[voiceover] 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.
“Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” · Season 2, Episode 1
In this episode: Meredith Grey (5), Cristina Yang (2), Derek Shepherd (1)
Let's play a game of whose life sucks the most. I'll win. I always win.
You don't want to play with me.
Oh, I do. I'll even go first. Derek's married. [George spits out his beer]
George. Beer is dripping from your nostrils.
Told you I'd win.
No, you didn't win.
Did you hear me? I said Derek is married, as in pig-headed, adulterous, liar married. Nothing you could say could top that.
I'm pregnant. I win. [Joe, the bartender, collapses] Okay, maybe Joe wins.
So I go upstairs, as I'm walking down the hall I'm trying to prepare myself for what I'm going to see when I go into my bedroom. I step on a man's jacket that doesn't belong to me. And everything I think 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. It's just so pedestrian, common and dirty, and cruel. Mostly just cruel. I left, came out here.
Then you met me.
And I met you.
What was I to you? The girl you screwed to get over being screwed?
You were like coming up for fresh air. It's like I was drowning and you saved me. That's all I know.
It's not enough.
[voiceover] They say practice makes perfect. Theory is – the more you think like a surgeon, the more you become one, the better you get at remaining neutral, clinical, cut, suture, close - and 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.
The clinic has a policy. They wouldn't let me confirm my appointment unless I designated an emergency contact person. Someone to be there just in case and... to know help me home, you know, after. Anyway I put your name down, that's why I told you I'm pregnant. You're my person.
I am?
Yeah, you are. Whatever.
Whatever.
He dumped me. [Meredith hugs Cristina] You realize this constitutes hugging?
Shut up, I'm your person.
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