- Ellen Craig: Ok, you've asked how the family is, how your friends are... everybody but your dad and the gardener.
- Stephen Craig: How is the gardener?
- Dr. Elliot Axelrod: Hello, sir, Nice to meet you sir. How's the wife?
- [Shirley listens along]
- Nurse Shirley Daniels: [Shirley opens the curtain] Whose wife?
- Dr. Elliot Axelrod: Westphall's.
- Nurse Shirley Daniels: Westphall's wife is dead.
- Dr. Elliot Axelrod: You're kidding! I didn't even know she was sick.
- Nurse Shirley Daniels: It's been 10 years, Elliot.
- Dr. Elliot Axelrod: Oh, then I guess I shouldn't send flowers. Thanks for the tip. I would have faux-pauxed myself all over the conference room. Probably blowing my chances of becoming a first-year resident this fall. How do I look?
- Nurse Shirley Daniels: Here let me straighten your tie.
- [Adjusts his tie]
- Nurse Shirley Daniels: There's not much I can do with the rest of you.
- Dr. Elliot Axelrod: I really hate interviews. My hands always get clammy. I mean, what if he asks a question I don't know the answer to? And most important, do you think he'll like me?
- Nurse Shirley Daniels: Elliot, in the six months since you started your externship in the ER, there's one thing I can say about you. If they're judging on originality, you're a shoe-in.
- Dr. Elliot Axelrod: Oh, good.