[voiceover] When we say things like "People don't change" it drives scientists crazy. Because change is literally the only constant in all of science. Energy, matter, it's always changing. Morphing. Merging. Growing. Dying. It's the way people try not to change that's unnatural. The way we cling to what things were instead of letting them be what they are. The way we cling to old memories instead of forming new ones. The way we insist on believing, despite every scientific indication, that anything in this lifetime is permanent. Change is constant. How we experience change, that's up to us. It can feel like death, or it can feel like a second chance at life. If we open our fingers, loosen our grips, go with it, it can feel like pure adrenaline. Like at any moment we can have another chance at life. Like at any moment, we can be born all over again.
S7 E1With You I'm Born Again
S7 E2Shock to the System
They say lightning never strikes twice, but that's a myth. It doesn't happen often. Lightning usually gets it right the first time. When you're hit with 30,000 amps of electricity you feel it. It can make you forget who you are, it can burn you, blind you, stop your heart and cause massive internal injuries. But for something that happens in only a millisecond, it can change your life forever.
[angry] Go hug yourself!
Cristina. Cristina!
I can't be in here. I can't.
Okay so let's go, let's get out of here.
I can't... I can't feel anything.
I know, I know. Come with me.
No, no, I can't move. I can't move my legs. I can't, I can't feel anything.
Uh, feel my hand, take my hand. Do you feel that?
Uhuh.
Okay. You're okay. We're gonna go when you're ready. Okay? So you tell me when you're ready. Okay?
Hey I've heard about Cristina. Is she alright?
No, she's not alright. No one's alright. That idiot is clearing everyone for surgery like they're fine and they're not fine.
Stop, stop it, I need to talk to you.
Just leave it alone Derek, it was one night in jail, you drive too fast, just forget about it!
I don't wanna talk about that, don't worry about that.
(teary eyed) Don't worry about it? All I do is worry. All the time, I spend every minute of every day worrying that I'm gonna get a phone-call that you've wrapped your car around a pole. That's why I left you in jail. So that just for a little while I would know that you weren't dying like you were dying on that table. That's what I think about every time you pull out of the driveway.
I'm right here. I'm okay. We're okay.
I was pregnant. That day, I was pregnant, and I lost it.
I... (pause) You didn't say anything. I could've helped you.
If you wanna help me, your driving is something you can control. Just do that. Just do that. (They kiss and hug)
[voiceover] Lightning doesn't often strike twice. It's a once in a lifetime thing. Even if it feels like the shock is coming over and over again. Eventually the pain will go away, the shock will wear off. And you start to heal yourself. To recover from something you never saw coming. But, sometimes the odds are in your favor. If you're in just the right place at just the right time you can take a helluva hit. And still have a shot at surviving.
S7 E3Superfreak
[voiceover] Most surgeons grew up being freaks. While other kids played outside, we holed up in our rooms, memorizing the periodic table, hovering for hour over our genuine microscopes, dissecting our first frogs. Imagine how surprised and relieved we were when we grew up and found out that others out there are just as freaky as we were. Same microscopes, same dead frogs, same inexplicable urge to take human beings apart.
[introducing Amelia to Cristina and Meredith] Amy, Amelia, is also a neurosurgeon.
Another one? You Shepherds grow them like weeds.
We were in the back of the store. Dad had just given you two pennies. And you always hid them behind the counter in this big crack in the floorboards. You said you were saving them so you could buy a town. And then the two guys came in, we could hear them talking but you weren't paying attention until dad yelled. And you looked up. They had already pulled the gun, and already taken the money… And now they wanted the watch that mom gave him. He wouldn't give it up. It was a gunshot, you lunged forward…
I remember, I was trying to get to him but… I couldn't move.
Because I was holding you so tight that you couldn't budge. Put one hand over your mouth so you wouldn't scream and wrapped the other one around you and just held on for dear life. Prayed to God that you'd be quiet and wouldn't say anything. You were so little. I think that's what I've always wanted all these years, you just to stay… little and quiet and safe. But you're not any of those things. You're loud and fearless and that scares the crap out of me. How am I supposed to call you up and tell you that I've been shot? I can't tell you about my pain. I don't want you to know that pain exists. [he hugs her]
We're gonna live in a frat house forever, aren't we?
Hey, no, Meredith's is a frat house. Our place is just that off-campus apartment where the burn-outs go to buy pot.
[voiceover] Nobody chooses to be a freak. Most people don't even realize they're a freak until it's way too late to change it. But no matter how much of a freak you end up being, chances are there's still someone out there for you. Unless of course they've already moved on. Because when it comes to love, even freaks can't wait forever.
S7 E4Can't Fight Biology
Biology determines much of the way we live. From the moment we're born we know how to breathe and eat. As we grow older, new instincts kick in. We become territorial, we learn to compete, we seek shelter… Most important of all, we reproduce. Sometimes biology can turn on us though. Yeah, biology sucks sometimes.
Mark stares at my boobs when we talk. He starts at my face, but then somewhere along the way, he gets distracted and ends up on my boobs.And I love guys - I love them. But I have tried my whole life to avoid the boob-staring guy. Biology even helped me by making me gay. But now, my girlfriend's best friend is that guy. And I don't think that I need to apologize for the fact that the only person I want staring at my boobs is you.
Boobs... really, you're making this about boobs?
He stares at them.
'Cos they're good boobs!
I need you to take my blood.
For what?
So I can get tested for the Alzheimer's gene. I mean it's time I know one way or the other, right? I have a hostile uterus. What's a little Alzheimer's too?
Alright. This is a lot bigger than a baby step.
Just do it before I change my mind.
Okay.
I love you and you love me. And whatever happens, I don't care. I don't want to know. I mean it. I don't want to know.
The lab already has my blood, so...
Here's what we're gonna do. No more doctors, no more labs. You and I, we have a lot of sex. Maybe we'll make a baby, maybe not. Maybe you get Alzheimer's, maybe not. Just screw the odds, screw the science. Let's just live. Whatever happens. Happens. Me and you. Okay?
Okay.
Okay.
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