Casey: What's going on with you today?
Lauren: I miss it.
Casey: Miss what?
Lauren: I miss the pandemic. I mean the worst of it. You know I feel like a sociopath even saying this, but when we were hit the hardest when the ED was above capacity, I felt like I spent my whole life training for a moment that finally came. I helped people. I saved them. And even when I couldn't save them, I was doing exactly what I was meant to do. My patients' hands as they died, I sang songs to them, and now, what? I'm supposed to pass them off as if they don't matter to me? They matter.
Casey: I never told anyone this, but when my deployment ended, I missed it, you know? I missed knowing what I had to do and doing it. I missed the fight. You were at war, Lauren. It's OK to miss the fight. Oh, and uh, by the way? You haven't stopped saving people. The doctors, nurses, me. You saved us, too. You're still saving us.