Grey's Anatomy Quotations

Grey's Anatomy is a primetime television medical drama, airing on ABC, that follows Meredith Grey, a first-year surgical intern, and her fellow interns as they struggle to become doctors.

A Hard Day's Night [1.1]

Bailey: I have five rules. Memorize them. Rule number one, don't bother sucking up. I already hate you, that's not going to change.

Burke: The only person that can keep a promise that big is God, and I haven't seen him holding a scalpel lately.

Meredith: Dr. Shepherd.

Derek: Dr. Shepherd? This morning I was Derek, now it's Dr. Shepherd.

Meredith: Dr. Shepherd we should pretend it never happened.

Derek: What never happened? You sleeping with me last night? Or you throwing me out this morning? Because both are fond memories I'd like to hang on to.

Meredith: No, there will be no more memories. I'm not the girl in the bar anymore and you're not the guy. This can't exist. You get that, right?

Derek: You took advantage of me and now you want to forget it?

Meredith: I did not take—

Derek: I was drunk, vulnerable and good looking and you took advantage.

Meredith: Okay, I was the one who was drunk and you are NOT that good looking.

Derek: Maybe not today, but last night I was very good looking. I had on my red shirt, my good looking shirt and you took advantage.

Meredith: I did not!

Derek: Would you like to take advantage again, say Friday night?

Meredith: No! You're an attending and I'm your intern! Stop looking at me like that.

Derek: Like what?

Meredith: Like you've seen me naked.

Meredith: I wish I wanted to be a chef, or a ski instructor, or a kindergarten teacher.

George: You know, I would have been a really good postal worker. I'm dependable.

Meredith: [chuckles]

George: You know, my parents tell everyone they meet that their son's a surgeon. As if it's a big accomplishment. Superhero or something... If they could see me now.

Meredith: When I told my mother I wanted to go to medical school, she tried to talk me out of it. Said I didn't have what it takes to be a surgeon, that I'd never make it. So the way I see it, superhero sounds pretty damn good.

Meredith: [voiceover] I can't think of a single reason why I should be a surgeon, but I can think of a thousand reasons why I should quit. They make it hard on purpose. There are lives in our hands. There comes a moment when it's more than just a game, and you either take that step forward or turn around and walk away. I could quit but here's the thing, I love the playing field.

Cristina:Katie competes in beauty pageant.

Derek:I know but we have to save her anyway

The First Cut is the Deepest [1.2]

Meredith: [voiceover] It's all about lines. The finish line at the end of residency, waiting in line for a chance at the operating table, and then there’s the most important line, the line separating you from the people you work with. It doesn’t help to get too familiar, to make friends. You need boundaries, between you and the rest of the world. Other people are far too messy. It’s all about lines. Drawing lines in the sand and praying like hell no one crosses them.

Bailey: Every intern wants to perform their first surgery. That's not your job. Do you know what your job is? To make your resident happy. Do I look happy? No! Why? Because my interns are whiny. You know what will make me look happy? Having the code team staffed, having the trauma pages answered, having the weekend labs delivered and having someone down in the pit doing the sutures. No one holds a scalpel until I'm so happy I'm Mary Freakin' Poppins.

George: Who here feels like they have no idea what they're doing?

[Everyone raises their hands]

Burke: Anything you say in the next 30 seconds is free...starting right now.

Bailey: I think you’re cocky. Arrogant. Bossy and pushy. You also have a god complex and don’t think of anybody but your damn self.

Burke: But I—

Bailey: But what? I still have 22 seconds and I’m not done.

Meredith: [voiceover] At some point you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out; they fence you in. Life is messy, that's how we're made. So you can waste your life drawing lines or you can live your life crossing them. But there are some lines that are way too dangerous to cross. Here's what I know, If you're willing to take a chance, the view from the other side is spectacular.

Cristina: (to George) Bambi, don't talk to me until after the hunter shoots your mother.

Winning a Battle, Losing the War [1.3]

Meredith: [voiceover] We live out our lives on the surgical unit. Seven Days a week, fourteen hours a day, we're together more than we are apart. After a while, the ways of residency becomes the ways of life. Number one : Always keep score. Number two: do whatever you can to outsmart the other guy. Number three: Don't make friends with the enemy. Oh, yeah, Number four: Everything, everything is a competition. Whoever said winning wasn't everything ... Never held a scalpel.

Burke: [to Cristina and Meredith] This is a men's room. Either whip one out, or close the door.

Meredith: [about her new roommates, George and Izzie] They're everywhere. All the time. Izzie's all perky and George does this thing where he's helpful and considerate. They share food, and they say things, and they move things, and they breathe. Ugh, they're like, happy.

Cristina: Kick them out.

Meredith: I can't kick them out, they just moved in. I asked them to move in.

Cristina: So what, you're just going to repress everything in some deep, dark, twisted place until one day you snap and you kill them?

Meredith: Yep.

Cristina: This is why we are friends.

Meredith: You're just pissed that two women got the harvest.

Alex: I'm just pissed that anyone except me got the harvest. Boobs in no way factor into this...Unless you want to show me yours.

Meredith: I'm going to become a lesbian.

Cristina: Me too.

Meredith: [voiceover] There's another way to survive this competition. A way no one ever seems to tell you about. One you have to learn for yourself. Number five: It's not about the race at all. There are no winners or losers. Victories are counted by the number of lives saved. And once in a while, if you're smart, the life you save could be your own.

No Man's Land [1.4]

Meredith: [voiceover] Intimacy is a four syllable word for "Here is my heart and soul, please grind them into hamburger, and enjoy." It's both desired, and feared. Difficult to live with, and impossible to live without. Intimacy also comes attached to the three R's... relatives, romance, and roommates. There are some things you can't escape. And other things you just don't want to know.

Alex: Morning, Dr Model.

Izzie: Dr. Evil Spawn.

Alex: Ooh, nice tat. Do they airbrush that out for the catalogs?

Izzie: I don't know. What do they do for the 666 on your skull?

Izzie: Tampons, George, I just really needed some tampons!

George: I forgot when I got there.

Izzie: No. [She opens the shower door] No, you are so passive aggressive!

George: Naked! I am naked in the shower!

Izzie: [closes the shower door] Just tampons, George! I really needed tampons. God!

[Meredith walks in]

Izzie: I'm not riding in the same car as him.

Meredith: [looks at Izzie, who is standing in her underwear] Unless you're going like that, you're not riding with me either. Where are the tampons?

Izzie: He didn't buy them.

Meredith: [to George] You didn't buy them?

George: Men don't buy tampons!

Izzie: [opens the shower door again, and George falls over] You know what? You're gonna have to get over the whole man thing, George! We're women! We have vaginas! Get used to it!

George: [lying on the floor in the bathtub] I am not your sister!

Cristina: [to Izzie] You are eight feet tall. Your boobs are perfect. Your hair is down to there. If I was you I would just walk around naked all the time. I wouldn't have a job, I wouldn't have any skills, I wouldn't even know how to read. I would just be...naked.

Izzie: It's makeup. It's retouching.

Cristina: You get that we hate you, right?

Meredith: [voiceover] I wish there were a rulebook for intimacy. Some kind of guide to tell you when you've crossed the line. It would be nice if you could see it coming, and I don't know how you fit it on a map. You take it where you can get it, and keep it as long as you can. And as for rules, maybe there are none. Maybe the rules of intimacy are something you have to define for yourself.

Shake Your Groove Thing [1.5]

Meredith: [voiceover] Remember when you were a kid and your biggest worry was, like, if you'd get a bike for your birthday or if you'd get to eat cookies for breakfast? Being an adult? Totally overrated. I mean seriously, don't be fooled by all the hot shoes and the great sex and the no parents anywhere telling you what to do. Adulthood is responsibility. Responsibility, it really does suck. Really, really sucks. Adults have to be places and do things and earn a living and pay the rent. And if you're training to be a surgeon, holding a human heart in your hands, hello? Talk about responsibility. Kind of makes bikes and cookies look really, really good, doesn't it? The scariest part about responsibility? When you screw up and let it slip right through your fingers.

George: Who else did you invite?

Cristina: Izzie, we said the list was jocks only. Surgery, Trauma, Plastics. Who else?

Izzie: Just some people from Peds.

Cristina: You invited the preschoolers to Meredith’s house? The next thing you’ll say is you invited the shrinks. [Izzie looks away] She invited mental defects. This party’s DOA.

Meredith: We're adults. When did that happen? And how do we make it stop?

Meredith: [Meredith, George and Cristina are drinking and playing cards] Why did we want to be surgeons anyway?

George: Surgery is very serious business

[Cristina burps loudly. She has two cards stuck to her face]

George: Full House

Cristina: [To George] Royal flush. Get naked. Baby boy!

Meredith: Surgery is stupid. It's stupid.

Cristina: [Sings to George, as his strips] Sexy, you're so sexy. [Taking the bottle from Meredith] Give me that; you're drunk.

Meredith: I'm not driving. I'm not on call. I'm in my own house. My life is crap. And it's my party and I'll get drunk if I want to.

Derek: [To Meredith] So, you blew me off for a bottle of tequila. Tequila's no good for you, doesn't call, doesn't write, not nearly as much fun to wake up to.

Meredith: [voiceover] Responsibility, it really does suck. Unfortunately, once you get past the age of braces and training bras, responsibility doesn't go away. It can't be avoided. Either someone makes us face it or we suffer the consequences. And still adulthood has it perks. I mean the shoes, the sex, the no parents anywhere telling you what to do. That's, pretty damn good.

If Tomorrow Never Comes [1.6]

Meredith: [voiceover] A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. “Never leave that till tomorrow,” he said, “Which you can do today.” This is the man who discovered electricity. You’d think more of us would listen to what he had to say. I don’t know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I’d say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure. Fear of pain. Fear of rejection. Sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you’re wrong? What if you make a mistake you can’t undo? Whatever it is we're afraid of, one thing holds true: that by the time the pain of not doing the thing gets worse than the fear of doing it, it can feel like we're carrying around a giant tumor. And you thought I was speaking metaphorically.

Derek: Miranda.

Bailey: Excuse me?

Derek: Well, that's your name right? It's on your jacket. Fine, I'll just call you Bailey then.

Bailey: You know, you think you're charming, in that talented, neurotic, overly moussed hair sort of way. Good for you. But if you think I'm gonna stand back and watch while you favor her...

Derek: I don't favor her. She's good.

Bailey: I'm sure she is.

Derek: You know, can I point out, technically, I'm your boss.

Bailey: You don't scare me. Look, I'm not gonna advertise your extracurricular activities with my intern. However next time I see you favoring Meredith Grey in any way, I'll make sure she doesn't see the inside of an OR. For a month. Just for the sake of balance!

Izzie: [to a patient after he throws up on Alex] You are so my favorite person today.

Meredith: [voiceover] The early bird catches the worm; a stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we haven't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to ‘seize the day'. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore, until we finally understand for ourselves like Benjamin Franklin meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping. And that even the biggest failure, even the worst most intractable mistake beats the hell out of never trying.

The Self Destruct Button [1.7]

Meredith: [voiceover] OK. Anyone who says you can sleep when you die, tell them to come talk to me after a few months as an intern. Of course, it's not just the job that keeps us up all night. I mean, if life's so hard already, why do we bring more trouble down on ourselves? What's up with the need to hit the self-destruct button?

George: You get any sleep?

Izzie: She should oil the bedsprings, as a courtesy, or at least buy a padded headboard.

George: So, who's the guy?

Izzie: You think it was just one guy doing all that work?

George: Do you mind if I don't think about that?

Izzie: Aw, you jealous?

George: I'm not jealous.

Izzie: Well, I am. Least I know she'll be having a long day at work. [They see Derek leave] Well, at least we know brain surgery isn't his only skill.

George: Yang. I'm scrubbing in on a hemospherectomy with Shepherd.

Cristina: [gasp] Get out! I would kill for that.

George: We're cutting out half the girl's brain, and it's going to work. It's outrageous. Almost makes it kind of hard to hate him.

Cristina: Why do you hate him?

George: Oh, no reason.

Cristina: Oh, you know about him and Meredith?

George: You know?

Cristina: When are you gonna figure out that I know everything?

George: [To Izzie who is walking up the stairs] She knows.

Izzie: Oh, about doctorcest?

Cristina: It's been going on for, like, ever.

Izzie: Seriously?

George: And you didn't tell us?

Cristina: Oh, you're a gossip, huh?

George: I am not!

Izzie: I am!

George: He's about to go into major brain surgery on no sleep? That's not very responsible.

Cristina: Jealous? Sex all night isn't about being responsible.

Izzie: No, it's about sex all night. I can't believe you're not pissed off about this, you of all people.

Cristina: Well, she works hard all day. She's good at her job, why should you care how she unwinds? I mean you like to bake all night, others like to drink, others like an occasional screaming orgasm.

Alex: [Walking up] Yeah we do.

Meredith: You don't know this yet, but life isn’t supposed to be like this. It’s not supposed to be this hard.

Meredith: [voiceover] Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know, maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.

Save Me [1.8]

Meredith: [voiceover]You know when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales? That fantasy of what your life would be – white dress, prince charming who’d carry you away to a castle on a hill. You’d lie in your bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, prince charming –they were so close you could taste them. But eventually you grow up and one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is, it’s hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely because almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope and faith that one day they would open their eyes and it would all come true.

Derek: I'm a surgeon, I don't have any friends.

...

Meredith: [Wanting more details about Derek's life] I want facts, and until I get them, my pants are staying on.

Derek: Or you could just roll with it, be flexible. See what happens.

Meredith: I'm not flexible.

Derek': [laughs] Now there I disagree...We'll find these things out. That's the fun part, you know? That's the gravy.

Cristina: Dr. Bailey, I want off the psychic case, I'll take whatever you've got. Can I switch?

Bailey: Ask nicely.

Cristina: What— this is me doing nicely.

George: How’s a pompous cocky jackass like you always have women all over him?

Alex: Little bluebell pills. Lots of them.

George: Oh c'mon.

Alex: Float like a butterfly sting like a bee. O'Malley, you think too much, can’t you see it? You gotta dance and jab, dance and jab! Like me. I am the Ali of this place.

Meredith: [voiceover] At the end of the day, faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And its not so important, happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you, and once in a while people may even take your breath away.

Derek: [To Meredeth] I'm gonna tell you. All right. My mother's maiden name, Maloney. I have four sisters. I have, uh, nine nieces. Five nephews. I like coffee ice cream, single-malt scotch, occasionally a good cigar. I like to fly fish. And I cheat when I do the crossword puzzle on Sunday. And I never dance in public. Um, favorite novel: The Sun Also Rises. Favorite band: The Clash. My favorite color is blue. I don't like light blue, indigo. The scar right here on my forehead, that's why I don't ride motorcycles anymore. And I live in that trailer. All this land is mine. I have no idea what I'm gonna do with it. So that's it. That's all you've earned for now. The rest you're just...just gonna have to take on faith

Who's Zoomin' Who? [1.9]

Meredith: [voiceover] Secrets can't hide in science. Medicine has a way of exposing lies. Within the walls of the hospital, the truth is stripped bare. How we keep our secrets outside the hospital – well, that’s a little different. One thing is certain, whatever it is we're trying to hide; we're never ready for that moment when the truth gets naked. That's the problem with secrets – like misery, they love company. They pile up and up until you don't have room for anything else, until you're so full of secrets you feel like you're going to burst.

Izzie: [After he comes out of the bathroom] There's no reason to be ashamed. It's normal, healthy even.

George: I am not ashamed. 'Cause I wasn't doing anything. I don't have to. I have a girlfriend.

Izzie: An imaginary girlfriend?

George: An actual girlfriend.

Izzie: You know what? It's no big deal, you don't have to lie. I get it. You have needs.

Meredith: What is going on out here?

Izzie & George: Nothing. [He walks away]

Izzie: [To Meredith] He's freaked out because I caught him playing with little Jimmy and the twins.

George: [Turns around] I have a girlfriend. [Walks away]

Izzie: OK. [Laughs]

Cristina: Hey Syph-boy!

George: You told her?

Izzie: Just Cristina.

Alex: Syph-boy. It's got a nice ring to it; kind of like Super-boy, only diseased.

Derek: [sees Addison] Meredith, I am so sorry. [Addison walks over] Addison. What are you doing here?

Addison: Well you'd know if you'd bothered to return any one of my phone calls. [Turns to Meredith] Hi. I'm Addison Shepherd.

Meredith: Shepherd?

Addison: And you must be the woman who's been screwing my husband.

Meredith: [voiceover] The thing people forget is how good it can feel when you finally set secrets free. Whether good or bad, at least they're out in the open, like it or not. And once your secrets are out in the open, you don't have to hide behind them anymore. The problem with secrets is even when you think you're in control, you're not.

Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head [2.1]

Meredith: To be a good surgeon you have to think like a surgeon. Emotions are messy. Tuck them neatly away and step into a clean sterile room where the procedure is simple. Cut, suture, and close. But sometimes you’re faced with a cut that won’t heal. A cut that rips its stitches wide open.

Meredith: Lets play a game of whose life sucks the most. I'll win. I always win.

Cristina: You don't want to play with me.

Meredith: Oh, I do. I'll even go first. Derek is married. [George spits out his beer]

Cristina: George. Beer is dripping from your nostrils.

Meredith: Told you I'd win.

Cristina: No, you didn't win.

Meredith: Did you hear me? I said Derek is married, as in pig-headed adulterous liar married. Nothing you could say could top that.

Cristina: I'm pregnant. I win. [Joe, the bartender, collapses] Okay, maybe Joe wins.

Meredith: You're sleeping with someone?

George: What? Who?

Cristina: Why is that such a shock? Even George managed to get some action.

George: Correction, George got some syphilis.

Alex: [about George] The dude punches like my sister.

Izzie: Oh, so by your definition, you got beat up by a girl.

Derek: Look I know how you feel.

Meredith: Do you? Some how I doubt that, because if you did you would shut up and you would turn around and go back inside because you would realise that I am this close to getting into my car and running you down in the parking lot.

George: You look nice.

Meredith: I wore my new lip gloss because my ex-boyfriend's wife looks like Isabella freakin' Rossellini and I'm like... me. I'm trying to outdo her when she's the victim here, how crazy is that?

George: Not crazy, you know... smart. Lip gloss prevents chapped lips. You... was that ex-boyfriend?

Meredith: I am an evil mistress.

George: But still... you look nice.

Alex: Surgery is the only specialty where we don't waste time getting to know the patients. They're slabs of meat, we're butchers.

Izzie: They're human beings. You do know what a human being is, don't you evil spawn?

Alex: I'm not evil...unless evil turns you on.

Izzie: Did you ever wake up in the morning and realize that nobody likes you, and... well, I don't know, care?

Alex: Oh, oh, I think somebody likes me.

George: You know Joe?

Bailey: Oh, yeah. I was the only female intern my year. I didn't know anybody and nobody knew me. Except Joe. He knew me.

George: Oh. So you and Joe?

Bailey: All you people ever think about is how to get into somebody's pants. You're nasty. [Slaps George] That's why you got syphilis.

Cristina: You know what happens to pregnant interns. I'm not switching to vagina squad or spending my life popping zits. I'm too talented, surgery's my life.

Derek: So I go upstairs, as I'm walking down the hall I try to prepare myself for what I'm going to see when I walk into my bedroom. I step on a man's jacket that doesn't belong to me. And everything I know...just shifts. Because the jacket that doesn't belong to me is a jacket that I recognize, what I know now is that when I go into my bedroom, I'm not just going to see that my wife is cheating on me. I'm going to see that my wife is cheating on me with Mark, who happened to be my best friend... I walked out, flew out to Seattle.

Meredith: And then you met me.

Derek: And then I met you.

Meredith: What was I to you? The girl you screwed to get over being screwed?

Derek: You were like coming up for fresh air. It's like I was drowning and you saved me. That's all I know.

Meredith: It's not enough.

Cristina: The clinic has a policy. They wouldn't let me confirm my appointment unless I designated an emergency contact person. Someone to be there is case and...to know help me home after. Anyway I put your name down, that's why I told you I'm pregnant. You're my person.

Meredith: I am?

Cristina: Yeah, you are. Whatever.

Meredith: Whatever.

Cristina: He dumped me.[Meredith hugs Cristina] You realize this constitutes hugging?

Meredith: Shut up, I'm your person.

Meredith: They say that practice makes perfect. Theory is– the more you think like a surgeon, the more you become like one, the better you get at remaining neutral, clinical, cut, suture, close - the harder it becomes to turn it off. To stop thinking like a surgeon, and remember what it means to think like a human being.

Enough Is Enough (No More Tears) [2.2]

Meredith: I have an aunt who whenever she poured anything for you she would say "Say when!" My aunt would say "Say when!" and of course, we never did. We don't say when because there's something about the possibility, of more. More tequila, more love, more anything. More is better.

Meredith: It's not us. It's them. Them and their stupid boy... Penises. They didn't tell me they have a wife. They gave absolutely no warning that they were going to break up with you.

Cristina: It's not that Burke broke up with me. It's how he broke up with me. Like it was business. Like it was a business trans- Like he was the boss of me?!!

Meredith: He is the boss of you.

Cristina: What's worse is that I care.

Meredith: Ugh I'm going to throw up again. [Gets up and kneels over the toilet] No. Wait. False alarm.

Cristina: The problem is estrogen.

Meredith: No, the problem is tequila.

Cristina: You know I used to be all business and then he goes and gets me pregnant.

Meredith: With his stupid boy penis.

Cristina: Now I’m having hormone surges. He ruined me. I'm ruined! He turned me into this... fat, stupid, pregnant girl. Who cares! Estrogen!

Meredith: Penises. Penises, Izzie.

Cristina: Estrogen, George.

Meredith: [brushing off Derek] I am a sink with an open drain. Anything you say runs straight out. [Storms off]

George: She probably could have picked a better metaphor.

Izzie: Give her a break, she's got a hangover.

Cristina: [On Judy Dolls] I dissected them, cut off their arms, shaved their heads.

Alex: Sounds like there is a sick twisted story behind this...

Cristina: They are sexist, distorted, devil toys creating unrealistic image expectations in the porn driven minds of men.

Bailey: Swallow a bitter pill this morning, Yang? They're dolls!

Addison: We got successful, you and me. We got busy and we got lazy. We didn't even bother to fight anymore, Derek, and Mark was there and I missed you and now I'm sorry. I'm more sorry than you could possibly imagine, but at least I'm talking to you about it.

Derek: I'm a sink with an open drain, Addie.

Meredith: [to George] What are you doing with Olivia? You're letting her think you're emotionally available. You're letting her think she has a chance. And there is nothing worse in the world than thinking you have a chance when you really don't.

Derek: Addison and I are over, Adele.

Addison: It's not like we're divorced.

Derek: Practically divorced.

Adele: [to Addison] You've had counseling?

Derek: We've had adultery, that was enough.

Meredith: But why did you swallow 10 doll heads?

Patient: Because 11 would have been too much...

Meredith: There's something to be said about a glass half full. About knowing when to say when. I think it's a floating line. A barometer of need and desire. It's entirely up to the individual. And depends on what's being poured. Sometimes all we want is a taste. Other times there's no such thing as enough, the glass is bottomless. And all we want, is more.

Make Me Lose Control [2.3]

Cristina: Uhh, uhh, uhh you're stupid. Oh God. You're a stupid evil sadist. I wanna kill you.

Meredith: Endorphins are good. Endorphins are mood elevators. This is supposed to make us feel better!

Cristina: Oh God, do you feel better?

Meredith: I'm stupid.

Cristina: Slutty mistress.

Meredith: Pregnant whore.

Cristina: Sleeping with our bosses was a great idea.

Meredith: You know what's ruined for me? Ferryboats! I used to love ferryboats. And Derek's got a thing for ferryboats. Now every time I see a freaking ferryboat...

Cristina: You know what's ruined for me? Coronary artery bypass grafts! And aortic aneurysms. God I used to love aortic aneurysms.

Meredith: [voiceover] Surgeons are control freaks. With a scalpel in your hand, you feel unstoppable. There's no fear, there's no pain.

Meredith: Have you cried yet?

Cristina: Hello.

Meredith: [voiceover] You're ten-feet tall and bulletproof.

Cristina: Do you think we'd feel better if we cried? You know, just like let it out?

Meredith: Probably. Yeah.

Meredith: [voiceover] And then you leave the OR.

Cristina: Do you wanna cry now?

Meredith: No!

Cristina: OK, let's jog.

Meredith: [voiceover] And all that perfection, all that beautiful control, just falls to crap.

[seeing Alex and Izzie laughing together]

Cristina: What is she doing?

George: She's hanging out with Alex.

Cristina: Why?

George: I don't know... I think they might be friends.

George: Make the lamb stop screaming.

Bailey: Do you have a problem?

Izzie: No.

Bailey: Do you have a mocha latte?

Izzie: No.

Bailey: Then go away.

Chief: I've been sitting home for a week watching Oprah give away things on TV. - Oprah, Derek!

Izzie: It's just you think, you think you know someone, know who they are. You share a house and make wishes on eyelashes with them and we don't know each other, none of us. We're just a bunch of interns who work together. There's nothing there.

Addison: You know, the way I see it, we could deal with us in one of three ways. Option one, I could apologize, you could forgive me and come home and we could move on with our lives like adults. Or, option two, I could apologize, you could forgive me, come home, but you can bring it up to use against me whenever we argue.

Derek: Are you trying to be funny?

Addison: Satan has a sense of humor.

Derek: What's the third?

Addison: I don't know what the third option is. [Addison kisses Derek.] I just know I still love you.

Alex: Wait.

Izzie: What?

Alex: You have an eyelash. [Places eyelash on palm] Make a wish and blow it away. [Speaking to other nurse] Hey, Nurse Ratchet, there's a dead guy stinking up room 4125. Do something before he rots.

Izzie: [walking away] See, that is exactly what I'm talking about. Why are you so afraid of showing people you are a decent human being?

Derek: Maybe you should've thought of that before you gave chief to Burke and invited Satan to Seattle.

Chief: Satan?

Addison: Good morning. Richard, like the hat.

Derek: Satan speaks.

Addison: Actually I prefer to be called ruler of all that is evil. [Richard laughs] But I will answer to Satan.

Alex: I still think it's nuts having major surgery just so people can't tell how you're feeling.

Meredith: Really? You Do?

Alex: Nah... I guess not. You could talk, you know, I mean, if you need to.

Meredith: I'm fine.

Alex: You said that word so many times today, it doesn't even sound like a word anymore. Just saying you can talk to me. Because, you know, even if I repeat every word you say, no one around here likes me, they just call me a liar and a moron.

Meredith: Izzie likes you. You're blushing.

Alex: Shut up. For what it's worth, I don't know how you're still on your feet. If I found out my mom might have cancer, I'd be under the bar right now.

Meredith: You want the ugly truth?

Alex: What, you have an ugly truth? I never would have picked you to have an ugly truth.

Meredith: I'm more afraid she doesn't have cancer.

Alex: You know, liver cancer's fast. Painful, but it's fast and they give you morphine. They don't give you morphine for Alzheimer's.

Meredith: No, they don't. [Pause] What kind of person wishes their mother had cancer?

Meredith: [voiceover] No one likes to lose control, but as a surgeon there's nothing worse. It's a sign of weakness, of not being up to the task. And still there are times when it just gets away from you. When the world stops spinning and you realize that your shiny little scalpel isn't gonna save you. No matter how hard you fight it, you fall. And it's scary as hell. If there's an upside to free-falling, it's the chance you give your friends to catch you.

Deny, Deny, Deny [2.4]

Meredith: [voiceover] The key to surviving a surgical internship is denial. We deny that we're tired, we deny that we're scared, we deny how badly we want to succeed. And most importantly, we deny that we're in denial. We only see what we want to see and believe what we want to believe, and it works. We lie to ourselves so much that after a while the lies start to seem like the truth. We deny so much that we can't recognize the truth right in front of our faces.

Derek: Addison kissed me. Meredith kissed me. My girlfriend and my wife kissed me on the same day.

Bailey: McDreamy, go sit by someone who cares.

Addison: Well isn't this cozy. Can I join or are you not in to threesomes?

Meredith: I have to go.

Derek: Meredith... [To Addison] You really are Satan, you realize that right? If Satan were to take physical form he'd be you, everywhere ... all the time.

Addison: I am not Satan.

Derek: How come you haven't gotten on your broomstick and gone back to New York where you belong?

Addison: Stop being petty.

Derek: Stop being an adulterous bitch.

Addison: You know there was a time when you thought of me as your best friend—

Derek: There was a time that I thought you were the love of my life. Things change.

Addison: Derek, have you ever thought that even if I am Satan and an adulterous bitch that I still might be the love of your life?

Meredith: You've got a wife.

Derek: Yes.

Meredith: Your life is complicated.

Derek: Yes.

Meredith: I don't need complicated, I have complicated all on my own.

Derek: Yes.

Meredith: Stop saying yes.

Derek: I'll try not to make any sudden movements.

Meredith: You think this is funny?

Derek: Addison is leaving. She doesn't have any more patients in this hospital. There's no reason for her to be here.

Meredith: No reason?

Derek: None whatsoever.

George: You're officially AWOL you know.

Cristina: I'm working. I'm trying to figure out what's going on with the crazy woman on four.

George: You are the crazy woman on four.

Cristina: I made a break for freedom.

Nurse Tyler: OK Yang, how about this order: bed rest, out of bed to chair, bathroom privileges. Nothing about stealing charts at the nurses’ station.

Cristina: OK, you know what [signals to man pushing a wheelchair] Hey, hey, hey, hey give me that. [Sits down] There, satisfied? I'm out of bed to chair.

Nurse Tyler: I'm telling your intern on you.

Cristina: Meredith?

Nurse Tyler: Yeah.

Cristina: Oh, I'm so scared.

Addison: [sighs] It's hard to accept the end when you're too close. [fiddles with wedding ring] Look, I don't want someone who doesn't want me, Meredith, but if there's the slightest chance that he does... I'm not leaving Seattle.

[Cristina is crying uncontrollably]

Cristina's Mother: I knew she'd break sooner or later, it's just a matter of time.

Cristina: [yelling] I will kill her!

Meredith: We don't do well with mothers here, why don't you come back later? [escorts Cristina's mother out]

Meredith: [voiceover] Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the ass. And when the dam bursts, all you can do is swim. The world of pretend is a cage, not a cocoon. We can only lie to ourselves for so long. We are tired, we are scared, denying it doesn't change the truth. Sooner or later we have to put aside our denial and face the world. Head on, guns blazing. De Nile. It's not just a river in Egypt, it's a freakin' ocean. So how do you keep from drowning in it?

Bring the Rain [2.5]

Meredith: [voiceover] Pain, it comes in all forms. The small twinge, a bit of soreness, the random pain, the normal pains that we live with everyday. Then there's the kind of pain you can't ignore. A level of pain so great that it blocks out everything else; makes the rest of your world fade away until all we can think about is how much we hurt. How we manage our pain is up to us. Pain. We anaesthetize, ride it out, embrace it, ignore it... and for some of us, the best way to manage pain is to just push through it.

Telling Meredith that Dr.Derek Shepherd asked specifically for her:

Dr. Bailey: Hey, life is short, times are hard, the road is long, with many a winding turn.

Meredith: I don't want to have this conversation again.

Derek: Meredith...

Meredith: You didn't sign the divorce papers. Fine. I get it. End of discussion.

Derek: Meredith.

Meredith: What?!

Derek: Oh... I usually just say "Meredith" and then you yell at me. I haven’t thought past that point. I actually didn’t have anything planned. [Meredith hits him repeatedly with her purse]

Derek: Listen! Hey stop it! Ow!

Meredith: Seriously? Seriously?!

[Cristina, Meredith and Izzie are tilting their heads, watching the porn playing for the patient]

Cristina: That does not look comfortable.

Meredith: Trust me, it's not.

George: [Reading the emergency sign on the elevator out loud after it got stuck] If elevator should stop do not become alarmed. Press the button marked alarm to summon assistance. [To Alex] If they don’t want us to be alarmed why do they call the button 'alarm'?

Meredith: You should take something.

Cristina: Drugs are for babies.

Izzie: I hate Alex.

Cristina: And the non sequitur award goes to...

Izzie: I’m sorry, I hate Alex.

Meredith: I broke up with Derek.

Cristina: Burke wants to have a relationship.

Izzie: Boys are stupid.

Cristina: Yep.

Derek: [to Meredith] Look I was married for 11 years. Addison is my family. That is 11 Thanksgivings, 11 birthdays, 11 Christmases, and in one day I am supposed to sign a piece of paper and end my family? A person doesn’t do that, not without a little hesitation. I’m entitled to a little uncertainty here. Just a moment to understand the magnitude of what it means to cut somebody out of my life. I am entitled to at least one moment ... of painful doubt and a little understanding from you would be nice.

Alex: So, dude. What’s the deal with Izzie?

George: She shaved her legs for you.

Alex: And?

George: And you didn’t kiss her goodnight.

Patient: She shaved her legs for you and you didn’t follow through?

Alex: Hey I followed through, I always follow through.

George: You didn’t last night.

Alex: Mind your own business.

George: Mind... She had expectations, women have expectations, and you didn’t meet them. Hey I live with these women and every time you guys don’t meet their expectations I have to hear about it. I didn't get any sleep last night. So, you know, it is my business.

Cristina: You tell anyone I did this for you, not only will I kill you, I will sell your body parts for cash. [The patient agrees.] Okay. So. There were these women. Nurses. Three nurses. And they were... naughty. They were really, really naughty. They were three naughty nurses. Saucy, even. Saucy and bad and naughty. Three saucy bad naughty nurses. They were taking a shower. Together. Soaping each other up. And then this doctor walks in and he sees these three naughty bad nurses with these great big...

Performing a heart surgery in an elevator

Dr. Preston Burke: O'Malley...

Dr. O'Malley: Yes sir?

Dr. Preston Burke: You just flew solo.

Dr. O'Malley: Thank you Sir

Meredith: I lied. I'm not out of this relationship. I'm in. I'm so in, it's humiliating, because here I am, begging—

Derek: Meredith—

Meredith: Just, shut up. You say Meredith and I yell, remember?

Derek: Yeah.

Meredith: OK, here it is. Your choice, it's simple, her or me. And I'm sure she's really great. But Derek, I love you. In a really, really big pretend to like your taste in music, let you eat the last piece of cheesecake, hold a radio over my head outside your window, unfortunate way that makes me hate you, love you. So pick me. Choose me. Love me. I'll be at Joe's tonight, so if you do decide to sign the papers, meet me there.

Meredith: [voiceover] Pain, you just have to ride it out, hope it goes away on its own, hope the wound that caused it heals. There are no solutions, no easy answers. You just breathe deep and wait for it to subside. Most of the time pain can be managed, but sometimes the pain gets you when you least expect it, hits way below the belt and doesn't let up. Pain, you just have to fight through, because the truth is you can't outrun it, and life always makes more.

Into You like A Train [2.6]

Meredith: [voiceover] In general, people can be categorized in one of two ways — those who love surprises and those who don't. I don't. I've never met a surgeon that enjoys a surprise, because as surgeons, we like to be in the know. We have to be in the know, because when we aren't, people die and lawsuits happen. Am I rambling? I think I'm rambling. Okay, so my point, actually, and I do have one, has nothing to do with surprises or death or lawsuits, or even surgeons. My point is this: whoever said "What you don't know can’t hurt you", was a complete and total moron. Because for most people I know, not knowing is the worst feeling in the world. [Sees two people with a pole cutting through them.] Okay, fine. Maybe it's the second worst.

Cristina: You tell someone I'll meet you at a bar tonight, how long exactly does that mean you're supposed to wait?

George: You think he’s really not coming?

Izzie: It is getting a little hard to watch.

Cristina: Nah, it was hard to watch half an hour ago, now it's just pathetic.

Meredith: Who's pathetic?

Cristina: What?

Meredith: [drunkenly] You who pretend to be my friends are calling me pathetic. Behind my back, in front of my face. Why don't you just dump the pig’s blood on me now and get it over with. [to herself] He’s really not coming.

George: [about Derek and Meredith] Does that mean he picked her?

Cristina: If it does, I just lost fifty bucks.

Meredith: Ow Ow Ow.

Izzie: [Pulls back curtain] What are you doing?

Meredith: I'm inserting my banana bag. Which sounds vaguely dirty but it's not.

Meredith: Before you judge me I know there was a train accident, people are very badly hurt, and that I'm a vapid narcissist when you mix me with alcohol, in case you were wondering I know that.

Chief: [sighs] Do you notice anything about this leg, Yang?

Cristina: Sir?

Chief: Such as the fact that it was shaved recently, and manicured? Does this look like a man who woke up this morning and shaved one of his legs?

Cristina: [pauses] No.

Chief: Find the man's leg, Yang. Now!

Cristina: There you are. I've been looking everywhere for you.

Burke: What is it?

Cristina: I need to find this man's leg. The chief is going to kick me out of the program if I don't. I cannot go back to Los Angeles. It's sunny there. Every. Day.

[Burke smiles]

Cristina: What? You're my boyfriend! I mean, I know I don't have much experience with this kind of thing but, aren't boyfriends supposed to help in situations like this?

Burke: Cristina, when we're on duty I can't be your boyfriend.

Cristina: OK, so when we're on duty, I can have sex with someone else?

Burke: [pause] Dr. Yang, I'm walking away now.

Meredith: Addison yelling at you in front of a patient?

Alex: She didn't exactly yell. [Pause] Fine, she's Satan’s whore.

Meredith: Thank you. So, did you yell back?

Alex: No.

Meredith: Dude, you lost your mojo.

Alex: Excuse you?

Meredith: I was trying to talk boy.

Alex: O'Malley plugs a hole with his finger and everyone walks around like he's some kind of hero. I have one off day...

Meredith: You chickened out.

Alex: I hesitated briefly.

Meredith: Why didn't you kiss Izzie?

Alex: And now I'm leaving.

Meredith: I hope you find your mojo Alex, I find you disturbing without it.

Alex: Me too.

Addison: So, have you made a decision yet, Dr. Stevens?

Izzie: Huh?

Addison: Whether or not you're going to hate me. You're Meredith's friend? I'm the wicked witch who came in and ruined her life and cheated on Doctor...wait, what is it that you guys call him?

Izzie: Uh—McDreamy...

Addison: Right. God, doesn’t that embarrass him?

Izzie: Yeah, I think it does.

Addison: So, when you decide how important it is for you to hate me...let me know.

Meredith: [voiceover] As surgeons, there are so many things we have to know. We have to know we have what it takes. We have to know how to take care of our patients... and how to take care of each other. Eventually, we even have to figure out how to take care of ourselves. As surgeons we have to be in the know. But as human beings, sometimes it's better to stay in the dark, because in the dark there may be fear, but there's also hope.

Something to Talk About [2.7]

Meredith: [voiceover] Communication. It's the first thing we really learn in life. Funny thing is, once we grow up, learn our words and really start talking the harder it becomes to know what to say. Or how to ask for what we really need.

Addison: [to Derek] I know. You're a flannel-wearing, wood-chopping fisherman. I GET IT.

Bailey: And you three--- brush up on how not to embarrass me in front of the Attendings or I'll see to it that your hearts stop beating. You clear?

George: We have to do something. Meredith has become like an exhibit like...hey... like a zoo animal...like that rare panda that everyone stares at.

Izzie: Please don't say that to her face. I think that panda died alone.

Nicole: Hi. I'm Alex's charity case.

Cristina: I like her already.

Nicole: I don't like you.

Alex: Yeah, you do.

Nicole: Jerk.

Alex: Motor mouth.

Nicole: Babysitter.

Alex: Two-wheeler.

Nicole: Now that's just politically incorrect.

Bailey: Turn around and walk away.

Derek: From what?

Bailey: From my intern.

Derek: No, I wasn’t.

Bailey: Yes you were, come on, look, you can’t do this, you don’t have the right, not anymore.

Derek: I just want to find out if she's okay.

Bailey: No, she's not. She's a human traffic accident, and everybody's slowing down to look at the wreckage. She's doing the best she can with what she has left, and I know you can't see this 'cause you're in it, but YOU CAN'T HELP HER NOW! You'll only make it worse. Walk away. Leave her to mend.

Alex: For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone you can't get out of your head, so that when your lips finally touch, you feel it everywhere. A kiss so hot and so deep, you never want to come up for air. You can't cheat your first kiss, Nicole. Trust me you don't want to, 'cause when you find that right person, the first kiss...it's everything.

Meredith: [voiceover] At the end of the day, there are some things you just can't help but talk about. Some things we just don't want to hear, and some things we say because we can't be silent any longer. Some things are more than what you say, they're what you do. Some things you say because there's no other choice. Some things you keep to yourself. And not too often, but every now and then, some things simply speak for themselves.

Let It Be [2.8]

Meredith: [voiceover]In the eighth grade my English class had to read Romeo and Juliet. Then for extra credit, Mrs. Snyder made us act out all the parts. Sal Scafarillo was Romeo. As fate would have it, I was Juliet… all the other girls were jealous, but I had a slightly different take. I told Mrs. Snyder that Juliet was an idiot. For starters she falls for the one guy she knows she can’t have, then she blames fate for her own bad decision. Mrs. Snyder explained to me that when fate comes into play choice sometimes goes out the window. At the ripe old age of 13 I was very clear that love like life is about making choices. And fate has nothing to do with it. Everyone thinks it’s so romantic, Romeo and Juliet, true love, how sad. If Juliet was stupid enough to fall for the enemy, drink the bottle of poison, and go to sleep in a mausoleum, she deserved whatever she got.

Izzie: You kissed me.

Alex': Yes, I did.

Izzie: Should we?... I mean, there's a discussion that we could have... if you wanted to have one?

Alex: Izzie, I kissed you, with tongue, and I plan to do it again and again - get used to it. End of discussion.

George: You lived. We both did. Carpe diem, man. "Seize the Day!"

Fall Guy: Any chance you can make him leave?

Cristina: I really, really wish I could.

Cristina: Plus I've already spent an hour picking bird parts out of the guy. I'm over it.

George: Carpe diem.

Meredith: Right, giant zit on my forehead, and I'm beginning to look how I feel. Carpe that.

George: This is the luckiest day in the world!

Cristina: Tell that to the bird.

Bailey: I'm pregnant, you blind moron.

Chief:: You’re what?

Bailey: My heart rate is 110, I’m burning three thousand calories a day, my legs are swollen, I got indigestion and gas. Did you know carrying a boy in your uterus means you burn ten percent more calories than if you had a girl? Guess what I’m carrying. I tried for seven damn years and a month before my fellowship notifications the stick turns blue. Men... from the very beginning they just suck the life right out of you. I’m not leaving. I’m pregnant.

