[voiceover] The key to being a successful intern is what we give up: sleep, friends, a normal life. We sacrifice it all for that one amazing moment, that moment when you can legally call yourself a surgeon. There are days that make the sacrifices seem worthwhile. And then there are the days where everything feels like a sacrifice. And then there are the sacrifices that you can't even figure out why you're making.
S2 E23Blues For Sister Someone
Make her seize? How do we make someone have a seizure?
Well do your research, get creative.
But if all the normal methods have failed then... what are we supposed to do?
Use a strobe-light, get her drunk, hang her from the ceiling upside down and hit her with a wiffle bat for all I care, okay? Just make her seize, because until she seizes I don't know what to operate. And if I don't know what to operate, I can't get this woman out of my life. And this woman is now how I like to start my mornings.
Meredith [voiceover]: A wise man once said – "You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it." What he meant is nothing comes without a price. So before you go into battle, you better decide how much you're willing to lose. Too often going after what feels good means letting go of what you know is right. And letting someone in means abandoning the walls you've spent a lifetime building. Of course the toughest sacrifices are the ones we don't see coming. [...] When we don’t have time to come up with a strategy to pick a side or to measure the potential loss. When that happens, when the battle chooses us, and not the other way around, that's when the sacrifice can turn out to be more than we can bear.
S2 E24Damage Case
[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.
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.
S2 E2517 Seconds
[voiceover] In life we are taught that there are seven deadly sins. We all know the big ones... gluttony, pride, lust. But the sin you don't hear much about is anger. Maybe it's because we think anger's not that dangerous. That you can control it. My point is, maybe we don't give anger enough credit. Maybe it can be a lot more dangerous than we think. After all, when it comes to destructive behavior, it did make the top seven.
Izzie! Izzie, stop and listen to me. We're not doing this.
Don't worry. You're not gonna die. I will be here the whole time to make sure of that. And that's what this stuff is for.
This isn't about me dying. Alright? This is wrong.
You've waited a year and a half to get this thing. Who knows when the next one is going to come along.
I'll take my chances.
No. It may be too late by then.
Then it's too late. Alright. Now get this stuff out of here!
Denny, please. You have to do this.
No, Izzie! I'm not about to steal a heart from another man's chest! Not to mention, this'll be the end of your medical career.
I don't care about my medical career.
Alright, you know what? This has gone on long enough. I'm gonna call a nurse.
Everyone who is entered into the transplant program is clocked in to the second. To the second, Denny. You were clocked into the second and so was the other guy, I checked with UNOS. The difference between when you entered the program and when he entered the program is 17 seconds. That's it Denny. 17 seconds. I mean, it's not even the length of a decent kiss. So this other guy, I'm not saying that he doesn't deserve this heart. I'm sure he does, but so do you! So do you. And if you tell me anymore crap about heading towards the light or looking down on me from heaven I swear I will kill you myself right now!
Izzie... I'm gonna be alright. Alright? You don't have to worry.
What about me? What about me when you go to the light?
Izzie...
[beginning to cry] No, I get it! OK? I get it! You'll be OK, you'll be fine, but what about me? So don't do it for yourself, do it for me! Please! Please Denny! Please do this for me! Because if you die, oh God, you have to do this! You have to do this for me or I'll never be able to forgive you!
For dying?
No! For making me love you! Please! Please do this for me, OK? Please? OK, I can't do this if you don't! Please do this for me, cause if you don't, please?
OK. OK, I'll do it.
What do you want from me, Addison?
I want you to care. I sleep with your best friend, and you walk away. He comes out here from New York and rubs it in your face, and still you get a good night's sleep. What do I have to do? Oh, I know. Maybe what I should do is go out on a date with the vet because that seems to be something that sends you into a blind rage. Oh but wait, that won't work either because I'm not Meredith Grey!
[They realize they have an audience, including Meredith]
I know what you're going to say Richard, but if you knew the day that I had.
Everybody in this hospital has those days, Addison and no one makes a scene in front of their peers. Get it together. Addison...
I can't compete. He's not having an affair. He's not trying to hurt me. He's just...huh. [laughs] The only people who don't know that Derek loves Meredith are Derek and Meredith. How do I compete with that?
[voiceover] So what makes anger different from the six other deadly sins? It's pretty simple really, you give into a sin like envy or pride and you only hurt yourself. Try lust or coveting and you'll only hurt yourself and probably one or two others. But anger, anger is the worst. The mother of all sins. Not only can anger drive you over the edge, when it does you can take an awful lot of other people with you.
S2 E26Deterioration of the Fight or Flight Response/Losing My Religion
[voiceover]
Human beings need a lot of things to feel alive.
Family...
Love...
Sex.
But we only need one thing...
To actually be alive.
We need a beating heart.
When our heart is threatened...
We respond in one of two ways.
We either run...
Or...
We attack.
There's a scientific term for this:
Fight...
Or flight.
It's instinct...
We can't control it.
Or can we?
Where is Christina? Where are... where are all of the suck ups?
Excuse me?
My interns. My ass-kissing, surgery hungry, competitive suck ups? Where are they? Why aren't they here fetching you ice chips and morphine? Why aren't they here sucking up? [Burke avoids her eyes and doesn't respond] You know something.
I'm a patient.
Preston Xavier Burke, what have you done with my suck ups?!
What? You like your men sick and feeble? You don't dig healthy guys?
[laughs] I dig you.
Then why are you all swirly and twitchy?
No I'm not.
Yeah, you're swirly and twitchy. It's 'cause I asked you to marry me.
So you remember that?
It's not the kind of thing I'd forget.
Yeah. Look, Denny, um, I'm giving you an out.
Excuse me?
Well, I'm giving you an out. I mean, you thought you were dying and I was saving your life and, you know, everything was so... So, I won't hold it against you, or be hurt and offended if you want to take your proposal back, I mean giving you an out.
I don't want an out.
You should take the out. We can't get married. I mean that would be crazy, insane. We should date, and have sex. Plenty of sex. You know when your heart gets better and you're out of the hospital, all the sex you can handle. But marriage is, um, marriage, I mean...
Okay, it's my turn now.
But I need to...
No, no. We're taking turns. I've decided. It's polite and it keeps me from yelling. When it's your turn again, you can talk. [pause] For five years, I've had to live by the choices of my doctors. The guys that cut me open decided my life, there wasn't one choice that was mine. And now, I have this heart that beats and works. I get to be like everybody else, I get to make my own decisions, have my own life, do whatever the damn hell I choose. Now here's the good part, so you listen close. What I choose is you. You're who I want to wake up with and go to bed with and do everything in between with. I get a choice now. I get to choose. I choose you, Izzie Stevens. OK, it's your turn again.
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