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	Season 4 / Episode 16: - Hello Goodbye (1) Colleen McMurphy: I remember thinking nothing had changed, the choppers coming in, the boys, and the body bags. Everything was exactly the same as the day I arrived, except for me.
	Season 4 / Episode 16: - Hello Goodbye (1) Dr. Colleen Flaherty Richards: [Wayloo has sauntered away after flirting with Dr. Richard at a reunion] So, are there any women in this room who you haven't slept with?
	Season 3 / Episode 9: - How to Stay Alive in Vietnam (1) Dodger: [throws aside a camera flash bulb] No flash. You're not taking this either. Photojournalist Cat Von Seeger: Hey, stop that! That is my personal property! Dodger: You're not going to a party on Park Avenue, lady. Photojournalist Cat Von Seeger: I know what I'm doing. I covered combat in the Sinai during the Six-Day War. I can cover this. Dodger: [throws to Cat an M-16 assault rifle] Oh, yeah? You know how to handle one of those? You know how to clean it, load it, use it? How about this bayonet? Do you know how to spot a land mine? A punji pit? A Bouncing Betty? Photojournalist Cat Von Seeger: [throws Dodger back his M-16 rifle] Well, I take it that you're the man that's going to teach me. I learn fast. Dodger: This isn't the Sinai where you watch tank battles in the desert from ten miles away. It's the jungles of Vietnam. Out there, you walk behind Answer Man. You step where he steps. You remain quiet. You do nothing more! If he passes onto you a hand signal, you pass it on to the man behind you. If you do anything to endanger me or my men, I'll hold you responsible for whatever happens! Dodger: And you're not taking these either. Bad for your health. VC can smell a lighted cigarette from a mile away.
	Season 3 / Episode 9: - How to Stay Alive in Vietnam (1) Sarge Pepper: Rule Number One: When you've secured an area, be sure to tell the enemy. They may have other plans.
	Season 3 / Episode 9: - How to Stay Alive in Vietnam (1) Sarge Pepper: Rule Number Two: Remember that all your equipment was made by the lowest bidder.
	Season 3 / Episode 9: - How to Stay Alive in Vietnam (1) Sarge Pepper: Rule Number Three: Never share a foxhole with someone that is braver than you.
	Season 3 / Episode 9: - How to Stay Alive in Vietnam (1) Sarge Pepper: Rule Number Four: All five-second grenade fuses are actually three seconds.
	Season 3 / Episode 9: - How to Stay Alive in Vietnam (1) Sarge Pepper: Rule Number Five: Teamwork is essential. It gives the enemy other people to shoot at.
	Season 3 / Episode 9: - How to Stay Alive in Vietnam (1) Sarge Pepper: Rule Number Six: Friendly fire isn't... always friendly.
	Season 3 / Episode 9: - How to Stay Alive in Vietnam (1) Sarge Pepper: Rule Number Nine: You are not Superman. But sometimes imaging that you are is the only thing that will save you. On the other hand, it can also kill you.
	Season 3 / Episode 9: - How to Stay Alive in Vietnam (1) Sarge Pepper: Rule Number Ten: Do what you have to do. Those are the jokes, folks.
	Season 3 / Episode 8: - China Men Nurse Colleen McMurphy: Women make love with their minds, not their bodies. Dr. Richard: Ah yes, that explains why they get so many headaches.
	Season 3 / Episode 6: - Ghosts Dr. Richard: I don't care if she marries him. I just don't want her to squeeze the toothpaste on for him, test his bathwater, grill waffles in the nude for his breakfast. Nurse Colleen McMurphy: You made her cook breakfast in the nude? [smiling] I like that.
	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 bump 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 probally has a wife and three children back home. Don't you think we should spare them the humilitation? 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!
