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It was announced just last month that the former Teen Wolf actor is set to star as a lead in CBS' potential up-and-coming medical drama LFE and now new details have emerged on what we can expect. From what can be gathered from
Season Zero, if you're a fan of
Grey's Anatomy and/or
ER then this show may be right up your alley. LFE focuses on the lives of the residents of a prestigious hospital in New York City who struggle with their own personal lives as they fight to save those of their patients. As you'd imagine, given the theme, the surgical scenes are described as graphic, but that's not all that you MD fanatics have to look forward to. It's been said that a generous amount of time will be spent following the Doctors in their lives outside of the Hospital and on the streets of the city as well.
Character DescriptionsJoe (Daniel Sharman) is described as a young man with a load of burdens on his shoulders. Stuck with the responsbility of caring for his ailing father (Reid Bierney) and the slacker that is his younger brother (Luke Slattery). He's been referred to as appearing rather dull, but evidently grows an edge to him in what's been reported as a particularly unsettling scene.
Mae (Ana Kayne) is Joe's ex-girlfriend who is presented as being lighthearted and fun. The word quirky was used, so take from that what you will.
If you're interested in finding out who else will be roaming the halls of this hospital with Joe and Mae, find out
here.
Script ExcerptsSCENE 1
- Joe:I don’t want anyone to get hurt. I don’t want to harm anybody. That’s one of the reasons why I haven’t decided whether I wanna do this or not.
- Broker: With a broker like me, everybody benefits. I find a donor willing to give a kidney. There is no drugging of people and stealing of organs like you see on the news. The donors walk away healthy as they were at the start, the money helping them to build better lives for themselves. The recipients - they live.
- Joe: That’s amazing.
- Broker: The thing is Joe, even if you decide that you want to do this, I’m not sure I feel comfortable working with a doctor, especially one who got my information from an expatient of his from two days ago.
- Joe:I told him about my dad and he told me how you helped his wife.
- Broker: Sure, but as a member of the medical community, you must know that a lot of people, and I don’t just mean the Feds, I mean your people, are against someone like me, the organ trade.
- Joe: A lot of people think that this is not within my rights… going through a broker to buying organs that’s wrong. But they’ve never been through what I’ve been through. They’ve never had to hold their parent’s hand while they wither away because their stomach was so weak that they couldn’t swallow a mouth full of water, all the while they could be doing something about it. And they never had to watch their mother die of cancer before being forced to watch their father’s organs fail, all the while they could be doing something about it. You see, these people who say that I don’t have the right - well, they’re right. Legally I don’t. But I’m a doctor and as far as I can tell, they don’t have the right to tell me that I can’t do everything within my power to save a person’s life. My father, he has the right to live his life.
- Broker: Sounds like you’ve made up your mind.
- Joe:So, what happens now?
- Broker: I find a donor who matches your father, we do the surgery and your father walks away. I still need the funds first. $ 160,000.
SCENE 2
- Bobby (brother of Daniel Sharman’s character):Get off of me!
- Joe: You’re screwing up your life!
- Bobby: It was a nothing fight. I’m fine!
- Joe: You’re not fine! You’re a punk! You’re no longer welcome to live here if you keep acting irresponsibly!
- Bobby: This is dad’s apartment!
- Joe: Not for long! You’ve made your peace with it, now I’ve made mine.
- Bobby:WOW. So your new plan didn’t work out, huh? I’m out of here, I don’t need this shit.
- Joe: You think I’m only concerned with what you need, huh? Where do you think I’m going to be when dad dies?! YOU ARE MY BROTHER. You are going to be the only thing I’ve got left of a home.
SCENE 3
- Mae: Got any snooze last night?
- Joe: Dreamed of a new cell phone case… and world peace.. and you know what: I think it’s doable.
- Mae: I got home late. Still managed to do yoga this morning. Sugarland’s tonight.
- Joe: That’s still going on?!
- Mae: Maybe you and I could go together… for old time’s sake.
- Joe: Well, we went once. You got mad cause I wouldn’t dance.
- Mae: You never dance! Coffee this weekend?
- Joe: I can’t.
- Mae: Come on! You can’t ostracize me forever, Joe. It was three years ago!
- Joe: I’m not going to be over it till I’m over it.
- Mae: The guy had literally come from space. He was an astronaut. Look, I admit it. What I did was wrong. I’m not making excuses. It was wrong of me to sleep with him when you and I were still together. … Oh, wait… Hold still, you’ve got soap all over your pants … Life’s too short for this! I care about you! And I miss you!
- Joe: I can’t introduce another volatile thing into my life right now. It’s just a precarious mess… Go to Sugarland and have a great time. You deserve to have some fun.
- Mae:But so do you…
SCENE 4
- Mae: Nice anterior, Ry! You got a trainer?
- Ryan:Flirting is going to help your case?!
- Mae:Why is kindness often mistaken for flirtation ?
- Ryan:Listen, you’ve got a lot of personal issues to work through - but judging by those cheesy yet inspirational quotes you’ve been posting on instagram, you’re working on them and I support that. Joe is a turtle - hard shell, supersoft interior and you cut him!
- Mae: I was young and stupid in Med School.
- Ryan:I remember!
- Mae: … and I would never do that now!
- Ryan:I need you to be at the hospital right now! I have a patient presenting with severe rapid fire muscle twitches in his legs. It’s been going on for ten months.
- Mae: Will you at least say something to Joe?
- Ryan: THE PATIENT! Any thoughts?
Behind the scenes
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Sources:
Season Zero for the information
Daniel Sharman's
Instagram for the photos
Translation (Words): Mine as always
