Grey's Anatomy Season 3 Episode 14

Meredith (closing voiceover): When the patient's body has failed them and all the science we have to offer has failed them, when the worst case scenario comes true, clinging to hope is all we've got left.

Ellis: Did I have a breakdown? I must have had a nervous breakdown. Is this a hospital? Because I can't remember anything for the past few months. The last thing I remember is the fight we had.. And listen, if you don't want to go to medical school, that is fine. It is your life. Just take me home.
Meredith: I went to medical school.
Ellis: I want to go home, Meredith. I need to go home.
Meredith: You are home. I went to Europe five years ago. You got sick. You have Alzheimer's. This is your home. You live here now.
Ellis: Noooooo!

Richard: I heard you're having surgery tomorrow.
Ellis: Do you...(pause) Do I know who Meredith is? Do I at least recognize Meredith?
Richard: You know she is someone important... Someone who loved you.
Ellis: You'll look out for her... Because she's got so much more to learn and I won't be able to teach her.
Richard: I'll look out for her.
Ellis: I wish I could go back... I'd do everything so differently, I'd fight harder for you, I think if I'd fight harder for you maybe... (Richard walks over and sits next to Ellis)
Richard: We would've have had a wonderful life together Ellis.
Ellis: You think so?
Richard: I do, we would have done our fellowship year, and then you would have fought me for chief and probably won (laughs) and, I wouldn't have minded, because we'd have kids and all.
Ellis: We have kids?
Richard: Meredith would have needed a brother and sister (pause) kids need family.
Ellis: We would have been a family.
Richard: Probably bought that big house on Parker, the one with the barn... Yeah that's a good place for a family.
Ellis (crying): And I would have been happy, just like Meredith says she's happy and that would have... changed everything... Maybe (sobs) I would be fine and we could grow all together and life would be so perfectly ordinary.
Richard: Yeah. (Ellis is crying. They hold hands)
Ellis: My life is so unfinished, it's unfinished, and I'm not finished.
Richard: No, no, Ellis, don't think that just close your eyes and think of the family... of the house.
Ellis: And you there every night to come home to. Richard: And me there... I'm there.

(During sex)
Mark: I thought you said you didn't think about me?
Addison: I don't. I'm actively not thinking about you. Right. Now.

Meredith: The reason that I want you to have the surgery is because I have this hope, that in a year, two years or five, they're gonna have a breakthrough. They're gonna find a cure for Alzhiemer's, and you and I will have another chance. To get to know each other. You'll get a chance to know me, to see that I am not even remotely ordinary, so I wish you would have the surgery. But it's up to you Mom, it's your life.
Ellis: You remind me of my daughter. (Meredith realizes that her mother is not lucid anymore and tears well up in her eyes)
Richard: About an hour ago. One minute she was here, the next... I'm so sorry.
Meredith: Me too. (sighs and leaves)

Cristina: I don't do rings. Don't expect me to suddenly change. I'm a surgeon, just like you. And we'll have money, we can hire a wife.
Burke: Are you saying yes?
Cristina: Y-yeah.
Burke: I'm not letting you scrub in tomorrow.
Cristina: Well, I'm not wearing a ring.
Burke: Okay.
Cristina: Okay then.
Burke: Yes! (Cristina laughs as Burke hugs her in joy)

Derek: How come we do all the work and he gets all the glory?
Addison: Because he's Mark.

Meredith: How's George?
Izzie: Medically he's fine, emotionally he's a little stunted if you ask me. You don't marry the rebound girl. Am I right?
Cristina: You don't marry anyone on a whim.
Meredith: No, he needs our support.
Izzie: He doesn't need us, he's got his Vegas show-wife.
Cristina: Oh!

