I'm calling it now:
Doctor: Well, Mr. Delko, it's nice to see you up and about. You had us worried there for a while.
Calleigh: He sure did.
Horatio: Doctor... *20 minute pause*... is he going to be okay?
Doctor: Everything looks fine, but let me just run some tests here to make sure. Mr. Delko, can you squeeze your partner's hand?
[Impending silence of doom.]
Calleigh: Eric, squeeze my hand.
Eric: I am.
[Doctor, Calleigh, and Ho look at each other.]
Doctor: Uh, can you move your left foot?
[Eric moves his right foot. Piano of 'My Partner Done Gone Crippled' starts playing in the background.]
Eric: What's going on? Why is everyone so quiet?
Doctor: Nothing, nothing, just, uh, stilltoosoontotellgottagobye!
Eric: Ho? Calleigh?
Calleigh: [in submissive 'supportive friend in denial and blind comfort mode'] Everything's fine, Eric.
Eric: Don't tell me everything's fine, dammit, what's wrong with me?
Horatio: Eric... [another pause. The episode of All My Children they were watching ends and another one begins]... Eric, I promise you, I will fix this [puts his sunglasses on and leaves dramatically].
Eric: Calleigh?
[Calleigh looks at him and bursts into hot, wet tears over his broken, crippled body.]
Eric: Noooooooooooooooooo!
Or I bet he'll have a speech impediment or something, that they probably will forget about the next week cause continuity is, like, so hard.
They can't kill Eric. Are you kidding? He and Calleigh are the only likable characters left.