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Good man in the storm. What's so "good man in the storm" about a break?
"How was your day, Meredith? Did you cure death today, Meredith? When are you gonna cure death, Meredith?"
Oh, God.
"I could have cured death if you let me move to D.C. and work for the president."
So I'm bisexual! So what? It's a thing, and it's real.I mean it's called LGBTQ for a reason. There's a "B" in there, and it doesn't mean "badass". Okay, it kind of does, but it also means bi.
My mom and the Chief were doing it all over the hospital.
Mnh-mnh.
All over the hospital, like me and Derek, cheating on Addison. I'm a legacy cheater.
Mm. Maybe Sofia will be a legacy cheater. Everyone in this hospital's cheated on me. Every single person I have ever married has cheated on me... All, uh, two of them? Yeah. Come on.
[ending voice over] Once the chaos subsides, we have to go back. Take another look. We have to ask ourselves: can this body be put back together? If we've done our jobs right, it can. We stop the bleeding. We sew up the damage. We make the body whole again. But no matter how hard we try, we have to realize some things just can't be fixed.
[opening voice over] Trauma is messy. Chaotic. Looking at a body that's been reduced to a bloody pulp, it might seem difficult to know where to start. Luckily, some very clever person developed a protocol: the ABCs. Airway, breathing, circulation. The ABCs keep your patient alive so you can figure out how to tackle the rest of the mess. If only all of life's problems could be solved with an intubation tube.
He's family, and this is one of the reasons why you didn't want to leave Seattle in the first place, remember? You have family here, roots.
Are you kidding me?!
What?
I have to have dinner with the sister I don't know and the bio-dad she hates because you gave up your chance to work for Obama?! You're gonna play that card? Of course you are because you'll be playing that card until the end of freaking time!
Time-out.
No, I am so sick of your passive-aggressive...
Time-out. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. I am just trying to help out here. I'm trying to help you, and I am trying to help them. I come from a big family. It's crazy, it's messy, but it's good, and I want that for you. I want you to have that. She's your sister, and he's practically your father. And Zola needs more black people in the family because I'm running out of ways to braid her hair and Bailey won't show me any more.
Fine.
[ending voice over] The ABCs of trauma are a handy tool for keeping a patient alive, but they're only a starting point. Once the patient's airway, breathing, and circulation are all clear and accounted for, the real work begins. The messy work. There's no telling how long it's gonna take to clean up that chaos once you've begun, because sometimes, you don't know what you're in for. You don't know exactly what you're about to face. You don't know what secrets the body in front of you holds and whether, by the time it's all over, if there's anything left worth saving.
[opening voice over] They say life doesn't give you second chances. But we do. Surgeons do. You break a bone, we put it back together. You bleed, we make it stop. You flatline, we resuscitate you. But as much as we give people second chances, surgeons don't usually get them, because the kind of mistakes we make, are sometimes impossible to recover from.
What's wrong with you?
Uh... I was... I was up all night.
Me too.
Ah, Sofia's been acting out, asking questions about me and Arizona, and I don't know what to tell her or how to tell her, so I'm just not sleeping. I'm miserable. Why didn't you sleep?
Oh, you don't want to know.
What's going on?
Derek and I were up having sex all night.
Yeah, I kind of didn't want to hear that.
I don't know who I am anymore. Not anybody I ever thought I'd be. I try and make the right choices for Meredith, the kids, you. And, um... I'm angry all the time. I'm miserable, and I don't know what to do with it. All I do is hurt people. The last people I want to hurt, and I just... I just can't get control of it. I don't know what to do anymore.
I know how you feel. We call it rock bottom.
[ending voice over] It's hard to give second chances. It's even harder to ask for them. A chance to do it again, knowing what you know now, what you've learned. A chance to do it completely differently. A chance to right our wrongs, to try and correct our mistakes. A chance to try and start over, from scratch.
Look, I told you it's your house, too.
Yeah, apparently, you say that to all the girls.
Listen, that house was always open. Even when Mer hated me, I could be there. People went through their crap, they needed a place to be, they came there. You should understand that more than anybody. And as long as I'm the... It stays open, all right?
All right.
And come on. You in my bed and Meredith in my bed are two really different things.
They better be.
Why don't you trust me?
Of c... For God's sake, Meredith, of course I trust you.
Why did you call Richard today, for a second opinion? If that had been any other surgeon, Dr. Bailey, would you have done it?
It was a surgical consult.
It doesn't matter whether it's a surgical consult or a code. You don't trust me and all you wanna do is fight me.
I don't wanna fight with you but I'm not gonna compromise myself, Meredith, just because you think that...
Well, you've already done that, you've already compromised yourself and diminished yourself for me. I feel that, your pissiness, and your resentment, Derek.
You know why? You know why I resent you? Because you've never had my back on this! Not since the day I told you I would stay. I told you that you and the kids were more important. You have been determined to prove me wrong, that this is the wrong choice.
I have proven it, because you can't be happy here. You diminish everyone around you!
I did this for you! I gave up everything! For you!
There it is! "Everything". You gave up "everything". That was everything to you?
Derek, slow down.
No. I'm done. I'm not gonna do this anymore, this constant battling.
I'm not battling, but I'm just not gonna let you just...
You think I'm some sort of tyrant determined to keep you down.
You keep you down, and now I'm paying for it! And I don't know how to fix it. You should've just gone to D.C.!
Is that what you want? Because that door is wide open!
It's what you want!
Meredith, they offered me the job again. Today. I can take this job right now.
You should. Take it.
(Derek calls Deborah.)
Deborah, it's Dr. Shepherd. Glad I could catch you. It was great that you came by today. Please tell the President that I would be thrilled to accept the post. Yes, absolutely, we can talk more then. I look forward to it. I will see you soon. (He hangs up the phone.)
Good. Go.
Oh, I'm going.
No, I mean it. Go now. Go.
[ending voice over] Nobody's memory is perfect or complete. We jumble things up. We lose track of time. We are in one place... then another and it all feels like one long, inescapable moment. So, what does it mean? What do we take away? Which pieces will haunt us? Hurt us? End us? Inspire us? It's just like my mother used to say, the carousel never stops turning. You can't get off.
[opening voice over] When exposed to trauma, the body deploys its own defence system. From the first second the brain receives the signal that a catastrophe has happened, the blood rushes to the organs that need help the most. Blood floods into the muscles, the lungs, the heart, the brain. The brain makes a decision for the rest of the body. Either face the danger or run away. It's a mechanism designed to protect the body from harm. From knowing that what has happened might be irreparable, we call it 'shock'.
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