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My Last Chance

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My Last Chance

Directed by Zach Braff
Written by Mike Schwartz
Air Date - October 12, 2004 on NBC
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Season Four Episodes :
  1. My Old Friend's New Friend
  2. My Office
  3. My New Game
  4. My First Kill
  5. Her Story
  6. My Cake
  7. My Common Enemy
  8. My Last Chance
  9. My Malpractical Decision
  10. My Female Trouble
  11. My Unicorn
  12. My Best Moment
  13. My Ocardial Infarction
  14. My Lucky Charm
  15. My Hypocritical Oath
  16. My Quarantine
  17. My Life in Four Cameras
  18. My Roommates
  19. My Best Laid Plans
  20. My Boss's Free Haircut
  21. My Lips Are Sealed
  22. My Big Move
  23. My Faith in Humanity
  24. My Drive-By
  25. My Changing Ways
   Episodes: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 w • 9


“Oh my God. What happened in your life that made you so needy that you've got to fill every waking second by babbling on?”— Dr. Cox to Denise Lemmon

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[edit] Synopsis

Dr. Cox fake laughing at one of Denise's many jokes

Dr. Kelso tells Dr. Cox that he has not met the hospital’s requirement of 24 hours of community service and that he was suspended until he did so. The next day Dr. Cox is preparing to begin a twelve-hour shift in an ambulance to meet his community service requirement. He meets the driver, Denise, and is immediately repelled by her annoying habit of rambling on endlessly about the most trivial matters. Dr. Cox attempts to maintain his sanity as Denise continues to ramble on and on without a break. She draws his attention to a photo of her son on the dashboard, saying that he is ten-years-old in the picture and that “he’ll always be that age to me.”

The next day Denise shows up at Dr. Cox's apartment before his second shift and gets on Cox's and Jordan's nerves. She talks about her son's passion for baseball and that her son has a Ken Griffey card that he carries around with him wherever he goes. He resigns himself to his fate and prepares to endure another twelve hours of torment. Denise, driving the ambulance, nearly runs over J.D. and Turk as they are hurrying across a street. Sing the intercom, she tells Cox that she just saw “an adorable interracial gay couple.” Immediately thereafter, she crashes the ambulance and tells Cox that she is hurt. At the hospital, Denise has been found to have a broken collarbone. Dr. Cox asks her to sign his community service form and, once she has done so, finally releases all his irritation about her in a brutally honest tirade about how annoying she is. As he leaves the room, an orderly tells him that Denise had left something in the ambulance and hands him a Ken Griffey Jr. baseball card. Suddenly piecing everything together, Dr. Cox realizes that Denise’s son is dead. Remorseful, he goes back into the Denise’s hospital room and learns that her son was killed in an accident, which is what caused her to become a paramedic. He gives her back the baseball card. Dr. Cox later brings Jack to visit Denise in the hospital.

Turk and J.D. lost in the middle of nowhere

Elsewhere, Molly tells Elliot that she has accepted a psychiatric fellowship in Milwaukee and is leaving the hospital. Elliot is saddened to hear this and decides to throw her a goodbye party at the bar. When Doug accidentally sets J.D. on fire, the fire marshal shuts the bar down and the party moves to J.D. and Turk’s apartment. Eventually, people begin to leave the party until only Molly and J.D. are left and they spend the rest of the evening passionately making out. The next day Molly tells Elliot about her night, and Elliot claims that it doesn’t bother her. Elliot later tells J.D. that she will make him pay. J.D. refuses to do so, confident that Elliot has no leverage over him as there is no possibility of the two of them ever having sex again. J.D. finds Molly at the hospital entrance and asks if she would like to go out later, as she is leaving for Milwaukee the next day. Molly is uncertain, but he pours out his heart to her and the two kiss. J.D. must go obtain permission from Elliot to sleep with Molly, who writes a note for J.D. to give to Molly, and he thinks it is permission. After running into a wall on Sasha, J.D. awakens and he terrified to see that he is being treated by Doug. Still wishing to have sex with Molly, he hitches a ride with Janitor wearing only a hospital gown. Janitor abandons J.D. in the middle of nowhere, and he immediately calls Turk for help, who shows up with Carla to pick him up. Carla leaves when Turk says that he thinks that sex with Molly would be awesome. J.D.'s phone is stolen by a coyote so the two friends begin jogging to Molly's.

Turk and J.D. arrive at Molly’s apartment building, but her name is no longer listed. They call Elliot to find out the apartment number, but she doesn't help. The first apartment they knock on is occupied by Dr. Kelso and an Asian prostitute. Turks spots Molly outside the apartment, getting into a cab. J.D. says that there is no way he can get down there in time. J.D. tears the gown off of Turk an uses it to slide down a wire towards the cab. However, he loses control and falls into a pile of garbage bags. Outside Molly’s apartment, J.D. presses her to stay in town one more day so that they can spend it together. Molly isn’t sure, so J.D. hands her Elliot’s note. She reads it and, saying it must be for him, hands it back and gets into the cab. Confused, J.D. unfolds Elliot’s note and finds that it actually reads, “Now we’re even!” Distraught, he cries out in agony.

