"Previously on Childrens Hospital:" "I just wish we could hit rewind." " Life's not a VCR." " I know." " Goodbye, Blake." " Goodbye, Freckles." "You're fired, Dr. Spratt, because I'd rather be liked than right." " You're not fired." "You're rehired." " Sweet." "Babies." "Somewhere under all the masks we acquire, we're just babies." "Unwritten upon." "Innocently pooping in public places." "Where did you come from, little one?" "Oh, what's this?" ""Please help me." "My real parents can't take care of me." "They can barely take care of themselves." "Please find me a home. "" "I'll try, little one." "I'll try." "Then we grow up and change." "Until we realize that the people we thought we knew were just more babies wearing masks." "You can't judge a book by its cover." "Unless it's a Mexican novella." "You know what you're getting there." "A peasant girl is gonna get raped by a wealthy landowner." "What are you gonna do?" "Whoa, Dr. Maestro, you know hospital policy on sunglasses." "Heart surgeons only." "Take them off." "Dr. Maestro, what happened to you?" "It's nothing, Dori." "I fell down a flight of fists." "Listen, Owen, I had a friend who was always making excuses for her bruises." "Turned out, it was her husband who had been beating her." "A friend, huh, Dori?" "And what happened to this friend?" "She got a job as a nurse in a children's hospital." "And went on to help other people suffering as she had once suffered." "Then her nursing company moved her to Santa Fe and we lost touch." "She was kind of a bitch anyway so she probably deserved it." "But the same exact thing happened to me." "The relocation." "Not the beating thing." "I got a ten-year-old with severe knuckle trauma!" "Owen, meet me in Room 4, now!" "Go, go, go!" "Sometimes we're all alone in our pain and sometimes we're just all alone." "And there's nothing to..." "You, um..." "You can't think of anything to..." "You talked about the book by its cover thing." "The masks, the whole peasant girl dealie." "Uh..." "Oh!" "There's something happening in here." "I'm honored, Senator, that you would choose to come to me." "You seem to understand the delicate nature of this request." "The pro-life stance is essential to my re-election bid but my wife really needs this abortion." "I can't have a baby right now, doctor." "My dancing career is too important to me." "I understand." "And, Daniel, you're okay with this?" " I don't wanna be aborted." " You knock it off." "Now, I do have to point out, just medically speaking that your son is well beyond the traditional age for an abortion." "I'm Christian, not interested in your medical school scientific information proof left wing, voodoo, mumbo-jumbo." "My wife wants to be a better jazz dancer and we need to get rid of Daniel." " This is not brain surgery." " It is a surgery." "Wow, heavy!" "Oh, here's something else I can watch and comment on." "Sometimes, the worst in people brings out the best in others." " Hey, what is this?" " Sy." " Someone left an orphan here." " Get rid of it." "Speaking of masks, Sy hasn't been himself lately." "Valerie, do you mind?" "Oh, you can see me?" "Yup." "Sy, what has happened to you?" "You used to be so kind." "Yeah, but now I'm living for myself now." "Screw the others." "It took me a long time to get in that spotlight." "Feel the light, huh?" "Do you feel that?" "And now that I'm here, I'm staying." "Wah!" "I see what's happened and it's all my fault." "I encouraged you to spread your wings and then you went too far." "It's as if I offered you one drink and you've become an alcoholic." "Oh, my God!" "I'm an alcoholic." "That's what it is." " Uh..." " Help!" "Help!" "I'm a slave to the demons of alcohol!" "I'll find a home for you, wee one." "Hold still please." "Owen, get over here, give me a hand, will you?" "Come on, he's gonna lose this fist." "Come here." "Restrain him." " God!" "I'm sorry, Blake." "I can't do this!" " What the hell is the matter with you?" "Hey, Owen, you're not going anywhere." "Hey Owen." "You're not going anywhere." "Hey, Owen." "Justin?" "I'm just going to work." "You're not going anywhere." "I'm a doctor." "I'm a doctor." "I'm a grown-up." "I don't like children." "Life is like chess." "And sometimes, if you wanna shake up the board you've gotta move your pieces around." "Blake