<html> <head> <title>NOVA Online | Coma | Chicago Hope: Reading Between the Lines</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#33CC66" text="#000000" link="#3300FF" vlink="#3366FF"> <table width="520" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tr align="left"> <td align="left" valign="top" height="44"><a href="/wgbh/nova/"><img src="/wgbh/nova/coma/images/comanova.jpeg" alt="NOVA Online" width="520" height="44" border="0"></a></td> </tr> </table> <table align="right" width="481" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" height="14"><img src="/wgbh/nova/coma/images/comanovamenu.gif" alt="NOVA menu (see bottom of page for text links)" width="481" height="14" border="0" usemap="#novamenu"></td> </tr> </table><br> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tr align="left"> <td align="left" valign="top" height="284"> <img src="/wgbh/nova/coma/images/comasidechi.gif" alt="Coma menu (see bottom of page for text links)" align="top" width="160" height="275" border="0" usemap="#comaside"><br> </td> <td align="left" valign="top" height="284"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, Geneva" size="3"><br><br>  <h2><I>Chicago Hope:</I><br>Reading Between the Lines</h2> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, Geneva" size="3">Ever watch tv and wonder what the e.r. physicians are really saying? The producers of Chicago Hope were kind enough to let us translate the final scene from a recent episode. Click on the underlined words below to see the "translations."</font><br><br><blockquote> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tr><td><img src="/wgbh/nova/coma/images/greenpixel.gif" width="65" height="1" border="0"></td> <td><img src="/wgbh/nova/coma/images/greenpixel.gif" width="65" height="1" border="0"></td> <td><img src="/wgbh/nova/coma/images/greenpixel.gif" width="65" height="1" border="0"></td> <td><img src="/wgbh/nova/coma/images/greenpixel.gif" width="65" height="1" border="0"></td> <td><img src="/wgbh/nova/coma/images/greenpixel.gif" width="65" height="1" border="0"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" colspan="5"> <font size="2" face="Courier">EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: JOHN TINKER<br> EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: BILL D'ELIA<br> EXECUTIVE CONSULTANT: DAVID E.KELLEY<br> SUPERVISING PRODUCER: JAMES C. HART<br> PRODUCER: JOHN HEATH<br> PRODUCER: ROB CORN<br> PRODUCER: DAWN PRESTWICH<br> PRODUCER: NICOLE YORKIN<br> PRODUCER: TIM KRING<br> DIRECTOR: BILL D'ELIA</font> </td> </tr>  </table> </td></tr> <tr align="left"> <td align="CENTER" valign="top"> <img src="/wgbh/nova/coma/images/overhead.jpeg" alt="Image from show: the operating table from overhead, with staff close around table" width="140" height="105" border="0"> </td> <td align="left" valign="top" height="284"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">  <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" colspan="5"> <font size="2" face="Courier">CHICAGO HOPE<br> "Lamb to the Slaughter"<br> Teleplay by<br> A. DeSantis Martin<br> &<br> John Tinker<br> Story by<br> Zachary Martin, M.D.<br> &<br> John Tinker</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><br><br><center>MCNEIL</center>You see what I see? <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#liver">Liver</a> looks like ground-round.</font> </td> <td width="100"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>NYLAND</center>Looks more like pate.</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="top" align="left"><font size="2" face="Courier"><br> <center>MCNEIL</center>(to Nurse) <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#suction">Suction.</a> Pull back <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#retractor">retractor,</a> I can't see anything—too much bleeding. </font></td> <td align="left" valign="top" colspan="1"> <br> </td> <td colspan="2" valign="top" align="left"><font size="2" face="Courier"><br> <center>NYLAND (CONT)</center>Get me some <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#gelfoam">gel foam.</a> What a freakin' mess... (to Nurse) Keep the <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#clamps">clamps</a> coming. </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>WILKES<br>(overhearing)</center>What's the situation down there?</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" colspan="2" align="left"><font size="2" face="Courier"><br> <center>MCNEIL</center>Not much to work with. Liver's totally blown. <br> (to Nurse) <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#spongesticks">Sponge sticks.</a> More <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#spongelaps">laps.</a> </font></td> <td align="left" valign="top" colspan="1"> <br> </td> <td valign="top" colspan="2" align="left"><font size="2" face="Courier"><br> <center>NYLAND (CONT)</center>(to Nurse) <br> <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#clamps">Clamps.</a> Large <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#hemoclips">hemo clips.</a> Soak more <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#gelfoam">gel foam.</a><br> (off McNeil's order) <br> A lot more <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#spongelaps">sponge laps.</a> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><font size="1" color="#006633"><center>WATTERS (VOICEOVER)</center>The survival rate for this kind of injury in the E.R. is nearly zero.</font></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center><font size="1" color="#006633">LAMB (VOICEOVER)</center>Yes, you've said that.</font></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>WILKES</center>I've got a lacerated <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#pulmonaryartery">pulmonary artery</a>—probably from a bullet fragment. Nyland, I'm gonna need you up here.<br> (to Nurse)<br> We have a <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#pulse">pulse</a> yet?</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>NURSE</center>Yes, but it's <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#thready">thready.</a></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center><font size="1" color="#006633">WATTERS (VOICEOVER)</center>Very weak.