(Burke and Cristina are doing a surgery)
MVO: To make it... really make it as a surgeon, it takes major commitment. We have to be willing to pick up that scalpel that may or may not do more damage than good. It's all about being committed. Cause if we're not, we have no business picking up that scalpel in the first place.
(Cristina is at the OR board talking to a nurse)
Cristina: We'll book OR 2 tomorrow at 10. Usual scrub team. And get rid of his valve replacement at 2, that's no good.
Intern: Yang. Brought you a mocha latte.
Cristina: You're not scrubbing in.
Intern: But Burke always lets me scrub it.
Intern 2: Hey, Yang can I get in on...
Cristina: No, no residents. Burke says you crowd him. Go away. (To a nurse) Make sure you put the instrument tray on his left hand side. He needs the elbow room. And OR 2, no gallery. Burke was specific.
Nurse: Dr. Burke has become very specific since coming back to work, hasn't he?
Cristina: Do you want me to tell him you said that?
(George, Meredith, and Alex are watching Cristina from above)
George: Burke's back and suddenly Christina's running his board. Who does she think she is, Bailey?
Meredith: She's helping him.
Alex: She's taking advantage. She gets out of rounds, she scrubs in on every surgery Burke does, she's ordered around 3'rd year residents....
Meredith: You're overreacting...
(Cristina grabs the pen from the nurse's hand and starts writing on the board.)
George: She's writing on the board!
Alex: Maybe I should sleep with Burke...
(The interns are in the locker room)
Meredith: You've been busy
Cristina: Yeah
Meredith: Derek hast called yet. I told him I broke up with Finn a week ago, he still hasn't called. Hey, do you wanna go get a drink, catch up?
Cristina: No, I can't. I have to study up for Burke's surgeries tomorrow.
(Cristina and George leave)
Meredith: She's busy.
(Alex leaves)
(George is trying to catch up to Callie in the hall)
George: Callie. Hey, talk to me. And how about talking to me instead of ignoring me?
Callie: George!
George: Well that's talking That's a good start.
(Derek walks out of the shower, and screams upon seeing a woman on his bed.)
Derek: Oh! Oh, God!
Nancy: Well hey there stranger.
Derek: Nancy, you don't call first?
(Meredith enters.)
Meredith: Hey, I...
Derek: Meredith...Meredith. Wait let me explain! Meredith!
(But of course she takes off.)
Nancy: 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, then Christmas, you're living 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.
(Seattle scenes)
(George, Izzie and Meredith are in the elevator)
Izzie: I'm feeling really good.
George: Good.
Meredith: Good.
Izzie: First day back, it feels good. Big. Kind of nervous. I feel good. Do I look ok?
Meredith and George: Great.
Izzie: I want to get on the right foot, get my ID renewed, new time card, sign some papers with legal then I'm back...really back.
Meredith and George: Yeah.
(Izzie leaves the elevator.)
Izzie: This is me. Human resources. See you guys on the floor.
Meredith and George: Yeah.
George: Ok, 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 a McHottie? That McBastard. How was that?
Meredith: That was good!
George: Cristina enough?
Meredith: Good! Channeling Izzie... go.
George: OK... Callie... she won't forgive me, she won't talk to me. She dumped me...which I don’t....care about...at all
Meredith: Good because you deserve better, 'cause you are George. I mean seriously. Seriously. Seriously. Was that Izzie optimistic?
George: That was very Izzie...
Meredith: What has happened to us?
George: We are now the people 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. No more dating.
Meredith: No more Derek. No more Callie.
George: Just 100% focused on our work.
Meredith: They are dead to us.
George: They are freaking corpses to us.
(They butt knuckles.)
(Mr. Byrd’s room)
Mrs. Byrd: Preston Burke, what a pleasure. I have read so much about you.
Burke: Well thank you.
Cristina: Pruitt Byrd. Medivac brought him in this morning. He presents with a primary cardiac tumor.
Mrs. Byrd: We've been told Pruitt needs a cardiac auto-transplantation.
Burke: A cardiac auto-transplantation?
Cristina: A humpty-dumpty surgery.
Burke: Yes I know what it is. Mrs. Byrd, this is a very complicated surgery. You'll need thorough testing.
Cristina: Already done. Mr. Byrd is a perfect candidate.
Burke: You understand what the surgery entails? We have to…
Cristina: We have to remove his heart, cut it open, scrape out all the tumor, then put his heart back together again.