[edit] Plot Points

  • J.D. has a chance to sleep with Molly, but will have to work hard to actually use the chance.
  • Dr. Cox has to go on ambulance duty with his worst nightmare: a optimistic woman who can't stop talking.

[edit] Recurring Themes

[edit] Fantasies

All the old patients secretly up and about
  • All the old patients are up and dancing around, and then quickly fake being ill as J.D. and Elliot appear.
  • Molly is wearing a tiny lingerie and waiting for J.D. - a fantasy J.D. uses as a incentive to keep him running to Molly.

[edit] Flashback

  • J.D. and Turk chilling on the roof at college with a girl and their friend 'Shinski'. They're drinking beer and listening to Young MC whilst Turk and the girl are soaking their feet in a kid's paddling pool, Shinski falls off the roof when J.D. throws a beer at him.
  • Todd is at home, chatting up a Molly Piñata.

[edit] Janitor story

J.D. has a scooter accident while trying to rush to Molly for sex, he wakes up to find Janitor cleaning up his blood. Janitor stops to bug him, but J.D. explains the situation of how he has the opportunity of sex, so Janitor immediately invites him into his van for a ride. Janitor then drops him off in the middle of nowhere, remarking "It's been four years. How do you not get how this works?", before driving off.

[edit] Guest Stars

Molly Shannon as Denise Lemmon

[edit] Music

  • "Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)" by Robert Palmer
  • "Bust a Move" by Young MC
  • "Can't Hold On" by Tart
  • "Honestly" by Cary Brothers
  • "If You Were Here" by Thompson Twins
  • "In the Mood" by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra
  • "Something" by Cary Brothers

[edit] Quotes

"They're here. Ignite the tractor beam! Kkkssssh!" - Half-naked Patient
“They're here. Ignite the tractor beam! Kkkssssh!”— Half-naked Patient


“J.D., you just don't have that edgy mean streak that I'm attracted to.”— Molly
[J.D. pushes Turk over a railing.]
“You were saying?”— J.D.
“Dude! What the Hell!”— Turk
[J.D. whispers to Turk about the situation.]
“Oh, that's wassup, you go about your business.”
“Look, I'm sorry, but I'm attracted to damaged, dysfunctional people, and you're just too normal.”— Molly
“[Sometimes, all it takes is a slammin' hotty to make you dig down deep, and discover who you really are.] My emotional journey began at 5 years old, when I walked in in my parents having sex in a position that later my father would playfully describe as 'The Jackhammer'. I have a mentor that verbally abuses me every chance he gets and no matter how much I try, I cannot stop constantly narrating my own life. [At that very moment I feared I had divulged to much] Molly, I'm narcissistic, I'm pessimistic, I'm obsessive, I'm insecure and I'm so afraid of intimacy that every one of my relationships is a journey of self-sabotage that inevitably ends in a black vacuum of shattered expectations and despair.”— J.D.
“Wow...”
[They kiss.]


"I just saw an adorable inter-racial gay couple" - Denise
“Hey Per, I just saw an adorable inter-racial gay couple.”— Denise Lemmon on J.D. and Turk


“God bless Molly Ringwald. And God bless this Molly too. Aw, to hell with it, God bless Mollys everywhere!”— J.D.


“Docta, docta give me the news, I got a...”— Denise Lemmon
“Yeah I'm not a big car singin' kinda guy.”— Dr. Cox
“Aww bad case of lovin' you, Per. Come on, where's the fun?”


“I think that's how my nose got bent. Who knows? Nose knows. I love words, don't you love words?”— Denise Lemmon
“I like "strangle".”— Dr. Cox


"So's your face!" - J.D.
“If you bring sarcasm my way, baby, prepare to be stung.”— J.D.
“J.D....”— Elliot
“So's your face.”
“That doesn't even make any sense.”
“'So's your face' always makes sense.”
“J.D., that's stupid.”— Carla
“So's your face! I'm on fire, hellooo!”


“I heard you were working back-to-back shifts, so I pulled a couple of strings so we could get the old bacd back together”— Denise Lemmon
“Perry, you've always wanted to be in a band”— Jordan
“Get outta town.”
“Get outta town, Perry.”

[edit] Trivia

  • This was the first time that Zach Braff directed an episode for Scrubs and television.
  • According to the iTunes episode description, this is Zach Braff's favorite episode of Scrubs.

[edit] Images

All the old patients are up and about in the ICU

Two old male patients cuddle in one of the beds

A patient with mental problems runs around wild

Todd and a Molly Piñata

Molly standing in a seductive position

J.D. and Turk are left in the middle of nowhere

Dr. Kelso and an Asian girl

Denise pulls the siren trick on Dr. Cox

J.D. uses his new comeback: "so's your face"

Dr. Cox fake laughing at one of Denise's many jokes

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