- Dr. Sheldon Hawkes: [picking Danny up from physical therapy] So what was that?
- Detective Danny Messer: What?
- Dr. Sheldon Hawkes: Danny, you got to try *way* harder if you're going to get up out of this chair.
- Detective Danny Messer: Doc, you know what? I got a policy, buddy. I don't take advice unless I ask for it.
- Dr. Sheldon Hawkes: Yeah, well I've got a policy, too. I'm always up front with my friends. And with an injury like yours, you should have been up out of that chair weeks ago. You're not pushing yourself.
- Detective Danny Messer: [offended] You kidding me? I'm gonna give you five minutes of the pain that I feel every time I take a step.
- Dr. Sheldon Hawkes: Danny, I treated hundreds of trauma patients that would trade places with you in a minute.
- Detective Danny Messer: Look... you came here to take me to work, right? Let's go.
- [Danny starts to roll his wheelchair forward, but Hawkes stops him]
- Dr. Sheldon Hawkes: There's a fireman that came into Emergency one day. Big, strong guy, huh? Just hit a walk-off home run at the department softball game. Rounded the bases, crossed home plate, his whole team piled on top of him in celebration. Broke his back. I never met anybody with a heart like this guy. It took a lot of sweat and pain and perseverance, but eventually, yeah, he walked again.
- Detective Danny Messer: Is that the end of that story?
- Dr. Sheldon Hawkes: He said "Pain is the payment for each precious thing." Try harder, Danny.
- Detective Mac Taylor: You're aware of the consequences of what you're about to do?
- Deborah Carter: Yes. I imagine that this is every detective's dream.
- Detective Don Flack: Every detective's dream is have people stop killing each other.