethoscope? NYLAND I need an eighteen gauge needle and an IV set-up. The doctors kick into motion as Watters holds Thurmonds hand. Various people are barking, over: GEIGER Somebody get ready to hang some nitroglycerin. WATTERS We got you, Arthur, everythings gonna be okay, we got you. You lay calm. Just lay calm. Off Thurmond, very scared, we: FADE TO: END ACT THREE ACT FOUR 44. FADE IN: INT. O.R. #1 - DAY Thurmond is on the table. Nylands taking blood, Geiger is hooking up the EKG. THURMOND This isnt necessary. GEIGER Yes, you keep saying that but I have this funny rituals when people have heart attacks . (to Nyland) Could you give me the stethoscope, Doctor, and I hope that wasnt ! too harsh. NYLAND Bite me. WATTERS CAMILLE Stop it. Grow up. GEIGER Just trying to maintain a reputation. THURMOND How fitting I should die in this hospital. GEIGER Youre not going to die, Doctor, too many premiums would go up. THURMOND If I do die, Phillip, I want you to speak at my funeral. It was always my hope to speak at yours. WATTERS I appreciate that. ATKISSON (announcing) I could be having a breakdown. CAMILLE GEIGER WATTERS Take a number. Good. I dont care. (CONTINUED) 45. SHUTT We should contact his wife. CAMILLE Shes been back east for two weeks. Do you have a number for your wife, Doctor Thurmond? THURMOND Yes. Its three. They hold a look, under: NYLAND Okay, Doctor-- (proffering a needle) --one more for blood gas. Just inhale normally, youre doing fine. The situat ion under control, Geiger peels away, heads for a corner. Watters sees him, follows. GEI! GER Ill monitor this, but we m ay be looking at an abgioplasty. WATTERS Okay. A beat. GEIGER True, Phillip? Im the most hated guy here? WATTERS (quiet honesty) Well, with Hackett dying... GEIGER (vulnerable) I dont care to be loved by everybody, I admit. But to be hated. Thats not a goal either. WATTERS Hate sometimes is just misplaced fear. (CONTINUED) 46. GEIGER All these profundities and still no bubble gum. (a beat; humbly) They think its easy. Id love to be a resident again, Id love to have somebody backing me up. Nobodys backing me up, Phillip, thats not easy. Im alone, they got people coming in behind them, nobody comes in behind me, they think its easy, its not easy. PAN TO SHUTT. He rhythmically but slightly maniacally is wrapping his hands on the glass. Camille approaches. CAMILLE Y ou okay? SHUTT (quiet rage oozing) You wanna talk to me, Camille, get yourself sc! heduled for one of my procedur es. CAMILLE (right back at him) Kill yourself. He hlds a loaded galre. Then: SHUTT Youre a liar. You were just as consumed by your job as I was mine, Camille. You flew up through the nursing ranks, the job, the patients, you were every bit as taken as me, how dare you... He gathers, trying to let reason win out over the anger. SHUTT The jobs were intoxicants for us both. CAMILLE (quietly) Until I woke up one day and realized it wasnt enough. I turned to you and you werent there. Youd forgotten how to be there. (CONTINUED) 47. SHUTT NYLAND (also quiet) Dr, Thurmond? Dr. Thurmond? Takes two to forget, (to room) Camille. Takes two. Hes going into shock. And suddenly Thurmond goes into sudden arrest. They all spring into action. Monitors beeping, Thurmond is motionless. Geig er charges. GEIGER Probably having and inferior MI. Hands going everywhere. Rapid m! ovement. Shutt immediately has a s tethoscope on him. SHUTT His lungs are wet! GEIGER Camille, hang some dopamine and isuprel! Tube him, Phillip! Atkisson crisply slaps an E-T-tube into Watters hands. Geiger performs close chest massage. Camille is hooking up machines, everything is going lightning fast, everybody talking, the antagonists are suddenly a cohesive team in motion. GEIGER We gotta do a bypass. Somebody get an anestesiologist in here. Lets go! CAMILLE Im losing vitals! GEIGER I gotta go in! WATTERS Ill do the anesthesia. CAMILLE Do you know how? WATTERS I know how, lets go! (CONTINUED) 48. Nyland begins to pound on Thurmonds chest. Geiger starts to gown. Watters goes to work. GEIGER CAMILLE Keep vetnilating! B.P. is