FADE IN:

INT. BRANDON'S 'CLEAN' HOSPITAL ROOM -- DAY (DAY 4)

Gowned and maksed, Foreman, Chase and Cameron are PREPPING Brandon for his upcoming surgery. His family watches from outside the window.

Foreman threads a Swan-Ganz catheter through a large IV in Brandon's clavicle (collar bone). Cameron is at his side. The catheter connects to a bedside monitor.

FOREMAN
Brandon, we're running this tube through
your heart and into your lungs.

CAMERON
It has sensory that give us information
we'll need during your biopsy surgery
this afternoon.

Brandon nervously clenches and unclenches his fingers.

FOREMAN
Try not to move, okay?

BRANDON
(nervous, but aware)
My fingers are a little numb, sorry.

Cameron makes a mental note of this fact.

FOREMAN
(to Cameron)
I really don't need any help on this end.

He indicates across the room where Chase has plenty to do. This is Chase's world - he's the intensivist. He's working at a rolling, metal table on far side of room, gathering and assembling materials needed to place an arterial line in Brandon's wrist [for after Foreman is done - prep includes unfolding blue sterile towel and covering portion of table, opening packages of 4x4s and pouring out, connecting tubing.]

CAMERON
I know.

It's clear she's on this side of the room because she doesn't want to be on the other side of the room (dealing with Chase).

FOREMAN
We're in the right atrium... trying to
catch the flow through the tricuspid valve.
(then to Cameron, sotto)
You can't even talk to him?

CAMERON
I talk to him.

FOREMAN
Grow up.

Off Cameron, considering. Chase looks up at the monitor.

CHASE
I think the catheter is curling in the atrium.

FOREMAN
Got it. We're in the RV now.

As Cameron wanders over and starts to help, Chase opens suture, grabs needle with kelly clamp, and pulls out of packing and into air.

CHASE
I don't want to jump you, you know.

CAMERON
Yes you do.

They keep their voices quiet enough so that Brandon can't hear, while they continue to work.

CHASE
No, really--

CAMERON
House is right. We're animals. We want
to procreate, we want healthy offspring,
so we want to jump beautiful people. You
want to jump me. I want to jump you.

CHASE
You do?

CAMERON
(House is an idiot)
House is wrong. We're not animals. Just
because we want something doesn't make
it okay. I want to scratch your eyes out
when you look at me like that, but I
keep it to myself. We're capable of
rising above our nature; capable of not
spending all day jumping every beautiful
thing we see.

CHASE
...You want to jump me?

CAMERON
It's not going to happen. So stop
looking at me like that.

Suddenly an alarm sounds. Chase looks up to the monitor.