</font></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" colspan="5"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br>Nyland moves up to chest with Wilkes.</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>NYLAND</center>The other vessels seem to be intact .</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>WILKES</center>Good, good. Then let's check behind the <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#lung">lung.</a></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" colspan="5"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br>Wilkes briefly glances up at monitors, checking levels as Nyland jumps in. To McNeil:</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>WILKES (CONT)</center>Jack, you holding up?</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>MCNEIL</center>C'mon, you serious?<br> (to Nyland)<br> I need some help tying off these vessels.</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>NYLAND</center>I'm with you.<br> (to Nurse)<br><a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#bovey">Bovey.</a></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr>  </table> </td></tr> <tr align="left"> <td align="CENTER" valign="top"> <img src="/wgbh/nova/coma/images/toolsinchest.jpeg" alt="Image from show: closeup of surgical tools, including retractor, clamps, in chest" width="140" height="105" border="0"> </td> <td align="left" valign="top" height="284"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">  <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" colspan="5"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br>Nyland helps McNeil, adding <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#hemoclips">hemo clips,</a> helping with <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#clamps">clamps.</a> To Wilkes:</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>NYLAND (CONT)</center>You're working with way too many instruments here. I'm getting some of these out of the way.</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" colspan="5"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br>Nyland, back with Wilkes on Marcus' chest, impatiently removes <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#clamps">clamp</a> from <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#thoracicaorta">thoracic aorta.</a> Wilkes notices. To Nyland:</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>WILKES</center>Hold it, what're you doing?</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>NYLAND</center> (annoyed)<br> It's okay.<br> (sotto; re: Wilkes)<br> You're unbelievable. </font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>NURSE</center><a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#bloodpressure">Pressure's</a> falling.</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>WILKES</center>(loud; to McNeil)<br> Jack, the <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#aorta">aorta's</a> <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#clamps">clamped?</a></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>NYLAND</center>I <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#clamps">clamped</a> it myself.</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>NURSE</center>I'm not getting a reading. I have no <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#pulse">pulse.</a></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr>  </table> </td></tr> <tr align="left"> <td align="CENTER" valign="top"> <img src="/wgbh/nova/coma/images/heartbeat.jpeg" alt="Image from show: closeup of monitor, showing change in heartbeat" width="140" height="105" border="0"> </td> <td align="left" valign="top" height="284"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">  <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" colspan="5"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br>Monitors START SCREAMING. The frenzy begins.</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>MCNEIL</center><a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#vtach">V-tach.</a></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>WILKES</center><a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#internalpaddles">Internal paddles,</a> charge to twenty <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#joule">joules.</a></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><font size="1" color="#006633"><center>WATTERS (VOICEOVER)</center>They'll try and shock Marcus' heart into beating again. Joules is simply a measure of electricity.</font></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>NURSE</center>Ready.</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>WILKES</center>Clear.</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" colspan="5"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br>Wilkes discharges <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#internalpaddles">paddles</a> directly into Marcus' heart as Edna and Nathan re-appear in doorway, both in tears.</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>EDNA</center>Help him.</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>NURSE</center><a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#sinustach">Sinus Tach.</a></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><font size="1" color="#006633"><center>WATTERS (VOICEOVER)</center>He's back to a fast heart beat.</font></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>WILKES</center>What's our <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#bloodpressure">B.P.?</a></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>NURSE</center>You have none.</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>WILKES</center>I'm watching the heart beat.</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>NURSE</center>No <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#pulse">pulse.</a></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>EDNA</center>Do something.</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><font size="1" color="#006633"><center>WATTERS (VOICEOVER)</center>Even with all those clamps, there's still a massive bleed somewhere.