"I'm the only doctor in this hospital that's qualified to do this procedure and today that puts me at a real disadvantage." "Oh!" " I cured cancer, you dick." " Huh?" "Mom, I did it." "I cured cancer." "Great." "Now maybe you can visit me sometime." "Mom, I'm right here." "Just a little friendly reminder, Dr. Richie." "Stop trying to cure cancer." "Oh, God." "I just wish you'd become a doctor like your brother." "I am a doctor." "We all have a job to do." "Some people dig holes." "Some people teach." "Some even go to the moon." "And none are more important than the other, except for doctors." "You'll notice that most young patients respond to almost any situation with one of two phrases:" ""Hot dog" or "Mama Mia"." "Watch this." "Hey." "I got news for you." "You're going home tomorrow." "Hot dog!" "We don't know what's wrong." "You're gonna die." "Mama mia." "I got a 10-year-old down!" " What do we got?" " Kid works at a knife factory after school." "Boss says he's all thumbs." "Owen." "It turns out that Blake here never went to medical school." "We'll add him to your interns today and call it even." "Fine." "Welcome to the team." "Blood pressure, 50/80." "White-blood-cell count elevated." "Fever." "What's the call?" " Too soon to tell." " You are good." "I don't wanna interrupt, you're one of our best but isn't this clearly a knife wound?" "Hey, suit!" "Stay out of my way." "The knife is just a piece of the puzzle." "We gotta figure out what's really wrong." " Nidhi, am I pronouncing that correctly?" " Nidhi." "I do not care." "Interview everyone he's come in contact with in the last 40 days." "Go to his school." "You're telling me that outside of being punctured by a knife Noah's had no unusual symptoms?" " Go to the factory." " You're telling me he walked out with no sign of anything wrong at all?" "No, I'm telling you he had a huge knife in his stomach." " Go to his mother's hair stylist." " You're telling me it'll cost more to get highlights than to dye all my hair?" "Blake, get down to the library." "Get on the Internet." "Find out everything about young boys." " I know just where to go." " Oh." "Aah." " Park, am I pronouncing that correctly?" " Yes." "I want you with this kid night and day." "He's got three days to live." " I'm gonna need four." " You got it, mister." " Chet!" "This is your big moment, buddy." " I'm on it!" "Aren't we just gonna take the knife out?" "Hey!" "You did not go to medical school, and until you do you will take a chill pill." "Everybody know your assignments?" ""Childrens Hospital" on three." " One, two, three." " Childrens Hospital!" "Attention, staff." "Cheetos Flamin' Hot Crunchy snacks are dangerously cheesy." "We're all like worker bees here." "Each of us running around, bringing honey from one place to another never really knowing what the others are thinking or feeling or dreaming." "A hospital really is like a beehive." "I'd say a hospital is more like a prison." "Beehive is more poetic." "Mm." "He's cute." "No way." "He's gross." "Do you have to disagree with everything I...?" " Wait, can you hear my thoughts?" " Yeah." " Wow." "What an amazing gift." " It's awful, actually." "I hear the horrible things people think of me." "Jeez, what a whiner." "Oops." "Wait a second." "Have you been here this whole time?" "I've been spending many hours in this hospital, Dr. Richie." " How do you know my name?" " I know a great many things." "For example, I understand that you've discovered a cure for a certain heretofore uncurable disease." "Incurable." "No such word as "uncurable"." " Who are you, anyway?" " I represent an organization that has a special request." "Drop the cancer cure." "Or else." "Wait, I'm sorry." "I wasn't listening." "What?" "This information is no good." "Don't make me let this kid die." "Hey, bet you guys 50 bucks I can guess your weight." "I bet you 50 bucks you can't." " Yeah." "What's up with that, Valerie?" " One seventy." "She got that right on the nose." "Haley here can read minds, everybody." "So, what are we all thinking right now?" "Frankfurters." "The Allman Brothers." "Death." "Also frankfurters." "Fascinating." " You have got a gift, young lady." " Bleh!" "Would it kill you to make a decent cup of coffee?" "What a whiner." "I know, right?" "Wait." "All right." "Listen, I've got a patient I need you to meet." "Come on." "I get the sense that I'm not quite getting through to you, Dr. Richie." "I heard you." "Something about stopping my research." " Or else." " Right." "And then you said, "Or else"." "Right." "Yeah, but I didn't say it like that." ""Or