Saturday, March 19, 2016

ReQuotes: Descendants of the Sun ~ Episode Seven

This drama continues to step up to the plate, bringing great dialogue and greater character interactions every week.


 


Shi-jin: Are you telling us to save paperwork and delay saving people?
Jin Young-soo: Hey you, you are mistaken.  The person who is in charge is me who is the chief manager of the Urk Electric Power Corporation.  So you have to do what I tell you to do.

Shi-jin: The commander of the rescue team takes control in a disaster area.  And that’s me.  Who on earth let a civilian enter a rescue area?



Mo-yeon: Daniel?  Thanks for the radio.  You saved my life. 
Daniel: Then please permit the usage of the operation room.  We have a patient with massive bleeding and skull fracture.  They said I can’t use the operation room without your permission.  I’m about to do surgery at the entrance.
Mo-yeon: It sounds fit for a medical litigation.  Can the nurse hear me?  You’re listening right?  Why aren't you letting him in?  Do you want him to make an appointment or what?  Do you think we’re in Seoul?
Nurse: I’m opening the operation room right now.


Young-soo: We don’t know when the airbags will burst.  And you're saying you’ll crawl under the layers of concrete being held up only by airbags.  Who would do that unless they want to die?
Shi-jin and Dae-young: We will do it.


Mo-yeon: Is there a problem?
Shi-jin: The problem is that the two sites are connected.  If we lift the concrete slab that fell on Mr. Ko, the beam will rise.  It will go right through the other patient.  This will change the structure’s center of gravity. 
Mo-yeon: Are you saying that saving one will kill the other?
Shi-jin: There is no other way.
Mo-yeon: I have no other option either.
Shi-jin: In this situation, we follow the rules of rescue.The doctor decides who is more likely to survive and we save that person.
Mo-yeon: Are you telling me to decide who to kill and who to save?
Shi-jin: Yes.  That is what you have to do.  We’re prepared to save either one of them.


Young-soo: You’re a soldier.  Shouldn’t you put your country first?  Why do you care whether a few manual labor workers live or die?
Shi-jin: Hey.
Young-soo: 'Hey?'  Did you just say...
Shi-jin: Yes, I'm talking to you.  Our country.  What is it, exactly?  Our country puts its peoples' lives and safety first.  That means that when a jerk like you is in trouble we will do whatever it takes to get you to safety.  As a soldier, nothing is more important than saving the life of a Korean citizen.  If you need your papers, dig them out yourself.
Young-soo: This is unbelievable.  You made a big mistake.
Shi-jin: Great.  Get lost.


Myung-joo: Get this guy to buy you a meal if he lives.
Ki-bum: Will he live?
Myung-joo: You're saving him.
Ki-bum: Am I?  Lance Corporal Kim Ki-bum is actually saving a person?  Can I tell Sergeant Major Seo?
Myung-joo: Wait in line.  I’m first.


Mo-yeon: If you were me, who would you save?
Shi-jin: Why are you asking me?  You examined them and diagnosed them.  Now make the call.
Mo-yeon: But you have more experience than I do. You might be able to make the best decision.
Shi-jin: The best?  Do you think that this is what we can call best?  There is no best decision at a rescue site.  We just solve the problems that are in front of us.
Mo-yeon: I know that but I've been treating people all day without structure or protocol.  I don’t know if I'm doing....
Shi-jin: You're doing fine.  Despite the poor conditions, you either do your best, or do nothing and let them die.  It’s either one or the other.  There’s no time to whine.


Chi-hoon: Is it all finished?
Sang-hyun: Yes, a little while ago.
Chi-hoon: Is the patient alive?
Sang-hyun: For now.  But are you....
Chi-hoon: I don’t have a lighter.
Sang-hyun: My goodness, what kind of question is that?  I was going to ask if you are all right. 
Chi-hoon: Give me a cigarette, too.
Sang-hyun: What kind of doctor smokes?  Quit smoking this instant.


Ja-ae: This is Miss B.  There’s a patient here dying from wanting a nutrient injection.  If there’s a doctor that is dying of boredom, could you please come over?
Doctor: Is that so?  How’s the patient?
Ja-ae: He looks like he immediately needs to see an eye doctor.  If he isn’t blind, he could see the conditions of the patients on the beds.  But he says he’s dying of fatigue.  His mouth seems well alive though.
Doctor: He must have gone completely insane.
Ja-ae: That’s what I said.


Young-soo: What’s your name?
Ja-ae: Ha Ja-ae.  What did you say your name was again?
Young-soo: What?  Did you just talk down to me?
Ja-ae: Since you talked down to me first, I thought that you wanted to be friends.  We’ve already exchanged names.  How old are you?
Young-soo: Why these little....


Shi-jin: We will be assigned to the rescue operations tomorrow as well.It will be a rough day, so as soon as you finish dinner, go to sleep as soon as possible.  Don’t think too deeply about what happened today and the current situation we’re in.  Empty your mind.  Just obey your orders.  I will give only the right orders.  Understood?
Soldiers: Yes, sir!


Myung-joo: Are you here on your own account or on my father’s orders?
Dae-young: A commander has to send the best troops to the most intense battlefields.


Chi-hoon: She fractured her foot.  She wasn’t anesthetized when her bone was put back in place because she was pregnant, but she did very well.
Mo-yeon: Your child is very energetic, too, Miss.  Chi-hoon, is that your mobile?
Chi-hoon: I had some classical songs on it. I wanted to help calm the baby.
Mo-yeon: You’re a great doctor.  And you're a great father, too.


Sergeant: Wasn’t your shoulder hurt?
Shi-jin: Right.  could you take a look?
Sergeant: How did you bear the pain?  I think you need stitches.
Shi-jin: No wonder.  It hurt a lot.
Sergeant: I will get the medical team.
Shi-jin: No. it’s all right.  I’ll go myself.
Mo-yeon: I will treat him.


Mo-yeon: What happened?
Shi-jin: I was rescuing people without taking caution.
Mo-yeon: I am fine.
Shi-jin: How did you hear that?  I was asking you that inside my head.  I am very thankful that you are here.  Thank you for fighting with us.
Mo-yeon: Thank you, too.
Shi-jin: I didn’t intend to sound very mean before. 
Mo-yeon: I know.
Shi-jin: Do you?
Mo-yeon: Do you know how long I have been working as a doctor?  Doctors see more people die than a soldier with a gun.
Shi-jin: If my comfort fell short, just disregard what I said.  But, I really want you to be all right, with all my heart.
Mo-yeon: Then do something you are good at, instead of saying weird things to comfort me.
Shi-jin: Something I’m good at.  What could that be?
Mo-yeon: You’re good at making jokes.  I think what I need the most is a joke.
Shi-jin: You look very pretty right now.
Mo-yeon: You can’t see me.
Shi-jin: I saw you before.  You’re a person who is likely to stay pretty.
Mo-yeon: That’s a truth.
Shi-jin: It was a joke.


Shi-jin: I really missed you.  No matter what I did, I couldn’t stop thinking about you.  I tried tiring myself out.  I tried very hard to forget.  I drank and did everything I could.  But I still missed you a lot.  Was this something you never thought you'd hear?  Then you should think on it.  This time, I am serious.


 


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