- Stella Gibson: [quietly in hospital hallway] Tom, I need you to listen to me right now. Men always think in terms of fight or flight. In fact, the most common instinct in the face of this kind of threat is to freeze. If she didn't fight, if she didn't scream, if she was silent and numb, it's because she was petrified. If she went with him quietly, it's because she was afraid for her life. And not just her life, yours, and Nancy's, and the baby's. In that state of fear, she might well have been compliant, she might well have submitted. But that does not mean she consented.
- Stella Gibson: Tom, the way you behave, the way you approach your role as Rose's helper, will either make her experience better or worse. If you react badly, you will devastate her. Or you can be a big part of her healing and her recovery. What she needs from you right now is to know that she is safe, to know that she's loved. Be patient be tender. Tomorrow's another day.
- Dr. O'Donnell: [briefing his ER staff] OK, everybody, listen to me. I'm the Tsar. All questions to me, all angst to me, all misery to me.
- Dr. O'Donnell: How's the Strangler doing?
- Dr. Morton: I'm going up to see him in a minute. I've been aware of what's going on but I haven't really been following it closely. Some of my friends have been really caught up in it all, having alarms fitted and asking random boyfriends to move in.
- Dr. O'Donnell: Well, luckily, you're a doctor and therefore never at home.
- Dr. Morton: True. I hadn't really thought of myself as being at risk in that way. Then you look at the photographs and you think, "They're just young women living their lives like I live mine. That could have been me."
- Dr. O'Donnell: One of my best buddies is a doctor in the military. Did several tours in Afghanistan. In the field hospitals, casualties are treated solely on the basis of their clinical need. Badly injured Taliban treated ahead of British casualties if their condition was more urgent. Same here in the old days. That didn't always make him very popular. In truth, it rather fucked him up. But he'd still argue medical care has to be delivered according to clinical need without discrimination. If he was here, he'd tell us it's our duty to treat your man humanely and protect them. Even if he is a murdering bastard. Allegedly.
- [last lines]
- Old Lady: [to Stella from her hospital bed] Is that you? Thank God you're here. I've been so worried. Thank God you're safe. Sweetheart I'm glad you've come.
- [first lines]
- RRV Paramedic: [speaking into radio at scene of car crash] 32-year-old male, gunshot wounds to abdomen. Breathing 35, pulse thready and 140. BP un-recordable. GCS 9, eyes 2, speech 1, motor 6. Central and peripheral veins are collapsed, can't get venous cannulation. We're trying intraosseous. We're in.
- [radio squawking]
- RRV Paramedic: IO successful. 0.5 litres saline being squeezed in. You should know the patient is in police custody.