[voiceover] I've heard that it’s possible to grow up, I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don't go our way. We whisper secrets with our best friends, in the dark. We look for comfort where we can find it. And we hope against all logic, against all experience. Like children, we never give up hope.
S2 E18Yesterday
S2 E19What Have I Done To Deserve This?
[voiceover] Okay, so, sometimes even the best of us make rash decisions. Bad decisions. Decisions we pretty much know we're going to regret the moment, the minute, especially the morning after. I mean, maybe not regret, regret because at least, you know, we put ourselves out there. But... still. Something inside us decides to do a crazy thing. A thing we know will probably turn around and bite us in the ass. Yet, we do it anyway. [...] What I'm saying is... we reap what we sow. What comes around goes around. It's karma and, any way you slice it... karma sucks. Like I was saying, payback's a bitch.
[about Alex] What? So I slept with him again. So I'm a big whore. A big horny whore who can't get enough. Can we get over the shocked silence already?
Really? I guess I just think I believe in Karma. You know I mean good people deserve good things. At least that's how I thought the universe worked.
How can you think that and practice medicine?
Why... I'm not saying that everybody who gets sick or everybody who dies is bad. I'm just saying that, uh, I think that there's a balance. Or there should be balance! I should...there should be some sort of balance. That's...
Good god, O'Malley, what the hell did Grey do to you?
All right. So you slept with O'Malley. Get over it already.
He told you?
Uh, no. [Laughs] I was just kidding! I means it's not like I should be surprised.
Why not?
Because when your life is sucky, you get drunk and sleep with inappropriate men. It's your thing. Whatever. I find it charming.
You sleep with inappropriate women when you're sober.
One inappropriate woman. And Izzie forgave me for that. O'Malley is not going to get over this.
Izzie hasn't forgiven you!
Yes, she has. We're together.
No you're not. Izzie may be sleeping with you, but she'll never see you the way she saw you before you slept with Olivia.
Why are you trying to piss me off?
You're trying to suggest that it's forgivable for you to sleep with Olivia, but not forgivable for me to sleep with George.
[George walks in]
You told him?!
George!
Wow, when I'm wrong about someone.
No, I...
I am REALLY wrong!
No, George! It's not... it's not what you think!
Dude! Chill!
You chill! You chill! I'm not... I'm not going to chill.
George, I...
What's going on?
The fetus is freaking out.
I can see that! Why are freaking out?
You think someone is your friend. [Cristina walks in] You know? And you think at the very least you'd respect my privacy!
What's going on?
Baby boy is freaking out.
She can see that.
I can see that.
CICristina and Izzie
Why is he freaking out?
George, can we at least talk?
I don't want to talk! Not to you! I wanted to keep my mouth shut. And if you hadn't been running away from me every time you see me, you would know that!
Okay, you're right, but can we just talk now?
You want to talk now, because you told everyone that we had sex!
You had sex?
You had sex with George?
You didn't tell them?
No.
DAMMIT! [trips and falls down stairwell]
[voiceover] One way or another our karma will leave us to face ourselves. We can look our karma in the eye or we can wait for it to sneak up on us from behind. One way or another, our karma will always find us. And the truth is, as surgeons, we have more chances than most to set the balance in our favor. No matter how hard we try we can't escape our karma. It follows us home. I guess we can't really complain about karma. It's not unfair. It's not unexpected. It just... evens the score. And even when we're about to do something we know will tempt karma to bite us in the ass... well, it goes without saying. We do it anyway.
S2 E20Band Aid Covers the Bullet Hole
[voiceover] As doctors, patients are always telling us how they would do our jobs. Just stitch me up, slap a band-aid on it and send me home. It's easy to suggest a quick solution, when you don't know much about the problem or when you don't understand the underlying cause or just how deep the wound really is. The first step toward a real cure is to know exactly what the disease is to begin with. But that's not what people want to hear. We're supposed to forget the past that landed us here, ignore the future complications that might arise and go for the quick fix.
[voiceover] As doctors, as friends, as human beings, we all try to do the best we can. But the world is full of unexpected twists and turns. And just when you've gotten the lay of the land, the ground underneath you shifts. And knocks you off your feet. If you're lucky, you'll end up with nothing more than a flesh wound, something a band-aid will cover. But, some wounds are deeper than they first appear and require more than just a quick fix. With some wounds, you have to rip off the band-aid, let them breathe, and give them time to heal.
S2 E21Superstition
[voiceover] My college campus has a magic statue. It's a longstanding tradition for students to rub its nose for good luck. My freshman roommate really believed in the statue's power and insisted on visiting it to rub its nose before every exam. Studying might have been a better idea, she flunked out at sophomore year. The fact is, we all have little superstitious things that we do. If it's not believing in magic statues, it's avoiding sidewalk cracks or always putting our left shoe on first. Knock on wood. Step on a crack, break your mothers back. The last thing we want to do is offend the gods.
Juju.
Yep.
You juju'ed Meredith.
I did, in the spirit of friendship.
Hmmm.
What, are we not being friends with Meredith anymore?
No, no, we are. Meredith and I are friends.
And you and I are married. So then by proxy, Meredith and I are friends.
That's very big of you.
Yeah.
You don't have to do that. It’s not like I'm going to be friends with... let's say... Mark.
Yeah, well, neither am I. Now finish your juju before somebody else dies.
Great. No blood, no guts, no lives to save. It's dead quiet.
Uh, did you really just say that?
Cristina!
What?
You said the "q" word.
That's like saying Macbeth in the theatre.
Please. You think because someone says its quiet that'll mean---
[All hell breaks loose] [...]
Can anyone spell coincidence?
[voiceover] Superstition lies in the space between what we can control and what we can't. Find a penny, pick it up, and all day long you'll have good luck. No one wants to pass up a chance for good luck, but does saying it thirty three times really help? Is anyone really listening? And if no ones listening, why do we bother doing those strange things at all? We rely on superstitions because we're smart enough to know we don't have all the answers. And that life works in mysterious ways. Don't diss the juju, from wherever it comes.
S2 E22Name of the Game
[voiceover] A good basketball game can have us all on the edge of our seats. Games are all about the glory, pain and the play by play. And then there are the more solitary games. The games we each play all by ourselves. The social games, the mind games, we use them to pass the time to make life more interesting to distract us from what's really going on. There are those of us who love to play games, any games. And there are those of us who love to play a little too much.
So this whole lying thing, this is working out for you?
BBeatrice
Excuse me?
You're going to die and soon. You get that, right? There's no rosy picture to paint here.
BBeatrice
You're not a mother. You don't know what its like to hold your newborn baby in your arms and smell the top of her head. And know your only job in the world is to protect her.
You think you're protecting her?
BBeatrice
I am protecting her.
Well, I guess you can call it what you want. But you should just know you're leaving behind a kid that will probably hate you the rest of her life.
Ahem... Dr. Karev.
No, I'm talking this time.
Excuse me?
I tell the truth. It's what I do. It doesn't make me a bad doctor. Everyone walks around this place lying. Look we tell the patient that's dying that there's hope when there is no hope. Maybe I'm a pig, maybe I'm an ass, and maybe I'm a varmint like everybody says. But I tell them the truth. It's the one thing that I've got going for me. And you don't get to take that away from me and call it a lesson. Sir.
[voiceover] Life is not a spectator sport. Win, lose, or draw, the game is in progress, whether we want it to be or not. So go ahead argue with the refs, change the rules, cheat a little, take a break and tend to your wounds. But play. Play. Play hard, play fast, play loose and free. Play as if there's no tomorrow. [pause] Okay, so it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game... right?
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