[voiceover] To be a good surgeon you have to think like a surgeon. Emotions are messy. Tuck them neatly away and step into a clean sterile room where the procedure is simple. Cut, suture, and close. But sometimes you're faced with a cut that won't heal. A cut that rips its stitches wide open.
S2 E1Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
Let's play a game of whose life sucks the most. I'll win. I always win.
You don't want to play with me.
Oh, I do. I'll even go first. Derek's married. [George spits out his beer]
George. Beer is dripping from your nostrils.
Told you I'd win.
No, you didn't win.
Did you hear me? I said Derek is married, as in pig-headed, adulterous, liar married. Nothing you could say could top that.
I'm pregnant. I win. [Joe, the bartender, collapses] Okay, maybe Joe wins.
So I go upstairs, as I'm walking down the hall I'm trying to prepare myself for what I'm going to see when I go into my bedroom. I step on a man's jacket that doesn't belong to me. And everything I think I know just shifts. Because the jacket that doesn't belong to me is a jacket that I recognize, what I know now is that when I go into my bedroom, I'm not just going to see that my wife is cheating on me. I'm going to see that my wife is cheating on me with Mark, who happened to be my best friend. It's just so pedestrian, common and dirty, and cruel. Mostly just cruel. I left, came out here.
Then you met me.
And I met you.
What was I to you? The girl you screwed to get over being screwed?
You were like coming up for fresh air. It's like I was drowning and you saved me. That's all I know.
It's not enough.
[voiceover] They say practice makes perfect. Theory is – the more you think like a surgeon, the more you become one, the better you get at remaining neutral, clinical, cut, suture, close - and the harder it becomes to turn it off. To stop thinking like a surgeon, and remember what it means to think like a human being.
The clinic has a policy. They wouldn't let me confirm my appointment unless I designated an emergency contact person. Someone to be there just in case and... to know help me home, you know, after. Anyway I put your name down, that's why I told you I'm pregnant. You're my person.
I am?
Yeah, you are. Whatever.
Whatever.
He dumped me. [Meredith hugs Cristina] You realize this constitutes hugging?
Shut up, I'm your person.
S2 E2Enough Is Enough (No More Tears)
Meredith[Voiceover]: I have an aunt who whenever she poured anything for you would say "Say when!" My aunt would say "Say when!" and of course, we never did. We don't say when because there's something about the possibility, of more. [...] More tequila, more love, more anything. More is better.
It's not us. It's them. Them and their stupid boy... penises. They didn't tell me they have a wife. They gave absolutely no warning that they were going to break up with you.
It's not that Burke broke up with me. It's how he broke up with me. Like it was business. Like it was a business trans- Like he's a boss of me!
He is the boss of you.
What's worse is that I care.
Ugh I'm going to throw up again. [Gets up and kneels over the toilet] No. Wait. False alarm.
The problem is estrogen.
No, the problem is tequila.
You know I used to be all business and then he goes and gets me pregnant.
With his stupid boy penis.
Now I'm having hormone surges. He ruined me. I'm ruined! He turned me into this... fat, stupid, pregnant girl. Who cares! Estrogen!
Penises. Penises, Izzie.
Estrogen, George.
[brushing off Derek] I'm a sink with an open drain. Anything you say runs right out! There is no enough! [Storms off]
She probably could have picked a better metaphor.
Give her a break, she's got a hangover.
Meredith[voiceover]: There's something to be said about a glass half full. About knowing when to say when. I think it's a floating line. A barometer of need and desire. It's entirely up to the individual. And depends on what's being poured. Sometimes all we want is a taste. Other times there's no such thing as enough, the glass is bottomless. And all we want, is more.
S2 E3Make Me Lose Control
[voiceover] Surgeons are control freaks. With a scalpel in your hand, you feel unstoppable. There's no fear, there's no pain. You're ten-feet tall and bulletproof. And then you leave the OR. And all that perfection, all that beautiful control, just falls to crap.
Leave me alone. I've been sitting home for a week, watching Oprah give away things on TV. Oprah, Derek! You clear me now or I'll hurt you.
If you want me to clear you so soon maybe you should've thought of that before you gave chief to Burke and invited Satan to Seattle.
Satan?
Good morning. Richard, like the hat.
Satan speaks.
Actually I prefer to be called ruler of all that is evil. [Richard laughs] But I will answer to Satan.
You have a problem?
No.
You have a mocha latte?
No.
Then go away.
You could talk, you know, I mean, if you need to.
I'm fine.
You said that word so many times today, it doesn't even sound like a word anymore. Just saying you can talk to me. Because, you know, even if I repeat every word you say, no one around here likes me, they'll just call me a liar and move on.
[voiceover] No one likes to lose control, but as a surgeon there's nothing worse. It's a sign of weakness, of not being up to the task. And still there are times when it just gets away from you. When the world stops spinning and you realize that your shiny little scalpel isn't gonna save you. No matter how hard you fight it, you fall. And it's scary as hell. Except if there's an upside to free-falling, it's the chance you give your friends to catch you.
S2 E4Deny, Deny, Deny
[voiceover] The key to surviving a surgical internship is denial. We deny that we're tired, we deny that we're scared, we deny how badly we want to succeed. And most importantly, we deny that we're in denial. We only see what we want to see and believe what we want to believe, and it works. We lie to ourselves so much that after a while the lies start to seem like the truth. We deny so much that we can't recognize the truth right in front of our faces.
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