Burke: Which is risky.
Cristina: But possible.
Mrs. Byrd: Which is why we're here I want the very best for my Pruitt.
Burke: The best.
Cristina: She means you.
Burke: I know that.
Cristina: Oh I scheduled Mr. Byrd for surgery this afternoon. Just trying to be as efficient as possible.
(Richard’s office)
Richard: Legal cleared Stevens. Explain her parameters and make she understands.
Bailey: Stevens is being assigned to me again?
Richard: She's your intern.
Bailey: Well wouldn't it be better for her to start fresh with another resident?
Richard: You don't want her, huh?
Bailey: I want her to succeed.
Richard: There's still a good deal of fallout after the Duquette M&M. There's talk. I don't need to tell you that there are doctors in this hospital who have concerns about your judgment.
Bailey: Concerns about my judgment.
Richard: Stevens was your mistake.
Bailey: Do you, sir, do you have concerns about my judgment?
Richard: Do you? (Pause) You're not going to put those concerns to rest by avoiding taking responsibility for Stevens. She's your intern...again.
(George and Addison are in the ambulance bay)
George: Transfer from Mercy West. Noelle LeBatt. 32 weeks along, pregnant with twins. One appears to be developing more slowly than the other.
Greg: Hi.
Addison: Hi there.
Greg: Greg Stanton. This is my fiancé, the future Mrs. Stanton. Noelle.
Noelle: Greg, I promise you you're the only person who cares if we're married or not.
Greg: They said we had to come here because her condition could be serious. Is it serious?
Addison: I gotta say, you don't seem emergent enough for Mercy to send you over here in a ambulance. You're not in labor, you're not bleeding, your vitals are fine.
Noelle: They said I need a specialist because of my thing.
George: Two uteruses!? Ms. Lebatt, Noelle, was born with two uteruses. Uh, Uteri
Addison: Uteruses.
George: Uteruses. That's very rare.
(Izzie walks up to Bailey)
Izzie: I'm here. Hi. Hello. That paperwork took forever, but I'm all done with it now. And can I just say how grateful I am to be back?
Bailey: You understand there are rules to your probation. Protocol to follow?
Izzie: Oh yeah, legal took me through lots of that stuff. The mandatory counseling, the extra lab hours. The extra work with the transplant patients.
Bailey: That's the stuff you're doing for the chief. I'm talking about what you're doing for me.
Izzie: Ok. What am I doing for you?
Bailey: OK, lets start with what you don't get to do. You will not interact with any patients. You will not be alone with any patients. You will be seen and not heard. No procedures. The OR is off limits. No pre-op. No post-op. No anything having to do with an op. You have no authority. You have no opinions. You have no choice in this matter. Am I understood?
Izzie: Is there anything I can do? I want to be useful.
Bailey: Well, I can’t use you. You've got to earn back the right for any of us to trust you again. Until then, you will be shadowing a different doctor each day.
Izzie: Okay, who am I with today? Dr. Montgomery? You?
(Meredith walks up)
Meredith: Dr. Bailey, you paged?
Bailey: Dr. Grey.
Izzie: Meredith...
Bailey: You are to make sure that Stevens observes only.
Meredith: You want me to?
Izzie: Wait Meredith? Meredith is the boss of me.
(Meredith and Izzie are walking through the hall)
Meredith: I'm sorry about this.
Izzie: Hey you want me to fetch you some coffee? Rub your feet maybe?
Meredith: I did not ask for this assignment.
Izzie: It's fine...I'm fine with it. Oh, I'm so sorry (She's bumped into people who are talking to Derek.)
Derek: Dr. Stevens. Welcome back. Meredith? Meredith...
Izzie: Sorry it's not like I can leave. I gotta stay by my bosses side.
Nancy: Ok, the trailer sucks, but in the light of day the land is nice. Seattle's pretty in the daylight. Plus you have your thing for ferries.
Meredith and Derek: Ferry boats.
Nancy: Right, whatever.
Derek: Dr. Stevens, Meredith, this is my sister Nancy.
Meredith: Sister?
Derek: Mm-hmm
Meredith: You're one of Derek's sisters?
Nancy: Well I knew you didn't think I was the wife, seeing as how you already ran her off.
Derek: Nancy is visiting from Connecticut. She's on her way home... now. Straight back home.
