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K.C. China Beach

K.C.

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Marg HelgenbergerMarg Helgenberger
Marg Helgenberger is an established dramatic actress whose prominence has been steadily increasing. ...

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K.C. Quotes

03x04 - Who's Happy Now? Season 3 / Episode 4: - Who's Happy Now?

K.C.: What are you yelling at me for? It's not my fault the colonel had a bum ticker. Well? You're not just going to leave him like that?
Boonie: Why can't we just take him back to his quarters?
K.C.: [displaying the handcuffs Col. Darling is wearing] Because he probably has a wife and three children back home. Don't you think we should spare them the humiliation?
Jeff Hyers: Now don't get edgy.
K.C.: Don't get edgy? A full-dead colonel is handcuffed to my bed and you're telling me not to get edgy?
Boonie: A full-dead handcuffed colonel, with sunglasses.
Jeff Hyers: Well, what are we going to do now?
Boonie: I don't know. What do you think?
Jeff Hyers: I don't know! That's why I asked you. What do you think?
Boonie: I don't know.


Boonie: What do you think?
K.C.: What do I think? I think we're never going to win this war!
03x04 - Who's Happy Now? Season 3 / Episode 4: - Who's Happy Now?

Pvt. Samuel Beckett: [Beckett is preparing the body of a Colonel who died while enjoying K.C.'s 'services'] I found these among his personal effects. [Handing letters to Boonie and Hyers]
Boonie: Col. Darling, we regret to inform you that your request for combat duty has been denied.
Jeff Hyers: Dear Buster, the way we're fighting this war it seems like everyone is sleepwalking. My regrets that something so minor prevented your transfer. Best, Brigadier General Stanley.
Pvt. Samuel Beckett: They don't give medals for sleepwalking. It'll keep you out of the bush, off the battlefield, but no gold, no ribbons. So... why here's one [picking up homemade ribbons] for all the paper cuts you got while you were filling out those carbon separated forms, in triplicate. Here's one for all the hours spent behind a desk sending official memorandums through the appropriate channels, and one tiny little ribbon for having died while not serving your country during a 'military police action'... which they refuse to call a war.
K.C.: [Beckett offers a ribbon to K.C. and she pins it to the Colonels uniform] For imaginative and self-sacrificing action while engaged, for never abandoning your post, for the silly stupid, bad, heroic idea that this was some place that you wanted to come.
03x01 - The Unquiet Earth Season 3 / Episode 1: - The Unquiet Earth

K.C.: Oh, we just trust this is gonna make a difference, huh?
Nurse Colleen McMurphy: No, they'll kill us anyway...
K.C.: So why do it? Why even tell them about my blood?
Nurse Colleen McMurphy: Because I'm stupid. Because it's the right thing to do. Take your pick.
K.C.: I pick "stupid."
Nurse Colleen McMurphy: Both answers will be graded as correct.
K.C.: God, you're a pain in the ass, McMurphy.
02x07 - Tet '68 Season 2 / Episode 7: - Tet '68

K.C.: Morphine's better but Heroin is easier to score. Candy's dandy but liqueur's quicker.
01x06 - Waiting For Beckett Season 1 / Episode 6: - Waiting For Beckett

Cherry: I really feel for them.
Colleen McMurphy: We all do. That's why we're here.
Laurette Barber: Yeah, I never thought there'd be too much men for me to handle.
K.C.: It's called supply and demand, ladies. When men are scarce, their value goes up. When men are plentiful, like they are here, the market value gets flooded.
Laurette Barber: You're right. There's no place for us to hide.
Cherry: I hate to say this, but if one more guy walks up to me, I swear I'm just gonna scream.
Dr. Dick Richard: Hello ladies.

01x05 - Somewhere Over the Radio Season 1 / Episode 5: - Somewhere Over the Radio

Cherry White: [looking in a box of K.C.'s 'items'] I don't even know what most of this stuff does.
Nurse Colleen McMurphy: To boldly go...
K.C.: ...where no man has gone before.
01x05 - Somewhere Over the Radio Season 1 / Episode 5: - Somewhere Over the Radio

K.C.: Hey. Heard about tomorrow, break a leg. [slides onto the stool next to Laurette] I know things aren't real level with us. I mean I'm sure Boonie has told you all about him and me. [Laurette nods vaguely] Not that you should believe any word that comes out of that ones mouth. What a guy. Some of the things he's seen. Unbelievable huh? [Laurette nods vaguely again] Or maybe you'd rather not talk about it? O.K. have it your way. Although I'd hate to think you'd be gettin' all of this guys sweetness without taking on any of his pain. [Laurette looks uncomfortable] So, what are you going to sing tomorrow?
Laurette Barber: [whispers having lost her voice] Big girls don't cry.
K.C.: [Finally realizing Laurette has lost her voice] You didn't? [Laurette nods as K.C. looks wryly embarrassed]
01x05 - Somewhere Over the Radio Season 1 / Episode 5: - Somewhere Over the Radio

Cherry White: [about some of K.C.'s lingerie] How can any decent woman wear something like that?
Nurse Colleen McMurphy: With a song in her heart.
K.C.: And a smile on his face.
Cherry White: Not me I'd die of embarrassment.

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