Third Watch (TV Series)

Kim's Hope Chest (2000)

Kim Raver: Kim Zambrano

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• Kim Zambrano : [voice-over]  They say if you have more than one of something, you're a collector. I guess that makes me a professional. I don't know when it happened. I woke up one morning with 16 leather jackets, vintage. I can't seem to throw anything away. I guess I'm not the comfortable with change. I moved around so much when I was a kid. New apartments, new schools, new dads, new stuff. I got to where I hung onto stuff. I realize that I should clean house, but it's hard figuring out what's important.

• Kim Zambrano : I am not spending the next five years of my life having Joey listen to his mom audition husbands on the other side of the wall.

  Catherine Zambrano : I wouldn't loved to have met a man that was worthy of you girls, but I didn't. And you know what? I think that we did okay.

• Roberto Caffey : Kim, I know you. I know that you love Joey more than anything in the world, but you're not thinking through what he needs right now, you're not.

  Kim Zambrano : You know, I just wanna give him something normal. A normal family.

  Roberto Caffey : He's got a family, Kim. It's just a totally screwed up family. And if you think that's gonna changed on the off-chance that you might actually remarry Jimmy, then you're crazy.

  Kim Zambrano : I'm not crazy.

  Roberto Caffey : He needs you to be stable, okay? He needs you to do things with him. That's what he needs. Take him to a ball game.

  Kim Zambrano : He needs a father, you idiot. He's got a collection of his dad's stuff buried under his bed, he wakes up at night with nightmares, screaming. He asks me every single day when he's coming home, so it's not as simple as a friggin' Yankees game.

• Roberto Caffey : He's getting married, Kim. Get on with your life.

  Kim Zambrano : Look, I want my life back, okay?

  Roberto Caffey : He screwed your sister, Kim, and you chased after him. He gets engaged and there you are again.

  Kim Zambrano : Yeah, we belong together. You know, we would've been fine if it wasn't for her.

  Roberto Caffey : Who? Melanie? No wonder you can't explain this divorce to Joey. You don't understand it yourself. You think that you're doing this for your son, Kim? You're dead wrong. This is all about you.

  Kim Zambrano : You don't get it.

• Monte Parker : [When Kim is about to amputate the leg of a deceased pregnant woman to save the baby and get her out of the car]  Kim, you don't know what you're doing.

  Kim Zambrano : Help me, or get out of my way, Doc.

• Carlos Nieto : [to Kim]  You get called for review yet?

  Kim Zambrano : The baby lived.

  Carlos Nieto : Yeah, lucky for you.

  Kim Zambrano : What's that supposed to mean?

  Carlos Nieto : Look, next time you wanna start hacking limbs off, just make sure I'm nowhere near.

  Kim Zambrano : You better stay clear then, 'cause I'd do it again.

  Monte Parker : You do it around me again and I'll write you up myself.

  Kim Zambrano : I was doing my job.

  Monte Parker : Is that what that was, huh? Making your own rules?

  Kim Zambrano : It was a judgment call. The woman was dead. You would've done the same thing.

  Monte Parker : Maybe, maybe not. The point is, you did it the wrong way and I don't appreciate being forced into backing you up.

  Kim Zambrano : Doc, I saved that baby.

  Monte Parker : It went well for you. Great. I'm getting major grief from Morales and our district supervisor. You're not putting me in that position again. That's it. I don't wanna hear anymore about it.

• Kim Zambrano : [as she looks at the baby that she saved]  You know, I'm ashamed of a lot of things in my life, Doc, but not this. I'm glad that I didn't give up.

  Monte Parker : We're not God. Sometimes things happen the way they're supposed to, even if we don't want them to. And sometimes... we're supposed to give up. No matter how hard it might be. Best thing to do is just to let it go.

• Kim Zambrano : [to Melanie]  Look, I wanna ask you something? When did you get the idea going, huh? Was it those weeks you spent at our house when you couldn't an apartment? Or was it when you asked to baby sit when I was working nights?

  Melanie : Are you gonna punish me forever?

  Kim Zambrano : You slept with my husband.

  Melanie : I'm so sorry.

  Kim Zambrano : In my bed, Melanie. You're my sister.

  Melanie : It was a mistake.

  Kim Zambrano : After a year and a half, that's all that you could come up with?

  Melanie : Is that what you came here to talk about?

  Kim Zambrano : I need to know. How did you seduce Jimmy?

  Melanie : You think that I seduced him?

  Kim Zambrano : I need to know. What it was that I did wrong? I mean, did I invite you over too often? I mean, should I have put you in a cab instead of making Jimmy take you home? Is that it?

  Melanie : Look, I don't know what you want me to say. If I knew, I'd say it.

  Kim Zambrano : I want to know how to get a woman like you away from my husband.

  Melanie : Oh, my God. You're back together again?

  Kim Zambrano : Wasn't I enough?

  Melanie : Kim, please...

  Kim Zambrano : Oh, you know what, Melanie. Just forget it.

• Roberto Caffey : [to Kim]  You ever think about putting Joey in another school? You know, new environment, new friends...

  Kim Zambrano : Yeah, but a Catholic school's the only place Jimmy's parents will foot the bill for. And private's like my entire salary.

  Roberto Caffey : You learn the same things in public school. The only difference is, you're having sex in the subway instead of at the Waldorf.

  Kim Zambrano : [laughs]  You had sex in the subway?

  Roberto Caffey : Stand clear of the closing doors, baby.