Grey's Anatomy · Season 8
Aw, Karev. Is this hard for you, having to beg for interviews while some of us just sit back and get wooed?
No one is begging.
Oh, yeah, maybe you should. Maybe that way, you'd actually get an interview.
Ha! I love mean Kepner.
I got an interview.
Oh, really, where?
At... places.
[voiceover] It's one of those things people say. You can’t move on until you let go of with the past. Letting go is the easy part, it's the moving on that's painful. So sometimes we fight it, trying to keep things the same. Things can't stay the same though. At some point you just have to let it go. Move on. Because no matter how painful it is. It's the only way we grow.
[voiceover] Picture this, you've spent the past five years of your residency training to become a surgeon. But those five years, suddenly don't matter. The only thing that matters, the only thing between you and your career is a test. In a random hotel, in a random place with a random examiner asking you random questions. Nervous? You should be.
They hate each other.
They are professionals, they'll be fine...
No, it's awful, it's tense and it's cold and it's dangerous. It feels like diffusing a bomb...in a haunted house...that's built on a mine field, and there are bears...EVERYWHERE...and, the bears have knives!
Owen slept with someone.
Yeah.
Did you know it?
Yeah.
Does everyone know?
No. He thought you've told me, so he told me. Anyway that's how I know.
OK.
He is a pig and you deserve better. Are you still there?
Yeah. I'm still here
Well he is my husband. This is a marriage.
OK.
Oh I wanna leave him.
OK.
So that means I'm gone.
So you are gonna take the job at Stanford?
Or Columbia.
You'll be leaving me too.
You might go to the Bringham.
Probably not.
Maybe. Yeah I'll leave you too... There're phones you know.
Oh, you hate the phone.
I know I do. But I mean I don't have to like it.
Put your hand under the door.
What?
Just do it.
[voiceover] Kindergarten. High school. College. Med School. Residency. That all leads to this moment. Some people can crack under the pressure others thrive. Either way there's nothing left to do. No more studying no more preparing. Like it or not the moment has arrived. The only thing left you to do is show up.
[voiceover] Carpe diem. How annoying is carpe diem? How are you supposed to plan a life? A career? A family? If you're always "carpe"-ing the "diem"? If we all seized every moment of every day, there wouldn't be doctors. Who'd sit through med school? We'd all be too busy living in the now, whatever that means.
What the hell were you thinking?
Dude...
You're an idiot. You should have called me. I mean, w-why didn't you call me?! I'm a doctor what do you think I do all day long?! Instead you go to some quack in Tibet? I mean, you should have freaking called me!
Naturopathy works too, Flagstaff.
Woah! It's not Flagstaff! And it's not Phoenix and it's not Tempe it is Arizona Robbins, M.D. do you know what that means?
How do you spell it?
It's not funny Nick! Nothing is funny. You're dying! And you know what hell it was when Tim died because you were there, and-and you and I barely made it through that so to do nothing for six years and then come when it's too late I-I-
Why do you think I didn't come to you sooner? Honestly after Tim died, I could...You think I don't know how this must feel for you?
You're an idiot! I couldn't have helped him! But I could have helped you! [storms out]
Oh, hey.
Hey.
Thanks, uh, for today. For-- For letting me, uh...
You did a good job in there.
Thanks.
You okay?
I love you. Oh, G-- Oh, my God. That just came... fly-flying out of my face, like it was s-s-some kind of-- I-I l... I love you. I just-- God! Did it again! [laughs] I... I-I-I-I love you. I-I do. I just-- I-I love you. And I have been trying not to say it. I have been trying so hard to just mash it down and ignore it and not say it. And Jackson is a great guy. He-he is, and he... he's gorgeous, and-and he's younger than you, and he doesn't have any grandkids or-or babies with his lesbian BFFs and he's an Avery, and-and he liked me, you know? He... he really liked me. But it was never gonna work out because I-I love you. I am so in love with you. And you're-you're... you're in me. It's-- You're like... it's-- It's like you're a disease. It's like I am infected by Mark Sloan. [laughs] And I just can't... [voice breaking] I can't think about anything or anybody, and I can't sleep. [crying] I can't breathe. I can't eat. And I love you. I just... I love you all the time, just every minute of every day. And I-I-I... I-I... love you. God, that feels good, just to-to say that... to... I am... I feel so much better. Just... I love you.
You seem awfully sure of yourself
I'm sorry. Is that a question?
You feel threatened?
Oh. Have we moved into psychology?
I find your hostility curious.
I'm curious as to why you think me hostile.
You know, if you don't agree with my approach I wish you'd voice your issues.
I don't disagree.
I don't believe you.
Are you calling me a liar, sir? Fine. You know what? Earlier when I said I was OK with that open procedure I wasn't. That might have been OK when Hawkeye and BJ did it on MASH. But being the new century and all, I would have, as I said earlier, treated endoscopically.
Then you lied earlier.
You know. Oh God. I can answer these questions any way you want using medical techniques from any era. So how about if we just... You know pick a decade you are comfortable with and go from there.
Well then. It's been a pleasure being witness to such a genius. I can now finally retire knowing that such advanced and creative minds work in the surgical field.
That's it?
Oh I think we've had enough of an education today Dr. Yang.
But... there still twenty minutes.
No need. Oh... best of luck.
[voiceover]: I'll admit the Romans had a point. You gotta to live life. And living means that every morning when you wake up you have to chose between seizing what life offers in the moment and forging ahead, no matter the weather or closing the curtains and shutting out the day.
[voiceover]: So there is this bird, some sort of swallow I think. Every September thousand of them ditch rainy Seattle to winter in Mexico. These birds aren't dumb. And every year crowds of people gather around to drink beer and watch the flocks take off. They call it the Great Migration.
Hopkins!
Uh, Hopkins is not in the running.
Not for you, for me! Hopkins! Hopkins wants me, HOPKINS WANTS ME!
Johns Hopkins? The hospital? Not Hopkins Refrigeration School?
[at the same time] Alex, how?
I kind of bitched out their Chief of Surgery at my boards and I-I guess he was impressed.
So they know you're a jerk.
They totally know, And they want me. Hopkins wants me!
[smiling] I am not surprised at all.
I am one-hundred percent surprised.
[Alex looks at Cristina and turns around preparing to leave]
Hey.
[Alex turns back]
[gives Karev a hug] Nice work, Evil Spawn.
[Smiles and turns and walks away happily] Yes! Hopkins!
How's Julia? You impregnate her yet?
I was all ready to, but then Lexie... she told me she was in love with me.
Oh... What did you say?
I said "Thank you for your candor."
"Thank you for your candor"?
What was I supposed to do?
Well, I don't know, kiss her?
Julia's away on a conference, I'm not a cheater. [Derek gives him a look] Usually.
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