Third Watch (TV Series)

Kim's Hope Chest (2000)

Michael Beach: Monte Parker

Quotes 

• Monte Parker : [When Kim is about to amputate the leg of a deceased pregnant woman to save the baby and get her out of the car]  Kim, you don't know what you're doing.

  Kim Zambrano : Help me, or get out of my way, Doc.

• Carlos Nieto : [to Kim]  You get called for review yet?

  Kim Zambrano : The baby lived.

  Carlos Nieto : Yeah, lucky for you.

  Kim Zambrano : What's that supposed to mean?

  Carlos Nieto : Look, next time you wanna start hacking limbs off, just make sure I'm nowhere near.

  Kim Zambrano : You better stay clear then, 'cause I'd do it again.

  Monte Parker : You do it around me again and I'll write you up myself.

  Kim Zambrano : I was doing my job.

  Monte Parker : Is that what that was, huh? Making your own rules?

  Kim Zambrano : It was a judgment call. The woman was dead. You would've done the same thing.

  Monte Parker : Maybe, maybe not. The point is, you did it the wrong way and I don't appreciate being forced into backing you up.

  Kim Zambrano : Doc, I saved that baby.

  Monte Parker : It went well for you. Great. I'm getting major grief from Morales and our district supervisor. You're not putting me in that position again. That's it. I don't wanna hear anymore about it.

• Kim Zambrano : [as she looks at the baby that she saved]  You know, I'm ashamed of a lot of things in my life, Doc, but not this. I'm glad that I didn't give up.

  Monte Parker : We're not God. Sometimes things happen the way they're supposed to, even if we don't want them to. And sometimes... we're supposed to give up. No matter how hard it might be. Best thing to do is just to let it go.