Callie: Okay, you're gonna live. (walks away)
George: Callie, wait. (Callie walks back over towards him) I was a little bit heroic in there. I thought you'd be proud of me.
Callie: Proud? You were poisoned, and you thought it was about me.
George: It felt like an anxiety attack.
Callie: About me! You see, we were fine when we were in our Vegas bubble. When-- when it was just room service, and pay cable, and us it was bliss. But you get around your weird and judgey friends for one day and you're racked with uncertainty. Toxic gas level uncertainty. I guess it was too much to hope that you would just stand up for me.
George: Cal --
Callie: And my middle name is Iphigenia, okay? I can't wait to hear what your pals have to say about that. (walks away)

Richard: Your mother stopped for five years, and you became somethin'.
Meredith: According to her, I didn't. According to her, I'm a disappointment.
Richard: In a perfect world, she'd be able to tell you that she was proud of 'ya. But it's not a perfect world and your mother's not a perfect woman.
Meredith: I think the person that she'd most like to see right now is you.
Richard: The only thing that your mother wants to hear from me is that I regret staying with Adele. The only gift that I can give to her. And I can't tell her that, it's not true.

Ellis: You're good. Sharp under pressure. You'll make an extrodinary surgeon.
Cristina (long pause): Dr. Grey, I have to ask you. Will it get in my way? Can I have both? Can I be a great surgeon and have a life? Because there's this man who just asked me to marry him and I know you tried to have both but, you split up with Meredith's dad. I know this is none of my business, but --
Ellis: It is none of your business. (pause) And I didn't try hard enough.
Cristina: Thank you.

Izzie: Stolen, non-emergent ER cases, and sick hospital staff. This is what 8 million dollars buys you.
Bailey: Dr. Stevens, I swear on my life if I hear you say 8 million dollars one more time...
Izzie: It's not about the money -- it's -- it's Denny, it's his legacy, I was looking for meaning, this is supposed to be meaningful.
Bailey: It will be meaningful.
Izzie: Oh, yeah? 8 million dollars worth?

George: I need to lay down.
Izzie: Whoa, whoa. Hey, hey, buster, do you know how must it costs to -- (George lays down on one of the beds) -- have these linens laundered?
George: I'm sick. Shakey, sweaty, my mouth is dry, my body aches...
Izzie (annoyed): Fine.

Derek: I just took a special interest in this case ... because of Meredith.
Ellis: You're what happened to her.
Derek: I'm sorry ---
Ellis: I thought you were here for me, to offer me some hope. To tell me about some new treatment, but you're here for her. An attending, a neurosurgeon, no wonder she's so unfocused.
Derek: I don't think you understand, I --
Ellis: Oh, I understand. I understand perfectly. I've seen men like you before, threatened by a woman who's their equal. You just want someone to admire you. You don't care about the damage you do to her along the way.

(George is breathing hard and sweating)
Callie: Hey...are you okay? You're sweating. (she goes to feel his temperature with her hand and he bats it away)
George: What's--what's your middle name?
Callie: It's bad. I don't tell anyone.
George: Come on, we're married, and I don't even know your middle name.
Callie: Okay, I knew it. It's your weird and judgey friends, you let them get to you.
George: It's just that I don't-- I--I don't know your middle name. God, I can't--I can barely breathe.
Callie: You know what? You didn't know my middle name last week and you could breathe just fine. (pushes him)

Meredith: She's charming, she's fabulous, and suddenly she's the enemy.
Derek: I'm meeting the enemy?
Meredith: Just don't get personal.
Derek: You're being ridiculous.
Meredith: I'm not being ridiculous.
Derek: Okay, it's gonna be fine.
Meredith: Just be careful. She has ways.

Meredith: I have a boyfriend.
Ellis: Does he understand the demands of your career? Because not all men do, they say the do up front but they...
Meredith: He's great. He's a doctor too, so he gets it.
Ellis: Good.
Meredith: He's actually ---
Ellis: Have you chosen a specialty?
Meredith: No. It's still early.
Ellis: Cristina has already chosen cardiothoracics.
Meredith; Yeah. Well, I guess that I'm just waiting to be inspired. I'm happy now. I feel like I know who I am...plus when you have someone in your life that you really love, I think that's ... I don't know. I just -- I'm really happy.
Ellis: What happened to you?
Meredith: What do you mean?
Ellis: You're happy? You're happy now? The Meredith I knew was a force of nature. Passionate, focused, a fighter. What happened to you? You've gone soft! Stammering about a boyfriend and say that you're waiting to be inspired. You're waiting for inspiration? Are you kidding me?! I have a disease for which there is no cure, I think that would be inspiration enough! Listen to me, Meredith. Anyone can fall in love and be blindly happy! But not everyone can pick up a scalpel and save a life. I raised you to be an extraordinary human being, so imagine my disappointment when I wake up after 5 years and discover that you are no more than ordinary! What happened to you?!

