[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.
“Damage Case” · Season 2, Episode 24
In this episode: Meredith Grey (3), Derek Shepherd (1), Cristina Yang (1), Izzie Stevens (1), George O'Malley (1)
People! What's with all the evil misery? Huh? Live, and let live.
You're cheerful.
Oh.
You are. How is that possible?
I scrubbed in on a four hour paraesophageal last night, 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!
I never should have told you about George.
No, it's fine. I'm glad I know about him. And the vet. You really get around.
What did you just say to me?
It's unforgivable.
I don't remember ever asking you to forgive me.
So was the knitting a phase? Who's next? Alex? Cause I hear he likes to sleep around. You two have that in common.
[Derek goes to leave. Meredith grabs him and he turns around]
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.
This thing with us is finished. It's over.
Finally.
Yeah. It's done.
It is done.
[Derek walks off, leaving Meredith alone. She begins to break down as she leaves]
[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.
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