[voiceover]: So there is this bird, some sort of swallow I think. Every September thousand of them ditch rainy Seattle to winter in Mexico. These birds aren't dumb. And every year crowds of people gather around to drink beer and watch the flocks take off. They call it the Great Migration.
“Migration” · Season 8, Episode 23
In this episode: Meredith Grey (4), Derek Shepherd (2), Alex Karev (2), Cristina Yang (1), Miranda Bailey (1), Richard Webber (1), Mark Sloan (1), Ben (1)
Hopkins!
Uh, Hopkins is not in the running.
Not for you, for me! Hopkins! Hopkins wants me, HOPKINS WANTS ME!
Johns Hopkins? The hospital? Not Hopkins Refrigeration School?
[at the same time] Alex, how?
I kind of bitched out their Chief of Surgery at my boards and I-I guess he was impressed.
So they know you're a jerk.
They totally know, And they want me. Hopkins wants me!
[smiling] I am not surprised at all.
I am one-hundred percent surprised.
[Alex looks at Cristina and turns around preparing to leave]
Hey.
[Alex turns back]
[gives Karev a hug] Nice work, Evil Spawn.
[Smiles and turns and walks away happily] Yes! Hopkins!
How's Julia? You impregnate her yet?
I was all ready to, but then Lexie... she told me she was in love with me.
Oh... What did you say?
I said "Thank you for your candor."
"Thank you for your candor"?
What was I supposed to do?
Well, I don't know, kiss her?
Julia's away on a conference, I'm not a cheater. [Derek gives him a look] Usually.
Hopkins didn't pull the offer, did they?
They, uh, gave me the international rotation and the moving expenses, and they took care of, uh, all my loans-- college, med school.
Yes.
They're even throwing in a mortgage allowance. I could buy a house.
Good.
They gave me everything I asked for. So did Hunt.
Then... why the hell aren't you celebrating?
No one's ever wanted me like this.
You just don't recognize the view, Karev...The crowd going wild, people taking pictures, the snap of the tape as you break it.
What are you talking about?
What it looks like when you finish first.
You're a physician. Is this really the first time you missed a lunch and the crossword because of a surgery?
Here we go.
It was important to me.
Well, this parasite's important to me.
Yeah, I can see that.
You know what? Fine. Let's do it right now. Give me the damn crossword.
Just forget it.
Oh, no. Nobody's ever gonna forget it. Where is Dr. Warren's bag?
Miranda...
Oh, there it is.
And this is why you don't work with your girlfriend.
I warned them.
Here we go. Oh, this is gonna be so great. It's way better than a once-in-a-lifetime, bone-eating parasite. Let's see. One down.
Dr. Bailey...
Oh, no, no, no. No help from you. I'm too excited. This is what I live for. Let's see "Peruvian mountain range". Oh, Andes. Five, uh-huh. "Planet with water, four letters". Oh, Mars. Duh. Uh,"fancy sauce"? Fancy... ooh. Remoulade.
Stop.
What? No, no. I'm on a roll. Come on. Hey, this can't be the Sunday, 'cause this is way too easy. What's ... Oh, hey, this one, 21 across. "My question to you." Hmm.
I'm asking you to put it away.
He's asking you nicely, Dr. Bailey.
Oh, no, no, no. When he doesn't get his way, he holds on to it in his cheek like a squirrel with a nut. We are doing the crossword. What is "my question to you"? It's a bunch of letters. Um ... oh, maybe it's a phrase. "My question to you," anybody?
How many letters?
Uh, 2 ... 9 ... 13.
It's 13 letters?
14.
No, I'm looking at it. It's 13.
No, it's 14. Count again.
I just counted. What, do you have X-ray vision from across the room?
"Will you marry me" is my question to you. And the reason why it's so easy is because I made the crossword. Took me two damn months not to mention getting a mockup made of "The New York Times." The phrase has 14 letters. "Will," four,"you," seven, "marry," 12,"me" ... 14.
[voiceover]: I don't know how those birds do it. Travel thousand of miles without getting lost. Banging into windows, being eaten by cats. But every spring they are always here. I guess they come back to what they know. People say it's pretty cool watching them go. They say you can actually see the moment when at some mysterious signal, all at once, the birds decide to leave. So maybe I've been missing out. Whatever. There's always next year.
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