Meredith: Well it was nice to meet you.
Nancy: Ok...
(Meredith and Izzie walk off as Derek grabs Nancy's arm scornfully.)
Izzie: McDreamy's sister is McBitchy....
(Cristina and Burke are walking through the hall)
Cristina: You put me in charge of your schedule.
Burke: To make sure that I didn't get a surgery like this one.
Cristina: Only a handful of people do humpties Burke. And you're the best one on the west coast.
Burke: Oh, he can go to Houston.
Cristina: You want to tell the Chief that? Pruitt needs the surgery, he'll die without it.
Burke: You didn't tell me. You told the patient we were doing the surgery. But you didn't tell me.
Cristina: I have been doing that all week.
Burke: Are you up on a humpty? Do you realize what this entails?
Cristina: I have done my research. Stop worrying. We are a well-oiled machine.
(Cristina walks away and Burke walks up)
Bailey: Uh, Dr. Burke.
Burke: Yeah.
Bailey: I understand there are some doctors in this hospital that have doubts about my judgment, since Denny
Burke: Everyone loves a scandal.
Bailey: So you think its just gossip? Not actual concern about me being a doctor?
Burke: Sure, sure.
(Meredith and Izzie are in the ER. Meredith pulls gauze off a young girl's burnt hand.)
Meredith: Ow. Iz, set me up for debriedment, and dressing.
Gretchen: It's stupid. I know better. When I'm setting up for the bar... I'm a mess. I can't focus on anything for weeks, but torts and real property and constitutional law.
Meredith: Uh the Biosynthetic ones.
Izzie: We never use those.
Meredith: We do now. Sloan changed the burn protocol last week.
Gretchen: I was about to start a practice test. I wanted some tea. So I put on a pot of water and hit the timer. I just forgot. Half an hour into my section on contracts and the smoke alarm was blaring...and well you know the rest.
Meredith: So you're going to be a lawyer?
Gretchen: All I have to do is pass the bar exam. I failed before...but this time I'm ready. I'm going to pass.
Izzie: Good for you.
(Derek and Nancy are walking through the hall)
Derek: That was just mean.
Nancy: Kathleen called and told me to find out why the slutty interns panties were hanging on the hospital bulletin board.
Derek: Four sisters...four sisters and not one brother. And you wonder why I don't call more.
Nancy: Feel free to explain about the panties at any time.
Derek: Nance, it's great to see you. Really great to have you here. But I have a job you know? I have patients.
Nancy: I have a mother at 35 weeks with twins...where is her OB?
Derek: Well her OB should be on a plane back to Connecticut where she belongs.
Nancy: Okay, so we've covered the trailer, we still have to cover the slutty intern and the divorce.
Derek: You know what? You sound more and more like mom every day.
Nancy: Take it back.
(Noelle’s room)
George: So two uteruses. That's pretty cool. And you're engaged...that’s also cool.
Noelle: Greg talked me into it
Greg: From the first moment I saw Noelle I knew I was ham.
George: Did you say ham?
Noelle: Oh here we go again.
Greg: You're either ham or eggs. You gotta ask yourself in every situation, are you the pig of chicken?
George: Sorry pig or chicken?
Greg: Look you got to play the ham and the eggs. You see the chicken is involved in the meal. But the pig is committed. So the question is...are you involved? Or are you committed?
George: Ham or eggs?
Greg: Ham or eggs.
(Mark walks up to Alex who is standing at a nurse’s station)
Mark: Karev you free?
Alex: Absolutely sir.
Mark: Great. Take this. I'm on hold with the DMV. Some mess up about switching my license and registration to Seattle. Take care of this for me?
Alex: Thanks for thinking of me sir. O'Malley...how's it feel to be the new gynie grunt?
George: I've got a patient who was born with and is pregnant in two uteruses. Two uteruses...jealous?
Alex: No, I'm busy, I'm on hold. Important business. For Sloan.
George: Right... Super important, I'm sure. Noelle LeBatt...room 2413.
Alex: Hang on, can I see that? For a second(referring to the chart)
(Nancy walks up.)
Nancy: Did I just hear him say two uteruses?
Alex: You must be...
Mark: Nancy pants?
Nancy: Hey loser.
Mark: I wish Derek had told me you were visiting.
Nancy: Oh like he tells you anything these days?
Mark: Yeah, well I'm working on that.
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. Plus I slept with my tennis partner’s wife and he went out and bought a gun.