plunging! WATTERS Cmon, Arthur, its Christmas!! GEIGER Paddles, come on! Shutt alread y has them and he pounces. SHUTT Here I am! Clear! They jolt Thurmond. NYLAND ! Nothing! SHUTT Here we go! C lear! Another shock. NYLAND Nope. WATTERS Anytime!! GEIGER Scalpel. Boom. Atkisson has the scalpel in his hands before he finished the word, and Geiger is cutting. GEIGER Saw. WATTERS (in Thurmonds ear) Christmas, Arhtur!! (singing) Hark the herald angels sing... Christmas!! (CONTINUED) 49. Geiger is cutting away with the saw, under: SHUTT Get the hell in there, Jeffrey!! GEIGER Im getting there, retractor! And the Yawkeney Retractor is thrust into place and Geiger is cranking away. WATTERS Arthur Thurmond, you stay here!! And Geigers hands are now inside Thurmonds chest. He massages the heart, under: GEIGER More isuprel, cmon. (massaging) Paging Doctor Thurmond. Cmon, this muscle feels good, cmon! CAMILLE Im getting nothing. GEIGER Cmon Arthur. I didnt have time to glove, my hands are in your guts, if you got that virus, I could get it, I dont want it ! to be for nothing. Finally: C AMILLE Pulse! We got it! GEIGER There you go. There is a cheer throughout. Then: WATTERS (to Thurmond; with emotion) You old fart. When you wake up, Ill kill you for this. Ill kill you. CAMILLE BPs coming up. (CONTINUED) 50. ATKISSON Im feeling faint. CAMILLE SHUTT WATTERS Shut up. Too bad. Forget it. GEIGER (to Nyland) Doctor, put your hands in and keep pumping him, do it gently. Lets get ready to put him on bypass. NYLAND (hands in) Okay. I got it. I got it. GEIGER Sure? NYLAND I got it. GEIGER (to Atkisson) Nurse, do not puke on this patient. They all continue to move with precision but the emotion of the moment is not hidden. Geiger was right about one thing. These people are not deadened inside. SHUTT Thats a good pause. Hes stabilizing. A beat as everybody si lently collect themselves. Then: GEIGER All right, since were already in, Im g! onna do the bypass blind, I got a good idea its the left anterior descending. I may bypass all of em. In any event, this is gonna take some time. (to Nyland) You okay for a while? NYLAND (still massaging) Im fine. GEIGER Okay, get the equipment over here. (CONTINUED) 51. Machines are rolled up. They continues working away in silence until, we: DISSOLVE TO: INT. O.R. #1 - TWO HOURS LATER Theyre sweat-soaked. Geiger and Nyland are running the show. WATTERS Where are we? GEIGER (inspecting) No more bleeders. Were ready to close. (then) Camille, honey, take ten, youve been here too long. CAMILLE Im okay. GEIGER Rest. Atkisson, step in. Atkisson steps in. Camille peels off as Watters steps up. NYLAND (to Atkisson) Suction here. Right over there. Good. GEIGER (sotto; to Watters re Nyland) This kids okay. WATTERS ( sotto) Tell him that. GEIGER (sotto) Not a chance. Off this we: CUT TO:! (CONTINUED) INT. SCR U B ROOM - CONTINUOUS 52. Camille enters, Shutt comes out of the toilet area. Sees her waiting. SHUTT You might want to light a match. She smiles softly. SHUTT (softly) Im sorry. I know Ive been a little crazy. I just... the thought of you with another man. CAMILLE I know. Its okay. A beat. SHUTT That stuff you said at Rabbi Taublers funeral. Anger being bried love, remember that? CAMILLE Yeah. SHUTT Thats sort of whats going on, I guess. I didnt mean half the crap I said. And punching Nyland... wel that I meant. Camille smiles softly. CAMILLE Its understandable. The thought of me being with another man, that has to upset you. I mean... thats so unthinkable, me with somebody else. And Shutts head snaps to look at her. He doesnt dare ask, doesnt dare let his hopes run. Finally: SH UTT (weakly) What are you saying? CAMILLE I want to get back. A beat. Shutt chec! ks himself. Another beat. (CONT INUED) 53. SHUTT Is this because of Christmas? People get lonely this time of year, is this-- CAMILLE Its because I cant live without you, Aaron. We have a lot of work to do, I wont even go so far as to say Im confident. But I love you. I could never love anybody the way I do you... uh... (emotion) I want