ER (TV Series)

The Crossing (2001)

Goran Visnjic: Luka Kovac

Quotes 

• Bishop Stewart : How long do I have?

  Luka Kovac : Maybe hours.

  Bishop Stewart : Then I'd better hear it now.

  Luka Kovac : Hear what?

  Bishop Stewart : Your confession.

  Luka Kovac : Bishop, I don't think...

  Bishop Stewart : That's what you came here for, isn't it?

  Luka Kovac : I wanted to check on you.

  Bishop Stewart : You're searching for your faith. You think you lost it but you only buried it. It's never left you. In the name of the Father, and the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, amen. May God, who enlightens every heart, help you to know your sins and trust in his mercy.

  Luka Kovac : Father, I, I...

  Bishop Stewart : Luka, your heart is burdened, Luka. Talk to me. Let me take that burden with me.

  Luka Kovac : I don't know, I, uh, lost my family. Danijela, my wife, she wanted to move out of Vukovar but I had to finish my internship and soon it was too late, it wasn't safe to move. I was going to get some supplies and ai made them stay behind. I was just crossing the street when the mortar shell hit the apartment building.

  Bishop Stewart : Go on.

  Luka Kovac : I ran inside, there were my neighbors, hurt, bleeding, dying. I passed them by. I had to get to my family. A piece of shrapnel had torn into Danijela's spleen and she was bleeding to death. When I turned back to my daughter, she wasn't breathing. I lost the pulse but, as long as I kept doing CPR and breathing for my daughter I thought she had a chance. I could only pray that someone would get there to help. If I"d picked up Danijela at that moment and gotten her to the hospital she could have had surgery, you know? She could have lived but I couldn't leave my little girl. I waited and prayed. I prayed someone would come.

  Bishop Stewart : And no one came

  Luka Kovac : No one came. I called out for hours as I stayed there with them, breathing for her and doing CPR. I finally had to stop from exhaustion. I lost them all.

  Bishop Stewart : You couldn't sacrifice the one to save the other. Even if you had you'd still blame yourself. These things can't be explained: why it happens. The providence of God and the mysteries of life and death are the very fiber of our faith. They were gifts of love and life. You are a gift of love and life. Don't turn your back on them. God, Father of all mercies, through the death and resurrection of your only begotten son, has reconciled himself to the world and sent the Holy Spirit among us for the forgiveness of sins through the ministry of Holy Church. May God give you pardon and peace and I absolve you of all your sins in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

• Mark Greene : Greene: Okay, that's it. Weaver's on at 6. Could you tell her I'm finished testing tonight so she can stop avoiding me?

  Randi Fronczak : How'd your personality test go?

  Mark Greene : I scored somewhere between serial killer and talk-show host.

  Luka Kovac : I thought they were memory tests.

  Mark Greene : No, that was Monday.

  John Carter : What's next? Rorschach? Spelling bee?

  Mark Greene : Swimwear competition, sudden-death Twister... Who knows? Maybe a chili cook-off!