George: Could this place be any further away? It's like Siberia down here.

Daisy: That's because we don't like sick people.

George: You do know you're in a hospital, right?

Burke: Let's have the Chardonnay, please.

Cristina: Oh, I want Bordeaux.

Burke: The Chardonnay would be better with the Lobster.

Cristina: I'm having steak.

Burke: You...you eat red meat?

Cristina: You don't?

Burke: [during surgery] Dr. Yang, you're handling the saw.

Cristina: You won't let me pick the wine, but this you'll let me do?

Alex': [referring to a patient who is removing her breasts and ovaries to prevent possible cancer] Here's the thing - I like your rack.

Izzie: God, what is wrong with you? Why do you have to be so - what is wrong with you?

Alex': I like your rack and I'd want them around if I could have them, trust me I would, but it wouldn't be the end of the world if you got rid of them... because really, I'd want you.

[Izzie slaps him]

Alex': Ow! What was that for?

[She kisses him]

Meredith: [enters the elevator, Derek's there] I miss you.

Derek: [stands behind her and breath her in, giving her goose bumps] I can't.

[Derek walks out of the elevator]

Meredith: [voiceover] Maybe Romeo and Juliet were fated to be together, but just for a while, and then their time passed. If they could have known that beforehand, maybe it all would have been okay. I told Mrs. Snyder that when I was grown up, I'd take fate into my own hands. I wouldn't let some guy drag me down. Mrs. Snyder said that I'd be lucky if I ever had that kind of passion with someone, and that if I did, we'd be together forever. Even now, I believe that for the most part, love is about choices. It's about putting down the poison and the dagger and making your own happy ending...most of the time. And that sometimes, despite all your best choices and all your best intentions... fate wins anyway.

Thanks for the Memories [2.9]

Meredith: [voiceover] Gratitude, appreciation, giving thanks. No matter what words you use, they all mean the same thing. Happy. We're supposed to be happy. Grateful for friends, family. Happy just to be alive. Whether we like it or not.

Cristina': [about inviting Burke to Thanksgiving dinner] What was I supposed to do? Blow off my boyfriend for Thanksgiving? I tried to. He wouldn't blow. He's like something sticky that won't blow off.

George: [about his Thanksgiving, hunting with his family] I'm in the woods. With shotguns and liquor and car talk. It's like Deliverance out here!

Cristina: Meredith's a WASP, isn't she? Liquor is like oxygen for WASPs.

George: Which is...why we're out of liquor.

Joe: Hey, this is my boyfriend, Walter.

Cristina: Whatever, tell me you brought liquor.

Joe: I brought pie. Pumpkin.

Cristina: You're a bartender!

Joe: Did you bring scalpels?

Alex: [To Meredith, about telling Izzie he failed his Medical Board Exam] If I tell Izzie, she'll be nice about it, all supportive and optimistic—she might as well rip my nads off and turn them into earrings.

Meredith: I feel like one of those people who are so freaking miserable that they can't be around normal people. Like I'll infect the happy people. Like I'm some miserable, diseased, dirty ex-mistress.

Alex: A miserable, diseased, dirty ex-mistress? [Wolf whistle] That's hot. That's really hot. I feel better already.

George: Today I committed bird murder and I was forced to touch my dad's ass. I get bonus points for showing up at all.

Cristina: I brought booze.

Meredith: [voiceover] Maybe we're not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we're thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we're thankful for the things we'll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.

Much Too Much [2.10]

Meredith: [voiceover] When you were a kid, it was Halloween candy. You hid it from your parents and you ate it until you got sick. In college, it was the heavy combo of youth, tequila and well, you know. As a surgeon, you take as much of the good as you can get because it doesn't come around nearly as often as it should. 'Cause good things aren't always what they seem. Too much of anything, even love, is not always a good thing.

Meredith: [on the phone, about Burke's house] You're going through his stuff, aren't you?

Cristina: There's no stuff to go through. It's a freak show. I mean, you can do surgery in here. Oh, he arranged his books using the Dewey Decimal system! Mer, I'm scared.

Meredith: Get out, get out of the house—now.

[As Meredith's one night stand runs out of the house]

George: Oh, he's new.

Izzie: I shall name him: "Running Guy."

Meredith: They always look so sad when I kick them out. Seriously, why do guys not understand that when you pick them up in a bar and take them home for sex, that there are no picket fences or kids in your future?

[Cristina takes out the key]

Meredith: Burke keyed you?

Cristina: I got freaking keyed before coffee.

Meredith: What is wrong with them?

Cristina: They're like these 1950s debutantes, one dance and there's a shotgun to your head.

[Meredith's One-Night-Stand walks up]

Steve: Meredith? You work here?

Meredith: What are you doing here...um...Steve?

Steve: I'm having a little problem.

Cristina: Steve, Steve?

Steve: Actually, I'm having a big problem.

[Moves his jacket to reveal his erect penis. Cristina notices and starts staring at it. Meredith doesn't notice.]

Meredith: What?

Cristina: [Still staring] Steve, hi! Cristina.

Steve: Ever since you...and I [Meredith follows Cristina's gaze and does a double-take]...um...it won't go away.

Meredith: Cristina!

Cristina: What? It's right there, looking at me! There are so many things I could say right now — Champ!

Cristina: It's not my fault you broke the guy's penis.

Bailey: Broke his what? [Cristina and Meredith trying to evade her] Hey! Don't make me chase you down. I'm growing a person here!

Cristina: What the hell is this?

Burke: It's a key.

Cristina: Why?

Burke: Why is it a key? Are we feeling existential this morning?

Cristina: Well, if the key turns in a lock, and no one asked for the key or even wanted the key, does it make a sound?

George: Maybe it's a, a matter of v-volume?

Meredith: Volume? What's that supposed to mean?

George: Just, you know there's quality then there's quantity.

Meredith: So you think I'm sleeping with too many guys? You think I'm a slut?

George: I think you're taking some risks. I think you'll find yourself in a hole in some guys' basement being ordered to put the lotion on the skin or you'll get the hose again.

Meredith: Oh come on—

George: Excuse me, I'm talking. So you want to be with Derek. You want to be, but you're not. So you try to find some replacement, some temporary way to feel better. But it's not working, and it's not going to work, because the future of meaningless one night stands and problematic penises is not what you want. You want better and you deserve better. And not every guy's a nightmare.

Cristina: Congratulations, you're flaccid.

Patient: Never thought I'd be glad to hear that.

Cristina: Excuse me- what makes you think we can live together? You don't know anything about me.

Burke: I know that you prefer an 11-blade for your IND's, I know you like your coffee from the cart by the front entrance better than the coffee in the cafeteria. I know you.

Cristina: Those are little things, details.

Burke: I know you. You don't want to move. But I can't always be the one that takes the step. Anymore steps and I'm walking away.

Cristina: [to Burke] This is where I live. My mother decorated it. I don't do laundry, I buy new underwear. And uh, the table? Six months of magazines I know I'll never read but I won't throw out. I don't wash dishes, vacuum, or put the toilet paper on the holder. I hired a maid once, she ran away crying. The only things in my fridge are water, vodka, and diet soda, and I don't care. But you do. Still think living together is a good idea?

Meredith: [voiceover] How do you know when how much is too much? Too much too soon. Too much information. Too much fun. Too much love. Too much to ask... And when is it all just too much to bear?

Owner of a Lonely Heart [2.11]

Meredith: [voiceover] Forty years ago, the Beatles asked the world a simple question: they wanted to know where all the lonely people came from. My latest theory is that a great many of the lonely people come from hospitals. More precisely, the surgical wing of hospitals. As surgeons, we ignore our own needs so we can meet our patients' needs. We ignore our friends and families so we can save other people's friends and families. Which means that, at the end of the day, all we really have is ourselves. And nothing in this world can make you feel more alone than that.

Izzie: [about Alex] He's unbelievable. I'm so glad I never slept with him. Which is his loss. Because I'm really good in bed. Mind blowing. Mind-blowingly good in bed.

Cristina: Are you trying to seduce us?

Izzie: And he sleeps with Olivia, instead of me. Olivia?!

George: Hey, I slept with Olivia.

Izzie: Well, then you both have bad taste.

George: You know, you can't say that you weren't warned. Alex has always been Alex.

Meredith: You dodged a bullet, Iz. You're better off without him.

Cristina: Why are you even surprised? You sleep with a snake, you get bit.

Izzie: Thanks, guys. . . for the support.

[Cristina kicks Izzie awake.]

Izzie: Dammit, WHAT?!

Cristina: Hell hath no fury like a girl whose non-boyfriend screws a nurse.

Izzie: [under her breath] Bitch.

Cristina: I like you bitter and pissed off. You're almost like a normal person now.

Bailey: These are preemies, they were supposed to spend another 8 weeks in the womb. Just like interns, they're not ready for the real world.

Meredith: So, you're giving up your trailer.

Derek: I'm not giving up the trailer. Is Addison telling people that I'm giving up the trailer?

Meredith: It's just funny, I just never would have pegged you for that guy.

Derek: What guy?

Meredith: You know, the marble bath, private pool, gated community guy.

Derek: Don't peg me. I'm not peggable.

Meredith: You're pegged. Deal with it.

Bailey: [to one of the quints] How you doing', you? You know I'm having' a baby too, yes I am! A little boy! Maybe you could meet him someday! How's that sound, does that sound good? [Cristina walks in; stares] Pregnancy has not made me soft. I haven’t gone soft. I don't do soft.

Cristina: Of course not, just talking to a patient.

Izzie: [about Alex] I'm telling you, Meredith was all over him.

Cristina: Seriously, she was all over him? What, like mounting him, with all the babies watching? Seriously?

Izzie: Well, she would have been if I hadn't interrupted.

George: She was talking to him.

Izzie: You don't talk to bastards who cheat on their girlfriends, George. That's the rule.

George: You weren't officially his girlfriend.

Izzie: That's not the point.

George: It is kind of the point. You don't see me getting all emotional over people I'm not dating.

Izzie: Really?! You want to go there?!

[Ominous looks all around.]

George: No.

Izzie: I'M HAVING A MOMENT HERE. DON'T MESS WITH ME.

Cristina: You're not going to have a nervous breakdown and kill yourself, are you?

Izzie: No.

Cristina: So, there's no chance you'll kill us?

[Izzie storms out.]

George: OK, that was wrong on so many levels.

Izzie: When Derek broke up with you, I never once said that you were better off without him. It's not supportive, it's condescending. I was there for you, all I ever am is there for you guys, and the one time I need you? Just go away, Meredith.

Karl (Patient): [to George] But sometimes, no matter how much you love someone, they just can't love you back in the same way. Believe me, son. Living with a woman who can't love you back ... way lonelier than being alone.

Meredith: [voiceover] Four hundred years ago, another well-known English guy had an opinion on being alone. John Donne. He thought we were never alone. Of course it was fancier when he said it. No man is an island entire unto himself. Boil down that island talk and he just meant that all anyone needs is someone to step in and let us know we're not alone. And who's to say that someone can't have four legs. Someone to play with, or run around with, or just hang out.

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer [2.12]

Meredith: [voiceover] It's an urban myth that suicide rates spike at the holidays. Turns out they actually go down. Experts think it's because people are less inclined to off themselves when surrounded by family. Ironically, that same family togetherness is thought to be the reason that depression rates actually do spike at the holidays. Yeah, okay. Izzie doesn't count.

[After Izzie decorated the living room]

George: It looks like Santa threw up in here.

Meredith: Just— go with it, we're being supportive.

Izzie: Oh, hey! What do you think? Did I go too overboard? I know, I know sometimes I can go a little overboard.

George: No, we love it!

Meredith: It's great.

Izzie: Oh, yay! I LOVE CHRISTMAS!

Meredith: We know.

George: [about Dr. Bailey] Look at her belly! She's almost as wide as she is tall!

Meredith: Are her ankles swollen? Is that why she's waddling?

Izzie: What's gonna happen to us when she goes on leave?

Cristina: Leave? She's going on leave?

Meredith: What do you think happens when people push babies out of their vaginas?

George: Do you think we're gonna get a new resident?

Alex: Nah, They'll probably just let us all walk around unattended, see how much damage we can do.

Izzie: Yeah, well, you would know.

Justin's Mom: You hear that, baby? Santa Claus is bringing you a new heart for Christmas.

Justin: Well tell that fat ass to give it to someone else. I don't want it!

Burke: I believe there's a mind-body-spirit connection. And if Justin really doesn't want this heart, his body will reject it.

Cristina: Okay, let me get this straight. You don't just celebrate Christmas...you actually believe in Santa Claus?

George: Paging Dr. Karev-ian [laughter]

Bailey: What did you just say?

George: Ah-it, it's a joke, Kevorkian, Karev-ian...Alex Karev?

Bailey: I get the joke. I just don't think it's funny. You see this O'Malley? I make one mistake with this scalpel and this man's dead. My husband, he makes mistakes at his job all the time. As far as I know he's never killed anyone but I have. And YOU WILL. And Alex did. He made a math mistake and a man died for it. Run that past your accountant - see how he'd feel if every mistake he made, someone ended up dead. You don't have to like Alex, you don't have to care about him, but you damn well have to be on his side.

Derek: Do you know what time of year neurosurgeons are the busiest, Dr. Stevens?

Izzie: There's a time of year?

Derek: There's no hard or fast rule, but brain injuries tend to pile up around the holidays. Like our friend here. Folks fall off their roofs while they string up lights, or when they go skating for the first time in a decade, break their heads open. And every year people drive through blizzards to get to parties where they kiss germ-infected strangers under poisonous mistletoe. And then they get so drunk that they smash their heads through their windshield on their way home. Like I said, there's no hard or fast rule.

[Alex is practicing giving Cristina a breast exam, only it looks like he's groping her]

Cristina: OK, the way you're grabbing me right now, that's assault. [She takes his hand and demonstrates how to give a breast exam] This is an exam. Pat, pat, pat. [George walks in and sees]

George: What? What the hell? Does Izzie know? Does Burke know about this?

Cristina: Unbunch your panties, George, we're helping Alex study. [To Alex] Do it.

George: I can't hear you when his hand is on your boob.

Cristina: Take your hand off my boob, Alex.

Cristina: I believe in medicine. And it's a medical miracle you're alive. And medicine is a lot cooler than Santa. So I'm just saying...I think you should decide to live. Live so you can become a doctor, and you can find a way to do heart transplants without someone having to die. Or, live so you can grow up and have kids and...Raise them not to believe in Santa. That would piss your mom off. Just decide to live. Because in your case, dying really isn't the best revenge.

Alex: Why would you want to help me after what I did?

[Izzie is silent for a moment, shaking with anger]

Izzie: [yells] Because it’s what Jesus would freakin’ do!

Cristina: Okay, seriously, if you are that lonely, there are excellent vibrators. I can give you a catalogue.

Derek: I'm not saying this to hurt you or because I want to leave you, because I don't. Meredith wasn't a fling. She wasn't revenge. I fell in love with her. That doesn't go away because I decided to stay with you.

Meredith: [voiceover] There's an old proverb that says you can't choose your family. You take what the fates hand you. And like them or not, love them or not, understand them or not, you cope. Then there's the school of thought that says the family you're born into is simply a starting point. They feed you, and clothe you, and take care of you until you're ready to go out into the world and find your tribe.

Begin the Begin [2.13]

Meredith: [voiceover] Fresh starts thanks to the calendar they happen every year —just set your watch to January, our reward for surviving the holiday season is a new year. Bringing on the great tradition of new years resolutions, put your past behind you and start over. It’s hard to resist the chance of a new beginning, a chance to put the problems of last year to bed.

Meredith: Such a good dog! Who's Mommy's good boy? [Turns and looks at Izzie and George] C'mon, what are you doing, we're gonna be late.

George: Uh— We need to talk about the dog.

Izzie: That's not a dog, it's a hyena that escaped from the zoo, dressed in dog clothing.

George: Whatever. I don't chew up his clothes. I don't urinate on his bed. I don't try to mount him from behind.

Meredith: People, he's our dog. We love our dog. He loves us.

Izzie: Mount you from behind?

George: He tries to.

Izzie: You do glow.

Alex: Like the moon.

Bailey: And you can spend the day in the pit Karev.

George: Your lab work showed... have you been taking birth control pills?

Bex: If you tell my mom and dad they'll-

George: I won't! I won't—I just need to know...why? Do you have a boyfriend?

Bex: Like anyone would want to have sex with me—

George: Well...then...why?

Bex: I'm as flat as a board. I took like five of those pills a day and nothing's different. Boobs, dude.

George: You...were trying to make your breasts grow.

Bex: I wanted to be normal for once in my life.

Derek: [to Addison] There is a land called Passive Agressiva, and you are their queen.

Addison: I am fine.

Derek: Except when you're shrieking about trout.

Addison: I was not shrieking about trout.

Derek: You're right, you weren't. You were shrieking about Meredith.

Addison: No, I was shrieking about the trailer. I hate the trailer.

Derek: Oh, okay so the past three weeks have been about the trailer, not about the fact that I said I love Meredith.

Addison: Loved— you said you loved her, past tense.

Derek: Right, yes, past tense.

Addison: Well, then I have been shrieking about the trailer.

Denny: Can I ask you something personal?

Izzie: If I say no?

Denny: I'll hold my breath, which will stop my heart, killing me. You're right here, you'll be charged with murder. Lifetime in prison loved by a big old girl named Hildy.

Izzie: So my choices are homicide charges or inappropriate personal questions from a patient.

Denny: I know, kind of sucks.

Izzie: You know what, hold your breath. I'll take my chances with Hildy. I can do girl-on-girl.

Denny: Oh, you're bringing up girl-on-girl? How can I blackmail you if you bring up girl-on-girl?

Izzie: What do you want to know?

Denny: That guy Alex. You with him?

Izzie: No, not anymore and never ever again.

Denny: Good, that means I won't have to fight him for you.

Izzie: What makes you think I want you to fight him for me?

Denny: You're in love with me. I'm well-off, but not into money; I'm smart, but not a know-it-all; I'm funny, I'm really nice, I love animals— and I'm hot. I'm a catch, if you can wrap your head around the enlarged failing heart and dependency to IV meds.

Izzie: You're right. I am so in love with you. It's a shame, really, since I'm with Hildy and all.

Bailey: Yang, why are you staring at my fat pregnant belly?

Meredith: My mother is very sick and has very few good days. And I don't want her to be poked and prodded for some experimental program.

Derek: I'm just trying to help.

Meredith: Well, see this? What you’re doing, being dreamy? It doesn't help. It hurts me. It messes with my head.

Derek: I know the feeling.

Meredith: I don't doubt that. But you, you have a wife to go home to and I'm guessing she has no idea where you are right now.

Derek: No, she doesn't.

Meredith: That's what I thought.

Meredith: [voiceover] Who gets to determine when the old ends and the new begins? It’s not on the calendar, it’s not a birthday, it’s not a new year, it’s an event —big or small, something that changes us, ideally it gives us hope, a new way of living and looking at the world, letting go of old habits, old memories. What's important is that we never stop believing we can have a new beginning, but it's also important to remember amid all the crap are a few things really worth holding on to.

Tell Me Sweet Little Lies [2.14]

Meredith: [voiceover] As doctors, we're trained to be skeptical, because our patients lie to us all the time. The rule is, every patient is a liar until proven honest. Lying is bad. Or so we are told constantly from birth—honesty is the best policy, the truth shall set you free, I chopped down the cherry tree, whatever. The fact is, lying is a necessity. We lie to ourselves because the truth, the truth freaking hurts.

George: I’m putting my foot down, either the dog moves out or I do. Foot, down, now. Me or the dog, which is it?... You hesitated! She hesitated!

Izzie: You hesitated?

Meredith: I didn’t hesitate, I was thinking.

George: You have to think about it? Fine, I’m moving out right now. [Runs into Dr. Bailey] Later, I’m moving out later. Right now, I have rounds.

Sophie: [to George] Ooh, an Irishman! I love the Irish. They have a sparkle, you can see it in the eye, and the swagger. O’Malley, show me the swagger. [George walks] The eyes are right, but you’ll have to work on the swagger.

Cristina: You want to be me, but you can't be me. You want to be me, but you... [looks sick]

Izzie: Crap. She's gonna blow.

Cristina: We're in an elevator. That's your specialty, right? McDreamy moments in elevators?

Derek: Dr. Yang...

Cristina: You know what? For just a moment, I’m not Dr. Yang and you’re not Dr. Shepherd. You’re the guy who screwed up my friend. The guy who drove her to get a dog she can't keep, the dog she only got because her boyfriend lied to her about his wife.

Derek: I never lied to her.

Cristina: You know, I know a liar when I see one because I am a liar. You want me to lie to the patient? Fine, I'll lie.

George: You know I would keep you here if I could.

Sophie: No, darling, you can't waste any more time with me. You have to go balls out with the dog.

George: Excuse me?

Sophie: So she chose an animal over you. Women are fools, that's old news. But life's too short for you to give in, Irish. So fight, you fight for what's yours.

Izzie: [to Alex, after he passed his exam] Congratulations, you're not an idiot. Except when you are being an idiot.

Bailey: I may be forty-seven weeks pregnant. I may be on bed rest. I may not be able to see my own feet. But I am Dr. Bailey. I hear every thing. I know every thing. I’m watching each and every one of you. And I will return.

George [to Meredith]: You don't get to choose. I know you've been going through a bad time. I know you miss Shepherd. And I know that your life has, admittedly, been pretty unpleasant these days. You get points for breathing in and out. You get to be a little selfish. But you don't get to choose a dog over me... I'm George. I sleep down the hall from you. I buy your tampons. I have held your hand, every time you asked. I've earned the right to be seen. To be respected. To not have you think of me, as less than a dog that you got at the pound. So, I'm not moving out. Whether you like it or not, I'm staying.

Meredith: [voiceover] No matter how hard we try to ignore or deny it, eventually the lies fall away, whether we like it or not. But here's the truth about the truth: It hurts. So we lie.

Break On Through [2.15]

Meredith: [voiceover] In general, lines are there for a reason: for security, for clarity. If you choose to cross the line, you pretty much do so at your own risk. So why is it, that the bigger the line, the greater the temptation to cross it?

George: My dad's a truck driver, my mom's a teacher. If the evening news shows me crossing a picket line, they'll outlive me just to pee on my grave.

Chief: We need an additional 40 nurses to relieve the overtime that they're striking about. That's 2 million dollars a year we don't have.

Derek: Have you checked under the couch? I always find spare change under the cushions.

Cristina: George is cowering behind the picket line like a little girl.

Sydney: Standing up for what he believes in, that's my kind of little girl! Am I right?

Sydney: [about Cristina, who wants to remove the patient's leg] And when I do, our eager young intern here can hold the saw. Unlike Dr. Karev, kindness and compassion aren't very high on her list of priorities, but a little bone-saw action? Maybe that will earn me some respect, am I right?

Izzie: [trying to convince a patient to give her child up for adoption] She can have more than a trailer park and a graveyard shift at a truck-stop diner. Don't you want that for her? I mean, if you can get past the fact that I'm superior, and that I'm judging you, and telling you what's best for your family...if you can just get past all of that, isn't it possible that I'm also right?

Cristina: I'm not used to being wrong.

Burke: I know. But you're an intern. Second-guessing a resident? That's not your job.

Cristina: Excuse me, why aren't YOU apologizing?

Burke: I'm an Attending, I don't have to apologize to residents. You, on the other hand, are an intern.

George: [after Meredith and Izzie climb into his bed] What happened today?

Izzie: Nothing.

Meredith: Nothing.

George: Okay.

Izzie: We don’t know everything about each other, George.

Meredith: Yeah.

George: True … anybody want to have sex?

Meredith: [voiceover] We can’t help ourselves. We see a line, we want to cross it. Maybe it’s the thrill of trading the familiar for the unfamiliar. A sort of personal dare. Only problem is, once you’ve crossed it’s almost impossible to go back. But if you do manage to make it back across that line you find safety in numbers.

It's the End of the World [2.16]

Meredith: [voiceover] It's... a look patients get in their eyes. There is a scent, the smell of death. Some kind of sixth sense. When the great beyond is headed for you, you feel it coming. What's the one thing you've always dreamed of doing before you die?

Izzie: [to Meredith] You have to go to work. You're an intern. Saving lives is not optional.

Cristina: You have a feeling?

Meredith: Yes.

Cristina: Okay, what kind of feeling?

Meredith: Like I might die.

Cristina: Today? Tomorrow? In 50 years? We're all going to die eventually. Now we're late! Let's go!

Meredith: Cristina. C'mon!

Cristina: This is me being supportive.

Meredith: Really?

Cristina: Yeah, fine, I'm totally supportive. Go.

Meredith: OK. The man I love has a wife and then he chooses her over me. And that wife takes my dog—OK, she didn't take the dog, I gave it to her, but I didn't mean to give it to her, I meant to give it to him—but that does not change the fact that she's got my McDreamy. And my McDog. She's got my McLife! And what have I got? -sits up-You know, I can't remember the last time we kissed. 'Cause you never think the last time is the last time, you think there'll be more. You think you have forever, but you don't. Plus my conditioner decided to stop working and I think I have brittle bones. I just-I just need something to happen. I need a sign that things are gonna change. I need a reason to go on. I need some hope. And in the absence of hope, I need to stay in bed and feel like I might die today.

Cristina: [throws back blanket] Whatever - everybody has problems. Now get your ass out of bed and get to work. NOW! Move! Move! Move! [Opens the door to find Izzie and George] We're good to go.

Derek: You alright?

Meredith: I have a feeling.

Derek: I get those.

Meredith: Yeah?

Derek: Yeah.

Meredith: And?

Derek: If you wait long enough it passes.

Meredith: You promise?

Derek: I promise.

[Meredith walks away, and Addison walks in]

Addison: Hey... What you doing?

Derek: Waiting for it to pass.

Addison: For what to pass?

Derek: Bailey's back? [Hurries to the door but stops when he looks in the window] And her cervix is being examined by my wife, which is a visual I will never get out of my head. Thanks for the warning.

Bailey: What are you people doing out here?

Chief: Are you alright? Can I get you anything?

Bailey: A boy the size of a 10 lb. bowling ball is trying to work it’s way out of my body. Can you get me something for that. Can you get me a new vagina?

Chief: Uh, well.

Bailey: I didn't think so.

George: Eat something.

Izzie: I knew Meredith and Cristina would be out on the floor with the bomb.

George: [uncharacteristically gruff] Yeah.

Izzie: Is it wrong that we're jealous? It's alright to be jealous, right?

George: The fact that we're jealous because they both might die is not a reflection of our character. It's about feeling useless.

Izzie: Ineffectual.

George: We couldn't even get Meredith out of bed this morning without calling Cristina. How embarrassing is that?

Izzie: You know what I think, George? I think Meredith and Cristina? Are doers.

George: They're doers. They do.

Izzie: They do. And we... we watch. We're watchers.

[Izzie spies Alex talking to a hospital aide]

Izzie: We have to become more proactive George. We have to become doers.

George: Fight for what we want.

Izzie: We have to do.

George: Yeah.

[Izzie gets up and leaves]

George: Oh. You mean. We're starting right now.

Izzie: Alex.

Alex: How crazy is this? Dude, it's like the Apocalypse.

Izzie: Alex.

Alex: It's true. Look around you. Half the people who're supposed to be saving lives have fled the building to save themselves. Bailey's husband almost died coming to see his kid getting born. The annoying twins are down on the OR floor with the guy who might literally explode their faces.

Izzie: Alex!

[Cut to the supply closet]

Izzie: Take off your pants.

Alex: Izzie, what are you doing?

Izzie: I'm being a doer. Getting while the getting's good. Now take off your pants.

Alex: You realize when I said the apocalypse before, I meant it metaphorically, not literally.

Izzie: Alex, I haven't had sex in eight months and twelve days. I'm horny, I'm half-naked, and I'm saying yes. Do you want to stand there and talk metaphors, or do you want to literally take off your pants?

Dylan (Bomb Squad Guy): The chief of surgery has authorized me to evacuate everyone on this floor.

Derek: The Chief of Surgery doesn't scare me. Dr. Bailey scares me. I'm not going to be the one to let her husband die, which is what would happen if I put his skull flap on, in this condition. Bomb or no bomb. Now get out of my OR.

George: Uh, Dr. Bailey, you're having a baby.

Bailey: I'm holding it IN. I'll have him tomorrow. Just not now, not like this. NO. [She starts to cry] I'm going home! I'm going home right now! I can't. I can't do this without my husband, I can't do this alone.

Dylan (Bomb Squad Guy): Meredith.

Meredith: George and Izzie shouldn't have to move out.

Dylan (Bomb Squad Guy): No. You hear me.

Meredith: You should make sure. Make sure that they, that they get to stay in the house.

(As We Know It) [2.17]

Meredith: [voiceover] In hospitals they say you know. You know you’re going to die. Some doctors say it’s a look patients get in their eyes. Some say there’s a scent, a smell of death. Some say there’s just some kind of sixth sense, when the great beyond is headed for you, you feel it coming. Whatever it is, it's creepy. Because if you know, what do you do about it? Forget about the fact that you're scared out of your mind. If you knew this was your last day on earth, how would you want to spend it?

Meredith: OK, you know when you don't need to be made fun of? Like when you have your hand inside a body that's got a bomb in it and a stranger is Velcro-ing a flak jacket to your boobs.

George: Dr. Montgomery-Shepherd. What are we gonna do? I mean, about Dr. Bailey. Can—can we drug her?

Addison: Against her will?

George: No. Well... yes. I mean, can't we force her to push? If, uh... we declare her temporarily insane?

Addison: You want me to declare Miranda Bailey - Miranda Bailey - incompetent? Do you think that'll help, make her more inclined, more comfortable giving birth?

George: I don't know. That’s why I'm asking you.

Addison: Do you think I'm not doing everything I can to help her? I mean, do you think I'm just out here because, I don’t know, I'm feeling lazy, just need a little me time?

George: I'm just asking—

Addison: Stop asking! Because no matter what you ask, the answer is I don't know. I'm doing everything I can—everything I can. Miranda Bailey's husband is in mortal danger—actual mortal danger—and there is not a lot I can say to comfort her because there's not a lot anybody can say to comfort me. I'm doing my best. Dr. Bailey is doing her best. And I need you to do your best, and I need it to be better than standing here asking me the world's stupidest questions. I don't know, Malley.

Burke: I cannot do this with you in here. I cannot think.

Cristina: You know in movies how there's a hero and there's always the other guy, the one who sees danger and runs in the opposite direction?

Burke: Yes.

Cristina: Be the other guy.

Meredith: Is this the strangest thing that’s ever happened in your OR?

Burke: I'd have to say it is.

Meredith: Good because I'm very competitive.

Burke: All the best surgeons are.

Meredith: Stop it. I’m not a patient.

Dylan: What?

Meredith: The two of you are looking at me the way we look at patients. Like I’m gonna freak out at any minute. I’m not going to freak out, so whatever it is, just tell me straight out.

Burke': The main oxygen line runs directly under this floor.

Meredith: Okay... Not okay. Well? I need one of you to tell me what this means exactly. Because I think I know what it means. But I tend to be glass half-empty these days. So I won’t trust what I think it means. Because what I think it means is that if the bomb were to explode over the oxygen line, the whole hospital could blow up. And that’s just crazy right?

Meredith: Cristina. I have my hand on a bomb. I’m freaking out. And most importantly, I really have to pee. Tell me anything.

Cristina: He told me he loved me. Last night, he thought I was sleeping, but I heard him say it.

Meredith: Burke loves you.

Cristina: Yeah. [To Dylan] Mind your own business.

Meredith: Burke loves you!

Cristina: Yeah everybody has problems.

Meredith: Well are you gonna say it back, or-

Cristina: Of course not! He didn’t say it to me, he said it to sleeping me! Reciprocity is not required. Besides he might blow up.

Meredith: Excellent point.

[the gurney hits a bump in the floor]

Dylan: Alright everybody. Let’s just keep placing one foot in front of the other [gives Cristina an ‘I told you so' look] . Nice and slow. Alright, Meredith? We’re almost there.

Meredith: Okay.

Dylan: We’re almost there. Nice and easy, right? Alright let’s go. Nice and slow.

Cristina: You had to say you’re going to die today.

Meredith: I told you.

George: Dr. Bailey I'm surprised at you. I really thought — this is not how I thought you would do this. I truly...I expected more. You're Dr. Bailey. You don't hide from a fight. You don't give up. You strive for greatness. You, Dr. Bailey, you are a do-er. I know your husband's not here, and I know there are a lot of things going on here that we have no control over. But this? This — we can do. OK? OK. Let's have this baby.

George: Dr. Bailey, hey, I can see his head. He's got a lot of hair, but he's kind of cute.

Bailey: O'Malley!

George: Yes?

Bailey: Stop looking at my va-jay-jay!

George: Yes, ma'am.

Meredith: Hey.

Derek: Hey. You almost died today.

Meredith: Yeah, I almost died today. [Derek is at a loss for words and starts heading to the door] I can't, I can't remember our last kiss. All I could think about was I'm going to die today and I can't remember our last kiss. Which, is pathetic but the last time we were together and happy, I... want to be able to remember that, and I can't. I can't remember.

Derek: I'm glad you didn't die today. [Starts to leave but stops] It was a Thursday morning, you were wearing that ratty little 'Dartmouth' T-shirt you look so good in, the one with the hole at the back of the neck. You'd just washed you hair and you smelled like some kind of...flower. I was running late for surgery, you said you were going to see me later, and you lean to me, put you hand on my chest and you kissed me. Soft. It was quick. Kind of like a habit. You know, like we'd do it everyday for the rest of our lives. And you went back to reading the newspaper and I went to work. That was the last time we kissed. [Derek starts to leave]

Meredith: Lavender. My hair smelled like lavender...from my conditioner.

Derek: Lavender. Huh. [Smiles then leaves]

Yesterday [2.18]

Meredith: [voiceover] After careful consideration and many sleepless nights, here’s what I've decided. There's no such thing as a grown-up. We move on, we move out, we move away from our families and form our own. But the basic insecurities, the basic fears and all those old wounds just grow up with us. And just when we think life and circumstances have forced us truly to become an adult, your mother says something like that. Or worse, something like that. We get bigger, we get taller, we get older. But, for the most part, we're still a bunch of kids, running around the playground, trying desperately to fit in.

Ellis: I'm exhausted.

Meredith: Me too.

Meredith:[voiceover]And just when we think that life and circumstance have forced us to truly once and for all become an adult.

Ellis: I was going at it all night in the on-call room, what's your excuse.

Meredith:[voiceover] Your mother says something like that.

Meredith: Mom!

Ellis: I tell you that man makes me purr like a kitten.

Meredith: Mom!

Ellis: When he isn't make me growl like a tiger.

Meredith: Stop!

Ellis: And my husband wonders why I'm not interested in him anymore.

Meredith:[voiceover] Or worse something like that.

Cristina: [about Burke] You know, he’s acting like I committed a crime. Like my apartment is full of stolen goods. He’s acting like I kept my apartment to hide stolen goods so I could do illegal transplants for money.

Meredith: Are you sure he’s not just acting like you lied to him about moving in?

Cristina: What the hell's wrong with you?

Meredith: My mommy’s a filthy whore.

Izzie: You have dirty in your eyes.

Alex: You have dirty in your eyes.

Izzie: I'm not doing dirty with you anymore. It was a one-time lapse in judgment

Alex: No it was a four-time lapse in judgment.

Izzie: Well, it’s not gonna happen again

Alex: Oh, OK.

Izzie: I'm serious. We're friends and it didn’t work when we tried to be more than that, so, as fun as it was, it’s not gonna happen again.

George: How do I look today? Would you say that I look nice?

Izzie: Well, you could use a little more lip gloss but yes, you’re very pretty.

George: Aw, you're mean.

Izzie: I'm just kidding, you look fine.

George: Seriously, how’s my breath?

Izzie: George, would you just talk to her?

Chief: Punching out people on my surgical floor. My head of neurosurgery punching out people on my surgical floor.

Addison: Put the ice on your hand.

Derek: My hand is fine.

Chief: Put the damn ice on your two million a year hand. Now, would someone tell me what the hell happened?

Addison: That was Mark.

Chief: Who’s Mark?

Addison: He and Derek used to work together back in New York. And they, we, were all close friends. Until Derek found us in bed together.

Chief: Did you put your weight behind it?

Derek: Yes sir.

Chief: Well, all right then.

Mark: Derek and I always did have the same taste in women

Meredith: Excuse me?

Mark: You're Derek’s lusty intern, right? I've heard about you all the way back in New York. You're famous.

Meredith: Well, I heard about you all the way here in Seattle, so I guess we have a lot in common.

Mark: We're the dirty mistresses.

Meredith: I suppose we are.

Mark: My 400 dollar an hour shrink says that it’s because behind this rugged and confident exterior, I'm self destructive and self-loathing to an almost pathological degree.

Meredith: Hey, we do have a lot in common.

Mark: You know, it’s funny, Derek walks in on me naked with his wife, actually in the throes, and he just turns around and walks away. But he sees me so much as talking to you, and I'm on the ground bleeding. Interesting, don't you think?

George: Why is he suturing his own face?

Cristina: To turn me on.

Alex: Because he’s Mark Sloan, he’s like the go-to plastic surgeon on the east coast.

George: That’s the guy Addison was sleeping with?

Izzie: You can’t really blame her, can you?

Cristina: No, not really

George: Yes, you can

Meredith: McSexy wants an X-ray to check for fractures and I think it’s a bad idea if I take him.

George: Why? Why?

Alex: I'm on it

George: Why's it a bad idea?

Cristina: McSexy?

Meredith: No?

Izzie: McYummy?

Meredith and Cristina: No.

Meredith: McSteamy.

Cristina: Aw, there it is.

Izzie: Yep.

George: Excuse me, I'm just choking back some ... McVomit.

Izzie: You know when you don’t have sex for a while you sort of forget how good it is and you don't really need it as much?

George: Yeah, that doesn't happen to guys.

Izzie: It’s like a beast, a beast that was asleep for a long, long time. And now the beast is wide-awake and wants to be fed and the food that Alex gave it— it was good food George.

George: Something needs to be done about your taste.

Izzie: Ah, you’re just jealous because your beast is still asleep.

George: My beast isn’t asleep. My beast never sleeps.

Cristina: [about Addison] I don't get what McDreamy and McSteamy see in her.

Alex: She's McHot!

George: McYeah she is!

Cristina: Um—

Burke: I am Preston Burke, a widely renowned cardiothoracic surgeon. I am a professional. And more than that I am a good and kind person. I am a person that cleans up behind myself. I am a person that cooks well. And you, you are an unbelievable slob. A slovenly, angry intern. I am Preston Burke. And you, you are the most competitive, most guarded, most stubborn, most challenging person I have ever met. And I love you. What the hell is the matter with you that you won’t just let me?

Cristina: I gave up my apartment 20 minutes ago.

Burke: Well, alright then.

Meredith: [voiceover] I've heard that it’s possible to grow up, I've just never met anyone who’s actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don’t go our way. We whisper secrets with our best friend, in the dark. We look for comfort where we can find it. And we hope against all logic, against all experience, like children, we never give up hope.

What Have I Done To Deserve This? [2.19]

George: [voiceover] Okay, so, sometimes even the best of us make rash decisions. Bad decisions. Decisions we pretty much know we're going to regret the moment, the minute, especially the morning after. I mean, maybe not regret, regret because at least, you know, we put ourselves out there. But...still. Something inside us decides to do a crazy thing. A thing we know will probably turn around and bite us in the ass. Yet, we do it anyway. What I'm saying is...we reap what we sow. what comes around goes around. It's karma and, any way you slice it...karma sucks.

Izzie: [about Alex] What? So I slept with him again. So I'm a big whore. A big horny whore who can't get enough. Can we get over the shocked silence already?

Michael: What exactly do you mean when you say blood in the ventricle?

Rick: Oh my god his brain is bleeding?

Derek: Well there’s no need to panic. It’s a small amount of blood. And these injuries often resolve themselves.

Rick: Yeah but what if it doesn’t? Will he lose IQ points? Because he’s very smart and that’s important to him. He likes to be smart. [to Michael] Do you think we should sue that little brute that hit the ball? Or the coach? We could sue the coach.

Michael: Shawn loves the coach.

Rick: Shawn’s brain is bleeding!

Cristina: Stop pouting.

George: I'm not pouting.

Cristina: Oh please, I don’t even have to look at you, I can feel you pouting.

Burke: Ahem.

Cristina: I'm not being inappropriate, he's acting like she skinned his puppy.

Burke: That’s not nice.

Cristina: Well, I'm not a nice person.

George: It's just that, I believe in Karma. You know, good things happen to good people. At least, I thought that was the way the universe works.

Cristina: How can you think that and practice medicine?

George: Fine! I'm not saying that everybody who gets sick, or everybody that dies is bad, I think there is a balance. Or there should be a balance... There should be some sort of balance. That's all.

Burke: Good god, O'Malley, what the hell did Grey do to you?

[Addison has poison oak and is being treated by Miranda.]

Miranda: Mind if I ask, how this happened?

Addison: I slept with Mark!

Miranda: Oh! And he had poison oak?

Addison: No! I slept with Mark a year ago and apparently, this is what I get!

Miranda: Yeah, I know, but how-?

Addison: I live in a trailer. I have Meredith Grey's dog. And I went outside to throw it a stick and I had to pee. So I squatted. Because I didn't wanna go back inside and wake up my husband because the way he's been looking at me it's just- [bursts into tears]

Alex: All right. So you slept with O'Malley. Big deal. Get over it already.

Meredith: He told you?

Alex: What? No. I...I was just kidding! Well, it's not like I should be surprised.

Meredith: Why not?

Alex: Because when your life is sucky, you get drunk and sleep with inappropriate men. It’s your thing. Whatever. I find it charming.

Meredith: Well- you sleep with inappropriate women when you're sober.

Alex: Hey! Izzie forgave me for that! Why are you trying to piss me off?

Meredith: You're trying to suggest that it's OK for you to sleep with Olivia, but not OK for me to sleep with George.

[George walks in]

George: You told him?!

Meredith: George wait! It's not what you think!

George: Wow, when I'm wrong about someone, I'm REALLY wrong!

Alex: Dude! Chill!

George: I'M NOT — I WILL NOT CHILL.

Izzie and Cristina: What's wrong?

Alex: Baby boy's freaking out!

Izzie: We can see that—

Izzie and Cristina: Why is he freaking out?

Meredith: George! Wait, we need talk about this!

George: Yeah, you want to talk now because you told everyone that we had sex!

Izzie: You had sex?