else"." "I said it menacingly." "Well, I mean, if I'm being honest, it didn't sound very menacing." "That's because you weren't paying attention." " What did you say?" " You weren't paying attention to me." " You were playing with your keyboard." " Guilty, Your Honor." "Now, do you think you can read the mind of someone who's been in a coma for about 40 years?" "I'll give it a try, but it sounds boring." "Now, listen." "Only you can get the information from him and only he can fill in the blanks." "Go get him, killer!" "I wish I could wake up." "It smells in here, or is that just the inside of my nose?" "I have to pee-pee." "When am I gonna find out who shot J.R.?" "I miss walking." "I'm still hungry." "They didn't feed me enough." "I wish I had a book." "I'm really bored." "Oh." "Hey." "This might be a little confusing for you but you've been in a coma for 40 years." "I'm not really here." "I'm communicating with you via mental telepathy." "Wow." "So many questions." "Did they finish that World Trade Center in New York?" " Well, yes." " Hot dog!" " But..." " How do you think it's going?" "Mama mia!" "Those pricks." "One more random thing." "How did that Challenger flight go?" "Yeah." "So they want me to ask you some questions." "All right." "Is Aetna your primary carrier, or are you being covered by another plan?" " Gee whiz, I really don't know." " Any conditions we didn't know about?" " I went into the coma when I was 2 or 3." " Okay, but still, it's kind of important." "Let me get this straight." "You're trying to convince me to forget that I cured cancer and allow countless people to die as a result?" " Yes." " Ah." "In that case, no, thank you." "I'd rather just cure it." " Do you have a niece, Dr. Richie?" " Ha-ha." "Who doesn't?" "Does she live in Charlotte, North Carolina on Foxgrove Court?" "Yeah, 2134 Foxgrove Court." "First bedroom on the right." "Doesn't even have a lock." "What if something happened to her?" "I'm not saying it's going to..." "Oh, good." "One less thing for me to worry about." "Thank you." "And is your bank account 89598292?" "Yeah, but that's nothing." "You should hear my PIN number: 2115..." "And what would happen if all the money in your account just simply disappeared?" "You are like my ex-wife, always worrying about something that might happen." ""This might happen." "That might happen. " Aah!" "Three days, and you guys got nothing." "I wouldn't call these highlights nothing." " Noah, do you have any pets?" " I have a fish." " What part of the world is your fish from?" " Can you just tell me the answer?" "He's an Ecuadorian Calico Fantail from the Amazon River Basin a breeding ground for a parasite called Leptospira." " Alex!" " Take this to the lab." "Cut his legs off." "Dissect him." "I'm willing to wager that it's a carrier." "Fortunately for you, young sportsman, Leptospira isn't fatal." "Couple days' bed rest, you'll be up and around." "See that, everybody?" "Despite initial impressions Noah's medical problems had nothing to do with this." "Oh!" "Code Blue!" "He's going into a coma!" "Oh, is he?" "Ahem." "I could be wrong about all that other stuff." " Where are you taking me, anyway?" " I'll give you a hint." "It's the most important thing in the world to you." "You're taking me to my dog, Sadie?" "What's the second most important thing to you?" "Well, my personal relationship with G-O-D." " Ahem." "Third?" " My glass menagerie?" " Fourth?" " Banana bread?" " Fifth?" " Billy Barty's fingertips?" " Sixth?" " Uh..." " Oh, that's it." "Come on." " Banana bread?" "Oh, my God." "They finally trimmed the bushes." "Not the bushes, you idiot!" "The car!" "Your car!" "It's gone, see?" "Oh, right." "Weird." "Huh." "Well, you know what?" "My lease is up next week anyway, so no biggie." "No big..." "Wait a minute." "Hey, I could be totally reading into this wrong but I feel like you stole my car to get me to cooperate with you." "My organization has a very large stake in the revenues from cancer treatment." "A cure is not in our best interests." "Don't mess with us." "Wait a minute." "Who do you work for?" "How can I get in touch with you?" "We'll get in touch with you, Dr. Richie." "You don't need to know who we are." "Wait, my car is gone." "You went into a coma when Dr. Maestro pulled the knife out of you." "By the way, how does a 10-year-old get a job in a knife factory?" "I don't know." "That definitely does not make sense." "Attention." "What is the difference between a friend and having nobody to talk to?" "What is the difference between a friend and having nobody to talk to?" "Everything."