St. Elsewhere, Season 3

Dr. Westphall:
Shirley..

[Nurse Daniels shoots the gun]

Nurse Daniels:
[Distraught] I'm sorry Dr. Westphall. Just don't come near me.

Dr. Westphall:
Don't do this please.

Nurse Daniels:
I'm sorry I caused you so much trouble. I know it was wrong for me to kill Peter.

Dr. Westphall:
Don't let that mistake take your life, too.

Nurse Daniels:
Peter hurt a lot of people

[Morrison runs to approach Shirley. Shirley raises the gun]

Nurse Daniels:
STOP! I want to talk to Jack.

[Morrison gets closer to her]

Nurse Daniels:
That's close enough. Hi, Jack. [sighs] You ever been up here before?

[Morrison shakes his head no]

Nurse Daniels:
Smell the ocean? And look. Look at this. You can see for miles. There's the Pru and the Hancock Tower, and across the Charles, there's Cambridge. God, this is so beautiful! Why didn't I ever come up here before? I'm glad Cathy's on the sixth floor. Have you seen her?

[Morrison nods yes]

Nurse Daniels:
I think she's getting better.

Dr. Morrison:
Yeah.

Nurse Daniels:
All that screaming and blood.

Dr. Morrison:
Blood? What blood?

Nurse Daniels:
Come on, Jack, you know what I'm talking about, in the ER. Blue-lipped junkies, 13-year-old pregnant girls, legs mangled under motorcycles. I know how special life is. I save lives, and I only took one... so far. You were his friend, Jack! Why didn't you do something?

Dr. Morrison:
There was nothing I could do.

Nurse Daniels:
You believed him! You believed Peter. Everything he did, you stuck with him, said he always got bad breaks. Well, that didn't give him the right! The world's full of bad breaks.

Dr. Morrison:
You're my friend, Shirley. And all that means is I'm willing to share your pain.

Nurse Daniels:
You're willing to share this? [Points gun at Morrison]

Dr. Westphall:
Shirley, don't, please!

Dr. Morrison:
What Peter did was wrong. What you did was wrong, too. And there's nothing that I can do about that. But I'm still here for you.

Nurse Daniels:
You look tired.

Dr. Morrison:
Yeah, I am. I've been on call for 48 hours.

Nurse Daniels:
The hospital will kill ya.

[They hug]