- Dr. Taylor: Okay, it appears we're gonna need volunteers to help out in the quarantine area. Obviously, we've got an unknown, potentially fatal respiratory illness with the possibility of contagion... so please, think long and hard before you answer.
- Christa Lorenson: I'll go in.
- Dr. Taylor: Thank you, Dr. Lorenson. That's very selfless of you. You can enter through the utility corridor. I mean, I'd go myself, but I'm uncomfortable around sick people.
- [says the sarcastic Director of the E.R]
- Jesse Sallander: The sign at the entrance to the hospital said that no person who is suffering will be without care. You walk the walk, doctor. I salute you!
- Dr. Taylor: [on a possible contagious outbreak involving family of staff] Listen, Neal. It hasn't escaped my notice, that the woman in that bed over there, is the woman who gave birth to you. So... anything you need, you ask... and it's yours. All of the resources of this hospital, are here for you! And I'm here for you! Anything!
- Dr. Neal Hudson: Mum. I know you're scared. I'm going do a procedure to help you breathe. I'm going give you two drugs. One to put you to sleep, and the other one, to temporarily paralyze you, so that we can place a tube in your lungs, that will attach to a ventilator. You have to know there's a chance that tube, may never be able to be removed. We still don't know what's wrong with you, so you have to understand... If it gets worse... You may never wake up.
- Asra Hudson: I trust you.
- Dr. Taylor: Patient is a 53-year-old construction worker. Fell backwards off a roof, Impaled himself through his keister on a piece of steel rebar. Like you do!
- [said in sarcastic manner]
- Dr. Taylor: Who's that jackass, ordering the nurses around?
- Dr. Neal Hudson: That would be my father!
- Asra Hudson: I warned you I wanted to spend more time with you while we were in town.
- Dr. Neal Hudson: This might be a little extreme. Next time, just send passive-aggressive e-mails, like other people's mothers.
- Dr. Neal Hudson: Um... Mark. I hate to tell you this, but I just heard... there was a group at that conference from South Korea.
- Dr. Taylor: [regarding mass contamination] So now we have to wonder if it's MERS? Wow. That's just peachy.
- [phone rings]
- Dr. Taylor: Oh, look... from your mouth to the CDC's ears. Prepare for code brown... where the CDC crawls so far up my colon, I'll be crapping federal bureaucrats for a week.
- [answers phone]
- Dr. Taylor: Yeah, this is Taylor.
- Dr. Leanne Rorish: Oh, you have been busy. Electrocution; Cardiac arrest; possible femoral perforation... anything else?
- Dr. Leanne Rorish: When I was in med school, back in the dark ages, the received wisdom was, it's never a good idea to treat your own family members. It's easier in theory than in practice, and everybody does it eventually, especially for the small stuff. And in extreme situations, like the one you're in right now, you have no choice. You're the only one, who can help her. The tragedy is... when you're absolutely the finest, most skilled doctor there is, and, you have to turn them over to people less skilled than you. So you're lucky, your mother is lucky, because there is no-one, anywhere, better equipped to save her, than you! You have the opportunity to do what I couldn't do with my own family. I envy you that. So, don't waste it questioning yourself. You know what to do.
- [giving positive reinforcement to Dr. Hudson in a time of self-doubt]
- Dr. Taylor: Nice work, doc. Not every day you save your mother's life and your boss's ass at the same time!
- Dr. Taylor: All right, there's a protocol to follow here, people. Let's remember our practice drills. Anybody who was within two meters of any one of these patients... get on that side. Those of you not familiar with the metric system, that's eighty inches... also the height of Kobe Bryant.
- Dr. Taylor: The health department sent a team to the hotel, to test for Legionnaire's And they're making noises about shutting us down. It may be the first time in the 85-year history of this place we closed our doors. I'd rather it didn't happen on my watch.
- Nick Gabler: Have I told you about my daughter?
- Angus Leighton: Yes... Theresa.
- Nick Gabler: She's an artist. So talented. She's having her first big gallery opening. I should be there, but her mother insisted on inviting her new husband... the rat bastard who broke up our marriage. I told Theresa, there's no way I'm going if Harry Herpes is gonna be there. Can you blame me?
- Angus Leighton: No, not at all.
- Nick Gabler: You're the most important thing in the world to me, and I love you.
- [having some-one stand by you no matter what]