The Fall (TV Series)

Silence and Suffering (2016)

Richard Coyle: Dr O'Donnell

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• Dr. O'Donnell : [briefing his ER staff]  OK, everybody, listen to me. I'm the Tsar. All questions to me, all angst to me, all misery to me.

• Dr. O'Donnell : How's the Strangler doing?

  Dr. Morton : I'm going up to see him in a minute. I've been aware of what's going on but I haven't really been following it closely. Some of my friends have been really caught up in it all, having alarms fitted and asking random boyfriends to move in.

  Dr. O'Donnell : Well, luckily, you're a doctor and therefore never at home.

  Dr. Morton : True. I hadn't really thought of myself as being at risk in that way. Then you look at the photographs and you think, "They're just young women living their lives like I live mine. That could have been me."

  Dr. O'Donnell : One of my best buddies is a doctor in the military. Did several tours in Afghanistan. In the field hospitals, casualties are treated solely on the basis of their clinical need. Badly injured Taliban treated ahead of British casualties if their condition was more urgent. Same here in the old days. That didn't always make him very popular. In truth, it rather fucked him up. But he'd still argue medical care has to be delivered according to clinical need without discrimination. If he was here, he'd tell us it's our duty to treat your man humanely and protect them. Even if he is a murdering bastard. Allegedly.