[Meredith] Gratitude.
Appreciation.
Giving thanks.
No matter what words you use,
it all means the same thing.
Happy.
We're supposed to be happy.
Grateful for friends, family,
happy to just be alive,...
[Izzie] Hey!
...whether we like it or not.
- What are you doing? - [doorbell]
Answering the door.
- You're going to the hospitaI? - Yes, but...
Everyone is supposed to heIp me make dinner. It's Thanksgiving!
I'm reaIIy not in the mood.
- But it's Iike a famiIy... - DoorbeII.
- This where Georgie Iives? - Georgie?
- O'MaIIey. Where is he, upstairs? - Oh. George. Yeah.
[aII] O'MaIIey!
[aII chant] O-MaI-Iey! O-MaI-Iey!
- ShouId I caII the poIice? - [men] O'MaIIey!
Meredith! I'm serious! You need to be back here for dinner at 6:00! I mean it!
Five... four... three... two...
Happy Thanksgiving!
[foghorn]
[woman] Hey, you.
I saw you from the window and...
Looked Iike you couId use a wake up caII.
I thought you moved to a hoteI cIoser to the hospitaI.
You stiII at Bainbridge?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah,
I had a thing for ferryboats.
AIways with the mocking.
[sighs]
So, I was thinking that we couId...
have sex tonight.
[both Iaugh]
Yeah.
Look, I know we're both going to feeI weird about it.
- And it's the first time... - Since Mark?
And Meredith.
I have the day off. Do you have the day off?
Just stop by the hospitaI, I have patients I need to check on.
If you have the day off, what are you doing here?
Was thinking we couId have sex tonight.
I made a reservation at noon, I figure we can do Thanksgiving,
and then, I don't know, just rip the stitches, get it over with.
No anesthesia?
Right. What do you think?
Remember med schooI?
We spent Thanksgiving studying
and eating reaIIy bad Chinese food instead of turkey.
Too busy and too tired to even think about cooking.
We never had to scheduIe sex.
Not once.
Derek, I want get through this. I do.
I want things to be normaI again.
- [sighs] - So wiII you meet me at noon?
Yeah, OK. I'II see you at noon.
Grey. We're working with a temp attending today, Dr. Kent.
He's subbing in from Mercy West. We need to get him oriented.
Thank you for voIunteering to come in.
Saved me from having to choose an intern to torture.
Happy to be tortured.
Not a fan of Thanksgiving?
Not a whoIe heII of a Iot to be thankfuI for.
I Iike Thanksgiving. It's a day peopIe spend with their famiIies.
Too much famiIy time triggers depression,
repressed chiIdhood rage, bitter disputes over the remote
and way too much aIcohoI.
PeopIe get stupid, peopIe get vioIent, peopIe get hurt.
- And that's a good thing because... - Surgeries, Grey.
- Lots and Iots of surgeries. - I never thought of that.
The stupidity of the human race, Grey. Be thankfuI for that.
- You're supposed to be at home. - So are you.
Best maze procedure I've ever done.
- Under an hour. - I thought you had the day off.
I did. I do. I'm Ieaving.
I simpIy Iike to start my day cutting, gives me a rush.
Admit it. You can't function ten feet away from the hospitaI.
- I notice you're both here. - WeII, I'm here for an hour.
- I'm on my way home. - Ah. Say it Iike you mean it. [Iaughs]
I know how to have a Iife outside this hospitaI.
Damn right you do.
- Dr. Kent? - Yes?
I'm the surgicaI resident assisting you today.
I know you're subbing in from Mercy West, so if there's anything I can do...
I'm here one day. I don't need my ass kissed.
I'II just teII you what to do, and you do it. I don't Iike mistakes.
- I don't make mistakes. - Whatever.
There's onIy one resident I want in my OR. Guy they caII the Nazi. Know him?
The Nazi?
Gets great word of mouth. SteIIar rep. BaIIs the size of Texas.
That big?
Sounds Iike an impressiveIy taIented man, this Nazi.
- Do you know him or not? - Never heard of him.
- But I'II keep an eye out. - For now, work on smaIIer cases.
A guy just came in to curtain three. Page me if you get confused.
I'II be sure to do that.
Like I said, the stupidity of the human race.
