OwenDo you want to know what I think? I think you're reckless. I think you're reckless with your own life and today you were reckless with a patient's life. I don't care who you are. I don't want that in my OR, and I do not want that around my wife who is struggling just to hold on.
Your wife is struggling just to hold on because you married her and let it be OK for her to completely fall apart.
...
Owen
You are fearless, and I don't mean that in a good way. Most people don't tell the guy with the gun to shoot them. Most people are like Cristina. Most people are afraid. So what she needs isn't what you need. She isn't you, Meredith.
[while trying to set a hip dislocation] It is his body! Okay? You don't get to say what he can and can't do with it! He is a person! He gets to make his own damn choices! I AM GOING THROUGH THE WORST CAFFEINE WITHDRAWAL OF MY LIFE BECAUSE SOMEONE THINKS THAT BEING PREGNANT MEANS THAT I'M NO LONGER OF SOUND FRICKIN' MIND!
Shut up! I'm not endangering my baby, I just-I just want one damn cup of coffee!
Owen
Okay...Kepner, go get Dr. Torres a cup of coffee.
[Callie grunting]
Owen
[to April] RUN!
Owen
Congratula-
[exasperated] Oh whatever. Just come around here and help me with his hip!
Owen. She didn't have the abortion. She wants to but she can't do it because of you. Because she loves you and instead of loving her, you're punishing her. And for what? For being the woman that you fell in love with?
Owen
This isn't any of your business.
Okay, do you know what will happen to Cristina if she has a kid that she doesn't want? It will almost kill her. Trying to pretend that she loves a kid as much as she loves surgery will almost kill her, and it'll almost kill your kid. Do you know what it's like to be raised by someone who didn't want you? I do. To know you stood in the way of your mother's career? I do. I was raised by a Cristina. My mother was a Cristina. And as the child she didn't want, I am telling you, don't do this to her, because she's kind and she cares and she won't make it. The guilt of resenting her own kid will eat her alive.
[voiceover] There are distinct differences, between male and female brains.
[voiceover] Female brains have a larger hippocampus...which usually makes them better at retention and memory.
[voiceover] Male brains have a bigger parietal cortex, which helps when fending off an attack.
[voiceover] Male brains confront challenges differently than female brains.
[voiceover] Women are hardwired to communicate with language. Detail. Empathy. Men, not so much.
Owen
[voiceover] It doesn't mean we're any less capable of emotion.
[voiceover] We can talk about our feelings. It's just that, most of the time, we'd really rather not.
Derek! You're trying to steal my guy. He's my guy. Avery go get in the car.
You've been moving in on him all week. You weren't even interested in him until you saw how much he meant to me. I don't take the time to teach anyone if I can help it.
But I'm takin' the time with Avery because he's a quick learner and he can do a c-plasty better than I could at his level.
I can? [Mark turns to walk away]
Hey, hey. Don't do that. Don't just yell at me then walk away.
I'm not. It's just that Sofia likes it if I'm moving.
Owen
You guys talk. I'll take the baby.
Okay, careful. We had a scare this week. [hands Sofia to Owen] Thank you. Now, Avery go get in the car. Friends don't steal from each other.
It's not stealing if he asks to scrub in on my surgeries.
Okay, look. I appreciate this, I do. But if I have to choose, I choose plastics. I mean, I really appreciate being able to take the lead on your neuro surgeries but I feel like--
[to Jackson] You usin' my boy here? To get more surgery? Nobody uses my boy. [Derek smiles, Jackson looks confused]
[voiceover] People say 'be a man.' People say it all the time.
Owen
[voiceover] But what does that even mean?
[voiceover] Is it about strength?
Owen
[voiceover] Is it about sacrifice?
[voiceover] Is it about winning?
[voiceover] Maybe it's simpler than that.
[voiceover] You have to know when not to man up. Sometimes it takes a real man to set his ego aside, admit defeat, and simply start all over again.
Homemade maple-ginger scones. Try.
Owen
I just had a big lunch.
The scone's a very tough pastry to make. You have to be exact with the ingredients, the baking temperature––
Owen
[glances at Derek] Hey, how is the house coming?
Oh, we're working on the drywall now.
Owen
Really? All right.
I get it. I'm a bore. But Avery's doing all my surgeries, and I'm taking up cooking to keep my mind sharp for when the next big case rolls in.