Cristina: You had sex with George?

George: You didn’t tell them?

Meredith: No

George: DAMMIT!!!

Denny: Do you believe in karma?

Izzie: Actually I do.

Denny: I think you might be mine.

Izzie: You must have been very, very good to deserve me.

George: So she really didn't tell you about it?

Cristina: No. Why, is that a bad thing?

George: Well, she tells you everything. So it didn't matter enough to her to even talk about it.

Cristina: George, the pity thing? Not good. If you want crappy things to stop happening to you, then stop accepting crap and demand something more.

Meredith: There’s a suitcase in the hall.

George: I was just getting my shirt.

Meredith: There’s a suitcase.

George: Yeah, I don’t live here anymore. Excuse me... Why? I just want to know, why, if you didn’t want to...

Meredith: I didn't know I didn't want to. You were there, and you were saying all the right things, and I was sad, and so I thought, maybe I’ve been overlooking what's been in front of me, and if I just give it a chance, because you're George, and you're so great...I didn't know I didn't want to...until I knew I didn't want to.

George: Yeah, OK.

Meredith: Can we please just go back to everything the way it was?

George: I don’t know how to go back. No, I'm done. We're done

George: [voiceover] One way or another our karma will leave us to face ourselves. We can look our karma in the eye or we can wait for it to sneak up on us from behind. One way or another, our karma will always find us. And the truth is, as surgeons, we have more chances than most to set the balance in our favor. No matter how hard we try we can't escape our karma. It follows us home. I guess we can't really complain about our karma. It's not unfair. It's not unexpected. It just...evens the score. And even when we're about to do something we know will tempt karma to bite us in the ass...well, it goes without saying. We do it anyway.

Band Aid Covers the Bullet Hole [2.20]

Meredith: [voiceover] As doctors, patients are always telling us how they'd do our jobs. Just stitch me up, slap a band-aid on it and send me home. It’s easy to suggest a quick solution, when you don’t know much about the problem or you don’t understand the underlying cause or just how deep the wound is. The first step toward a real cure is to know exactly what the disease is to begin with. But that’s not what people want to hear. We're supposed to forget the past that led us here, ignore the future complications that might arise and go for the quick fix.

Meredith: So- just friends.

Derek: Just friends. You know, technically you tell friends stuff, after which we share the moments of our lives.

Meredith: I'll keep that in mind next time I do a horrible thing.

Derek: No, really, it's OK. I don't want to know. Even if I beg, don’t tell me.

Izzie: [to Cristina, about George] And you’re afraid Burke will realize he makes a better girlfriend than you?

Callie: You didn’t call me.

George: I did, I did, a few times. I just hung up every time.

Callie: Nice, very stalker like. I make you nervous, don’t I?

George: Yeah, a little.

Callie: That’s good.

George: That’s... what?

Meredith: There’s a line, between friends and not friends. And if I tell you this, if I tell you this horrible thing, then you have to react as my friend. Not as my not friend.

Derek: I can do that. Alright, tell me what’s wrong, I'll tell you how to fix it.

Meredith: OK, are you ready?

Derek: I’m ready.

Meredith: Ugh... I slept with George... and it was a horrible mistake and now everything has changed and I don’t know how to repair it. I don’t even know where to start, but I just know that I have to and... Say something friendly.

Derek: You tell him that. You find George and you apologize.

Meredith: That’s what everyone’s saying, but he won't listen.

Derek: Tell him again. You tell him you’re sorry. Just tell him again and again and again until he listens.

Meredith: How do I do that?

Derek: You do what I do. Use the elevator.

Meredith: [to George, in the elevator] You’re trapped. And you don’t have to talk; I’ll do the talking. George, I am truly, very, deeply sorry. And I’m not going to make excuses, I’m just sorry. Look I know you’re going to get off this elevator and walk away and not look back. But George, we're friends, real friends. And that means, no matter how long it takes, when you finally do decide to look back, I’ll still be here.

Meredith: [voiceover] As doctors, as friends, as human beings, we all try to do the best we can. But the world is full of unexpected twists and turns. And just when you’ve gotten the lay of the land, the ground underneath you shifts. And knocks you off your feet. If you’re lucky, you’ll end up with nothing more than a flesh wound, something a band-aid will cover. But, some wounds are deeper than they first appear and require more than just a quick fix. With some wounds, you have to rip off the band-aid, let them breathe, and give them time to heal.

Superstition [2.21]

Meredith: [voiceover] My college campus has a magic statue. It’s a longstanding tradition for students to rub its nose for good luck. My freshman roommate really believed in the statue's power and insisted on visiting it to rub its nose before every exam. Studying might have been a better idea, she flunked out her sophomore year. The fact is, we all have little superstitious things we do. If it’s not believing in magic statues, it’s avoiding sidewalk cracks or always putting our left shoe on first. Knock on wood. Step on a crack, break your mothers back. The last thing we want to do is offend the gods.

Derek: Ah! Juju.

Addison: Yep

Derek: You juju'ed Meredith.

Addison: I did, in the spirit of friendship.

Derek: Hmmm.

Addison: What, are we not being friends with Meredith anymore?

Derek: No, no, we are. Meredith and I are friends.

Addison: And you and I are married. So by proxy, Meredith and I are friends.

Derek: That’s very big of you.

Addison: Yeah.

Derek: You don’t have to do that. It’s not like I'm going to be friends with...let's say... Mark.

Addison: Yeah, well, neither am I. Now finish your juju before somebody else dies.

Cristina: Great. No blood, no guts, no lives to save. It's dead quiet.

Bailey: Uh, did you really just say that?

Izzie: Cristina!

Cristina: What?

George: You said the "q" word.

Izzie: That's like saying Macbeth in the theatre.

Cristina: Please. You think because someone says its quiet that'll mean---

[All hell breaks loose]

Cristina: Can anyone spell coincidence?

Cristina: Ow, ow, you're touching me.

Izzie: George says you have one of Burke's scrub caps.

Cristina: So—

Izzie: GIVE IT TO HIM!

Cristina: What? He doesn’t need it!

Izzie: That's not your decision to make, not when he's going in on Denny, Now are you going to give it to him or am I going to physically take it from you?

Cristina: Are you threatening me?

Izzie: I swear to god, Cristina, I like you, I really do. But I grew up in a trailer park and I am so not above kicking your pampered, little Beverly Hills ass. And I do mean, physically kicking your ass.

Cristina: You don't have to follow me. [Walks up to Burke and hands him the cap]

Burke: Thank you. How long have you had this? It's one of my favorites.

Cristina: You know, you don’t need it. I keep that cap in my locker because every morning I look at it and I'm reminded of what I'm here for and what I want to be. A great surgeon. A surgeon who is decisive and executes and who doesn’t need a piece of clothing to give him an edge in surgery. You don't need it.

Burke: I know. You're right.

Cristina: I know I'm right.

[Cristina leaves. Burke walks off in the opposite direction putting the cap on]

Izzie: Just so we're clear, we're over, Alex. This is over.

Alex: bout Denny] What? You're breaking up with me over a corpse?

Izzie: No! No! I'm breaking up with you because, on your very best day, that corpse... is twice the man you will ever be. You're not good enough for me, Alex. You're not good enough for anyone.

Izzie: I cannot fall for a patient.

Denny: Oh, okay. Good luck with that.

Alex: O'Malley, you are a sad excuse for a man.

George: Excuse me?

Alex: I know you heard me, you're like a whiny little girl.

Meredith: Alex!

Alex: You know why he's not speaking to you, because he's not over you. Man, you got laid, it went badly. A man would move on. But you, you mope around this place like a dog that likes to get kicked. You make me sick. If it wouldn’t get me thrown out of the program, I'd smash your pathetic little face right into that locker.

George: [to Callie] Hi. I didn’t call. I should have called. I just... [She walks off]

[He open his cell phone and calls her]

George: This is George O'Malley calling, you gave me your phone number. I know I should have called sooner, but I'm calling now and I just wanted to know if maybe you wanted to go out with me sometime. Because... I love to watch you set bones and I rarely spend that much time in a woman's restroom and I really like you. So... is that a yes? [She nods]

Meredith: [voiceover] Superstition lies in the space between what we can control and what we can't. Find a penny, pick it up, and all day long you'll have good luck. No one wants to pass up a chance for good luck. But does saying it thirty three times really help? Is anyone really listening? And if no ones listening, why do we bother doing those strange things. We rely on superstitions because we're smart enough to know we don't have all the answers. And that life works in mysterious ways. Don't diss the juju, from wherever it comes.

Name of the Game [2.22]

Meredith: [voiceover] A good basketball game can have us all on the edge of our seats. Games are all about the glory, pain and the play by play. And then there are the more solitary games. The games we play all by ourselves. The social games, the mind games. We use them to pass the time to make life more interesting... to distract us from what's really going on. There are those of us who love to play games, any games. And there are those of us who love to play a little too much.

Joe: Dude, is she knitting?

Derek: You know, as a friend, I gotta tell you, you look a little weird.

Meredith: I'm making a sweater.

Joe: You're knitting. In a bar. You can't knit in a bar, you’re scaring the customers.

Derek: Come on, have a drink.

Meredith: I can't have a drink, I'm celibate.

Joe: You mean sober? She means sober.

Meredith: No, celibate. I'm practicing celibacy and drinking does not go well with celibacy because it makes everything and everyone seem kind of porn-y. And then my head gets all cloudy and then the next thing you know I'm naked. My point is I'm celibate and knitting is good for surgical dexterity so I'm making a sweater.

Derek: You? Celibate? I just don't buy it.

Meredith: No more men.

Addison: No more men? Really? You? I'm asking, because we're friends.

Meredith: Every guy I meet turns out to be married.

Derek: Ooh ouch.

Meredith: Sorry. Or Mark.

Addison: OK I'm going to over there now [she gets up and leaves]

Meredith: Sorry. Or, remember the horrible thing I did? Remember George?

Derek: You're making a sweater.

Meredith: I am making a sweater.

Izzie: He's just not George anymore. He's broken George. First he chops off his hair. Then he starts hanging out with this... Callie. That is not a name. Callie! Who is she anyway? I'm his best friend. Not that he talks to me anymore.

Denny: Triple word score. 69 points. Woman, I am beating the pants off of you. Pay attention. What in the hell are you doing?

Izzie: I'm knitting a sweater. Actually Meredith, that's my friend, the friend that broke George, is knitting a sweater. She's not really knitting a sweater, because she cannot knit, but I want her to think she is knitting, because she and I took a celibacy vow, so she's replacing sex with knitting, so I am knitting pieces of Meredith's sweater, so she can actually believe she is knitting, because if anybody needs to be celibate, it's Meredith, because she broke George, you know?

Denny: You took a vow of celibacy?

Izzie: Yes.

Denny: How am I supposed to get in your pants if you took a vow of celibacy?

Izzie: That is a very inappropriate thing to say to your doctor.

Denny: Oh, you know what's inappropriate? Promising sexual favors to a patient in order to get them to live, and then backing out.

Izzie: Denny Duquette, I so never, ever promised—

Denny: In my head you did. In my head, you delivered.

Izzie: Well...

Denny: But don't worry, you weren't very good.

Izzie: OK. You know what, I was being nice. I was letting you win, because you're "Mr. Sick Needs a New Organ Guy," but just for that ccomment, I'm gonna kick your ass. Yeah, I'm gonna— you put down "mount," Denny?

Cristina: Second-best is mediocre. And to settle for mediocrity is, frankly, you know, a sign of self-loathing and sub-standard work ethics.

Derek: What'd you do piss off the Chief?

Bailey: Yeah, I pissed off the Chief. I had a baby. I gave birth. I created a human life. I'm a surgeon, we don’t do that. He's Mommy-tracking me.

Derek: He's just going easy on you.

Bailey: No, I change diapers. I...I clean spit up. I sing the ABCs, I am covered in mommy. But that does NOT mean I will be mommy-tracked.

Derek: You're freaking out.

Bailey: I just need a surgery, I need a surgery now. So for today, I'm your intern. I have not begun to freak out.

Derek: Alright, come on.

Izzie: So George? He's really, really your type, huh?

Callie: You don't see him. Either of you. He's just, he's just George to you. He's ... he's just O'Malley, your roommate.

Izzie: You don't have to get all...

Callie: He makes my world stop. George O'Malley is sweet and kind and smart and strong. And he makes my world stop. So you shut up about him. Don't forget to clean it up, when you're done smashing.

Izzie: Holy crap...George is her McDreamy.

Alex: So this whole lying thing, this is working out for you?

Mom with Cancer: Excuse me?

Alex: Look, you're going to die and soon. You get that, right? There's no rosy picture to paint here.

Mom with Cancer: You're not a mother. You don't know what its like to hold your newborn baby in your arms and smell the top of her head. And know your only job in the world is to protect her.

Alex: You think you're protecting her

Mom with Cancer: I am protecting her.

Alex: Well, I guess you can call it what you want. But you should just know you're leaving behind a kid that will probably hate you for the rest of her life.

Burke: Ahem... Dr. Karev.

Alex: No, I'm talking this time.

Burke: Excuse me?

Alex: I tell the truth. It’s what I do. It doesn't make me a bad doctor. Everyone walks around this place lying. Look we tell a patient that’s dying that there's hope when there is no hope. Maybe I'm a pig, maybe I'm an ass, and maybe I'm a vermin like everybody says. But I tell them the truth. It’s the one thing that I've got going for me. And you don't get to take that away from me and call it a lesson. Sir.

Thatcher: She looks so... so much like her mother. Ellis was cold. I mean, I was a coward. I was. I left. But her mother would never let me know her and ... now I don’t know how to know her. Uh...

George: Well, Meredith is anything but cold. She smiles - not that often - but when she does, you know because she's really going through a lot, but its... it’s like you feel warm. She's kind. I mean, she can be a little selfish... she can be... she's flawed, but she's kind. She cares about people and uh... she cares about her patients. I think she's going to be a brilliant surgeon. You know, around here, she's known as the one to beat. So I... I guess she has that in common with her mom, but... I think the rest of her, I think the rest of that, she gets from you.

Mom with Cancer: Study hard. Keep your grades up. But starting next year, you're gonna want to take two AP classes a semester if you want to get into a decent college.

Amelia: Mom, this is really morbid.

Mom: And your Aunt Sue is kind of lazy when it comes to personal hygiene, so you may have to be the one to remind her when its time to get your eyebrows waxed or your hair cut. But eventually she'll get the routine down.

Amelia: Can we not have this conversation?

Mom: Oh, this might sound random but, always wear underwear under pantyhose. I know it might feel a little bulky, but honestly it’s a little Slutty not to. And also, that’s how you get yeast infections.

Amelia: Mom, this is totally gross.

Mom: And marry a kind man. One who's nice to his mother. Now if he lives with his mother you run the opposite way.

Amelia: Mom, I'm not getting married anytime soon.

Mom: You will someday, and when that day comes, just have one glass of champagne and then you drink water for the rest of the night. Because there is nothing tackier than a drunken bride.

Amelia: Mom, I don’t want to... why are you telling me all this?

Mom: Honey, I've been sick for a long time and the doctors don't think that I'm going to get better.

Amelia: No.

Mom: Amelia, listen to me. Look at me. Amelia. This is important. This one is... is really the important one. Someday you're gonna have a baby. And you're gonna feel overwhelmed by this little life you're responsible and you're going to think... worry that everything you do is wrong. And that's normal. You’re gonna obsess about what to feed it and where to send it to school and whether it should take violin or piano. But I'm gonna let you in on a little secret: it doesn't matter. Whether your kid is a concert pianist or a math genius. It just doesn't matter. Because, at the end of the day, all that matters is if your kid is happy. So you're gonna feel sad for a little while. And that's OK. That’s... that's fine. But don't feel sad forever okay? You promise me that? You promise me that you won't feel sad for too long?

Amelia: I promise.

Mom: Thank you. Because you're making me feel much better.

Meredith: [voiceover] Life is not a spectator sport. Win, lose, or draw, the game is on. So go ahead... argue with the ref, change the rules, cheat a little, take a break and tend to your wounds. But play. Play. Play hard, play fast... play loose and free. Play as if there's no tomorrow. Okay, so it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game... right?

Blues For Sister Someone [2.23]

Meredith: [voiceover] The key to being a successful intern is what we give up: sleep, friends, a normal life. We sacrifice it all for that one amazing moment, that moment when you can legally call yourself a surgeon. There are days that make the sacrifices seem worthwhile. And then there are the days where everything feels like a sacrifice. And then there are the sacrifices that you can’t even figure out why you're making.

Addison: Thanks.

Derek: [laughs] You're thanking me for the most boring sex ever!?

Addison: I didn't know what else to say. And you did your best.

Derek: [sarcastically] Ah, thanks. You too! That was really nice work...

Addison: We used to be really good at this!

Derek: Let's do this until we get it right. [Bump heads]

Both: Ah! Ow, jeez! [Phone rings]

Addison: Perfect. [Derek leans over to answer it]

Derek: Hello...Hi...Yeah, yeah—it's about Doc...No, I'm here...I can pick him up this morning...sure, bye!-- [Addison snatches the phone from him]

Addison: Dr. Dandridge, listen, we're gonna have to call you back because we're trying really hard to have some decent sex here— [flash to Meredith on the other end of the phone]

Addison: What?! [Laughing] [Meredith hangs up]

Cristina: Burke, um, I laid on top of you naked last night so why don't you wax nostalgic about that.

Meredith: Obviously I can't go out with him, right?

Alex: Do I look like a chick to you? Do I look like I care about yeast cream or tingling feelings? He's not on drugs or in jail or keeping' body parts in his basement. If you want to do 'em, do 'em.

Meredith: Not do him. Date him. I'm not doing anybody. I'm knitting.

Addison: [to herself] Damnit! Sex. Hot sex. Who needs that? Ha ha. Very funny.

Meredith: It must not have gone so well this morning.

Cristina: What?

Meredith: Just run if she looks at you.

Addison: I need an intern, now.

Meredith: Uh, I'm with Bailey. [Leaves]

Cristina: I'm with Burke. [Leaves]

Addison: Karev.

Alex: I don't do vagina, not as a doctor anyway.

Addison: Oh, back talk, you know what? You just bought yourself a case.

Izzie: Make her seize. How do we make someone have a seizure?

Derek: Get creative. Do your research.

George: Well, if all the normal methods have failed then what are we supposed to do?

Derek: Use a strobe light. Get her drunk. Hang her up upside down from the ceiling and hit her with a wiffle ball bat, for all I care. Just make her seize. Because until she seizes I don't know where to operate and if I don't know where to operate I can't get this woman out of my life. And this woman, is not how I like to start my mornings.

Bailey: What's going on between Stevens and Denny? Is it a crush, an innocent flirtation or is Stevens actually crossing the line?

Meredith: Well I know she likes him but I can't imagine Izzie would do that.

Bailey: I didn't think you and Yang would be stupid enough to fall for your attendings but I was wrong about that wasn't I?

Meredith: Yeah, no, I'm knitting these days and I'm thinking about accepting a date with a veterinarian.

Bailey: Grey, do you really think I care?

Meredith: No.

Bailey: Good, maybe you're not so stupid after all.

Izzie: George, don't do the whispering under your breath thing. If you’ve got something to say then just say it.

George: Yeah, the last time you gave me that advice it went really well.

Izzie: You're seriously pissed at me because of because of what happened between you and Meredith.

George: No. [Pause] Yeah.

Izzie: I told you to tell her how you feel. I did NOT tell you to jump into bed with her.

Seizure lady: Adultery!

George: You sent me in there. Was it to humiliate me? I mean, if you knew that she didn’t love me, why, what kind of friend does that?

Izzie: You didn't want to hear it

George: Yes. Yes.

Seizure lady: He's in denial, I can work with that.

Izzie: You didn't want to hear it. You wanted to keep on being in love with her, George. You did not want to hear it.

Meredith: I know I don't know you very well.

Denny: You want to talk to me about Izzie.

Meredith: Yeah.

Denny: Cause you disapprove.

Meredith: No. This comes from nothing resembling a high horse. High horses want nothing to do with me. With you and Izzie, it's, there are strict rules about doctors dating patients.

Denny: You know Izzie pretty well, right? You think if I went to her and I said "Hey, you know, this is gonna be pretty bad for your career, you probably shouldn't come around and see me anymore." You think that will have any effect at all? The thing is, I was healthy my whole life till I wasn't. And the last year I've had a lot of time to lie around in bed and think about my life. And the things that I remember best... well, those are the things that I wasn't supposed to do and I did them anyway. See, the thing is, Meredith, life is too damned short to be following these rules.

Finn: [after Meredith helped birth a horse] Is it coming off?

Meredith: Not exactly.

Finn: I'm sorry.

Meredith: Oh, don’t be. It was a great date.

Finn: Technically it wasn't a date, it was the errand. Now, we could go up to my place. I could cook for you.

Meredith: Go up to your place?

Finn: Yea. [Shrugging nonchalantly] Do you want to come up to my apartment?

Meredith: Yeah, I mean, no, no, I don’t. I mean, I do, but I don’t.

Finn: You don't know?

Meredith: No, I do. I mean, I I, I...no, no I don't.

Finn: All right, well, here's the deal. Um, you have two options. You could, come up to my place... take off all your clothes... shower off the goo, borrow one of my shirts and I'll cook you dinner. That’s door number one. Door number two... you go home. I, I think you ought to take door number one, because you know, it involves you naked in my apartment. But, you know, that's just me.

Meredith: I should point out that there is absolutely nothing you could say that would make me go upstairs with you. I'm kind of offended that you think that I would go upstairs with you. And you should know, that I, am celibate, so...

Finn: Shut up.

Meredith: I absolutely can not have... sex, with you.

Finn: If you choose door number one, I absolutely will not have sex with you.

Meredith: You won't?

Finn: I promise I won't. I won't even try to kiss you.

Meredith: [flirty pouty look] Why not?

Finn: Meredith.

Meredith: [flirtier pouty look] What?

Finn: Choose door number one.

Burke: There was an interview that Eugene (famous violinist) gave. I saved it. I taped it to my bathroom mirror. He said that he wasn’t the most talented student at music school. But he said what he lacked in natural ability, he made up for in discipline. He practiced. All the time. All the time he practiced. I wasn’t like you. I wasn’t the most talented student in school. I wasn’t the brightest. But I was the best.

Cristina: You practiced.

Burke: I practiced.

Meredith [voiceover]: A wise man once said – “You can have anything in life if you’re willing to sacrifice everything else for it.” What he meant is nothing comes without a price. So before you go into battle, you better decide how much you’re willing to lose. Too often going after what feels good means letting go of what you know is right. And letting someone in means abandoning the walls you’ve spent a lifetime building. Of course the toughest sacrifices are the ones we don’t see coming. When we don’t have time to come up with a strategy to pick sides….or to measure the potential loss. When that happens, when the battle chooses us, and not the other way around, that’s when the sacrifice can turn out to be more than we can bear.

Damage Case [2.24]

Meredith: [voiceover] We all go through life like bulls in a china shop. A chip here, a crack there. Doing damage to ourselves, to other people. The problem is trying to figure out how to control the damage we've done, or that's been done to us. Sometimes the damage catches us by surprise. Sometimes we think we can fix the damage. And sometimes the damage is something we can't even see.

Meredith: So, uh, I don't cook.

Finn: Nobody asked you to cook.

Meredith: I know, I'm just saying, that you know, I don't cook. So you don't have to cook, I don't expect you to cook for me.

Finn: Okay, you, sit there. Sit down. I want you to drink this and try really hard to act like you aren't scary and damaged.

Meredith: I'm not scary and damaged.

Finn: Yeah, you are.

Meredith: No, I'm not scary or damaged.

Finn: Mmmhmm, alright. Why don't you tell me about your family?

Meredith: Okay, me not wanting to talk about my family does not make me scary to damaged.

Finn: Okay, tell me about the last guy you slept with.

Callie: [walks in and goes to the bathroom naked] Morning. [Flushes and walks out]

Meredith: Oh my God, did that just happen?

Izzie: I'm having a seizure. I am clearly having a seizure, I'm seizing.

Meredith: Oh my God.

Izzie: She didn't wash her hands.

Meredith: Oh my God!

Izzie: All I'm saying George, is that if she needs to pee she can at least wear a bra. Or maybe wait until she's alone. And for the love of everything sanitary, could she just wash her hands? She's a surgeon!

George: You guys were blocking the sink. Anyways, I think you're exaggerating.

Izzie: She peed! Naked peeing! Ask Meredith, Meredith? Oh that's right, I forgot, you're not talking to her. If you were, she would tell you that Callie crosses the line. So crossed the line. So freaking crossed.

Alex: Oh, we're still pretending that you're not seeing a patient, right?

Cristina: People! What's with all the evil misery? Huh? Live, and let live.

George: You're cheerful.

Cristina: Oh.

Izzie: You are. How is that possible?

Cristina: I scrubbed in on a four hour paraesophageal surgery last night, and then I got laid. And now three ambulances are coming in full of bloody broken car crash victims, all who need to be cut open. So I'm cheery, I'm cheery, I am so cheery! I'm cheery! I'm cheerful!

George: I believed my friend when she told me that Dr. Torres didn't wash her hands.

Husband: Well, I hope that's not true, seeing as she just performed surgery on me and all.

George: Yeah.

Meredith: I never should have told you about George.

Derek: No, its fine, I'm glad I know about him, and the vet. You really get around.

Meredith: What did you just say to me?

Derek: It's unforgivable.

Meredith: I don't remember ever asking you to forgive me.

Derek: So was the knitting a phase? Who's next? Alex? 'Cause I hear he likes to sleep around. You two have that in common.

Meredith: [she grabs him as he turns to walk off] You don't get to call me a whore. When I met you, I thought I had found the person that I was going to spend the rest of my life with. I was done. So all the boys and all the bars and all the obvious daddy issues, who cared, because I was done. You left me. You chose Addison. I'm all glued back together now. I make no apologies for how I chose to repair what you broke. You don't get to call me a whore.

Derek: This thing with us... it's over.

Meredith: Finally.

Finn: You're driving me crazy with the hovering.

Meredith: [sighs] This could be a mistake. This. Us. You, you, you’re a really nice guy and well, you're, you don't want to get involved with me. If you knew me.

Finn: Scary.

Meredith: Finn.

Finn: And damaged. See, I told you.

Meredith: If you knew me. If you knew my family. If I told you the guys that I've slept with lately. The scary and damaged may actually be more than you can handle.

Finn: My mother's dead. She got cancer when I was ten and she suffered for a really long time and then she died. And my father never recovered. Its kind of like he died with her, except that his body's above ground and permanently placed in front of a TV with a bottle of scotch in his lap. And the last woman I slept with was my wife, but she died too. It was a car crash so it was quick. She didn't suffer, which I appreciated. Don't worry, I'm thinking that my luck is beginning to change, because I met you. And you like dogs, and you enjoy pony births, and have the ability to save lives. I never said I wasn't scary and damaged too. [She kisses him]

Meredith: [voiceover] We're all damaged, it seems. Some of us, more than others. We carry the damage with us from childhood, then as grownups, we give as good as we get. Ultimately, we all do damage. And then, we set about the business of fixing whatever we can.

17 Seconds [2.25]

Meredith: [voiceover] In life we are taught that there are seven deadly sins. We all know the big ones... gluttony, pride, lust. But the thing you don't hear much about is anger. Maybe it's because we think anger is not that dangerous, that you can control it. My point is, maybe we don't give anger enough credit. Maybe it can be a lot more dangerous than we think. After all, when it comes to destructive behavior, it did make the top seven.

Cristina: [about Burke, who is playing darts with Derek] He is picturing my face. He is totally picturing that dart puncturing my skull. Ooh, look at that.

Izzie: [to Meredith] Derek, Derek is picturing you.

Meredith: He called me a whore. He lost the right to picture me.

Cristina: So I fall asleep during sex. So what? Ass!

Meredith: [about Derek] Ass!

Izzie: [Alex walks over] Oh, ass! Hey.

Alex: [to Izzie] Isabel Stevens has finally left the hospital. Does this mean heart patient dude finally kicked it?

Izzie: [to Alex] I'm sorry, this section of the bar is for surgeons. We don't socialize with gynecologists.

Alex: Seen any enema kits?

Meredith: We have thirteen GSWs and you're looking for enema kits?

Alex: I'm trapped upstairs with the Gyno-Beast on the Uterus Parade.

Meredith: Addison can't do this to you forever, Alex.

Alex: Want to bet? I swear to God she's ruining vaginas for me.

Izzie: I told a lie. [Pause] To Dr. Burke.

Cristina: Good for you, fight the power.

Izzie: No, no, I need ...Oh God I can't think, I can't ... I don't know what to do. What do I do?! There's this guy ahead of Denny on the transplant list.

Meredith: [consoling tone] He'll get the next heart, Iz.

Izzie: [yells] NO! He needs to get this heart!

Cristina: He probably will get a heart at some point, but as long as Denny is doing well at the LVAD and there's someone else ahead of him on the transplant list, he's not going to get the heart, OK.

Izzie: Yes. You're right. Thank you. Thank you. [Izzie starts rooting around for supplies]

Cristina: [whispers to Meredith] OK, if I was going to pick someone who's gonna psycho and shoot up the place, it's Izzie.

Meredith: Totally.

Izzie: Everyone who is entered into the transplant program is clocked in to the second... to the second, Denny, you were clocked in to the second and so was the other guy, I checked with UNOS. The difference between when you entered the program and when he entered the program is 17 seconds. That it, Denny. 17 seconds. I mean, that's not even the length of a decent kiss. So, this other guy? I'm not saying that he doesn't deserve this heart. I'm sure he does. But so. Do. You. So do you. And if you tell me any more crap about heading towards the light or looking down on me from heaven, I swear, I will kill you myself right now. [Gasping a little]

Denny: [tears in his eyes] Izzie... [Pause] I'm gonna be alright. [Shaking her head in disbelief] Alright, you don't have to worry.

Izzie: What about ME? What about me when you go into the light?

Denny: Izzie—

Izzie: No! I get it, OK? I get it! You'll be OK, you'll be fine, but what about me?! So don't do it for yourself, do it for me! Please? Please, Denny! Please do this for me! Because if you die—Oh, God! You have to do this! You have to do this for me, or I'll never be able to forgive you!

Denny: For dying?

Izzie: No! For making me love you! Please? Please, do this—

Denny: Come here.

Izzie: Please do this for me? OK? Please? OK? I can't do this if you don't, please! Do this for me! Please?!

Denny: OK. OK, I'll do it.

Addison: What they're doing is not about love, Derek! Well, it's like you.

Derek: Excuse me?

Addison: Yeah, how you pretend to love me, but really you're just using me to fill some need you have to be a good guy.

Derek: Now's not the time to talk about this. We'll talk about this later.

Addison: Oh what, you walk away, that's all I get?

Derek: Just calm down, please.

Addison: What, what, you're not going to yell at me, call me names, or, I don't know, ignore me in an elevator?

Derek: What do you want from me, Addison?

Addison: I want you to care. I sleep with your best friend, and you walk away. He comes out here from New York and rubs it in your face, and still you get a good night's sleep. What do I have to do? Oh, I know. Maybe what I should do is go out on a date with the vet because that seems to be something that sends you into a blind rage. Oh but wait, that won't work either because I'm not Meredith Grey!

[They realize they have an audience, including Meredith]

Addison: I know what you're going to say Richard, but if you knew the day that I had...

Chief: Everybody in this hospital has those days Addison, and no one makes a scene in front of their peers. Get it together. [Long Pause] Addison.

Addison: I can't compete. He's not having an affair. He's not trying to hurt me. He's just... [Sighs]. The only people who don't know that Derek loves Meredith are Derek and Meredith. How do I compete with that?

Meredith: [voiceover] So what makes anger different from the six other deadly sins? It's pretty simple really, you give into a sin like envy or pride and you only hurt yourself. Try lust or coveting and you'll only hurt yourself and one or two others. But anger, anger is the worst... the mother of all sins... Not only can anger drive you over the edge, when it does you can take an awful lot of people with you.

Deterioration of the Fight or Flight Response/Losing My Religion [2.26/27]

[voiceover]

Meredith: Human beings need a lot of things to feel alive.

George: Family...

Cristina: Love...

Izzie: Sex.

Derek: But we only need one thing...

Burke: To actually be alive.

Cristina: We need a beating heart.

Addison: When our heart is threatened...

Alex: we respond in one of two ways.

George: We either run...

Derek: Or...

Izzie: we attack.

Chief: There's a scientific term for this:

Alex: Fight...

Addison: or flight.

Bailey: It's instinct...

Meredith: We can't control it.

Izzie: Or can we?

Bailey: How you feeling, Denny?

Denny: Really, really good. Like an athlete or a superhero or some other really, really healthy person.

Izzie: You're funny. You're a funny guy.

Denny: What? You like your men sick and feeble? You don't dig healthy guys?

Izzie: I... I dig you.

Denny: Then why are you all swirly and twitchy?

Izzie: No, I'm not.

Denny: Yeah. You are swirly and twitchy. It's 'cause I asked you to marry me.

Izzie: So you remember that?

Denny: It’s not the kind of thing I'd forget.

Izzie: Yeah. Look, Denny, um, I'm giving you an out.

Denny: Excuse me?

Izzie: I'm giving you an out. I mean... You thought you were dying and I was saving your life and well, you know, it was so [gasp]. So, I won't hold it against you or be hurt or offended if you wanna take your proposal back... I'm giving you an out.

Denny: I don't wanna an out.

Izzie: You should take the out. [laughs nervously] We can't get married. I mean, that would be crazy, insane. We should date, and have sex. Plenty of sex. You know, when your heart gets better and you're out of the hospital, all the sex you can handle. But marriage is, um, marriage.

Denny: OK, it's my turn now.

Izzie: But I need to . . .

Denny: No, no. We're taking turns. I've decided. It's polite and it keeps me from yelling. When it's your turn again, you can talk. [Pause] For five years, I've had to live by the choices of my doctors. The guys that cut me open decided my life; there wasn't one choice that was mine. And now, I have this heart that beats and works. I get to be like everybody else, I get to make my own decisions, have my own life, do whatever the damned hell I choose. Now here's the good part, so you listen close, what I choose, is you. You're who I want to wake up with and go to bed with and do everything in between with. And do everything in between with. I get a choice now. I get to choose. I choose you, Izzie Stevens. Okay, it's your turn again.

Bailey: Anything I can get for you, Dr. Burke?

Burke: No, I'm fine.

Bailey: There, there must be something.

Burke: It would be nice to have some ice chips. And, uh, a touch of morphine if I'm allowed. And, uh, [pause] Cristina.

Bailey: Coming right up. [She starts to walk out of the room] Where is Cristina? Where are, where are all my suck-ups?

Burke: Excuse me?

Bailey: My interns. My ass-kissing, surgery-hungry, competitive suck-ups. Where are they? Why aren’t they here fetching you ice chips and morphine? Why aren't they here sucking up? [pause] You know something.

Burke: I'm a patient.

Bailey: Preston Xavier Burke, what have you done with my suck-ups?!

Izzie: I cut the LVAD wire.

Meredith: Actually, I cut the LVAD wire.

George: No, I did. I'm the one who cut the wire. [Pause] [elbows Cristina]

Cristina: Fine, I cut the LVAD wire.

Alex: I didn't do anything, I'm totally innocent...

Cristina, George, Meredith, Izzie: [all at once] Alex! - That’s not the point. - What about loyalty?

Chief: PEOPLE! I know who did this, so you might as well come clean. I know!

George: With all due respect, sir, if you knew you wouldn't be asking us.

Izzie: I did it-. (gets cut off by Meredith)

Meredith: You have your suspicions, but you don't actually know.

Cristina: Not for sure.

George: And you can't do anything to any of us without proof, sir.

Chief: Well, one of you compromised a patient's life. One of you stole an organ. One of you jeopardized the integrity of this hospital and of UNOS. Now you tell me and you tell me right now. [Silence] Alright, fine. [They start to leave] No surgeries.

Cristina: Sir?

Chief: No one scrubs in, no one watches from the galleries, no one so much as goes near the OR floor. Until someone confesses, you will share a single patient: Camille Travis. Whatever she wants, the five of you will provide it. Get the hell out of my sight.

Cristina: There's only three careers I've ever wanted. Ruler of my own planet, Wonder Woman, or a surgeon. I don't see any invisible planes or extra countries lying around.

Cristina: Hey! We stick together, we all did this. Nobody's a victim. We stick together. [Surprised looks from everyone] Dammit.

Izzie: Thank you.

Cristina: You're welcome.

George: [to Bailey out in the hall] Not to bother you, but...

Bailey: What? Alright, one of you better spit out the problem right now.

Alex: The problem is the colors and the balloons and the Under the Sea. No it's Titanic. Hey, let's go with Tears in Heaven. No, that’s too morbid. It should be pink. It should be red. It should be a freaking rainbow!

George: What he's saying is that we're very, very hopeful that you speak teenage girl.

Bailey: [back in the room with the high school girls] Silver and white. It's mystical and magical without being over the top. Ever seen Fashion Week in New York? Lots of silver and white runways and backdrops. That’s because no matter what color the clothes are, they pop.

High School Girls: They pop?

Bailey: They pop! O'Malley and Karev, get 500 balloons in silver and white. 100 in black, shiny black not the matte. Yang, stick with Camille, keep her happy, keep her spirits up. Grey, get with Patricia, make sure we can rope off the second floor nurses' station and the waiting room. [They’re all looking at her, in shock] Oh, no no, you don't get to look at me like that. No, you compromised my medical license, you nearly killed a patient, lied to the chief of surgery, and made me, your resident, look bad, we're gonna do this prom and we're doing it right!

Alex: [one on one meeting with the Chief] I went to college on a wrestling scholarship. I played baseball, some basketball. But we'll go with football.

Chief: What the hell does football have to do with who cut the LVAD wires?

Alex: Let's say you were drafted to a team that wasn’t your first pick. You know, you don't like the players. You hate the way they play the game. You even think the quarterback is full of crap. The quarterback's a pain in the ass you don't owe a damned thing to. But, it's your team. You don't quit. You don't talk to the press. You don't bitch to the coach. You just, you just go out there every Sunday and you make the blocks and you take the hits and you, you play to win. You show up and you suit up and you play, because it's your freaking team.

Chief: [one on one meeting with Cristina] I know your type. You're a surgical junkie.

Cristina: Yes sir?

Chief: I'm just saying, it's not going to be easy for you to be away from the OR that long.

Cristina: No sir.

Chief: And if you want to get back to the OR, you're going to tell me what I need to know, aren't you?

Cristina: You're right, it's not easy for me to be away from the OR. And it's not easy for me to sit in front of you, or any other authority figure, for that matter, and not be able to give you the exact answer that you want to hear. I'm the one with the answers. I've always been the one with the answers. But right now, sir, I don't have any.

Chief: Dr. Yang.

Cristina: How do you keep your edge sir? Because I've watched you and you've been doing this a long time, and you're clean...you're focused, you are the job, nothing gets to you. And the thing is, sir, I was like that...until I got here, until I actually started doing this job and now everything is—is fuzzy and...

Chief: That’s beside the point.

Cristina: No, see, sir, this is the point. Because I can't tell you, I can't tell you what happened in that room. And before I could have; no guilt, no loyalties, no problem. Before—before I wouldn't have even been in that room. I wouldn't have gotten involved. I would have never frozen in surgery, and I would have told him what I thought he should do. I had an edge, sir. I had an edge, and I've lost it, and I need it. I need it back. So, if you could just tell me, how you keep yours and how not to be affected, I know I could be a great surgeon. So if you could just give me the answers, I would really appreciate it.

Chief: You're excused Dr. Yang.

Cristina: But—

Chief: You're excused.

Cristina: I'll tell you, I'll tell you who cut the LVAD wires if you'll please—

Chief: No you won't, I don't want to know. Not from you. Yeah, I have the answers, but I can't tell them to you. I'm not going to be responsible for you becoming less human.

Izzie: [one on one meeting with the Chief] I'm a pretty girl.

Chief: What?

Izzie: I'm not being arrogant, it’s just, it’s just kind of a fact. For a long time I made a career from my looks, so I get it, I'm a pretty girl. And not in a "from a certain angle" way, in an obvious way. It’s the blonde thing and the big boobs thing, big boobs are a key to obvious pretty if you know what I'm saying.

Chief: Dr. Stevens.

Izzie: It’s how men see me. I'm not a smart girl or an interesting girl, I'm a pretty girl. The blonde and the boobs it confuses guys into thinking that I'm someone else. And I'm used to it. And I'm used to them walking away when they realize… But then Denny goes and asks me to marry him.

Chief: Is that why you cut the wires?

Izzie: He doesn't make me feel like I'm a pretty girl. He makes me feel like… like me. I think he might know me. And so, if I did cut the LVAD wire, and I'm not saying that I did, but if I did, then no, I don't feel guilty. And I know that I should. And I would if it were anybody else. But I can't feel anything but happy.

George: [one on one meeting with the Chief] Aren't you gonna say anything or [pause] I'm not gonna break [pause] I'm starting to get a little freaked out, but I'm not gonna break. It’s not because I don't care, because I do care what you think about me, I do. Care. I just can't tell you want you want to hear. Which seems to be a theme in my life right now. Just because you can't say something doesn't mean you don't want to, you can want to very much. You can be with a person and be happy with them and not love them. And you can love somebody and not want to be with them. You don't need to love someone to want them. Now that's frustrating, when what your brain tells you you want and what you actually want don't match up. It’s exhausting. And, well, it’s complicated. But that's life. And life... sucks.

Chief: [one on one meeting with Meredith] [as Meredith is staring off] I've known you for a long time. And I know your mother and father. And I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you did not cut those LVAD wires. Meredith, I need you to tell me who did it.

Meredith: I've been going over this and over this in my mind trying to piece this together. It was you, you're the reason my parents broke up. And it wasn't just an affair, she really loved you. It wasn't just this cheap thing where she didn’t tell you she was married. It wasn't all a lie. She left her husband for you. But you stayed with your wife, because it was the right thing to do. Maybe safe, but she was the right person for you to be with. Let’s face it, my mother, nothing wrong with being safe, being with the good guy because he’s good and we are talking about forever here. You've never regretted your decision. You've never looked back... Right?

George: Hey I was looking for you, where are you going?

Callie: I'm wearing a dress, I have on heels, I shaved my legs - I'm going to the prom.

George: You said you didn't want to go.

Callie: No, I said I didn’t want to go with you.

George: CALLIE!

Callie: I said I love you. I said it. I said it out loud, to your face. And ever since... I've never said that to a guy before, never. And now I'm just this idiot that says I love you and gets avoided.

