Mercy

Oh, well, that reminds me.

Can you make this parking ticket disappear?

Oh, look at you...

All about the perks.

You got that right.

God, it's boiling already.

Hey. Good morning, you guys.

Veronica, you look very pretty today.

Okay. We got a heat wave going here.

How about we turn down the happy lasers?

Okay, well, angel, you also look very cute today.

Thank you, Chloe.

See, that's how someone who's not profoundly damaged

takes a compliment.

Can I have two sunny side up please?

Hello?

What?

Hey! Hey!

This is too good.

Homeless guy's got moves.

Seriously.

Lord!

That's Gerald, the ass-hat who peed on my car.

I can't believe this, but I'm getting Harris' back.

Cover me.

I'm going in.

Got you cornered, Gerald.

Drop the burrito.

Oh!

Get away from me, Nurse Ratched.

Easy there, Gerald. You're gonna pull your I.V. out.

I thought they fired you, you holy bitch.

Hey, you're severely dehydrated.

You need the fluids.

I want a witness.

She's trying to steal my insides!

- Uh-huh. - I'm not an organ donor.

I promise you, no one's asking.

Now lie down.

Whoa.

You got some serious abscesses.

You're gonna need to let somebody

open these up and drain them,

or you're gonna lose a foot.

She's gonna take my feet!

I'm not the one you have to worry about, Gerald.

It wasn't my breakfast you splattered on the street.

Hello, Mr. Pettit.

How are you?

Me, I'm hungry.

Burrito sucked...

no panache.

I'll be sure and mention that to my wife.

Ugh.

There's your burrito.

Well...

You're a lucky man, Mr. Pettit, relatively speaking.

Aside from a broken wrist,

a few scrapes and bruises,

and an underwhelmed palate,

You're okay.

He's probably vitamin deficient.

So after he's hydrated and those feet are cleaned up,

banana-bag him and cut him loose.

Dr. Harris?

So he's pretty beat up... and those legions.

Can we keep him overnight?

We have grandmothers and taxpayers

that need beds in this hospital because of the heat.

Discharge the burrito bandit.

Okay, Jason, you have a little temperature,

but so does the whole eastern seaboard.

I noticed you're a Spoon fan.

I went to see them in Philly

when I was finishing nursing school.

T... they're great.

Yeah, I... I brought you a little something.

Hello. How we doing?

Um, well, the infection isn't healing,

and the edges of the donor skin have started to break down.

Okay...

Let's have a look.

The finale of the home stand is Monday night...

Okay, Jason, here's the deal.

Jason, please turn down the tv.

...This last skin graft to fail,

so we're gonna try one more I.V. antibiotic...

ancef... and see how that works.

Okay, great.

Okay, hang in there, Jason. Chloe's an awesome nurse.

She's gonna take great care of you.

I'll be right back.

Hey, Dr. Sands?

I... I've tried everything,

and I don't think Jason likes me very much.

The kid's pretty angry.

I mean, he was grilling up burgers on his 17th birthday

and a propane tank explodes.

Who wouldn't be?

But if anybody can, uh, put a smile on his face,

it's you, Payne.

Kevin Halls...

fractured orbit.

I was assaulted.

It was self-defense.

Okay, fellas, what the hell's going on here?

It's called a live-in divorce.

It is not for sissies.

Marrying you was the worst decision I ever made

in my life, all right?

Buying a house with you was the second worst.

How the hell did you guys get in the same hospital room?

His great insurance won't pay for separate rooms.

You wouldn't have insurance if it weren't for me, Matt!

I wouldn't have glass in my eye

or a severed artery in my arm either!

All right, look, guys,

I have my job to do here, so everybody just be cool.

- How did this happen? - Ugh.

I caught an early flight home from a business trip.

I found him serving osso buco to some low-rent boy toy.

It's outrageous. We are vegetarians.

You're a vegetarian, and his name is Steve.

Anyway, he through a veal shank at my head.

Of course he missed,

but I slipped in the mess that he made on the floor,

and I hit my face on the stove.

You tried to blind me.

Did he really try to blind you?

I have a glass bust of Don Johnson as Sonny Crockett.

I cherish it. He threw it at my face.

I smashed it on the floor!

All right, guys, look, everybody just relax, okay?

Stop yelling.

And if you're like me,

it's rare you find anybody

you can stand to see every day or share a bowl of oatmeal with.

You have that or close to it, you hold on.

Hi, Gerald.

How you feeling?

Sober.

Bad.

Mm-hmm.

You ever have seizures when you stop?

You feel shaky,

you start seeing things

that don't belong in a hospital, tell me.

We'll get you on some benzos.

- What the hell are you doing? - Take it easy.

I'm just trying to keep you out of the heat

for a few beats, which you deserve.

Which I deserve.

You know, the last time we crossed paths,

you tried to hit me with an ice ball.

Good memory...

but it was a snowball.

It was hard as a rock.

Yeah, I have three brothers.

I know how to pack a snowball.

Besides, you...

you peed on my car.

What was that about?

I had to go.

I know. I know. It's just... it's... I know.

It's just a rolling blackout from the heat.

I know. I know.

It freaks me out too.

I could use a cold beer

and an air-conditioned bar.

Alcohol is the last thing that you need.

Try and get some sleep.

Jamie.

What happened to the A.C.?

It's broke.

What do you mean it broke? How?

What am I... a scientist?

Stop yelling at me. I'll buy youse a round.

Works for me.

Change in plans.

Come on, Sonia, you can do it.

Just get the other leg over.

It's just like getting off a horse.

Yo, farm girl, I am from Jersey City.

I... I... I have never been on a horse.

I swear, if you fall

and kill those innocent beers, Sonia...

So this guy, Gerald,

he's all messed up from the first Gulf War,

dying from the heat,

and Harris tells me to kick him to the curb.

- So did you? - No.

I hung a glucose bag

after I dumped three amps of d50 into it.

Earned him a room.

Will you just watch your ass, please?

What, you're in love with a cop,

so now everybody has to follow the rules?

What? No.

I am not in love with a cop.

Please.