Cristina: Are you stealing patients from the ER?
Izzie: Yes. But only because I have to know that I did not spend my entire inheritance on an empty room with empty beds...because if I did that I might go crazy and George called dibs on all the crazy this week. Do you think that Callie's pregnant?

Cristina: Hey, Mer. I've been lookin' for you. Burke has me on your mom. Are you okay?
Meredith: I'm avoiding her. I'm avoiding the gift.
Cristina: Yeah, well, uh, your gift wants to meet Derek.
Meredith: What? What did you say?
Cristina: Not Derek your boyfriend. Dr. Shepherd, the neurosurgeon. She's gonna know that he's your boyfriend, anyway. She has ways. I'm kinda in love with her, by the way.
Meredith: She has that effect on people, that aren't her daughter.

Ellis: You and Meredith are good friends. I can tell...'cause you're afraid to look at me as if I'll ask you some personal question about her and you'll accidentally slip. But you don't do anything accidentally, do you? (Cristina smiles) Has Meredith chosen a specialty?
Cristina: That's ... a personal question.
Ellis: For surgeons that's the most personal question you can ask. It tells you who they are.
Cristina: My mother would want to know if I had a boyfriend.
Ellis: Your mother sounds like a frivolous woman. (Cristina goes back to doing her paperwork for a moment)
Cristina: If I chose cardiothoracics, what would that say about me?
Ellis: Heart surgeons are know-it-alls, they're the most ambitious, the most driven. They want it all and they want it now. And they don't want anything getting in their way.

Burke: You're still not wearing the ring. I've been waiting for an answer for over a week.
Cristina: I told you...it's under advisement.
Burke: Do you not like the ring?
Cristina: It's a ring. It's a three karat, diamond cut, platinum...it's thee ring.
Burke: Then what?
Cristina: Are you using the surgery tomorrow to pressure me into giving you an answer? Is that why I'm not scrubbing in?
Burke: I've got to give the other interns a chance.
Cristina: Why?

Callie: Okay, we've been out of our Vegas hotel room bubble for six hours and I don't like it.
George: It's gonna be fine. (kisses her) We're married.

Izzie: Okay, where is everybody?
Bailey: Grey will be late. O'Malley should be back from vacation...
Izzie: No, no, no. The patients. The under served, uninsured, population that we're supposed to be helping.
Bailey: The under served, uninsured will come. You'll see. Just watch the door, they will come through it.
Izzie: I can't wait. I can't wait for the first patient. It's gonna be amazing, it's gonna be amazing what Denny's money can do, right? (Izzie is tapping her fingers anxiously against the counter, Bailey puts her hand on Izzie's to stop her)
Bailey: Just watch the door, Stevens. (Izzie is focused on the door. Mark and Richard walk in, Izzie pays no attention to them and continues to watch the door)
Mark: Dr. Bailey, congratulations on the opening of clinic.
Richard: It is open...isn't it? (looks at Izzie who is still focused on the door) Is Stevens alright?
Bailey: She's watching the door, sir.

Bailey: Welcome to the Denny Duquette Memorial Clinic. Barring any surgical emergencies you'll be working here today.
Cristina (looking around): Working ... on what?
Bailey: Right now, Olivia will be familiarizing you on the protocol for the flu vaccine. (Alex is looking at some of the stuff in the clinic)
Izzie: Oh no, no, no ... don't, don't, don't touch that. That was seventy-nine dollars. (Izzie walks away)
Cristina: Oh my god, I have got to get out of here.