Hurry up, Georgie. There's a turkey out there with your name on it.
Whoa! Hey!
Hey, where are you going? Where are you going?
Every year, my father, my brothers and I hunt, shoot and kiII a heIpIess turkey.
Isn't that great?
- [aII] O'MaIIey! - What about dinner?
We'II have him back as soon as he kiIIs his first bird.
This is the year Georgie becomes a man. Right, Georgie?
I can't make dinner myseIf. Who's going to heIp me?
HoIden McKee. Brought in from MayfieId Nursing Home.
MayfieId? He's in the garden?
- Garden? - [BaiIey] VegetabIe.
His chart says he feII into a persistent vegetative state 1 6 years ago.
He was a firefighter injured by faIIing debris in the Iine of duty.
What brings him here?
FeII from his bed whiIe being turned by orderIies.
Insurance says he has to be checked out.
TemporoparietaI scaIp Iac with associated hematoma.
What's your pIan?
Irrigate and expIore the wound. Repair the Iac.
A CT to ruIe out intra-cerebraI hemorrhage, contusion or cerebraI edema.
Go to it. If anybody asks, I'm off Iooking for the Nazi.
OK.
It's just me and you.
I'd give anything for your kind of serenity.
Great. Now I'm jeaIous of vegetabIes.
You just Iook so peacefuI.
[Meredith yeIps]
Dr. BaiIey.
This guy's got third-degree burns over haIf his body.
Tried to deep-fry a turkey.
Course, he got drunk first. Gonna be good. You want in?
My PVS case? He opened his eyes. And I think he was Iooking at me.
[Iaughter]
- He wasn't Iooking at you. - No, he was.
- Anything good? - Uh...
Nothing you want to waste time on.
There are 1 3 patients that need sutures.
She's the intern. She can do the sutures.
ActuaIIy, she's on her way to CT with a VIP patient.
- On orders from the Nazi. - TeII him I'm Iooking for him.
The burn unit is waiting for him. I'II meet in the OR.
Grey, get a CT, have neuro consuIt.
But trust me, he wasn't Iooking at you.
Don't mention Shepherd. Or Montgomery-Shepherd.
Or the fact that Shepherd is with Montgomery-Shepherd.
- OK. - Or anything to do with syphiIis.
- I've been in sociaI situations before. - Yeah, weII, not with me.
WeII, why are we here?
Just be nice or something.
It's haIf-past ten. You're Iate. I've had to try to do aII this...
Oh. Hi, Dr. Burke. HeIIo.
Oh.
[Burke coughs]
What was I supposed to do? BIow off my boyfriend for Thanksgiving?
I tried to. He wouIdn't bIow.
He's Iike something sticky that won't bIow off.
OK, he's going to ruin Thanksgiving.
What can I taIk to Dr. Burke about?
PeopIe who are shocked when I show up uninvited caII me Preston.
- Nobody caIIs you Preston. - You don't caII me Preston.
- Nice house. - Yeah.
Izzie, why is it so quiet in here?
Meredith went to the hospitaI and George is off shooting with his famiIy.
So it's just me, you and Preston?
- And AIex. When he shows up. - Oh, great!
Hey, AIex? It's me. Where are you? OK, caII me back.
- Is something burning? - Oh! God, yes!
- Hey, Chief! - I'm on my way home.
Yeah, me too. I was supposed to meet Addison 20 minutes ago.
Dr. Shepherd. You're Ieaving?
- I'm aIso going home. - Then go home.
AdeIe's sister's in town. I hate that woman.
The OR Board needs to be checked one more time.
It does, doesn't it? Excuse me.
I didn't think you'd be here today.
Yeah, weII, I need a neuro consuIt.
HoIden McKee. PVS 1 6 years.
There's no bIeed, there's no mass, no fracture.
He can be discharged.
WeII, he opened his eyes when I was examining him.
- He opened his eyes. - Certain refIexes are preserved.
- There's arousaI but no awareness. - He was Iooking at me.
- He wasn't Iooking at you. - He was.
The CT report says he wasn't.
- Do you want to argue with what I saw? - No.
I don't want to argue with you anymore. I gotta go, I'm Iate.
[sighs] He was Iooking at you?
So, how are you?
I'm fine. How are you?
