This Is Us (TV Series)

Last Christmas (2016)

Gerald McRaney: Dr. Nathan Katowski

Quotes 

• Dr. Nathan Katowsky : I worked in this hospital forty years. I know you have a stash of decent blankets!

  Rebecca : Dr. K? I thought I recognized that voice.

  Dr. Nathan Katowsky : Oh, hey, you. Yeah, it's been a while.

  Rebecca : Nine years

  Dr. Nathan Katowsky : Ooh.

  Rebecca : What's... happening? What's all this about?

  Dr. Nathan Katowsky : I was rushing to get to the airport, hit some ice. Wrapped my old LeSabre around a lamppost.

  Rebecca : Ooh.

  Dr. Nathan Katowsky : How about you? You just come for the food?

  Rebecca : No. Uh, our little Kate... appendectomy.

  Dr. Nathan Katowsky : Oh, no. And on Christmas Eve. Well, don't worry about it; it's routine stuff these days.

  Rebecca : Yeah, thank you. I know. Where is your family? They on their way?

  Dr. Nathan Katowsky : Uh, Montana; that's where we go. I mean, they're... they're trying, but weather being what it is, they wouldn't get here in time to say goodbye anyway.

  Rebecca : Goodbye? I don't... I don't really understand. You seem okay.

  Dr. Nathan Katowsky : Yeah, well... it's internal. A slow hemorrhage between the heart and a lung.

  Rebecca : Can't they operate?

  Dr. Nathan Katowsky : Well, I'm sure they'll try, but don't let this flattering hospital lighting fool you, Rebecca. I'm old. And the odds of digging around in me without causing either a massive stroke or a bleed-out are close enough to zero to pass for it in any math I know of.

• Jack : It's not just a coincidence. The only reason you delivered our kids was because our doctor's appendix burst, and now Kate's appendix brought us all back here. On Christmas Eve, of all nights.

  Dr. Nathan Katowsky : You trying to wax poetic on me? I'd rather you wax that mustache. 'Cause if your musings on the great circle of life are gonna be the last things I ever hear, dear god, take me now.