[voiceover] In surgery, there is a red line on the floor that marks the point where the hospital goes from being accessible to being off limits to all but a special few. Crossing the line unauthorized is not tolerated. In general, lines are there for a reason. For safety. For security. For clarity. If you choose to cross the line, you pretty much do so at your own risk. So why is it, that the bigger the line, the greater the temptation to cross it?
S2 E15Break On Through
Dad's a truck driver, mom's a teacher. The evening news shows me crossing a picket line, they'll outlive me just to pee on my grave.
We need an additional 40 nurses to relieve the overtime that they're striking about. That's 2 million dollars a year we don't have.
Have you checked under the couch? I always find spare change under the cushions.
[after Meredith and Izzie climb into his bed] What happened today?
Nothing.
Nothing.
Okay.
We don't know everything about each other, George.
Yeah.
True. [pause] Anybody want to have sex?
[voiceover] We can’t help ourselves. We see a line, we want to cross it. Maybe it's the thrill of trading the familiar for the unfamiliar. A sort of personal dare. Only problem is, once you've crossed it's almost impossible to go back. But if you do manage to make it back across that line you find safety in numbers.
S2 E16It's the End of the World
[voiceover] It's a look patients get in their eyes. There is a scent, the smell of death. Some kind of sixth sense. When the great beyond is headed for you, you feel it coming. What's the one thing you've always dreamed of doing before you die?
You have a feeling?
Yes.
Okay, what kind of feeling?
Like I might die.
Today? Tomorrow? In 50 years? We're all going to die eventually. Now we're late! Let's go!
Cristina. C'mon!
This is me being supportive.
Really?
Yeah, fine, I'm totally supportive. Go.
OK. The man I love has a wife and then he chooses her over me. And that wife takes my dog — OK, she didn't take the dog, I gave it to her, but I didn't mean to give it to her, I meant to give it to him — but that does not change the fact that she's got my McDreamy. And my McDog. She's got my McLife! And what have I got? [sits up] You know, I can't remember the last time we kissed. 'Cause you never think the last time is the last time, you think there'll be more. You think you have forever, but you don't. Plus my conditioner decided to stop working and I think I have brittle bones. I just - I just need something to happen. I need a sign that things are gonna change. I need a reason to go on. I need some hope. And in the absence of hope, I need to stay in bed and feel like I might die today.
[throws back blanket] Whatever - everybody has problems. Now get your ass out of bed and get to work. NOW! Move! Move! Move! [Opens the door to find Izzie and George] We're good to go.
Bailey's back? That's excellent. [Hurries to the door but stops when he looks in the window] And her cervix is being examined by my wife, which is a, which is a visual I will never get out of my head. Thanks for the warning.
What are you people doing out here?
Are you alright? Can I get you anything?
A boy the size of a 10 lb. bowling ball is working its way out of my body. Can you get me something for that? Can you get me a new vagina?
Uh, well.
I didn't think so.
Alex.
How crazy is this? Dude, it's like the Apocalypse.
Alex.
It's true. Look around you. Half the people who're supposed to be saving lives have fled the building to save themselves. Bailey's husband almost died coming to see his kid getting born. The annoying twins are down on the OR floor with the guy who literally explode in their faces. It's a morgue. Just saying, people should get while the getting's good because there might not be a tomorrow.
Alex!
What?
[Cut to the supply closet]
Take off your pants.
Izzie, what are you doing?
I'm being a doer. Getting while the getting's good. Now take off your pants.
You realize when I said the apocalypse, I meant it metaphorically, not literally.
Alex, I haven't had sex in eight months and twelve days. I'm horny, I'm half-naked, and I'm saying yes. Do you want to stand there and talk metaphors, or do you want to literally take off your pants?
S2 E17As We Know It
[voiceover] In hospitals they say you know. You know when you're going to die. Some doctors say it's a look patients get in their eyes. Some say there's a scent, a smell of death. Some say there's just some kind of sixth sense, when the great beyond is heading for you, you feel it coming. Whatever it is, it's creepy. Because if you know, what do you do about it? Forget about the fact that you're scared out of your mind. If you knew this was your last day on earth, how would you want to spend it?
Cristina. I have my hand on a bomb. I'm freaking out. And most importantly, I really have to pee. Tell me anything.
He told me he loved me. Last night, he thought I was sleeping, but I heard him say it.
Burke loves you.
Yeah. [To Dylan] Mind your own business.
Burke loves you!
Yeah everybody has problems.
Well are you gonna say it back, or-
Of course not! He didn't say it to me, he said it to sleeping me! Reciprocity is not required. Besides he might blow up.
Excellent point.
[the gurney hits a bump in the floor]
DDylan
Alright everybody. Let's just keep placing one foot in front of the other. [gives Cristina an 'I told you so' look] Nice and slow. Alright, Meredith? We're almost there.
Okay.
DDylan
We're almost there. Nice and easy, ready? Alright let's go. Nice and slow.
You had to say you were going to die today.
I told you.
Dr. Bailey, I can see the top of his head. He's got a lot of hair. Oh, he's cute.
O'Malley!
Yeah?
Stop looking at my vah-jay-jay!
[looking away] Yes, ma'am.
Hey.
Hey. You almost died today.
Yeah, I almost died today. [Derek is at a loss for words and starts heading to the door] I can't, I can't remember our last kiss. All I could think about was I'm going to die today and I can't remember our last kiss. Which, is pathetic but the last time we were together and happy, I... want to be able to remember that, and I can't, Derek. I can't remember.
I'm glad you didn't die today. [Starts to leave but stops] It was a Thursday morning, you were wearing that ratty little 'Dartmouth' T-shirt you look so good in, the one with the hole at the back of the neck. You'd just washed you hair and you smelled like some kind of... flower. I was running late for surgery, you said you were going to see me later, and you lean to me, put you hand on my chest and you kissed me. Soft. It was quick. Kind of like a habit. You know, like we'd do it everyday for the rest of our lives. And you went back to reading the newspaper and I went to work. That was the last time we kissed. [Derek starts to leave]
Lavender. My hair smelled like lavender... from my conditioner.
Lavender. Huh. [Smiles then leaves]
S2 E18Yesterday
[voiceover] After careful consideration and many sleepless nights, here's what I've decided. There's no such thing as a grown-up. We move on, we move out, we move away from our families and form our own. But the basic insecurities, the basic fears and all those old wounds just grow up with us. And just when we think that life and circumstance have forced us to truly, once and for all, become an adult, your mother says something like that. Or worse, something like that. We get bigger, we get taller, we get older. But, for the most part, we're still a bunch of kids, running around the playground, trying desperately to fit in.
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