	Season 3 / Episode 4: - Who's Happy Now? Dr. Richard: Well, it looks like Corporal Nichols is displaying some kind of rebellion. Nurse Colleen McMurphy: [to Colonel Darling] It's a massive frontal lobe contusion. Dr. Richard: What I mean in medical terms, the kid's head did a big splat. I shoveled as much of his brain back into his head as a could, but I guess I must have missed a few pieces. Colonel Buster Darling: Is this one of the casualties from the attack last night on Firebase Nightingale? Dr. Richard: No. Firebase Watertower. A few too many Brewskies.
	Season 3 / Episode 3: - Dear China Beach Dr. Dick Richard: Well, someone got up on the wrong side of the bedpan!
	Season 3 / Episode 3: - Dear China Beach Sergeant: All right listen. We got a division of NVA moving up through the valley. At 1900 hours the big boy 52s are gonna be dropping the heavy stuff just outside of the tree line where they'll be coming from. Now, you guys stay here in your foxholes, pull your helmets down to your heels and don't move until I come back. You understand? Don't move from here. Soldier: [to Dodger] A division? How many is that? Dodger: Too many.
	Season 3 / Episode 3: - Dear China Beach Holly Pelegrino: You need a craft. And we've got one... knitting... uhh, needlework... uh, paint by numbers... Nurse Colleen McMurphy: If there's a god, he'll take me now.
	Season 3 / Episode 3: - Dear China Beach Dodger: You don't understand. It's beautiful. Ghosts escape from Hell. I love it. I... beat a man to death with my bare hands. His blood was all over me. It smelled sweet - grape jelly on the stove of my grandmother's house. [laughs] I don't feel guilty, I feel great. I made it, they're dead. [Pants] I'm alive. I'm alive. [Punches wall]
	Season 3 / Episode 3: - Dear China Beach Dodger: [Hugging his infant son - last line of episode] I'm alive.
	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.
	Season 3 / Episode 1: - The Unquiet Earth Tran: You could have let him die. Nurse Colleen McMurphy: No. Tran: Were you expecting mercy? Nurse Colleen McMurphy: I expect nothing.
	Season 2 / Episode 9: - Crossing the Great Water Soldier: Dr. Richard, phone call for you. Dr. Dick Richard: If it's Boston, tell them I'm in a mortar attack, I'll call back in I survive.
	Season 2 / Episode 7: - Tet '68 K.C.: Candy's dandy but liqueur's quicker.
	Season 2 / Episode 7: - Tet '68 Dr. Dick Richard: I didn't save these men just so they could die. Dodger: We're dead already, nobody here gets out alive. Breathing maybe, eating, sleeping. Be ride the bus to work, cash a pay check, wait. But your life is there, here, always. Dr. Dick Richard: You're very chatty tonight. Dodger: We were dead the day we got off the plane. Dr. Dick Richard: You know, you'd make a great recruiter.
	Season 2 / Episode 7: - Tet '68 Dodger: [counting after each mortar explosion] 381... 217... 96... Dr. Dick Richard: 96? Dodger: 96 feet. Dr. Dick Richard: 96 feet what? Dodger: The drop. The distance from impact. Dr. Dick Richard: Damn it! Dodger: 77... well, their aim's getting good. Dr. Dick Richard: This is a hospital. Can't they see the great big red cross on the building? Dodger: Don't care. Dr. Dick Richard: We should get these men out of here. Dodger: There's no place to go. Out there, the VC, they own it. Right now, there're coming in along the river. They'll split off along the perimeter, with 25 men assaulting at each side. They'll come through the wires in twos. At the first sizable clearance, they'll come through that door and we'll be lucky to knock one or two of them down. Dr. Dick Richard: Not the outside door? Dodger: No, never. What'd you expect?
	Season 2 / Episode 7: - Tet '68 Karen Charlene 'K.C.' Koloski: [to McMurphy, re: her past] That's a three-scotch conversation... I'm only on my first.
	Season 2 / Episode 2: - Lost and Found (2) Amn. Wayloo Marie Holmes: [Wayloo has a minor injury to her derriere] Is there a doctor around here? Dr. Dick Richard: [hastily grabs the nearest stethoscope and dons it] I'm a doctor. Please play along.
	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.
	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.

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