"It employed 200 men and women." "Good Yankees, all." "Sixteen-hour shifts during the Civil War... when the Gates Falls Mill made uniforms for the Union Army." "The job of the men wearing those uniforms... was to end the peculiar institution." "The peculiar institution being slavery." "When the mill burned in 1869... most of them got out." "The fire started in the first floor." "Most of the adult mill workers escaped." "Most of the children...." "Most of the children did not." "This is the realm of darkness." "Years later, a hospital was built here." "Kingdom Hospital." "The bleaching and dyeing vats have given way to doctors and researchers... and operating rooms filled with modern equipment." "Here, life is charted with lasers... and EKGs and MRIs." "There is no place for superstition." "Rational thought has replaced whispered myths... about the unquiet, hungry dead." "But there is such a thing as intellectual arrogance." "And arrogance is blind." "Perhaps the ground Kingdom Hospital stands on... is still uneasy... for the cold and damp have returned." "Time for your enema, Mr. Stillmach." "By tonight, that impacted colon will be a thing of the past." "is someone there?" "Little girl?" "Girl-watching is thirsty work." "I brought you this." "You scared the hell out of me." "Problem with the elevators?" "With 2, always 2." "Hook, did you just see a little girl, in the hallway, maybe?" "I didn't see anyone." "But then, half the lights are out again." "Abel to Security." "lt's Otto." "And Hook." "The lights are out in West 1 ." "And Elevator 2 is acting up again." "And Blondie, did you see him?" "No." "Flipping a breaker isn't a solution." "It's only a Band-Aid." "Did you see a little girl?" "If kids are wandering out of Paeds, Dr. James is going to be very unhappy." "I have never seen Dr. James unhappy." "There you are." "I've been so worried about you." "Hon, stay on the lane, okay?" "I hate it when you run on the main road." "It's October, in case you haven't noticed." "There's no traffic on the main road." "All the summer people went home a month ago..." "God bless their pointy little heads." "Well, still, it makes me nervous, so just stay on the lane, okay?" "l suppose I could." "Great." "And by the way, you were great." "So were you." "See you later." "Peter, what are you painting?" "The new, strange one?" "How many times have I told you?" "I don't like it-- l know, you don't like me looking at your works-in-progress, but I peeked." "It's weird." "You know it's weird, because you never cover your paintings." "I'm going." "See you later." "Hon. I didn't mean to piss you off." "Quit it, Charlie." "Get out of that." "Damn it, Charlie, that's my dinner." "Get out of there, Charlie." "Get out of there." "Hey, help me up here, would you?" "My hip hurts a little bit." "I think you might have brushed me going by." "Come on, fellow, help me." "Just a close call." "I'm sorry, man. I'm really sorry." "Quit gibbering and help me get up." "I think I sprained my hip getting out of the way, and my back hurts a little." "Oh, my God." "Did you really hit me?" "I can't deal with this right now, man, okay?" "I got 1 2 points and a dui on my license already... and there's an ounce in my glove compartment." "What are you talking about?" "Help me." "It's not really primo stuff or anything, but an ounce is an ounce, right?" "Besides, someone will come along pretty soon." "What the hell are you talking about?" "I think I'm really hurt here." "Help me, you son of a bitch." "I mean, even out here, right?" "Someone always does, eventually." "I'm sorry I hit you, man." "I'm really sorry, man." "What were you doing, running in the middle of the road, anyhow?" "Can I move my...." "No." "Bug out of here." "Hey, stop." "I need help." "I'm down here." "Get off me." "You look pretty tasty." "Get away from me." "I think I'll start with your eyes." "Get away from me." "Yum. "Ant-solutely" delicious." "Please, don't hurt me." "You're a real mess, my friend." "I mean, seriously racked up." "Please." "Save your strength." "That would be my advice." "You'll need it." "Help me." "You'll be all right, fellow." "Just lie still." "I think I'm paralysed." "Can you...." "You'll be all right." "You'll be fine." "I'm not actually talking, am I?" "This is bad." "I'm just going to go call for a...." "Just try not to move." "This is really bad." "If there's a Smokey or a mobile EMT unit with your ears on..." "I got a seriously injured fellow here on Route 7." "I got you, good buddy." "He's on the shoulder and" "Good." "Block him from oncoming traffic... with your truck." "Don't run him down." "I don't think the company would be too crazy about" "Just do it. I'll call the Sheriff's Department" "This is Deputy Frank Downes, Oxford County Sheriff's Department." "I have my ears on and am en route." "Copy." "All right, so are we, Deputy Downes." "Kingdom, this is Castleview 19." "Do you read?" "Five-by-five, 19." "We're going mobile." "Sir, can you hear me?" "Sir, can you move your arms and legs?" "How's he looking?" "The right pupil is fixed and dilated." "The left pupil...." "I don't know." "Say again, Ollie?" "It is Ollie, isn't it?" "Yeah, it's Ollie and Danny." "All right." "Never mind his eyes." "What about an airway?" "is he breathing?" "Do you copy, Ollie?" "What else have you got?" "is he conscious?" "I don't know what to say." "His eyes are open, but.... lt's not the same thing, Ollie." "Yeah, sorry about that, Kingdom." "We've got a multi-trauma." "Major head injuries." "He's breathing, dazed, but conscious, probably shocky." "Minimally responsive, compound fractures to the ribs, both tibia." "Fracture to both ankles." "Looks like his pelvis is fractured as well." "But it's hard to tell." "We've got multiple head injuries." "BP is 78 over 44, it's going down." "Respiration is, I'm going to say, 32." "He's tachy." "Heartbeat clocking 1 40." "Make that 150." "All right, get a line in him, Danny." "Colour?" "Saturation?" "His eyes are open and he's still looking around, but" "There's Ollie the ophthalmologist with more eye data." "Got the line?" "Line's in." "Normal saline, wide open." "Four milligrams morphine, iv Push, PRN." "lmmobilize that spine with a collar, side head supports, and straps." "Be very careful." "Okay, that's a roger." "The respiration is rapid and shallow." "Oh, yeah." "Easy." "Did he say anything about who hit him?" "No, man, he didn't say anything." "Easy." "There we go." "Sugar." "Ollie, he's going to crump on me." "Can you...." "Do you want me to pull over?" "I got it, I'm styling." "Just get us there." "Watch for Mary." "Listen for her bell." "It's a death bell." "I'm bagging away here, but I'm getting airway resistance." "Has his trachea deviated?" "Big time, to the right." "Fudgebar." "He's going V-Fib." "The fun never ends, huh?" "Clear." "Come on, Danny." "Ladies and gentlemen, we're back." "Liz, get a cutdown tray ready for chest tube insertion, please." "You okay with this one?" "He's okay with this one." "You have a case." "Druse." "Again?" "Mama." "Hush up, Bobby." "This could be serious." "I've got pins and needles all up my right arm." "There. lsn't it lovely?" "Ready?" "And one, two, three, up." "Sweatpants, no pockets." "We can't do a wallet biopsy on this one." "I know who he is." "You want me to guess?" "is there a prize?" "l can't get air in him." "l know." "Really?" "Want to share?" "His name's Peter Rickman." "He lives in Castleview." "He's a famous artist." "Liz, could I get an 18-gauge needle, please?" "No syringe, just the needle." "Are you" "Yes." "Tension pneumo, Elmer." "Pleural sac is inflating like a beach ball." "Time for a party trick." "May I be excused?" "Never mind." "Mr. Rickman, can you hear me?" "Now, don't move." "Just blink your eyes if you can hear me." "Thanks." "Please, let this be a dream." "I want a dozen double-stuffed Oreos, iv push... ready with 1,000 milligrams of peanut butter crackers and two amps of Nestle's Quik." "Good afternoon." "Hello." "My name is Christine Draper." "I'm a neurosurgeon." "Sally Druse." "Are you a good doctor?" "As good as Dr. Hook?" "No problem there." "Your hand's acting up?" "Yeah." "Needles and pins." "And I need it for my pendulum." "I'm psychic." "I've been written up in several magazines." "Patient complains of needles and pins." "Noodles and prunes." "He's got one hell of a blood puddle in there." "I'm surprised the blow didn't crack his skull wide open." "First, we open our craniotomy and then we excavate the haematoma." "Capisci, Elmer?" "Yeah." "Okay, there it is, Elmer." "I always pause here and imagine that I am the first neurosurgeon." "The