ER, Season 9

Abby:
Chaos Theory?

Carter:
Yeah, a virus mutates in the Congo. We evacuate an ER in Chicago. Romano gets his arm cut off.

Abby:
You lost me.

Carter:
Seemingly random events, all part of a larger equation.

Abby:
I'm hot.

Carter:
You know, a butterfly flaps its wings in China, and creates a tornado halfway around the world.

Abby:
Are you hot?

Carter:
I'm just saying that there's an inherent unpredictability about everything-- evolution, life. Love, relationships.

Abby:
So what am I? The butterfly or tornado?

Carter:
No, you're chaos in general.

Abby:
Oh, thanks.

Carter:
No, I'm just saying, you're chaos to me. The unknown. I'm chaos to you.

Abby:
You are hardly chaos, Carter.

Carter:
I'm just saying there's a risk in anything that you do, right? But don't you want to stack the odds in your favor? I mean, I'm drawn to you. It's kind of that simple. I've been drawn to you for two years, but chaos always seems to rule, and I don't want it to rule. I want to know where it's taking me. You know what I mean?

Abby:
Nope.

Carter:
The tornado. Definitely the tornado.