Break on Through

Season 2, Episode 15, Aired
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All the nurses at Seattle Grace Hospital go on strike, leaving the doctors to fend for themselves. George refuses to cross the picket line and finally joins the nurses on their strike while Alex, Cristina, Izzie and Meredith meet Bailey's stand-in: Dr. Sydney Heron, the complete opposite of Miranda Bailey. Izzie agrees to work on a difficult pregnancy case with Addison, while Cristina and Alex are in the pit attending to a young married woman with a real bad case of rash. Meredith happens on an old woman that she needs to intubate and then learns she was DNR.moreless
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  • Darn! This episode was awsome! (like every episode) I loved it!

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    By sunnekra, Nov 07, 2011 Report Abuse
    All the nurses goes to strike. That makes big problems fot the interns and doctors. Meredith saves a old woman, but have to plug out the 'breathing machine', because the old woman wanted to die. She cries a lot after that. Derek see Meredith run into a room, crying. He follows her. He helps her. Meredith cries on Dereks shoulder. They almost kiss...
    After Baily left, the interns got a stand-in: Dr. Cindy Aaron, the complete opposite of Dr. Baily. Christina and Dr. Aaron have a fight. Dr. Aaron wants Christina to be more like Alex. The hole situation ends out to be a little bit imberising...
    Izzie tells her patient a secret: when she was 16, she got a daughter to.....moreless

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  • Another great episode

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    By attilasd, Dec 24, 2010 Report Abuse
    George deciding to join the strike was stupid. I think it was obnoxious of the picketers to throw food at the doctors for actually going to the hospital. Do they just expect the interns to leave the hospital even more short-staffed at the cost of people's lives?!

    The old ladies were funny.

    Sydney was just irritating. How could she not see through Alex's fake sympathy for the patient?!

    It is not at all fair to Addison that he still has feelings for Meredith. I really wanted Addison to walk in when Derek was consoling Meredith, because the longer the marriage is dragged out, the more painful it will be for Addison in the end.moreless

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  • With the nurses on strike, the doctors of Seattle Grace are left to fend for themselves. The interns new resident is the anti Baily, something that concerns Cristina. Meredith intubates a patient who is DNR, much to the disgust of her patient's friends.moreless

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    By Steph__x, Sep 06, 2010 Report Abuse
    A really great episode. Had everything I love about Grey's, humor, tearjerker scenes and drama! Always gets me in the scene where Meredith is crying in the supply closet and Derek comes to comfort her, really sad. Also another insight into Izzy's former life before she was a doctor.
    Loved the three old ladies, Grace's friends. Hilarious when they were flirting with the chief. Also enjoyed Georges determination not to cross the picket line, and the overly perky Dr Herron, the anti Bailey!
    Also laughed during Burke's speech to Cristina at the end "I AM PRESTON BURKE!"
    Another great installment of Grey's, as per usual!moreless

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  • Union !

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    By vukcevic, Sep 06, 2010 Report Abuse
    Nurses go on strike and line shound't be crossed. They are having substitute for Bailey and it is Sydney Heron a complete opposite to Bailey.
    Claire had a honeymoon and she stepped on some oyster and rash is spreading extremly fast on her leg and it is actually flesh eating bacteria. Sydney saved her and Alex but Cristina had a massive fight with both of them.
    Grace was DNR and Meredith didn't know that and she saved her but she reminded of her mother and when she finally died she started crying.
    Cheyenne is pregnant teenage girl from place where Izzie grew up and Izzie tells her one of the darkest secrets.
    Amazing and heartbreaking episode !moreless

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  • Icry everytime I watch it.

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    By charmedn06, Sep 06, 2010 Report Abuse
    I love this episode so much. I cry everytime I watch Grace die. My grandfather died a couple of months ago that way, so everytime i see the way that they are around her and comforting her, I just cant help but cry. The way that they did the camera angle, made the scene that much greater And the way that Mer is in the closet with Derick, and how she says that she doesn\'t want her mother to die alone, is a very touching and emotional scene. The whole episode is just so good, and i cant help but watch it.moreless

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    • Izzie reveals that she is a mother to Hannah (Sarah as Izzie likes her). Hannah is 11 and Izzie says that she knew she needed more than she could give at 16 - that makes Izzie 27. Edit
    • Goof: Izzie reveals that her hometown is Chehalis, Washington. She pronounces it "Cheh-hay-less" and it is actually pronounced "Sheh-hay-less". Edit
    • Goof: When Derek is in the closet with Meredith, he gives her a bag to breathe into. The bag has an orange sticker on one side. In one shot, you see the sticker on her right, and in the next shot it disappears. Then it reappears on the her left side. Edit

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    • Original International Air Dates: Bulgaria: July 12, 2006 on bTV Australia: August 7, 2006 on Channel 7 UK: November 2, 2006 on Living TV. Sweden: November 14, 2006 on Kanal 5 Germany: January 2, 2007 on PRO7 Croatia: February 12, 2007 on Nova TV Finland: February 14, 2007 on Nelonen Italy: April 6, 2007 on Italia 1 Ireland: June 12, 2007 on RTE Two Romania: June 19, 2007 on TVR1 Edit
    • Music Featured In This Episode: 1. Big Big World (TNT Big Phat Mix) by Emilia - crossing the picket line. 2. Just In Case by Leeroy Stagger 3. Sailed On by Landon Pigg 4. Scratch by Kendall Payne 5. Someone to Love by Kate Earl - when Dr. Burke tells Cristina he now knows why attendings don't date interns. 6. The Suggestion Box by Aqueduct 7. Wanna Fly by Vassy - when Meredith is talking to Dr. Webber about visitng her mother. 8. Second Chance by shinedown - when Meredith is calling time of death. Edit
    • Although credited, Chandra Wilson (Dr. Bailey) didn't appear. Not only it's the first time she doesn't appear in an episode. It's also the first time a regular actor doesn't. Edit

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    • Cheyenne: If I give up my baby, do I still get to name her? Izzie: You can name her for yourself. Cheyenne: Did you name yours? Izzie: Yeah. (pauses) Sarah. Cheyenne: (smiles) That's a pretty name. Izzie: Yeah. Edit
    • Richard: So where do I find the spare change? It's not like whatever's hiding underneath the couch cushions is gonna do it. Patrica: Well I seemed to remember pushing through paperwork for a multi-million dollar surgery robot. Richard: There was a two-year waiting list for that. It will bring a huge business. Patrica: And could you and the robot handle that business without nurses? Edit
    • Cristina: She's with Alex. I can't do this in front of Alex. Burke: Well, you can and you will. Cristina: Uh, excuse me, why aren't you apologizing? Burke: I'm, I'm an attending. I don't apologize to residents. You on the other hand are an intern. Cristina (walks up to Sydney): Sydney I just wanted to ... (she glances briefly at Alex who looks very smug and straining to hear what she has to say) ah Just wanted to ah to ... (very quietly) apologize for you know overstepping, I'm sorry. Sydney: Now that's the compassion I was looking for. Apology accepted. Okay, you wanna hug it out? (she holds out her arms) Cristina: Oh. Alex: Go. Go hug. Edit

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    • Cheyenne (reading aloud from a book): Sir, fare you well. Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. Cheyenne is reading from Shakespeare's play As You Like It. Edit
    • Episode Title: Break On Through This is also the title of the song by The Doors released in 1967 on their first album The Doors. Edit

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