to come home. And he goes to her. They embrace. In his face, you see the emotion, the relief... the rebirth. He has prayed for this moment since the day she left. And he just holds on for dear life. Geiger then enters the room. GEIGER (cynically) Hey. Whatre ya doing, cmon. Hes off bypass, did it without you, do you care? SHUTT (weakly) Were getting back. GEIGER (stunned) What? SHUTT You heard me. So go on, say something smart. Geiger just stares back. He wanted it almost as much as S hutt did. Finally: GEIGER (genuine) Thank God. That smart enough? (then; to Camille! ) So I get to be nice to you a g ain? CAMILLE And I could use it. GEIGER So could I. (CONTINUED) 54. And Camille and Geiger embrace, tightly. They have missed each other as well. GEIGER (heartfelt) Welcome back, Camille. Welcome back. Off Shutt, we: CUT TO: INT. WATTERS OFFICE - NIGHT Birch, holding court in front of a throng of Press. BIRCH (brightly; crisply) One more day. This time tomorrow night, we may be able to lift the quarantine. REPORTER #1 Whats been going on down there? BIRCH Oh, its pretty uneventful. Theyre cooped up, theyre bored. A lot of card-laying, some scrabble. REPORTER #1 Not even any cabin fever? BIRCH These are seasoned professionals, well-versed in crisis. Theyre handling this with the typical poise that reflects the cool calm of Chicago Hope Hospital. Control and excellenc e, theyre both systemic to Chicago Hope. That hasnt changed with me in charge. ! Cool and calm. Im in charge. CUT TO: CLOSE ON THURMOND Hes waking up. Looking around, confused. We hear Silent Night being played on a piano/ (CONTINUED) 55. WATTERS (O.S.) Right here, Arthur. Im right here. REVEAL INT. O.R. #1 - NIGHT Thurmond is regaining consciousness as they all stand over him. Except for Geiger whos alone in the corner, softly playing Silent Night. WATTERS We had to do a bypass, but everything went fine. THURMOND Who did it? Not Penishead. WATTERS (with a wink to Nyland) Dr. Penishead assisted but Geiger did it. Youll be up on your feet in a week, you can can expect a full recovery. CAMILLE We really need to call your wife, though, can you give us the number? THURMOND I told you already. Three. (then) Shes on speed dial. WATTERS Well get it. You just rest. Close your eyes and rest. THURMOND What about the virus? WATTERS Still no symptoms. Im sure were! okay. We all got something, though. Thurmond continues to complain about whatever, as we: ANGLE NYLAND standing next to Atkisson. They quietly take it all in. (CONTINUED) 56. The nerve center of this place may indeed be a little insane but the brilliance of it is inescapable, so is the humanity. PAN TO Shutt and Camille, side by side, together again. Then PAN TO the corner where Geiger softly plays piano. Still alone. After the surgery, post heroics... he always ends up alone. Off him, in the corner playing, staring blankly, we: FADE TO: THE END 8 "uoo8u8Ouai |v"aaR29'J.-oI?AAYA AIEyEDI:NO xUYOaa ei?i9o o,uEtoH>  (]OiI AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP,AAAAAAAAA : P,AAAAAAAAA o P : P,AAAAAAAAARO o P : P,AAAAAAAAA9cP:yeeI8yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyUYeE PRODUCER: DAVID E. KELLEY CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: MICHAEL BRAVERMAN CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: MICHAEL DINNER PRODUCER: JAMES C. HART DIRECTOR: THOMAS SCHLAMME CHICAGO HOPE The Quarantine Written by: David E. Kelley Story #4324 October 6, 1994 October 12, 1994 BLUE ! October 14, 199 4 PINK CHICAGO HOPE The Quarantine CAST LIST DR. JEFFREY GEIGER DR. AARON SHUTT DR. ARTHUR THRUMOND CAMILLE SHUTT DR. PHILLIP WATTERS ALAN BIRCH Dr. Daniel Nyland Nurse Maggie Atkisson Reporter #1 Omitted: Leigh Chang CHICAGO HOPE The Quarantine SET LIST INTERIORS CHICAGO HOPE HOSPITAL O.R. #1 CORRIDOR SCRUB ROOM WATTERS OFFICE OMITTED: O.R. #2 CHICAGO HOPE The Quarantine ACT ONE FADE IN: INT. O.R. #1 - DAY 1 An anxious DR. DANIEL NYLAND paces alone before GEIGER charges in. Seeing nobody but Nyland: GEIGER Whats going on? I get paged to O.R. one, wheres the emergency? NYLAND