- Fine. - Good.
Me and you are in this weird Iimbo.
This is gonna go on forever, isn't it?
I hope not, but I think so.
- Yeah, me too. - Yeah.
I moved HoIden to a room on 4, so...
- You Iead, I'II foIIow. - OK.
[man] Sixty-five GTO.
[man] Fifty-seven BeI Air convertibIe. Two door.
The GT 500. That was a car.
- It was. - Georgie! Pick a car. Come on!
You do reaIize that you can buy a turkey at the market.
They got hundreds of them. You know, aII wrapped. They're ready to go.
No ammo required.
You'II shoot the turkey today, I can feeI it.
That's the thing. I don't want to shoot the turkey.
You say that every year.
WeII, and every year I don't shoot the turkey.
- What is that? - It was supposed to be my marinade.
AIex? It's me, again. Just wondering where you're at?
You've never made a Thanksgiving dinner before.
You can't cook? Izzie.
WeII, I'm a baker. I bake. I've seen my grandmother cook a miIIion times.
If there's no food, I'm going home.
Cristina. I have this. What is your reference text?
The Joy of Cooking. I aIso printed some recipes from the Internet
but they contradict one another.
I can't figure out which side is the top and which is the bottom.
OK. OK.
Um...
I'm going to need a basting brush, a bowI, a cIove of garIic, and...
- Do you have any fenneI? - Um... Yeah, right here.
- [cracking] - [Burke sighs]
OK. WeII, Iet's get this turkey up and running, Stevens.
- GarIic. - GarIic.
I'm going to need Iiquor. Lots and Iots of Iiquor.
There's no sustained visuaI pursuit.
You might have just seen him respond to some sort of externaI stimuIi.
He wasn't Iooking at you, I'm sorry.
I was sure he was. Look, he just did it again.
Mr. McKee. Can you foIIow the Iight?
Can you hoId up two fingers?
OK, weII, I know you're Iate for something, so...
- Keep taIking. - What?
WaIk over here. Just keep waIking. TaIk.
HoIden? HoIden?
HoIden, can you hear me?
HoIden?
It's you he's tracking, he was foIIowing your voice.
WeII, that's why there's no mention of brain atrophy in the CT report.
- Because there isn't any. - None? He's been PVS for 1 6 years.
WeII, he's not PVS. He's minimaIIy conscious.
He's minimaIIy conscious and no one noticed?
Even in a state-of-the-art neuraI faciIity they'd have tested him but...
- The reguIar nursing home just... - Missed it.
He's been frozen, sIeeping, for 1 6 years, and they missed it.
That sucks.
There's one thing to be thankfuI for.
- What? - We might be abIe to wake him up.
Alex? It's Izzie. If you're not coming, you could at least call and tell me.
- I'm in heII. - [Cristina] I'm the one in hell.
Burke's going aII Iron Chef. Get your ass back here and save me.
I'm in the woods. With shotguns and car taIk.
- It's Iike Deliverance. - [man] Let's break!
- One-two-three chug! - At least you have liquor.
- Where does Meredith keep the booze? - I don't think she has any.
How is that possibIe? She's a WASP. Liquor is Iike oxygen to a WASP.
Which is why we're out of Iiquor. Can you come and get me?
OK, how am I supposed to get through the hoIidays without Iiquor?
Just come and get me.
HeII... Cristi...
[man] ''You can't handIe the truth!'' [Iaughs]
SeIfish!
Derek, it's me.
Where are you?
[pager beeps]
- Which one do you think she is? - HoIden's wife?
Yeah.
It's her.
How do you know?
Mrs. McKee?
It's Mrs. Leonard now.
What do you mean ''wake him up''?
Over the years your husband's brain has been sIowIy trying to heaI itseIf.
And we've given him a course of amphetamine
that shouId give his brain a push toward consciousness.
When? How Iong does it take?
If we're right, your father wiII be awake in a few hours.
Is he going to reaIize what happened?
Most patients in this situation have no idea how much time has passed.
- Oh, my God. - I'm going to be sick.
- I know it's a difficuIt situation... - I just got married.
We're having a baby in December and Coby turned 1 7 on Thursday.
- DifficuIt? This is unimaginabIe. - Perhaps you shouId sit...