first to boldly journey into the workings of a human mind." "Cool." "Yes, it is." "Inside this skull is another universe... the biggest, scariest haunted house of them all." "Elmer, will you hurry up and tell Dr. Hook how profound he is... so we can get inside this poor guy's noggin and reduce the cranial pressure?" "Anyway, after I've paused to reflect on the gravity of what it is I am about to do... and only after I've done that, do I proceed with my mission." "Yes, Doctor." "Steady as you go, Otto." "Patient to Nine, Neuro." "Standing by." "You'll be fine, Mrs. D." "Yeah, I will." "You tell Bobby not to worry." "Bye-bye." "These things are so slow." "Mommy." "Someone was crying in the Children's Ward?" "We call it Paediatrics these days, Mrs. Druse." "Well, whatever you call it, it sounded like it was right on top of the elevator." "A little girl." "I see." "It's very hard to get a place in here." "A gusher!" "Mop. irrigation people, come on." "Don't let this man drown." "Come on, you're up, Elmer." "Jump in here, please." "That's not my job." "Your union steward is not on duty today." "If you wouldn't mind jumping in, right about now." "Come on, son." "Right there." "Very nice." "Are you seeing what I'm seeing?" "We took those photos less than an hour ago." "Why is the size of the haematoma in that scan... three times the size of the one in this man's skull?" "It's like the whole mess is healing itself at warp speed." "The home number was unlisted, but Rickman was in the ER last year... with a badly cut finger, and his wife had a Pap smear." "Dr. Willock." "Dr. Willock, excellent." "And who's taking care of this fellow now?" "It's not Dr. Stegman, is it?" "No." "Steg isn't in. I believe Hook." "Hook?" "Excellent." "Do you think so?" "Yes, indeed." "You say this Peter Rickman is quite well-known?" "Yes. ln fact, here." "I included this, in case you hadn't seen it." "I see." "Thank you, Brenda." "Quick work, and even quicker thinking." "Thank you for this." "Here, take this, and one of these... and, of course, one of these, for your car window." "Aren't they wonderful?" "Aren't they really excellent?" "Very nice." "Jesse, if this works out, the Rickmans are in a position... to give Kingdom Hospital a great deal of help." "Filthy rich, are they?" "l don't know if I'd say that, exactly, but" "No, but just between us?" "Excuse me, Jesse. I've got to run." "Have a great day." "Have yourself a "morning air" day." "l will." "Filthy rich." "Let's call a spade a spade and a chicken a chicken." "Julie, call me the minute that Peter Rickman is out of the OR." "The very minute." "Yes, Dr. James." "Perhaps you can get me an update on Hook's progress." "Yes, Dr. James." "Okay, Elmer, there it is." "A three-pound universe." "What do you know?" "Go back to sleep." "Elmer." "That nurse down there is no longer dancing to the sound of the Big Brass Band." "Would you mind squirreling her away in a corner, please?" "Thank you." "What the hell did you just do?" "I don't know." "How the hell should I know?" "I'm just the dog." "Hook." "Yeah." "Just slow down, Otto." "I'm on my way." "Mrs. Rickman, I assure you" "Are you my husband's doctor?" "That would be Hook." "He was on call when Mr. Rickman was admitted." "A neurosurgeon, one of the finest on staff." "l want to speak to him." "He's waiting for us, Mrs. Rickman." "I don't judge the living or the dead." "Antibus." "I grant wishes, prayers and dreams." "Guardian of the gate." "Am I going to die?" "This is Kingdom Hospital... which stands on uneasy ground." "Here, the cold and damp have returned." "And as the gate swings open... the dead may also return." "I'm going to give you a few moments alone with your husband now, if you'd like that." "Would you like that?" "Yes." "l would like that, Doctor" "Hook." "Now, you can speak to your husband, but... he will almost certainly not answer... although he may open his eyes." "is he in a coma?" "He's not conscious or responsive now, but that is not unusual after trauma and surgery." "Now, time may prove me wrong, but I don't expect him to be in a coma." "is he awful?" "No." "You handled that brilliantly, Hook." "And thanks for putting him in the...." "The Presidential Suite is what they call it up here." "Excuse me." "I'll just let you handle this, then, shall I?" "Make one of the Kingdom apartments available to her... if that's appropriate." "There are lots of vacancies." "Peter?" "Look at you." "Just look at you." "Oh, baby." "I didn't mean to piss you off this afternoon." "I really didn't." "Can you hear me, baby?" "Honey?" "Peter, can you hear me?" "Honey?" "Can you hear me?" "I'm here, baby." "The artist has seen the other one." "He's seen Paul?" "Hello, Lenny." "Lenny, how are you?" "Lenny, it's Sally." "Come back, Lenny. lt's Sally." "Come back." "Move your jack." "Cover that bitch." "Yes." "Good." "Lovely." "I've returned, and it's a good thing, too, Lenny." "The vibrations have changed." "They're not good here." "I heard this little child crying in the elevator." "Could be a little girl from the Children's Ward, but... I think that Kingdom Hospital is haunted." "Haunted?" "And we're going to resume our séances tomorrow, first thing." "There's no time to lose." "You have to tell the others." "Sally, you're back." "Lenny." "Oh, yes, Lenny." "Yes, darling, I'm back, and we are going to set things right." "You can count on me." "Thank you." "Can I stay with him tonight?" "No." "But... the hospital keeps apartments across the street... and I can arrange for you to stay in one of those, if you'd like." "You treated him?" "l was the admitting surgeon, yes." "Your husband had a buildup of blood on his brain, a haematoma." "That's what caused his intercranial pressure rise." "We fixed that, we hope." "He has more surgery ahead of him." "Tomorrow, he'll be in the OR again, with Dr. Freeman." "Dr. Freeman's an orthopod." "He has multiple fractures of his lower extremities." "Both his right and his left tibia... his right malleolus, and his pelvis is fractured." "is he in pain?" "He's receiving medication, which relieves the pain." "Morphine?" "I'm afraid that your husband's spine... and skull were also severely damaged." "Will he be able to walk?" "Will he be able to use his hands?" "Because... my husband is a painter." "His spine was damaged between the fourth and the fifth cervical vertebrae." "The good news is that his ability to breathe seems unimpaired." "The bad news is that, up to this point, he has shown... no ability to move his arms or his legs, and no response to stimuli... the prick of a pin, for instance." "But we're still in the first 24 hours, post-accident." "Dr. Hook, when my husband wakes up, will he be a quadriplegic?" "We're hopeful that the spine is only compressed." "If that's the case... then your husband may recover some use of his arms and his legs." "But in this type of accident, we are very worried... the damage may be permanent." "Permanent?" "Oh, my God." "I'm so sorry to tell you this." "Wait a minute." "You...." "Compressed is better than broken or fractured." "Am I correct?" "If the spine is only compressed... then he may recover some limited use of his arms and his legs." "What are the chances of it being a compression rather than a fracture?" "Not good." "How not good?" "I don't want to discourage you with statistics, Mrs. Rickman." "Statistics are for groups." "Your husband is one talented, driven man." "His chances are 100%... or zero." "And we have to be ready for the zero." "l'm sorry." "You're sorry?" "You're so sorry?" "Why do you keep saying that?" "Because there's nothing else." "The chances that your husband will wake up and be the same old Peter are small." "And the chances that he will walk again, or paint, are also small." "Although, of course, we're hopeful." "The chances that he will be his old self, and walk... infinitesimal." "I am still so sorry to tell you these things." "I'm all right." "We can afford the best possible treatment... that money can buy... but we would be glad if...." "l would be glad if you would stick by him... at least to begin with." "Thank you." "You mentioned something about apartments." "I'm going to need one of those." "Open-ended." "He's a fighter." "Good." "Okay, Ron, it's time to beat the chair and win $10,000." "Are you ready?" "I'm ready, Gene." "For $10,000... who starred in the suspense thriller Three Days of the Condor?" "Nine." "Eight." "Seven." "Six." "Five." "Four." "Three." "Two." "Dustin Hoffman?" "I'm sorry, Ron." "Robert Redford." "What a sport." "This is all your fault." "If it wasn't for you, Charlie...." "Somebody in here?" "This is so