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Kate Forster :
Sixty degrees on Valentine's Day. Can't be Chicago.
Mrs. Forster : The TV says it's global warming. The
icebergs start melting, water covers the Earth. Thank
God we won't live to see it.
Kate : What's this?
Mrs. Forster : Oh. That's nothing. It's one of your
father's.
Kate : Dostoyevsky?
Mrs. Forster : Oh, yeah. It's about a guy who breaks
the neck of a poor woman with an axe and, so far, keeps
wandering around regretting it. Hmm. This is good.
Kate : Oh, yeah?
Mrs. Forster : Yeah. Really good. What are you
thinking?
Kate : Nothing.
Mrs. Forster : When your father
passed away, it was hard. It still is hard. Holding his
books, I feel like he's with me somehow, knowing that he
was once on the same pages reading the same words.
Passenger : Oh, my God! Somebody call an ambulance!
Kate : We need an ambulance at Daley Plaza. A man has
been struck by a bus. Get an EMT crew here.
Sir--
Policeman : Get out the street. Get on the sidewalk.
On the sidewalk. Off the street.
Driver : Sir?
Policeman : Get on the sidewalk! Get on the sidewalk!
Alex : I'd like to get the foundation on number 17 dug
today.
Mulhern : I know you're kind of new around here, kid.
Alex : What?
Mulhern : I can't get to 17 until at least next week.
Alex : Come on, Mulhern. That's bullshit and you know
it. Take Clemens and Rodriguez off of roofing. Jorge can
run the backhoe they're not using on 14 and grab four or
five of those other guys who are doing nothing on seven
and 10. Paulie, Carlos, Frank, Danny, and what's his
name, the tall guy?
Mulhern : Rafael.
Alex : Rafael. Let's go.
Mulhern : Okay.
Dr. Klyczynski : Hey.
Kate : Hi.
Dr. Klyczynski : I heard about Daley Plaza. EMT said
you fought hard for the guy.
Kate : Yeah, really
knocked myself out.
Dr. Klyczynski : Kate, I'm going
to tell you what I tell every young doctor. Hopefully, you'll
be the first to listen. On your day off, get as far away
from this place as you can. Go someplace where you feel
most like yourself.
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