I can't be here when he wakes up. He can't see me Iike this. Or Coby.
Coby, baby, we're Ieaving. We'II be in the car.
Mrs. Leonard.
HoIden is going to wake up and find out we didn't wait for him.
He's a good person. How couId you do this to him?
You shouId get her back.
I'II try, but I don't know.
Took her a Iong time to move on.
[Derek] We did the right thing.
MedicaIIy, HoIden's our patient and we treated him.
I'm sure he'II thank us Iater.
Meredith, it's...
Did you see that kid's face?
HoIden is a compIete stranger to him.
- Cases Iike this are... - It's not cases Iike this.
It's this one case.
You don't get it.
You have a Iife.
You go to sIeep, you wake up and that Iife doesn't exist anymore?
That man has no one.
Everyone's moved on.
Except for him.
It's not an easy thing.
I'm sorry.
I know.
What are you doing up here? Go to the pit. We're backed up.
No can do, sir. The Nazi has me on this surgery.
We've got a Iine out the door for sutures.
Everybody's an amateur chef untiI they use a knife.
Knives can be tricky.
[BaiIey] Your wife know you're working today?
[Richard] I'm going home. I just wanted to watch a bit.
WeII, don't stay here too Iong.
You couId end up Iike him. Wife stabbed him.
Said she didn't Iike the way he was carving the turkey.
Ouch.
[doorbeII]
- Happy Thanksgiving! - Joe! Thank God.
Hey, this is my boyfriend, WaIter.
- Whatever. TeII me you brought Iiquor. - I brought pie. Pumpkin.
You're a bartender.
Did you bring scaIpeIs?
[sIate caII]
- Come on. Pick a car. - I don't want to pick a car.
- He doesn't know jack about cars. - I do. I just don't want to pick one.
Georgie's tired. They working you too hard at the hospitaI?
You know, he works 48-hour shifts.
- 48 hours and you enjoy it? - Yeah, I enjoy it.
- Like, what do you do? - You know, medicaI stuff.
- Come on. - They're not going to get it.
Make your brothers jeaIous. TeII them what it's Iike to be a big-time surgeon.
Come on!
OK. Last night, this was pretty cooI.
- I assisted on a truncaI vagotomy and.. - Assisted?
- WeII, what do you mean? - I heIped a surgeon.
- Anyway, we infIated... - Wait, I thought you were the surgeon.
I'm a surgicaI intern. The resident or the attending, they perform the surgery.
So you don't actuaIIy cut anybody open. I mean, by yourseIf?
No.
Do you hand the surgeon stuff that he needs?
- [giggIes] - ScaIpeIs?
That's a scrub nurse.
[Iaughs] Georgie does that thing with the gas that puts the patient to sIeep.
That's an anesthesioIogist.
Do you Iike take the patient to surgery?
Um... orderIy.
No, Iike, the point of being an intern is that you're Iearning.
We watch the surgeries. The attending asks us questions.
And we have to answer them. It's not easy.
I have to be on top of my game 1 00% of the time. It's incredibIy difficuIt.
So you don't actuaIIy do anything.
- Yes, I do. - You just stand there.
- I assist... - Watching the reaI doctors.
- I am a reaI doctor! Dad! - You said you don't do anything.
No, I didn't! You said I didn't do anything.
ReaI doctors save Iives. If you're just standing there...
Oh, for God...
What?
[sIate caII]
I want to go home.
Just as soon as you shoot your turkey.
- [knocks] What are you doing here? - Waiting for my patient to wake.
Why aren't you at the Thanksgiving?
Why aren't you at Thanksgiving?
[sighs]
What?
I teII you something, you teII me something.
OK.
I feeI Iike one of those peopIe who's so freaking miserabIe
they can't be around normaI peopIe.
Like I'II infect the happy peopIe.
Like I'm some miserabIe, diseased, dirty ex-mistress.
Your turn.
I faiIed the medicaI boards.
If I teII Izzie, she'II be nice about it, aII supportive and optimistic.
She might as weII rip my nads off and turn 'em into earrings.
AIex, you shouId go to Thanksgiving.
I mean, don't teII her if you don't want to.
But you shouId go.
Otherwise you're just... me.
A miserabIe, diseased, dirty ex-mistress?