wasted." "Bobby, isn't it a beautiful morning?" "You promised you'd stop." "Never again, you said." "This is where l work." "Yes, but this time, I think I really am ill." "Still now, Mrs. Druse." "Still as a mouse." "The world is full of mysteries." ""Temporary physician's parking." Right." "Hey, nice one." "Idiots." "Why don't you learn how to drive?" "Stop that." "Sorry, Dad. I...." "Look, Dr. Stegman is clearly not coming." "We've all got a lot to do." "Let's start." "He's got a heavy caseload." "You can't expect him here on the dot." "As he has no neurological complaint, his mental condition... is irrelevant to this meeting." "Come on, Brenda." "Let's start." "lncompetent system." "I should have just been issued a windshield sticker." "Check this out." "Boston." "General." "Why don't you go collect your welfare checks?" "This is a hospital zone." "Look at him." "How's the famous artist, Hook?" "He is stable." "I admitted Eleanor Druse yesterday." "Good-time Sally's back in town." "She's presenting with numbness of the right arm and possible neurological insults." "What is this, her tenth admission?" "And that's just since I've been here." "Sooner or later, the little girl who cries wolf is telling the truth." "I've ordered an mri." "Don't be silly, Christine." "Only the Chief of Neuro can order an mri." "You know that." "That's not true, actually." "What do you mean?" "I did it." "At 7:10 this morning." "I signed off on the paperwork." "Surely not in Steg's name?" "How do I know what it looked like to the tech on duty?" "Come on, Brenda." "Kingdom Hospital Neuro can't grind to a halt because Steg oversleeps." "Don't look at him." "Hey, Doc, you're losing it." "What's up, Doc?" "You should be sterilized." "At least then you couldn't breed." "Hey, you forgot something, Doc." "Maintenance." "This is where l work." "Will you try to remember that, Mama?" "Yes, Bobby." "You're a bit of a crackpot, I guess." "But I'm very fond of you." "l have some work to do up here, so...." "Honey, don't worry about me." "I'll be fine. I know my way around this place like the back of my hand." "Mr." "Goode, I'd like to report" "Johnny's not here." "l'm just holding down the seat for him." "Where may I find him?" "I heard there was a pipe burst in the new underground parking garage." "The one they're building for the docs?" "I heard the place is filling up with water." "It'll set construction back six weeks, probably more, with winter coming on." "Doc, I hope you've got yourself a really big ice scraper... 'cause winter could start any time now, and up here, the winters are long." "lt's not like Boston." "Up here, very little is like Boston, I find." "That's the way we like it." "There's a crack in the parking lot." "You know what?" "I got one of those, too." "In the back of my pants." "Hold on, Doc." "You got to fill out a maintenance form, 44-B." "Johnny should have one here somewhere, but...." "You know what?" "You better take a seat." "This will just take a minute." "My name is Stegman." "Dr. Stegman, Chief of Neurosciences." "Pleased to meet you, Doc." "Earl Swinton." "I don't know where he keeps these things." "It's got to be here somewhere." "Hell." "Hello?" "is somebody there?" "is somebody there?" "Who are you?" "What are you?" "Who's there?" "Please." "You're frightening me." "Can't you stop that, man?" "This is a hospital." "Abel to Security." "Abel, are you down there?" "Abel to Security." "I'm not afraid of you." "I'm not frightened of you!" "I'm interested in getting some hours in the sleep lab-- l only sign off on the paperwork, Elmer, as I think you know." "Good luck." "Dr. Massingale. I heard you need volunteers in the sleep lab." "Elmer, that depends." "On what?" "Whether you're interested in working or flirting." "You've got a bit of a reputation, I'm afraid." "As a flirter?" "And for being a practical joker." "I'll be the best sleeper in the house." "Okay, but you...." "What's going on, may I ask?" "We waited, and then we held the meeting without you." "Really, Dr. Hook?" "Very funny." "But regardless of what Dr. Hook says... the meeting begins when I arrive." "It ends when I leave." "Any questions?" "Have a seat." "Any time." "Any admissions since yesterday?" "Peter Rickman, age 41 ." "Accident." "Brought in late afternoon just after you left for the day, Dr. Stegman." "The patient is presenting-- -l know what he's presenting with." "I read the papers, Dr. Hook." "How's his nut?" "His "nut," as you say, is banged up." "How severely has yet to be ascertained." "Why don't you run some tests?" "I may have to operate later." "Anyone else?" "Sally Druse, age 65, mildly hypertensive... presenting with numbness of the right arm, possible paresis, paraesthesia, or neuralgia." "I've ordered an mri." "I beg your pardon?" ""M" as in "Map," "R" as in "Rat," "l" as in "ldiot."" "Only one person in this department has the right to order an mri." "And that person is me." "Cancel it immediately, please." "l can't." "What did you say?" "It's already happened." "If you'd been in for early rounds-- l have disliked your attitude for the last six weeks, since I've been here, Dr. Hook." "I'm sorry to hear that, Dr. Stegman." "You're insubordinate and arrogant." "I'll have your job for this." "I think that went well, don't you?" "Aren't you worried?" "I got 1 2 points and a dui on my license already." "What are you doing, running in the middle of the road, anyhow?" ""Ant-solutely" delicious." "Fudgebar." "He's going V-Fib." "Come on, Danny, are we open...." "Listen." "It's a death bell." "Wake up." "Open your eyes." "No." "I do you a solid, you do me one." "That's how it works." "Tell Hook about Mary." "Tell the old woman." "They'll hear you, if you make them." "I don't understand." "You will." "And when you do, "ant-solutely" delicious." "Nat." "Natalie." "Peter." "Oh, my God." "Oh, my God, you're awake, Peter." "Hook to icu." "Room 426." "Stat." "You can move." "He's not paralysed." "Hi, baby." "The painter is back from the old Kingdom." "It's just a little one. lt'll stop in a minute." "God, not another one." "Now what?" "Minor shaker, Dr. Stegman." "We have them from time to time." "It will stop shortly." "You can let go now, Elmer. lt's over." "I would have said he was totally gorked." "He was." "What happed here?" "In medical terms?" "A miracle." "But there's a price to be paid for the miraculous." "And Blue Cross doesn't cover it." "This is Kingdom Hospital... where the ground is uneasy... and old secrets have begun to rise to the surface." "Please, come again." "Turns out there's a fault line under the hospital." "Continental drift, something of that nature." "Sure wish we'd known, would have built on the other side of the river." "Does this happen often?" "lt depends on how you define often." "We have had two or three tremors." "What?" "Since the hospital was built?" "Just this past year, I'm afraid." "But the geologist, the key person the Kingdom had brought up from Boston... assures us that they'll stop soon." "But you know geologists." "With them, soon can mean five centuries." "So how can I help you?" "As I told you when you interviewed, I'm here to help." "Yeah, well, I'm having a serious problem with Hook." "Now, he ordered an MRl-MRA scan... for Mrs. Druse without my permission... and then the scan was carried out this morning... and I was presented with it as a fait accompli." "You know what my son would say?" "No, what?" "illness sucks." "Unfortunately patients come here, don't they?" "Problem with a hospital is we're surrounded by them." "More coming every day." "Dave, you want to come down off of there?" "Sorry, I didn't mean to startle you." "It's all right, Officer Downes, you didn't startle me. I was just...." "Yeah, a little home improvement." "That's it. lt's just a little home improvement." "I want to ask you about an accident... that happened yesterday afternoon out on Route 7." "You want to come down here?" "Yeah, see, I don't know nothing about an accident, man." "I'm just shingling my roof, bro." "Yeah, I see that." "I also see that you appear to be wearing a good variety of transdermal patches." "Transdermal patches." "No, man, these ain't patches, bro... these are tattoos." "Watch it, Dave." "Watch it." "It's all right." "No problem. I had it all the way." "Why don't you come down here and tell me... about how the front of your van got all banged up." "Listen, man, I ain't seen that artist all day." "No, no. 