</font></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>WILKES</center>Nyland, <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#clamps">reclamp</a> the damn <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#aorta">aorta.</a></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" colspan="5"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br>Nyland <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#clamps">reclamps,</a> Wilkes' adrenaline racing.</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>WILKES (CONT)</center>He's in <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#vfib">V-fib.</a><br>(to Nurse)<br><a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#internalpaddles">Paddles.</a> Twenty <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#joule">Joules.</a></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" colspan="5"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br>Nurse hands <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#internalpaddles">internal paddles</a> to Wilkes. Wilkes shocks the heart, looks to monitors, no response.</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>WILKES (CONT)</center>Starting <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#directcardiac">direct cardiac compressions.</a> Okay, tell me now, tell me—we got a <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#pulse">pulse</a> with that?</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>MCNEIL</center>Still nothing.</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>WILKES</center>Are the <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#iv">IV's</a> wide open? <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#ventilation">Ventilation</a> okay? We need more volume, more <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#oneg">O-neg blood</a> and <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#ringers">lactated ringers.</a></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>MCNEIL</center>Still no <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#pulse">pulse.</a></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>WILKES</center>Get the <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#lidocaine">Lidocaine</a> ready and give him one <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#amp">amp</a> <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#epi">Epi</a> and repeat every three minutes 'til we get a <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#bloodpressure">pressure.</a></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><font size="1" color="#006633"><center>WATTERS (VOICEOVER)</center>Lidocaine calms the heart. Epinephrine's a chemical jolt that strengthens the beat.</font></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>MCNEIL</center><a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#asystole">Asystole.</a></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><font size="1" color="#006633"><center>WATTERS (VOICEOVER)</center>No heartbeat. No electrical impulse to make the heart beat.</font></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" colspan="5"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br>Edna is breaking down.</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>WILKES</center>Nyland, you sure you got a <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#clamps">clamp</a> on the <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#aorta">aorta?</a></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>NYLAND</center>Anyone else wanna second-guess me?</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>MCNEIL</center>He's <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#flatline">flatline.</a></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>WILKES</center>Give him one <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#amp">amp</a> of <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#atropine">Atropine,</a> another of <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#epi">Epi.</a></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr>  </table> </td></tr> <tr align="left"> <td align="CENTER" valign="top"> <img src="/wgbh/nova/coma/images/working.jpeg" alt="Image from show: staff by the table" width="140" height="105" border="0"> </td> <td align="left" valign="top" height="284"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">  <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" colspan="5"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br>Nurse injects <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#atropine">Atropine</a> directly into <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#iv">IV.</a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>NATHAN</center>He'll be okay, Mama.</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>EDNA</center>My boy, my boy.</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>NURSE</center><a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#asystole">Asystole.</a></font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>MCNEIL</center>What're we doing, Keith?</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" colspan="5"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br>An eternal beat of SILENCE, save for the solo TONE of the <a href="/wgbh/nova/coma/hoperef.html#flatline">flatline</a> and Edna's WAILING. All eyes are on Wilkes, waiting.</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>MCNEIL (CONT)</center>Wilkes... You're running the code? What about it?</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>NYLAND</center>Call it.</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" colspan="5"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br>Wilkes shoots a look at Nyland. Then, realizing it really is hopeless:</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> <td width="300" align="left" valign="top" colspan="3"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br><center>WILKES</center>Time of death, ten o'clock.</font> </td> <td width="100" colspan="1"><br></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" colspan="5"> <font size="2" face="Courier"><br>Edna breaks down completely, falling to the floor, Nathan trying, but unable, to comfort her. Wilkes is stunned, without a clue as to what happened. 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