Nancy: There it is!
(Addison walks up)
Addison: Oh my God! Nancy! Let me guess, did mom send you out?
Nancy: I hear Derek’s trying to ban you from Seattle?
Addison: Did he also tell you he's living in a trailer?
(Derek walks up and sees them talking, and walks away.)
Nancy: Derek. Derek? (She goes after him.) I want to see the two uteruses.
Addison: Yeah, find me later.
Mark: I miss her.
Addison: Yeah me too.
(Noelle’s room)
Greg: The Diesel pushes past quarterback Don McNeil. He's at the 30. He's at the 20. He's at the 10. Touchdown Washington Redskins!
Noelle: Sorry, one of the twins gets rowdy, and Greg gets carried away when talking to the baby. He's decided that the baby is into sports of all things.
Greg: Well she's daddy's little girl. I can tell see when I talk to her...
Alex: Yeah, the rhythm of your voice, it helps calm her down. Yeah, I read a couple articles on that recently.
Addison: Dr. Karev...I didn't know you secretly missed my service.
Alex: Right.
(Alex leaves)
Addison: Greg, Noelle, I have good news for you. According to our tests, the babies are both perfectly healthy. But they are substantially different sizes for a very unique reason. The tests indicate that the babies have two different due dates.
George: According to our calculations, the larger baby, your son was conceived a whole six weeks before your daughter.
Noelle: Oh God.
Greg: I don't understand. That's impossible.
Addison: Actually it's quite possible. Our tests are extremely accurate at predicting due dates.
Greg: But we broke up. Yeah, see she got pregnant. I wanted to get married, she didn't. I gave her an ultimatum, and she left me.
Noelle: Greg I am so sorry.
Greg: I mean, we were barely speaking, six weeks after the conception, let alone having sex. Or at least I wasn't having sex.
Noelle: It was one night, Greg, it was one night. I didn't think that this could happen. It was nothing.
Greg: I can't believe you did this. I can't believe you didn't tell me. God, I can't believe this.
(He storms out.)
George: He's not the father of both babies.
(Addison and Bailey are standing at the nurse’s station)
Addison: I just accidentally broke the news of my patient's infidelity to her fiance.
Bailey: And yet no one is questioning your competence as a surgeon.
Addison: No, what?
(Richard walks up)
Richard: I need a button. I'm on my last clean shirt and I'm missing a button. Adele always handled my buttons
Addison: Have you called her?
Richard: Adele...no. I wouldn't want to bother her with anything as trivial as a button. I don't suppose either of you would want to....
Addison: I'm sorry, I have two uteruses I have to attend to.
Bailey: I have many skills. Surgical skills. Your button ruptures an esophagus, I'm your woman... otherwise...
(Gretchen’s room)
Mark: I hear you burned your hand because you were studying?
Gretchen: Can't be allowed to warm soup within five days of taking the bar.
Mark: So you burned your hand while you...
Gretchen: While I was burning the soup.
Mark: You grabbed the pot
Gretchen: Dropped it, obviously it was red hot...
Mark: Must have held onto it for a while though. This burn's extremely deep.
Gretchen: Oh yeah, that's right. I held onto it then I dropped it.
Mark: There are some deep partial thickness burns here. Give her a gram of Cephazol and a tetanus.
Gretchen: It's too bad really, that I did this to my hand. I'm supposed to be taking the bar again on Friday.
Mark: This burn is bad, but we'll get you fixed up. You'll be fine to take the test on Friday.
Gretchen: I will?
(Meredith and Izzie are outside of Gretchen’s room)
Izzie: She's lying. Something's off about Gretchen's story.
Meredith: Izzie, you're only supposed to be observing.
Izzie: I am observing. I'm observing closely. Did you see her reaction when Sloan told her she'd be ok to take the test again. That was not relief. That was panic.
Meredith: It's ok to be nervous...about being back here at work, about failing. But you haven't been be back a full day yet and already you're pushing to bend the rules.
IZZIE: Meredith, this is so not about me. This is about our patient. I'm worried about our patient. And get off your high freaking horse.
Meredith: This is my patient. Try to remember that.
Izzie: Fine, whatever.
(Bailey is at the OR board and Cristina is nearby)
Bailey: A humpty dumpty surgery. Burke's doing a humpty today? I've never seen one of those first hand before.