'Cause, see, I didn't mean to." "Charlie was eating my dinner." "And he just...." "Way to go, slick." "Who's gonna feed me now?" "I got a seriously injured fellow here... on the Barker Road about a quarter mile off Route 7." "We're on it, Frank." "What have we got?" "Déjà vu all over again." "It sounds like another scoop-and-run." "Dreadfully sorry, old boy." "All right." "He can't be discharged, I agree." "But there must be consequences." "Now, I insist there be consequences here." "Calm yourself, Dr. Stegman." "Let me show you something." "You see, I've added a rising sun... to indicate the dawning of a new attitude at Kingdom Hospital." "It's morning in Lewiston." "Well, what if your potential contributors think of it as a setting sun?" "So what do you think?" "Do you like it?" "No." "Good." "Let me show you something." "Look at these." "Do you know how many times Mrs. Druse has been admitted?" "Fourteen in the last two years, and that's just in this hospital." "It's terrible to be so ill." "Now, look...." "Dr. Stegman, I wonder if I could show you around the sleep lab when you have" "Not now." "Stegman's still in a foul mood, I see." "He's not such a bad fellow." "Our young Dr. Hook won't agree, I fear." "Have you told Stegman the Klingermans have retained a med-mal lawyer?" "Not yet." "I thought his mood was foul enough as it was." "I brought you some roses, your favourite." "Now, then, open wide." "Come on, honey." "A little more." "He isn't making sense." "Rodney must have an awful high fever." "Sweetie pie, you have to eat." "Clear." "Are we in business or not?" "Not yet." "I'm going to try some epi." "Come on." "Clear." "Ladies and gentlemen, we're back." "This is so much like yesterday, it's spooky." "Clear." "Hey, Bobby, come and sit down." "I got you a coffee." "I can't." "Mama wants me upstairs." "And a prune Danish, big boy." "Also a prune Danish, big boy." "Just for a minute." "It's another one of her damn séances." "Those terminals." "They go alone." "They're all circling the drain." "Maybe your ma helps them get used to the idea." "Yeah, but I hear that Stegman's after her." "After my mama." "Let's get a portable chest and c-spine." "Cross and match report." "I'm going to get a soda." "You want one?" "Yeah, bring me a Nozzy, will you?" "Peterson's still in the local hoosegow, I see." "Hey, no problem." "Help yourself." "Why'd he kill them?" "Does it say?" "Now he claims it was for the insurance." "But what he said when he first brought them in... was that he wanted to smell them cooking, his wife and kiddies." "That's horrible." "Finish your coffee and Danish then go see your mom." "I want to read Beetle Bailey." "Catch up on Sluggo and Nancy." "Tell me where they took the children." "I don't work here, but Paeds is on 7." ""Paeds"?" "Paediatrics." "It's a real antique, huh?" "Seventh floor, thank you." "Arrest number three, and I've lost the line." "Hell and gone." "Start compressions." "Let's get a subclavian in." "Get me an 18-gauge needle, 10-millimeter syringe and a wire with a "J" hook." "I have flesh swooning underfoot, and it needs repositioning, stat." "Sunshine room 26." "This is a full code." "Repeat, full code." "Code Blue Team to Room 26." "I don't want to put him in with Hook's painter... but right now it's the only space in icu we've got." "Maybe he won't make it out of recovery?" "Recovery, what a joke." "Mama, this isn't a good idea." "Not with that Dr. Stegman mad at you." "There goes Mrs. Kinney." "She was the best gin rummy player that I ever knew." "Sorry about Mrs. Kinney, Sal." "She was something special." "Hi, Bobby." "Hey." "You having a little get-together?" "I'd watch out for Stegman if I were you." "That's what I told her." "She won't listen." "There's someone not at rest here, a little girl, I think." "I've spent most of my life trying to communicate... with people on the other side." "And I feel this spirit so powerfully." "A word to the wise, you two." "Don't let Stegman catch you talking to the spirits." "That should make you feel better, Lenny." "Now you heard her, Mama." "Let me put these chairs" "You will not." "The dead only want one thing, Bobby." "l know." "To go into the light." "And how we gonna help them... if we don't know why they're caught in between... why they won't leave the lair of the living." "The dying are very powerful." "Will you go get the others?" "Mama...." "Okay." "You want me to go do it myself, fine." "All right." "Sally, Bobby, how are you?" "We're just fine, Lenny, just fine." "I must have dozed off." "I keep expecting to do that and wake up dead." "Oh, no." "Lenny, you got a long time before you join the dead." "No, Mrs. D, he used to leave." "Had other business I guess." "But now he's always right behind me." "Who is, Mr. Stillmach?" "The emperor of ice cream." "I'll get the others, Mama." "Are we going to make the circle, Mrs. D?" "Yes, Lenny, we are." "There is someone here who needs us." "Peter, wake up, damn it." "God, you were awake before." "Where are you now?" "I'm right here, Nat." "Peter, please." "What happened?" "He was here." "He was responsive." "He said your name, Mrs. Rickman." "It may not be the same thing." "I don't understand what you mean." "Your husband may be semiconscious." "He may be hearing every word that we say and just unable to respond." "Then why doesn't he open his eyes?" "They are open." "Mrs." "Rickman." "lt's Natalie." "Nat." "Your husband experienced frontal lobe trauma." "When he awoke so soon after...." "l've never seen anything like it." "I've heard about it, I've never seen it." "Now, Babinski signs are negative." "Okay?" "This tells us two things:" "First, your husband may not be paralysed." "Second, there seems to be no damage whatsoever... to the cortical spinal tract." "It's a miracle to my way of thinking." "And it gets better." "The EEG shows that your husband is producing organized brain wave activity." "He's still having complex partial seizures, but we're dealing with these with Dilantin." "Wait." "These seizures mean that he's going to slip again?" "He's exhibiting some disorganized rhythms." "Just more than we'd like." "This is nonsense." "I'm wide awake and I understand everything you're saying." "Can he hear us?" "Hear?" "Probably." "Process, probably not." "The sound of your voice means much more to him than any words that you might say." "Your fly's unzipped." "So who gave you a license to sell hot dogs, Sonny Jim?" "He still has some bacterial hot spots, okay?" "Hot spots?" "Yeah, the gall bladder, although it's quieting down." "And there's still some haziness in his right lung." "But it is diminishing." "Dr. Montrovie doesn't think he's going to develop pneumonia after all." "Pneumonia?" "lt happens, Mrs. Rickman." "Nat." "But the major bugs that we're dealing with... are right down in here." "Watch your hand, Dr. Kildare." "We cultured the bacteria from the compound fracture sites." "We've identified the antibiotics that the bugs are most susceptible to." "That way we can send in guided missiles, as opposed to broad-spectrum antibiotics." "Red underwear." "Look, Nat, his schavenga." "The famous Dr. Hook, the world famous Dr. Hook." "I wonder if I might beg a moment of your time." "Dr. Stegman, Natalie Rickman." "And her husband, Peter." "How do you do?" "My patient." "Who's this bozo?" "We're having a bit of a consult." "l see." "I'll simply have to discharge the malingerer without you." "Good day, Mrs. Rickman." "Sorry to intrude." "Would you give me one minute?" "Of course." "Looks like Dr. Hook's in trouble." "Looks like Dr. Hook is in trouble." "So, we have our eyes closed and we're preparing to voyage." "We're lifting our energies to the higher mental level... and cleansing this room and all of us in it... by purifying... the emotional energy of the lair of the living." "Are there spirits here?" "Will you speak with us?" "is there a child?" "Come to us and speak to us." "Sorry to drag you away from your consultation, Hook... but I thought you may be interested in these $4,000 pictures of your Mrs. Druse's nut." "l wish you'd stop calling her my Mrs. Druse." "But she is." "If not for you and Dr. Draper here... she'd be out on the street right now where she belongs... so you take a look and you point out for me... any meningiomas or gliomas or aneurysms or astrocytomas." "See anything like that?" "No?" "That's 'cause they're not there." "What's this?" "What?" "It's nothing." "An artefact at best, a flawed image." "Perhaps even a chip in the lens of the imager." "Not the first piece of substandard equipment around here." "Possibly it's a UBO." "Unidentified bright object." "That old wives' tale." "What's next?" "Giant alligators in the sewers... or great hordes of expensive equipment squirreled away in secret rooms." "You come with me... I'll show