George: No, I'm not avoiding you. I promise.

Callie: You gonna say it back?

George: No.

Callie: I'm humiliated. No, George, let me go. Let me go, let me go.

George: Stop fighting me. If I say it back right now, you know I'm just saying it because you said it to me. When I, when I say I love you, I want to mean it, because… You just have to give me some time to mean it.

Callie: I hate that I'm so into you.

Addison: [To Derek, about the prom] This whole thing brings back very traumatic memories of being a band geek, with braces, and a lisp; spending the whole evening with 'Skippy Gold' talking about Star Wars. So, do you want to dance?

Finn: You're a lot hotter than my last prom date.

Meredith: Is that a compliment?

Finn: Maybe.

Meredith: It feels like a compliment.

Finn: Then it is.

Meredith: Well keep it up and you might get lucky.

Finn: Well, now how lucky are we talking about here? Are we talking kind of lucky or are we talking really, seriously lucky?

Meredith: You have been a very patient man and I appreciate it. [He makes a face] What?

Finn: Liz, Liz was my wife. When she died... you do this thing where you stop making plans. Because you had plans but then there was a car crash and your plans disappeared so you just, I just try to get from sunup to sundown. That’s as far into the future as I can handle. And I've been fine with that, I have. But right now, looking at you, damn, I have all kinds of plans. Don't, don't freak out.

Meredith: I'm not.

Finn: You're not?

Meredith: No. You have plans.

Finn: I have plans.

Meredith: Just leave me alone.

Derek: I just want to make sure you're alright.

Meredith: No! I'm not alright? Okay? Are you satisfied? I'm not alright. Because you have a wife, and you call me a whore, and our dog died, and now you're looking at me. Stop looking at me.

Derek: I am not looking at you. I am not looking at you.

Meredith: You are looking at me. And you watch me. And Finn has plans. And I like Finn. He's perfect for me, and I'm really trying here to be happy, and I can't breathe. I can't breathe with you looking at me like that so just stop!

Derek: Do you think I want to look at you? That I wouldn't rather be looking at my wife? I'm married. I have responsibilities. She, she doesn't drive me crazy. She doesn't make it impossible for me to feel normal. She doesn't make me sick to my stomach thinking about my veterinarian touching her with his hands. Man, I would give anything not to be looking at you.

Izzie: Can you please, please, just get out? I want to be alone with Denny.

Alex: Izzie, that’s not Denny.

Izzie: Shut up.

Alex: Iz, it’s not Denny. The minute his heart stopped beating he stopped being Denny. Now I know you love him, but he also loved you. And a guy that loves you like that, he doesn't want you to do this to yourself. Because it's not Denny, not anymore.

Izzie: An hour ago he was proposing. And now he... and now he's going to the morgue. Isn't that ridiculous? Isn't it the most ridiculous piece of crap you've ever heard? [Starts sobbing]

Time Has Come Today [3.1]

Meredith: [voiceover] In the OR, time loses all meaning. In the midst of sutures, and saving lives... the clock ceases to matter. 15 minutes... 15 hours — inside the OR, the best surgeons make time fly. Outside the OR, however, time takes pleasure in kicking our asses. For even the strongest of us it seems to play tricks. Slowing down... hovering... until it freezes. Leaving us stuck in a moment — unable to move in one direction or the other.

Meredith: [pause, glances around] Why are you all looking at me?

Cristina: Well, this is familiar territory for you.

Meredith: There is nothing familiar abut this! Unfamiliar! Denny died. The man she loves, died.

Cristina: Yeah, but you're all dark and twisty inside.

Meredith: I am not dark and twisty!

Cristina: What, with the Alzheimers thing and the father you don't talk to.

Alex: And the tequila thing and the inappropriate men thing.

George: You are dark and twisty inside, Meredith, and now Izzie is dark and twisty inside.

Meredith: So all of a sudden I'm the president of people with crappy lives?

Meredith: Denny died. Burke got shot. Let's just have a little perspective and realize that what I did was a tiny, slightly small...

Cristina: Oh, whatever, just spit it out!

Meredith: I lost my panties, last night.

Cristina: You and McDreamy did the Nasty Nasty?

[Meredith glares at her]

Meredith: Cristina!

Cristina: I'm not judging! I'm just trying to wrap my mind around it. I mean, you are with Finn and he's with Addison.

Meredith: He's married to Addison.

Cristina: YEAH! [pause] Well what did Derek say?

Meredith: He said "Meredith what does this mean?"

Cristina: Ugh! Ok! He has sex with you and he's standing there all McGuilty and all he can say is "Oh, What does this mean?" [pause] What does this mean?

Callie: [to Finn] Four years of high school, four years of college, four years of med school : by the time we graduate we're in our late twenties and we've never done anything except go to school and think about science. Time stops. We're socially retarded. Ha, I mean, look at me, I'm in love with a guy who won't say he loves me back and here I am, in his kitchen, just hoping he comes home and notices me. I'm a total freak. I'm that girl, who sits in the back of the class and eats her hair. And Meredith, shes seventeen years old, we're all seventeen years old. This is high school with scalpels, Finn.

[Finn and Callie are laughing, Meredith walks into the kitchen]

Callie: Oh, Uh, I'm gonna... I'm gonna leave the room for a period of time for no reason whatsoever. [leaves]

Finn: I don’t know what happened last night, between you and Derek.

Meredith: Finn.

Finn: And I don't wanna know, alright, we never said that we are exclusive.

Meredith: But... you have plans.

Finn: Yeah, well I didn't say I wasn't pissed off. I said we weren't exclusive. That’s all I wanted to say... Oh, and this... I know you think you're scary and damaged.

Meredith: Dark and twisty.

Finn: It makes you think you don't deserve good things, but you do. And Derek, he's bad for you. But me, I'm a good thing. And if there is a race, if there is a ring, my hat is in.

Izzie: I feel like I'm moving in slow motion and everything around me is moving so fast... and I just want to go back to when things were normal, when I wasn't poor Izzie laying on the bathroom floor in her prom dress with her... her dead fiancee. But I am. So I can't. And...I'm just stuck... And there's all this pressure cause everyones hovering around waiting for me to do something or say something or flip out or yell or cry some more. And I'm happy to play my part. I'm happy to say the lines and do whatever it is I'm supposed to be doing if it would make everyone feel more comfortable. But I don't... I don't know how to do this. I don't know how to be this person. I don't know who this person is.

Meredith: Izzie...

Izzie: How did this happen? Why did we end up here? Why am I alone? Where's Denny?

Meredith: You're not alone, Iz.

George: That woman died. She actually died.

Derek: Doesn't mean we will.

George: Is it hot in here?

Derek: (Dismissively) No.

George: Then why am I sweating?

Derek: Because you're pacing.

George: My pulse is rapid.

Derek: Because you're still pacing.

George: (puts hand to his forehead) Feel me.

Derek: No, I'm not gonna feel you.

George: Seriously.

Derek: Seriously, no.

George: You know what? You're an ass. You've lived! You've done things. And you've got the hair. And the hot wife, and the beautiful ex-mistress who's pining for you...

Derek: She's pining for me?

George: You've lived! If you die, who cares... If I die, what? This is IT? Callie told me she loved me, I just sat there. I wasn't ready, but now I'm gonna die, and I'll never get the chance to say I love you back.

Derek: Do you? Do you love her?

George: Maybe. Eventually, I could. One day...soonish...

Derek: Soonish. I will love you soonish? [laughs]

Cristina: Don't ever die.

Burke: I'll do my best.

Derek: [to Meredith] I’m in love with you. I’ve been in love you with you forever. I’m a little late- I know I’m a little late in telling you that. I just, I just want you take your time. Take all the time you need because you have a choice to make. And when I had a choice to make…I chose wrong.

Meredith: [voiceover] Time flies. Time waits for no man. Time heals all wounds. All any of us wants is more time. Time to stand up. Time to grow up. Time to let go. Time.

I am a Tree [3.2]

Meredith: [voiceover] At any given moment, the brain has 14 billion neurons firing at a speed of 450 miles per hour. We don’t have control over most of them. When we get a chill...goose bumps. When we get excited...adrenaline. The body naturally follows its impulses, which I think is part of what makes it so hard for us to control ours. Of course, sometimes we have impulses we would rather not control, that we later wish we had.

[After they catch Cristina on top of Burke with just her bra and panties on]

Burke: [shocked] Mama. Daddy.

Cristina: [while she gets off of him and grabs the blanket] Mama, and daddy?!

Jane Burke: Preston, is this a new service that the hospital is providing?

Cristina: Benjamin O'Leary, 32, in for the removal of a brain tumor that's pressing on his temporal frontal lobe. Clearly it's affecting his impulse control.

Benjamin: It makes me say everything I think. Which apparently is annoying. This doctor looks annoyed anyway. Although it's hard to tell cause she always has a pinched uptight look on her face. Am I annoying you?

Cristina: It's fine.

Ruthie: You can't say it's fine. He doesn't preceive sarcasm or irony. If he's annoying you, you have to tell him.

Benjamin: Maybe I'm not annoying her Ruthie.

Cristina: No, you are.

Bailey: Doctor Yang!

Cristina: He asked!

Derek: Okay Benjamin, Doctor Yang, as pinched and annoyed as she might be, is going to prep you for surgery today. Do you have any questions for me?

Benjamin: [about Meredith] Is that blonde your girlfriend? 'Cause the way you keep looking at her, you might as well just mount her right here, right now. [Derek and the interns are trying not to laugh.] I'm sorry was I rude?

Bailey: [angry] I'm proud of you all. You make me proud. You reflect on me well. Grey, if you think you can keep your clothes on long enough to follow up the labs I will appreciate it.

Alex: The pit? I’m off gynie?

Bailey: Doctor Montgomery-Shepherd is out sick. You can cover the pit or you can… [notices the bulletin board] You can tell me who's damn panties are on the bulletin board! [Alex and George laugh]

Cristina: [whispers to Meredith] Yours?

Bailey: This is a hospital people, serious work happens here. We save lives here--[to Alex] Oh, something funny? [Alex shakes his head] Whose are these?

Meredith: [whispers to Cristina] This is bad, this isn't good.

Cristina: [whispers to Meredith] You better claim them. She thinks they are mine. Claim them!

Meredith: [whispers to Cristina] No!

Bailey: [looking at Meredith and Cristina] I know it's one of you. It's always one of mine. Always. So tell me, which one of you left your damn drawers on my surgical floor?!

Bailey: All four of you, do not make me regret setting you loose in this hospital. Please do not make me regret letting you loose in this hospital. O'Malley, what do I mean by this?

George: You mean check with you before we cut any wires or steal any hearts?

Alex: So, you and O'Malley, huh? How'd that happen?

Callie: I don't know, you're a surgeon, how'd that happen?

Cristina: His mother rivals my mother and that's saying something. Both of them, dark and evil.

Meredith: I'm missing dirty stripper Cristina. She was fun and less angry.

Cristina: Next time she even looks at me sideways, I’m telling her what I think. She wants to call me a racist. Yeah, okay? I’ll call her a sexist. Change my career after I’m married. What is this, 1953? If she comes at me, I’m going there.

Meredith: I think you should. I think we should all just go there. You know, tell the truth, spit it out, go with your gut, follow your instincts.

Cristina: I miss philandering whore Meredith. She was trashy, and much less idyllic.

[at Joes]

Addison: Dr. Stevens!

Izzie: Please don't call me doctor.

Addison: Oookay, please don't call me Mrs. Shepherd! Haaaa! That's funny.

Izzie: She's drunk.

Joe: This is true.

Addison: Did you know about the slutty sex your slutty friend had with my super slutty husband?

Izzie: You should have a muffin. They're really good and they help you.

Addison: I may be beyond help.

Izzie: Yeah, me too.

Meredith: [voiceover] The body is a slave to its impulses. But the thing that makes us human is what we can control. After the storm, after the rush, after the heat of the moment has passed, we can cool off and clean up the messes we made. We can try to let go of what was. Then again...

Sometimes a Fantasy [3.3]

Meredith: [voiceover] Surgeons usually fantasize about wild and improbable surgeries. Someone collapses in a restaurant, you splice them open with a butter knife, replace a valve with a hollowed out stick of carrot— but every now and then some other kind of fantasy slips in. Most of our fantasies resolve when we wake, vanished to the back of our mind, but sometimes we're sure if we try hard enough— we can live the dream.

Cristina: You had a dream about the both of them. Threesome? Nice. Just when I think you're boring, you rise.

Meredith: I'm dating. And it comes with snacks.

Cristina: [about Burke] I'm knee deep in coffee, and he's on the sofa playing with himself. And not in a good way.

Cristina: [about Meredith] I can't believe this! She has two dates and I have a wife.

Alex: Hey, you’re a loser. You like comic books, right?

George: No... [nods his head, behind Cristina's back, and mouths "Yes"]

Alex: I got this kid, this patient. She thinks she’s a superhero. What’s up with that?

George: Superhero? Well, superheroes look like anyone, like you or me. Maybe they’re not someone that people necessarily notice as extraordinary. Maybe in their daily life they get walked on. But then, there’s a moment they get hit by a cosmic ray or bitten by a radioactive spider, and then suddenly something that has been inside them all this times comes raging out -

Alex: Dude, forget I asked.

Izzie: I hate the bride thing. I hate the pictures in the magazines of the girl with the veil...and the flowers that she's sniffing. Like it never occurred to her to put her nose in there until there was a camera pointed at her. I hate the idea of bridesmaids...and the colors...and does the bustle make my ass look bigger or smaller. I hate the whole thing and I never wanted to be that girl. That girl is stupid... and shallow. So why the hell is that girl's thoughts running through my head?

George: Izzie…

Izzie: I’m going to do it, George. I’m going to walk through those doors. I just need to make sure that when I’m standing in front of the chief of surgery, I am not thinking about my wedding dress. And that’s gonna take a minute.

Alex: We got half the hospital lookin’ for you. Your powers of invisibility are well intact. Get up.

Megan: You’re a hosebag, you know that?

Alex: And you have a potty mouth.

Megan: Nobody’s cutting me open.

Alex: It’s surgery, we do it all the time. In fact, it’s all we do.

Megan: You can’t keep telling my foster parents I’m defective. They can’t afford surgery. It’s too expensive.

Alex: They can handle it.

Megan: They’ll send me back!

Alex: Dude, that’s stupid. They got their own personal superhero. Nobody sends back a superhero.

Megan: I thought you said I didn’t have superpowers?

Alex: Yeah, well, you don’t. But take away Green Lantern’s ring, guy’s still a superhero, right?

Bailey: [operating on Megan] Look at this. Everybody wants a life without pain. What does it get you? She needs to be on a poster somewhere, to remind people pain’s there for a reason.

Meredith: Enough! This is NOT dating. I want moonlight, and flowers, and candy and people trying to feel me up. Nobody is trying to feel me up. Nobody is even looking at me. I'm an intern, do the two of you have any idea how much effort it takes to do all this? I am waxed and plucked and I have a clean top on. And the two of you are looking at each other.

Derek: Meredith.....

Meredith: No, my fantasy is not two men looking at each other.

Finn: We didn't...

Meredith: No talking until one of you figures out how to put on a date. I want heat! I want romance! Damn it, I want to feel like a freaking lady!

Meredith: [voiceover] The fantasy is simple. Pleasure is good, and twice as much pleasure is better. That pain is bad, and no pain is better. But the reality is different. The reality is that pain is there to tell us something, and there's only so much pleasure we can take without getting a stomach ache. And maybe that's okay. Maybe some fantasies are only supposed to live in our dreams.

What I Am [3.4]

Meredith: [voiceover] At some point during surgical residency, most interns get a sense of who they are as doctors and the kinds of surgeons they want to become. If you ask them, they'll tell you they want to be general surgeons, orthopaedic surgeons, neurosurgeons. Distinctions which do more than describe their area of expertise, they define who they are, because outside the operating room, not only do most surgeons have no idea who they are, they're also afraid to find out.

Cristina: [to Meredith] Holy crap, are you pregnant?!

Addison: An adulterous love child?!

Derek: Goes along with an adulterous sociopath.

Cristina: So, who's the father?

Meredith: I’m not pregnant.

Cristina: I didn’t know I was pregnant when I was pregnant either. But the abdominal pain, fever and the nonstop vomiting?

Meredith: I’m not pregnant.

Cristina: You don’t know who the father is, do you?

Meredith: It would have to be Derek’s, there’s no way it could be Finn’s.

Cristina: You haven’t had sex with the vet yet? You gotta get out of that relationship immediately.

Meredith: I can’t be pregnant, can I?

Cristina: Aww, a McBaby!

Meredith: Was I this mean to you when you were pregnant?

Bailey: Never would have figured Mark Sloan to be your type.

Addison: He's not...he's not...What is he doing here? He's NOT supposed to be here. I can't have him here, I can't...he's supposed to be in New York. I can't function with him here. I'm a professional here, people respect me here, but when he's here I'm just...I'm...

Bailey: A woman who gets the hots for man candy and cheats on her husband.

Addison: That is rude. And unkind. And completely true. Oh My God, what am I gonna do?

Bailey: For starters, you can keep your knees closed in his presence

Addison: Miranda!

Bailey: You asked. And also, you can remember, that no man, not Derek, not Mark, defines who you are.

Meredith: [on morphine] Now all my boys are here! You’re all so handsome, and such good kissers.

George: Oh... God.

Finn: Excuse me?

George: She’s on drugs.

Meredith: He's an excellent kisser.

Finn: You two...dated?

Derek: You didn't know?

Meredith: It wasn't a date so much as a...disastrously uncomfortable sexual experience.

[Bailey walks in]

Meredith: Dr. Bailey, all my boyfriends are here!

[Addison walks by Meredith's room.]

Meredith: [on morphine] Addison! Dr. Montgomery-Shepherd!

Addison: [enters Meredith's room] You bellowed, Dr. Grey?

Meredith: Hi.

Addison: You certainly are, aren't you?

Derek: Can I ask you a personal question? Why did you leave Meredith's mother?

Chief: I could have left Adele. I could have gone away with Ellis. But I would have had so much baggage, so much guilt. Ellis couldn't see it but I wasn't— I would have never made her happy. Not like she deserved to be happy. I was a better man for walking away. I loved her enough to walk away.

Meredith: [to George] When I'm on the table, keep me draped. Too many people have seen me naked already. I'd like to keep whatever dignity I have left. [sees Mark] It's McSteamy. McSteamy! Yoo hoo!

Mark: McSteamy? That's what your calling me now?

Meredith: Yes, but I don't think you are supposed to know

Mark: How's my favorite dirty mistress?

Meredith: Haven't you heard? Now I'm an adulterous whore!

Derek: You deserve to be with somebody who makes you happy. Somebody who doesn't complicate your life. Somebody who wont hurt you. He's the better guy. [pauses and just stares at Meredith] Finn's the better guy.

Meredith: Derek?

Derek: I'm walking away.

Finn: So it's Derek?

Meredith: I'm sorry.

Finn: Can I ask why?

Meredith: You are a great guy. You're a wonderful guy. And you may even be the better guy, but -

Finn: He's the one.

Meredith: And I wish he wasn't.

Finn: He's gonna hurt you again. And when he does I won't be here. Take care of yourself, Meredith.

Denny: Dad, mom...It's me. I'm calling from Seattle Grace Hospital where the beautiful, talented and incredibly stubborn Dr. Isobel Stevens has, she's just given me a brand new heart and promised to marry me. I know we've had our differences and I'm sorry we've been out of touch. Believe it or not, I was trying to make everything better. I know you're angry and I hope you'll forgive me. It turns out, sometimes you have to do the wrong thing. Sometimes you have to make a big mistake to figure out how to make things right. Mistakes are painful, but they're the only way to find out who you really are. I know who I am now. I know what I want. I've got the love of my life, a new heart and I want you guys to get on the next plane out here and meet my girl. Everything's gonna be different now, I promise. From here on out, Nothings ever going to be the same. I love you, bye.

Oh, the Guilt [3.5]

Meredith: [voiceover] First, do no harm. As doctors, we pledge to live by this oath. But harm happens and then guilt happens. And there is no oath for how to deal with that. Guilt never goes anywhere on its own, it brings its friends - doubt and insecurity.

Divorce counselor: Derek says that neither of you brought any assets into the marriage.

Addison: Well I had my trust fund, and a sparkling personality uh and a futon couch.

Derek: Yes Addison had a very ugly, very heavy futon couch.

Addison: Whatever happened to that couch?

Derek: We gave it to Mark. She can have him.

Addison: I don't want him.

Derek: Okay, well that's settled. What else?

George: [about the check, which has fallen on the floor] Is that? That is 8 million. Eight million dollars does not like to have juice spilled on.

Meredith: You're here, you're everywhere, and I can't not tell you. You know, I've been not telling you all day because I thought it was kind and I thought I was giving you space. But I can't not tell you because you're here and you're you and I broke up with Finn.

Derek: Okay.

Meredith: Okay, then. Okay. I told you.

Mark: She told you. I've known you my whole life, I grew up with you so I know what you're thinking. That there is a year of your life wasted. Trying to make it work with Addison and you could have been with Meredith. That you could be happy right now. That all this, everything. That you and Meredith could have had a real chance. Still, I thought you should know the truth. Thought I owed you that, as a friend.

Derek: You're not my friend.

Meredith: [to nurse] Hi I was paged by Dr. Montgomery-Shepard.

Addison: Dr. Grey, welcome back.

Meredith: Thank you

Addison: And...uhm... its just Montgomery now.

Meredith: What?

Addison: My name, the divorce was finalized this morning, so Montgomery.

Meredith: Oh!

Addison: To add to our fun we have been asked to consult on a case where a woman has a foreign object inside of her.

Meredith: It appears that her husband is the foreign object.

Both: Ex-husband!

Izzie: [to Addison] Hey, you're Addison Forbes Montgomery Shepard right? That's a lot of names, a lot of rich sounding names. You're rich, right? That's rude. That's a rude question.

Meredith: [voiceover] First do no harm, easier said than done. We can take all the oaths in the world, but the fact is, most of us do harm all the time. Sometimes even when we're trying to help, we do more harm than good. And then the guilt rears its ugly head. What you do with that guilt is up to you. We're left with a choice. Either let the guilt throw you back into the behavior that got you into trouble in the first place, or learn from the guilt and do your best to move on.

Let The Angels Commit [3.6]

Meredith: To make it - really make it - as a surgeon - it takes major commitment. We have to be willing to pick up that scalpel and make a cut that may or may not do more damage than good. It's all about being committed, because if we're not? We have no business picking up that scalpel in the first place.

George: Okay, I'll be Cristina for you, if you'll be Izzie for me.

Meredith: Deal.

[George stops the elevator]

Meredith: Derek had a woman in his trailer last night. She was ugly, very ugly, except she was tall and beautiful. And he was naked.

George: Oh. Uh, McDreamy was doing the McNasty with McHottie? That McBastard. Uh, how was that?

Meredith: That was good.

George: Cristina enough? [Meredith nods] Really?

Meredith: Yeah.

George: Yeah?

Meredith: Yeah.

George: Excellent.

Meredith: Chanelling Izzie. Go.

George: Okay, uh, Callie... she won't forgive me. Uh, she won't talk to me. She dumped me. Which is uh, I don't care about, you know, at all...

Meredith: Good because you deserve better. You do. You are George. I mean seriously. Seriously. Seriously. Was that Izzie optimistic?

George: [a little stunned] Yes, it's very Izzie. [both of them sigh]

Meredith: What the hell has happened to us?

George: We are now the people that the people we want to be with avoid.

Meredith: We have careers to think about. We don't need attention from men with perfect hair.

George: You know, we should make a pact. There's no more dating.

Meredith: [nodding] No more Derek. No more Callie.

George: Just a hundred percent focused on our work.

Meredith: They're dead to us.

George: They're freakin' corpses to us. [knocks fists with Meredith]

Nancy: [Derek's sister] Oops, I take it that was the slutty intern you cheated on Addison with?

Derek: She's not slutty. What are you doing here?

Nancy: You bailed on Thanksgiving and Christmas and you live in a trailer and you're getting a divorce and then there's the slutty intern.

Derek: I really don't like you.

Nancy: You love me.

Izzie: McDreamy's McSister's McBitchy! [laughs]

Derek: You sound more and more like Mom every day.

Nancy: Take it back!

Nancy: What are you doing here, Mark? Are you trying to torture him?

Mark: He's my family, Nancy. Plus I needed a change of pace. [Nancy gives him an unconvinced look] Plus I slept with my tennis partner's wife and he went out and bought a gun.

Nancy:There it is.

Derek: Four sisters - four sisters! Not one brother; and you wonder why I don't call more.

Nancy: So, tell me about the slutty girl... Fine, the slutty intern.

Derek: It was the 'slutty' part I had a problem with.

Izzie: You need some help, Gretchen. If the idea of taking an exam makes you hold your palm to a burner, you need some help. Everyone needs help from time to time. Someone to look out for them. Make sure they're okay. Make sure they're ready. I have that. And you need that right now.

Callie: [to George] I'm out of my element here, I break bones for a living, I used to live in the basement, most days I wear last night's eyeliner to work, and I don't give a crap about what other people think of me. Because I am a happily independent and successful woman and I like it that way, only when you say stuff like this, it just makes things too hard. So please, don't chase me anymore, unless you're ready to catch me.

Meredith: [voiceover] There are times when even the best of us have trouble with commitment, and we may be surprised at the commitments we're willing to let slip out of our grasp. Commitments are complicated. We may surprise ourselves by the commitments we're willing to make. True commitment, takes effort, and sacrifice. Which is why sometimes, we have to learn the hard way, to choose our commitments very carefully.

Where the Boys Are [3.7]

Meredith: [voiceover] As surgeons, we are trained to look for disease. Sometimes the problem is easily detected, most of the time we need to go step by step. First, probing the surface looking for any sign of trouble. Most of the time, we can't tell what's wrong with somebody by just looking at them. After all, they can look perfectly fine on the outside, while their insides tell a whole other story.

Izzie: [about the men going camping] You've sunscreen and insect repellant? And oh, you're gonna need a shovel to bury your poop.

George: Izzie, I'm not five. Zip me? [Izzie zips up his jacket] And if Callie calls, would you tell her- [realizes Burke, Derek and the Chief are looking on] Tell her I'm a mountain man. I'm a man of mountain.

Meredith: Derek's camping. Taking time. Getting space.

Cristina: Prestons do not go into the woods. A guy named Preston is gonna get his ass kicked by a squirrel.

Izzie: It's basically a slumber party, they do it outside, we do it inside. It's really the only difference.

Meredith: Okay, before you start, there are rules to this friendship thing or whatever.

Mark: The Dirty Mistresses Club has rules? Gosh, I thought a bunch of dirty mistresses would be a little less uptight about these uh, rules.

Meredith: Number one, no flirting. Second, no talking about Derek and C, no giving me the face.

Mark: The face?

Meredith: The McSteamy face. Doesn't work on me. I'm immune.

Mark: You know, if I'd gone off to the woods, I would've invited you to keep me warm.

Meredith: Breaking rules 1, 2 and 3.

Chief: It's a good-looking tent, Joe. You and Walter got room for one more?

Joe: Walter and I sort of wanted to share this one. Just the two of us. But I guess if you really want to-

Alex: Chief, I don't think you really-

Chief: They've offered, Karev.

George: Chief, they want to be alone.

Chief: [realises that Joe and Walter are a couple] Oh! So you're um, that's wonderful. Man love. It's beautiful. It's beautiful. M-my cousin's gay and so I'm hip and Brokeback Mountain and all of that.

Burke: [steps in to save Chief] Uh, who's ready to go fishing?

Chief: Me!

Eric: Man, I thought my brother and I had problems. But you two are morons.

Cristina: Okay, well, swallowing Monopoly pieces wasn't exactly a genius move. You could've really hurt yourself.

Eric: Well, I didn't did I? Now my mom's gonna make my brother let me play Monopoly all I want.

Cristina: And that makes you smart?

Eric: You're fishing through my poop. How smart are you?

Meredith: So, what happens with Donna now?

Mark: She goes back to being an unhappy man who's stuck with a penis. There are millions of us out there.

Meredith: You're unhappy with your penis?

Mark: I could be a lot less unhappy.

Sydney: I lost a kid, my first year. It was my fault, and I just couldn't— So I had a break down, they gave me time off and when I came back I put a smile on my face and everybody thought I was fine. I lost a kid. It comes in waves Izzie. There's a lull and then another wave hits you. I wasn't trying to pry. I just wanted you to know that it's ok not to be fine sometimes.

Izzie: I miss him. All the time I miss him. It's not waves, it's constant. All the time. And I walk through the doors of this hospital and I want to be here, I do, but I... I don't know if I can be a surgeon again and I can't talk about it because it scares me too much.

Derek: [sighs] Hi, I'm Derek Shepherd

Meredith: [laughs] What are you doing?

Derek: We met at this bar, you remember? We met and we, well you said I'm just a girl. I said I'm just a guy, and we started this thing. We started this thing. You didn't know anything about me. The good, the bad, wife. You didn't even know my name. You didn't know me. I want you to know me. I want to start over from the beginning. So, hi. Derek Shepherd.

Meredith: You walked away, and now it's too late. There's too much water under the thing or whatever-

Derek: [interupting] Meredith. Please.

Meredith: Hi, I'm Meredith Grey.

Derek: Very nice to meet you, Meredith.

Meredith: It's nice to meet you.

Meredith: [voiceover] Not all wounds are superficial. Most wounds run deeper than you can imagine. You can't see them with the naked eye. And then there are the wounds that take us by surprise. The trick with any kind of wound or disease is to dig down and find the real source of the pain - and once you've found it, try like hell to heal that sucker.

Staring at the Sun [3.8]

Meredith: [voiceover] Many people don't know that the human eye has a blind spot in its field of vision. There is a part of the world that we are literally blind to. The problem is, sometimes our blind spots shield us from things that really shouldn't be ignored. Sometimes our blind spots keep our lives bright and shiny.

Meredith: Today is the day people, today is the day when dark and twisty Meredith disappears forever, and Bright and Shiny Meredith takes her place! You're probably not gonna want to be friends with me anymore, because the sheer intensity of my happiness will make your teeth hurt, but that's OK, because life is good. Life is good.

Mark: It's bring-a-hot-blonde-to-work day and no one told me?.

Izzie: [laughs and feigns sneeze] Sexual harrassment.

Mark: There you are! What, did you go all the way to New York for my pastrami?

Alex: Extra spicy, extra lettuce, light on the mayo.

Addison: Mark, what are you doing?

Mark: Lunch. Want my pickle?

Addison: Seattle Grace is a teaching hospital, part of your job is to teach, your interns aren't your slaves.

Mark: Fine, no pickle for you!

Alex: Yang decanulated a heart. Why is Alex not suprised?

Izzie: Izzie isn't either. Last week, Izzie was digging through crap, this week she's fondling man boobs. No decanulating hearts for Izzie!

George: Why aren't you bragging about decanulating the heart?

Cristina: I didn't decanulate the heart.

Izzie: Izzie and Alex do not believe you.

Meredith: Okay, what are you two doing?

Izzie: [giggles] Izzie and Alex have a patient who speaks about himself in the third person.

Alex: They thought it was annoying at first, but now they kinda like it.

Meredith: Good! Is it gonna stop soon?

Cristina: What happened? This morning you were all bright and shiny, asking to be kicked in the face.

Meredith: I am. I'm bright. I'm shiny.

Cristina: Yeah.

Izzie: Izzie thinks that this whole "Bright and Shiny" thing is getting old.

Alex: Alex agrees.

Derek: We think you're depressed.

Chief: Both of you?

Derek and Addison: Yes

Chief: Well for the two of you to agree on something I must be damn near suicidal.

George: I don't get you people.

Meredith: Us, with the boobs? We make a lot of bad decisions.

George: [to Cristina] Do you know why I picked you to be my Dad's intern? Because you are a robot. You're a frickin' robot in a white coat who never makes a mistake. Most of the time I appreciate that, most of the time I really feel like I have something to learn from you, but right now...right now I need you to try, just for a minute, I need for you to try to be a human being.

Cristina: George is the best.

Mr. O'Malley: What?

Cristina: He's the best intern. He's a good doctor, and a good person, and... whatever happens, I just thought you should know that you raised a good person.

Meredith (voiceover): When it comes to our blind spots, maybe our brains aren't compensating. Maybe they're protecting us.

From a Whisper to a Scream [3.9]

Cristina: [voiceover] As doctors, we know everybody's secrets. Their medical histories. Sexual histories. Confidential information that is as essential to a surgeon as a ten-blade, and every bit as dangerous. We keep secrets, we have to, but not all secrets can be kept.

Cristina: [enters Meredith's room, see's Meredith on top of Derek] Am I interrupting sex?

Derek: No.

Cristina: Good. [to Derek] Get out.

Derek: What? You can't ask me to leave.

Cristina: Meredith.

Meredith: [sees worried look on Cristina] Give us a second. [kisses Derek]

Derek: When I get back, there better be some sex. [gets up and leaves room]

Janelle: The doctors...hot men...they're all really hot...they are, aren't they? It's not just cause I'm wearing a plate glass window?

Addison: Nope, they're man candy.

Janelle: Good...

Burke: Anything you would have done different, Dr. Hahn?

Dr. Hahn: Given the size of the wound, I would've given up sooner. So how have you been, Preston? Last time I saw you, you stole my patient's heart. Then you got shot. Karma rocks.

Burke: What brings you all the way from Seattle Presbyterian to Seattle Grace?

Dr. Hahn: A consult. And knowing how much my being here would annoy you.

Burke: Oh, on the contrary. It's always a pleasure. Though not as much as when you leave.

Mr. O'Malley: Hey Izzie. Honey, this is Izzie.

Izzie: Hi.

Mrs. O'Malley: Oh yes! One of the girls who lives with Georgie. At some kind of set-up there.

Mr. O'Malley: It's not some kind of set-up. It's like what they do these days. Men and women live together without being, y'know men and women. It's a mutual thing.

Mrs. O'Malley: So, nothing sexual?

George: Mom!

Izzie: [laughs] No, nothing sexual.

Mrs. O'Malley: [smiling] Is something going on with George and Dr. Hahn?

Mr. O'Malley: [exasperated] Oh, here with go again.

Izzie: [laughs] No, there's nothing going on with George and Dr. Hahn.

Mr. O'Malley: I already told her Dr. Torres is the one that loves George.

Mrs. O'Malley: [to Mr. O'Malley] Then why did Dr. Torres break up with him? [to Izzie] Why did Dr. Torres break up with him? I mean, between us.

Izzie: [leans in conspiratorially] Well, how much did George tell you?

Mrs. O'Malley: Everything. I'm his mother.

Izzie: Okay, then you know that Callie is a little bit out there. [laughs] I mean I have seen more of that girl's body than I have with my own and she's a little too much information for me. I mean nobody needs to be naked that often. [George's parents look shocked] He didn't tell you that? Um, I dunno why they broke up. George seemed to really like her and he kinda needed her. I mean, you remember the whole George and Meredith thing.

Mr. O'Malley: Wait! George and Meredith?

Mrs. O'Malley: [smiles happily] I knew it.

Izzie: George didn't tell you that either.

Mrs. O'Malley: First Meredith, then Dr. Torres and now this Dr. Hahn.

Mr. O'Malley: O'Malley men are studs!

Mrs. O'Malley: He's no stud. He's just very handsome.

Izzie: [amused] Okay people, focus. George is not dating Erica Hahn.

Cristina: We crossed the line. Together. I crossed the line with you.

Burke: You dragged me to cross the line. You made us a team. You told Shepherd I was fine. You said nobody has to know. I was out there on my own. You made us a team.

Cristina: I did what you needed me to do. You were standing there looking at me telling me your whole life was your hands, if you couldn't operate, if you couldn't be Preston Burke.

Burke: That was your concern, not mine!

Cristina: Oh no, no, no, no, you put that on me. [long pause] When you got shot, I walked away. And you cannot let that go, can you? I'm sticking now. I'm sticking. Do you know how tired I am? Do you know how scared I am every time we go into surgery? But I do it, for you.

Burke: Do you know how scared I am when we go into surgery? I don't have to just worry about my career now. I have to put yours on my back too.

Cristina: We are a team!

Burke: There is no team. There is no team! There is only me once again, making allowances for your emotional shortcomings! [long pause]

Cristina: OK, we shouldn't say anymore.

Burke: No, [pause] we shouldn't.

Derek: You know what says thank you like nothing else? [Meredith smiles] Sex.

Meredith: [laughs] I'm leaving now.

Callie: I'm going to kick Meredith's ass right now. [slams Meredith into the lockers]

Meredith: [shoves Callie back] Get off me!

Callie: [slams Meredith into lockers again] I kept your secrets. I was discreet. I was a really good friend to you and I didn't have to be. And then you go and do this?!

Meredith: [pushes Callie back] Do what?!

Izzie: Hey Callie! Use your words! Use your words!

Callie: Panties, Meredith! I'm talkin' about the McFrickin' Code of Silence! Pair of panties I pulled off the bulletin board. Not to mention the adulterous McSex I witnessed! You remember that?!

Izzie: [shields Meredith from Callie] Hey! Hey! I'm sorry, I'm sorry but she's very little and you're hurting her!

Callie: You told George! My night with McSteamy was not yours to share!

Izzie: That's what this is about? Your sex with McSteamy?

Callie: You told Izzie? [furiously tries to grab Meredith]

Izzie and Meredith: No! No!

Meredith: Callie! You told me you slept with someone! You never said it was Sloan. George told me it was Sloan.

Callie: [looks shocked and hurt] George? George told you. Who told George?

Izzie: Maybe perhaps the guy you slept with?

Callie: George thinks I betrayed him and I didn't. [pause] I didn't, we were broken up.

Meredith: Well. Go. Tell. George. [Callie leaves]

Izzie: [laughs] Dude, she went all cage fighter on you.

Meredith: [laughs] I know.

Cristina: [voiceover] In some ways, betrayal is inevitable. When our bodies betray us, surgery is often the key to recovery. When we betray each other, the path to recovery is less clear. We do whatever it takes to rebuild the trust that was lost. And then there are some wounds, some betrayals…that are so deep, so profound that there is no way to repair what was lost. And when that happens, there's nothing left to do but wait.

Don't Stand So Close To Me [3.10]

Mr. O'Malley: If things go wrong, the life insurance papers are in the second drawer in my nightstand, and my [pause] magazines are in the garage with the truck mags.

George: Your magazines?

Mr. O'Malley: Get 'em outta there so your Ma doesn't see them?

George: Your magazines?!

Izzie: Yang does something wrong and she gets rewarded. That's fair.

George: Yeah.

Bailey: If you thumb-suckers don't stop whining, I swear I won't show you what's behind this door. And trust me, you wanna see what's behind this door. [She opens the door, revealing conjoined adult twins. Alex and Izzie smile while George looks on amazed]

Chief: Why are you researching neurosurgeons when you and I both know that Derek's better than anybody?

Burke: I don't want Shepherd.

Chief: You blame this on him? Up until now, I have not yelled. I have not yelled because you are a guy in trouble and I was supporting you. But now I am yelling!

Burke: Chief.

Chief: I am yelling very loudly!!! I wanna retire, Burke! I want my wife back and I passed the torch to you! I passed the torch to you and you blew it out!

Burke: I know I let you down.

Chief: Burke, I'm tired. I'm tired of you men acting like boys. You let me down and if you don't let Derek fix that hand, you're letting yourself down.

Alex: [to Cristina] You're here? You haven't been kicked out of the program yet?

Meredith: Alex.

Cristina: No, not yet. I'm still here.

Alex: How did you do it? I mean, did you have some kinda signal in surgery so that the nurses wouldn't know? Or did you-

Meredith: Alex.

Alex: What? I'm just wondering how to get ahead around here. Me? I get coffee for Sloan and Yang gets surgeries none of us would get.

George: Got a head count of how many patients you two lied to the past month?

Meredith: George.

Izzie: Leave her alone. Her patients live so she gets to scrub in.

Meredith: Izzie.

Cristina: Meredith, please can you just stop defending me? [leaves]

Mr. O'Malley: You're so angry.

George: I'm not.

Mr. O'Malley: You've been picking fights every chance you get and that's not like you.

George: Dad. You don't know what's been going on.

Mr. O'Malley: Okay then tell me. Why are you so mad at Dr. Torres?

Callie: I should go. I have patients to see.

George: No, you know what, I'm going to go.

Mr. O'Malley: No! Everybody stays! You're angry, Georgie. At Callie, at your brothers, at Dr. Hahn, at Dr. Bailey, at Dr. Yang, at Dr. Burke! That's a long list of people to be angry at. Especially when the person you're really angry at, is me.

George: Dad?

Mr. O'Malley: I drank and I smoke and I won't evercise and I eat all the wrong things and now, I have [pause] cancer. And you have to take care of everything. You have to take care of me.

George: I don't mind.

Mr. O'Malley: You do. You're mad at me and that's okay because I'm mad at me too. You think I wanna die and leave my boy in charge?

George: You're not going to die.

Dr. Hahn: You remind me of myself when I was an intern.

Cristina: I do?

Dr. Hahn: Focused, intense, cold, and I don't mean that as a bad thing, cold is good. The dating, the friends and the family, if you ask me, it's all overrated.

Derek: It'd be nice if every love triangle could be fixed with a scalpel.

Mark: If they could, you would have stabbed me with a ten blade a long time ago. [they both laugh]

Bailey: I was responsible for Izzie Stevens. I was responsible and I'm responsible for Cristina Yang. I am the common thread here. I. Lost them, Cristina, Izzie.

Chief: Are not the same. Miranda, you raised them. You raised them like [pause] like children and some of them make mistakes and some of them disappoint you. Some of them. Do you know what kinda strength it must have taken for Yang to come to me? To report on an attending? On her boyfriend? Do you see how much she's grown? You raised them like children and some of them turn out exactly like you Dr. Bailey.

Meredith: I can't take this anymore!

Izzie: What?

Meredith: Let her off the hook. Let Cristina off the freaking hook.

Cristina: Meredith!

Meredith: Izzie, you cut the LVAD wire, she stuck by you and did Denny's ECHO. [to Alex] You cheated on Izzie with syph nurse and she helped you study for your boards. And George, when everybody was calling you 007-

George: [angrily] She was calling me 007. [leaves]

Meredith: Just let her off the hook.

Alex: It's okay.

Izzie: Sorry. [Alex and Izzie leave]

Cristina: Why can't you mind your own business, you know? What is your problem?

Meredith: You're my sister. You're my family. You're all I've got.

Cristina: [puts her head on Meredith's shoulder] I'm so tired.

Meredith: I know, me too.

