[voiceover] It's intense, what happens in the OR, when lives are on the line and you're poking at brains like they're silly putty. You form a bond with the surgeons right next to you. An unbreakable, indescribable bond. It's intimate being tied together like that. Whether you like it or not, whether you like them or not, you become family.
S5 E8These Ties That Bind
[Cristina climbs into Derek and Meredith's bed, waking an unhappy Derek]
[to Meredith] The wicked witch is dead.
Metaphorically dead or dead dead?
Who are we talking about?
MCMeredith and Cristina
Hahn.
Her name is off the surgical board. Her surgeries have been canceled. I don't know how or why, but I do know Hahn is gone.
That's too bad. She was really talented. [Meredith and Cristina glare at Derek] You're not talking to me. [gets out of bed and leaves]
I need you to tell Mark to keep his "little Sloan" out of Little Grey.
Is he hitting on you?
No, not my "little Grey". Lexie's "Little Grey". I don't know what's going on with her but the last thing she needs is Sloan going all man-whore on her. So you need to tell him to step away from Little Grey.
[Meredith has asked Derek to talk to Mark about staying away from Lexie] Little Sloan does not enter Little Grey. Are we clear?
Did you just say...
Mmmhmmm.
Okay, that's just creepy and inaccurate. Big Sloan.
[voiceover] The ties that bind us are sometimes impossible to explain. They connect us even after it seems like the ties should be broken. Some bonds defy distance and time and logic; because some ties are simply... meant to be.
S5 E9In the Midnight Hour
[voiceover] When you're little, night time is scary because there are monsters hiding right under the bed. When you get older the monsters are different. Self doubt, loneliness, regret. And though you may be older and wiser, you still find yourself scared of the dark.
[moaning coming from Izzie's room] Who's making a porno movie in Izzie's room?
Relax. She's flying solo. That's hot.
LLauren
[has taken medication that has killed the healthy bacteria in her body. Alex just told her that she needs a fecal transplant to survive] Poop? I need a poop transplant?
I'm just gonna keep my eyes closed. Because this is like that moment in the morning when you first wake up and you're still half asleep and everything seems... things are possible. Dreams feel true and for that one moment between waking and sleeping, anything can be real and then you open your eyes and the sun hits you and you realize that... I'm just gonna keep my eyes closed.
[voiceover] Sleep. Its the easiest thing to do; you just close your eyes. But for so many of us, sleep seems out of our grasp. We want it, but we don't know how to get it. But once we face our demons, face our fears and turn to each other for help, night time isn't so scary because we realize we aren't all alone in the dark.
S5 E10All By Myself
[voiceover] My mother called it the greatest and most terrifying moment in her life, standing at the head of the surgical table knowing that the patient's life depends on you and you alone. It's what we all dream about because the first person that gets to fly solo in the O.R., kind of a badass.
Choosing who gets the first solo surgery isn't just about who has the best surgical skills. Or who's logged the most hours in the O.R.. It's about the highest form of trust. The trust to put a patient's life into one of our residents' hands. And for the first time that I can recall, every single attending picked the same person. Dr. Yang. However, Dr. Yang is out of the running. She is going to pick the winner instead. Dr. Yang will post her decision on the O.R. board at 4 p.m. Also, since your interns are still banned from the O.R., the winner will be allowed to pick a fellow resident to scrub in with them. Good luck.
My gut? I'm not putting a patient's life in the hands of a novice surgeon based on my gut.
Well, it worked for me.
Huh, I bet.
It's what told me to choose you.
Listen. You had that heart patient and it reminded you of Denny and how bad you felt when you were lying on that bathroom floor. I get that. I get that you're scared. But you're not going to have to feel like that again. Because I'm not going to die, Izz. And I'm not gonna cheat on you, and I'm not gonna go anywhere. 'Cause, I think you're my best shot at... I think with you... you make me better. You make me wanna be better. You make me want to be good. And I think I can. With you. I think I can. So I'm not going anywhere, and you can stop hiding. And if you wanna be scared that's okay just be scared with me. Be scared while you scrub in with me for my first solo surgery. Okay?
You love me.
Shut up. [kisses her, leaves] Solo surgery!
I'm really starting to not like that guy.
[voiceover] We enter the world alone and we leave it alone. And everything that happens in between, we owe it to ourselves to find a little company. We need help. We need support. Otherwise we're in it by ourselves. Strangers, cut off from each other and we forget just how connected we all are. So instead we choose love. We choose life and for a moment we feel just a little bit less alone.
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