‘Our Dear Leaders’
Season 9, Episode 11 - Aired January 26, 2010
Dr. Turk feels threatened when a hot shot African-American surgeon visits the hospital. Lucy takes control of the study group when Dr. Cox tells Drew to ignore his peers.
Quote from Turk
Turk: Uh, Russel? Why are you putting my name in the assist column?
Russell Vaughn: Yes, I picked you to help me with Irene's surgery. You know, I thought it'd be a real nice feather in your cap. Way to go, man.
Turk: Oh, "Way to go"?! Russell, listen. I don't need any more feathers in my cap, okay? I've got a peacock back here. Major plumage.
Russell Vaughn: I have so much that I could teach you. I mean, if you just open up your eyes and and let me in, Turk. Let me in.
Turk: I'm about to punch you in your mouth.
Russell Vaughn: Fine. But be fair-warned. I trained with the Mossad, okay? I could kill you with a button off your jacket.
Turk: Really? Well, I train with Lamarcus down at the gym, and he was an NFL linebacker until he came out the closet!
Quote from Lucy
Lucy: [v.o.] Our study group was a well-oiled machine. Drew was in charge, and I was second in command, responsible for two things, class notes...
Lucy: Yep, I got the notes right here.
Lucy: [v.o.] And keeping Cole occupied while we did the real work.
Cole: Babe, these wheelie shoes are sick! Okay, I'll just be walking next to someone, then I'll start rolling, and they're like, "What?" And I'm, like, "Later, Tevas." God, where should I go next?
Quote from Denise
Lucy: Every week is already Hell Week. How could it get any worse? Hey, did you have Hell Week at your med school?
Denise: Yes, it stressed me out so much, my throat seized up for, like, a year.
Cole: God, how bad was it?
[flashback to Denise crying as she eats pie, fully-clothed, in the shower. She manically laughs as she throws her textbook and cracks the mirror.]
Denise: [hoarse] I'm not gonna lie. It left a few psychological marks. One of you is probably gonna crack. I'm looking at you, Jet Li. But hey, good luck. I'm rootin' for ya.
Quote from Dr. Kelso
Turk: Yo, somebody's parked in my spot.
Dr. Cox: Boo-hoo.
Dr. Kelso: It takes me eleven minutes to pee.
Turk: Do you guys know who "Doc X-treme" is?
Dr. Cox: Russell Vaughn surgeon, best-selling author, wrote some book about doctoring in the third world called "Rebel Without a Co-pay."
Russell Vaughn: [to gathered nurses] What am I supposed to do? "Take the bullet out of his mistress' jaw or take a bullet of your own." I did the surgery. Then he shot me anyway. By the way, that mistress is now my wife.
Dr. Kelso: Yeah he is a bit of a douche, but every time he shows up here, he raises millions for the hospital. And he has nailed some top-shelf international strange.
Quote from Drew
Drew: I didn't ask to be put in charge.
Dr. Cox: I know, Number One, but that's who we are. We have been blessed and cursed with intelligence and wonderful hair, and people follow. You're just going to have to deal with that the rest of your life.
Drew: No, I'm done babysitting. I don't want to be a leader. I just want to be a good doctor.
Dr. Cox: Fair enough.
Quote from Turk
Turk: Um, is there something I can help you with, Russell?
Russell Vaughn: Actually, I'm I'm helping you. Dr. Cox told me to jump on any cases that interested me.
Turk: I've got everything under control in this room. Why don't you go and Russell up your own case?
Russell Vaughn: Clever. I was just telling Irene here that it looks as though she's gonna need a septal myomectomy.
Turk: Mm. Russell, I'll decide which treatment is best for my patients. We'll probably go with what he said.
Quote from Lucy
Dr. Cox: Really? Eleven minutes to answer a page. It's embarrassing.
Lucy: It's 4:00 in the morning.
Dr. Cox: Hey, bedhead, what are those, horses on your pajamas?
Lucy: Well, I didn't do my laundry. I have nothing else to wear.
Lucy: [v.o.] Except more horse pajamas.
Quote from Dr. Cox
Drew: So what's my project?
Dr. Cox: Your project is to avoid them. Tey are vampires, time-sucking monsters who will torture you with stupid questions, mind-numbing incompetence and petty emotional problems. "I'm so stressed. I feel like I want to kill myself." Well, what are you waiting for? Do it.
Drew: Okay. Great. So what exactly is my project?
Dr. Cox: I want you to focus on yourself, on your abilities, on becoming the amazing doctor I know you can be.
Drew: Thank you so much. Again, really unclear about what my project is.
Dr. Cox: You're just gonna shadow me and stay the hell away from them. Listen to me, son-
Lucy: Hey, Drew!
Dr. Cox: Go. Save yourself.
Drew: What?
Dr. Cox: Run!
Quote from Dr. Cox
Dr. Cox: Hello, Blondie. Is there anything I can do for you?
Lucy: Uh, I was just gonna ask Drew who he thought the next leader of our group should be.
Dr. Cox: You. You're the one.
Lucy: Yeah? You think so?
Dr. Cox: No. I just said that because you're the first one I saw.
Quote from Drew
Drew: Lucy, what do you want? If Cox sees me with you, he's gonna kill me.
Lucy: Please. I need your help. I was leading our group, and they weren't listening, and I felt it happening again. See, whenever I get into a position of power, something changes inside me.
Drew: Look, the key to leading the group is Trang. You gotta get in that little bastard's face, and you gotta let the crazy out. Do you want to see how I do it? You back the hell up right now or I will watch you die, and I will laugh! See? It's easy.