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Well he is my husband. This is a marriage.
OK.
Oh I wanna leave him.
OK.
So that means I'm gone.
So you are gonna take the job at Stanford?
Or Columbia.
You'll be leaving me too.
You might go to the Bringham.
Probably not.
Maybe. Yeah I'll leave you too... There're phones you know.
Oh, you hate the phone.
I know I do. But I mean I don't have to like it.
Put your hand under the door.
What?
Just do it.
[voiceover] Kindergarten. High school. College. Med School. Residency. That all leads to this moment. Some people can crack under the pressure others thrive. Either way there's nothing left to do. No more studying no more preparing. Like it or not the moment has arrived. The only thing left you to do is show up.
[voiceover] Carpe diem. How annoying is carpe diem? How are you supposed to plan a life? A career? A family? If you're always "carpe"-ing the "diem"? If we all seized every moment of every day, there wouldn't be doctors. Who'd sit through med school? We'd all be too busy living in the now, whatever that means.
What the hell were you thinking?
Dude...
You're an idiot. You should have called me. I mean, w-why didn't you call me?! I'm a doctor what do you think I do all day long?! Instead you go to some quack in Tibet? I mean, you should have freaking called me!
Naturopathy works too, Flagstaff.
Woah! It's not Flagstaff! And it's not Phoenix and it's not Tempe it is Arizona Robbins, M.D. do you know what that means?
How do you spell it?
It's not funny Nick! Nothing is funny. You're dying! And you know what hell it was when Tim died because you were there, and-and you and I barely made it through that so to do nothing for six years and then come when it's too late I-I-
Why do you think I didn't come to you sooner? Honestly after Tim died, I could...You think I don't know how this must feel for you?
You're an idiot! I couldn't have helped him! But I could have helped you! [storms out]
Oh, hey.
Hey.
Thanks, uh, for today. For-- For letting me, uh...
You did a good job in there.
Thanks.
You okay?
I love you. Oh, G-- Oh, my God. That just came... fly-flying out of my face, like it was s-s-some kind of-- I-I l... I love you. I just-- God! Did it again! [laughs] I... I-I-I-I love you. I-I do. I just-- I-I love you. And I have been trying not to say it. I have been trying so hard to just mash it down and ignore it and not say it. And Jackson is a great guy. He-he is, and he... he's gorgeous, and-and he's younger than you, and he doesn't have any grandkids or-or babies with his lesbian BFFs and he's an Avery, and-and he liked me, you know? He... he really liked me. But it was never gonna work out because I-I love you. I am so in love with you. And you're-you're... you're in me. It's-- You're like... it's-- It's like you're a disease. It's like I am infected by Mark Sloan. [laughs] And I just can't... [voice breaking] I can't think about anything or anybody, and I can't sleep. [crying] I can't breathe. I can't eat. And I love you. I just... I love you all the time, just every minute of every day. And I-I-I... I-I... love you. God, that feels good, just to-to say that... to... I am... I feel so much better. Just... I love you.
You seem awfully sure of yourself
I'm sorry. Is that a question?
You feel threatened?
Oh. Have we moved into psychology?
I find your hostility curious.
I'm curious as to why you think me hostile.
You know, if you don't agree with my approach I wish you'd voice your issues.
I don't disagree.
I don't believe you.
Are you calling me a liar, sir? Fine. You know what? Earlier when I said I was OK with that open procedure I wasn't. That might have been OK when Hawkeye and BJ did it on MASH. But being the new century and all, I would have, as I said earlier, treated endoscopically.
Then you lied earlier.
You know. Oh God. I can answer these questions any way you want using medical techniques from any era. So how about if we just... You know pick a decade you are comfortable with and go from there.
Well then. It's been a pleasure being witness to such a genius. I can now finally retire knowing that such advanced and creative minds work in the surgical field.
That's it?
Oh I think we've had enough of an education today Dr. Yang.
But... there still twenty minutes.
No need. Oh... best of luck.
[voiceover]: I'll admit the Romans had a point. You gotta to live life. And living means that every morning when you wake up you have to chose between seizing what life offers in the moment and forging ahead, no matter the weather or closing the curtains and shutting out the day.
[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.
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.
Oh, boohoo, poor April didn't pass her test. Big whoop, okay? I got fired from chief resident, and then I got fired from this hospital. Oh, my husband cheated on me-
Wh-you were married? To a man? [Alex nods]
[seriously] And then he died. So I didn't think I was ever gonna be happy again. But now? My life is pretty damn great. So, you're having a rough time. It's, nothing! It's a blip! And in the meantime, you're missing your moment! You survived residency! Stop, and celebrate that. Cause life? Changes in an instant. Turns on a dime. One minute you're miserable, and then the next, you've met the most amazing woman in the world, and are in love. This moment, your moment, it only happens once. [turns to walk away] Oh, and the duck is freakin' amazing. [slaps Alex's chips to the floor]
You're doing good.
Mark...
Cristina's... Cristina's gonna be back any minute.
Mark...
She's gonna be back. and we're gonna get you stabilized, and you're gonna be fine, okay?
No, Mark...
Just a few minutes, okay? She'll be back any minute.
Mark, I'm... I'm dying.
What? No, you're not.
[gasps] Mm-hmm. I am. Please... Tell... [crying] Tell Meredith that I love her. And that she's a good sister. Please. T-Tell my dad...
You're not dying. You're gonna be fine.
[crying] Hold my hand.
I'm not holding your hand because you're not dying.
Hold my hand.
No, you're not dying. Do you hear me? You don't die today. [tries to lift the plane off her again, and realizes, and lays back down and holds her hand] I love you.
You don't have to say it just because I said it.
I do. I love you. [teary eyed] I love you. I've always been in love with you. I will always be in love with you.
Yeah?
Yeah. Which is why you have to stay alive. We-- We-- We're gonna get married. And you're gonna make an amazing surgeon. And we're gonna have two or three kids.
So Sofia can have siblings.
Yeah. A sister and two brothers.
That's nice.
And... We're gonna be happy, Lex... You and me. We're gonna have the best life, Lexie. You and me. We're gonna be so happy. So you can't die, okay? You can't die, because we're supposed to end up together. We're meant to be. [starts crying]
Meant to be. [she dies]
[crying] I love you. I love you. I- I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you.
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