Grey's Anatomy · Season 2
[voiceover]
Human beings need a lot of things to feel alive.
Family...
Love...
Sex.
But we only need one thing...
To actually be alive.
We need a beating heart.
When our heart is threatened...
We respond in one of two ways.
We either run...
Or...
We attack.
There's a scientific term for this:
Fight...
Or flight.
It's instinct...
We can't control it.
Or can we?
Where is Christina? Where are... where are all of the suck ups?
Excuse me?
My interns. My ass-kissing, surgery hungry, competitive suck ups? Where are they? Why aren't they here fetching you ice chips and morphine? Why aren't they here sucking up? [Burke avoids her eyes and doesn't respond] You know something.
I'm a patient.
Preston Xavier Burke, what have you done with my suck ups?!
What? You like your men sick and feeble? You don't dig healthy guys?
[laughs] I dig you.
Then why are you all swirly and twitchy?
No I'm not.
Yeah, you're swirly and twitchy. It's 'cause I asked you to marry me.
So you remember that?
It's not the kind of thing I'd forget.
Yeah. Look, Denny, um, I'm giving you an out.
Excuse me?
Well, I'm giving you an out. I mean, you thought you were dying and I was saving your life and, you know, everything was so... So, I won't hold it against you, or be hurt and offended if you want to take your proposal back, I mean giving you an out.
I don't want an out.
You should take the out. We can't get married. I mean that would be crazy, insane. We should date, and have sex. Plenty of sex. You know when your heart gets better and you're out of the hospital, all the sex you can handle. But marriage is, um, marriage, I mean...
Okay, it's my turn now.
But I need to...
No, no. We're taking turns. I've decided. It's polite and it keeps me from yelling. When it's your turn again, you can talk. [pause] For five years, I've had to live by the choices of my doctors. The guys that cut me open decided my life, there wasn't one choice that was mine. And now, I have this heart that beats and works. I get to be like everybody else, I get to make my own decisions, have my own life, do whatever the damn hell I choose. Now here's the good part, so you listen close. What I choose is you. You're who I want to wake up with and go to bed with and do everything in between with. I get a choice now. I get to choose. I choose you, Izzie Stevens. OK, it's your turn again.
[one on one meeting with Cristina] I know your type. You're a surgical junkie.
Yes, sir.
I'm just saying, it's not going to be easy for you to be away from the OR that long.
No, sir.
And if you want to get back to the OR, you're gonna tell me what I need to know, aren't you?
You're right, it's not easy for me to be away from the OR. And it's not easy for me to sit in front of you, or any other authority figure for that matter, and not be able to give you the exact answer you want to hear. I'm the one with the answers. I've always been the one with the answers. But right now sir, I don't have any.
Dr. Yang.
How do you keep your edge sir? Because I've watch you and you've been doing this a long time and you're clean, you're focused, you are the job, nothing gets to you. And the thing is sir, I was like that, until I got here. Until I actually started doing this job and now everything is, is fuzzy...
That's beside the point.
No see sir, this is the point. Because I can't tell you what happened in that room, I can't tell you. And before I could have, no guilt, no loyalties, no problem. Before, before I wouldn't have even been in that room. I wouldn't have gotten involved. I would have never frozen in surgery. And I would have told him what I thought he should do. I had an edge, sir. I had an edge and I've lost it, and I need it. I need it back. [tearing up] So, if you could just tell me, how you keep yours and how not to be affected, I know I could be a great surgeon. So if you could just give me the answers, I would really appreciate it.
You're excused Dr. Yang.
But...
You're excused.
I'll tell you, I'll tell you who cut the LVAD wires, sir, if you'll please...
No you won't, I don't want to know. Not from you. Yeah, I have the answers, but I can't tell them to you. I'm not going to be responsible for you becoming less human.
What happened?
I didn't know what to do. I didn't think you guys would want me to go to the chief, but...
Where is she?
She's in there with him.
[They walk in to see Izzie lying in bed with Denny]
Izzie...
I think it was a stroke. He was prone to blood clots. A clot could have formed on his sutures, traveled to his brain, it only takes a second.
Izz...
Dr. Hahn did a beautiful job on the surgery. But I don't know why I didn't think of blood clots. He died all alone. He was alone.
There is nothing you could have done.
I changed my dress three times. I wanted to look nice. I would have been here sooner. But I couldn't figure out which dress to wear.
Izzie, we shouldn't be in here.
Izz, there are things that they need, they need to move him.
Take him to the morgue.
You can't stay here, I know you want to...
Can you please, please, just get out? I want to be alone with Denny.
Izzie, that's not Denny.
Shut up.
Izz, it's not Denny. The minute his heart stopped beating he stopped being Denny. Now I know you love him, but he also loved you. And a guy that loves you like that, he doesn't want you to do this to yourself. Because it's not Denny, not anymore.
An hour ago he was proposing. And now... and now he's going to the morgue. Isn't that ridiculous? Isn't it the most ridiculous piece of crap you've ever...
[Izzie starts sobbing. Alex picks her up, cradling her and sits down on a chair holding and rocking her while she sobs]
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