you how we deal with the Mrs. Druses of the world in Boston." "I'm gonna take a rain check on that if you don't mind." "I've been on duty for the last 1 4 hours." "Sixteen hours." "Nonsense." "Now if your boots are big enough to order a $4,000 mri scan without my approval... then they're big enough to flick one elderly leech off the skin of this hospital." "Come on." "You know, unidentified bright objects are sometimes actual lesions... confirmed by autopsies in several report cases." "Yeah, well, some people wish rain were beer, but it ain't." "You know, I thought my husband was supposed to have a private room." "Dr. James asked me to tell you that this is only temporary." "All the other pods are full." "Oh, man, you gotta be kidding me." "What's the matter with him?" "Fractured skull, severe brain swelling." "C4 fracture of the spine, and that's just for starters." "My God." "l understand he fell off his roof." "The poor man." "That's the idiot who...." "Hey, are you awake?" "Hey, honey." "My God." "Look at you, Peter, you look absolutely terrified." "Nurse, could you please come check him?" "His heart rate's a little high but everything else looks okay, Mrs. Rickman." "He may have been dreaming." "Man, I hope I was dreaming." "You should talk to him, keep him connected." "Oh, yeah, that's what Dr. Hook said." "Hook?" "He's the best." "Hey, Peter." "Honey, can you open your eyes?" "Peter, open your eyes if you can hear me." "I'm here." "Open your eyes, it was a bad dream." "lt's okay." "I wish it was a dream." "I don't think it was." "Someone is coming." "He seeks one in this circle." "He's getting closer." "is she here?" "Druse, I heard she was on this floor." "She's in the solarium, but she's busy right now." "Busy, busy." "For one so ill, dear, dear." "Steg, what are you doing here?" "Come with me." "School's in session." "Blonde, tall... one lost in his inner darkness." "He's a pitiful, terrible man." "He means me harm." "Excuse me." "Good morning, ladies and gentlemen." "This was entirely my doing, Doctor." "I'm sure it was." "ls this Druse, Nurse Bannerman?" "Yes." "The healthy one?" "Yes." "Come with me, Mrs. Druse." "Inside this skull is another universe... the biggest, scariest, haunted house of them all." "You did this." "Nurse!" "Let the lamper fix its beam." "The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream." "Hello." "Hello, where is everybody?" "Mrs. Rickman, what's the matter?" "The man that you just put in with my husband... I think he's having some kind of seizure." "Popsicle or Fudgesicle?" "Full code." "Call Dr. Traff." "What happened?" "Come on." "I heard a bell." "What?" "Her name is Mary." "So you're a kind of a spiritual guru to the terminal patients here, is that right?" "It's all a sham." "Just like all the illnesses that she dreams up to get in here." "These are six admissions... just this year and 1 4 over the last two." "You are a malingerer." "This is not a hotel, madam, no matter how often you may treat it like one." "That's enough, Doctor" "No, my good Dr. Hook, it is not enough." "Not quite." "You're a parasite on the body of this hospital... and it's you and all of your type that hold it back from greatness." "Now, look, mark them well." "Nota bene." "Here is the medulla of a malingerer... the hippocampus of a hypochondriac... and the midbrain of a Munchausen." "You discharge this patient immediately, and if he won't do it, you do it." "Yes, Dr. Stegman." "This is my fault." "Will you take care of discharging this patient, Dr. Hook?" "This is my patient." "Dr." "Hook." "I'll take good care of this lady, thank you." "Good." "Sorry you were subjected to that, Mrs. Druse." "You know what they say, sticks and stones." "Young man, your fly is unzipped." "Elmer, what is this?" "A surprise, that's what it is." "Who are you?" "Rudy Jenkins, ma'am." "Maintenance." "What happened to Mr. Goode?" "He's out today, wisdom teeth." "Okay, Elmer, what are we doing...." "Dinner for two in chez mort." "And the cuisine, I promise, is excellent." "No cafeteria chow." "This is from Hook's private stock." "Madame?" "What about him?" "Someone else's responsibility... and as long as he doesn't want any of our champagne, who cares?" "This is insane." "I'm insane, especially when it comes to you." "Elmer, don't think I'm not flattered." "I am, but you can't be thinking that you and I..." "could sort of" "No." "Let the lady taste." "Please." "Excellent." "But I'm gonna say again" "We can discuss our age difference later, if you want." "For now, let's just enjoy our dinner." "Fresh asparagus and noisettes of veal... new potatoes with crème brûlée to follow." "Please." "All right, Elmer." "If you please, waiter." "Merci." "To the Traffs, who never give up." "To the Massingales... who never give in." "I'll call you a taxi." "Thank you, but that's not necessary, Dr. Hook." "This bus stops right across the street, and that's not even the point." "What is the point, Mrs. Druse?" "There is something wrong here." "There are many things wrong here." "There is a little child not at rest... and we may hear her going down in that elevator." "Paediatrics?" "This child is not from Paediatrics." "Dr. Hook, this is a child that is not even alive." "And I think you may find out because you're not as closed off as some... and it's not just the child." "Things have changed here at Kingdom Hospital... since the last time that I was here, and something has awakened... something evil." "That child needs help." "If I'm to help, I must be here." "I don't think that that's going to be...." "There." "Did you hear that?" "Yes." "We're nowhere near Paediatrics." "What are we, below four?" "icu." "Who's in there?" "Are you all right?" "Yeah, Otto, fine." "We just hit the wrong button by mistake." "Is that Hook?" "Yep." "Push the stop, give it about 15 seconds, the car will restart." "Right." "It sounds like she's right on top of the car." "Yes, but is it the voice of a living child?" "Listen to the echoes." "That's the sound of a voice coming from Swedenborgian space." "What?" "Never mind." "Look, can you tell me that there's a living child on top of this elevator car?" "Well, if there is, I'm going to get her down." "Whatever you do, don't hit the button while I'm up here." "l've had enough excitement for one day." "Of course I won't." "But, Dr. Hook, please, be careful." " Dr. Hook?" " Fine." "I'm fine, Mrs. D." "Did you find anything?" "Yes." "A doll." "I want to see it!" "I dropped it." "Please come down." " Please, because we must get it." " In a minute, Mrs. Druse." "Just give me a minute." "Yeah." "Rot in hell, Counsellor." ""And blessed be the fruit." Okay." "Dear Rolf, I'm waiting for you, honey." "I'll be there for you every single day." "And even though I know you don't believe it... your Lord and Saviour will be there for you every day as well." "I know you didn't do nothing wrong." "And if you did, well, it was for us." "Yeah." "Rot in hell, Harriet." "I'm praying for you, honey." "And I love you so much." "Harriet." "PS. ;" "I did like you asked me." "See you soon." "The Lord is with thee." "Blessed art thou among women... and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus." "The Lord is with thee." "Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our deaths." "Amen." "Amen." "Okay, baby, I'm coming." "I'm coming, baby." "Here I come." "I'm coming." "I love you, baby." "Mrs. Druse, I'd like to introduce you to my friends, Abel and Christa." "Hello." "It's lovely to meet both of you." "Are you brother and sister?" " We're all brothers." " We're all sisters." "That's very Christian." "How do you always know exactly what to bring?" " Listen, can you open..." " Car two." "Always car two." " Her dolly." " The little girl's dolly." "What little girl?" "Can you reach it, Christa?" "It's handmade." "And it's very, very old." "If you could talk, what would you say?" "Got your lunch, Rolf." "Sooie, pig, pig!" "Hey, we got a problem here." "We've got a problem with Petersen." "He's got the place to himself again, I see." "Elmer just took Hooman down to the morgue." "That one didn't last long." " Isn't he Hook's patient?" " He asked me to check in on him." "So what's his deal?" "These numbers don't look exactly terrific." "He woke up." "Even talked to his wife." "But now he's fading again." " It looked good for a while." " Where's the wife?" "Dr. James put her up in one of the Kingdom apartments." "She went back for a while." "She was exhausted." "At least he's not paralysed." " How many miracles do you want in a day?" " As many as we can get." " You want to come along, Carrie?" " Of