PB Hospital-Episode I
(A patient is brought into the emergency room with a piece
of metal sticking out of his chest. Dr.
Fry and Dr. Shazza are in attendance)
DR. FRY: And how are you today, Mr.
Owens?
OWENS: Get it out of me!!!
(Dr. Fry reaches over and grasps the bar in Owen’s chest.)
OWENS: Don’t you touch that
handle, Fry!
DR. FRY: I have to touch it, Mr.
Owens. We need to get it out of
your chest.
DR. SHAZZA: No, wait.
It’s too close to his heart.
DR. FRY: This will take the pain
away so we can do it.
(Dr. Fry injects a syringe in Owens’ arm and then pulls out the bar.
Mr. Owens screams loudly and then flat-lines.
Dr. Fry and Dr. Shazza try valiantly to save him, but to no avail.
Dr. Fry goes to the Doctor’s lounge to clean up.
Dr. Johns steps into the room. Sappy
music starts playing in the background.)
DR. JOHNS: I heard you lost a
patient today, Carolyn. Tough
break.
DR. FRY: What do you want, Johns?
DR. JOHNS: I thought you could use
a little company.
DR. FRY: No, you thought you could
take advantage of me because I’m upset. How
many times do I have to tell you it’s over?
DR. JOHNS: It’s Dr. Riddick,
isn’t it? You’re attracted to
him, aren’t you?
DR. FRY: He’s only just arrived
here. I’m just trying to make him
feel welcome, just like I do for any doctor who comes here.
DR. JOHNS: Like you made me feel
welcome? I’m sure he’ll like
that. Since when did you start
liking big, bald men with muscles?
DR. FRY: Are you jealous, Johns?
Just listen to yourself.
DR. JOHNS: You’re right, my whole
life is just a steaming pile of jealousy over you!
I say it’s time to mosh on. Dr.
Shazza has been interested in me for quite a while.
DR. FRY: Don’t delude yourself,
Johns. She’d never leave Zeke.
DR. JOHNS: That’s what you think!
(Johns storms out of the Doctor’s Lounge.
Dr. Fry goes to the morgue to see Owens’ body.)
DR. FRY: Is this whole place dead?
ZEKE: That’s why they call it a
morgue!
DR. FRY: I want to check on Owens.
Something about how he died doesn’t add up.
ZEKE: I just put him deep in the
freezer. I’ll go look for him.
(Zeke leaves the room and a hulking form looms up behind Fry, startling her).
DR. RIDDICK: Where’s those
reports on the John Does from trauma?
DR. FRY: They’re coming.
DR. RIDDICK: I’ve been meaning to
catch up with you. Alone.
DR. FRY: What do you want?
DR. RIDDICK: You think Johns is a
good man? You think he can make you
happy?
DR. FRY: Why?
What did you hear?
DR. RIDDICK: I’m asking what you
think.
DR. FRY: I like you, Riddick.
Is that what you want to hear?
DR. RIDDICK: I like you too,
Carolyn. But the nurses say you and
Johns got something going on. And
it were up to Dr. Trickeration, Johns would have him take me out of the picture.
He’d have me fired. Then
again, I do bring in twice as much money as Johns.
(Dr. Fry gasps and turns her back on Riddick and starts flipping through charts
on a table. Riddick comes up close
behind her a nuzzles her neck and hair.)
DR. RIDDICK: Oh, you didn’t know
that, did you? Your Johns ain’t
no neurosurgeon either. Yeah, he
has that slick little certificate on his wall, but he’s just another general
practitioner. I’m the real payday
for this hospital. That’s why he
won’t get rid of me. The creed is
greed.
DR. FRY: Stop it, Riddick.
You really think you can get me by making Johns look bad?
He’s still a good doctor and he’s still my friend.
(Riddick takes one last sniff of Fry’s hair and walks to the door).
DR. RIDDICK: Oh, one more thing. You ever wonder why Johns shakes like that?
Ask him, and ask why that patient of yours had to die so painfully.
(dah dah dah!ß----------music
playing. Riddick leaves the room and Fry looks longingly at his
back as he disappears through the doors. Then
she looks concerned as she thinks about what he just said.
Then she looks over toward the freezer, realizing Zeke has been gone a
long time. Suddenly, she hears a
scream from the back room).
DR. SHAZZA: Zeke!!
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