Grey's Anatomy · Season 5
[looking at the engagement ring Derek gave her] Does it bother you that I don't want to wear it? Because I could.
I don't want you to wear it. You're not a ring bride. [Meredith looks at him] What?
I'm not really a church wedding bride or a poofy-white-dress bride either.
We'll get naked and get married in a field of flowers.
[laughs] I'm not a naked bride.
What about scrubs? We can get married in scrubs.
Ooh, now there's a wedding I could get into.
Get a crash cart. Izzie Stevens's room. [Cristina checks her pulse. Izzie starts laughing] What?
Oh my god, I'm sorry. You should see your face right now, it's your totally freaking out face.
You're joking? This is a joke?
I'm sorry. I really did need you though. Um, I have all these dresses here and I keep trying to page Meredith to come try them on and she won't answer the page. So, will you tell her to come in here. She'll listen to you.
Is there anything else you need before I go?
No. You wanna sit a while?
No, I do not want to sit. I've been sitting and lying down all day.
Dr. Bailey.
Holding a child. If I wanted to spend the day holding a child, I would have stayed home to hold my own child. I didn't do a single medical thing today. I didn't even put a band aid on a patient. I'm... I'm just tired. I'm done.
Are you gonna tell your husband?
What would I tell him?
That it's more than just cutting. Pedes is more than just cutting. And, what you did today was heroic, and you know it.
Ok. Maybe I'll tell him that.
[voiceover] To do our jobs, we have to believe defeat is not an option. That no matter how sick our patients get, there's hope for them. But even when our hopes give way to reality, and we finally have to surrender to the truth, it just means we've lost to today's battle, not tomorrow's war. Here's the thing about surrender, once you do it, actually give in, you forget why you were even fighting in the first place.
[voiceover] Remember when we were little and we would accidentally bite a kid on the playground. Our teachers would go, “Say you're sorry”, and we would say it, but we wouldn't mean it because the stupid kid we bit, totally deserved it. But as we get older, making amends isn't so simple. After the playground days are over you can't just say it, you have to mean it. Of course when you become a doctor, sorry is not a happy word. It either means you're dying and I can't help. Or it means this is really going to hurt.
I see that you're angry with me, and may be angry with your mother.
Don't do that! I'm not your friend, and I'm not your family. You don't get to call me into your office on personal business, and you don't get to speak to me this way right now. It's an abuse of power. I'm a resident. I work for you. You have to speak to me like I'm a resident. And for the record Chief, somebody had to stand up for that little girl, and I make no apologies for that.
You wanna just be a resident? Fine. Alright then. That woman is a victim of domestic violence. This hospital is supposed to be a safe place for her to come and tell her story. And as her doctors it is our job to help her. You did not do your job. Instead you further battered a battered woman.
What about the little girl!
Dr. Grey! You will stay away from that child. You will stay away from that family. You will not come within 100 feet of them. And if you do, you will be suspended from this hospital pending reevaluation of your emotional and mental fitness for residency.
Oh great, is this another heart to heart?
I know you don't like me, and you have every right not to like me, I have abused my power but now I'm here on your turf. What I need to say, what I need to say is, I saw what your mother was doing, I saw how neglected you were, I saw her drive your father off and I spent a lot of time beating myself up about that, but what does that do for you, nothing, nothing. I wasn't your advocate, I didn't fight for you, I never stood up for you. I let myself off the hook, I told myself I was young and didn't know any better, but I did know better, I wasn't much younger than you are now. I should've fought for you Meredith, like you fought for that child today. I told myself that I wasn't your father, that it wasn't my responsibility, that I was right not to but in, I let myself off the hook. You were helpless, you were a baby. A beautiful, smart, funny, little girl, and no one stood up for you. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.
Nice work today? Seriously?
I'm sorry?
'Run to my truck.' You've got O'Malley clipping bleeders and you're telling me to run to your truck.
You know what my truck looks like. O'Malley doesn't. And that- that run you took, it saved a guy's life.
Yeah, well, all day... all day you were teaching O'Malley and you ignored me.
O'Malley wants to be a trauma surgeon. You've already declared cardio. I didn't do anything wrong today. I treated you like I would anyone else.
No, not like anyone else. 'Take care now.' What is that? What are you, like, you know, happy now? What- what are you? You know, just a "choke 'em and forget 'em" kinda guy? [Owen hands her a card] "Hey there now. Take care now. Nice work, Yang." What is this?
It's my shrink. My shrink gave me these sentences. We, uh, we came up with them together. They're all 3-word sentences so I'd have something to say to you instead of the three words that are... that are killing me. The three words that you know I feel but I can't say them, because it would be cruel to say them because I am no good for you. I don't want to torture you. I don't want to look at you longingly when I know I can't be with you. So, yeah, I'm smiling and I'm saying 'take care now.' I'm letting you off the hook. I'm trying. I'm trying so hard to let you off the hook. I'm trying to make it right, what I did to you. Can't you see that? I'm just trying to make it right.
Take care now.
[voiceover] As doctors we can't undo our mistakes, and we rarely forgive ourselves for them, but it's a hazard of the trade. But as human beings we can always try to do better, to be better, to right a wrong even when it feels irreversible. Of course, "I'm sorry" doesn't always cut it. Maybe because we use it so many different ways: as a weapon, as an excuse. But when we are really sorry. When we use it right. When we mean it. When our actions say what words never can. When we get it right, "I'm sorry" is perfect. When we get it right, "I'm sorry" is redemption.
[excitedly] Big day. Biggest day of your life.
Don't do that. Don't do the peppy maid of honor thing. It's creepy.
[drops her facade] Really? Good. [looks at Meredith] Wait, is this, like the calm before the storm? Do you need me to drug you or shave off your eyebrows to numb you into submission?
We'll be out of here in plenty of time for the wedding.
Good. Then she won't have any excuses.
Excuse me?
This is the second time I've been Derek's best man. I have to come up with a toast, offer some words of wisdom. It's a lot of work. I don't want to have to be his best man a third time if you know what I mean.
So you came in here to threaten me?
I'm his best man. That's my job.
Alex.
Bailey says Shepherd found another tumor, in Izzie's brain. Did you hear?
I heard. Alex.
He doesn't think he's gonna get it out this time. I think... [crying] I think she's gonna die on me. I think she's really gonna die. Ugh! What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be getting ready for a wedding?
Well, that's what I came to talk to you about.
Today's the day my life begins. All my life I've been just me, just a smart-mouthed kid. Today I become a man. Today I become a husband. Today I become accountable to someone other than myself. Today I become accountable to you, to our future, to all the possibilities that our marriage has to offer. Together no matter what happens, I'll be ready. For anything. For everything. To take on life. To take on love. To take on the possibility and responsibility. Today Izzie Stevens, our life together begins. And I for one, can't wait.
You never know the biggest day of your life is the biggest day. Not until it's happening. You don't recognize the biggest day of your life, not until you're right in the middle of it. The day you commit to something or someone. The day you get your heart broken. The day you meet your soul mate. The day you realize there's not enough time, because you wanna live forever. Those are the biggest days. The perfect days. You know?
I bet you made a beautiful bride.
It was a beautiful day.
You put the scarf on. I told you, you don't need it. You look gorgeous without it.
He's right.
Go away now. Go away, I wanna be alone with my husband.
[Takes off her scarf, and kisses her forehead] My wife is hot! [Izzie giggles and smiles]
[voiceover] When something begins, you generally have no idea how it's going to end. The house you're going to sell becomes your home, the roommates you were forced to take in become your family and the one night stand you were determined to forget becomes the love of your life.
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