Its not an emergenc y, Im sure its nothing to worry about but-- GEIGER What? NYLAND Georgeann Tuckman. ! I called you in on a consult, re m ember, myocarditis-- GEIGER I remember, so? NYLAND And the maybe we thought the flu. GEIGER I didnt think the flu, I thought it was some kind of virus she probably snagged at the CDC. NYLAND Yeah, well you were right, more right than you want to be, she was just diagnosed in Seattle. Ebola Virus. Geiger freezes. Just stares back in horror a beat. GEIGER (deep concern) How contagious? CHICAGO HOPE, The Quarantine Rev. 10/12/94 2. NYLAND She was in day four when she was here. GEIGER My God. We touched her. NYLA ND I know. Thats why I ran here and paged you. If we were exposed, we need to be qu! arantined, this was the closest e mpty room I could get to. GEIGER (alarm in his voice) She was exposed in Atlanta? NYLAND Two days ago. Itll be one or two days before we know whether we were exposed. GEIGER (wheels spinning) Day four, our hands were in her mouth-- NYLAND With gloves. Its airborne too-- GEIGER She was breathing right in  is very encouraged. The paramedics at Cook County have developed no symptoms and the risk of their exposure was probably greater. The Boards a little upset that youre quarantined in an O.R., making the room unavailable but Ive assuaged them on that front. GEIGER Your bubbles fogging up. BIRCH Never mind. I think it would be a good idea to bring Ray Kadalski down here-- They all shout versions of no. BIRCH Youre under stress, you could have cabin fever-- THURMOND (to Birch) I cant see his face. WATTERS All right. Tell Kadalski not yet, Alan. BIRC! H (fogged up) Everythings und e r control. WATTERS Im sure it is. Birch heads off as Watters turns to the others. (CONTINUED) 18. WATTERS Everybody, pay attention. I dont want to say this twice. Our incubation period will be over Thursday, if we havent developed symptoms by then, were clear. CAMILLE What are the symptoms? WATTERS Could be like the flu. Fever, headaches, abdominal pain. Our could be worse. Nosebleed, rash. GEIGER With all thats been going on, somebody here must have a rash. Watters holds a loaded stare. WATTERS (not amused) This is not a funny situation. Please dont try to locate humor at the expense of others. GEIGER I lost my head. WATTERS (to the others) Anybody? Symptoms? No response. WATTERS Good. After we finish with the blood samples, well do some cultures. Food and bla nkets are here. Temporary toilet facilities have been set up off the crub roo! m. THURMOND I want to see the chart on this Tuckman patient. I want to see her symptoms-- (CONTINUED) WATTERS I personally reviewed the Tuckman records when she was treated here and I think were covered there. THURMOND (pointed) Forgive me. My life is on the line here, I want to see the chart. WATTERS You dont trust my opinion? THURMOND (pointed) Im just concerned you couldve been busy that day lecturing senior doctors on how they should stay away from young nurses. WATTERS I told the truth on how I was exposed. THURMOND I want to see the chart on that patient. As under Shutt gives Nyland a sniff. NYLAND What are you doing? SHUTT You smell familiar. He sniffs again as Camille pounces in to shift attention. CAMILLE Hey, I have an idea. Phillip, your Christmas party was scheduled for tomorrow night. Le ts have it right here! WATTERS What? CAMILLE (roaring cheer) Were all toge! ther, we can do it here instea d of your house. (more) (CONTINUED) bring that in and sing carols. SHUTT (suspicious) Why are you acting like that? CAMILLE Acting like what? SHUTT Like you act when youA!daded for bear) You want to take a swing at me? Please. I come in here every day trying to be a rudder to you prima donnas, you dont know the frustration I have to bottle up inside. I would love to blow, I go to bed and pray that somebody will take a swing at me and give me the opportunity. Do me the biggest favor known to man, Aaron, and swing at me. Let me lose it. Go ahead. The loaded intensity and quiet power scares the entire room. This man is a powder