The God Committee

By telephone, Riggs tells Dr. Andre Boxer, "... a heart became available for your patient Serena Vasquez..." (0:03)

Boxer tells Dr. Jordan Taylor, "... please consider there may be other more deserving patients." (0:05)

Father Dunbar asks Taylor, "And that didn’t make you ambivalent about these committees?"
Taylor: ”I am ambivalent.” (0:09)

Boxer tells Emmett Granger, referring to Granger’s son, "If he’s been using again, there is nothing I can do." (0:11)

Patient Serena Vasquez: "Am I dreaming?"
Nurse: ”You’re not dreaming.” (0:17)

A physician tells Taylor, "I’m Allen Lau, the shrink on this ship."
Patient Walter Curtis: ”Bipolar, but I did pass my last psych eval.”
Nurse Wilkes: ”He takes his medication.”
Dr. Valerie Gilroy answers Lau, ”To tell Mr. Vasquez his wife is dead.” (0:18)

Closeup of "Nicotine Gum" (0:23)

Boxer: "I’m confused, Emmett."
”My files are confidential.” (0:26)

Lau, referring to Granger’s son, a transplant candidate: "Unconsciously, this could prejudice us against Trip."
Gilroy: ”We’re waiting on Trip’s drug results.”
Gilroy tells Dunbar, ”If a patient’s been using, they’re ineligible,”
Wilkes: ”He OD’d on cocaine nine months ago.” (0:31)

Gilroy tells Dunbar, "Good memory." (0:33)

Her mother Nadia tells Taylor, "We watched Beauty and the Beast." (0:36)

Janet Fitzgerald: "I haven’t worked since my husband passed away."
Boxer: ”That’s insightful.”
Lau: ”Janet’s ambivalent about a transplant.”
”Nine years ago, Walter tried to commit suicide. He ingested a bottle of Percocet.”
”He was diagnosed bipolar. He started on lithium, and he’s been stable ever since. I didn’t think he was a suicide risk any longer.”
”I lost my daughter five months ago. She overdosed.”
Boxer: ”I think the suicide’s a disqualifiier.”
”I’d say an attempted suicide is pretty relevant to a character evaluation, wouldn’t you?”
Dunbar: ”Evaluating someone's true character... seems like a risky proposition to me.”
Intercom: ”It’s Pope. Trip Granger’s drug test results are ready.” (0:37)

Gilroy tells Boxer, "You’re just hung up on your friendship with Granger... you don’t think the priest can keep it confidential..." (0:45)

Tip Granger’s “DRUG ABUSE PANEL” negative for amphetamines, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, marijuana metabolites, methadone, methaqualone. Positive for cocaine.
Gilroy tells the committee, ”He tested positive for cocaine.”
Lau: ”Idiot.”
Dunber: ”Are these drug tests ever wrong?”
Wilkes: ”We only do a second one if the patient disputes the results.”
Lau: ”Since Trip’s unconscious, that’ obviously not happening.”
Boxer: ”What happens if Walter has another episode and he finds something stronger than Percocet in his medicine cabinet?”
Taylor: ”Dr. Lau passed him on the psych eval.”
Wilkes: ”That was before he was diagnosed bipolar”
Taylor: ”Ampicillin can test as a false positive for cocaine.”
Wilkes: ”Do you think his drug test was wrong?” (0:47)

Gilroy tells the others, "I can call Trip’s GP, ask if he prescribed any medication... look for medication."
Taylor: ”... we may also get some color for the character evaluation.” (0:53)

Taylor asks Trip’s girlfriend Holly, "I need to know if Trip was using drugs."
Holly, referring to Trip: ”With his condition, he’s, like, super paranoid about germs, so he starts freaking out... ”
”Well, Trip wasn’t using. He’s been sober for a while now.”
”His medicine cabinet’s like a pharmacy.” (0:55)

Boxer answers Gilroy: "Jumpstart a cokehead to save the program."
Gilroy, referring to Trip: ”You don’t know if he’s been using.”
”Sometimes I wonder if you’re on the spectrum.” (1:04)

Dunbar preaches: "These assumptions can blind us to possibilities, or worse, send us spinning into delusion." (1:08)

Granger tells Taylor, "The donor had a stroke." (1:11)

Lau: "Still doesn’t prove he’s clean."
Taylor, referring to Holly: ”She claims he wasn’t taking drugs...”
”... we make our decision based on facts, including those that relate to character.”
Wilkes tells Lau, ”Well, then, sit back and say nothing, which is what you psychiatrists are so good at doing.” (1:13)

Boxer tells Taylor, "That’s how long Trip lasted before he OD’d..." (1:21)

Taylor realizes Boxer has died. (1:29)