[opening voiceover] Renegades, rule-breakers, gangsters with scalpels, this is the way we like to think of ourselves. It makes us feel bad-ass, sexy. Problem is, it's not exactly true. At heart, we're rule-followers, sheep. We don't break protocol. We follow it to a tee. Because if we don't follow protocol, our patients die and we're no longer bad ass, we're just bad.
“This Is How We Do It” · Season 7, Episode 17
In this episode: Meredith Grey (2), Callie Torres (2), Arizona Robbins (2), Miranda Bailey (1), Richard Webber (1)
LLucy
Your BP is borderline high. Are you feeling okay?
Oh, yeah, no. That's the nerves about the baby shower. Yeah, it's like Christmas morning.
You are way too excited about this.
Hey, I have bought expensive gifts and played stupid games for every knocked up nurse in this place. Now it's my turn. [to Lucy] You're coming, right? [Lucy looks surprised] Arizona, you invite the OB. The fate of my vagina's in her hands.
Yeah, um... 1 pm. Fourth floor doctor's lounge.
LLucy
I'll see if I can make it. [Callie glares] I'll make it.
You need to pick chief resident already. I mean, Alex Karev is living in a trailer in the hospital parking lot. Residents are waiting for you outside bathrooms...
Karev's living in the parking lot?
Y'know, your trial is up and running, and you've got things to deal with at home. You don't need to be picking a new chief resident, too. Let somebody else handle that. Delegate.
Okay, I'd like you to.
No. I raised those babies. What I mean is, delegate to someone else... who is not me.
[after Callie gets a text] We've been gone all of ten minutes what could Mark possibly want?
[laughs, and reads the message] Oooh. Oh, yeah, okay this is bad. He found out Lexie is with Avery and he's freaking. [Callie goes to type a reply, Arizona takes her phone and throws it in the backseat] Oh, what the hell?
What? Th-This is time for us. It's just for us. And the first thing you wanna do is talk to Mark.
You just said it was okay. Okay, you know what? Oh, screw it. [takes off her seat belt and climbs in back to get her phone]
What are you doing?
I'm gonna talk to him.
Don't you dare call me.
This is jealously, Arizona. You are jealous of Mark. Get over it.
Do you blame me? I mean he gets most of you. The straight you, the Catholic you, the girl who loves baby showers. I just get, you know, the gay you, which is really only about twenty minutes a night... Not even. Since you just feel too fat to even let me touch you lately.
Look, I am doing my best here to make sure that you are happy, and that Mark is happy and that the tiny person growing inside me is happy. I don't know what else I can do to be honest. Please tell me. Cause I'll do it. Whatever will make you happy, I will do it.
[pauses] Marry me.
[laughs] What?
I mean, it. I love you more than anything but I want more. I want commitments, I want rings, so, marry me.
[closing voiceover] It's every doctor's dilemma. Do you play it safe and follow protocol? Or take a risk and invent a new one? There can be reward in risk. There can also be fallout. Still you need to book the system every once in a while. Bet big. And when you get the results you want, there's no better feeling in the world, but when you don't.
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