- Jing-Mei Chen: You're not a good doctor until you've killed someone.
- Neela Rasgotra: [under her breath] Spoken like someone who hasn't.
- Neela Rasgotra: [to Gallant as he leaves for Iraq] You'd better come back. You know that, don't you?
- Michael Gallant: Yeah, I will. You just better be a damned good doctor when I do.
- Neela Rasgotra: [to Gallant] You didn't tell me how your meeting went.
- Michael Gallant: It's gonna be fine.
- Neela Rasgotra: Look. I'm sorry I've been... I don't know, bitchy about this whole thing. It's just not comfortable for me. Lying and having someone else cover my mistakes. It just keeps compounding, one on top of the other.
- Michael Gallant: I'm being deployed to Iraq. I'm heading for Texas tomorrow morning.
- Neela Rasgotra: You haven't finished your residency.
- Michael Gallant: Yeah, I know. I'm gonna finish up the last few electives down there.
- Neela Rasgotra: They called you up, just like that?
- Michael Gallant: Yeah.
- Neela Rasgotra: You're a coward.
- Michael Gallant: What, what?
- Neela Rasgotra: Coward and a liar! I never asked you to do this for me, but you did! And now you're leaving, and I'm supposed to live with the fact that I killed a man and that you helped and lied for me to cover it up.
- Michael Gallant: Listen, Neela...
- Neela Rasgotra: No, Michael. Go to bloody Iraq and tell your self you've done something noble.
- Michael Gallant: I had to protect you and Dr. Carter.
- Neela Rasgotra: No, you didn't.