Aren't you gonna get in there? If you wanna be chief, you gotta fight with the big boys.
Oh, I intend to fight like a girl. I'll let them kill each other and then I'll be the only one left standing.
S3 E14Wishin' and Hopin
I'm not sure refusing treatment is what you wanna do-
Apparently, what I want doesn't matter. It isn't even legally binding. So it's really about what you want, Meredith. You're in charge.
You think I like making these decisions for you? You think it's fun to get calls from the nursing home asking if it's okay to change your medication, asking whether I was planning on giving the nurse, who changes you every morning a Christmas tip? But I do it. I do it because there is nobody else. Because you have managed to alienate everybody else in your life and I am the only one, so I have to step up and do it. [voice wavering] You wanna know why I'm so unfocused? So ordinary? You wanna know what happened to me? You. You happened to me.
Then let me refuse the heart surgery.
No.
Why not?
Because killing my mother is not gonna be another thing that happens to me.
Hey! It's the little woman. So what are your plans now? You're not moving in, are you?
Nice.
Wait, Callie.
Forget it.
No. Unbelievable. People, you're supposed to be my friends. My closest friends. Callie is a big - She's the most important part of my life now. If you wanna drive her away, and you're masters at it, you'll do it. But if she's gone, I'm gone. She's my wife. Calliope Iphigenia Torres is my wife. [Izzie starts to laugh at Callie's name] Don't you dare.
Okay.
[voiceover] As doctors, we're trained to give our patients just the facts. But what our patients really want to know is - will the pain ever go away? Will I feel better? Am I cured? What our patients really want to know is - is there hope? But, inevitably, there are times when you find yourself in the worst case scenario. When the patient's body has betrayed them and all the science we have to offer has failed them. When the worst case scenario comes true, clinging to hope is all we've got left.
S3 E15Walk on Water
[voiceover] Disappearances happen in science. Disease can suddenly fade away, tumors go missing, we open someone up to discover the cancer is gone. It's unexplained. It’s rare, but it happens. We call it mis-diagnosis, say we never saw it in the first place, any explanation but the truth. That life is full of vanishing acts. If something that we didn't know we had disappears, do we miss it?
I'm a surgeon. I do the rescuing. You are not my knight in shining whatever.
So we're gonna fight because I pulled you out of the tub?
You have a place. You could sleep at it. And then you don't have to pull me out of the bathtub. You're everywhere, all the time, saying things.
This is the happy ever after part. And in the happily ever after, the guy is there all the time, saying things and the girls love it!
Go to work, I'll see you there.
And just for the record? I am your knight in shining whatever. [Kisses her]
[Derek walks into the elevator and notices that Richard dyed his hair]
What's different?
Nothing.
Leave him be.
What happened to your hair?
Nothing.
Mm-hmm.
[The elevator opens and Mark and Burke enter and keep staring at Richard's hair.]
[whispers to Addison] See. Look. Watch.
What happened to your hair?
Ahem. Leave him be.
He dyed it.
But why? [Addison smacks him with a magazine] Ow!
[hisses at Derek] Leave him be.
[whispers] What are you doing?!
What?
[looks back at Richard] OK, but why?
Men who have gray hair are noticed less than men who don't.
By who?
Well...
By the ladies?
[Mark and Derek start laughing until Richard glares at them]
It looks good, chief.
Very natural.
Ladies will love it.
[to the guys] He is alone. All alone. Do any of you even know what that's like? [looks at Burke] Lives with Cristina. [looks at Derek] Dates the perfect twelve-year-old. [looks at Mark] Man whore! His wife left him after 25 years of marriage. So if the man wants to dye his hair for the ladies, let him dye his hair for the ladies. Leave him be.
Meredith, I have a thing... news.
You're not pregnant again, are you? Cause I can't handle the extra months of bitchiness.
What's the news?
Shepherd and Grey are on the rocks, Burke and Yang got engaged... you need highlights, in your hair, that's why it looks so odd. I'm gonna go save lives.
S3 E16Drowning on Dry Land
[voiceover] Like I said, disappearances happen. Pains go phantom. Blood stops running and people, people fade away. There's more I have to say, so much more, but... I've disappeared.
What is your problem?
You know everyone's back. Everyone's back except her. And I listen to her. Everyday, about her McLove life, her McDreamy, her McCrap. And the one day, the one day I have a thing she disappears...
Meredith, this is about Meredith.
She doesn't know yet.
Meredith?
She's my person.
Right. And if Meredith doesn't approve, then what?
This, this is not about getting her approval, it's about...
What?
Telling her makes it, makes it... If I murdered someone, she's the person I'd call to help me drag the corpse across the living room floor.
Ok, so now, you're likening someone here to a corpse. I'm done.
She's my person.
[after finding out about Meredith] It's Meredith?
Yeah.
Are you sure? Did you see her? Because it could be...
[grabs her arm] It's Meredith.
Oh. [sees Derek crying in hall] Oh. Oh.
She will come through this.
You don't know that.
She will come through this.
People die.
I know people die. People die in front of us every day. But I believe Meredith will survive this. I believe - I believe - I believe in the good. I believe that it's been a hell of a year, and I believe that in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we will all be okay. I believe a lot of things. I believe that - I believe that Denny is always with me. And I believe that if I eat a tub of butter and no one sees me, then calories don't count. And I believe that surgeons who prefer staples over stitches are just lazy. [to George] And I believe that you are a man who made a terrible mistake marrying Callie. And I believe that because I am your best friend, I can tell you this and we can be okay. I believe that even though you made this mistake, you will be okay. I believe we survive, George. I believe that believing we survive is what makes us survive.
S3 E17Some Kind of Miracle
[voiceover] There are medical miracles. Being worshippers of the altar of science, we don't like to believe miracles exist. But they do. Things happen. We can't explain them, we can't control them, but they do happen. Miracles do happen in medicine. They happen everyday, just not always when we need them to happen.
What happened in that water?
I swam, I fought!
No, you didn't, and you can't stay here, Meredith.
I don't want to!
Yeah, you do. It's easier, but you can't. Because George's dad died, because Izzie lost me, and Cristina, when she was nine she was in a car accident with her father and he bled out right in front of her while they waited for an ambulance to arrive, and Alex...
Stop!
They are barely breathing, this will break them, and none of them deserves that. And this, this is the big one, so you pay attention. Do you know what kind of miracle it is that Derek is who he is? Do you know how rare it is that someone like him even exists? He's still an optimist. He still believes in true love and magic and soul mates. He's waiting for you, and if you don't come back from this... you will change who he is.
You know, some do come back from this.
You know what? I am not a civilian. I know the science here. It's drinking time.
Not yet. You have a responsibility to Meredith.
No. Uh-uh. I don't do this stuff. You should know. I don't go to great lengths.
Well, you were there for me.
After. After I knew you were going to make it. Hey, I'm not proud. Okay, I just... I can't. I can't go back there. I can't. I can't go back there and watch her.
Listen to me. This is about you and the woman you call your person. And you do know the science here. And if she dies, and you are sitting here when that happens, I can't see you coming back from that. Come and say goodbye to your friend.
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