Meredith: [voiceover] At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other, it's usually a load of bull. So we pick and choose who we want to remain close to, and once we've chosen those people, we tend to stick close by. No matter how much we hurt them. The people that are still with you at the end of the day, those are the ones worth keeping. And sure, sometimes close can be too close. But sometimes, that invasion of personal space, it can be exactly what you need.

Six Days, Part 1 [3.11]

[Derek stares at Meredith snoring loudly, and she awakens and notices him staring]

Derek: Morning. [kisses Meredith]

Meredith: Are you watching me sleep?

Derek: Maybe.

Meredith: What are you? Some kind of weirdo who watches women sleep?

Derek: Maybe. [leans in and kisses her again]

George: I just dropped 8.7 million dollars on the floor.

Izzie: So?

George: I shouldn't be able to drop 8.7 million dollars on the floor. [throws an apple at the newspaper she's reading] You need to deposit that check!

Izzie: George. Your father's surgery is tomorrow. Any chance you're misplacing your anxiety on me and my check?

George: No! There's no chance. That check ruins my morning every morning. It belongs in the bank! Would you just please, as a favor to me, just put it in the bank? Please?

Izzie: Hmm. No. But if you're nice to me for the next 7 minutes, I will.. give you a ride to work.

George: You don't deserve 8.7 million dollars!

Izzie: Hmm. So true. So true.

Heather: What are you all staring at? Really, if you're expecting me to be the brave and heartwarming differently-abled girl, that isn't going to be happen so go ahead and do your thing.

Bailey: Stevens.

Izzie: Heather Douglas, 17. Past medical history of VATER syndrome.

Bailey: Which is?

Izzie: VATER syndrome is a genetic condition that affects the vertebrae, anus, trachea, esophagus and renal system.

Heather: Wow, give this girl a medal. She memorised the whole acronym, which I assure you is a hell of a lot easier than living with it.

Callie: You know Shepherd pretty well, yeah?

Bailey: Lots of hair. Too many women. Likes elevators and long walks on the beach.

Meredith: Why are you always up before the alarm?

Derek: Well, I'm a light sleeper. It's no big deal.

Meredith: So something woke you up.

Derek: It's no big deal. It's just that, [long pause] you snore a little.

Meredith: What? I do not!

Derek: Yes you do! I love it. I find it charming that such a big noise can come from such a little person. [kisses her again and laughs]

Meredith: Do you know what's not charming?

Derek: What?

Meredith: Your morning breath.

Izzie: I would really like to scrub in.

Bailey: Did you deposit the check?

Izzie: It's my money. I should get to do what I want with it.

Bailey: You get a 5% return on the 6 month c.d.? And the time we've been standing here, you could have just made 400 hundred dollars.

Meredith: Oh, you have got to be kidding me? Where's George?

Derek: [groggily] Spent the night at the hospital.

Meredith: And you slept in his bed! All night?

Derek: No, right after you fell asleep.

Meredith: So you're telling me that my snoring is so bad, how did you deal with it for all those nights before I found out about your wife.

Izzie: [walks past] He usually sleeps on the couch, sets an alarm and gets back in bed before you wake up.

Derek: Yeah, didn't want to hurt your feelings.

Meredith: [smacks Derek with a pillow] Oh, I'm going to do more than hurt your feelings.

Meredith: [to Derek] I'm a girl with abandonment issues. You have to sleep with me from now on.

Six Days, Part 2 (aka Always Something There to Remind Me) [3.12]

George: Er, Izzie, t-the t-the check! It's not er-, it's not- D-did you drop it? It's not here! Izzie, it's not here.

Izzie: I deposited it, okay?

George: You didn't deposit it in the garbage disposal or something like that, did you?

Izzie: It's at the bank, okay George? So just shut up about it already.

George: I-it's at the bank? It's earning interest?

Izzie: Did I just not say shut up about it already?

George: Izzie. It's real now. Money could travel. It could buy things. It could buy many, many things. That's a- It's a lot of money, Izzie!

Izzie: Shut up about it, George!

George: I'm just saying. I'm just saying life is short. You know it's like cancer happens and surgery happens and you know, you got [pause] rosebuds! [hits her with a piece of cloth] You got 8.7 million rosebuds, Izzie! [hits her again] Now go spend some rosebuds, that's what I'm saying.

Izzie: [loud sizzling noise] You made me burn my french toast.

George: [hits her yet again] You can buy new french toast!

Mrs. O'Malley: Okay, tell me what I want to hear.

Mr. O'Malley: If I die, you'll kill me.

Mrs. O'Malley: He's a quick study.

Meredith: [to Cristina] You're in a relationship with no words. [to Izzie] And you're a millionaire in twenty dollar shoes. Whatever!

Bailey: [after Izzie helped pay for a patient's surgery] You spent 300 grand, so you could scrub in on the surgery?

Izzie: No?

Bailey: No?

Izzie: I spent the 3- Have you seen that girl? Her life is miserable. She's desperate. She'll never have a date. She'll never wear high heels. She'll never feel normal. I spent 300 grand because it's a good thing.

Bailey: [long pause] I was hoping you would tell me you spent the money so you could scrub in.

Callie: George kissed me. Yesterday. One minute he's holding a urine bag, the next minute he's kissing me. You think he's just freaking out about his dad? Yeah, you're right, he's probably just freaking out, I shouldn't hold him to it.

Addison: What?

Callie: Did you not hear a word I said? I'm pouring my heart out here. Jeez, it's all about you isn't it? It's all about- Everything's about Addison.

Addison: I aborted Mark's baby.

Callie: It is all about you. Floor's all yours.

Alex: [to Cristina, about Burke] So you're together but you don't talk to each other. Wish I could find that in a woman.

George: Why did you do the surgery once you saw that the cancer had spread?

Bailey: George.

George: He asked you. He asked you to do it no matter what?

Chief: We have to honor our patients' wishes.

George: [to Bailey] You said you would be straight with me. [turns to Chief] He could have lived for weeks. Or months. We could have had months with him. My mom, she could have had months with him!

Chief: He wanted to fight the cancer, George.

George: He didn't know any better! You knew better! You shouldn't have done it! You shouldn't have done it!

Mark: If you'd had the baby, we'd be together in New York right now; it wouldn't be raining and even if it was, we wouldn't care because we'd be together. We'd be together. And I'd have a family instead of walking pneumonia and an ex-best friend who hates me.

Addison You didn't want to raise a child, Mark. You just wanted to trump Derek, you wanted to to win.

Mark: Don't make this my fault. You didn't want a baby.

Addison No, I did want a baby, Mark! The last woman you slept with before I left New York, Charlene, the peds nurse, did you think that she was the only one that I knew about? You're rewriting history Mark. We wouldn't still be together. We weren't a great couple and you would have made a terrible father, Mark. I did want a baby, I did. I just...I just didn't want one with you.

George: [shaving his dad] That neighbor kid, Mike Wildon, I did hit in the face with a stick. Um... when his dad came over and was yelling and you asked me if it was true... I lied. And you thought I never lied. So you took my side, and you and his dad got in that big fight... and then his kids egged our house. Then Ronny and Jerry went over and blew up his lawnmower. Anyway. I did it. He was teasing me, and he was bigger than me. So I hit him with a stick to reach his face. And I lied to you dad. So, I'm saying I'm sorry. [pause] Dad? [another pause] If you have any more fight in you, if you could fight this thing just... just a little harder that would be good. Then you could come home. [kisses his dad's forehead]

Izzie: [to Bailey] I'm both. [pause] I'm a surgeon and I am a person who becomes emotionally involved. I will never again cross the line like I did with Denny. I have learned my lesson. But I'm still both, and I'm not going to give up either part of me. And I am not going to apologize for it.

Cristina: There's a club. The "Dead Dads" club. And you can't be in it until you're in it. You can try to understand, you can sympathize but until you feel that loss- My dad died when I was nine. George, I'm really sorry you had to join the club.

George: I. [pause] I don't know how to exist in a world where my dad doesn't.

Cristina: Yeah, that never really changes.

Great Expectations [3.13]

Meredith: [voiceover] No one believes that their life will turn out just kind of okay. We all think we are going to be great. And from the day we decide to be surgeons, we are filled with expectation. Expectations of the trails we will blaze, the people we will help, the difference we will make. Great expectations of who we will be, where we will go. And then we get there.

Burke: Meredith. Would you like seconds?

Meredith: Maybe Cristina would like some. [to Cristina] Cristina, would you like some?

Burke: I only made enough for three.

Meredith: You just said there were seconds.

Derek: This isn't at all awkward.

Meredith: You know, we can go and you two can talk.

Burke and Cristina: We're talking!

Meredith: To each other. [to Burke] You're enjoying your meal at the International House of Silence. Burke, you have to feed Cristina. She doesn't cook and she will starve to death.

Cristina: I have cereal!

[Izzie knocks on George's bedroom door]

Izzie: George, can I come in? I made you some cookies and brownies and muffins, of course, I always make muffins.

Callie: [comes out from room] Thank God you're here. I can't take it anymore. Three times already tonight, and he's getting ready for a fourth.

Izzie: What are you talking about? Oh. Oh, eew.

Callie: No, no I get it, you're crying, you're depressed and I know we all deal in different ways, but this is not grieving, this is my legs being bent in ways my legs do not go. A-And I know, I know his dad died, and I get it, I feel horrible for him.

Izzie: [laughs] I can give you guys some privacy, I can go far far away...

Callie: [cuts her off, whispers] No no! No! No! You stay. You take over for me, okay?

Izzie: Callie Torres!

Callie: No! I don't- Not like that, I mean. I am giving him to you. You are now officially on George Watch 2007, OK, you are his friend. Yay! And I need a break. I need to heal. I need to heal.

Izzie: No! No! What am I supposed to do?

Callie: I need to heal. I need to heal. Please, I need to heal.

George: Callie?

Callie: [after she and Izzie both freeze at George's call] Thank you, goodbye. [flees]

Izzie: No, Callie!

George: [coming out from room, naked] What is taking you so- [Izzie stares at George and he realizes, and hides behind the door] Oh!

Izzie: [averts her eyes and stifling a smile] Er- s-she had to go. Are you hungry?

George: Why are you trying to make this about you...?

Izzie: It's not about me! It's about me wanting to talk to you about you needing so much sex your girlfriends vagina's broken.

...

Izzie: Last I heard, perpetual sex was not one of the five stages of grief, but denial is.

George: You shouldn't be listening at other people's doors.

Izzie: You were in the hallway naked. I saw you.

George: I blocked that out.

Izzie: Denial.

Bailey: You didn't think of maybe telling me this morning that you were planning to step down instead of sending me on this wild goose chase?

Chief: Dr. Bailey. You need those clowns to sign off on your proposal because one of them may be Chief of Surgery in a month. It's hard to imagine, for me more than anyone, but since you're not ready for the job, one of them has got to do it for the next few years.

Bailey: Me?!

Chief: It's you that's going to be Chief eventually. That's who you are. But you're gonna have to get a new chair because you're short. You have short legs, but someday you are going to be Chief of Surgery. I wasn't sending you on a wild goose chase, I was trying to get you in a habit of doing things without me.

Addison: Mark Sloan, Chief of Surgery. That makes me vomit a little in my mouth.

Derek: I was a jerk. Sometimes boyfriends can be jerks, but it doesn't mean you stop talking to them... You get that I'm saying I'm sorry, right?

Meredith: You yelled at me for no reason, and then you walked away. And now you show up here.

Derek: Of course I showed up. Why wouldn't I? You don't trust me?

Meredith: I do.

Derek: Ok, well this is how it works. You fight sometimes and somebody apologizes.

Meredith: Well, how am I supposed to know that?

Derek: You've never done this before.

Meredith: No, I've never done this before.

Derek: Hmm. Okay, all right. Well, this is- From now on, you can expect that I'm gonna show up. Even if I yell. Even if you yell. I'm always gonna show up. Okay?

Meredith: [smiling] Okay.

Cristina: I was right. I swear I really believe what I did was right. I don't want you to forgive me. Frankly, I'd find it patronizing if you did. Because... while I know I was right, you think I'm wrong. Which doesn't matter...because... I'm in this. I'm in this for the long haul. And I'm in this to finish the race. So if that means I don't win this one, then fine. I don't win. You win. I'm talking. See? I'm talking first. You win.

Burke: Marry me. Marry me, Cristina Yang.

George: I don't want to waste another minute.

Callie: I can't have sex with you again, George. Ok? I can't- I just- I- Enough with the sex.

George: Since my dad died, I feel like someone ripped out my stomach, filled the hole with asphalt. I laugh everytime I remember I'm never going to talk to him again because it just sounds like the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I can't believe it's real. But everytime I look at you- I feel better. It shocks me. It knocks my wind out, but it's true. I don't have to have sex with you, I'd be happy just look at you from across the room. And even that, anything, any piece of you. And, hopefully, all of you... that'd be the best thing. Because I love you.

Callie: George.

George: [gets on one knee] Marry me? Will you marry me?

Meredith: [voiceover] We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.

Wishin' and Hopin [3.14]

Meredith: [voiceover] As surgeons, we live in a world of worse case scenarios. We cut ourselves off from hoping for the best because too many times the best doesn’t happen. But every now and then something extraordinary occurs and suddenly best case scenarios seem possible. And every now and then something amazing happens, and against our better judgment we start to have hope.

Mark: Aren't you gonna get in there? If you wanna be Chief, you gotta fight with the big boys.

Addison: Oh, I intend to fight like a girl. I'll let them kill each other and then I'll be the only one left standing.

Mark: And then there's me... [Addison gives him a 'yeah right' look] There you go underestimating me again.

Addison: It's not that I underestimate you, it's just that I don't think about you. At all.

Mark: Well, you should.

George: We got married in Vegas! We're married!

Alex: [laughing] Dude, s-she's Callie O'Malley.

Izzie: [when she sees Callie's ring] Oh, that's so great. Tiny diamonds are great because you know no one will ever try to steal it.

[Addison stares at Alex as he passes by her; Callie notices and walks over to Addison]

Callie: You know those cartoons, where there's a bear or whatever, and it's starving and it looks at the table, and the table turns into this delicious cooked turkey, with like lines of deliciousness coming off it?

Addison: I was not looking at him like that! Because he is the help, and I am not going to be sleeping with the help!

Callie: I married the help.

Addison: What?

Callie: We went to Vegas. My idea. I embrace the trashy.

Addison: That's- Not that I'm not happy for you but why? Married. So. Fast.

Callie: You know those cartoons, where there's a bear and it's starving, and it looks at a cute intern?

Addison: Well, congratulations. [they hug]

Callie: Thank you. [shows her the ring] It's small. I know it's small.

Addison: It's beautiful.

Meredith: How's George?

Izzie: Medically he's fine, emotionally he's a little stunted if you ask me. You don't marry the rebound girl. Am I right?

Cristina: You don't marry anyone on a whim.

Meredith: No, he needs our support.

Izzie: He doesn't need us, he's got his Vegas show-wife.

Meredith: I'm not sure refusing treatment is what you wanna do-

Ellis: Apparently, what I want doesn't matter! It isn't even legally binding! So it's really about what you want, Meredith. You're in charge!

Meredith: You think that I like making these decisions for you? You think it's fun to get calls from the nursing home asking whether I was planning on giving the nurse, who changes you every morning a Christmas tip? But I do it. Because you have managed to alienate everybody else in your life and I am the only one, so I have to step up and do it. [voice wavering] You wanna know why I'm so unfocused? So ordinary? You wanna know what happened to me? You! You happened to me!

Ellis: Then let me refuse the heart surgery.

Meredith: No!

Ellis: Why not?!

Meredith: Because killing my mother is not gonna be another thing that happens to me.

Cristina: I don't do rings. Don't expect me to suddenly change. I'm a surgeon, just like you. And we'll have money, we can hire a wife.

Burke: Are you saying yes?

Cristina: Y-yeah.

Burke: I'm not letting you scrub in tomorrow.

Cristina: Well, I'm not wearing a ring.

Burke: Okay.

Cristina: Okay then.

Burke: Yes! [Cristina laughs as Burke hugs her in joy]

Meredith: The reason that I want you to have the surgery is because I have this hope, that in a year, two years or five, they're gonna have a breakthrough. They're gonna find a cure for Alzhiemer's, and you and I will have another chance. To get to know each other. You'll get a chance to know me, to see that I am not even remotely ordinary, so I wish you would have the surgery. But it's up to you Mom, it's your life.

Ellis: You remind me of my daughter. [Meredith realizes that her mother is not lucid anymore and tears well up in her eyes]

Chief: About an hour ago. One minute she was here, the next- I'm so sorry.

Meredith: Me too. [sighs and leaves]

Meredith: [voiceover] As doctors, we're trained to give our patients just the facts. But what our patients really want to know is- will the pain go away? Will I feel better? Am I cured? What our patients really want to know is- is there hope? But, inevitably, there are times when you find yourself in the worst case scenario. When the patient's body has betrayed them and all the science we have to offer has failed them. When the worst case scenario comes true, and clinging to hope is all we've got left.

Walk on Water [3.15]

Meredith (voiceover): Disappearances happen in science. Disease can suddenly fade away, tumors go missing, and we open someone up to discover the cancer is gone. Its unexplained It’s rare, but it happens. We call it mis-diagnosis say we never saw it in the first place, any explanation but the truth. That life is full of vanishing acts. If something that we didn’t know we had disappears, do we miss it?

Meredith: I'm a surgeon. I do the rescuing. You are not my knight in shining whatever.

Derek: So we're gonna fight because I pulled you out of the tub.

Meredith: You have a place. You could sleep at it. And then you don't have to pull me out of the bathtub. You're everywhere, all the time, saying things.

Derek: This is the happy ever after part. And in the happily ever after, the guy is there all the time, saying things and the girls love it!

Meredith: Go to work, I'll see you there.

Derek: And just for the record? I am your knight in shining whatever.

Meredith:I did not tried to drown myself in the bathtub

Izzie:Hey i ate everything out of the fridge last night, everything, including a tube of butter , there's no judgment here

[Addison chastises Mark, Preston and Derek for commenting on Richard's new hair color]

Addison: He is alone! All alone! Do any of you even know what that's like? [motions to Preston] Lives with Cristina, [looks Derek up and down] dates the perfect twelve year old, [looks at Mark] Manwhore! His wife left him! After twenty-five years of marriage! So if the man wants to dye his hair for the ladies, let him dye his hair for the ladies! Leave him be.

Callie: This is weird. Weird. This is weird, right?

Bailey: I need more triage tags…

Callie: Working with someone I’m married to is weird. Here, I’m his boss and his wife. At work, I’m giving him orders, in bed... he’s giving me...

Bailey: Stop! Right there, I don’t need to know this. I’m tired, I’m busy. While I will concede that you and O’Malley have some challenges to overcome, I’m asking you to remember that this day is a marathon and my mind can only hold what it needs to know, your sex life cannot be held in my mind today. [pause] Ever! It cannot be in my mind ever! Never!

Callie: Whatever.

Cristina: Meredith, I have a thing...news.

Meredith: You’re not pregnant again, are you? Cause I can’t handle the extra months of bitchiness.

Izzie: What kind of situation? Fire? Flood? Volcano? Cause I’m not really dressed for a volcano.

Drowning on Dry Land [3.16]

Meredith: [voiceover] Like I said, disappearances happen. Pains go phantom. Blood stops running and people, people fade away. There's more I have to say, so much more, but... I've disappeared.

Bailey: What happens when the happy mother in there wakes up after surgery and her son isn't there to greet her? What then? How are you gonna explain that, O'Malley?

George: If she wakes up after surgery because my lie helped to save her life. I'm okay with that, Dr. Bailey.

Burke: What is your problem?

Cristina: You know everyone’s back. Everyone’s back except her. And I listen to her. Everyday, about her McLove life, her McDreamy, her McCrap. And the one day, the one day I have a thing she disappears.

Burke: Meredith, this is about Meredith.

Cristina: She doesn’t know yet.

Burke: Meredith?

Cristina: She’s my person.

Burke: Right. And if Meredith doesn’t approve, then what?

Cristina: This, this is not about getting her approval, its about…

Burke: What?

Cristina: Telling her makes it, makes it…. If I murdered someone, she’s the person I’d call to help me drag the corpse across the living room floor.

Burke: Ok, now, you’re likening someone here to a corpse. I’m done.

Cristina: She’s my person.

George: He's lost. Or... or...

Bailey: He's in the water.

Bailey: So when she wakes up, I get to inform her that she is not going to die... she's just going to want to die.

George: I'm sorry, I can... keep looking.

Bailey: Yeah, you do that.

Izzie: Oh, Cristina, oh my God, you are not going to believe what I just did, I'm going to tell you, but you're not going to believe me, you're going to think I made the whole thing up... I drilled a hole into this guy's skull. Several holes, actually, with a drill I borrowed from a guy named Vince, packed the hole with freaking tissue and then brought him back here, and then now I get to scrub in on his craniotomy. --- It was like a ride, this crazy rollercoaster ride with, like adrenaline shooting out of my ears. You would think that my hands would be shaking but they weren't, there was no shaking. Did I mention the drill? — The scene where I was a rockstar, by the way.

George: Can I see his face?

Callie: I'm in the middle of surgery.

George: I know. Is this boy your patient? I know the picture's half smeared and hard to see but - Please tell me it's him. Tell me he has been right here, under my nose, open on your table all day, and not drifting along the bottom of the ocean. Please tell me that.

Callie: Hold the photo under the light so I can get a better look. Oh yeah, oh yeah, that's my kid. I could spot those goofy ears anywhere.

George: Really?

Callie: Really.

George: Callie O'Malley. I can't kiss you right now because you're scrubbed in, but tonight, when you get home, I am going to -

Callie: All right, people let's focus. George, I'm working here. I'm working, so, yeah, bye.

Alex: I would notice.

Addison: What?

Alex: I would notice...if you went missing, I would notice.

Bailey: What do we got?

Paramedic: Jane Doe. She's hypothermic and dropping.

Derek: She's not a Jane Doe. It's Meredith Grey. It's Meredith.

Bailey: Derek! Derek! How long has she been down?

Derek: I don't know. She's alive. She's alive.

Cristina: It's Meredith?

Alex: Yeah.

Cristina: Are you sure? Did you see her? Because it could be any...

Alex: It's Meredith.

Cristina: Oh. Oh. Oh.

Izzie: She will come through this.

George: You don't know that.

Izzie: She will come through this.

George: People die.

Izzie: I know people die. People die in front of us everyday, but I believe Meredith will survive this. I believe, I believe, I...I believe in the good. I believe that it's been a hell of a year and I believe that in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary we will all be okay. I believe a lot of things. I believe that...I believe that Denny is always with me. And I believe that if I eat a tub of butter and no one sees me the calories don't count. And I believe that surgeons who prefer staples over stitches are just lazy. I believe that you are a man that made a terrible mistake marrying Callie and I believe that because I'm your best friend I can tell you this and we can be okay. I believe that even though you made this mistake you will be okay. I believe we survive, George. I believe that believing we survive is what makes us survive.

Dylan: Hey.

Meredith: Hey. Am I dead?

Denny: Damn right you are.

Meredith: Holy...

Some Kind of Miracle [3.17]

Meredith: [voiceover] There are medical miracles. Being worshippers of the altar of science, we don't like to believe miracles exist. But they do. Things happen. We can't explain them, we can't control them, but they do happen. Miracles do happen in medicine. They happen everyday, just not always when we need them to happen.

Cristina: Prepare ourselves? That’s what we tell the families before we call time of death.

Izzie: She’s gonna be okay.

George: Sometimes you’re wrong.

Cristina: Uh-uh. No.

Izzie: Cristina.

Cristina: I’m not doing this.

Izzie: Cristina. She’s gonna survive this. She’s gonna survive this. She’s gonna survive this. She’s gonna survive this…

Alex: I dunno... it's just... Meredith always makes me think screwed up people have a chance.

Cristina: It's small, it's tiny-sized...it-it's yellow. It has cat-type pictures on it, but it's a chair. For 99 cents you can buy furniture, now THAT is America, man!

Joe: No, that's Taiwan, man.

Meredith: I was swimming. I was fighting. And then I thought, just for a second, I thought ‘What’s the point?’ And then I let go. I stopped fighting. Don’t tell anybody.

Denny: Okay

Meredith: What?

Denny: Izzie.

Meredith: You can see her?

Denny: No. Sometimes we’d be at the same place at exactly the same time and I can almost hear her voice. It’s like I’m touching her. I like to believe she knows I’m there. That’s all you get. That’s it. Moments with the people you love. And they’ll move on and you’ll want them to move on. But still, Meredith, that’s all you get. Moments.

Meredith: Is this really happening?

Denny: I don’t know. This is your afterlife, not mine.

Burke: There’s no change. Thought you should know.

Cristina: No kidding.

Burke: You know, some do come back from this.

Cristina: You know what? I’m not a civilian. I know the science here. It’s drinking time.

Burke: Not yet. You have a responsibility to Meredith.

Cristina: No. Uh Uh. I don’t do this stuff. You should know. I don’t go great lengths.

Burke: Well, you were there for me.

Cristina: After. After I knew you were going to make it. Hey, I’m not proud. Okay, I just…I can’t. I can’t go back there. I can’t. I can’t go back there and watch her.

Burke: Listen to me. This is about you and the woman you call your person. And you do know the science here. And if she dies, and you are sitting here when that happens, I can’t see you coming back from that. Come and say goodbye to your friend.

Denny: What happened in that water?

Meredith: I swam, I fought.

Denny: No, you didn't, and you can't stay here, Meredith.

Meredith: I don't want to!

Denny: Yeah, you do. It's easier, but you can't. Because George's Dad died, because Izzie lost me, and Cristina, when she was nine she was in a car accident with her Father and he bled out right in front of her while they waited for an ambulance to arrive, and Alex...

Meredith: Stop!

Denny: They are barely breathing, this will break them, and none of them deserves that. And this, this is the big one, so you pay attention. Do you know what kind of miracle it is that Derek is who he is? Do you know how rare it is that someone like him even exists? He's still an optimist. He still believes in true love and magic and soul mates. He's waiting for you, and if you don't come back from this...you will change who he is.

Meredith: Oh, God...

Addison: We never had that. He never felt that way about me.

[Pause]

Mark: I did.

Addison: [starts walking away ] You know, sometimes I think what a waste it is to throw away all that history.

Mark: I'm flawed and I'm a... a wreck, but you, it wasn't a game.

Addison: 60 days. Go 60 days with no sex, no other women. 60 days cold turkey and maybe I'll believe you.

Mark: So I only have sex with you?

Addison: No. No sex with anyone. Grow up Mark. Find another way to scratch the itch.

Mark: Say I do, you'll give us another try? A real try, the couple thing, no sneaking around, no bootycalls.

Addison: If you make it. Yes.

Mark: Ok. We're on. Oh, and Addison, if I'm not having sex, neither are you.

Addison: Who would I possibly be having sex with?

[shows Alex]

Chief: [to Ellis] You’ve been gone a long time. and I know you think you died when the Alzheimer’s started. I know it’s a relief to you. I know. but it doesn’t feel like a relief to me. I’m not relieved. I miss the sound of your voice. I miss talking to you. I miss you. I dyed my hair. For the ladies.

Meredith: [voiceover] At the end of a day like this, a day when so many prayers are answered and so many aren’t, we take our miracles where we find them. We reach across the gap and sometimes, against all odds, against all logic, we touch...

Scars and Souvenirs [3.18]

Meredith: [voiceover] People have scars. In all sorts of unexpected places. Like secret roadmaps of their personal histories. Diagrams of all their old wounds. Most of our wounds heal, leaving nothing behind but a scar. But some of them don't. Some wounds we carry with us everywhere and though the cut's long gone, the pain still lingers.

[Izzie comes out of shower]

Izzie: ALEX! God!

Alex: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've seen it all before.

Izzie: What the HELL are you doing here?

Alex: Movin' in.

Izzie: What?!

Izzie: Alex is moving in?! To this house?!

Meredith: He's taking George's room.

Izzie: Why?

Derek: I was asleep just a minute ago.

Izzie: Uh! And I was naked - in the bathroom - when Alex walked in. I'm lucky I didn't come out of the shower to see him peeing all over the seat.

Derek: And we're up.

[Derek leaves]

Izzie: What's wrong with where he was living before?

Meredith: I don't know where he was living before.

Izzie: Probably a whorehouse.

[Meredith laughs]

Izzie: I can't have him living in the room right next door. It's weird.

Meredith: People are what matters. Alex is one of our people. We can't just leave him out in the cold.

Izzie: 'People are what matters.' You don't like people. Is this about your mother?

Meredith: No! I had a near-death whatever and I was dead. And now I'm not. So, I'd like to use this chance I've been given to be more positive. People are what matters. Paint with all the colors of the wind.

Izzie: Oh, okay. You're crazy now.

Meredith: [giggling] I'm alive.

Izzie: Yeah, okay.

Izzie: He's in George's room, and when George's stupid marriage crashes and burns, he's gonna wanna move back in, he won't be able to. His life will be in shambles, he'll finally notice that his dad is dead, and he made a fool of himself by marrying someone he doesn't really love, and he'll have no place to go. Is that what you want?

Meredith: That's exactly what I want. [rolls eyes]

Alex: [to Izzie] Look who found some clothes.

Izzie: Shut it.

George: [to Meredith] How you doin?

Meredith: Okay, everybody? Let's just do this once: I'm fine. She's cremated. I picked out a beautiful urn and she's hanging out in the back of my closet. Any more questions about my dead mother, or can we get back to work?

[Izzie walks up to large crowd, including Meredith, Cristina, and George]

Izzie: You guys seen Bailey? [pause] What are we doing?

George: Uh, checking out the new chief candidate.

Meredith: Chief sent in the ringer. We're lurking in a way that was subtle when there was two of us, but isn't now that it's 12.

Cristina: I heard it was someone from Stanford. All the professors there loved me.

Alex: They loved you?

Cristina: I was a great student.

Burke: How you doin', Grey?

Meredith: Oh, I'm fine, sir, thank you.

Cristina: Move, move, move. [pushes Burke]

George: She doesn't like it when people ask.

Cristina: The ringer's in there with the Chief.

Izzie: Yeah, and whoever it is loves Cristina, because everyone at Stanford just loved Cristina.

Cristina: Shut up.

Burke: She's a motivated student. It's nothing to be ashamed of.

Cristina: Thank you.

Burke: A bit of a kiss-ass, but that's hard to control.

George: Look, they're coming out.

Burke: That's Colin Marlowe.

Alex: Like the Marlowe transplant?

Burke: Like the greatest thing in cardiothoracic surgery in a generation. Dr. Marlowe. I'm Preston Burke. I'm a great admirer of your work, sir. Particularly the...

Colin: Yes, thank you...Would you excuse me for just a second?

[walks over to Cristina, group of interns backs away]

Colin: Well, you going to give me a hug or what?

[hugs Cristina, and squeezes her ass]

Izzie: What are you doing tonight? Cuz I don't wanna go home and find Alex there, and it's just the two of us, ya know? Weird and awkward and he doesn't know whether he should talk to me or not talk to me and it's just such an awkward situation and I'd just rather it'd be group awkwardness, ya know?

[Meredith ducks into closet]

Izzie: I don't just want to be standing there staring at him. Meredith?

Cristina: Hey, have you seen Montgomery?

Izzie: No. Hey, whatchya doin' tonight? You wanna come over? You and I never really get a chance to hang out and it might be kinda fun.

[Cristina ducks into closet]

Izzie: Alex just moved in, which was Meredith's brilliant idea and he still has a thing for me, so it's kinda... What the hell?

Cristina: He was my professor, we were close.

Meredith: He had his hand on your ass, I sure hope you were close!

Derek: [about Meredith, to her father] She’s tough. She tries to hide it. She’s difficult. But if you make an effort, she’s worth it. She’s worth the effort.

Meredith: [voiceover] What's worse, new wounds which are so horribly painful or old wounds that should've healed years ago and never did? Maybe our old wounds teach us something. They remind us where we've been and what we've overcome. They teach us lessons about what to avoid in the future. That's what we like to think. But that's not the way it is, is it? Some things we just have to learn over and over and over again.

My Favorite Mistake [3.19]

Meredith: [voiceover] Surgeons always have a plan. Where to cut, where to clamp, where to stitch. But, even with the best plans complications can arise, things can go wrong. And suddenly, you're caught with your pants down.

Addison: What am I, the go to person for adultery?

...

Addison: God wants you to be an adulterer..?

Izzie: God got a virgin pregnant by magic, God isn't playing by the rules.

Cristina: Nobody, meaning me, needs to hear George's rendition of "Sexyback" at three in the morning.

Izzie: Hours. Hours of out life that are all I can think about and you seriously can't remember?

George: Look, Izzie, I was drunk!. Whatever I did, whatever I said, I'm sure I didn't mean it.

Izzie: Yes George, you meant it. You meant it a lot. You meant it more than once.

Mark: What do you consider your weaknesses?

Addison: I don't have any. I'm that good. What are yours?

Mark: I'm an easy mark for evil redheads.

Addison: (laughs) Trust me, you have other weaknesses. Obviously, you are a manwhore.

Mark: Correction: I was a manwhore.

Alex: Let's meet the contenders. Lets see. This is, this is Maggie. Married a high school sweetheart and has two kids. Loves being a mom. Coaches her daughters basketball-team. And makes an insane banana cream pie. [Jane Doe looks at him funny] Shut up, its my favorite. And this is Elizabeth. Graduated from Northwestern. Met her husband at a political rally where they got arrested and fell in love. She's all angry and fired up, but everyone forgives her cos she means well. This one. This one is Ava. She's funny, she's tough and a little neurotic sometimes, but you get used to it. You can tell she's been through a lot in her life, but it only made her stronger, you know?

Izzie: What she was afraid of was that you were taking on so much of her disease that you were freezing up too. You've spent so much time planning and helping her progress, God knows that's what you should've been doing, but she was worried. You have a healthy body Nina, if you fall down you won't turn to stone. And your mom so wanted you to just let yourself fall. Messing up, it's what makes a person, it's how we learn, where we find joy. And the things you don't plan for, are the things you never see coming.

Izzie: OK it happened, it was a mistake and it happened. People make mistakes. We need to figure out where we go from here we need to figure out how we tell Callie.

George: I'm not going to tell Callie. Do you know how much this would hurt her? I'm not going to clear my conscience at her expense. She has done nothing but support me and encourage me and believe in me and this is how I pay her back. I have to live with what I did. This is our secret. OK?

Izzie: OK

Meredith: I let Mark use the memory of my mother to win points with the Chief. You were right.

Derek: I'm sorry.

Meredith: You know what's weird?

Derek: What's weird?

Meredith: It's exactly what she would have wanted.

Derek: Dead mommy's proud?

Meredith: Dead mommy's proud. [pause] How was your interview?

Derek: Not great. It wasn't great. [Meredith rolls over.] I was distracted.

Meredith: By what?

Derek: Nothing. I don't know.

Meredith: On a scale of 1 to 10 how bad is it?

Derek: Eight.

[Meredith kisses Derek.]

Meredith: How about now?

Derek: Seven.

[Derek kisses Meredith and Meredith rolls on top of Derek.]

Meredith: How about now?

Derek: Six.

[They kiss again. Derek rolls Meredith over.]

Derek: Five, Four, Three...

Meredith: [voiceover] The thing about plans is they don't take into account the unexpected, so when we're thrown a curve ball, whether its in the OR or in life, we have to improvise. Of course, some of us are better at it than others. Some of us just have to move on to plan B and make the best of it. And sometimes what we want is exactly what we need. But sometimes, sometimes what we need is a new plan.

Time After Time [3.20]

Meredith: [voiceover] A patient's history is as important as their symptoms. It's what helps us decide if heart burn's a heart attack... if a head ache's a tumor. Sometimes patients will try to re-write their own histories. They'll claim they don't smoke, or forget to mention certain drugs... which in surgery can be the kiss of death. We can ignore it all we want, but our history eventually always comes back to haunt us.

Derek: You warned me she could become a problem.

Bailey: Who, Meredith?

Derek: You know when you love somebody, you think you can handle it all?

Bailey: You’ve done alright, both of you.

Derek: I came here to be chief, but Meredith complicates that.

Bailey: Huh. Well if this turns into an “either or,” you pick the person you love. End of story. Look, all of this means nothing if you’re alone.

Izzie: [to George] You don't have to keep avoiding me.

George: Yeah I do, until this thing blows over, I do. [to people in the clinic] Javier Jugerreo? Javier Jugerreo?

Izzie: Blows over? What does that even mean?

George: When Meredith and I uh, eventually it blew over, the past.

Izzie: You mean the sad sex? The sad, tragic, depression-inducing sex you had with Meredith is the same as what we-

George: I can't. Back off. Just for now...back off.

Izzie: [to Bailey] I have an eleven year old daughter, and she needs a bone marrow transplant. I'm potentially a good match. Please don't tell anyone, please. This isn't a chapter in my history I want everyone to know about.

Bailey: I understand.

Cristina:[to Meredith about Marlow] I need to force him into the defensive...Take his queen. [Meredith gives her a skeptical look] You've never played chess?

Meredith: I'm not a geek!

Cristina: I've gotta crush him. Annihilate him at his own game.

Alex: [to Meredith] You may be confused since you were basically raised by wolves, but this is what mothers do. They stop by, they stock the fridge...Hey dude, you think she might do our laundry?

Meredith: Hey! Get your own fake mom.

Mark: [to the Chief] There´s no need to be embarrassed. It´s time to shake off the rust and get back in the game. I'll be your wingman.

Chief: I have nothing to say.

Mark: We´d make a great team.

Meredith: You've got stuff on your hands.

Cristina: I'm trying to scare away cardio-god.

Meredith: With pretty, pretty fingers?

Chief: [to Mark] You think that if you get me laid, I'll let you become chief.

Izzie: I can say "Hail Mary's" until-until I turn into Mary, but I still miss you, not the sex. It was not tragic, George. I will live without it, but I won't make it if you can't be my friend.

Meredith: [voiceover] Some people believe that without history, our lives amount to nothing. At some point we all have to choose: do we fall back on what we know, or do we step forward to something new? It's hard not to be haunted by our past. Our history is what shapes us... what guides us. Our history resurfaces time after time after time. So we have to remember sometimes the most important history is the history we’re making today.

Desire [3.21]

Meredith: [voiceover] As interns, we know what we want, to become surgeons. And we'll do anything to get there. Suffer through killer exam, endure one-hundred hour weeks, Stand for hours on end in operating rooms, you name it, we'll do it.

Mark: Twenty-eight more days and then it's you and me in a locked room for record breaking, earth shattering, mind blowing...

Addison: [interrupts] Ok I got it. Thank you.

Mark: That was less than enthusiastic.

Addison: I'm gonna be more enthusiastic when we cross the finish line.

Mark: OK, just making sure you haven't lost interest in the project.

Addison: Not at all.

Mark: Good!

Meredith: Talk about divine retribution.

Izzie: What?

Meredith: He sleeps with his assistant, a carnivorous fish lodges itself in his penis, that's instant karma if I ever seen it.

Cristina: Well, Derek wasn't struck by lightning and neither were you.

Meredith: Addison showed up, I had months of pain and self-loathing, crazy ranting mother and near drowning off the side of the dock. I mean, it's no fish in my hoo-hoo, but it's certainly not an easy ride.

Cristina: You know I cheated on my boyfriends and I'm fine. I mean am I the only one?

Nancy: The wife always knows.

Chief: [To the attendings] Go away!

Addison: But we can help!

Burke: No, we can help.

Addison: What's that supposed to mean?

Burke: He doesn't have any woman parts.

Addison: Irrelevant.

Mark: I'm not what you're looking for.

Addison: What...are you talking about?

Mark: I slept with someone. I couldn't hold it out. Once a manwhore, always a manwhore, right?

Meredith: I'm getting in your bed naked.

Meredith: See now you can't do that!

Derek: Do what?

Meredith: Not look happy after sex. It's bad for the ego.

Derek: I'm fine.

Meredith: Are we fine?

Derek: Sure

Meredith: Not so convincing. I shouldn't have accused you of hovering. It wasn't nice, you were just trying to be there for me. But now I'm being available, and communicating, and getting naked, and doing all of your favorite things.

Derek: Good things.

Meredith: Then why are you still staring at the ceiling?

Derek: I don't know, it's just, that day, you came out of the water. I spent the scariest hour of my life, trying to breathe for you. I love you, and I want you, but I don't know what to...you didn't swim. You didn't swim and you know how to. And I don't know if I can... I don't know if I wanna keep trying to breathe for you.

[pause]

Meredith: I should go. I'll go.

George: Wait, you don't even have a penis. How am I the fish?

Meredith: [voiceover] Too often, the thing you want most is the one thing you can’t have. Desire leaves us heartbroken, it wears us out. Desire can wreck your life. And as tough as wanting something can be, the people who suffer the most are those who don’t know what they want.

The Other Side of This Life [3.22 & 3.23]

Meredith: [voiceover]:The dream is this - that we`ll finally be happy when we reach our goals -find the guy, finish our internship, that`s the dream. Then we get there. And if we`re human, we immediately start dreaming of something else. Because, if this is the dream, then we`d like to wake up. Now, please!

Jackson: Never talk about your penis when you hug another man.

Jackson: [in answer to whether or not a husband with sexual problems "still likes sex"] He's a guy and he's not dead. I'm guessing yes.

Callie: Oh hi.

Cristina: Hello.

Callie: Some one have bones that need resetting?

Cristina: [mumbles something]

Callie: Excuse me?

Cristina [forced]: Bridesmaids...my mother and Burke's mother have been talking on the phone and now, they are here, with me.

Cristina's mom: To plan the wedding.

Burke's mom: Cristina led us to believe that you´re friends.

[Callie laughs but quickly realizes that they are serious]

Callie: ...Okay, I guess.

[Cristina's mom goes to measure under Callie's arms with a tape measure]

Callie: Oh wow...wait

[Cristina laughs]

Callie: What are you...are you? You're actually asking me...

Cristina: To be my bridesmaid, yeah.

Meredith: When I drowned, it was different for you than it was for me. Something happened to me, and I really don't know how to explain it without sounding like...I just feel different - I wanna be better at everything, and I wanna let you in. I swear.

Derek: Did you practice that?

[Both laugh]

Meredith: With hand gestures, but I dropped those. Just, now is not the time to give up on me, ok? That´s what I´m saying.

Derek: Ok.

Meredith: Ok?

Derek: Yes.

Addison: You work with your ex-husband in a shrine for your ex-husband.

Naomi: It’s actually a good book. And we're friends. And we stayed friends after we divorced. It’s very healthy. We're healthy.

