"Wild cards"

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In Short: Geiger second-guess Austin's choice of a non-surgical treatment for a heart patient. Grad gets a surprise visit from an old beau. Hancock asks for Camille's help in coordinating a new home health care program.
Guest Starring: Kim Griest (as Laurie Geiger), and Robert Cornthwaite (as Harry Brunner)

Story: Sara B. Charno
Teleplay:
Directed By: Michael Schultz

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Geiger is playing the piano and singing "I Wish I Could Forget You" (can be found on his cd: Oscar and Steve) to Laurie at the institution:
I wanted you to vanish from sight,
but now I see you in a different light.
And though I cannot love you,
I wish that I could love you.
For now I'm seeing love
like none I've ever known
a love as pure as breath,
as permanent as death,
implacable as stone.
A love that, like a knife
has cut into a life
I wanted left alone
A love I may regret
but one Ican't forget

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Geiger to Shutt : "Ever since the divorce, you're no fun."

Camille to Aaron: : "Don't bother giving me advice, you lost that option a while ago."

Jeffrey: You wanted me?
Phillip: Yes. Sit.
Jeffrey: I'll stand.

Kate: Piece of mind. Is that even possible around Geiger?
Aaron: Hey, you wanna know Jeffrey's secret?
Kate: What?
Aaron: When he speaks, he speaks with authority.
Kate: Oh.
Aaron: Makes everything out of his mouth sound like the truth.
Kate: More like everything that comes out his mouth sounds like *gospel*.
Aaron: It's rumored that God has a Geiger complex.

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Phillip, Billy, Danny, Jeffrey and Aaron: are playing cards in Phillip's office, Geiger is dealing:
Jeffrey: It's time to get serious. The game is five card draw. One-eyed Jacks are wild.
Billy: Wild cards are a wuss game.
Jeffrey: I'm dealing, I'm calling the game. You in or out?
Phillip: You're running kind of low there, Jeffrey.
Jeffrey: I can afford to lose.
Danny: Who died and left you money?
Jeffrey: Eleanor Halpern.
Billy: Who?
Phillip: Chicago Hope's latest benefactor. She passed away last week.
Aaron: Jeffrey's under the delusion that all of her funding money's going to his artificial heart.
Billy: How much?
Phillip: 1.8 million.
Billy: Whoa!
Phillip: Board is meeting tomorrow to decide the allocation.
Danny: It's my ace.
Aaron: You know, Jeffrey, there are other doctors in this hospital. Two cards please.
Jeffrey: You know, ever since the divorce, you're no fun. Dealer takes uh... two.
Billy: Ten bucks.
Danny: I'm out.
Billy: You wuss.
Danny: For somebody who needs to rent an apartment and get out of mine, should you be gambling?
Aaron:: See the ten.
Phillip: See your ten, raise you twenty.
Jeffrey: Where else can I get this kind of research grant from that of kissin' ass? Baby's ass, that's another thing. Beautiful woman's, I could kiss all day. But government ass, corporate ass, ick! Big, fat, hairy, I can't stand 'em. Little ol' lady, 85 years old, cardiac arrest leaves almost two million. Bang, ass-less money.
Phillip: Enough with the asses.
Aaron: Bet.
(Austin knocks and enters.)
Jeffrey: Speak of the devil.
Kate: Oh, I guess I'm not interrupting anything too important.
Jeffrey: Don't jump to conclusions. Have a nice night. See your twenty, raise you thirty.
Kate: My critical pathways for tomorrow's Board meeting.
Phillip: Thank you.
Jeffrey: All right, it's too much talk. Billy, you in?
Billy: Wild card is a wuss game. I fold on principle.
Aaron: Fold.
Jeffrey: Typical. (to Phillip) Just you and me.
Phillip: All right, raise you ten.
Jeffrey: See your ten, raise you thirty.
Kate: (looking over Phillip's shoulder) See your thirty, raise you fifty.
Jeffrey: You're not in the game. Phillip?
(Phillip gestures for Kate to bet.)
Kate: Fifty.
Jeffrey: Okay. Want to throw your money away. (He takes some of Billy's chips.)
Billy: Hey hey hey! Get out!
Jeffrey: See your fifty, raise you one hundred.
Billy: Get out of here!
Jeffrey: Call or fold.
Kate: We'll call. One hundred.
Jeffrey: (smiling as he shows his cards) Got a pair of deuces. (They all start to laugh.)
Phillip: (showing his cards) Read 'em and weep guys.
Danny: He beat you with a pair of fours.
Jeffrey: (laughs) You got lucky.
Kate: No. You're easy. Bye boys.
(she leaves)
Billy: Boy, you gonna stand for that?

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