[voiceover] If you're a normal person, one of the few things you can count on in life is death. But if you're a surgeon, even that comfort is taken away from you. Surgeons cheat death. We prolong it. We deny it. We stand and defiantly give death the finger.
“Rise Up” · Season 5, Episode 7
In this episode: Meredith Grey (2), Derek Shepherd (2), Cristina Yang (1), Miranda Bailey (1), Mark Sloan (1), Owen Hunt (1)
Marriage counseling. How's that going?
You just heard us arguing about the marriage counseling. How do you think it's going? [Derek yawns] No, you are doing a craniotomy on my patient Rosemary Bullard today. Now are you gonna be awake for that or will you be yawning into a brain?
[Derek gets in the elevator, Mark is there]
I need you to have sex with Cristina Yang.
Good morning.
Distract her, engage her, give her something to do after midnight besides call my girlfriend and wake me up.
Yang?
Mm-hmm.
No. No, Too serious, humorless, un-fun. Not my type.
Yang should be your type. She's intense, intelligent, complicated. She's like a single malt scotch and you're used to beer bongs.
Callie Torres is no beer bong.
Oh no, wait a minute, I get it. You don't think you have a shot. You're probably right.
Oh, I have a shot.
Then try it as a favor.
No. I'm not your stud horse. You can't just... tell me who to sleep with.
You slept with my wife.
[elevator dings]
Yeah, I'll give it a shot.
The wife's here, of the beating victim. She ID'd her husband, so she wanted to take-
What's his name? I wondered if you asked her her husband's name so that he would become a person to you. They're all people, Yang. This is not a game or a contest or a competition to see who gets surgeries and who doesn't. They're people and we get to save them. Now you're good. You're excellent and you can win all the contests. But if that's why you're doing this then you shouldn't be. Did you find out his name?
[closes the door and sits down in front of Owen] My dad died when I was nine. In a car accident, I was with him in the car. While we waited for the ambulance, I tried to keep his chest closed, so he wouldn't bleed so much. When he died, my hands felt his heart stop beating. That's why I do this. It's also why I win all the contests. The patient's name is Tom. [leaves]
[voiceover] We're born, we live, we die, sometimes not necessarily in that order. We put things to rest, only to have them rise up again. So if death is not the end, what can we count on anymore? Because you sure can't count on anything in life. Life is the most fragile, unstable, unpredictable thing there is. In fact, there's only one thing about life we can be sure of. It ain't over till it's over.
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