Addison: What happened between you and Sam?

Naomi: Addison – you and I were close in med school, but it was a long time ago.

Addison: Oh- Naomi. Come on – you can’t stay mad at me forever. I know you.

Naomi: You got fat.

Addison: I did not!

Naomi: Your hair is hideous.

Addison: It is not!

Naomi: And you're getting really, really ugly.

Addison: Aww-I missed you too.

Callie: OK. I rescheduled an A.C.L. repair, but I wanna be clear: I will not be wearing pink or baby blue. I do not do flowers in my hair. And I will never be seen with a bow on my ass, OK?

Cristina: See? She's got the right attitude.

[Addison slaps Sam's head]

Sam: Ow!

Addison: Idiot – you divorced Naomi?

Sam: Just mind your own business.

Addison: [slaps Sam's head again]

Sam: Ouch!

Addison: Moron. She’s my best friend.

Sam: Stop hitting me on top of my head.

Addison: Did you cheat? [goes in to hit Sam again]

Sam: Okay. [catches her hand] Two things I learned back in kindergarten. One – keep your hands to yourself. Two – he who smelt it, dealt it.

Addison: That makes no sense.

Sam: Yeah…well – you cheated…you cheated on your husband with his best friend. There. Smelt it, dealt it. It works.

Addison: You're using fart logic!

Sam: Hey...you want details, go see Naomi.

Addison: She won't talk about it.

Sam: Ah...Then you get no details.

Addison: I'm on her side, you know that?

Sam: That's why you get no details.

Addison: [puts her fists on the desk] DETAILS.

Sam: Woman, be quiet...

[Both grin]

Addison: I missed you.

Addison: It's just, where I come from elevators tend to be this kind of aphrodisiac, you know? People get on them and they just get all horny.

Mark: Go ahead. I would love to have an excuse to lay you out.

Alex: I didn´t do anything.

Mark: Whatever you didn´t do sent Addison running through the hills.

Naomi: There is no fertility potential here.

Addison: [laughs sarcastically] Ahh. Ok, this is good. This is ahm, this is just...perfect.

Naomi: Addison.

Addison: I have a great guy, I don't have a baby, because I'm focusing on my career. Then I have the other guy and I don't have his baby because he's not the great guy. And now I don't have the great guy or the other guy and I'm finally ready to have a baby but I can't. That is so... exactly what my life is.

Naomi: Addie, there are other options.

Addison: Yeah, I know about the options.

Naomi: I´m so sorry. I know how much you wanted this.

Addison: It's okay. I just ahm,..I just didn't realize that I was out of time.

Violet: What’s the matter, Cooper?

Cooper: I don’t go to hookers, I don’t go to strip clubs. I meet women on the internet, who want to meet me. So I like them a little younger and a little dirtier. Is that wrong?

[Naomi & Violet just stare at him]

Cooper: It's wrong?

Naomi: You need to meet a grown up. You need to date someone your own age.

Violet: Someone without a porny internet name and perhaps no criminal past.

Naomi: A nice girl.

Violet: A reliable girl.

Naomi: Someone who you can have a relationship with.

Violet: You’re a respected doctor.

Naomi: Go out in the real world. Meet a woman your own age and go out.

Violet: Be a man.

[Addison is sitting in a stairwell, crying]

Pete: There you are. I just stopped by to see how Lisa and the baby are doing.

Addison: [wipes her eyes]

Pete: You okay?

Addison: Yeah – I uh, had a little too much surgery today. I’m good.

Pete: You look good. You look beautiful. Sam told me I had to stay away from you because your Naomi’s friend.

Addison: Stop it.

Pete: What?

Addison: You're flirting.

Pete: What’s wrong with flirting?

Addison: What’s wrong with it? What’s wrong? What’s wrong is that I don’t have time for it. I am out of time. I missed my chance. And now I have 2 eggs left, I might as well have no eggs left. I am egg-less. Naomi says she’s dried up? I’m the one who's dried up – I’m all barren and dried up. And I’m clearly wasting my time on men. I mean, I might as well take up hobbies. Like needlepoint or collecting those ceramic dolls because that’s what dried up women do – they do needlepoint. They don’t waste their time flirting with men who clearly just want to get laid. [get’s choked up] …They don’t waste their time telling overly personal information about their eggs to total strangers. Oh my God - I'm sorry.

[Addison stands up - but Pete grabs her]

Addison: What are you doing?

Pete:I’m going to kiss you. I’m going to kiss you with tongue. I’m going kiss you so you feel it. Okay?

Addison: [wipes her nose] Okay.

[they kiss]:

Addison: What was that for?

Pete: To remind you that you’re not dried up. [walks down the stairs] If you need me to remind you again - lemme know. [walks out the door]

Addison: Okay.

Meredith: [voiceover] Maybe we accept the dream has become a nightmare. We tell ourselves that reality is better. We convince ourselves it's better that we never dream at all. But, the strongest of us, the most determined of us, holds on to the dream or we find ourselves faced with a fresh dream we never considered. We wake to find ourselves, against all odds, feeling hopeful. And, if we're lucky, we realize in the face of everything, in the face of life the true dream is being able to dream at all.

Testing 1-2-3 [3.24]

Meredith: [voiceover] A surgeon's education never ends. Every patient, every symptom, every operation...is a test. A chance for us to demonstrate how much we know. And how much more we have to learn.

Burke: Look, I know this is test day and I'm not supposed to be talking about the wedding on test day, but since tomorrow's our wedding day...

Cristina: You have five seconds. Go.

Burke: Bill Adams can't make it. I have no best man.

Cristina: Oh, no, baby, I'm sorry.

Burke: And I need your vows -

Cristina: OK! Time's up!

Burke: Cristina!

Cristina: Test day!

Burke: What am I supposed to tell the minister?

Cristina: Test day!

Chief: So, how you feeling, Preston? You ready?

Burke: Well, I'm always ready for surgery.

Derek: I think he's talking about the wedding.

Richard: Yah, tomorrow's a big day.

Burke: And apart from the fact that Cristina hasn't written her vows, my best man just cancelled, and it's still raining.

Derek: He's not ready.

Richard: You're never ready. I certainly wasn't. And then, the minute I saw Adele coming down that aisle...Well. Have you picked your best man?

Burke: Actually, Chief...

Derek: You can't be his best man!

Richard: Why not?

Derek: It's unethical; it's a conflict of interest. The man wants to be Chief of Surgery.

Burke: Actually, Derek...

Derek: Not that that's why you're asking...

Burke: I was going to ask you.

Derek: Ask me what? [pauses] Oh! Really?

Burke: We have been through a lot this year.

Derek: And everybody else turned you down. Alright, what do I have to do?

Richard: Well, traditionally, the best man plans the bachelor party.

Derek: Drinks at Joe's after work.

Burke: I knew you were the man for the job.

Meredith: So are you going to give me an inspirational speech too?

Alex: No.

Mark: The bachelor party was short handed. Which explains why I'm here.

Addison: I'm the only woman here. Am I supposed to the be the entertainment? Because I'm not stripping.

Derek: [referring to himself and Mark] That's all right, we've all seen it before.

Mark: True.

Burke: I haven't.

Izzie: You don't have to do this. You don't have to transfer to Mercy West

George: Yeah, I do

Izzie: No. Just forget about you and me for a second. What about Meredith? What about Alex and Cristina? Who's gonna hold us together if you're not here? You're the glue. You're George.

George: I can't stay here.

Izzie: No one's making you go.

George: I can't stay here and see you everyday, and I...I can't keep kissing you in elevators.

Izzie: I know, I know that.

George: I'm married...I'm a married man.

Chief: You're not to blame for Susan Grey's death and you know that, and your father knows it too. He's just... well, he's never been the best communicator. And he just lost his wife.

Meredith: Stop acting like my surrogate father.

Chief: Meredith I'm, uhm...

Meredith: Just because you slept with my mother... That does not make you my father!

Addison: I am being stalked by pregnant women.

Callie: You're an obstetrician.

Addison: It´s a great time. I won´t let me and my fossilised eggs discourage you.

Callie: We´re gonna be friends still if I get pregnant?

Addison: Absolutely not!

[Both grin]

Meredith: If you called me here to lecture me...

Chief: There's a copy of the interns' exam on the table. And a number two pencil and a bottle of water and a sandwich if you get hungry. I assigned a proctor and I will come back in a few hours to check on you.

[The Chief starts to leave]

Meredith: You're not my father.

[He stops immediately and looks at her]

Chief: I know that.

[They exchange a look, then he pulls her into a hug. Relieved, she sinks in his arms and starts to cry]

Chief: I know.

Cristina: What am I supposed to say? "I swear to love and cherish you every moment of everyday of my life?" I mean, th-th-that's not real. I mean, that's not how it works, right?

Callie: It does, at first, but then it...

Meredith: ...It passes.

Izzie: No it doesn't. You guys are just used to it, that's all. You already have it, you have that thing everybody else wants. You can take it for granted, but let me tell you, if you didn't - if you couldn't be with the person that you love, I guarantee that hearing him promise you to love you and honor you and cherish you, no matter what, it would be pretty much all you could think about.

Cristina: Wait, can you say that again? Just slowly.

Meredith: You're talking about Denny, right?

Izzie: Right.

Didn't We Almost Have It All? [3.25]

Chief: Being chief is about responsibility. Every single surgical patient in a hospital is your patient. Whether you´re the one who cut them open or not. The scalpel stopped with these. You need to be able to look at her family. And to tell them your team did everything they could to save someones job. The husband, the wife, you get caught up. Taking care about the people´s families. And responsibility... it makes you... you take care of the people's families. And you sacrifice your own.

Meredith: I know I haven´t been myself lately, but I´m me again, so I was thinking maybe you should sleep over because the me that I am is horny for the you that you are.

Derek: I met a woman last night.

Meredith: You met a woman last night.

Derek: I´m telling you this because we don´t keep secrets. I don´t keep secrets. Nothing happened. She was pretty, I noticed. And we talked.

Meredith: You met a woman last night.

Derek: Yeah.

Meredith: So, should I be worried or something?

Derek: Should you be worried that I met a woman? No. Should you be worried that, for me, flirting with that woman was a highlight of my week? Yeah, you should be worried or something.

Izzie: [to George] I am an optimist. I am a fool. I am not sure. Because I'm your best friend, because I love you, if what you want is to be with Callie then I will do everything in my power to support you and help you make your marriage work. Because I'm your best friend, because I love you. I also have to say, that I'm in love with you. I'm in love with you. I can't promise a future, I can't promise perfection, because we're us, you and me, no one knows what will happen. But in my heart, I am sure, I'm in love with you George. And I hope you're in love with me too.

Meredith: If you wanna break up with me so you can see other women, just do it. Don't tell me you met another woman. Just end it if that's what you want.

Derek: I can't.

Meredith: Sure you can. Here´s how it goes: Meredith I don't wanna see you anymore. Meredith I don't love you anymore.

Derek: Meredith, I do love you. Don't you see? Don't you understand? You're the love of my life. I can't leave you. But you're constantly leaving me. You walk away when you want, you come back when you want. Not everyone. Not your friends, but you leave me. So I'm asking you, if you don't see a future for us, if you're not in this, please, please just end it because I can't. I'm in it. Put me out of my misery.

Meredith: I...I can't...I...Cristina's getting married. I have to go make sure she gets married.

Meredith: You marrying Burke, it´s a sign. Sign that people like you and me ... can do this. Be healthy, be happy. You marrying Burke restores my faith in... me.

Cristina: Ohhhh, I get it. My wedding is about you.

Meredith: Yes.

Cristina: Okay.

Cristina: Meredith, please say something, say something!

Meredith: I...I don´t know.

Cristina: Say what I would say you if you were me.

Meredith: Okay.

Cristina: Good.

Meredith: Got it.

Cristina: Good. Go.

Meredith: Stop whining. This is your wedding day. You will go down that aisle. You will get married! If I had to kick your ass, every step by the way to get you there. You will walk down the aisle and you will get married. Do you hear me Cristina? We need this. We need you to get your happy ending.

Cristina: Okay, I´m ready.

Addison: I need this job Richard. I need it more than the others.

Richard: Addison,

Addison: No, I need a reason to stay here. I need a reason to get up every morning. I need to get up and not care if it´s raining or that I´m thirty nine and alone.

Richard: That´s WHY. If you need a job to get a new life you either need a new job or a new life.

[Burke had just walked through the door to where Cristina was waiting to come into the church.]

Cristina: I'm ready. I'm fine. Meredith talked me down. Really, I'm fine. Go, go, go. I'll be right behind you.

Burke: I'm sorry.

Cristina: Oh. No, I can do this. Y'know, I had a momentary freak out, but now I'm fine. I can do this.

Burke: But you don't want to do this. I'm up there waiting for you to come down that aisle, and I know you don't want to come. I know you don't want to come but that you'll come anyway because you love me. And if I loved you - if I loved you, not the woman that I'm trying to make you be, not the woman that I'm hoping you'll become – but you. If I did, I wouldn’t be up there waiting for you. I'd be letting you go.

Cristina: I am wearing the dress. I'm ready. And, and maybe I didn't want to before. But I want to now. I really think I want this.

Burke: I really wish you didn’t think. I wish that you knew.

Mark: [to Derek] I was an excellent best man.

Derek: [to Burke] Worst case scenario I sleep with your wife in ten years.

[Derek and Burke grin]

Burke: Cristina; I could promise to hold you, and to cherish you. I could promise to be there in sickness and in health. I could say 'til death do us part, but I won't. Those vows are for optimistic couples, the ones full of hope. And I do not stand here on my wedding day optimistic or full of hope. I am not optimistic, I am not. I am sure. I am steady. And I know I am a heart man, take them apart, put them back together. I hold them in my hands. I am a heart man. So this, I am sure. You are my partner, my lover, my very best friend. My heart, my heart, beats for you. And on this day, the day of our wedding, I promise you this. I promise you to lay my heart in the palm of your hands. I promise you, me.

...

Addison: I think I speak for every woman here when I say... dump her. Dump Yang and marry me.

Addison: [to Alex] We do not get unlimited chances to have the things we want. And this I know ... nothing is worse than missing an opportunity that could've changed your life.

Meredith: It´s over. You can all go home. It´s over...so over.

Cristina: He's gone.

Meredith: I-I-I don't think he's gone. Uh, his stuff is here.

Cristina: No, it isn't. His trumpet was here. His entire Eugene Foot Collection—vinyls and cd's...his grandmother's picture was by the bed...his lucky scrub cap was hanging on the door. He's gone. I'm...I'm free. Damn it. (sobs) Damn it. Damn it. Damn it. (crying) Oh god, get this off of me. Take this off! Take this off!

Meredith: Please just...

Cristina (gasping): I can't...(sobbing) Help me! Help me! Help me!

A Change Is Gonna Come [4.1]

Meredith: [voiceover] In the practice of medicine, change is inevitable. New surgical techniques are created, procedures are updated, levels of expertise increase. Innovation is everything, nothing remains the same for long. We either adapt to change, or we get left behind.

[The new residents meet their new interns.]

Cristina: [to interns] I have five rules. Memorize them. Rule number one, don't bother sucking up. I already hate you, that's not gonna change.

Izzie: Traumas protocol, phone lists, pagers. The nurses will page you, you answer every page at a run. A run. That's rule number two. [notices the interns are not following her] You're supposed to follow me.

Alex: The first shift starts now and lasts 36 hours. You're grunts, nobodies, the bottom of the surgical food chain. You run labs, write orders, work every second night until you drop. And you don't complain.

Meredith: On call rooms. Sleep when you can, where you can. You know, but not with anybody. Not attendings, especially not attendings. Sleeping with attendings, not a good idea. Where was I?

George: Er, rule number three. If you're sleeping, do not wake you unless the patient is actually dying.

Cristina: The dying patient better not be dead when I get there, because not only will you have killed someone, you will have woken me for no good reason. Are we clear? [Lexie raises her hand] Yes?

Lexie: That was four rules. You said five.

Cristina: Rule number five. When I move, you move. [awkward pause as nobody moves] Go! [Cristina's interns scramble off]

[George comes into room]

Cristina: Ah, George! Severed arm, Meredith's half sister is my intern, Izzie's playing Dr. Doolittle, oh, and Alex hates your wife.

Derek: How is Meredith, anyway?

Cristina: Fine.

Derek: She's always fine. That´s her problem.

Cristina: We're fine people. We do fine. We're fine.

Derek: [to Lexie] You're the girl from the bar.

Meredith: Girl from the bar? I'm the girl from the bar.

Alex: Torres is a bitch.

Izzie: Word!

Izzie: [to George] I tell you that I love you, and not one word? For 17 days? Where have you been?

Izzie: I'm bambi. I'm bambi, George. If anyone in this situation is a sad little cartoon character, it's me. I'm all alone in the forest, all alone in the forest, George. And my mother's been shot by a hunter and where are you? Where the hell are you?

Nancy: I can't do any of this alone. I don't want to be alone anymore.

Meredith: I know.

Nancy: No, I'm scared.

Meredith: I know.

Nancy: I am scared, Meredith.

Meredith: I know.

Meredith: I think it's very brave, what you're doing. It's much better to be alone and feel like a success than to be in a relationship and feel like a failure all the time, right?

Nancy: That's what I think.

Meredith: So let's just take care of your arm, and then we'll deal with the rest later, okay?

Mark: I didn´t come to Seattle for Addison, I didn´t come to Seattle to be chief. I came to Seattle for you, okay? I came to Seattle to get you back.(Both smile).I know I wanna take it back, but now, it´s said..(laughs a little about himself)

Derek: Yeah...May be we should have a drink.

Mark: We could?

Derek: Yeah.(smiles)..(stops smiling)Not today.

(Left Mark standing, but stupid smiling)

Meredith: I...uhm...

Derek: You're not ready for this.

Meredith: No.

Derek: I asked for too much.

Meredith: I think so.

Derek: So, this is it?

Meredith: Yeah.

Derek: We're breaking up?

Meredith: We're breaking up.

Derek: [Walks to Meredith] We're broken up.

Meredith: It's done.

[They start kissing]

Derek: Break-up kiss.

Meredith: Break-up kiss.

Derek: [Removes his jacket] And some break-up sex.

Meredith: Yeah, break-up sex.

Cristina: Oh, why is everyone so tingly and hurt? I mean, I'm the one who was left at the altar. I'm fine, by the way. I honeymooned in Hawaii and I snorkeled.

Mark: I really am up for a drink, you know if you need to talk.

Derek: What would I need to talk about?

Mark: Meredith. You were lucky, man. That girl jerked you around.

Derek: You have no idea what you're talking about.

Mark: Hey, I'm just... seem like you can use a friend right about now.

Derek: Meredith's mother never wanted her and her father was never man enough to hang around. She has a right to be damaged and us, together? It's a big step for her. Her best friend gets left at the altar, and all she sees now is things like this, they don't work. She panics. She wants this, she doesn't know how to have it. And you know what? It's not her fault. So don't ever talk to me about Meredith Grey again because you do not know what you are talking about. And I don't want a friend.

Meredith: Change; we don’t like it, we fear it, but we can't stop it from coming. We either adapt to change or we get left behind. And it hurts to grow, anybody who tells you it doesn’t is lying. But here's the truth: The more things change, the more they stay the same. And sometimes, oh, sometimes change is good. Sometimes change...Is..Everything.

George(to Izzie): I love you, too.

Love/Addiction [4.2]

Meredith: [voiceover] In the hospital, we see addiction every day. It's shocking how many kinds of addiction exist. It would be too easy if it were just drugs and booze and cigarettes. I think the hardest part of kicking a habit is wanting to kick it. I mean, we get addicted for a reason, right? Often, too often, things that start out as just a normal part of your life at some point cross the line to obsessive, compulsive, out of control. It's the high we're chasing, the high that makes everything else fade away.

Mark: Let me guess, you and Meredith are back together and you've been up all night doing the horizontal salsa.

Derek: Mambo. Horizontal mambo. Meredith and I, we're just friends.

Mark: Sexy friends.

Derek: You're like the worst, most juvenile human being I've ever met in my life.

Mark: You know the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem?

Derek: How many nurses have you slept with this week?

Mark: That's not a problem, man. That’s an adventure

Bailey: Would you look at the residents, big snazzy residents, standing around playing with housewares.

Cristina: Turn a blind eye and the soup tureen's yours.

[Pager beeps]

Cristina: Carnage in the pit. My day is improving. [Cristina walks away and turns to her interns]

Cristina: Follow. [Interns run to follow her]

Lexie: We're not gonna round?

Cristina: Carnage trumps rounds, Three. Write that down. Carnage always trumps rounds.

Chief: What do we have?

Callie: Gas main blew in an apartment building, five injured, some badly.

Cristina: Excellent... Horrible, horrible — sad.

Meredith: Hey, what's the 911?

Cristina: Mama is here.

Meredith: Your mother?

Cristina: No, not my mother. Mama. Mama is here.

Meredith: Oh, Burke's mother.

Cristina: Yeah, make the synapses fire a little more quickly, Meredith.

Meredith: We agreed, S and M only.

Derek: S and M?

Meredith: Sex and mockery.

Meredith: [voiceover] The thing about addiction is it never ends well, because eventually, whatever it is that was getting us high stops feeling good and starts to hurt. Still, they say you don’t kick the habit until you hit rock bottom, but how do you know when you’re there? Because no matter how badly a thing is hurting us, sometimes letting it go hurts even worse.

Let the Truth Sting [4.3]

Meredith: [voiceover] Doctors give patients a number of things. We give them medicine, we give them advice, and most of the time, we give them our undivided attention. But, by far, the hardest thing you can give a patient is the truth. The truth is hard. The truth is awkward, and very often, the truth hurts. I mean, people think they want the truth, but do they really?

Cristina: She´s doing McDreamy! She´s doing McDreamy and lying about it. Does she think I´m weak, that I´m fragile?! Does she think I can´t handle it because of Burke?

Meredith: Hey.

Cristina: (pretending to be sad and broken) Hey.

Meredith: You okay?

Cristina: I don´t know. I think it´s all just hitting me. Stupid Burke dumping me and then stupid Mama coming to reclaim her magic necklace.

Meredith: You wanna to talk about it?

Cristina: No, not really, not yet.

Meredith: Ok, well if there´s anything I can do...

Cristina: I just wish I could do surgery, surgery would make me feel better...(Merediths looks critical).. 1,2,3,4, follow me...

George: Do you know how to do the procedure?

Webber: (looks at Sloan, who looks back) Are you saying that we´re too old to learn new ways O'Malley?

George: No.

Richard: Are you saying we´re old dogs who can´t learn new tricks?

George: No. I just...

Mark:We´re not old dogs.

Webber: We still got it.

Derek: Meredith isn´t telling Cristina about us. She tells Cristina everything.

Mark: I thought you broke that off.

Derek: I meant to.

Mark: You think she´s gonna wanna get back together. You think she´s gonna grow up and get all whole and want a relationship.

Derek: I do not.

Mark: You´re a bad liar.

Derek: You´re old.

Mark: I´m just getting started my friend.

Cristina: I´m stuck in the pit with these know-nothing interns. You'd think eventually I could catch a break.

Meredith: Cristina, are we ever gonna talk about this? The Burke thing?

Cristina: I´m not Izzie. I´m not gonna lay at the bathroom floor all day. I´m gonna lay here...on the counter.

Meredith: I think you should have the hemiglossectomy.

Cristina: What?

Meredith: You take the hemiglossectomy and I will take the ER and your interns.

Cristina: Are you sure?

Meredith: Take the surgery. Makes you feel better and you start to regain strength.(Meredith leaves)

Alex: I saw the whole thing, Yang. You can stop pretending.

Cristina: Oh I´m not pretending. I´m sad. I´m very sad. (makes a childish voice) Me so sad.

Alex: Maybe I should try it.

Cristina: Hey forget it. Sad is mine. Go find your own pretend emotion.

Charlie: (calls Izzie) Blondieee.

Callie: Just say it.

George: I slept with Izzie.

Izzie: Charlie, the truth is you were a bastard. You were, you were mean and stubborn and just a bastard. But you were a bastard who knew what you wanted and you stuck to your guns and you proved that if you want something badly enough, if you're determined enough and appreciative enough eventually it will happen. It will! That gives me hope, so thanks for that. Good bye, Charlie.

Meredith: [voiceover] The truth is painful. Deep down nobody wants to hear it, especially when it hits close to home. Sometimes we tell the truth because the truth is all we have to give. Sometimes we tell the truth because we need to say it out loud to hear it for ourselves. And sometimes we tell the truth because we just can't help ourselves. Sometimes, we tell them, because we owe them at least that much.

The Heart of the Matter [4.4]

Meredith: In life only one thing is certain, apart from death and taxes: No matter how hard you try, no matter how good your intentions, you are going to make mistakes. You are going to hurt people. You are going to get hurt. And if you ever want to recover, theres really only one thing you can say...

George: Callie...you haven't said anything and...just say something...please, anything.

Callie: I forgive you.

George: What?

Callie: You made a mistake, but we took vows, til death do we part so...I forgive you.

Meredith (to Derek): Not-couples have no reason to go away together.

Cristina: Oh...great...im stuck in the pit taking smack heads and gang bangers with my idiot interns and you're getting mcdreamy'd in the elevator.

Meredith: Really, smack heads and gang bangers at seattle grace, huh?

Cristina: My point is, I hate interns.

Meredith: Lexie's not that bad is she?

Cristina: Oh, are we not hating her anymore?

Meredith: Oh no, we still hate the idea of her. We just realize we don't have reason to hate the actual person.

Cristina: She's an intern. That's reason enough.

Meredith: Ohhh I think you may be the new Nazi

Cristina: Damn right

Izzie: Now I know charting doesn't seem as exciting as surgery, but it is as important. Believe me when I tell you, penmanship saves lives! Is that a 7, or is that a 9? If I have to ask myself that in the middle of an emergency, your patient is dead. You killed him. With your handwriting. Think about that!

Izzie: Callie! Hey. Hi.

Callie: We have to talk

Izzie: OK. Um, about?

Callie: George told me.

Izzie: He told you.

Callie: Everything. Cafeteria, Noon, You and Me, Be There.

Izzie: No, shes saving all her rage and bloodshed for me. And she's gonna kill me in the cafeteria at lunch.

George: No she wouldn't.

Izzie: She breaks bones for a living George, she's crazy!

George: No shes not crazy.

Izzie: Well she is if she thinks I'm not gonna put up a fight.

Alex (to Izzie): So whats its gonna be? Stevens gets her bones broken? Or Callie gets taken to the trailer park?

Bailey: People are stupid and just want to be loved. That's the only reason anyone does anything.

Cristina (to Izzie): You were very ghettofabulous.

Sloane: And Meredith, she's still an intern don't kid yourself. She's green, she's a baby, and the only difference between her and the old guy she's got trailing her is that you're not sleeping with the old guy.

Callie: I thought you quit smoking. Wasn't that the deal? Ruthie loses 40 pounds and you quit smoking?

Will: My girlfriend's in emergency surgery, I think she'll forgive me for smoking.

Callie: No, no she won't, because she's dead. Ruthies dead. Dr. Bailey tried to stop the bleeding but because shes been starving herself and overtraining, her heart couldn't take the strain!

Will: You think this is my fault? She wanted to lose the weight. I just wanted her to be healthy.

Callie: She was healthy 20 pounds ago. You just wanted her to be hot, especially if you were gonna move in with her right?

Will: Look...I loved her.

Callie: You didn't love her! You just didn't want to be alone. Or maybe, maybe she was good for your ego. Or, or maybe she made you feel better about your miserable life, but you didn't love her, because you don't destroy the person that you love!

Will: Get her away from me!

Callie: You gonna hit me? You gonna hit me?! Give me some excuse to kick somebody's ass!

Chief Webber (to niece, Camille): My world is a better place with you in it.

Izzie: Callie, Callie wait, please, wait. I'm sorry about the cafeteria. I didn't think you wanted to talk to me. I thought you wanted to kill me. I'm sorry about everything...with George, I...I'm really sorry. I feel terrible.

Callie: You feel terrible? You took advantage, he was your best friend. I tried to trust you. So much that I convinced myself that it was all in my head, that I was crazy. But I wasn't, was I? And then you pulled that thing in the cafeteria today. It's not bad enough that you humiliate me by getting in bed with my husband, you have to humiliate me at work too. George may be the one who broke his vows but you...we're women, Izzie. You did this to another woman. You took something from me. You stole something from me like a petty little thief. YOU are the one who should be humiliated. YOU are the one who should be ashamed. You are the one...don't you dare come to me for forgiveness you traitorous bitch.

George: Callie. You can't just forgive me. What I did to you, it's unforgivable.

Callie: That's how it works. That's what I forgive you means.

George: No, see, I think it means you don't forgive me. And you don't know how to talk to me right now, and I mean look! You don't...you can't even look at me. You're so angry that I think the only way you can deal with me is to say you forgive me and what...we pretend it didn't happen? It happened, and you don't forgive me.

Callie: You're right, I don't.

Meredith: So, I got Alex to cover for me so I can leave right after I round on my patients... 48 uninterrupted hours!

Derek: Yeah, yeah, yeah... um... you know, maybe this is not a good weekend.

Meredith: What did Lexie say about me?

Derek: She didn't say anything. I did all the talking. Oh, don't blame her.

Meredith: So what, you're friends with my sister now? I mean, you talked to the other Grey about me?

Derek: You know what I talked about with the other Grey? All the things this Grey won't let me say.

Meredith: You can say anything to me.

Derek: I want to marry you. I want to have kids with you. I want to build us a house. I want to settle down and grow old with you. I want to die when I'm 110 years old, in your arms. I don't want 48 uninterrupted hours. I want a lifetime.

Derek: Mm. See what happens? I say things like that, and you fight the urge to run in the opposite direction. It's ok. I understand. I didn't, but now I do. I do. You're just getting started and I've been doing this for a long time. Deep down, you're still an intern, and you're not ready.

Meredith: I'm not ready right now. But things can stay the way they are, and I can get ready. I'll get ready.

Derek: Things can stay the way they are. We can still meet in the elevator, the on-call room, and maybe you'll get ready. And I'll wait. I'll wait until you're ready.

Meredith: Ok, then...

Derek: Yeah, but what if, what if while I'm waiting, I meet someone who is ready to give me what I want from you?

Meredith: What if you do?

Derek: I don't know...

Meredith: (voiceover) Forgive and forget. That's what they say. It's good advice, but it's not very practical. When someone hurts us, we want to hurt them back. When someone wrongs us, we want to be right. Without forgiveness old scores never settle. Old wounds never heal, and the most we can hope for is that someday we'll be lucky enough to forget.

Haunt You Every Day [4.5]

Meredith: (voiceover): There’s a reason surgeons learn to wield scalpels. We like to pretend we’re hard, cold scientists. We like to pretend we're fearless. But the truth is we become surgeons because somewhere deep down we think we can cut away that which haunts us. Weakness, frailty, death.

[Izzie and Alex are carving pumpkins in the kitchen. Meredith enters, gets out a plastic baggie and dumps her mom's ashes into the bag.]

Izzie: What's that?

Meredith: [zipping up the baggie] My mother.

Alex: Happy freakin' Halloween.

Cristina:: What are we looking at?

Izzie: Meredith put her Mom in a baggie and brought her to work.

Meredith: I had to get her out of my closet, she was haunting me.

Alex: Now she’s haunting us all.

Callie: You should direct your questions to Dr. Bailey, Stevens.

Cristina: Oh, we’re directing our questions to Dr. Bailey?

Callie: Oh, not you, just Stevens.

Bailey: Why is Stevens directing her questions to Dr. Bailey?

Callie: Because she’s been sleeping with my husband. Alrighty then, have a good day.

Cristina: This is more disturbing than your bag full of Mommy.

Derek: What is that?

Meredith: It’s charts.

Derek: Meredith…

Meredith: It’s my mom. I had her in the cubby and she was freaking people out. I was just gonna go put her in the car. Do you think that’s disrespectful? To leave her in the car?

Derek: It’s a little….

Meredith: It’s not that strange. I mean, I’m trying to figure out how to put her to rest. I can’t shove her in the back of my closet anymore. I have to deal with her. And this is me trying…to evolve. I’m trying here. So, cubby or car?

Derek: You’re asking me if I think you should put your mom’s ashes in your cubby or your car. You don’t think that’s very very strange?

Boy: Are those really your mom’s ashes?

Derek: It’s strange, right? It’s strange.

Mark: Good morning.

Olivia: Don’t. Don’t do that. Don’t smile at me.

Nurse 2: Don’t smile at her. Don’t smile at me either.

Olivia: We’re on to you.

Nurse 2: We’ve compared notes.

Mark: Compared notes? Really?

Olivia: Compared notes. Compared pick-up lines. Compared techniques.

Mark: Techniques….

Olivia and Nurse 2: Identical.

Mark: Identical?

Olivia: We formed a club. Nurses United Against Mark Sloan.

Mark: Are there any club activities?

Derek: What did you do?

Mark: I spread the word you were lookin'

Derek: You spread the word I was looking?

Mark: Lookin' ... it sounds much dirtier without the "g."

Mark: You gotta love Halloween. All the crazies come out to play.

Mark: I heard. About your marriage. And if there’s anything you need me to do, to cheer you up, I’m around. Day or night. Night, in particular.

Mark: Oh man, you would not believe what just happened to me.

Derek: There is uh, a kid looking for you.

Mark: What?

Boy: Daddy?

Mark: WHAT?

Derek: Nicely done. (Derek hands him money)

Boy: Thanks.

Mark: I'll be getting you back for that.

Derek: Looking forward to it.

Dr. Bailey: Look, you're not a bad guy. And I don't mean to let you off the hook entirely, because what you did was unkind and hurtful and wrong. But you're not a bad guy. I'm just saying it takes two to reach the point you reached in your marrige. It takes two. I mean, I'm here, late at night, halloween helping an earless boy get ears and my husband wants to act like that ain't an important thing. He wants to act like it isn't a good thing that I did today. Now that isn't just on me. That's him wanting things to be the way he wants. It's him wanting things to be purely black and white. I mean, I missed my sons first halloween and my heart is aching inside of my chest but you know, that doesn't mean anything. It doesn't count. Because in a black and white world, I simply didn't make it home and that makes me the bad guy. I'm always... I'm always the bad guy. You hear what I'm saying?

Meredith: It isn't just surgeons. I don't know anyone who isn't haunted by something or someone. And whether we try to slice the pain away with a scalpel or shove it in the back of a closet- our efforts usually fail. So the only way we can clear out the cobwebs is to turn a new page or put an old story to rest- finally, finally to rest.

Kung Fu Fighting [4.6]

Meredith (voiceover): There’s this thing about being a surgeon. Maybe it’s pride or maybe it’s just about being tough. But a true surgeon never admits they need help unless absolutely necessary. Surgeons don’t need to ask for help because they’re tougher than that. Surgeons are cowboys. Rough around the edges. Hardcore. At least, that’s what they want you to think.

Cristina: Ok, what are your other symptoms?

Meredith: Ok...there’s the father thing. The mother thing. The sister thing...mm...the dying and coming back to life thing.

Cristina: You have too many things.

Meredith: I can’t sleep. I can’t sleep without the dreaming.

Cristina: And the panic attacks

Meredith: One, one panic attack. What’s wrong with me?

Cristina: As far as a I can tell...severe abandonment issues.

Meredith: That’s crap. Psych is crap. Issues.

Cristina: It’s in the book. The book said it not me. Have you consider maybe you and Derek should stop having break-up sex? Ok…

Meredith: The more available he gets...the more I pull away.

Cristina: What do you mean?

Meredith: Nothing. It’s a Derek thing.

Cristina: No, you know what, you are flirting with cardio. I am married to cardio.You will marry….general surgery. Or you know, ok, perhaps neuro. But you, you are nowhere near hardcore enough to commit to cardio.

Izzie: So you are telling me to…stop flirting with your husband. Haha, I get it. That’s cute. But if you’re going to ask me a favor…insulting my personal life is probably not a great tactic.

Cristina: No, no, wait I am not talking about your sex life. I could not care less about your sex life. It’s a skydiver. Izzie. A skydiver.

Izzie: Oh yeah, sounds real cool. Enjoy.

Meredith: I drowned. I was sinking. I died. And you know what I realized? I realized how stupid all of my issues are.

Cristina: I’m waiting for how this applied to me.

Meredith: It doesn’t.

Cristina: Of course not.

Meredith: Well that man fell, and all he wanted was one last chance to tell sally how he felt about her. And I GOT one last chance. I got my chance. And what have I done with it?

Cristina: You know, being aware of your crap and actually overcoming you crap are two very different things.

Meredith: I know.

Meredith: Remember when I was dead? Before I went in that water everything was so … complicated. Hard. and then you pulled me out of the water …and I came back to life. for a moment everything was so clear. As if the water had washed everything clean. Do you remember that?

Derek : I do.

Meredith : Me too.

Meredith : There’s a clarity thing when you cross over the edge. there’s a moment when everything just melts away and you’re fearless.

Meredith : It goes away. The feeling. That feeling that you have right now… today… that feeling like you can do anything. That clarity… It goes away. And you go right back to being the coward who can’t tell the person you love how you feel.

Lexie: Hey, what are you doing tonight?

Alex: As in...

Lexie: What are you doing...tonight.

Alex: Look, uh, I’m not a nice guy. I don’t date. I don’t call the next day. I’m not looking for a relationship cause I’m never good at ´em. And honestly I’m kinda hung up on somebody else. So...the only thing you’re ever going to get from me is sex...that’s it. And that’s never usually enough for girls like you.

Meredith : I can’t stop Cristina. I just can’t stop seeing Derek. And it’s not about the sex. Its not...about the sex. It’s about that moment afterward…when the world stops. It just feels so safe…So safe. I’m not ready to give that up. Does that make me sad and weak and pathetic?

Cristina : Mh...a little.

Meredith : What do I do…?

Cristina: I don´t know.

Izzie: This is absurd.

George: Hey...

Izzie: You shouldn't be sleeping in the On-Call room.

Meredith (voiceover): Deep down, everyone wants to believe they can be hardcore. But being hardcore isn't just about being tough - it's about acceptance. Sometimes you have to give yourself permission to not be hardcore for once. You don't have to be tough every minute of every day. It's okay to let down your guard. In fact, there are moments when it's the best thing you can possibly do - as long as you choose your moments wisely.

Physical Attraction... Chemical Reaction [4.7]

Meredith (voiceover): Before we were doctors, we were med students, which meant we spend a lot of time of studying chemistry. Organic chemistry, biochemistry, we learned it all. But when you're talking about human chemistry only one thing matters: either you've got it or you don't.

Derek: Oh, I'm late. Dropped off the Chief's dry cleaning.

Mark: You're doing his laundry?

Derek: We're helping each other out.

Mark: Yeah, what's he doing?

Derek: He has an extensive DVD collection [pauses, raises his eyebrows, and exhales].

Mark: [Pauses] You're dating the Chief. Huh.

George: Hey.

Meredith: You look weird.

George: I don't look weird.

Meredith: What's wrong?

George: I look fine.

Meredith: I know you.

George: It's horrible. The sex. With Izzie...[whispers] horrible. It's like she's trying to hard i-its...you ever seen a porno? Not that Izzie's a porno; she's an angel, but it's like she's trying to...channel a porn star and she's trying to act all dirty and sexy, which sounds great, right? But in reality I just wanna say, "Izzie, just because you can do that with your legs doesn't mean that you should.

Meredith: [Winces and sticks her finger in her ear] Eh... I wanna run.

George: Run, run. Run now!

Izzie: [To Meredith] [Sighs] I love George.

Meredith: Oh, God...

Izzie: I do, I love him, and I'm so happy because he's kind and smart and um, sweet and sexy. He's perfect, perfect, except for the fact that he kisses like a chicken. You know a chicken pecking the ground for food, justs pecking and pecking and pecking, and when he's pecking at me like that I forget that I love him, I forget that he's kind and sweet and sexy and I just wanna scream, "Stop pecking me!" Did he peck you like a chicken, Mer?

Meredith: [Sees Cristina] Cristina needs me.

Cristina: I am painting Burke's apartment so I can stop calling it Burke's apartment. A happy color. Red. Like blood.

Lexie: I'm not stalking you. I just... I hate apples. Hate them. Think they shouldn't be allowed to be a fruit. That's one. And... and two, I can draw really, really well on an etch a sketch. Like, really well, like I could be a professional if, you know, that profession existed. I play the trombone... badly. Uh, I like Math. And I notice that you do this thing with your hands when you're trying to make a point, like... like... like this. And I know that that's about you, but I ... I do it, too. So it's also about me. And that's five. Five things that I'm hoping will make it a little bit harder for you to hate me.

Meredith (voiceover): Chemistry, either you´ve got it or you don´t.

Forever Young [4.8]

Meredith: There comes a point in your life when you're officially an adult. Suddenly, you're old enough to vote, drink, and engage in other adult activities. Suddenly, people expect you to be repsonsible, serious... a grown up. We get taller, we get older. But do we ever really grow up?

Girl 1: This is so sad. I used to walk by his house everyday.

Girl 2: He was in my algebra class... I think.

Izzie: Marissa, I know that this seems impossible right now, but you will get through this. Danny would have wanted you to.

Marissa: You don't know what he would have wanted. You're just like them. You're a prom queen and you're trying to act like you know what it's like for me. Lady, you have no idea what it's like.

Izzie: I wasn't a prom queen. I was the girl in the cheap clothes from the trailer park who got pregnant. I got thrown in the pregnant girls class. None of the mothers would let their kids hang out with me. But I got through it. You will get through this.

Girl 2: I'm gonna write a letter to his mom and dad.

Girl 1: That's really beautiful.

Girl 2: Yeah.

Izzie: Get out.

Girl 2: What?

Izzie: Get out. You're not even supposed to be in here.

Girl 2: She's here.

Izzie: She's his friend. His best friend. Go away. Go!

Marissa: I'm sorry. I didn't mean to-...

Izzie: It's okay. You just lost your best friend. It's... it's the worst thing in the world.

Cheerleader: I am never gonna be captain again!

Callie: You know, I was... I was fired from a job recently-

Cheerleader: You were fired from being a doctor and they let you cut open my ass?!

Callie: Okay, shut your trap for eight seconds and let me finish. I didn't get fired from being a doctor, I got fired from being being like, well our version of squad captain. Which is mostly about organizing crap... not about surgery.

Cheerleader: So?

Callie: So, I got to go back to the part that I like... which is kind of a gift.

Meredith: Your dad was in the ER today.

Lexie: I know.

Meredith: So, you know he was drunk and he put his hand through a window?

Lexie: Yeah, anything else?