George: People, you're supposed to be my friends. My closest friends. Callie is a big- She's the most important part of my life now. If you wanna drive her away, and you're masters of it, you'll do it. But if she's gone, I'm gone. She's my wife. Calliope Iphigenia Torres is my wife. (sees that Izzie is going to make a snarky remark) Don't you dare.
Izzie: Okay.

George (about the patient): She's toxic.
Olivia: Callie? Yeah, a lot of us feel that way.

Izzie (walks in the room): What's going on?
Meredith: The chief figured out the anesthesiologist didn't have time to drop an NG tube, so now they have to place one and decompress, and replace her intestines, and close, and they're about to run out of air.
Izzie: Holy crap. This so beats tampon training.

Izzie (taking a deep breath): This is a maxi pad, heavy flow days; mini pad, pretty self explanatory. Just peel the label, and stick it. (demonstrates) And the tampon we've already gone over. So... are we clear on everything? (Kellie glares at Izzie) Kelley, I understand that you're a little mortified that your dad dragged you in here, but can you just talk, or nod, or something?
Kellie: I get it okay?
Izzie (under her breath): Great.

Meredith: I am not sure refusing treatment is what you want to do.
Ellis: Apparently what I want doesn't matter it isn't even legally binding so it's really about what you want Meredith. You're in charge.
Meredith: Do you think I like making these decisions for you. Do you think its fun getting calls from the nursing home asking whether I was planing on giving the nurse who changes you every morning a Christmas tip, but I do it, because you have managed to alienate everybody else in your life, and I am the only one. So I have to step up and do it. You wanna know why I am so unfocused, so ordinary, you wanna know what happened to me, you, you happened to me.
Ellis: Then let me refuse the heart surgery.
Meredith: No!
Ellis: Why not?
Meredith: Because killing my mother is not going to be another thing that happens to me.

(Callie catches Addison staring at Alex as he walked by)
Callie: Uh, you know those cartoons where there's a bear or whatever and it's starving. And it looks at a table and the table turns into this delicious cooked turkey with like lines of delciousness coming off it.
Addison: I was not looking at him like that because he is the help and I am not going to be sleeping with the help.
Callie: I married the help.
Addison: What?
Callie: We went to Vegas. My idea. I embrace the trashy.
Addison: That's -- not that I'm not happy for you. But why - married - so fast?
Callie: You know those cartoons where there's a bear and it's starving, and it looks at a cute intern.
Addison: Well, congratulations. (they hug)
Callie: Thank you. (shows her the ring) It's small. I know it's small.
Addison: It's beautiful.
Callie: You think so?
Addison: Yes.

Meredith: You got married?
George: Yeah, I did. It was uh -- I know it was impulsive.
Meredith: Well, was it "good" impulsive or "Meredith" impulsive? Because if it was "Meredith" impulsive maybe I can help get you out of it.
George: No, no it's a good thing. It's good.
Meredith: Good.
George: But, uh, thanks for the back up.
Meredith: You're welcome. Congratulations, George.
George: Thank you.

Izzie (whispering to George): You know, it seems really very fast. Are--are you even happy?
Callie: We're incredibly happy.
Izzie: Oh, yay! Well, great! Yay!
Geroge: Show her the ring.
Izzie: Oh, that's so great. Tiny diamonds are great because you know no one will ever try to steal it.

George (excitedly): We got married in Vegas! We're married! (they are speechless)
Alex (laughing): Dude, she's Callie O'Malley.

Meredith (opening voiceover): As surgeons, we live in a world of worst-case scenarios. We cut ourselves off from hoping for the best because too many times, the best doesn't happen. But every now and then, something extraordinary occurs and suddenly best case scenarios seem possible. And every now and then, something amazing happens and against our better judgement we start to have hope.

George: She's toxic, her blood was toxic, it's not our marriage.
Callie: You thought our marriage was toxic?

(After Burke and Derek pass out in surgery because of loss of air)
Cristina (watching in the gallery with Izzie and Meredith): Well that's not good.