Cristina: Yeah, me neither. What are you doing?
Bailey: Scrubbing in. You'll let Burke know?
Cristina: Sure.
(George walks up to Callie in the hall)
George: I know you're not talking to me any more, but there's something I'd like to explain. All you have to do is listen. You and me, we're like ham and eggs. I was the chicken and I just want you to know that I know I was the chicken. You put yourself out there and you were committed. I was just put the eggs on the plate. Not the ham 'cause you were the pig. I was involved but now I'm committed.
Callie: Did you just call me a pig?
George: It's a metaphor.
Callie: Calling me a pig.
George: The point is you're not the pig any more. What I'm trying to say is, I am the pig. Now...I am the pig. (She walks away.)
George: I am the pig.
(Izzie walks past a room where the gang is sitting eating their lunch.)
Izzie: I've been waiting for you guys for half an hour in the cafeteria. Since when do we eat in a patient room?
George: Izzie, meet really old guy. We found him a couple of days ago. He sleeps all the time.
Cristina: It's quiet in here. Nobody bothers us. What are you doing?
Izzie: I'm not doing anything. Turns out I'm literally not allowed to do anything. I knew coming back would be an adjustment. But this...
Cristina: No, what are you doing right now?
Izzie: Eating my lunch.
Cristina: Ok, if you want to socialize, or talk about your day or get in a quick therapy session, go do it over there.
Izzie: Seriously?
Cristina: Goodbye Izzie.
Izzie: Ok...
Alex: So O'Malley, your chick two uteruses...
George: You're on scut. Glorified plastics scut. You're in no position to mock me or my uteruses.
Alex: Any cervical changes on the ultrasound?
George: Why do you care?
Alex: I don't.
Izzie: I am so glad to be back. Yay! I'm not complaining about you...you and I are fine, boss.
(The old man groans in his bed and moves slightly and everyone looks around at one another.)
Izzie: This is weird.
George: I called Callie a pig.
Alex: To her face?
Meredith: What happened to the whole she's a corpse thing?
Izzie: I can't get over how much everything around here has changed.
Meredith: How many times?
George: Just one time.
Meredith: I get one too then, Gin
(They're playing cards. Meredith gets up and leaves.)
Izzie: What was that... with Meredith?
George: We have a thing.
Izzie: Wait. You have a thing with Meredith and I don't now about it? I live with you, I see you every day.
George: It's work thing.
Cristina: You know the point of hanging out with really old guy is that he doesn't talk. The man is sedated. This is supposed to be a quiet place. (She storms out.)
Izzie: See...change. She's changed. Everything's changed.
(Mr. Byrd’s room)
Mrs. Byrd: I gave the other nurse a list of his medications this morning. My husband needs his pills, he needed them hours ago!
(Cristina enters)
Cristina: Ok, why don't you go check on his meds again?
Nurse: I have checked on them.
Cristina: Meds. Pharmacy. Now. Just....
Mrs. Byrd: I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Cristina: It's fine. It's fine.
Mrs. Byrd: I was never a yeller before. I'm becoming this horrible person who yells at people who are just trying to do their job.
Cristina: You are just looking out for your husband. You do exactly what it takes to protect him. And that does not make you horrible. It makes you smart.
(Christina walks to the OR board and erases Bailey's name off the board when no one is looking.)
(Noelle’s room)
Noelle: He said he was leaving. He said he wasn’t coming back.
George: She's hyperventilating. And the baby's had some bradicardia.
Addison: Noelle I need you to get back into bed.
Noelle: Is Greg out there? Did he leave? Like really leave?
George: Noelle, take deep breaths.
Noelle: I always give him such a hard time about everything. I mean, he likes weddings, I hate them He loves kids, they scare me to death.
Addison: Noelle, have you had any cramping, any contractions, anything at all?
Noelle: I can't do this without him. We'll get past this right. I mean, we'll get past this. AH!
Addison: All right, Noelle, I need you to get into bed.
Noelle: Why? What's happening?
Addison: Stay on your left side. And whatever you do, do not push. I need slow deep breaths.
(Nancy and Derek are at Joe’s having lunch)
Nancy: So tell me about the slutty girl. Fine, the slutty intern.
Derek: It's the slutty part I had a problem with.
Nancy: Kathleen said she's not even single.
Derek: She is single. She's wonderful, she's smart, she's a lot of things, but she's none of your business Nancy
Nancy: Wow...I've never seen you like this over a girl. Not even Addison.