Meredith: I know it was Susan's birthday and I'm sure it was a very hard day for the both of you. And he wasn't actually a problem, he was kinda charming. But, he seemed very sad and I'd hate to see it happen again so maybe you should think about keeping a better eye on him.

Lexie: Everyday is my mothers birthday. My mother was born in March. He lied. He's a liar. And I'm glad. Really, I'm glad that you found him charming. I'm sure he was delightful. He's a blast after five drinks, not so much after nine though; he gets a little weepy and mean. He's a drunk, Meredith. He probably came in and told you how wonderful you are. How sad he is he doesn't get to spend more time with you. You know, yesterday he told me I was his favorite daughter. The day before, I was an ungreatful bitch. The week before, he wrote me a check for twenty-thousand dollars because he said I deserved everything life had to offer because he was so proud of me, a lifetimes worth of proud. So thank you for letting me know that I need to keep a better eye on him. Thanks.

Chief: Meredith, you want to come in for a minute and sit down? Meredith?

Meredith: I'm sorry about all of this.

Chief: Meredith, please. You have nothing to apologize for. Nothing it all.

Meredith: I'm keeping you from doing your job.

Chief: This is my job, at least part of it. Think of it as... the principal's office, only I'm the nice principal. Anyways, I promised your mom I would take care of you.

Meredith: I told you you don't have to do that.

Chief: I know. I know I don't, but I do.

Izzie: I'm in love with this incredible guy and we're having problems. And my best friend, he would know what to say to me about it. I need to be able to talk to my best friend. I cannot get through this without my best friend.

George: Why isn't this easier?

Izzie: I don't know.

George: Well, I want my best friend back.

Izzie: Me too.

Meredith: In some ways we grow up. We have families, we get married, divorced, but for the most part, we still have the same problems that we did when we were fifteen. No matter how much we grow taller, grow older, we are still forever stumbling, forever wondering, forever young.

Bailey: What do you care? With your hair products and your perfect little face, perfect little life. What do you care how I am?

Derek: My perfect little life. Have you been paying attention at all?

Bailey: Yeah, I pay attention. I pay attention! I pay attention to people in all walks of life, all types. I notice people. I see people. It's guys like you who don't see people like me.

Derek: I don't see you?

Bailey: I'm not talking about you, Shepherd. Just guys like you. Who don't see girls like me. We don't exist for you. We exist to do your homework! We exist to build your ego up... I am a successful married mother. I am chief resident, I am chief resident of a major metropolitan hospital! I am a surgeon, who saved his life today! And he still doesn't see me... I may as well still be that high school girl with the mushroom haircut and the coke bottle glasses and the band uniform. The girl who didn't get to go to homecoming dance cause it didn't even occur to him to ask me. All those late nights tutoring him, and it didn't even occur to him to ask?

Derek: Mmm. Band uniform. Really?

Bailey: Do I look like I wanna be mocked by you right now?

Derek: No, you don't. I'm just gonna say one thing. In high school, I was 110 pounds, and I hadn't yet figured out hair product, so I had a big afro. And, um, I had acne... and I too, wore a band uniform. Sax.

Bailey: Oboe.

Derek: I would have been honored to take a girl like you to homecoming.

Crash Into Me, Part One [4.9]

Meredith: [voiceover] We go into medicine because we want to save lives. We go into medicine because we want to do good. We go into medicine for the rush... for the high... for the ride. But, what we rememeber at the end of most days are the losses. What we lay awake at night replaying is the pain we caused or failed to cure. The lives we ruined or failed to save. So the experience of practicing medicine rarely resembles the goal. The experience too often is ass backwards and upsidedown.

Izzie: I'm going to go in early. I'm going to get on hard-core, Erica-Hahn cardio and I'm gonna kick ass at it. And when I kick ass at cardio, it's going to piss Cristina off, but it won't matter, because I'll be a kick-ass cardio god.

Sloan: They're medical professionals. A healthy level of fear is encouraged.

Wife(In the background.) : I'm not gonna leave you, I'm not. I'm not leaving here right now without you, okay?

Meredith: I've never seen her before.

Chief: What?

Meredith: I've never seen her before. I've worked in this hospital all this time and before today she was a complete stranger to me.

Chief: It happens, it's a big hospital.

Wife(In the background.): I love you, I love you.

Meredith: I've never met her before and I'm the person who handed her the worst day of her life. In her story that's who I am. That's who I'll always be.

Chief: That's the job.

Meredith: That's the job, I know.

Chief: Look at me. This day, this day you feel helpless. This day makes all those other days when you fight to save a life and lose. This day makes you grateful you have a chance to do anything at all. You take it in.

Chief: It's time.

Dr. Hahn: Can you make time?

Mark: Can you make time for a drink with me after?

Dr. Hahn: Did I mention time is a factor here? I´m looking for a Yes or No answer.

Mark: As am I.

Dr. Hahn: This may be enjoyable to you, Dr. Sloan, but I´ve a patient in serious condition. I came to you, because legend has it, that you´re the best in plastics. But if bad jokes and sleazy come-ons or what are I'm in for all afternoon, I´ll page whoever is second best.(turns and want to go)

Mark: Dr. Hahn..I apologize. And I´ll clear my schedule.

Dr. Hahn: Thank you. OR 1.

Dr. Bailey: I´m rising above, I´m rising above and do not want to be crossed while I´m busy rising.

Dr. Bailey: I'm calling on Jesus. This time don't bother me when I'm calling on Jesus. I don't do it very often. He might not here me.

(Dr.Hahn complimented Marks Skills and he told her the story of his dead mentor, who was like a father to him)

Dr Hann: What are we, on a date here? I was complimenting your surgical skills, Dr. Sloan. Not looking through a window into your wounded soul.

Crash Into Me, Part Two[4.10]

Chief: It's good to be scared. It means you still have something to lose.

Ray: Yeah? (To Meredith) Are you scared?

Meredith: All the time.

Meredith: I think it's better to have someone, even if it hurts, even if it's the most painful thing you have to do, even if it's the most painful thing you've ever had to do. I think it's better to have someone.

George: Well, Dr.Bailey did save your life today. A black woman saved your life with a great personal cost. So maybe next time you are looking at your tattoo and you are thinking how much better all these white guys are better than everyone else. You might wanna think about that. Cause between you and me, if I had been alone in that O.R., you would probably be dead right now. And since we are sharing belief system, I believe that if you were dead, the world would be a better place.

Cristina: You know, I rose above, too today.

Bailey: Yes, you did.

Cristina: Yor were having a hard day, you were busy rising above. But so was I - which is why I haven't said anything. But now the day is over. And I’m done. What you did, pulling me off Hahn’s surgery, was an abuse of power. You know, you needed help, okay. But you used me because of the color of my skin? I mean, you compromised the quality of my education, because of my color. I resent it.

Meredith: I don't want you to date other people. It may not be enough for you, but I'm trying here so I don't want you to date anybody but me. That's it. Except, I'm scared as hell to want you, but here I am wanting you anyway. And fear means I have something to lose, right? And I don't want to lose you.

Derek: Meredith?

Meredith: Don-Don't say anything. I'm gonna leave and you can say something tomorrow. That's progress, right?

(They both smile and Meredith walks away.)

Cristina: You did a good job today. That was not easy. What you did was not easy, it was brave.

Lexie: We killed him. The hospital, Sloan, us. We were not prepared.

Cristina: Yeah... yeah, that happens sometimes.

Lexie: That's... do you have any idea how backwards that is?

Cristina: We help more than we hurt.

Lexie: I have no one.

Dr. Hahn: This is gonna sound bizare. I realize at this point that this is gonna sound bizare, but any chance you people wanna get a drink with me?

Sloan: Why would we wanna do that?

Callie: She's saying she needs a friend.

Sloan: Okay, fine. Let's drink.

Dr. Hahn: You won't hit on me?

Sloan: I can't promise that.

Dr. Hahn: If I say please?

Callie: He still can't promise that.

Dr. Hahn: Fine.

Cristina: Hey, I brought supplies. (Lexie walks in behind her and Meredith looks confused and shakes her head, smiling.) She's got no one. (Lexie smiles.)

Meredith: I'm drinking. Are you drinking, Lexie?

Lexie: Yeah, a drink would be good.

Meredith: Some days the whole world seems upside down. And then some how, and probably, and when you least expect it, the world rights itself again.

Lay Your Hands on Me [4.11]

Bailey (voiceover): In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the earth, at least that’s what they say. He created the birds of the air and the beasts of the fields, and he looked at his creation and he saw that it was good. And then God created man, and it’s been downhill ever since. The story goes on to say that God created man in his own image, but there’s not much proof of that. After all God made the sun and the moon and the stars, and all man makes is trouble. And when man finds himself in trouble, which is most of the time, he turns to something bigger than himself. To love or faith or religion to make sense of it all. But for a surgeon, the only thing that makes any kind of sense is medicine.

Lexie: Where's your girlfriend?

Alex: Back with her husband, I'm guessing...And I don't have a girlfriend.

Lexie: Or a conscience, apparently.

Meredith: There are about a hundred steps between where we are and our dream house. They’ll be fun steps. They’ll be sexy steps. And we’ll try not to fall down them together.Okay?

Erica: Now do you want me to stay here talking to you? Or do you want me to try and save your baby's life?

Derek: Are we together or are we not?

Bailey (voice over): As doctors, we know more about the human body now than at any point in our history. But the miracle of life itself; why people live and die, why they hurt and get hurt is still a mystery. We want to know the reason, the secret, the answer at the back of the book…because the thought of our being all alone down here is just too much for us to bear. But at the end of the day, the fact that we show up for each other, in spite our differences, no matter what we believe, is reason enough to keep believing.

Where the Wild Things Are [4.12]

Meredith: [voiceover] We like to think that we are rational beings; humane, conscientious, civilized, thoughtful. But when things fall apart, even just a little, it becomes clear we are not better than animals. We have opposable thumbs, we think, we walk erect, we speak, we dream, but deep down we are still routing around in the primordial ooze; biting, clawing, scratching out an existence in the cold, dark world like the rest of the tree-toads and sloths.

Cristina: Only three points for watching. You gotta do.

Izzie: I DO do!

George: You should have tried to steal a TV.

Lexie: I did. They were bolted to the wall.

George: Still...

Mark: I don't like her. I'm sorry, but as your friend it's my job to say I don't like Rose.

Derek: Why?

Mark: You're not even sleeping with her.

Derek: You don't like her 'cause she's not sleeping with me? That's a little weird.

Mark: It's not weird.

Derek: It's a little weird.

Bailey: Now may I recommend you all go home? You smell, you're greasy, you need to bathe and I'm sick of lookin' at ya.

Rose: Have you seen him?

Lexie: I have.

Rose: Have you seen his eyes?

Lexie: I... yeah.

Rose: I'm trying to play it cool. I am playing it so so cool. I love him! (pause) Oh my God. I don't know you. I ... didn't say that.

Meredith: What's with the flowers?

Lexie: Uh, are you asking as a resident or a sister?

Mark: Hey, if you were sleeping with Rose, I could understand why you're spending time with her, but you're not. And it's... it's just I thought that uh... you know. I thought it was just gonna be you and me!

Derek: Having sex?

Mark: After! After Addison, after Meredith. I have been patient. I have waited when you partnered up with these chicks, but now they're over. And it's supposed to be just us! You and me; two guys on the prowl, on the hunt.

Derek: You're having trouble getting laid. And you need my help.

Mark: I can get laid. I can get laid whenever I want. I DO get laid whenever I want. That's the point. Women are everywhere... I only have one person I can talk to.

Derek: That's sweet.

Mark: Shut up!

Derek: No, it's really warm and fuzzy.

Webber: The contest is a lions' fight. So chin up, put your shoulders back, walk proud, strut a little. Don't lick your wounds, celebrate them. The scars you bear are the signs of a competitor. You were in a lions' fight, Stevens. Just because you didn't win doesn't mean you don't know how to roar.

Meredith: [voiceover]There’s a little animal in all of us and maybe that’s something to celebrate. Our animal instinct is what makes us seek comfort, warmth, a pack to run with. We may feel caged, we may feel trapped, but still as humans we can find ways to feel free. We are each other’s keepers, we are the guardians of our own humanity and even though there’s a beast inside all of us, what sets us apart from the animals is that we can think, feel, dream and love. And against all odds, against all instinct, we evolve.

Piece of My Heart [4.13]

Meredith: [voiceover] Great surgeons aren't made, they're born. It takes gestation, incubation, sacrifice. A lot of sacrifice. But after all the blood and guts and gooey stuff is washed away that surgeon you've become - totally worth it.

Callie: What? Why are you looking at me like that?

Addison: Callie...

Callie Uh-huh?

Addison: Are you speaking the vagina monologues now?

Callie: Whhat?

Addison I'm all for it okay? I think it's fantastic. Erica, I mean she seems great. I really do like her, actually, I do, and... are you?

Callie: You want to know if Erica and I are a... a couple? Because I defended her with Yang?

Addison: Because you seem like a couple, a really happy couple

Callie: That's... that's.. that's just... that's insane is...is-is-is-is what it is.. I'm... I... I-I like penis. I'm a huge HUGE fan of penis.

Callie: Did anyone ever think you two were a couple?

Meredith: No because we screw boys like whores on tequila.

Cristina: And then we either try to marry them or drown ourselves.

George: You know, whenever anyone says something really funny and I laugh I always look around to see if you think it's funny too. Even when you are not there, I still look around.

Meredith: Hey, you're leaving already?

Addison: I have a plane to catch...I walk on the beach now, I buy Aromatherapy candles, I'm very zen, but I want to kick your ass so badly right now it is killing me.

Meredith: Excuse me?

Addison: I'm talking about Derek. Derek Christopher Shepherd. Are you letting him get away? Because I swear to God Meredith, if you let him ride off into the sunset with that doe-eyed little thing...(walks away).

Mark: Bet you're wishing you took the stairs right about now...

Meredith: [voiceover] Giving birth may be all intense and magical and stuff, but the act itself is not exactly pleasant. But it's also a beginning of something incredible, something new, something unpredictable, something true, something worth loving, something worth missing, something that will change your life forever.

The Becoming [4.14]

Derek (Talking to Mark) I slept with her.. and the whole time I was thinking of Meredith. Who's the bigger whore?

Erica: (Talking to Cristina, who stands there silent the entire time) Well I guess it's no surprise, his arrogance is legendary... oh well I thought we finally have some common ground... Good for you, refusing to trash him. Rising above. It's very impressive. I'm going to follow your example Yang (Cristina acknowledges her comment slightly)

Erica: Congratulations Preston, I wish you well.

Derek: (Talking to Meredith in surgery) Easy.. slow down.. look at me.. look at me, don't look at the machine. (Derek and Meredith looking only into each others eyes)

Derek: Slowly... that's it... that's it.. virus is in. (Everyone claps for Derek & Meredith)

Miranda: Just wanted to drop off the form myself.. answer any questions you might have.

Richard: There are interns on this form

Miranda: Mmhmm.. I require the energy of youth. Dr. Shepherd was a moment of weakness for both of us.

Richard: Dr. Sloan?

Miranda: Oh that was many moments. On-call rooms. It was..very hot.

Adele: Mmhmm.. McSteamy.

Richard: Alright, Dr. Bailey I get the joke.

Miranda: See this is a joke to you I am a single woman. I've been a single woman for some time now, but the very idea that I could have a sexual encounter (She glares at the Board Member across the table) a consensual sexual encounter..is a joke to you!

Richard: Dr. Bailey I...

Miranda: So much so that you would single me out of this entire hospital as the one person who couldn't interest a person of the opposite sex..it's..it's..it's just...

Adele: It's harassment.

Richard:A..Adele!

(Miranda slaps Richard's shoulder hard)

Miranda: Just shame on you sir! (Richard is rubbing his shoulder with a look of shock on his face) Just shame on you!! (Miranda storms out)

Erica: So are we on for tonight or what?

Callie: Um.. I told you I had a thing.

Erica: I don't ah..make friends easily. I'm awkward and am bad at small talk and generally don't like people I don't know.. but I made friends with you and now you have this thing and that thing is Sloan.

Callie: Are you mad that I'm sleeping with Mark Sloan.

Erica: I'm not mad that your sleeping with Sloan. I'm mad that you didn't tell me that your sleeping with Sloan. I'm mad at you. Because instead of telling me and admitting that your one of those girls who goes all pouffy when she gets a boyfriend, you disappear with your thing. (She walks away but stops) I don't make friends easily. >

Richard: (Speaking to Cristina) Going through all the forms I noticed you didn't hand yours in.

Cristina: No sir.

Richard: I need you to. The hospital is still liable even though Dr. Burke isn't here. (Cristina walks forward to the table to fill out her form)

Cristina: There my sexual relationship ..Preston Burke..on paper satisfied?

Richard: I know this is difficult for you.

Cristina: It is not difficult sir..it is simple. Burke is not here. He's gone and he's the better for it. He's winning the Harper Avery award and being celebrated all over the world. That is not difficult. He's out there and I'm here where everything is the same. I still live in his apartment, I walk the same halls of this hospital, I wear the same scrubs. It is not difficult. This is where I chose to be. But sir when his hand was shaking I performed the surgeries, I kept his secrets, I nursed his pride.. you know it and I know it, and he knows it. HE KNOWS IT and yet nowhere in that newspaper article does my name appear. I am the unseen hand to his brilliance. (She turns away to wipe away her tears) Excuse me..and yet while everything is the same it is very, very different. Now I'm lucky if I get to hold a clamp. Hahn treats me like...I was his hand and now I'm a ghost. That is not difficult... it's unbearable. Everybody is proud of him... but I'm not... I do not wish him well. (She leaves the room)

Meredith: [voiceover]: It was a good day. Maybe even a great day. I was a good doctor, even when it was hard, I was the me in my head. There was a moment when I thought I can't do this, I can't do this alone. I close my eyes and imagine myself doing it, and I did, I blocked out the fear, and I did it.

Meredith: It was a really good day.

Dr. Wyatt: Look, I'm just going to say this because your insurance only covers 20 sessions and I feel we should get right to the point. That was a load of crap. It was not a good day, your patient died alone unable to tell the love of his life how he felt.

Meredith: Yeah, but he did it for his boyfriend. I mean, I actually think it was kind of heroic.

Dr. Wyatt: It's a load of crap.

Meredith: Stop saying that!

Dr. Wyatt: Look, let me draw the parallels for you. The tragic patient dies alone while the love of his life is LITERALLY in the next room. That's you.

Meredith: What are you talking about? I'm not dying alone.

Dr. Wyatt: Oh. But I think you are, and you're telling yourself you're a hero, when in reality all you are is alone.

Meredith: THAT is a load of crap!

Dr. Wyatt: He's with Rose.

Meredith: (Sighs, and stands up) You know what, I'm not going to do this.

Dr. Wyatt: He's with Rose.

Meredith: WHY DO YOU KEEP SAYING THAT?!?

Dr. Wyatt: Because if you can't see what is wrong with that sentence, He's with Rose, we're never going to get anywhere, He's with Rose.

Meredith: OKAY! So he's with Rose. SO WHAT?!

Dr. Wyatt: And if he's with Rose that means he's not with you. And do you know why he's not with you? (Pause) You're scared.

Meredith: Are you calling me a coward?

Dr. Wyatt: I think you are very frightened Dr. Grey.

Meredith: Are you calling me a coward?

Dr. Wyatt: What do you think?

(Meridith leaves)

Losing My Mind [4.15]

Meredith: The problem with being a resident is you feel crazy all the time. You haven't slept in years. You spend everyday with people in massive crisis. You lose your ability to judge whats normal.

Christina: Pull your crap off the floor before this thing eats it

Callie: Ok Ok Ok Ok Ok

Meredith: In yourself or anyone else. And yet people are constantly asking you to tell them how you're doing. How the hell are you supposed to know?

Alex: Eggs good?

Rebecca: Oh baby didn't like the breakfast

Alex: Alright head down to the can

Meredith: You don't even know how you're doing.

Dr. Wyatt: We had our first honest conversation about your feelings, and now you want to leave. That timing doesn’t strike you as strange?

Meredith: No, and I’m still firing you.

Dr. Wyatt: No, you’re quitting.

Meredith: No, I’m not quitting. I don’t quit things.

Dr. Wyatt: No, actually you do. Your mother quit your father. Your father quit you. You quit your boyfriend and if I read your hospital chart correctly you quit your life momentarily on a couple of occasions. You quit. It’s what you know how to do.

Meredith: Now you’re really fired.

Dr. Wyatt: Now we're getting somewhere.

Chief: I want you to handle all my consults, anything you can do without me do it and book some time in the robotics lab, I want to give them a tour. Hi. Walter Tapley's coming in today, do we have anything special he can scrub in on?

Hahn: Walter Tapley is coming here?

George: The chief was his student.

Hahn: You studied at the right hand of God? Wow!

Chief: We need something impressive.

Hahn: I will stab someone in the chest if I have to.

Chief: O'Malley get Boyer ready for his CT and prep my lab coli I need to be out of that OR by 10. Hahn plan it be free by 10. O'Malley did Patricia say I had any messages?

George: Yeah she said, she said to tell you, that you're wife hasn't called in the last 20 minutes since you last asked if your wife called.

Chief: Alright.

Meredith: Hey

Derek: I'm very optimistic about this new viral cocktail. Adding in IL2 should make a very big difference. We're close. We can open the bottle of champagne soon.

Meredith: I know.

Derek: You Ok?

Meredith: I'm fine.

Derek: Listen clinical trials can be a rine. I can do this one on my own.

Meredith: I'm not a quitter. I don't need you to rescue me, let's just do this.

Patient's sister: Waiting is a bad idea. We're talking about your health.

Patient: Dr Shepard can say no if it's such a problem.

Derek: What am I saying no to?

Patient: Is there any way you can push back the surgery? A few hours? my boyfriend's flight was cancelled. I want him to be here.

Patient's sister: Breta!

Patient: He has some questions. He's so smart about this stuff, I don't even know what to ask.

Derek: Are you reconsidering the procedure?

Patient: Aundrey and I have had so little time together. We met in January. I mean this treatment could kill me right?

Derek: You have a very aggressive tumor, even if we don't operate ou're looking at a few months.

Patient: But I'd spend them with Aundrey. Do you know how precious that is? Time with the person you love?

Patient's sister: Greta please!

Patient: I'm not saying I want to cancel. I'm just saying I want to wait for Aundrey. He'll help me to decide.

Patient's sister: We can't wait for him

Patient: He'll be here at 3.

Rebecca: Dr. Mark Sloan. I used to be a patient of his.

Izzie: Rebecca? Where have you been?

Rebecca: Hi Izzie.

Izzie: I've called you and left like 50 messages.

Rebecca: You seem kind of upset.

Izzie: Well you're not pregnant, first of all, and Alex has been turning his life upside down to be your baby daddy. And I can't tell him because of confidentiality. So yeah, upset!

Rebecca: You can talk to Alex about anything. I want him involved. And I am pregnant. You kind of know.

Izzie: Ok, so if you're not trying to trap Alex with the fake pregnancy you won't mind if I do another test, just to be sure.

Rebecca: Trap him? Are you out of your mind? I'm pregnant. And that's a good thing, because I want this abby, I've always wanted a baby.

Izzie: You have a baby.

Rebecca: Of course I do. I mean I want another one. Do the stupid test again. It'll be fine. And I need to see Dr Sloan, can you help me with that?

Izzie: Yeah see what I can do.

Patient's sister: Dr Shepard.

Derek: Yes?

Pateint's sister: There's no Aundrey.

Derek: What?

Patient's sister: She made him up! He doesn't exist. My sister, she's not a woman who has boyfriends, ok? And then 4 months ago, she goes on a cruise and comes back saying she's met her soul mate.

Meredith: Right around the time her symptoms started?

Patient's sister: There are no pictures and nobody has ever seen him. Can you talk to her? Can you tell her we can't wait for Aundrey? Cause we could be waiting a long time.

Alex: Is Tapley in there?

George: No.

Alex: You're lying.

George: Yes.

Meredith: Tapley in there?

George: No

Meredith: Liar.

George: Yes.

Callie: Something is wrong with her.

Christina: No it's not. I'm fine.

Callie: She cleaned. Cleaned the apartment. Which she has no idea how to do, so she basically pushed dirt around.

Meredith: Leave her alone. Not everybody has to be happy all the time. That's not mental health. That's crap.

Callie: Walter Tapley's here and she doesn't want to meet him.

Meredith: Well that's, that's bad.

Christina: You know Torres, mind your business.

Callie: You need - You need to get help. You're killing me.

Meredith: You hang out till Hahn get's here, you might get to meet Tapley.

Christina: I don't give a damn about Walter Tapley.

Meredith: Cristina...are you in the dark place?

Cristina: Yeah...

Meredith: Me too.

Chief: Here she is. Erica Hahn, our Chief of Cardio-thorastic surgery.

Hahn: It's a honour to meet you Dr Tapley. I use your modified bypass procedure all the time.

Tapley: Yeah well that was an afternoon well spent.

Hahn: You came up with that in an afternoon?

Chief: It took him 6 years.

Tapley: You're a killjoy Webber. I didn't really come here for a visit. I have Aortic and Mytril Synosis with Trycuspic Regurge. I need a double valve replacement. And Trycuspic repair.

Chief: Are you sure?

Tapley: Charts. Echos. Chest X-rays. Everything you need. I may have invented the modified bypass but I can't operate on myself. And my colleagues won't touch me, because I have chronic Afib, pulmonary tension and a clot in my left atrium. They think if they operate, they'll kill me.

Hahn: What makes you think we'll do it, if your colleagues won't?

Tapley: I didn't start their careers. They can say no to me. Webber can't.

Hahn: Absolutely not.

Chief: Now hold on. We haven't even -

Hahn: Have you read the file. His pulmonary arterial pressure is through the roof.

Chief: He's aware of the risks.

Hahn: Oh, well then, in that case fine. I don't know what I was so worried about. I may go down in history as the surgeon who killed Walter Tapley. But hey, at least they're writing about me.

Chief: Erica sit down. Let me tell you a story. 38 years ago when I -

Hahn: I'm sorry is this going to be a story of how you were a struggling black med student who wanted to be a surgeon. And noone would give you a chance, and Walter Tapley gave you that chance. He mentored you and without him, you wouldn't be here in this hospital today.

Chief: Yes

Hahn: I'm still not going to operate on him.

Rose: Ok the sex, I thought it was mind blowing myself. But I get the impression you had a really bad time.

Derek: What?

Rose: Why are you avoiding me?

Derek: I'm sorry, I lost a patient. I'm not trying to avoid you.

Rose: So, not calling me after the sex is you being a dedicated lifesaver?

Derek: It is.

Rose: So I'll see you later.

Sloan: You didn't call her

Derek: When was the last time you called a woman after having sex?

Sloan: Er well that's going to change. I'm turning over a new leaf

Derek: What was wrong with the old leaf? So they called you a whore, you were a happy guy.

Chief: Walter Tapley needs a double valve replacement and Hahn refuses to give it to him.

Sloan: What's her problem?

Chief: She thinks she's gonna kill him.

Derek & Sloan: Lightweight

Chief: Since when do surgeons turn me down?

Derek: Her choice she's the one opening him up.

Chief: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. Oh. Oh and another thing. If you spend the night with a woman and call her the next day and she doesn't call you back. does that mean she has a lousy time or that her answering machine was consumed in a fire?

Sloan: See the Chief calls the next day.

Derek: Oh you don't have to call her back. You just met this person. It's new. It's fun. It's casual.

Chief: It;s my wife.

Derek & Sloan: Oh!

Chief: What do I call again?

Sloan: Oh! Another call looks desperate.

Derek: Send her an e-mail. Invite her to dinner. Just be casual. Confident.

Sloan: Sexy. I mean romantic.

Chief: Oh! O'Malley.

George: Yes sir. Tapley's in 2262. He's getting a EKG and an echo. I assigned Yang.

Chief: Oh! one more thing. Look i know I said I won't use you to get my wife back but I'm a desperate man. Draft an e-mail. Ask her to dinner. No. Don't ask her. Tell her. She likes a strong hand.

George: Okay you want me to ask your wife on a date with a strong hand.

Chief: Confident.

George: Confident.

Chief: Casual.

George: Casual.

Chief: Sexy. Tell her the train is leaving the station. She better get on it. Yeah.

Meredith: We’ve got this patient and she’s got true love. You wanna know why? Because her boyfriend doesn’t exist. Derek is all broken up over her like it means something that she’s having an affair with a hallucination.

Dr. Wyatt: But Derek wasn’t ready to give up on the relationship when you were.

Meredith: No, I didn’t give up. I wanted to try again, and then he went and kissed Rose. So he’s the one that messes up, not me.

Dr. Wyatt: But it’s a relationship. People make mistakes, and you stand back waiting for him to fail so you can say AHA! Now I quit.

Meredith: No, it wasn’t working

Dr. Wyatt: Was your life not working when you let that slip out from under you?

Meredith: When are you going to stop suggesting that I’m suicidal?

Dr. Wyatt: When you start acting like someone that wants to be alive.

Meredith: Give me my chart.

Dr. Wyatt: Why?

Meredith: Because I’m not suicidal, and if it says that I am, then it’s wrong.

Dr. Wyatt: What happened last year when you fell in the water?

Meredith: I almost drowned. Do you think I did that for kicks?

Dr. Wyatt: You put your hand in a body cavity that contained unexploded ammunition.

Meredith: I was trying to save a patient!

Dr. Wyatt: Why is it that every other person in that room had the sense to hit the deck? You know people run away from this line between life and death. You seem to stand on it and wait for a strong wind to sway you one way or the other. You’re careless with your life. You’re not slitting your wrists but you’re careless. Probably because your mother told you you were a waste of space on this planet. The problem is you believed her. And if you don’t want out one of these days you’re going to die because of it.

Meredith: Hand me my chart. NOW! And don't ever talk about my mother again.

George: He punched someone named Harrison

Bailey: (to Tucker)You punched a child?

George: Apparently there was a graham cracker involved

Bailey: Over a graham cracker?

George: They said they want you to talk to him

Bailey: What...he's 14 months old? What do they think I'm going to do, give him a lecture on non-violent conflict resolution?

George: I really don't know.

Bailey: My son punches other children!

Lexie: Are you okay?

Cristina: Don't ask me if I'm okay.

Lexie: Okay.

Cristina: Ugh, you make me sick. Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature. Be better than anyone here, and don't give a damn what anyone thinks. There are no teams here, no buddies. You're on your own. Be on your own.

Lexie: I forgive you.

Meredith: Lexie

Lexie: No. I forgive you. I forgive you for treating me like crap, and I forgive you for letting your friend treat me like crap.

Meredith: Lexie...

Lexie: I don't know how you get up in the morning, I honestly don't. Our dad abandoned you. And your mom by all accounts was the meanest person ever and you can't let Derek love you and it all really, really sucks. But ever since I knew you existed I had this fantasy about my big sister and you have failed, on every occasion to live up to that fantasy. But I still love you, whether you are capable of letting me or not. So, I forgive you. (storms out of bathroom)

Dr. Wyatt: (comes out of bathroom stall) Two o'clock work for you?

Meredith: Yeah...okay.

George:Tomorrow's board and Dr. Tapley's echo. Hahn is seeing him now.

Chief: What are doing with Bailey's child?

George: Dr. Bailey and I are in love. I will be heading back to Vegas with her as soon as my divorce with Dr. Torres is final.

Chief: We need to write Adele again. She replied to my email but all she sent was a typo. She's no better at this than I am.

George: That's not a typo sir, that's a wink

Chief: Well that's a semi-colon and a closed parenthesis

George: Turn it sideways

Chief: Well what the hell does this mean?

George: She's flirting, sir.

Chief: Oh...oh, that's good!

Meredith: People are constantly asking you to tell them how they´re doing. How the hell are you supposed to know?

Meredith: Don´t wonder why people go crazy. Wonder why they don´t. In the face of what we can lose in a day, in an instant, wonder what the hell it is that makes us hold it together.

Freedom [4.16-17]

Mark: It's inappropriate, don't you think? Thinking about sex during surgery? I'm just saying what I've been wittnessing all day.

Callie: This poor kids entire body was cased in cement, his legs are crushed, vessels and nerves nearly cut off completely, and still, I was turned on. This entire time I've been turned on because of you, and your dirty talk.

Mark: It wasn't my dirty talk, what I was dirty talking about.

Callie: What?

Mark: Erica. You and Erica.

Callie: No, that's... No.

Mark: Callie.

Callie: What?

Mark: It's ok. I wish I was all someone thought about.

Callie: Hey! I wanted to see if you wanted to grab a drink.

Erica: I can't find my keys.

Callie: Maybe we could um... I had something I wanted to talk to you about...

Erica: I had the damn keys this morning, I put them in this bag, but I can't remember. This whole thing with Yang has got me so messed up.

Callie: Erica!

Erica: What?

Callie: I'm saying something here... I just, I wanted to say... I just wanted to say...(leans in and kisses Erica)

Rose: I think I liked it better when you were saying boring science stuff.

Derek: I'm never good enough... no matter what I say or what I do. I never wanted to do this. This clinical trial is making me a failure. I fail her over and over... and over.

Rose: You mean them... when you say fail her, you mean... fail them, the patients. (Rose leaves the room)

Meredith: Stupid, corny, idiotic, I can not believe I did this. Stupid, loser, son of a ... I could be at home instead of ... stupid brain man...

Derek: Meredith....

Meredith: Where have you been?! I've been waiting and waiting for you! And I did this stupid, embarrassing, humiliating, corny thing. And I was just gonna tell you that, this over here is our kitchen and this is our living room, and over there that's the room where our kids could play. I had this whole thing about I was gonna build us a house, but I don't build houses because I'm a surgeon! And now I'm here feeling like a lame ass loser. I got all whole and healed and you don't show up. And now it's all ruined because you took so long to come home! And I couldn't even find that bottle of champagne (Derek holds up the bottle, shows it to her and smiles)!

Derek: This the kitchen? Living room? --a little small. I think the view's much better from here. And that's where the kids are going to play? Where's our bedroom?

Meredith: I'm still mad at you and I don't know if I trust you, I wanna trust you, but I don't know if I do. So I'm just gonna try, I'm gonna try and trust you. Because I believe that, we can be extraordinary together rather than ordinary apart and I wanna be ...They kiss

Derek: I have to go.

Meredith: What?

Derek: In order to kiss you the way I wanna kiss you and in order to do more than kiss you I need to speak to Rose. I want my conscience clear so I can do more than kiss you. Stay here, don't move, wait for me.

Izzie: Oooh! A trauma!

Adele: Richard?

Richard: I want to come home.

Adele: Richard...

Richard: I'm a good man. I'm a good man. I've spent my days being a good man for the hospital, for my residents, for my patients, I'm a good man who made one mistake with a woman twenty years ago. And I'm a good man for everybody except you I know that. Would you think I don't know that. But I'm a good man. And I'm your husband. And I love you. Now I am not asking you to come home. I'm telling you. I am your husband. And I want to come home to my wife.

Richard stops for a moment, with a sense of resignment begins to turn

Adele: You know... It's about time.

...They kiss

Dream A Little Dream Of Me [5.1-2]

Meredith: [voiceover] We all remember the bed time stories of our childhoods. The shoe fits Cinderella, the frog turns into a prince, sleeping beauty is awakened with a kiss. Once upon a time and then they lived happily ever after. Fairy tales, the stuff of dreams. The problem is, fairy tales don't come true. It's the other stories, the ones that begin with dark and stormy nights and end in the unspeakable. It's the nightmares that always seem to become reality. - The person that invented the phrase "Happily ever after" should have his ass kicked, so hard!!

Cristina: I think you and Derek will make it. You will make it work. I'm your person. I'm on your side.

Richard: We're sloppy, just like everybody else. We've been resting on our laurels. You have all been failing. Failing to take initiative. Failing to ask tough questions. Failing to practice your skills. Failing to give opportunity TO practice skills. And I let it happen. So you have not failed. We have failed. Well, it stops, and it stops now.

Patient: Hello? Someone there? Where am I?

Alex: You're in a spaceship, you're going to the moon. Enjoy the ride

Patient: ..a spaceship.. Excuse me?

Cristina: [after Owen Hunt kisses her] I... I don't even know you.

Owen: So?

Miranda:I have a dream, Yang... That one day a trauma, will come through these doors.... I have a dream.

Cristina: I share that dream.

Meredith: Okay, I built the house of candles, that is unprecedented in the Meredith chronicles.

Derek: Fine, lets move in together.

Meredith: Fine.

Derek: Unless of course you just wanna go ahead and get married .... AHA! Gotcha! You wanna know where I learned that? It goes with the story of how I cut my hand.

Meredith:And then you know what's gonna happen after he moves in don't you? We build a house on his land, which will be OUR land because we'll be married. And then I'll be Dr. Mrs. Shepherd. And you know what comes after that don't you? Babies. They'll be his babies so they'll have perfect hair, and they'll be chatty. So I'll have five chatty children, a chatty husband, and live in a house in the wilderness. And then I'll start sleeping with your husband. I gotta tell him I've changed my mind. Don't you think?

Cristina: MEREDITH!

Meredith: [voiceover] Once upon a time, happier ever after. The stories we tell are the stuff of dreams. Fairy tales don't come true. Reality is much stormier. Much murkier. Much scarier. Reality it’s so much more interesting than living happily ever after.

Here Comes the Flood [5.3]

Meredith: [voiceover] As surgeons we are trained to fix what’s broken. The breaking point is our starting line...at work. But in our lives the breaking point is a sign of weakness and we’ll do everything we can to avoid it.

Izzie: Eat the muffin, Mer. Taste the muffin. Remember. The muffin.

Meredith: My patient's dying. I hate when I like them and they're dying.

Cristina: There's no way that guy has been living at an 8. He's a wimp. His 8? My 3. I can take pain.

Meredith: You can't talk to my boyfriend for 10 minutes.

Cristina: Well there's pain and then there's torture.

Dr. Wyatt: Yes. Horrible things DO happen. Happiness in the face of all of that? That's not the goal. Feeling the horrible and knowing that you’re not gonna die from those feelings...that’s the point.

Meredith: [voiceover] bones break. organs burst. flesh tears. We can sew the flesh, repair the damage, ease the pain. But when life breaks down...when we break down...there’s no science. No hard and fast rules. We just have to feel our way through. And to a surgeon there’s nothing worse, and there’s nothing better.

Brave New World [5.4]

Meredith: [voiceover] In 6500 BC, some guy looked at his friend and said, let's drill a hole in your head... that will make you feel better. And thus surgery was born. It takes a certain brand of crazy to think of drilling into someone's skull, but surgeons have always been a confident bunch. We don't always know what we're doing, but we act like we do. We walk into a country, plant a flag and start ordering people around. It's invigorating and terrifying.

Izzie: Give me back my surgery or I'll shoot your ass off!

Izzie: People are terrible to the people they love sometimes. They're mean. You were both having a hard time and you took it out on each other. It doesn't make you the worst wife in the world. It just makes you a person who made a mistake.

Erica Hahn: Lie to me again and the only heart you'll ever see is yours as I'm cutting it out of your chest with a steak knife.

Cristina: Do you know how much easier our life would be if we could just love lotion?

Cristina: We are not happy, glowy people.

Izzie and Meredith: Yeah.

Cristina: We need to get out of here.

Izzie and Meredith: Yeah

Meredith: [voiceover] We like to think we're fearless, eager to explore unknown lands and soak up new experiences, but the fact is, we're always terrified. Maybe the terror is part of the attraction. Some people go to horror movies. We cut things open. Dive into dark water. And at the end of the day, isn't that what you'd rather to hear about? If you've got one drink and one friend and 45 minutes. Slow rides make for boring stories. A little calamity. Now that's worth talking about.

There's No "I" In Team [5.5]

Meredith: [voiceover] I am a rock. I am an island. That's the mantra to pretty much every surgeon that I've ever met. We like to think we're independent. Loners. Mavericks. That all we need to do our jobs is an OR, a scalpel, and a willing body...But the truth is, not even the best of us can do it alone. Surgery, like life, is a team sport...and eventually, you've gotta get off the bench and decide... which team are you batting for.

Meredith: [voiceover] The thing about choosing teams in real life.. It's nothing like it used to be in gym class.. being 1st picked can be terrifying And being chosen last...isn't the worst thing in the world. So we watch from the sidelines...clinging to our isolation...because we know as soon as we let go of the bench...someone comes along and changes the game completely....

Izzie: You can't blame yourself. Some people are just broken. I guess you just try not to care too much and you can't be disappointed.

Bailey: We're ready for you, Grey.

Meredith: Walking with the kidney... [drops kidney]

Bailey: 5 second rule! 5 second rule!

Chief: What are you people doing?

Izzie: We were just uh, just deciding which of our interns to give to George.

Cristina: Uh huh.

Bailey: Oh you think I got to choose my interns? And I picked you people... 'cause you're all such a surgical dream team? [to Alex] You, you're lazy, [to Izzie] you're whiney, [to Meredith] butter fingers over there... down right depressing, and [to Cristina] you, Yang, you're just annoying. Choosing their own interns! What are...

Chief: Give me those damn cards. [hands cards to George] O'Malley, you have interns.

George: So, tomorrow we will meet one hour before pre-rounds.

Intern 3: Dude, that's like 4 am.

Intern 1: Dr. Steven's never made us come in before pre-rounds.

Intern 2: Yeah O'Malley. You gotta chill. [interns walk away]

George: They probably should say Dr. O'Malley.

Lexie: Those are your interns? Did you even ask for me?

George: What?

Lexie: I helped you study. I helped decorate your stupid locker. You don't even see it. You don't see anything. I am such an idiot. And you are a jerk. You didn't even think to ask for me? Screw you, Dr. O'Malley.

Life During Wartime [5.6]

Meredith: [voiceover] For a surgeon, every patient is a battlefield. They're our terrain. Where we advance, retreat, try to remove all the landmines...And just when you think you've won the battle, made the world safe again. Along comes another landmine...

Meredith: [voiceover] Some wars result in complete and total victory. Some wars end with a peace offering. And some wars end in hope...But all these wars are nothing compared to the most frightening war of all. The one you have yet to fight.

Rise Up [5.7]

Erica: I went to the Chief about Izzie Stevens and he completely shut me down. Well, we'll see what he says when I report this to UNOS.

Callie: Wait, what? Why? What good would come of that?

Erica: What do you mean?

Callie: What possible good would that do? Would it affect your patient's outcome?

Erica: My patient wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her!

Callie: So you're going to report this to UNOS and cost this hospital its transplant certification? Cost its patients organs? Cost people their jobs? Cost Izzie Stevens her career ...

