S5 E20
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Season 5  "Simple Explanation"  5x20

Aired 14 years ago - Apr 06, 2009

Charlotte, an older woman who has spent the last six months taking care of her dying husband Eddie, is rushed to Princeton Plainsboro after collapsing from respiratory failure. The couple becomes a double mystery for the team when Eddie begins to improve as Charlotte’s condition worsens. The previously unthinkable becomes real when it seems that Charlotte will die before Eddie, and the team will be forced to make a difficult decision.

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How sweet. They can die together.
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You spit it out? Mommy doesn't.
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What's happening? I don't know.
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Oh, god.
#6
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He didn't slit his wrists and...
#8
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So pity, yes, but guilt, no.
#9
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Could be a metabolic disorder, acidosis.
#10
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if i don't have to keep flicking his wings off my shoulder.
#11
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We'd like to go see kutner's parents.
#12
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some fancy hotel.
#13
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Must have been scary... going through a trauma
#14
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Do you have any idea?
#15
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leaving him tormented about who he was
#16
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She's still in pain. Rules out polyserositis.
#17
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Kidney function's normal. It's not byssinosis.
#18
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How could she be... the windpipe thing?
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I'm talking about charlotte, the one who's still alive.
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Just a few more minutes,
#22
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of cancer patients going into spontaneous remission.
#23
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She's not your patient. And kutner wasn't my friend.
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i'm uncomfortable violating a dead colleague's dignity.
#26
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Does it really matter why?
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He was murdered.
#29
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So...less time proving why hubby isn't dead.
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is suddenly pursuing the irrational.
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This isn't over yet.
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Okay.
#33
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Right, the murderer would never try to
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She wasn't trying to look worse.
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How many times have you lied to the transplant committee?
#36
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I thought he should talk to someone who spoke the language.
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died of an aneurism two months ago.
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I'm starting you on itraconazole.
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What is she hiding?
#44
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he might want the answer to both.
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It'll give her death some meaning.
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don't you have a funeral to go to?
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Where when i can't stand ?
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