course, Dr. Draper." "What did you see, Dr. Hook?" " What did you see on top of that elevator?" " I'm not sure." "I think you are." "Was it the little girl?" "I thought I saw... a young child, yes, clinging to the cables." "But that..." "It's impossible." "Is this impossible?" "That little girl needs help." "She's calling out for it." "You must have felt that." "I want to find her, Dr. Hook." "I want to help her, but I need you to help me." "Can you get me readmitted?" "Steg would have a heart attack." "And wouldn't that be a shame." "God forgive me." "Man, this sucks!" "Why did we have to get a call... with the wagon full of your brother's stereo equipment?" "Because squeeze happens, bro." "Seriously." "Sorry about the stereo components, dude." "Man, his eyes are bulging right out of his skull." "Pupils?" "It's like two piss holes in a snowbank." "It's scaring the hell out of me." "Hang in there, little buddy." "Seven minutes." "You got an airway?" "Negative." "He's grinning like the Joker in Batman." "I can't do it." "What are you doing?" "Turn that off." "How can it be on?" "There's no power." "Look out!" "Every time I turn up the O2, I'm getting more bass out of the woofer." "He's doing the watusi." "I'll have to slow him down." "Valium might do it if he's given himself a strychnine p.o." "How can it be on?" " Where'd it go?" " What are you doing?" " Did you see that?" " What?" "This guy's going to aspirate a bolus of barfola!" "This is the last time I help you do your brother a favour." "Tube him!" "It's like trying to tube a timber hitch." "Just go." "You want to drive?" "Drive!" " You sure you want to get involved in this?" " After what Steg pulled?" "Are you kidding?" " I'll get James." " Do you think that's necessary?" "Under the circumstances?" "Yes." "What's that, dear?" "Novocain." "ABC?" "Airway's shut tight." "Is "B" for breathing or barf?" "Circulation, probably not." "So I'll guess "D," none of the above." "Remember that Raver kid we had?" "Had the bad batch of LSD cut with strychnine?" "This guy could be his chemical big brother." "What a trip." "Get him in Trauma 1." "Elmer, we'll roto-root, lavage, and stuff his belly full of charcoal." "Public enemy number 1." " You want to help?" " I'm booked." "Do everybody a favour." "Let him die." "So let me just say in closing, I've never been involved in a project so exciting... as Operation Morning Air." "We..." "Dr. Hook is here to see you." "He says it's urgent." "Urgent?" "Goodness." "Send him in." "Wonderful to see you." "I have some new Morning Air stickers, and I'd like your opinion." "Maybe later." "Right now I have a patient for admission." "I'd like you to sign off on the paperwork." " I hardly think that's necessary." " Under the circumstances, maybe." "Steg asked me to sign her out, and I was going to, but... she's taken a turn for the worse." "Oh, dear." "How bad is it?" "She may have suffered a small stroke." "The side of her face is numb and sagging." " Is she coherent?" " Yes, but if you could just come." "Right away." "If the Valium doesn't loosen him up, we'll switch to Versed." "Hold on, honey pie." "We need you to show us how to make the turn into his stomach instead of his lungs." "Not today." "Not this one." "Please?" "That would be the trachea." "His eyes..." "His eyeballs are bleeding." "Dr. James, thank you so much for coming." "We didn't want to disturb you..." " but Hook thought it might be better..." " It's what I'm here for." "Where is..." "Mrs. Druse, are you all right?" "I'm fine, dear." "It's just that... my waterworks... are just a little slow, that's all." "Mrs. Druse presented yesterday... with pins and needles and numbness of the right arm." "And now do you notice how the mouth sags a little?" "Goodness, yes." "It's like I got Novocain at the dentist." "And feel my arm, Doctor." "Goodness, that's cold." "I can barely feel it." " Have you done a pin test?" " Yes." "I think a CT scan is warranted." "Perhaps another MRI." "Definitely an MRI." "I'd like to have Mrs. Druse admitted for observation, two days at the least." " Maybe a week." " Perhaps even 10 days." "Oh, yeah." "Dr. Stegman won't like the expense." "Dr. Stegman has other worries today, I'm afraid." "Mona Klingerman's mother." "I'm Renee Klingerman." "When is..." " my daughter's doctor expected?" " Dr. Stegman will be here at 4:00." "Good." "I'd like to see Mona's chart before I meet him." "What is it?" "What are you dreaming of?" "Peter, what is going on with you?" "Honey?" "Peter." "Hey, buddy." "Long time no see." "What are you?" "Different things to different people." "You just remember, I do you a solid, you do me a solid." "That's how it works." "You saved my life." " And you got me out of that halo." " I did more than that." "I saved the quality of your life." "But you're not out of the woods yet." "You're getting a new roommate." "I'd watch out for him, if I were you." "How's that one?" "A loading dose of strychnine." "A dirty rat who got into some rat poison." "Aspiration's his main problem now." "Seems the dirty rat's girlfriend sent him the stuff in prison." "Took her own share." "A suicide pact." "Unlike Rolf here, she made it." "Here we go, Mama." "Hop on in." "Nonsense, Bobby." "Your mama has work to do." "Little girl." "Little girl?" "If you're here, bring motion." "She's not here." "Of course she's not here." "Why would she be in this room?" "I'll start in the basement, and I'll take her doll... 'cause she'll be looking for her doll." "You can't go wandering around the hospital on your own." "No?" "Then you come with me." " Mama." " Come along." "The old lady has begun searching." " Will she find the little girl?" " The little girl's with the dead." " That's spooky." " Yes, it is spooky." "She may find the other one." " The bad boy?" " The bad boy." "Look at this idiocy." " All gone." " Thank you." "Mrs. Druse, Bobby." " Hey, Johnny." " Like the purse." "Debonair, but sleek." "Maintenance." " That's not your job." " No, Steg, I'm fine." "All I did was answer the phone." "It is my job." "This is Dr. Stegman in Neuroscience." "The earthquake has rendered my office a shambles." "I need someone to put it right immediately, please." "Look, Doc, that sounds like Housekeeping." "Dial 42." " No, I want you to do it." " I'm kind of busy." " Is this Goode?" "John B. Goode?" " Hawke." "Johnny's out for the day with his teeth." "Listen, Doc, I'm really kind of busy here." "Just dial 42... and they'll look after you." "Listen to me." "In Boston, they would..." "This is Lewiston, Maine, or didn't you notice?" " Look, I insist that..." " Have a nice day, Doc." "See?" "All better." "Mama fixed it." "See, mama fix office... now mama fix Steg." "Kiss it and make it all better." "God, Brenda, I despair of this place." "The head of the hospital is brainless, and the staff are morons... and Hook defies me at every turn." "Steg, you have to calm down... and you must make an effort to get along." "Now they want me to join this idiotic organisation:" "The Keepers of the Kingdom." "Yeah." "Oh, God." "Listen, this meeting with the Klingerman girl's mother?" "This foolish woman is making noises about going to the licensing board." "Hasn't anybody ever told her... that if you go prospecting around in a person's nut... sometimes things happen?" "But, see, if things should go badly... the Keepers may be able to help you." "Yeah?" "You are a great man, Steg." "You are a genius." "A genius can see far... even from the shoulders of little men." "If you should run into problems with Mona's mother... for the Keepers... such problems sometimes go away." "Are you tired, Mama?" " Would you like a wheelchair?" " Yes, dear, that would be nice." "Wait here for me." "I don't want to go looking for you all over the hospital." "Okay, Bobby." "Yes, of course." "Little girl?" "If you're here, give me a sign." "You are here." "You are." "I know you're here." "Give me a word, little girl." "Help me." "Who are you?" "You're no child." "What are you?" "Druse." "Look at me, honey." "Please, look at Mama." "What's that son of a bitch done to you?" " Your turn." " We share." "Yes, we do." "Patients and doctors expected to share the elevator." "Ridiculous." "Don't you think?" "It's not that way at Boston General, I'll tell you that." "I got it from Housekeeping." "Keep it." "Don't they have mag cards at Boston General?" "Bobby, thank you." "I am so tired." "At least you made contact with the little girl, Mama." "It sounded like a little girl, but I'm not sure it was her." " Then who?" " I don't know, Bobby." "I'm scared." "Then stop." "It's too late." "Whatever spoke to me knows who I