Derek: I've never been like this over a girl, especially Addison.
Nancy: Oh don't be bitter. I mean shame on Addison and all that but he's Mark, Derek. What did you expect? He's Mark. And who hasn't gone there once or twice, right?
Derek: What'd you say?
Nancy: Oh come on, everybody sleeps with Mark, it's practically a right of passage. Derek I get it. I get that they made a mistake.
Derek: It wasn't a mistake. Nancy, it wasn’t just a mistake. It was months. They were together for months, did you know that?
Nancy: No, I had no idea.
Derek: Then shut up about it and eat your lunch.
(Cristina is sitting on the steps near the OR board, Meredith sits down next to her)
Meredith: Derek's sister is in town. Cristina, are you mad at me or something, 'cause I've been trying to talk to you all week...
Cristina: Not everything is about you, Meredith.
Meredith: What's going on? 'Cause George and Alex are saying...
Cristina: I...don't care
Meredith: What is your problem?
Cristina: I have bigger things in my life right now.
(Cristina and Meredith leave. Bailey walks up and notices her name missing from the humpty dumpty.)
(Burke and Cristina are in surgery)
Burke: What?
Cristina: Nothing.
Burke: 10 blade.
(George passes Greg who is at a nurse’s station)
Greg: Dr. O'Malley? Can you tell me what's going on in there?
George: You left... she thinks you left her!
Greg: Look man, this is all a lot to digest. My little girl... she isn't even my little girl any more.
George: Noelle is in there freaking out because she thinks you left.
Greg: Just tell me if she is ok... please.
George: She's gone into premature labor. Dr. Montgomery... is about to do an emergency c-section on one of the babies to stop labor on the other.
Greg: So you're delivering one of the babies right now? Today?
George: In just a few minutes.
Greg: The boy or the girl?
George: Greg, ham or eggs?
(Alex is at a computer and Mark walks up)
Mark: You say you want a career in plastics, but you can't tear yourself away from the baby catchers long enough to show me you want it.
Alex: Being on hold with the DMV doesn't have anything to do with a career in plastics, Dr. Sloan
Mark: Only it does. Cause being on hold with the DMV has to do with me, and I have everything to do with your career in plastics.
(Nurse walks up)
Nurse: Tyler, Addison Montgomery needs two units of B-Positive blood in L&D STAT.
(Alex hangs up with the DMV and goes to help)
(Meredith and Izzie are in Gretchen’s room)
Meredith: So the biosynthetic dressings should ensure that you won't need skin grafts. And that's good.
Gretchen: Would that take long? I mean, how long would something like that take? If I had needed them?
Meredith: Oh that would depend on the severity of the burn.
Gretchen: So you mean more severe than this one? It would have to be more severe.
Meredith: Just to make sure that I have everything accurate, you burned your hand...
Gretchen: We've been over this haven’t we.
Meredith: I'm sorry.
Gretchen: Look I have a test Friday and I have work to do. So I have to…I want to get out of here. I'm ready to go home.
Izzie: Gretchen did you burn your hand on purpose?
Meredith: Izzie you heard what Dr. Bailey said.
Izzie: It's ok if you did. It's just...did you...burn your hand to get out of taking your test?
Gretchen: I can't fail that damn test one more time. I just can't. It's all anyone in my family...anyone in my life talk about. It's all I'm known for. Oh Gretchen the failure. Can you imagine failing the bar exam five times? Five times! I mean that's absurd. It's just…that's pathetic. I cannot sit for 2 1/2 solid days of testing...again...just to prove to everyone again...how pathetic I am. Not...when…
Izzie: You feel that pathetic all by yourself.
(Seattle scenes)
(Addison and George are in Noelle’s OR)
Addison: Ok, I've completed the incision. I'm going to ask you to move the top uterus to the side so I can reach the one underneath.
George: Ok.
Addison: Now I don't want to alarm you or make you nervous in any way, 'cause you seem like a decent person, O'Malley, but I've got about 120 seconds to get baby 1 out of uterus 1 while you're holding uterus 2. And if you so much as hiccup you could tear the uterine wall and kill this woman's child. Just try and be careful ok?
George: Ok.
Nurse: Wow. Look at that.
Addison: Amazing huh?
(Mr. Pruitt’s surgery)
Cristina: Applying the final hemastasis suture.