[smirks] Yeah, you keep telling yourself that.
Owen
I just want to say how proud I am of all of you. You are an incredible team.
[to Bailey] Now who's drunk?
Owen
I've watched you work together, solve problems together, I've watched you teach each other and learn from each other. You step up when you need to and you... you do more than anyone asks you to. You're the finest team I've ever been a part of.
You don't think we have a shot at winning this.
Owen
What this? This. No, no, we're screwed. You are all horrible at softball but... [they all laugh] As doctors, you're pretty great and I'm proud to just to get to lead you. And you're all here so I just... I just wanted to tell you. But, now, we're going down. But what do you say we go down fighting? [they all cheer]
[Mark interrupts Derek, who is analyzing a patient's scans]
I'm a little worried about Avery.
[tries to ignore him] I'm--I'm this close to getting this.
We had a real connection, you know?
[puts away his notes and looks at Mark] Okay.
Well, we were having such a good time together, and suddenly he's avoiding me. He's cold and distant.
Well, you're afraid You're about to have your heart broken by him.
Kind of. Derek, you know me. I never gave a crap about teaching in my life. But lately, I like the idea of passing it on. And I, you know, I just-- I want to see him do well. Maybe I just need to back off.
[Owen enters the room]
Ah, Hunt. Just in time. Mark is afraid that Avery is gonna break up with him.
Can this just stay between you and me?
Owen
[awkwardly] I'd prefer that. Uh, Shepherd, about these cases--
I know what you're gonna say. You're worried about the hospital's mortality rate going up. See, that's the worst part about being chief. You have to say no to everybody, and they hate you for it. And you say no enough, you're gonna hate yourself, which is why I'm not gonna watch you go through this. I have a consult. [looks at Mark] If you love someone, set them free. If they come back.. [facetiously blows a kiss to him]
[Derek quickly leaves the room]
I'm gonna punch you. [to Owen] Hey, let me ask you something––
Owen
No.
[voiceover] Have you ever had the starring role on a play? The solo in a recital? All eyes on you, waiting for you to do what they came to see. Feeling the incredible pressure to perform. There was a time when they used to call operating rooms an operating theater. It still feels like one. Scores of people get ready for the show. The sets are arranged, there are costumes, masks, props, everything has to be rehearsed, choreographed, all leading to the moment when the curtain goes up. You know what they say about Carnegie Hall, there's only one way to get there...
Owen
Practice, practice, practice until it is perfect, people. This is a long, complex procedure with many parts. Therefore many opportunities for error.
Owen
Yeah, it is.
She didn't even tell me about it. I found out through one of my interns. My wife is bubble wrapping me.
Owen
Shepherd, you have a reputation for needing to be bubble wrapped.
Owen
You fight for your patients against the worst possible odds, but when things get messy personally, you're gone off to the woods to drink and grow a beard. And with everything that's happened and this lawsuit keeping it all alive, maybe she just worried that the slightest little thing is gonna make you run off to that trailer and leave her alone in the house you gave her, not sleeping at night because whichever room she lays down in, she just can't get away from the fact that you're just not there.
Owen
When you and Derek adopted Zola, how did you know? I mean, how did you really know that that was something you were gonna do?
Owen
Yeah, forget it. Just forget it.
[Later]
You asked me about Zola today. We just knew. You know, Derek knew first, of course, because he's Derek, and it took me a little longer because I was scared. One day, I just picked her up, and I just knew. I don't know how else to explain it. I looked at her, and she was my daughter. I just knew.
I felt such joy today in that dark OR. I could hear the blood moving. I knew exactly what the heart muscle was thinking. And I realized after I feel that way all the time. I'm made for the OR. Even the boring procedures, I can feel pure joy, content. You feel that with just me?
Owen
What kind of a question is that?
Derek watches Zola put applesauce in her ear and he's enchanted. You felt that way with Ethan.
Owen
Dr. Pierce, Dr. Bailey told me you ordered an exome panel for her patient.
They caught me. And I threw you under the bus. Sorry.
Yeah, Dr. Bailey's genome-research program has been discontinued.
You know, I heard that. And I have to say, I think it's stupid. Genome mapping is like getting the answers in the back of the book. It is the key to so many medical solutions. Closing that program makes your board look like a bunch of morons.
Owen
Dr. Avery is also a voting member on the board.
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