keg. Nobody, nobody is crazy enough to challenge him. After a beat. CAMILLE Maybe we should all sing a song or something. Then, suddenly Thurmond seizes a little, grabbing his l eft arm. WATTERS Arthur!! And he grabs his chest. And sucks air. (CONTINUED! ) 43. GEIGER WATTERS Dr. Thurmond! Arthur! WATTERS CAMILLE Get him down! Hes having a coronary. GEIGER (taking charge; cutting off Thurmonds shirt) Get the oxygen hooked up, lets take his pressure! Lets get a monitor on him right now! Anybody got a stethoscope? NYLAND I need an eighteen gauge needle and an IV set-up. The doctors kick into motion as Watters holds Thurmonds hand. Various people are barking, over: GEIGER Somebody get ready to hang some nitroglycerin. WATTERS We got you, Arthur, everythings gonna be okay, we got you. You lay calm. Just lay calm. Off Thurmond, very scared, we: FADE TO: END ACT THREE ACT FOUR 44. FADE IN: INT. O.R. #1 - DAY Thurmond is on the table. Nylands taking blood , Geiger is hooking up the EKG. THURMOND This isnt necessary. GEIGER Yes, you k! eep saying that but I have thi s funny rituals when people have heart attacks. (to Nyland) Could you give me the stethoscope, Doctor, and I hope that wasnt too harsh. NYLAND Bite me. WATTERS CAMILLE Stop it. Grow up. GEIGER Just trying to maintain a reputation. THURMOND How fitting I should die in this hospital. GEIGER Youre not going to die, Doctor, too many premiums would go up. THURMOND If I do die, Phillip, I want you to speak at my funeral. It was always my hope to speak at yours. WATTERS I appreciate that. ATKISSON (announcing) I could be having a breakdown. CAMILLE GEIGER WATTERS Take a number. Good. I dont care. (CONTINUED) 45. .SA!dd!di under control, Geiger peels away, heads for a corner. Watters sees him, follows. GEIGER Ill monitor this, but we may be looking at an abgioplasty. W ATTERS Okay. A beat. GEIGER True, Phillip? Im the most hated guy here? WA! TTERS (quiet honesty) Well, wi th Hackett dying... GEIGER (vulnerable) I dont care to be loved by everybody, I admit. But to be hated. Thats not a goal either. WATTERS Hate sometimes is just misplaced fear. (CONTINUED) 46. A!d JAMES C. HART DIRECTOR: THOMAS SCHLAMME CHICAGO HOPE The Quarantine Written by: David E. Kelley Story #4324 October 6, 1994 October 12, 1994 BLUE October 14, 1994 PINK CHICAGO HOPE The Quarantine CAST LIST DR. JEFFREY GEIGER DR. AARON SHUTT DR! . ARTHUR THURMOND CAMILLE SHUTT DR . PHILLIP WATTERS ALAN BIRCH Dr. Daniel Nyland Nurse Maggie Atkisson Reporter #1 Omitted: Leigh Chang CHICAGO HOPE The Quarantine SET LIST INTERIORS CHICAGO HOPE HOSPITAL O.R. #1 CORRIDOR SCRUB ROOM WATTERS OFFICE OMITTED: O.R. #2 CHICAGO HOPE The Quarantine ACT ONE FADE IN: INT. O.R. #1 - DAY 1 An anxious DR. DANIEL NYLAND paces alone before GEIGER charges in. Seeing nobody but Nyland: GEIGER Whats going on? I get paged to O.R. one, wheres the emergency? NYLAND Its not an emergency, Im sure its nothing to worry about but-- GEIGER What? NYLAND Georgeann Tuckman. I called you in on a consult, remember, myocarditis-- GEIGER I remember, so? NYLAND And the maybe we thought the flu. GEIGER ! I didnt think the flu, I thought it was some kind of virus she probably snagged at the CDC. NYLAND Yeah, well you were right, more right than you want to be, she was just diagnosed in Seattle. Ebola Virus. Geiger freezes. Just stares back in horror a beat. GEIGER (deep concern) How contagious? CHICAGO HOPE, The Quarantine Rev. 10/12/94 2. NYLAND She was in day four when she was here. GEIGER My God. We touched her. NYLAND I know. Thats why I ran here and paged you. If we were exposed, we need to be quarantined, this was the closest empty roo m I could get to. GEIGER (alarm in his voice) She was exposed in Atlanta? N! YLAND Two days ago. Itll be one or two days before we know whether we were exposed. GEIGER (wheels spinning) Day four, our hands were in her mouth-- NYLAND With gloves. Its airborne too-- GEIGER She was breathing right in our faces. (then) Who else examined her? NYLAND Just the paramedics, theyre quarantined over at Cook County. GEIGER All