to Lola seven." "Lola, Blake here used to perform a lot of abortions." "Now you guys talk." "Is that true?" "Were you an abortionist?" " Oh, hells, yeah." " Why did you stop?" "It's just a very complicated issue, with a lot of sides." "A lot of different viewpoints." "Plus, it just stopped being fun." "I'm unsanitary!" "I'm an alcoholic!" "I wish it were a black and white issue." "There are times when abortion is valid." "Like in cases of rape or incest, or if the mother's an A-hole." "But other times, it's such a gray area, like when the baby is 16 years old." "Hey, hey, hey." "At the end of the day, it's a woman's right to choose." "And nothing trumps my respect for women." "You've got to do what's in your heart." " That's not my heart." " I know." "I know." "I just don't know what to do." "You gotta go with your gut." " That's not my gut." " Oh, I know." "I know that." "If the senator wants an abortion, that's his choice." "I should just respect that." "Keep your laws off my body." "That's the thing these pinkos say in hospitals just like this one." "But I say that abortion is unacceptable in any case." "Questions?" "Where was I?" "Oh, yeah, this whole thing." "Gasoline!" "Is there something you wanna talk about, Owen?" " I'm okay." " I once had a friend who needed to get something off her chest really badly but couldn't." "So she turned to a friend who had had a similar experience." "That friend ended up helping my friend get through it." " Is that friend you, Dori?" " Yes." " And I was also the other friend." " Wait, what?" "Well, Dr. Maestro, finally ready to help me with this kid or what?" "Go for it." " Ow." " Blake, I have a confession to make." "I'm a battered doctor and every day before work, this man beats me up." "You mean boy." "He's not a man." "He's 10." " It seems that way." " It is that way." "Because he is 10 years old." " You would think." " You would know because he is." " Bet he's 11." "Let's ask if he has pubic hair." " Are we arguing?" "Let's never do that." " Bet he drives." " He doesn't." " Has a full-time job." " He goes to school." " Maybe he's from the future." " Why would that explain anything?" "Ah, looks like you two have a lot to talk about." "Like fact that he's only 10." "No, he's not." "Attention, Neurology rules, oncology drools." "Suck it, oncology." "Suck it." "This is quite a moral conundrum." "Doctor Spratt!" "I'm calling it off!" " My wife and I want to keep Daniel." " I don't understand." "I'm gonna be a grandfather." "Daniel is pregnant!" "Senator, that's impossible because Daniel is a..." "Boy, am I happy for you!" "Ha, ha!" "My son is with child." "Come here." "My son is with child!" "I fooled my parent's into thinking I'm pregnant." "But what happens when no baby arrives?" "They'll be sure to abort me then." "I think I might have a solution that benefits everybody." "Take this baby." " Great." "Thanks." " Okay." " Look, I'm sorry." " Don't be." "I beat you up all the time." " It's embarrassing because I'm only 10." " Why do you do it?" "I have a dark but socially relevant situation at home." "It doesn't justify my aggression." "But nevertheless, it's my source of rage." "Long story short:" "My old man used to smack me on the head with a sledgehammer." "You mean a sledgehammer just like this one?" " No way." " I carry it around with me everywhere." "To remind me of the terrible, humiliating things my father used to do to me." "You see, we're not so different after all." "Yeah." "Ow!" "Babies." "That's all we are." "You know I can't hear you, right?" "Books without covers." "Dead air." "That's all I'm getting." "Just long pause while you're staring at me." "Stories without endings." "Still doing it?" "Yeah." "Well, I guess that's her thing." "Tales filled with tragedy." "I'm gonna drink myself to death in this hotel room at this second." "Watch." "Oh, my God, I don't know how people can drink this stuff." "Tales filled with beauty." "Oh, it's a boy!" "Come to Grandpa." "airy tales filled with whimsy and childlike wonder and that's the end." "Or maybe it's the beginning." "What the hell happened here?" "A sledgehammer." "Or maybe it's a little bit of both." "A beginning and an end." "A begending." "So the begend." "Attention." "I'm on a seafood diet." "I only eat seafood." "I only eat seafood."