- Carrie Burton: Look, you can't just walk in here and perform a Caesarean. So far as I am concerned, you don't even work here yet.
- Hone Ropata: It doesn't have to be a Caesarean.
- Carrie Burton: Anything is too dangerous.
- Hone Ropata: Not if you know know what you are doing.
- Carrie Burton: You're not in Guatemala now, Doctor Ropata!
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- Marjorie Neilson: [answering telephone] Shortland Street Accident and Emergency Centre.