[opening voice over] When I was 5, my mom lost me in a park. I don't remember much, except that one minute I was riding the carousel, and the next, she was gone. I don't remember how I found her. I don't remember how I got home. All I remember is what happened next. She told me not to worry. She told me everything would be fine. She told me it was time to play the quiet game, so I knew I wasn't supposed to ask any questions. Or else, I might have told her I forgot my doll. I loved that doll so much. It killed me to leave it behind. Funny, isn't it, the way memory works?
S11 E1I Must Have Lost it on the Wind
You really should get your locks changed.
(Alex and Jo wake up, shocked.)
What are you doing here?
I need to talk to Alex. Wilson, get out of the bed. I can't get in the bed with you in there.
You can't kick me out of bed!
It's my house.
No, it's my house!
Then you kick her out.
I'm not wearing any...
I don't care about your boobs, Wilson. Out.
(Jo puts on a shirt and gets out bed as Meredith gets in the bed.)
I guess I'll go make us some coffee since I'm up.
Coffee would be great!
This is not our thing now, okay? You can't just start showing up at all hours and... I mean, this is not what we do.
I told Derek I am not moving to D.C. The children and I are staying here.
All right, the miracle is over.
The miracle is not over. We're not a miracle. Shut up.
You can't break into my house and wake me up to talk and then tell me to shut up!
I'm a widow. She widowed me. I'll never have Alex to myself again.
Her best friend just left yesterday, okay? She needs someone to talk to. You are overreacting.
She kicked me out of my own bed in the middle of the night, while I was naked, and he let her.
Okay. So, you're screwed.
Grab your stuff. We're drinking.
Oh, I... I can't. I have to go home and deal with...
Fight with Shepherd? I think you need to whine about it some more to me first. You definitely need to drink.
What are you afraid of, that I'm gonna...
I'm afraid you're gonna keep crawling in my bed in the middle of the night. Look, Yang left me her shares and her board seat and she left me you, too. It's just us now. I don't know... if you need somebody to bitch to or just be...
My person.
I don't know what you mean.
But you do.
(They hug.)
I just don't know if my marriage can survive this.
[ending voice over] The things you can't quite remember, and the things you can never forget. There can be beauty in getting lost. Sometimes we have to get lost to find each other. And sometimes we find each other, only to get lost all over again. You can't always control it, the thing that's going to set you adrift. And as you stand there on the front porch, staring at the life you're about to leave behind, you have to accept it's gone, it's lost, just like you. All you can do now is stand very still, breathe in the moment, and try to be open to wherever the wind's going to take you next.
S11 E2Puzzle With a Piece Missing
[opening voice over] I love puzzles. Since I was a kid. My record for the Friday New York Times crosswords is 11 minutes, when I was 13. I'm still trying to beat that. Okay, that sounds braggy. I just mean, once I pick a puzzle up, I can't put it down until it's solved. I think puzzles are why I went into medicine. That's what most of medicine is. Gather all available information, assess the problem, you focus your attention, and you solve the puzzle. People are a harder puzzle. There's never one right answer and you never have all of the information.
You have a genome lab here?
We did. The board just voted...
We do, and I still have a set of keys. And if the board has a problem with that, you have them come talk to me, and I'll tell them what hole they can push that through!
(Bailey walks off.)
Was she bringing the thunder or did we just piss her off?
Dr. Bailey doesn't need to bring anything. She is the thunder.
Amelia Shepherd, do you know Dr. Maggie Pierce?
Weird, you're the second Dr. Shepherd I've met today.
Derek is my brother.
: I'm sorry. Is everyone in this room somehow related?
(Amelia looks at Maggie and Webber and laughs.)
I'm gonna leave you two alone. Nice meeting you.
Dr. Pierce, Dr. Bailey told me you ordered an exome panel for her patient.
They caught me. And I threw you under the bus. Sorry.
Yeah, Dr. Bailey's genome-research program has been discontinued.
You know, I heard that. And I have to say, I think it's stupid. Genome mapping is like getting the answers in the back of the book. It is the key to so many medical solutions. Closing that program makes your board look like a bunch of morons.
Have you met Dr. Avery?
Yeah, plastics, right?
Dr. Avery is also a voting member on the board.
Of course you are.
[ending voice over] Most puzzles come down to one last piece of information missing. Whether it's the answer to a medical mystery, it all comes down to that last piece. That's why the final piece of a jigsaw puzzle is so satisfying to place. Unless of course, the piece doesn't quite fit. That can make you wish you never opened the puzzle in the first place.
S11 E3Got to Be Real
[opening voice over] On an operating table, a person is at his most vulnerable. Naked. Exposed. Skin is not a very tough armor. It's soft, easily broken.
She's, like, psycho, like a stalker. I'm being stalked. Alex, this is criminal. I mean, you... What's your problem?
Get out! I'm naked here!
Okay, so what? I've seen it before! No big deal! I'm in crisis! Okay, fine. It's... Your junk is spectacular. Jo is a very lucky girl.
He's in the shower, and she's in the bathroom with him while he's in the shower.
So, go in there with them.
No! I am not going in there.
You're the girlfriend.
No. Yeah, I am, but I'm not. They're this little team together. They are war buddies, and I don't fit. And then they look at me... Well, she looks at me... like I'm just the stupid, naked girl in Alex's bed.
So go be the stupid, naked girl in Alex's shower.
I am a doctor. I am a surgeon. I deserve respect.
You're a girl in her pajamas with her ear to the door of a bathroom. How much respect can anyone give you right now?
[ending voice over] Surgeons are bred to be invulnerable. It's very hard to lay ourselves bare, because we know exactly how deep some injuries can go. But vulnerability isn't the opposite of strength. It's a necessary part. We have to force ourselves to open up, to expose ourselves. To offer up everything we have and just pray that it's good enough. Otherwise, we'll never succeed.
S11 E4Only Mama Knows
[opening voice over] This is how my mother wanted to be remembered. My memory of her is a little bit different. I'm sure everyone remembers their own version of her. Versions I wouldn't even recognize. It's all that's really left of someone when they're gone. But that's the tricky thing. Nobody's memory is perfect or complete. We jumble things up. We lose track of time. We are in one place and another. And it all feels like one long, inescapable moment. It's just like my mother used to say: The carousel never stops turning.
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