Erica: Wait, so you're taking Izzie Stevens' side in this? Over mine?

Callie: She's a doctor. She's one of our doctors. There's a reason we have each other's backs, Erica.

Erica:: Please, don't talk to me about a code. Because this is not that.

Callie:: No, this is that. Look, I don't know what happened between Denny Duquette and Izzie Stevens that night, but unless you were in the middle of that situation, I don't see how you can make a judgment.

Erica:: Easy. There's right, and there's wrong. And this, was wrong. And illegal. There is no gray area here. You can't kind of think this is okay. You can't kind of side with Izzie Stevens. And you can't be kind of a lesbian.

Callie:: Yes, I can.

Cristina: The wife's here, of the beating victim. She ID'd her husband, so I-

Owen: What's his name? I was wondering if you found out his name so that he would become a person to you. They're all people, you know. This is not a game or a competition, who gets surgeries and who doesn't. They're people and we get to save them. Now you're good. You're excellent and you can win all the contests. But if that's why you're doing this then you shouldn't be. Did you find out his name?

Cristina: My dad died when I was nine. In a car accident, I was with him in the car. While we waited for the ambulance, I tried to keep his chest closed, so he wouldn't bleed so much. When he died, my hands felt his heart stop beating. That's why I do this. It's also why I win all the contests. The patient's name is Tom. [leaves]

Owen: Single malt scotch.

These Ties That Bind [5.8]

Sadie: Death!

Izzie I said goodbye. I burned the sweater!

Denny Yeah, thanks for that, by the way. I loved that sweater. You made me that sweater.

Denny Izzie... stop freaking out.

Izzie You're not real. You're not real.

Denny Hey, I told you.

Izzie You're not real! You're not real! You're not real!

Denny Look at me. Touch me. (Izzie touches Denny's chest) See? Told you I was real.

Clay: You have your beliefs, I have mine.

Dr. Dixon: I don't have beliefs, I have science.

Clay: Science is a believe. You believe in only what you can see and touch. I believe in more.

Meredith: (closing voiceover): The ties that binds us are sometimes impossible to explain. They connect us even after it seems like the ties should be broken. Some bonds defy distance and time and logic; Because some ties are simply... meant to be.

In the Midnight Hour [5.9]

Meredith (opening voiceover): When you're little, night time is scary because there are monsters under the bed. When you get older the monsters are different. Self doubt, loneliness, regret. And though you may be older and wiser, you still find yourself scared of the dark.

Izzie: I'm just gonna keep my eyes closed. Because this is like that moment in the morning when you first wake up and your still half asleep and everything seems.. things are possible dreams feel true and for that one moment between waking and dreaming anything can be real and then you open your eyes and the sun hits you and then you realize - I'm just gonna keep my eyes closed.

Owen: Sometimes, words fail.

Meredith (voiceover): sleep. its the easiest thing to do; you just close your eyes. but for so many of us, sleep seems out of grasp. we want it, but we don't know how to get it. yet once we face our fears and turn to each other for help, night time isn't so scary because we realize even in the dark, we aren't all alone.

All By Myself [5.10]

Meredith (opening voiceover): My mother called it the greatest and most terrifying moment in her life, standing at the head of the surgical table knowing that the patient’s life depends on you and you alone. It what we all dream about because the first person that gets to fly solo in the OR, kind of a badass.

Alex: Iz, I won!

Izzie: Hey, what time is it?

Alex:Yang, she picked me for the solo surgery!

Izzie:She did? That's amazing.

Alex:I love you.

Izzie:What?

Alex I love you. I freaking love you. I just got the solo surgery and the first thing I did was look for you, and you weren't there. You're never there anymore. And I've been thinking about it, and I think it might be because you love me too. And you're scared of that. And cause I screwed it up last time, and cause Denny died, and...

Izzie: Alex...

Alex: Just listen, you had that heart patient and it reminded you of Denny and how bad you felt when you were laying there on that bathroom floor. I get that, I get that your scared but you're not going to have to feel like that again. Cause I'm not gonna die Iz, and I'm not gonna cheat on you, and I'm not gonna go anywhere. Cause I think you're my best shot at.... I think with you, you make me better. You make me wanna be better, you make me wanna be good. And I think I can. With you, I think I can. So I'm not going anywhere, and you can stop hiding. And if you wanna be scared, that's okay. Just be scared with me. Be scared while you scrub in with me for my first solo surgery. Okay?

Izzie: You love me?

Alex:Shut up! (they kiss)

Alex: Solo surgery!

Denny: I'm really starting to not like that guy.

Meredith (closing voiceover): We enter the world alone and we leave it alone. And everything that happens in between, we owe it to our self to find a little company. We need help. We need support. Otherwise we’re in it by our self. Strangers, cut off from each other and we forget just how connect we all are. So instead we choose love. We choose life and for a moment we feel just a little bit less alone.

Wish You Were Here [5.11]

Meredith (opening voiceover): We all get at least one good wish in a year over the candles on our birthday. Some of us throw in more, on eyelashes, fountains, lucky stars. And every now and then, one of those wishes come true. So what then? Is it as good as we hoped? Do we bask in the warm glow of our happiness or do we just notice we’ve got a long list of other wishes waiting to be wished.

Meredith (closing voiceover): We don’t wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach. We wish because we need help and we’re scared and we know we may be asking too much. We still wished though because sometimes they come true.

Sympathy For the Devil [5.12]

Meredith (opening voiceover): My mother used to say this about residency, “It takes a year to learn how to cut. It takes a lifetime to learn not to.” Of all of the tools on the surgical tray, sound judgement is the trickiest one to master. And without it, we’re all just toddlers running around with ten blades.

Meredith (closing voiceover): We’re human. We make mistakes. We misestimate. We call it wrong. But when a surgeon makes a bad judgement call, it’s not as simple. People get hurt. They bleed. So we struggle over every stitch. We agonize over every suture because the snap judgements, the ones that come to us quickly and easily without hesitation, they’re the one that haunt us forever.

Stairway to Heaven [5.13]

Denny opening voiceover: I believe in heaven. I also believe in hell. I’ve never seen either, but I believe they exist. They have to exist because without a heaven, without a hell, we’re all just headed for limbo.

Denny closing voiceover: Heaven, hell, limbo, no one really knows where we’re going or what’s waiting for us when we get there. But the one thing we can say for sure, with absolute certainty, that’s there are moments that take us to another place, moments of heaven on earth. And maybe for now, that’s all we need to know.

Beat Your Heart Out [5.14]

Meredith (opening voiceover): Any first year med student knows that an increase heart rate is a sign of trouble. A racing heart can indicate anything from a panic disorder to something much, much more serious. A heart that flutters, or one that skips a beat, could be a sign of secret affliction or it could indicate romance which is the biggest trouble of all.

Callie: Alone people don't like to hear about the together people...It's just sort of mean. It's sort of like bringing a 6-pack to an AA meeting.

Meredith (closing voiceover): It seems we have no control what so ever over our own hearts. Condition can change without warning. Romance can make the heart pound just like panic can. And panic can make it stop cold in your chest. It’s no wonder doctors spend so much time to keep the heart stable, to keep it slow, steady, regular to stop the heart from pounding out of your chest from the dread of something terrible or the anticipation or something else entirely.

Before and After [5.15]

Meredith (opening voiceover): Every patient’s story starts the same way. It starts with them being fine, it starts in the before. They cling to this moment, this memory of being fine, this before, as though talking about it may somehow bring it back. But what they don’t realise is that they’re talking about it to us, their doctors and that means there’s no going back. By the time they see us, they’re already in the after. And while every patient’s story starts the same way, how the story ends depends on us, on how well we diagnose and treat. We know the story hinges on us and we all want to be the hero.

An Honest Mistake [5.16]

Meredith (opening voiceover): There’s this thing that happens when people find out you’re a doctor. They stop seeing you as a person and begin to see you something bigger than you are. They have to see us that way, as gods, otherwise we’re just like everyone else, unsure, flawed, normal. So we act strong, we remain stoic. We hide the fact that we’re all too human.

Meredith (closing voiceover): Patients see us as gods or they see us as monsters. But the fact is, we’re just people. We screw up, we lose our way. Even the best of us, have our off days. Still we move forward. We don’t rest on our laurels or celebrate the lives we’ve saved in the past. Because there’s always some other patient that needs our help. So we force ourselves to keep trying, to keep learning. In the hope that, maybe someday we’ll just come a little bit closer to the gods our patients need us to be.

I Will Follow You Into the Dark [5.17]

Meredith (opening voiceover): Every surgeon I know has, a shadow. A dark cloud of fear and that follows even the best of us into the OR. We pretend the shadow isn’t there hoping that if we save more lives, mastering harder techniques, run faster and farther it will get tired and give up the chase but like they say... you can’t outrun your shadow.

Tricia: You don't leave the people you love alone, Dr. Grey.

Izzie: You say they have a choice; they can run away and hide from it, or they can face it. You say they need to be around the people who love them because it's going to be the toughest fight of their life and no one should have to do it alone. And then you give them the odds, and even though 5% survival rate is bad, it’s really bad, you say...

Lexie: You say, screw the odds. People die of the hiccups. My mother died of the hiccups. And survival rate for that is what, a 100%? The odds are that she should be alive right now. The odds are that the... the odds mean crap. So people should face it, and they should fight.

Alex: (to Izzie) I don't want to be the future of this hospital if you're not going to be there with me.

Christina: You know, I'm a big girl. I can handle my fair share of trauma. And I get to decide when I've had enough. It's going to take a lot more than a bad dream to scare me off.

Owen: It's more than a bad dream.

Christina: I know.

Meredith (closing voiceover): Every surgeon has a shadow. And the only way to get rid of a shadow is to turn off the lights, to stop running from the darkness and face what you fear, head on.

Stand by Me [5.18]

Meredith (opening voiceover): Surgeons aren’t known for being warm and cuddly. They’re arrogant, impatient, mean as often as not. You’d think they wouldn’t have friends cos who could stand them? But surgeons, are like a bad cold. Nasty, but persistent. Surgeons: nasty, aggressive, unstoppable, just the kind of people you want on your side when you’re really screwed.

Owen Hunt: You paged me, Dr. Bailey?

Miranda Bailey: Oh… yes, you finished with your part of the face transplant right?

Owen Hunt: Yup, but I cleared my schedule to watch Sloan and Dr. Yang do their surgery so whatever it is you need I hope it’s not too time consuming.

Miranda Bailey: That all depends on how fast you can drive… and talk…

Owen Hunt: I’m sorry?

Miranda Bailey: I need you to drive out to the woods and talk Derek Shepherd into coming back here... and I believe you also might run into Callie Torres.

Owen Hunt: (gives her a look)

Miranda Bailey:…with a flat tire, or a broken heel, or an axe wielding serial killer.

Owen Hunt: You're serious?

Chief:(just unloaded on Bailey)

Bailey: Do I look like a therapist?!

Chief: You asked!

Bailey (looking guilty): I’ve lost Hunt and Torres, see I sent them to get Shepherd and ah…I never heard from them again… I was trying to solve the Shepherd situation for you sir, but it appears that I somehow made it three times worse.

Chief:(looks exasperated)

Bailey: So I’m telling you and my next move I believe is that I’m gonna call the police because I’m half convinced that they’re all dead…on a spit…with an one armed man turning them into shish kebabs sir… It’s my mind it just goes there.

Meredith(closing voiceover): Practicing medicine doesn’t lend itself well to the making of friends. Maybe because life and mortality are in our faces all the time. Maybe because in staring down death everyday, we’re forced to know that life, every minute is borrowed time. And each person, we let ourselves care about is just one more loss somewhere down the line. For this reason, I know some doctors who just don’t bother making friends at all. But the rest of us, we make it our job to move that line. To push each loss as far away as we can.

Elevator Love Letter [5.19]

Alex(opening voiceover): Surgeons are all messed up. We’re butchers, messed up knife happy butchers. We cut people up, we move on. Patients die on our watch, we move on. We cause trauma, we suffer trauma. We don’t have time to worry about all the blood and death and crap it really makes us feel.

Meredith: Oh my god, your neck! I will kill him!

Meredith:(to Cristina) You're wearing a turtleneck under your scrubs..it's ugly.

Chief:(to Alex) Alex, how is it com...going?

Alex: You think talking will help? You think a dixie cup of my swimmers will help? It's crap. This is crap! You just cant go messing with peoples heads like that! Even if she freezes the embryos you think, you think we'll get a chance to use them?! You think she'll still be here? You think she'll survive all this?! You think...I think..she told me, she told me she was seeing a ghost, okay? and I'm so used to all the crazy chicks in my life that I didn't even...I'm a doctor. A doctor! and I didn't even think to..and now she's..this is wrong. This isn't how it's supposed to happen.

Meredith: I know

Alex: It's crap.

Meredith: I know

Alex: I hate this.

Meredith: I know

Alex: This isn't...this isn't how we were...this isn't how I want to do this. This isn't how Izzie and I were supposed to make a baby.

Karev: See the family, make sure they don't come back in here..give her a break from all the "love"

Joyce: No. They're impatient. It's been a long time. But they always come. They are my people. People keep you going. People are better than...no people.

Callie: Okay, so I get why I haven't been camped out at Izzie's bed side holding her hand today but..

George: I'm not talking about this.

Callie: Why?

George: Maybe it's the fact that 1 asked Izzie 100 times what was wrong and she just ignored me. And then there's the fact that when she actually needed help she trusted Cristina..of all people!

Callie: And then there's the fact that she's your best friend and she might die on you..there's also that.

Meredith: Hands around your neck!

Cristina: Ring thrown in your face!

Chief: Wait. Um. Wait. No. You can’t take that one.

Meredith: Why not?

Chief: I said don't take it.

Meredith: I will take the elevator I want to take.

(Chief blocks elevator door. Door closes and Meredith presses the button for a new elevator. Other elevator door opens.)

Chief: Well go on.

Derek: Hey! Come on in. This is a CT of Katie Bryce. 15 year old female severed aneurysm.

Meredith: From a fall during rhythmic gymnastics, I remember.

Derek: It was the first surgery we ever scrubbed in together on right? Our first save. Right here is a cerebral cyst. Tough save, but we did it. I kissed you in the stairwell after the surgery. And this right here is where Dr. Bailey kicked you out of the surgery because she caught us in your driveway in my car. And right here, this was a 7 hour craniotomy and you held the clamp the entire time, never flinched. That’s when I knew you were going to be an incredible surgeon. Beth Monroe, made our clinical trial a success by surviving. You talked me into putting her under. That’s when I knew I needed you. And this is today. The post op head CT of Izzie Stevens. See that, right there? Tumour free. Because of you. You got me into the OR. If there’s a crisis you don’t freeze. You move forward. You get the rest of us to move forward. Because you’ve seen worse. You’ve survived worse. And you know we’ll survive too. You say you’re dark and twisty. It’s not a flaw. It’s a strength. It makes you who you are. I’m not going to get down on one knee. I’m not going to ask a question. I love you Meredith Grey. And I want to spend the rest of my life with you.

Meredith: And I want to spend the rest of my life with you.

Alex(closing voiceover): Doesn’t matter how tough we are, trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home, it changes our lives, trauma messes everybody up, but maybe that’s the point. All the pain and the fear and the crap. Maybe going through all of that is what keeps us moving forward. It’s what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up, before we can step up."

Sweet Surrender [5.20]

Meredith (opening voiceover): Defeat isn’t an option. Not for surgeons. We don’t back away from the table til the last breaths long gone. Terminals a challenge, life threatenings what gets us out of bed in the morning. We’re not easily intimidated, we don’t flinch, we don’t back down and we certainly don’t surrender, not at work anyway.

Meredith (closing voiceover): To do our jobs we have to believe defeat is not an option. That no matter how sick our patients get, there’s hope for them. But even when our hopes give way to reality, and we finally have to surrender to the truth, it just means we’ve lost to today’s battle, not tomorrow’s war. Here’s the thing about surrender, once you do it, actually give in, you forget why you were fighting in the first place.

No Good at Saying Sorry (One More Chance) [5.21]

Meredith (opening voiceover): Remember when we were little and we would accidentally bite a kid on the playground. Our teachers would go, “Say you’re sorry”, and we would say it, but we wouldn’t mean it cause the stupid kid we bit, totally deserved it. But as we get older, making amends isn’t so simple. After the playground days are over you can’t just say it, you have to mean it. Of course when you become a doctor, sorry is not a happy word. It either means you’re dying and I can’t help. Or it means this is really going to hurt.

Cristina: Nice work today? Seriously?

Owen: I'm sorry?

Cristina: 'Run to my truck.' You've got O'Malley clipping bleeders and you're telling me to run to your truck.

Owen: You know what my truck looks like. O'Malley doesn't. And that- that run you took, it saved a guy's life.

Cristina: Yeah, well, all day... all day you were teaching O'Malley and you ignored me.

Owen: O'Malley wants to be a trauma surgeon. You've already declared cardio. I didn't do anything wrong today. I treated you like I would anyone else.

Cristina: No, not like anyone else. 'Take care now.' What is that? What are you, like, you know, happy now? What- what are you? You know, just a "choke 'em and forget 'em" kinda guy? "Hey there now. Take care now. Nice work, Yang." What is this?

Owen: It's my shrink. My shrink gave me these sentences. We- we, uh, we came up with them together. They're all 3-word sentences so I'd have things to say to you instead of the three words that are... that are killing me. The three words that you know I feel but I can't say them, because it would be cruel to say them because I am no good for you. I don't want to torture you. I don't want to look at you longingly when I know I can't be with you. So, yeah, I'm smiling and I'm saying 'take care now.' I'm letting you off the hook. I'm trying. I'm trying so hard to let you off the hook. I'm trying to make it right, what I did to you. Can't you see that? I'm just trying to make it right.

Cristina: Take care now.

Mark: What tree girl made it through?

Callie: I can't lie. Even if they think I'm wrong, even if they don't understand, even if they think I'm crazy. I'm me. They're supposed to accept me, they're supposed to support me, they're supposed to love me, ya know? I cant lie.

Meredith: Oh great, is this another heart to heart?

Chief: I know you don't like me, and you have every right not to like me, I have abused my power but now I'm here on your turf. What I need to say, what I need to say is, I saw what your mother was doing, I saw how neglected you were, I saw her drive your father off and I spent a lot of time beating myself up about that, but what does that do for you, nothing, nothing. I wasn't your advocate, I didn't fight for you, I never stood up for you. I let myself off the hook, I told myself I was young and I didn't know any better, but I did know better, I wasn't much younger than you are now. I should've fought for you Meredith, like you fought for that child today, I told myself that I wasn't your father, that it wasn't my responsibility, that I was right not to but in, I let myself off the hook. You were helpless, you were a baby. A beautiful, smart, funny, little girl, and no one stood up for you. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.

Izzie's Mom: Are you sure you don't want me to stay?

Izzie: I'm sure, I'm okay. I'll be okay

Izzie's Mom: well if you're not you know where to find me.

Izzie: I love you mom, I love you so much, but we do better loving each other from a distance..

Izzie's Mom: You were always too good for that trailer park, that I knew, I might not know that much, and I might not be quite as smart as you, I always knew that.

Meredith (closing voiceover): As doctors we can’t undo our mistakes, and we rarely forgive ourselves for them, but it’s a hazard of the trade. But as human beings we can always try to do better, to be better, to re-write a wrong even if it feels irreversible. Of course, “I’m sorry” doesn’t always cut it. Maybe because we use it so many different ways: as a weapon, as an excuse. But when we are really sorry. When we use it right. When we mean it. When actions say what words never can. When we get it right, “I’m sorry” is perfect. When we get it right, “I’m sorry” is redemption.

What A Difference A Day Makes [5.22]

Izzie (opening voiceover): You never know the biggest day of your life is going to be the biggest. The days you think are going to be big ones, they are never as big as you make them out to be in your head. It’s the regular days, the ones that start out normal. Those are the days that end up being the biggest. And today was the wedding. It was beautiful. Perfect.

Becca (graduation speech): Today’s the day my life begins. Today I become a citizen of the world. Today I become a grown up. Today I become accountable to someone other than myself and my parents. Accountable for more than my grades. Today I become accountable to the world, to the future, to all the possibilities life has to offer. Starting today, my job is to show up, wide-eyed and willing and ready. For what? For anything. For everything. To take on life. To take on love. To take on the responsibility and possibility. Today my friends our lives begin and I for one, can’t wait.

Alex (wedding vows): Today is the day my life begins. All my life I’ve been just me, just a smart-mouthed kid. Today I become a man. Today I become a husband. Today I become accountable to someone other than myself. Today I become accountable to you, to our future, to all the possibilities our marriage has to offer. Together no matter what happens, I’ll be ready. For anything. For everything. To take on life. To take on love. To take on the possibility and responsibility. Today Izzie Stevens, our life begins. And I for one, can’t wait.

Izzie (closing voiceover): You never know the biggest day of your life is your biggest day, not until it’s happening. You don’t recognize the biggest day of your life, not until you’re right in the middle of it. The day you commit to something or someone. The day you get your heart broken. The day you meet your soul mate. The day you realize there’s not enough time because you wanna live forever. Those are the biggest days. The perfect days. You know, it was a beautiful day.

Here's to the Future [5.23]

Meredith (opening voiceover): When something begins, you generally have no idea how it’s going to end. The house you’re going to sell becomes your home, the roommates you were forced to take in become your family and the one night stand you were determined to forget becomes the love of your life.

George: Are you sure you want to? Why do you want to cut off your leg just to go to the war? Don’t you have family?

Charlie: You know what it’s like to have family who don’t know you? Don’t get you or maybe don’t like you?

George: Yeah, actually I have brothers.

Charlie: Me too. So there’s that family. The guys I grew up with and we’ve got nothing in common. And then there’s my guys in Iraq, my real family. Whatever we got into, we’re in it together. But here, I’m alone, I’m nobody. And I’ve tried, you know, I’ve tried fitting in here, I’ve tried being a regular person, I’ve tried getting a job but there aren’t any. There are a lot of thing I’ve wanted to be in my life, a lot of things that I’ve wanted to do. But none of them is here.

Charlie: You think I don’t know that? You think I want to cut my leg off? Of course not. Am I sure about this? No. The only think I’m sure about is I am in hell right now. That I am sure of. I’ve lost everything, everything I’ve worked for, everything I’ve cared about. I’ve traded in for a 6 days a week pay pill that doesn’t even work. So don’t waste both our time to scare me because you do not scare me Dr Torres. After everything I’ve been through nothing scares me. So are we going to do this or not?

Meredith (closing voiceover): We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it.

Now or Never [5.24]

Meredith (opening voiceover): Doctors spend a lot of time focused on the future, planning it, working toward it. But at some point you start to realize your life is happening now. Not after med school, not after residency, right now. This is it. It’s here. Blink and you’ll miss it.

Cristina: She just had brain surgery, an aggressive course of IL2. She needs rest.

Alex: She needs to exercise whatever memory she’s got left before it turns to mush

Cristina: Well she’s not going heal with you barking orders at her like a caveman.

Alex: Butt out Yang.

Cristina: You know she’s my patient. I don’t care if you’re her husband.

Alex: Look, she…

Cristina: You wanna see how fast I can get your visiting hours down to zero?

Alex: She signed a DNR. She signed a fricking DNR and made me promise me that she’d come out of this with a life, not in a hospital bed, not with no brain. I had to promise she’d have a life. You wanna know what happens if she can’t make no new memories? Forget about being a doctor. She’s going to need round the clock baby sitters. We get an apartment together, she can’t even find her way to the damn toilet, track her on her ankle in case god forbids, she wanders out the front door.

Cristina: Alex, you can handle this, she will get better.

Alex: Maybe, maybe not. It’s on me. Her future is on me.

Cristina: I...love...you.

Owen: I-I-I, I love you too-

Cristina: No, just...I love you. I said, I said “I love you”. Me. Cristina Yang. I mean...you traumatized me-

Owen: You know that I’m-I’m so sorry about that-

Cristina: No dammit, not about the choking. It’s, it’s like you come here, and then you pull out my icicle, and you make me love you, and I can’t, I mean I don’t want to,I-I can’t breathe...without you.

Owen: You can do this Cristina, we can do this. All you have to do is just meet me half way. All you have to do is say “yes”. All you have to do is say “yes”.

Meredith: How’s she doing? Any better?

Cristina: No.

Meredith: Damn. Well I’m going city hall to go do the thing.

Cristina: Seriously? It doesn’t seem like the day for it.

Meredith: Look at Alex, He’s working so hard all day and she doesn’t know. And if she stays like this, she may never know how much he loves her. And that girl Amanda, she in there loving a stranger. She thinks that’s her prince charming. I mean he’s probably going to die today. Chances are. So yeah, I’m going to go get married because I think it’s important to take the time to tell the people you love how much you love them while they can hear you. I love you Cristina Yang.

Cristina: You have changed.

Meredith: Maybe I have. What?

Cristina: I’m going to hug you.

Derek: Meredith...

Meredith: No, you know let's go, we gotta go. We gotta run to city hall, we'll come back, you'll check on Izzie, we'll monitor John Doe, I'll go talk George out of joining the army!

Derek: Look, we'll do this another day-

Meredith: There is no other day! Everyday is like this, everyday there is a crisis, there's no time.

Derek: Meredith...

Meredith: I love you and i do want to marry you, today. But there is no time.

Derek: [Cups her face with his hands] Do you have a piece of paper?

Meredith: For what?

Derek: I want to be with you forever. And you want to be with me forever. In order to do that, we need to make vows. A commitment. A contract. [Pause] Give me, a piece of paper.

Meredith: I don't! I-I-I don't...I have post-its. [Hands him posts-its and a pen. Derek goes and sits on the bench]

Derek: Okay...what do we want to promise each other?

Meredith: That you'll love me, even when you hate me.

Derek: To love each other...even when we hate each other. [writes it down on the post-its] No running. Ever. Nobody walks out. [Meredith joins him on the benches] No matter what happens.

Meredith: No running.

Derek: What else?

Meredith: That we'll take care of each other even when we're old and smelly and senile. And...if i get Alzheimer's and i forget you...

Derek: I will you remind you who i am, every day. [They smile at each other] To take care when old, senile, smelly. This...is..forever. [Derek finishes writing on the post-it, then gives it and the pen to Meredith] Sign.

Meredith: This is our wedding? A post-it?

Derek: Mhmm. Well, if you sign it. [Meredith signs it happily and then hands it back to Derek]

Meredith: Now what?

Derek: Now, I kiss the bride. [He kisses her tenderly. Meredith's smiling as they kiss. Then Derek slowly pulls back]

Meredith: Married.

Derek: Married. [Derek puts the post-it note with their vows and signatures on the back of her cubby, then turns to her] You see that? Plenty of time.

Meredith (closing voiceover): Did you say it? "I love you. I don't ever want to live without you. You changed my life." Did you say it? Make a plan. Set a goal. Work toward it, but every now and then, look around; Drink it in 'cause this is it. It might all be gone tomorrow."

Good Mourning [6.1]

Meredith (opening voiceover): According to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, when we're dying or have suffered a catastrophic loss, we all move through five distinct stages of grief. We go into denial because the loss is so unthinkable we can’t imagine it’s true. We become angry with everyone, angry with survivors, angry with ourselves. Then we bargain. We beg. We plead. We offer everything we have, we offer our souls in exchange for just one more day. When the bargaining has failed and the anger is too hard to maintain, we fall into depression, despair, until finally we have to accept that we’ve done everything we can. We let go. We let go and move into acceptance.

Meredith (closing voiceover): In medical school, we have a hundred lessons that teach us how to fight off death, and not one lesson on how to go on living.

Wondering how Meredith knows who John Doe is

Meredith: He wrote in my hand

Lexie, Bailey, Hunt, Christina, Shephard, Sloan, Callie, Chief: What do you mean he wrote in your hand?

Meredith : He just grabbed my hand, squezed it and he wrote with his finger

Derek : He wrote with his finger?

Meredith : You know in my hand, he wrote 007

Bailey (grabs Meredith's hand and proceeds to write on it using her finger) : Okay, what did I write?

Meredith : Joe?

Bailey : NO!! I did not write JOE!

Christina : Are you serious!

Chief : You mean this might not be O'Malley?

Mark Sloan : This is funny.

Hunt (nods confused)

Chief : Did anybody try to phone him? Can we get him on the phone?

Everybody retrieves their cell phones and start calling

Meredith : I'm telling you he squeezed my hand

Bailey (hushes Meredith) : Shut it! You don't get to talk anymore!! You don't get to talk ever again!!

Meredith : I could have sworn it was George.

Goodbye [6.2]

Meredith (opening voiceover): The dictionary defines grief as keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret. As surgeons, as scientists, we’re taught to learn from and rely on books, on definitions, on definitives. But in life, strict definitions rarely apply. In life, grief can look like a lot of things that bear little resemblance to sharp sorrow.

Izzie: Get up. I mean it get up. Get up. Now go get a life.

Amanda: I can’t

Izzie: George was a surgeon. He had a purpose he wanted to save lives and now he doesn’t get the chance. Now he doesn’t get the chance to do anything anymore. You do. You could go to medical school you know. You could hang out with your freaking friends, I don’t care what you do. Just go do something with your life because you have one. You lived. You lived and George didn’t and I know…I know..I know that feels horrible and shocking and terrifying but you lived. So go live your freaking life.

Amanda: I don’t know how.

Izzie: Nobody does. Nobody knows how. But god have enough respect for George to figure it out cos if I ever see you sitting on this bench again I will kick your ass from here to Sunday.

(closing voiceover)

Lexie: Grief may be a thing we all have in common, but it looks different on everyone.

Mark: It isn’t just death we have to grieve. It’s life. It’s loss. It’s change.

Alex: And when we wonder why it has to suck so much sometimes, has to hurt so bad. The thing we gotta try to remember is that it can turn on a dime.

Izzie: That’s how you stay alive. When it hurts so much you can’t breathe, that’s how you survive.

Derek: By remembering that one day, somehow, impossibly, you won’t feel this way. It won’t hurt this much.

Bailey: Grief comes in its own time for everyone, in its own way.

Owen: So the best we can do, the best anyone can do, is try for honesty.

Meredith: The really crappy thing, the very worst part of grief is that you can’t control it.

Arizona: The best we can do is try to let ourselves feel it when it comes.

Callie: And let it go when we can.

Meredith: The very worst part is that the minute you think you’re past it, it starts all over again.

Cristina: And always, every time, it takes your breath away.

Meredith: There are five stages of grief. They look different on all of us, but there are always five.

Alex: Denial.

Derek: Anger.

Bailey: Bargaining.

Lexie: Depression.

Chief: Acceptance.

I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watchin' Me [6.3]

Meredith (opening voiceover): Paranoia gives you an edge in the OR. Surgeons play out worst-case scenarios in their heads. You’re ready to close, you got the bleeder. You know it but there’s that voice in your head asking. What if you didn’t? What if the patient dies and you could have prevented it? So you check your work one more time before you close. Paranoia is a surgeon’s best friend.

Arizona: You know, it's not a good idea to piss off your attending.

Christina: Oh, I don't know, if he's upset, I'll apologize.

Arizona: I wasn't talking about him.

Christina: Sorry?

Arizona: I like kids, and I like their parents, and I like to see them smile. So I like going to get them pudding and playing games with them. Because it makes attaching their arms way more fun. I don't like being used. And I like being lied to even less.

Meredith (closing voiceover): We're all susceptible to it, the dread and anxiety of not knowing what's coming. It's pointless in the end, because all the worrying and the making of plans for things that could or could not happen, it only makes things worse. So walk your dog or take a nap. Just whatever you do, stop worrying. Because the only cure for paranoia is to be here, just as you are.

Tainted Obligation [6.4]

Meredith (opening voiceover): We begin life with few obligations. We pledge allegiance to the flag. We swear to return our library books. But as we get older we take vows, make promises, get burden by commitments, to do no harm, to tell the truth and nothing but, to love, to cherish till death do us part. So we just keep running up the tap till we owe everything to everybody and suddenly…what the.

Alex: We can move back to Meredith's.

Izzie: You did not just say that.

Alex: WHY NOT?

Izzie: Because, we are married now. This is how it's supposed to be. You and me, out in the world, making a life for ourselves.

Irving: You're just a kid, doc, you won't understand. But one day, you're gonna wake up, and all the big stuff, all the milestones you've been looking forward to - graduation, wedding, having kids, your grandkids - it's all behind you. It's all over. All you got is a bunch of yesterdays, and very few tomorrows.

Mark: Come on! It's just an erection.

Tommy: Excuse me?

Mark: All the guy wants is a woody. God forbid, you get to be his age and your kids won't let you have one. He's your father, he's taken care of you your entire lives, giving you everything, and now he needs something and you wanna throw that in his face? Do you know how many people would jump at the chance to give back to their parents, who would sacrifice everything, without blinking. And there's nothing wrong with dating a younger woman, it keeps you young, and that's my professional opinion.

Cristina: Hey, whatcha lookin’ for?

Shadow Shepard: Excuse me?

Cristina: Oh, I couldn’t help but notice, uh, you have no resident on your Decompressive Laminectomy, well today’s your lucky day, because I’m available.

Shadow Shepard: Yang, right? I heard you were hardcore into Cardio…

Cristina: I can be hardcore into anything you want

Shadow Shepard: (creepy, creepy smile)

Owen: Are you whoring yourself out for surgeries?

Lexie:I didn’t want to do this, I didn’t want to have to come to you for anything, ever. So I thought if I looked up your blood type, and it was the wrong one, then that would be it. Then I could just stop thinking about it. But I cant, because you have his blood. And I know that he’s not your dad, I know that he was never there for you and I would never ask you to give him anything he doesn’t deserve a thing from you, he doesn’t. But he’s, he’s going to die Meredith. And so I’m asking you to give something to me. I’m asking, I am asking you to give me my dad, because as crappy as he was to you, god, he was wonderful to me. He never missed a single dance recital, he was there at my 5th grade graduation, What is that? That’s not even real. I know he’s not your dad, I know that. But somehow you have his blood, and I don’t. So I’m asking you, give me my dad.

Chief: I have responsibilities, to make this hospital the best medical facility it can be, to repair what I've broken, even if it was twenty years ago. If I am now the bad guy, if I am now the villain here... well... so be it.

Meredith (closing voiceover): The thing about being a surgeon, everybody wants a piece of you. We take one little oath, and suddenly we’re drowning in obligations. To our patients, to our colleagues, to medicine itself. So we do what any sane person would do. We run like hell from our promises, hoping they’ll be forgotten. But sooner or later, they always catch up. And sometimes you find the obligation you dread the most isn’t worth running from at all.

Invasion [6.5]

Meredith (opening voiceover): When you get sick, it starts off with a single infection. One lone nasty intruder. Pretty soon the intruder duplicates. Becomes two. Then those two become four. And those four become eight. Then, before your body knows it, it’s under attack. It’s an invasion. The question for a doctor is, once the invaders have landed, once they’ve taken over your body, how the hell do you get rid of them?

Callie (to Mr. Torres): You think you can pray away the gay. You can't pray away the gay!

Mr. Torres: Leviticus: Thou shall not lie with a man as one lies with a female, it is an abomination

Callie: Oh, don’t do that daddy! Don’t quote the bible at me!

Mr. Torres: The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and the sin is exceedingly grave.

Father Kevin: Carlos, this is not what we…

Callie: Jesus: A new commandment that I give unto you, that you love one another.

Mr. Torres: Romans: but we know that laws-

Callie: Jesus: he, who is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone…

Mr. Torres: So you admit it’s a sin?

Callie: Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy! Jesus: blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God! Jesus: blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven! Jesus is my saviour daddy, not you! And Jesus would be ashamed of you for judging me! He would be ashamed of you for turning your back on me. He would be ashamed

Cristina: Nothing is happening to me. I don’t know what I’m doing, I’m like chasing after surgeries I don’t care about. Do you know you how long it’s been since I’ve held a heart in my hand? Since I’ve felt that, that joy…that rush? Ya know, I miss Burke. I, I miss him all day! I miss… it’s not the relationship or the sex, I miss… everyday when he was here, I held hearts. And I got picked, not because of some favoritism but because it was just like… it was right! And I learned, I learned! And I felt seen. And now, you know what, I don’t know what. I spent this entire day fighting… and I don’t want to do it anymore.

Meredith: Come over here!

Arizona: Most people think that I was named for the state, but it's not true, I was named for a battle ship. The U.S.S. Arizona. My grandfather was serving on the Arizona when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and he saved nineteen men before he drowned. Pretty much everything my father did his whole life was about honouring that sacrifice. I was raised to be a good man in a storm. Raised to love my country. Love my family. Protect the things I love. When my father, Colonel Daniel Robinson of the United States Marine Corps, heard that I was a lesbian he said he only had one question. I was prepared for "How fast can you get the hell out of my house?" But instead, it was "Are you still who I raised you to be?" My father believes in country the way that you believe in God. And my father is not a man who bends, but he bent for me because I am his daughter. I'm a good man in a storm. I love your daughter. And I protect the things I love. Not that I need too, she doesn't need it. She's strong, and caring, and honourable. And she's who you raised her to be.

Meredith (closing voiceover): What do you do when the infection hits you, when it takes over? Do you do what you're supposed to and take your medicine? Or do you learn to live with the thing and hope someday it goes away? Or do you just give up entirely and let it kill you?

I Saw What I Saw [6.6]

Meredith (opening voiceover): In order to get a good diagnosis, doctors have to constantly change their perspective. We start by getting the patient’s point of view, though they often don’t have a clue what’s going on. So we look at the patient from every possible angle. We rule things out. We uncover new information, trying to get to what’s actually wrong. We’re asked for second opinions, hoping we’ll see something others might have missed. For the patient, a fresh perspective can mean the difference between living and dying. For the doctor, it can mean picking that you’re picking a fight with everyone who got there before you.

Meredith: Are the Mercy West people that bad?

Cristina: They're everywhere and there are more of them than us, and they're kicking our asses. God, I miss Izzie. We need more 'uses', so get back here.

Meredith: I have to be discharged first. You want to forge Bailey's signature?

Cristina: No, that'll get me fired. Ooh, ask one of the new ones to do it. Get them fired.

Derek (to Chief): Maybe it's not one doctor. Maybe it's too many doctors who don't know each other and who don't trust each other. When I got to that room, it was chaos, because that's the system now: chaos. That has been the system that's been in place since this merger. Your system. I'm saying you should look again at who is responsible.

Meredith (closing voiceover): When we're headed toward an outcome that's too horrible to face, that's when we go looking for a second opinion. And sometimes, the answer we get just confirms our worst fears. But sometimes, it can shed new light on the problem, make you see it in a whole new way. After all the opinions have been heard and every point of view has been considered, you finally find what you're after - the truth. But the truth isn't where it ends, that's just where you begin again with a whole new set of questions.

Give Peace A Chance [6.7]

Derek (opening voiceover): Ask most surgeons why they became surgeons and they usually tell you the same thing. It was for the high, the rush, the thrill that comes from cutting someone open and saving their life. For me it was different, maybe it was because I grew up in a house with four sisters. No, definitely because I grew up in a house with four sisters because it was the quiet that drew me to surgery. The operating room is a quiet place. Peaceful. It has to be in order for us to stay alert, anticipate complications. When you stand in the OR, your patient open on the table, all the worlds noise, all the worry that it brings disappears. A calm settles over you, time passing without thought. For that moment, you feel completely at peace.

Isaac: No, don’t close me up. If you get in and it’s too complicated, cut the cord. Paralyze me if you must. I survived a war did you know that? I survived a war where they put bodies in to mass graves where there was once a playground. I survived the death of my family, my parents, my brothers and sisters. Then I survived the death of my wife and child when they starved to death in a refugee camp. I survived the loss of my country, of hearing my mother tongue spoken, of knowing what it feels like to have a place to call home. I survived. And I will survive the loss of my legs. If I have to, I’ll survive it. Ok? But Derek, there is always a way when things look like there’s no way. There’s a way to do the impossible, to survive the in survivable. There’s always a way. And you, you and I have this in common. We’re inspired. In the face of the impossible, we’re inspired. So if I can offer one piece of advice to the world’s foremost neuro surgeon. Today if you become frightened instead become inspired. Ok, I’m ready now. Put me to sleep.

Isaac: Go home, sleep on it. We’ll talk more tomorrow.

Meredith: Now you completely lost your mind. You're drawing on the wall!

Lexie: I wore a diaper yesterday, yes - and I will wear one today. If it helps Dr. Shepherd get through the surgery, I will wear a diaper. My diaper is awesome. My diaper is hard-core. You wish you had the balls to wear my diaper. I'm gonna wear it, and I'm gonna wear it with pride. And if I have to pee in it? Oh, I'll pee. Because I am a surgeon. This is America. And I will do what needs to be done. So you can kiss my hard-core, diaper wearing ass.

Arizona: No, no, whoa whoa whoa whoa!

Richard: Move!

Arizona: No!

Richard: Dr. Robbins!

Arizona: I said no! Dr. Shepherd is operating on the inside of a man’s spinal chord right now. Even the most minor disturbance could cause him to make a mistake on that patient- a patient who happens to work here, and whose life I personally would like to see Dr. Shepherd save. So no… you don’t get to go in there and be a bully. Not today chief, not on my watch.

Derek: We can't keep doing this Richard. I'm tired of fighting you. Let's try and put this behind us and move on. I can if you can.

Richard: You're fired. Immediately. Get the hell out of my hospital.

Derek: Go home, sleep on it. We’ll talk more tomorrow.

Derek (closing voiceover): Ask most surgeons why they became surgeons and they usually tell you the same thing. The high, the rush, the thrill of the cut. For me it was the quiet. Peace isn’t a permanent state. It exists in moments. Fleeting. Gone before we knew it was there. We can experience it at any time, in a stranger’s act of kindness, a task that requires complete focus or simply the comfort of an old routine. Everyday we all experience these moments of peace. The trick is to know when they’re happening so that we can embrace them, live in them. And finally let them go.

Invest in Love [6.8]

Meredith (opening voiceover): It’s impossible to describe the panic that comes over you when you’re a surgeon and your pager goes off in the middle of the night. Your heart starts to race. Your mind freezes. Your fingers go numb. You’re invested. There’s someone’s mum, someone’s dad, someone’s kid. And now it’s on you because that someone’s life is in your hands. Surgeons, we’re always investing in our patients. But when your patient’s a child, you’re not just invested, you’re responsible. Responsible for whether or not that child survives, has a future. And that’s enough to terrify anyone.

Meredith (closing voiceover): They say the bigger your investment, the bigger your return. But you have to be willing to take a chance. You have to understand, you might lose it all. But if you take that chance, if you invest wisely the pay off might just surprise you.