right. (a beat; taking charge) First off, this room is officially sealed, you and I are gonna spend some time together. You play cribbage? NYLAND Whats the progression? (CONTINUED) CHICAGO HOPE, The Quarantine Rev. 10/12/94 3. CONTINUED: (2) GEIGER Not god. Seventy percent fatal. Incurable Nyland stares back, trying to mask his fe ar. Then. NYLAND (covering) Im sure. . . Im sure we didnt contract it. G! EIGER Im sure youre right. But their tone speaks louder than their words. Then: NYLAND (weakly) Oh God. Off their anxiety, then fear, we: SMASH CUT TO: MAIN TITLES INT. O.R. #1 - DAY Geiger stands at the glass, WATTERS is on the outside in a space suit, looking in. Theyre both on portable phones, talking to each other. Officials from the CDC are sealing off the entire corridor area. WATTERS Im back on the phone with Atlanta in twenty minutes, weve also set up a command post in our lab. Meantime, I dont want you leaving this area. GEIGER Dont worry. Do me a favor, when you talk to CDC, find out if they got any plasma from survivors, in case we need transfusions. WATTERS Thats premature. (CONTINUED) 4. GEIGER Just ask t! he question, also find out the ef f icacy of IV interferon, I read once where it was tried. And get me a cribbage board. WATTERS (re Nyland) He okay? GEIGER Hell live. Maybe. WATTERS Ill be back. Watters moves off. Geiger heads back to Nyland, under: GEIGER Okay, first the bad news. We got ourselves a beauty, this virus wiped out entire tribes in Zaire and Sudan. It probably came into the U.S. through a monkey, maybe this is my payback for killing the baboon. NYLAND Gimme the good news. GEIGER The woman was here on day seven, not day four, that makes her less contagious. Also, the virus does not spread easily, the odds we got it are low. NYLAND How long before we know for sure? GEIGER Coupla days. Were gonna do our our blood work, its too risky to bring in another doctor. You married? NYLAND No. GEIGER Figures. Girlfriend, anybody youve been sharing intimate breathing spa ce with, if so-- (CONTINUED) 5. NYLAND Oh no. GEIGER Yeah. (extending po! rtable phone) Make th e call. Man or woman? Nyland takes the phone. Punches some numbers, as we: CUT TO: INT. CORRIDOR - DAY Two Orderlies in space suits quickly whisk an ashen CAMILLE down the hall. She obviously just got the news. CUT TO: INT. O.R. #1 - DAY The door opens and the astronaut Orderlies shove Camille in and close the door. Geiger is both shocked and privately amused to see Camille. CAMILLE (to Nyland) What have you given me? GEIGER (to Camille) You slut. Camille shoots Geiger a quick look; then: CAMILLE (to Nyland) What have you given me? NYLAND Ive been exposed to a virus. CAMILLE (to Nyland) We used a condom for Gods sake, two of them. NYLAND Its airborne, the kissing is just as dangerous. (CONTINUED) 6. GEIGER Maybe you didnt kiss, did you pause to kiss? CAMILLE (fighting off panic) Please dont make jokes, Id apprecia te you not making jokes. (then) They told me it could be fatal. GEIGER (sympathetic) Ca! mille this is just a precaution. But as a precaution-- CAMILLE Look. Can we just say. . . (to Nyland) I really dont want it put out there that you and I were, yknow... out of sensitivity to Aaron-- GEIGER He knows. CAMILLE He doesnt know it was him. He knows I had sex but not with who. GEIGER So whats the difference? CAMILLE Itll make a difference. NYLAND Look, lets just say you were in on the examination of the Tuckman woman and you were exposed that way. Theres no need to add to the drama here. CAMILLE Can we do that, Jeffrey? (then) Please. GEIGER Sure. (CONTINUED) 7. Upon which the doors open. The astronauts shove in NURSE MAGGIE ATKISSON. She just glares daggers at Nyland. ATKISSON (to Nyland) What have you given me? NYLAND (weakly; to Atkisson) Ive been exposed to a virus. A beat. CAMILLE (to Nyland) You pig. GEIGER Busy pig. ATKISSON What have I got? Nylan d ushers Atkisson to the sides, Geiger follows. NYLAND Hopefully, nothing. But I need ! to be quarantined. Which unfortu nately includes the people Ive been with. GEIGER Do we need