Burke: Don't be afraid to.
Cristina: Grab a bigger piece? Got it.
Burke: Hmm. Good. Very nice Dr. Yang.
Cristina: Applying pressure.
Burke: Gently.
(They pull a mass out of the guy's heart.)
Cristina: It was attached at the intraventricular septum. Are you going to use a graft to repair?
Burke: Someone's been doing their homework.
Cristina: 4-0 Prolene please. Thank you very much Boki.
(Noelle’s OR)
Addison: Ready to perforate uterus 2. Scalpel.
George: Wait. Wait, Dr. Montgomery, my baby's moving. It's really moving, I can't hold it.
Addison: I need you to hold her still if I'm going to do the c-section.
George: I know. I'm trying.
Addison: I mean it O’Malley.
George: What should I do? It's really moving.
Addison: I need you to keep her still George.
Nurse: You're sending her into distress. You have to get that baby to stop moving.
George: How do I do that?
Alex: Talk O'Malley.
(Alex moves towards the table.)
George: Alex...
Addison: Dr. Karev move away from the table.
Addison: Karev.
George: Talk about what?
Alex: October 30, 1974, it's the fight known as Rumble in the Jungle. World heavyweight champ George Foreman is pitted against Muhammad Ali. His first fight in 3 1/2 years out of the ring.
George: It's working
Alex: Foreman is his favorite to win. He's younger, stronger.
Addison: Scalpel.
Alex: But he's not prepared for what Ali later called the rope-a-dope. It all starts in the second round. Foreman comes out swinging. Ali's backed up against the ropes.
(Derek walks into the room where Richard is)
Derek: That's not going to stay on. Giving it too much slack
Richard: You're blocking my light.
(He's trying to sew a button onto his shirt.)
Derek: Think of it as a basic corner stitch.
Richard: I can figure out how to sew on my own buttons, thank you. I am a surgeon.
Derek: Right.
Richard: Oh for God's sakes. You sew this on for me and I'll get rid of Addison and Sloan.
Derek: Really?
Richard: No.
Derek: Oh, fine. Well, I'll do it anyway.
Richard: So I heard you've got a sister wandering the halls She planning on moving in too?
Derek: God, I hope not.
Richard: Derek I know it's been hard for you.
Derek: He was like my brother. I have four sisters. Four very annoying sisters. Mark was my brother. It's hard.
Richard: Divorce isn't all it's cracked up to be, huh?
Derek: I just want it to be easy. I want it be over and move on.
Richard: But you're in a surprising amount of pain.
Derek: You and Adele?
Richard: I'm sewing on a button for the first time in my life. What does that tell you?
Derek: Technically, I'm sewing. I'm just saying.
(Alex is leaving the Or and Mark is right outside)
Alex: Dr. Sloan
Mark: Just so we're clear, you knew when you stepped into that surgery that you were forfeiting your career in plastics, right?
Alex: But, Dr. Sloan...
Mark: I need my phone back.
(Outside of Mr. Pruitt’s surgery)
Burke: Well done. You were very prepared.
Cristina: Yes, I'm always prepared.
Burke: I couldn't have done it without you.
Cristina: Thank you.
Bailey: Dr. Burke, could we have a moment alone?
(Cristina walks off)
Bailey: I just I didn't realize that you were one of them. One of the doctors who have doubts about my abilities.
Burke: Miranda, I'm not.
Bailey: My name was erased from the board. I have to assume that was you.
(Burke looks up to Cristina who is standing nearby)
Burke: Dr. Bailey.
Bailey: I just...I just need to know why. I need you to tell me why you didn't want me in on your surgery.
Burke: I'm afraid I just couldn't use you.
Bailey: I understand.
(Nancy walks into the room where Derek is writing charts)
Nancy: You should have seen the two uteruses. So unbelievably cool. And a cute baby to boot.
Derek: I'm glad you're enjoying your trip.
Nancy: Relax Derek, I'm going. I'm on a plane back in 2 hours.
Derek: So, you're going to report back to mom that...
Nancy: That you're you. Still running circles around all the women in your life. But that's to be expected with 4 sisters and a dead dad.
Derek: I'm not running around in circles.
Nancy: Can you even remember the last time you were alone? You've never been single. I mean you're fine, but you're not happy. And you're not going to get happy until you get some space. Just get away. Away from Addie, away from the intern, just away. Figure out what you want.
