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Why are you being a jerk?
What?
Alex said you were being a jerk.
Ah, of course. He tattled.
Let me make something very clear to you, if you want to get anywhere with me, messing with Alex is not the way. Do not contradict him in front of patients, and please don't speak to him like he's an idiot.
Back it up--get anywhere with you? So you admit it?
Admit what?
That there's somewhere to get, with you?
Don't change the subject.
No banter. No more quips. I'll tell you what I think. I think about you. A lot. I can't stop. I'm telling you, I am in. If you are. I'm in this. So I'm just, I'm just going to ask you outright. What do you think?
[starts to talk]
Actually, don't answer. Not until you know. And when you do, just give me a call.
[closing voice-over] War isn't civil. You pick sides and defend them. You attack. You hurt people. You get hurt. You fight, and you fight, and you fight. To what end? What are we fighting against? What are we fighting for? When is it time to just quit all of this nonsense and simply surrender?
[opening voice-over] Freezing. Choking. Getting tongue-tied. It's what we call it when your mind goes from brilliant to blank. You can prepare all you want, but the feeling can still hit you, out of nowhere. So when it hits you, when your mind shuts down, when you open your mouth and no words come out, the good news is, it happens to all of us.
Why didn't you just tell me? Alright, forget it.
You good?
What?
I stared at him from across the room thinking he would see me. Recognize. My face, my eyes, anything. All I got was 'you good?' No recognition. Like I was anyone. No one.
Jackson, I know what a good father is. I had one my whole life. Jackson, you are a good father...You came here to tell him something. Don't leave here until you do.
I have a daughter. Her name is Harriet.
Harriet. Wow, that is wonderful. I'm a grandfather.
No, no you're not. My mom is a wonderful grandmother and you seem like a decent guy. But you're not a grandfather.
[closing voice-over] Freezing. Choking. Getting tongue-tied. There's a reason it happens. We lose our words because the stakes are so high and we have so much to lose. We're petrified of saying too much or saying it wrong. When the truth is, the only wrong thing you could say is nothing at all.
[opening voice-over] Stuff comes apart. An eggshell's never gonna come back together. A window will never unbreak. It's called the second law of thermodynamics. It's also called life. Stuff rarely comes together, but it will always come apart.
There are all sorts of reasons to like me.
Name one.
[silence]
I have to go.
My mother wouldn't let me pierce my ears until I was ten. She told me masturbating made Jesus cry, and nail polish was for prostitutes. Now she wants stripper boobs?
You don't have any right to an opinion, and you certainly don't have the right to bully me.
Bully you?!
You don't have the right to give me ultimatums about when to come home and make up my mind.
Okay...
For better or for worse, that's what you said. Well, guess what, this is the for worse. And you don't have the right to just decide that I don't have myself together, okay? You don't make me the one who's wrong. I'm tired of being the messed up one, okay, because I'm not. You are at least as messed up as me.
You disappeared!
You are suffocating me!
That is unfair.
Really? I would love to ask Cristina how suffocated she felt by you, by your needs, by your idea of a baby, by what you want.
I don't have a good reason. I tried to come up with one. So then I thought, "Well, why do I like her?" And I don't know. From the first time I saw you, you were at the OR board. You were talking with Pierce, and she said something that made you laugh, and I couldn't move. And then I had to wait for you to write your name on the board because I just needed to know who you were. So, I don't have a good reason for you to like me. I didn't even try to like you. I didn't want to. And I certainly don't want to have to think about you all the time, trying to come in early, see your name on the board, come up with that one thing that's gonna make you smile so your eyes do that thing they do. Anyway, so that's why I joke so much and to keep from having to say anything like this. So, I don't have a good reason. I'm sorry. I wish I did.
Okay, so you should ask me out to dinner.
Do you want to go out to dinner?
Yes.
[closing voice-over] Everything comes apart at some point. We all will. It's the law. It's what we're designed to do. We have to face it and accept it, and try to hold it together, for as long as we can.
[opening voice-over] When my mother's Alzheimer's got bad, I was going through her bills and I found a notepad. Written on it were the words "Important. Tell Meredith not to." And that was it. She never finished that sentence. Tell Meredith not to what? Not to drink too much? Not to pet strange dogs? Not to give her heart away? Not to leave the sprinklers on? We didn't exactly talk a lot during those days. I regret that. I wish we had.
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