a bigger room? NYLAND (on edge; to Geiger) Could you be someplace else? GEIGER Its just that I need to order food. Should I be expecting more? NYLAND Not from me. They look at Camille. GEIGER Camille? (CONTINUED) 8. CAMILLE (awkward) Uh......well....... CUT TO: INT. CORRIDOR - DAY The Spacemen are ushering SHUTT. Watters is also in a spacesuit, walking alongside. They walk quickly. SHUTT (agitated) I dont believe this. WATTERS Just a precaution. I thought you and Camille were apart. SHUTT We are, we kissed after Rabbi Taublers funeral. This virus is not spread casually, Phillip, you dont need to be wearing that stupid suit. WATTERS Id rather be safe, thank you. This disease also happens to be more dangerous than AIDS. SHUTT Well, that cheers me up. Upon which BIRCH, in spac e suit stops Watters. Shutt continues on. BIRCH Phillip, I wanna be heard. WATTERS (no! t now) Yes, Alan. As he speaks, h is bubble helmet progressively fogs. (CONTINUED) 9. BIRCH Anybody exposed should also be immediately put in a suit for transport, this disease is airborne, Id like an outfit put on Doctor Shutt immediately and why is my helmet fogging up, theyve given me defective equipment. By now we cant see his face. WATTERS (appeasing) Well get the suits on everybody. BIRCH Your helmet doesnt fog. Are you breathing through your nose? Watters continues on, STAY ON Watters as we hear Birch in the b.g. BIRCH (O.S.) Phillip. Im blinded, Phillip? Hello? This is unacceptable. Phillip? Off this, we: CUT TO: INT. O.R. #1 - DAY Geiger, Camille, Nyland, and Atkisson. CAMILLE Are we going to die? GEIGER Nobodys dying. ATKISSON I heard it could be spread with a sneeze, that it came from a monkey-- (to Nyland) --tell me you didnt have sex with a monkey. CAMILLE He didnt have time. (CONTINUED) 10. NYLAND ATKISSON Please. What? ! SHUTT (entering) Where did you g et it, Camille? CAMILLE Aaron. SHUTT Never mind, Aaron, theyre saying we have to be isolated for two full days. GEIGER Look-- ATKISSON (deep fear) I feel nauseous. I could throw up. We are going to die, I just took this job, Im exposed to a deadly virus-- NYLAND (going to her) Hey. . . CAMILLE (sharp; to Nyland) Dont you touch her, youve done quite enough. SHUTT NYLAND (to Geiger; re Nyland) (to Camille) He gave it to her? Whats that supposed to mean? GEIGER (taking control) Hey. Everybody. As of yet nobody has manifested any symptoms, the likelihood is were all completely safe. Well do some lab work, remain isolated, in a few days itll be behind us. In the meantime, nothing is served by panic. (more) (CONTINUED) 11. GEIGER (contd) Everybody should call t he people that need to be called, if you havent already done so. ANGLE ATKISSON. Ther! es somebody else. GEIGER Otherw i se, lets sit back and stay calm. Everybody stay calm. Upon which another Astronaut Orderly ushers in another MAN in a space suit. MAN Im a dead man. Dead. And the man takes off his helmet. Its THURMOND. SHUTT (to Atkisson) You gotta be kidding. ATKISSON Dont look at me. GEIGER (to Nyland) You little brown nose. NYLAND I didnt touch him. Thurmond then looks at Camille and all eyes then pounces on her. CAMILLE Uh... Its not what you think. THURMOND (nervous; hiding something) We share a stick of licorice. Red. The chewy kind. A beat. Everybody in the room knows thats a lie. SHUTT (contained shock) Were you two... together? GEIGER I cant picture that. Which is a blessing, I get vasovagal. (CONTINUED) SHUTT CAMILLE Quiet! Jeffrey! A beat. Shutt takes a step towards Camille. SHUTT I want to hear this. CAMILLE We werent together. THURMOND (defensive; hiding something) Licorice. Red. GEIGER Chewy. THURMOND ! CAMILLE SH UTT Be quiet. Stop it. Jeffrey. A beat as they hold an accusing stare. Then: CAMILLE I have to tell, Arthur. Like you said, it was nothing, so-- THURMOND (pointing to Geiger) Hell make it something. CAMILLE No, he wont. (then; to the others) Dr. Thurmond passed out last week in the research lab. I thought he stopped breathing and-- THURMOND Which I didnt. I just fainted, it was hypotension, thats all. Nothing mo