- Rita Perkins-Hall: [to Michael] Are we leaving surgery to become a pathologist? Dead people never talk back.
- Anna Paul: That's what she thinks.
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- Dr. Michael Holt: This procedure's gonna be so cool. Sure as hell isn't for the faint of heart. So, first I'll perform a laminectomy to expose the spinal cord. Then I'll excise the dura, peel it back, *ever* so delicately, to get my fingers around the neoplasm...
- Liz Martin: If you're trying to get me in bed again it's not working.
- Dr. Michael Holt: Are you saying you don't find surgery as exciting as I do?
- Liz Martin: Well, I do like the way your mouth moves when you describe it.