ER (TV Series)

Parental Guidance (2008)

Angela Bassett: Cate Banfield

Quotes 

• Mrs. O'Fallon : [about Claire]  You know, about a month ago, I... um... caught her throwing rocks at the neighbor's dog. And then a few days later, she was trying to stick a metal rod through one of the fish in our tank. And I just tried to pretend it was normal. You know, just a kid acting out. I don't get it. Why her? Why our family?

  Cate Banfield : I don't know.

  Mrs. O'Fallon : That's all you can say? You can't lie to me and tell me that she's gonna be okay? That she's gonna grow up to be a normal girl? I mean, that's why we come here, to get answers. You're gonna have to do better than that.

  Cate Banfield : I'm sorry. That's all I have.

  Mrs. O'Fallon : Well, that's not good enough, doctor.

• Cate Banfield : Claire, we have video cameras in the ceilings of our trauma rooms. We saw you adjust the ventilator and light the sheet on fire.

  Claire O'Fallon : I didn't want to kill her. I just wanted to mess her up.

  Cate Banfield : You did.

  Claire O'Fallon : If she's in the hospital, Mom will see what a good girl I am. She won't be blaming me for everything.

  Cate Banfield : Is that why you pushed her off the wall?

  [Claire doesn't answer] 

  Cate Banfield : Claire, they're accusing your mother of child abuse which means she could go to jail, and your sister and you could both go to foster homes. Now, something tells me that she doesn't hit you two and she didn't push your sister. Did you do it, Claire? Did you?

  Claire O'Fallon : It was cool seeing her lying there all pale, with blood coming out. And then when she couldn't move, and her legs were getting burned. It was great.

  Cate Banfield : That made you feel good?

  Claire O'Fallon : Really good.