Why is he suturing his own face?
AlexBecause he's Mark Sloan, he's like the go-to plastic surgeon on the east coast.
That's the guy Addison was sleeping with?
You can't really blame her, can you?
McSexy wants an X-ray to check for fractures and I think it's a bad idea if I take him.
Alex
I'm on it.
MCMeredith and Cristina
No.
Just choking back some... McVomit.
Alex
All right. So you slept with O'Malley. Get over it already.
Alex
Uh, no. [Laughs] I was just kidding! I means it's not like I should be surprised.
Alex
Because when your life is sucky, you get drunk and sleep with inappropriate men. It's your thing. Whatever. I find it charming.
You sleep with inappropriate women when you're sober.
Alex
One inappropriate woman. And Izzie forgave me for that. O'Malley is not going to get over this.
Izzie hasn't forgiven you!
Alex
Yes, she has. We're together.
No you're not. Izzie may be sleeping with you, but she'll never see you the way she saw you before you slept with Olivia.
Alex
Why are you trying to piss me off?
You're trying to suggest that it's forgivable for you to sleep with Olivia, but not forgivable for me to sleep with George.
[George walks in]
Wow, when I'm wrong about someone.
No, George! It's not... it's not what you think!
Alex
Dude! Chill!
You chill! You chill! I'm not... I'm not going to chill.
Alex
The fetus is freaking out.
I can see that! Why are freaking out?
You think someone is your friend. [Cristina walks in] You know? And you think at the very least you'd respect my privacy!
Alex
Baby boy is freaking out.
CICristina and Izzie
Why is he freaking out?
George, can we at least talk?
I don't want to talk! Not to you! I wanted to keep my mouth shut. And if you hadn't been running away from me every time you see me, you would know that!
Okay, you're right, but can we just talk now?
You want to talk now, because you told everyone that we had sex!
DAMMIT! [trips and falls down stairwell]
Alex
So this whole lying thing, this is working out for you?
Alex
You're going to die and soon. You get that, right? There's no rosy picture to paint here.
BBeatrice
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?
BBeatrice
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 the rest of her life.
Alex
No, I'm talking this time.
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 the 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 varmint 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.
OOlivia
I didn't know what to do. I didn't think you guys would want me to go to the chief, but...
OOlivia
She's in there with him.
[They walk in to see Izzie lying in bed with Denny]
I think it was a stroke. He was prone to blood clots. A clot could have formed on his sutures, traveled to his brain, it only takes a second.
Dr. Hahn did a beautiful job on the surgery. But I don't know why I didn't think of blood clots. He died all alone. He was alone.
There is nothing you could have done.
I changed my dress three times. I wanted to look nice. I would have been here sooner. But I couldn't figure out which dress to wear.
Izzie, we shouldn't be in here.
Izz, there are things that they need, they need to move him.
You can't stay here, I know you want to...
Can you please, please, just get out? I want to be alone with Denny.
Alex
Izzie, that's not Denny.
Alex
Izz, 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.
An hour ago he was proposing. And now... and now he's going to the morgue. Isn't that ridiculous? Isn't it the most ridiculous piece of crap you've ever...
[Izzie starts sobbing. Alex picks her up, cradling her and sits down on a chair holding and rocking her while she sobs]
[pause, glances around] Why are you all looking at me?
Well, this is familiar territory for you.
There is nothing familiar abut this! Unfamiliar! Denny died. The man she loves, died.
Yeah, but you're all dark and twisty inside.
What, with the Alzheimers thing and the father you don't talk to.
Alex
And the tequila thing and the inappropriate men thing.
You are dark and twisty inside, Meredith, and now Izzie is dark and twisty inside.
So all of a sudden I'm the president of people with crappy lives?
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.
Mark, what are you doing?
Seattle Grace is a teaching hospital, part of your job is to teach, your interns aren't your slaves.
George has turned into a sex machine. Are you hearing me? A machine of sex! We have to do something. What's wrong with you people?
Derek kept me up all night with his ranting. Cristina and Burke still are not speaking to each other.
Okay, you know what? I'm fine. I mean I'm just not going to be the first one talking. I mean, he has to talk because I'm in the right. Talking first is for losers, I'm winning.
Plus she's starving because he won't cook for her, and that makes her a little crazy. And Alex. I don't know what's wrong with Alex.
Alex
I'm good. I'm all good.
[after finding out about Meredith] It's Meredith?
Alex
Yeah.
Are you sure? Did you see her? Because it could be...
Alex
[grabs her arm] It's Meredith.
Oh. [sees Derek crying in hall] Oh. Oh.
She will come through this.
She will come through this.
I know people die. People die in front of us every day. But I believe Meredith will survive this. I believe - I believe - 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, then calories don't count. And I believe that surgeons who prefer staples over stitches are just lazy. [to George] And I believe that you are a man who made a terrible mistake marrying Callie. And I believe that because I am 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.
Alex
Like the Marlowe transplant?
Like the greatest thing in cardiothoracic surgery in a generation. Dr. Marlowe. I'm, I'm Preston Burke. I'm a great admirer of your work, sir. Particularly the...
CColin
Yes, thank you I... Would you excuse me for just a second? [walks over to Cristina, group of interns backs away] Well, you going to give me a hug or what? [hugs Cristina, and squeezes her ass]
[to new interns] I have five rules. Memorize them. Rule number one, don't bother sucking up. I already hate you, that's not gonna change.
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, and you work every second night until you drop. And you don't complain.
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?
Er, rule number three. If you're sleeping, do not wake you unless the patient's actually dying.
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?
That was four rules. You said five.
Rule number five. When I move, you move. [awkward pause as nobody moves] Go! [Cristina's interns scramble off]
Here I am stuck in the pit with those know-nothing interns. You think eventually I catch a break.
Cristina, are we ever gonna talk about this? The Burke thing?
I'm not Izzie. I'm not gonna lie at the bathroom floor all day. I'm gonna lie here... on the counter.
I'll trade you the hemiglossectomy.
You take the hemiglossectomy and I will take the ER and your interns.
Take the surgery. If it makes you feel better, you're starting to freak me out. [Meredith leaves]
Alex
I saw the whole thing, Yang. You can stop pretending.
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. See if I can get Grey to take my new intern.
Hey, forget it. Sad is mine. Go find your own pretend emotion.
Alex
What?
NNorman
Oh, Dr. Bailey's right...
Shut up, Norman! I'm not talking to you. [to Alex] He got in your way, he's been doing it all day. And when that happens, when an intern gets in the way of a resident, you're not doing what's best for your patient. Now, you almost missed diagnosing that kid today because Norman here thought it was drugs. So don't apologize. He should be yelled at.
Alex
Dr. Bailey, he's as old as the hills.
I don't care how old he is, Dr. Karev. He's still an intern, and interns are basically teenagers. We are not hard on them because it's fun, we're hard on them because this is a life and death job, they need to learn that. There is a reason why we have a pecking order in a hospital. It saves lives!
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