[voiceover] As interns, we know what we want, to become surgeons. And we'll do anything to get there. Suffer through killer exams, endure one-hundred hour weeks, stand for hours on end in operating rooms, you name it, we'll do it. The tough part though is reconciling this huge thing we want, to be surgeons, with everything else we want.
“Desire” · Season 3, Episode 21
In this episode: Meredith Grey (4), Derek Shepherd (1), Cristina Yang (1), Izzie Stevens (1)
Talk about divine retribution.
What?
He sleeps with his assistant, and a carnivorous fish lodges itself in his penis, that's instant karma if I've ever seen it.
Yeah, well, Derek wasn't struck by lightning and neither were you.
Addison showed up, I had months of pain and self-loathing, crazy ranting mother and a near drowning off the side of a dock. I mean, it's no fish in my hoo-hoo, but it's certainly not an easy ride.
Yeah, well, I've cheated on my boyfriends and I'm fine. I mean am I the only one?
I'm fine.
Are we fine?
Sure.
Not so convincing. I shouldn't have accused you of hovering, it wasn't nice. You were just trying to be there for me. But now, I'm being available, communicating, getting naked, and doing all of your favorite things.
Hm, good things.
Then why are you still staring at the ceiling?
I don't know, it's just, that day, you came out of the water. I spent the scariest hour of my life, trying to breathe for you. I love you, and I want you, but I don't know what to... you didn't swim. You didn't swim and you know how to. And I don't know if I can... I don't know if I wanna keep trying to breathe for you. [pause]
I should go. I'll go.
[voiceover] Too often, the thing you want most is the one thing you can't have. Desire leaves us heartbroken, it wears us out. Desire can wreck your life. But as tough as wanting something can be, the people who suffer the most are those who don't know what they want.
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