Derek: Kathleen's the shrink Nancy, not you.
Nancy: I gotta go.
Derek: Nancy, thanks for flying out here. It was... thanks
(Gretchen, Meredith and Izzie are in the elevator)
Gretchen: Where are we going again.
Meredith: We need to go upstairs.
Gretchen: OK. (the elevator opens) Wait. Wait. Where are we?
Meredith: We're on the psychiatric floor Gretchen. We need to place you on a 72-hour hold.
Gretchen: No I'm not crazy! You can't…no. I'm going home
Meredith: Gretchen.
Gretchen: No you have to let me go back home. I just need to go home, please?
Izzie: You know you're just going to hurt yourself again. Isn't that your plan? So that you won't have to take the bar exam? You need some help Gretchen. If the idea of taking an exam makes you hold the palm of your hand to a burner... you need some help. Everyone needs help from time to time. To make sure they're ok, make sure they're ready. I have that. And you need that right now.
(Izzie holds out her hand.)
Gretchen: I'm not crazy.
Izzie: I know.
Gretchen: Just didn't want to fail.
Izzie: I know.
(Gretchen takes Izzie’s hand)
(Noelle’s room)
Noelle: What happened? Are my babies ok?
Addison: The surgery went very well. You have a healthy baby boy. And the labor stopped on your little girl. She's going to be just fine.
Noelle: And Greg? Has Greg come back yet?
Addison: No, Noelle. I'm sorry. Greg isn't here.
(She passes back out.)
Addison: I want an update every half hour.
Noelle: What happened? My babies?
Addison: You're just fine. You're just coming out of anesthesia, Noelle.
Noelle: Is Greg back yet.
Addison: I'm sorry noel he's not here. (She slips away again.) (To George) And be sure to alert me to any fetal distress.
Noelle: What happened?
Addison: Your babies are healthy Noelle, everything is ok.
Noelle: Is Greg back yet?
Greg (at the door): I'm right here.
Noelle: Hi.
Greg: Hi. I saw our son. He's amazing. But how's our little girl?
(Mark walks up to Callie who is at a nurse’s station)
Mark: You look like you could use a little cheering up.
Callie: Not from you.
Mark: If I recall I was pretty good at cheering you up. One…two…yep three very cheerful times.
Callie: Dirty. It was not cheerful, it was dirty. And like I said, no.
(Alex is listening in.)
(Meredith and Derek are in the stairwell)
Meredith: So your sister really doesn't like me, huh?
Derek: Sorry. It's just... she's from the East Coast.
Meredith: Well I...
Derek: You know, I should have called.
Meredith: But you didn't.
Derek: I want us to work it's just...It's complicated. I think I need a little time to…
Meredith: Take some space.
Derek: Yeah. To clear my head.
Meredith: Yeah. Ok. Ok.
Derek: Ok.
MVO: There are times when even the best of us have trouble with commitment.
(Izzie and Richard are leaving the hospital)
Richard: Dr. Stevens, I was just looking at Dr. Grey’s evaluation of your first day back to work.
Izzie: I get daily report cards now?
Richard: She had a lot to say.
Izzie: Yes sir.
Richard: It was a difficult catch. Nicely handled, good work. Welcome back Dr. Stevens.
(Callie and George are in the entryway)
Callie: I was rude to you before, I'm sorry. I understand what you're trying to say. You're the pig, you are committed. Only we broke up. And I’ve been wanting to hear this from you for how long and you wait until now to say it to me, after we broken up. 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 nights eyeliner to work. I don’t give a crap what other people think about me. Because I am a happily independent successful woman and I like it that way. Only…when you say stuff like this. It's just….it's makes things too hard. So please, don’t chase me anymore. Unless you're willing to catch me.
MVO: And we may be surprised at the commitments we're willing to let slip out of our grasp.
(Cristina is in the locker room and Meredith enters)
MVO: Commitments are complicated.
Meredith: I'm here for you whatever it is. Whenever you're ready I'm here.
Cristina: Thank you.
MVO: We may surprise ourselves by the commitments we're willing to make.
(Cristina is writing on the OR board, she looks up to see Burke. He walks away.)
MVO: True commitment, takes effort, and sacrifice.
(Bailey walks up and sees Cristina writing on the OR board and realization dawns on her.)
MVO: Which is why sometimes, we have to learn the hard way, to choose our commitments very carefully.
