Brenda is alone in her hospital room when she hears a knock on the door. It's Dan.

Brenda: Oh, hey, Dan. Come on in.

Dan comes through the door with a basket of beautiful red and yellow and white flowers.

Dan: Look at what I found in the gift shop.
Brenda: (laughing) Aren't they lovely!
Dan: A reminder that spring is on the way!
Brenda: Let me smell these. (she smells the flowers) Oh, I could use a little spring in my life. (she puts the flowers on her side table) I feel like it is dead, dark winter in my heart.

Dan puts his hand on her shoulder.

Dan: Brenda, I -- I know what's going on. I crashed the meeting between my father and Dr. DeSalvo.
Brenda: (resigned) So they sent you over here to agree with their dire theory, and they want you to encourage me to accept it, right?
Dan: Well, no, actually, my father's quite angry with me. I don't agree with it at all.
Brenda: (surprised) What do you mean?

Dan sits down next to the bed.

Dan: Well, Brenda, I assisted a doctor at New York General who had a severe toxemia patient -- same kind of horrible prognosis as yours. But Dr. Chen did not give up. You see, he suspected that the patient might have something else wrong with her. So he ran some tests, and sure enough, there was a condition interacting with the toxemia.
Brenda: So he treated that condition, and then the toxemia wasn't so bad?
Dan: Right.
Brenda: (outraged) Well, then why isn't Larry doing something like that with me?
Dan: Because, Brenda, he's afraid of further delays. Others feel the best thing to do is to bring the baby into the world now.
Brenda: No, Dan, it is much too early!
Dan: Maybe they're right.
Brenda: Yeah, well, maybe they are. But we haven't -- we haven't tried everything yet, you know?

Brenda suddenly gives Dan a strange look of realization.

Dan: What?
Brenda: Would you do it?

Dan laughs like he doesn't think she is serious.

Brenda: No, would you run those tests?
Dan: Brenda, I'm not your physician. I'd need your permission to do something like that --
Brenda: "My permission" to do that?? I am not going to ask your permission. I am demanding that you do it! Dan, I'll do anything and everything to save my baby's life and my own.

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When the scene returns, Brenda is alone again in her hospital room, when Larry pokes his head back through the door and knocks.

Brenda: Larry.
Larry: Hi.
Brenda: I've calmed down a little bit, I think you'll be happy to know.
Larry: Whew! (seeing the flower basket sitting nearby) Oh, those are nice flowers. Who sent you those?
Brenda: Yeah, Dan did. Aren't they lovely?
Larry: Yeah. What did he say to you?

As he asks this, Dan returns to the doorway.

Brenda: Larry.
Dan: I told her my opinion, Dad.

Larry turns to Dan in surprise.

Dan: And I just got back from the lab, and I gave them another sample of Brenda's blood.
Larry: Why did you do that?
Brenda: Well, because, Larry, he thinks that there might be some underlying condition that's aggravating the toxemia.
Larry: Oh, I see. And now you have a reason for not making a decision.
Brenda: No, Larry, I'd already made my decision. You just didn't accept it.
Dan: Listen, we'll get the results in a couple of days. I put a rush on it --

Larry grabs Dan's arm.

Larry: "A couple of days"?? We don't have a couple of days. Why didn't you talk to me about this?
Dan: Because, Dad, you will not listen to me! Anything -- any ideas that I have on this case, you will not listen to me.
Larry: Dan, your arrogance could be fatal.
Brenda: Please don't yell at him. I insisted that he take these tests, Larry.
Larry: (to Dan) I want to talk to you out in the hall.

Larry tries to take Dan outside, but Brenda stops them.

Brenda: No, now, wait, it's already been done, and they might find something out from these things. Larry, why don't you want to explore this?
Larry: Brenda, if you hit the eclampsia stage while we're sitting around here, twiddling our thumbs --
Brenda: I am gonna start yelling at you in a second! You're so wrapped up in your own zone that you're not listening to what I want. I don't care about the eclampsia. I -- all I care about is that I do not deliver this baby before it's ready to be born!
Dan: Dad, she doesn't want to do it. We have time to --
Larry: (yelling) You get the hell out of here, and you are relieved -- don't you ever come near her again! You stay off this floor, and if I see you around here, you're gonna be suspended.
Dan: What do you think you're doing??
Brenda: You can't do that! I asked him to run those tests -- I demanded it.
Larry: I want you out of here, Dan. Out! Right now, out!

Dan starts to leave until Brenda calls after him.

Brenda: No, Dan, you wait a minute! God, I don't want to do this, Larry, but you're forcing me into it. I want you off of my case right now, and I want Dan to be my physician.

Larry is shocked.

Larry: Wait, you -- you can't mean that.
Brenda: God, you have just pushed me into a corner here. You're making me go around you so that I can get some help.
Larry: What -- to a -- to a resident who's not even an obstetrics specialist? That shows a lot of common sense, Brenda! A lot of intelligence!
Brenda: Damn it, I am desperate, and you know that!
Larry: (nodding) You sure are.

Larry leaves, while Brenda exchanges an upset look with Dan.

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