am." "Mama." "Bobby, please take me to my room." "I'm really tired." "The Klingerman chart, please." "Mrs. Klingerman is still here." "I was gonna page you." "Yes, I had a few tasks to perform." "I know that may seem strange to the Mrs. Klingermans of the world... but it's true." "Nurse Von Trier, come with me, please." " How can I help?" " Well, by listening." "In situations like this... it's best to have an impartial witness to the conversation." "A little more, darling." "Can you?" "That's good, honey." "Can you say "good"?" " Hello, Mrs. Klingerman, I'm Dr. Stegman..." " I know who you are." "You were supposed to be here at 4:00." "I'm sorry." "Things came up." "We don't have enough qualified doctors to go around, unfortunately... and illness sucks, as a young friend of mine likes to say." "How's Mona doing tonight?" "Sweet little Mona." "She used to be an "A" student, Dr. Stegman." "Did you know that?" "I just wanted to offer a few comments and observations... about your daughter's surgery..." "Her face is the only comment I need." "She used to be an "A" student." "Now she can't eat." "She wears a diaper." "God help me, I almost wish you'd killed her instead of only ruining her!" "No, please, Mrs. Klingerman, we mustn't be so negative." "Mona does have a long road ahead of her, but she is alive." "And in time, with proper rehabilitation... she'll be able to learn a great deal." " Really?" " Absolutely." "Of course." "There will be times... when she'll be able to perform lots of functions." "Housework, for example." " Did you say "housework"?" " Yeah." "The repetitive functions... of setting a table, for example... and making a bed... is fully within her cognitive scope." "Unfortunately, vacuuming will probably always be beyond her..." "Dr. Stegman, I think that perhaps, for the meantime... it would be best for..." "My husband and I have retained the services of a law firm, Dr. Stegman." "We're told they're the best medical malpractice lawyers... in the state." "Perhaps, when they're done with you... you can get a job vacuuming." "During the concluding phase of your daughter's surgery... we had to remove more healthy brain tissue than we would have liked." "That's because we were trying to completely remove the cyst." "I was being assisted by a young fellow." "I wouldn't call him incompetent, but overzealous, perhaps... a little aggressive." "But these things happen in the field of neurosurgery... from time to time." "But these innuendos that I had..." "Don't be silly!" "This isn't an innuendo." "It's an accusation!" "You butchered my daughter's brain!" "And very soon... you'll be facing the same accusation in court!" "Are you getting all this?" "I hope you are." "Mrs. Klingerman, Dr. Stegman..." "Medical malpractice lawyer, the meddy-mals, yeah." "The vampires." "Always there." "Always willing to assure the grieving parents... that there's no such thing as fate, only bad doctors!" "At Boston General..." "At Boston General, you killed a woman with a garden-variety meningioma... by continuing to operate, when your own anaesthesiologist told you... her blood pressure had fallen dangerously low!" "That is a damned lie!" "I was doing a thorough job!" "No, that is why you're here, Doctor... at the only hospital, God knows why... that still believed in you." "And my Mona... you cut into the wrong side of her brain, didn't you?" "Right?" "Left?" "Left?" "Right?" "Do you know the difference?" "Do you even care?" "Who told you such a monstrous lie?" "Someone who was there." "Someone who will repeat it in court." "Let me tell you, after that jury comes in..." "I promise you, you will never have the opportunity... to hurt another child." "And your next job..." "Now, if you'll excuse me..." "I would like to continue feeding... my future housekeeper." " Here we have a patient's mother..." " There you are." "...an expert, no doubt, at writing invitations... to charity events at country clubs... accusing the author of over 17 scholarly articles in the field of neurosurgery... of malpractice?" "Madam, I have opened a few skulls in my time!" "I've cracked my share of nuts." "I've saved more than my share of lives." "Even in this godforsaken patch of nowhere... there's such a thing as defamation of character!" "So you sue." "Sure, you go ahead!" "You be my guest." "I will countersue you the next day, the next hour... and when my lawyers are finished with you, madam..." "Leave us alone!" "Peter, wake up." "Please, wake up." " Who are you?" " My name is Mary." "Why do you look so sad?" "I lost my dolly." "Is that all?" "I'm afraid." "Who are you afraid of, honey?" "Of him!" " Leave her alone." " Leave it alone, short time." "Butt out." "That'd be my advice." "She's not the only one who has a bell." " Help me!" " How?" "Let Antibus help you!" "Who the hell..." "No." "Come back." "I don't believe this." "How are you doing, champ?" "Sleeping the sleep of the just?" "Can I get a little help over here, Elmer?" "Of course." "This place is crazy." "You've got to find the little girl." "She and her pet, whatever it is, saved my life... and now she's in trouble." "Thank you, dear." "It's a shame about Mr. Stillmach, isn't it?" "Lenny?" "What about Lenny?" "He's taken a turn for the worst." "Dr. Haven says he's going." "Probably tonight." "You know what?" "You can take this." "Thank you, anyway." "Okay." "Good night, Dr. Stegman." "Elvis has left the building." "Who did this?" "Maine hick scum!" "How dare you!" "There will be reprisals for this!" "Reprisal!" ""Good-night..." ""sweet prince."" "Mustn't be greedy." ""And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!"" "You old grumpikins." "What in the hell are you doing in here?" "This is Emma Warburton." "I'm having a heart attack." "What the hell is going on here?" "Unit 19, what's your 10?" "According to the telephone trace-back... your 20 is 15 Belknap Road, Castle Rock." "10-4, we're on it." "Lady at Belknap Road." "May be a vapour lock." "It's probably just heartburn." "He's such a sweet old man." "And he loves the séances." "Is he in much pain, Nurse Bannerman?" "No, Sister Morphine is visiting him tonight." "He's just slipping in and out of consciousness." "Good." " This is very kind of you, Mrs. D." " Nonsense." "Lenny and I, we have been through the wars together." "Now, if you get frightened, all you have to do is ring his bell." "I won't get frightened... because I have sat with the dying before, and always... the jaw drops... and that's it." "Hey, Lenny, it's Sally." "And I'll be right here... with my crossword puzzle." "Not that I can figure out the words, ever." "What we've all come to." "Hook to Trauma 1." "Hook to Trauma 1, stat." "Hook to Trauma 1, stat." "Yeah." "Is that you, Sally?" "Yes, Lenny." "I'm here." "Where have you been all day?" "I've been ghost-hunting." "You and your ghosts." "Yeah, Sally and her ghosts." "How I loved you, Sally." "You and all your crazy ghosts." "All my crazy ghosts." "We had to do it in a chair... because of my arm." "Remember?" "Of course I remember." "That was our day." "It was only the once... but it was for the ages." "Yes, it was for the ages." " Mississippi 1." " Mississippi 2." "Mississippi 3." "Amiodarone 300, IV Push." "The IV's infiltrated." "I don't see any more veins." "Hook, we lost the antecubital." "Can you get a central line in for me?" "Sure." "Stop compression, Ollie." "It's not a rhythm there." "It's an afterthought." "What happened?" "The old guy she nurses says he scared her." "She went down." "Doesn't matter." "This bitch is coming back." "I set my heart on it." "Look, V-Fib." "Come on, Liz, get the defibrillator ready." " Are you sure?" " Sure." "Clear." "I got rhythm." "No, you will not!" "I used to hate myself." "I like myself now." "I used to hate myself." "I like myself now." "I used to hate myself." "I like myself now." "Did hate." "Now like." "I tried to save that little girl." "I tried so hard." "I like myself now." "This harassment will end." "It will end today." "Oh, my God!" " All right, back to work." " You sure, man?" "Yes." "Come on, people, work with me." "Give me a cardiac needle." " I think she's gone, Doctor." " She's not until I say so." "You heard the man." "What do you think?" "It's just aftershock." "It's over." "Are you sure?" "No." "I'm dying, aren't I?" "Yes, Lenny." " Are you afraid?" " A little." "Don't be." "You're just passing over... to be with those crazy ghosts... and so many wonderful friends waiting for you." "Lenny." " Can you hear a bell?" " No." "Well, yes, very faint." "Probably the nurses' station." "You were so beautiful." "Thank you." "I'm not going to argue with you at