Alex, Beatrice and others in “Name of the Game”

Alex

So this whole lying thing, this is working out for you?

Excuse me?

Alex

You're going to die and soon. You get that, right? There's no rosy picture to paint here.

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.

Alex

You think you're protecting her?

I am protecting her.

Alex

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.

Burke

Ahem... Dr. Karev.

Alex

No, I'm talking this time.

Burke

Excuse me?

Alex

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.