Doctor Strange (2016)

Rachel McAdams: Dr. Christine Palmer

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• Christine Palmer : Where have you been?

  Dr. Stephen Strange : Well, after Western medicine failed me, I headed east, and I ended up in Kathmandu.

  Christine Palmer : Kathmandu?

  Dr. Stephen Strange : Yeah.

  Christine Palmer : What? Like the Bob Seger Song?

  Dr. Stephen Strange : 1975, Beautiful Loser, side A. Yeah. And I went to a place called Kamar-Taj and I... talked to someone called "The Ancient One." And I...

  Christine Palmer : Oh. So you joined a cult.

  Dr. Stephen Strange : No, I didn't. No, not exactly. No. I mean... They did teach me to tap into powers that I never even knew existed.

  Christine Palmer : Yeah. That sounds like a cult.

  Dr. Stephen Strange : It's not a cult.

  Christine Palmer : Well, that's what a cultist would say.

• Christine Palmer : [inscription on Strange's watch]  Time will tell how much I love you.

• Christine Palmer : Hey. It's OK. It's gonna be OK.

  Dr. Stephen Strange : [looking at his injured hands]  Wha... What did they do?

  Christine Palmer : They... rushed you in a chopper. But it took a little while to find you. The golden hours for nerve damage went by while you were in the car.

  Dr. Stephen Strange : What... did they do?

  Christine Palmer : Eleven stainless steel pins in the bones. Multiple torn ligaments... severe nerve damage in both hands. You were on the table for eleven hours.

  Dr. Stephen Strange : [sobs]  Look at these fixators.

  Christine Palmer : No one could have done better.

  Dr. Stephen Strange : I could have done better.

• Dr. Stephen Strange : I'm talking tonight at a Neurological Society dinner. Come with me.

  Christine Palmer : Another speaking engagement? So romantic.

  Dr. Stephen Strange : You used to love coming to those things with me. We had fun together.

  Christine Palmer : No, you had fun. They weren't about us, they were about you.

  Dr. Stephen Strange : Not only about me.

  Christine Palmer : Stephen. Everything is about you.

• Christine Palmer : Stephen, you always spent money as fast as you can make it, but now you're spending money you don't even have. Maybe it's time to consider stopping.

  Dr. Stephen Strange : No, now is exactly not the time to stop, because, you see, I'm not getting any better!

  Christine Palmer : But this isn't medicine anymore, this is mania. Some things just can't be fixed.

  Dr. Stephen Strange : A life without my work...

  Christine Palmer : Is still a life. This isn't the end, there are other things that can give your life meaning.

  Dr. Stephen Strange : [bitter]  Like what? Like you?

  Christine Palmer : [Hurt and angry]  And this is the part where you apologize.

  Dr. Stephen Strange : This is the part where you leave.

• Christine Palmer : [during emergancy surgery]  You can't do this free-hand.

  Dr. Stephen Strange : I can and I will.

  Dr. Nicodemus West : This is no time for showing off, Strange.

  Dr. Stephen Strange : How about ten minutes ago when you called the wrong time of death?

• [Lucian's astral form approaches while Christine operates on Doctor Strange] 

  Dr. Stephen Strange : I'm gonna have to vanish now.

  Christine Palmer : What?

  Dr. Stephen Strange : Keep me alive, will you?

• Christine Palmer : [after fixing up Stephen]  This is insane.

  Dr. Stephen Strange : Yeah.

  Christine Palmer : Where are you going?

  Dr. Stephen Strange : Umm... ..

  Christine Palmer : Can you tell me the truth?

  Dr. Stephen Strange : Well, a powerful sorcerer who gave himself over to an ancient entity can bend the very laws of physics tried very hard to kill me. But I left him chained up in Greenwich Village and the quickest way back there is through a dimensional gateway that I opened up in the mop closet.

  Christine Palmer : Okay. Don't tell me. Fine.

  [Stephen opens up the mop closet and Christine is surprised to see a portal whirring]