a time like this." " Would you like to get some sleep?" " No." "I want to be 25." "Hold compressions." "Emma." "Ready with the defibrillator." "Nurse, procainamide, 100 milligram, bolus." "Amiodarone, epi to the heart, and now procainamide?" "Come on now, it's over." " Who gave her amiodarone?" " You did." " She's gone, Louis." " She is not gone." "She's..." "You had no right to leave like that, Emmy-Jean." "No right!" "No damn..." "That's enough." "Why didn't you die on someone else's shift?" "What in God's name was that about?" "That was Emma Warburton." "For a few brief, shining moments, 25 years ago... she was Mrs. Louis Traff." "Hook, come over here." "I want to show you something." " Fire?" " Six months at Stevens Memorial." "She got hooked on painkillers and then she was released." "Later, there was a drug scandal." "She was charting pain meds as if they were for a patient... but she was actually stealing them for herself." "She beat the rap." "Not with Louis, though." "He waited for the dust to settle... and then he divorced her." "She Elmer Traff's mother?" "It was a long time ago." "I've already said too much as it is." "As for Elmer, keep your trap shut." "That young man has enough problems as it is." "Yeah, we're going to have to use these next time." "Good morning, gentlemen." "I'm the owner of that car over there." "So?" "So I'd like to know who defaced it." "It's dented and it's been tagged." "It wasn't us." "So buzz off, daddy." "I'm willing to pay for the information." "If either of you had anything to do with it, I'd be willing to forget about it, this time." "This time?" "So what are you gonna do next time?" "Cut us with a scalpel?" "There's more than one way to operate." "You know, there's a law against pointing guns at people." "I'm not pointing it at you." "I'm showing it to you." "And if you were to tell a cop... that the Chief of Neurosciences at Kingdom Hospital... showed a gun to you... and the Chief of Neurosciences said that he did not... whom do you think would be believed?" "The ones who tagged your Jag were wearing white, all right?" "You're lying." "I don't know, like orderlies, white unis." "A man and a woman." "Young." "You know their names?" "You're kidding, right?" " Buy yourselves some breakfast." " But we're gonna miss the job call." "You see them again, you call me at this number." "I'll make it worth your while." "Try to get their names." "I want to know their names." " Mississippi 1." " Mississippi 2." "Mississippi 3." "How's your mama?" "Has she found her ghost yet?" "Not yet." " I'm starting to wonder, though." " What?" "Maybe there isn't something in it." "Is there anything..." "I can do for you?" "There might be." "When you go over... you'll pass through Swedenborgian space." "If I'm right... that little girl that I've been looking for, she'll be there." "She hasn't gone over." "I don't know why." "I don't even know her name." "Her name is Mary." "She's afraid of the boy." "When you get to the other side... there's this beautiful, golden light at the end... that will be beckoning to you." "Don't go for just a moment." "Call the girl." "Ask her what she wants... and how can I help her." "Can you do that for me?" "Oh, Lenny, my Lenny." "Are you there?" "If that was you, flash the light again." "Yes, Lenny." "Oh, thank you." "Thank you so much." "Wait." "Don't go." "What can I ask you?" "Yes, I got it." "You'll flash the light once for "yes"... twice for "no," and three times for "I don't know."" "Can you do that for me, Lenny?" "Have you passed over?" "Are you in the dark place?" "Do you see the beautiful, bright, golden light... beckoning to you?" "Yes." "And is it so beautiful?" "Wait, we're wasting time." "You can only stay so long." "What do I ask?" "Ask who knows her name." "Okay." "Is there anyone in this hospital... who knows her name?" "A doctor?" "No, not a doctor." "No doctor." "A nurse?" "A patient?" "Can you tell me the room number?" "Nat?" "Rolf, wake up." "Harriet." " They told me..." " Hush." "Don't wake him like this." " Harriet?" " That's better." "You're dead." "I heard one of them say so." "They thought I was out, but I listen." "You were supposed to be dead, too." "That was the plan." "You're not..." "You're really that boy." "If you wake him up, I'll make you sorry." "There's an old woman, a meddling old woman." "If she comes in here and she tries to talk to your roomie, kill her." " Why?" " Never mind." "Just do it." "I'm not sure I can." "You can." "You better." "Do you know the beauty part?" "No one will even ask you why you did it." "You're crazy." "That's why I'm seeing you, isn't it?" "Because I'm crazy." "You don't really believe that?" "No." "I'm waiting for you." "Don't scream." "You'll wake the other sleepers." " Nightmare?" " Horrible." "The worst I ever had." "We agreed to stick to a platonic relationship." "You agreed." "I disagreed." " Did I scream?" "Is that why you woke me up?" " No." "Tell me what you remember of your dream." "They fade, you know." " I'll never forget this one." " Tell me." "Yes, you're the one." "Sir." "I'm sorry to disturb you." "Truly, I am." "But we need to talk." "Can you wake up, sir?" "This is really important." "Mrs. Druse." "What are you doing here?" "That would take a bit of explanation... but, Dr. Hook, I must talk to this man." "This man is in serious condition." "You can't talk to him." "But someone already has been." " That's it?" " All I can remember." "So tell me, Frau Doctor, am I having the sexual problem?" "Yeah, deviant interest in older women." "Have breakfast with me in chez mort." "Listen, if your father knew that we'd been dining in the morgue... we would both be in a lot of trouble." "My father forgot what it was like to be young and horny around the time..." "Abner Doubleday invented football." "Abner Doubleday invented baseball, dear child." "And your father's the reason that I woke you up early." " He wants to see you." " About what?" "I don't know, but it sounded serious." "He's in the lounge." "The Traffs never give up." "Did I tell you that?" "Don't be tiresome, Elmer." "Please, listen." "I know that you and Dr. Draper took a great risk to get me readmitted... so I could investigate that little girl we both heard." "That you saw." "But that man in 426, Mr. Rickman, knows." "He knows who she is." "Lenny told me the room number." "The pendulum, it showed me which patient." "Mr. Rickman needs to talk to me." " Mrs. Druse..." " Sally, please." "Sally, with all due respect, you can't know that." "But I do." "If Dr. Stegman gets wind of this... even the keepers of the Kingdom might not be able to save my job." "You're not afraid of Dr. Stegman." "I know you're not." "Maybe not." "But I am afraid of what Nat Rickman might think... if she found out I let Kingdom Hospital's most notorious psychic hypochondriac... use her neurologically-impaired husband as an Ouija board." "Excuse me, I am not a hypochondriac." "Okay, Sally." "Let me think it over, okay?" "Maybe I'll even talk to Chris Draper about it." "That's a good idea." "She's a very intelligent young woman." " Just one other thing." " Make it the last other thing, please." "There's something wrong in that room." "I think that your Mr. Rickman is in real danger." " From who?" " I don't know... but I can feel him, it, something." "I'd leave instructions to keep a close watch on Mr. Rickman." "I'd do that... if I were you." "Well, beat me, Daddy, down to the floor." "I'm back to normal." "I've been cooling my heels here for 45 minutes." "Where have you been?" "How dare you do that again?" "Sleep lab." "Then..." "I was all sweaty." " Bad dreams?" " The worst." "How many sleep sessions?" "This was my third." "Why?" "You don't want a cut, do you?" "The pay is pretty small." "Nightmares every time?" "Two out of three." "I think it's the hospital food, but..." "Wait." "What did you want to see me about?" "I got a cardiac arrest just before dawn." "It was your mother." "I did everything I could, everything I could think of." "I'm sorry." "Son." "Am I weak?" "Did I get that from her?" "It's like I hardly knew her." "You had something to do with that." "I mean, of course, so did I." "Elmer, I tried." "I did." "I suppose you did." "You're a Hippocratic oath man all the way." "Was she high?" "I don't know." "Will there be an autopsy?" "As a keeper of the Kingdom, in good standing..." "I suppose that's partially up to me." "What do you think?" "No autopsy, please." "Let her rest in peace." "What do you know?" "He's Sandman-positive." " Good morning, Doctor." " You're here early." "Surgery?" "Surgery, yes." "Perhaps." "Won't somebody help me?"