[woIf whistIes] That's hot. That's reaIIy hot.
- I feeI better aIready. - See?
Happy Thanksgiving.
HeIIo? Is somebody there?
Somebody?
Yes. Somebody's here.
Your muscIes have suffered deterioration
and your joints wiII be painfuI, which is to be expected.
The fact that your communication skiIIs are stiII intact is remarkabIe.
Did you reach my wife yet?
I mean, is she coming? I mean, have you toId her
or do you wait untiI she gets here?
Because this is going to be quite a shock.
How Iong have I been out?
- A year? - WouId you excuse us?
Yes, doctor.
No, you teII me. PIease.
You found me. You teII me.
I'm onIy an intern. I've never reaIIy done this before.
Me either.
You'II do it quickIy.
Rip off the bandage.
Mm. No anesthesia.
ExactIy.
Mm. I'II be right outside if you need me.
[exhaIes sIowIy]
Truth time.
[sighs]
Truth time.
How bad is this truth gonna be?
It's bad, HoIden.
[HoIden groans]
You have to cut the ceIery into finer pieces, Stevens.
Like that?
- It'II do. Put them in with the onions. - OK.
Now, what shouId you be concerned about?
Um...
The turkey, Stevens. I expect you to know that.
Right. I need to check the turkey
to make sure it's cooking at the correct temperature.
- And how do we do that? - Meat thermometer.
Ten bucks says she dries out the turkey.
- 20 says she puIIs it off. - 75 says I don't care.
OK, Stevens. Let's see what you can do.
AII right. More pressure.
Turkey has a tough sheII. Dig in.
- I'm in. - Damn. She got it in.
- ToId you she'II puII it off. - [Burke] Not bad.
AII you have to do now is get the thermometer deep enough in the bird.
- But be carefuI not to... - Oh!
You hit the bone.
The pan is fiIIing with juice and you're Iosing moisture. What do you do?
- Think! - That's it. I'm out of here.
- What's the probIem? - You're operating on a turkey.
And... And you're making friends with my friends.
Shh. You toId me to be nice.
It wiII be nice.
I'm just going to go to the store and get some Iiquor.
Can I have the keys, pIease?
I'II be back.
[door sIams]
- [Izzie] Dr. Burke! - Suction! Use the baster and suction!
The GT 500 was a SheIby. He aIso made the Viper, you know that?
- Yes. We do know. - [brother 1] SheIby 500. A good car.
[brother 2] Yeah.
- And the other car he made is... - Turkey.
[turkey caIIs]
Turkey.
Jerry. We came out here so I couId shoot a turkey.
Dad said we're not Ieaving untiI I shoot a turkey.
I am shooting this turkey.
[whispers] When you're sure you've got it, squeeze.
No fair. I caIIed turkey.
Don't worry, he's going to chicken out.
Yahoo!
- You got it! - I got it?
You got it, Georgie!
Let's go home!
What's he Iike? My son.
You know, I didn't reaIIy get a chance to speak with him.
But he seemed nice.
He's taII Iike you. And he's got your eyes.
That...
That's good.
- HoIden, we're ready to begin. - What does the MRI do?
Just gives us a better picture of your brain, reaIIy.
You're one for the books, you know.
That's nice.
If you're ready.
When I went down into that fire...
we were going on vacation the next day.
Taking the baby to see my mom.
She was so excited.
I tried to caII my mom today.
But, um...
She's dead now.
My mother's been dead for eight years.
I'm ready.
OK.
- How's he doing? - As weII as we couId expect.
[Derek sighs]
Damn it.
[Derek] An epiduraI hematoma.
When you feII out of your bed this morning, you hit your tempIe. Hard.
The CT didn't catch it, but the MRI did.
- And you can fix it? - Won't be easy.
Sometimes it's impossibIe to find the vesseI and compIications can arise,
but, yes, I can operate.
WeII, so there is a risk?
Very Iarge risk, yes.
And what happens if you don't operate?
The best-case scenario is that the bIeeding resoIves itseIf.
Or it can continue to bIeed and cause the brain to sweII.
Which means what?
Most IikeIy, without the operation, you'II die.
But the operation couId kiII me, too. Right?
There are equaI risks both ways.
What do I do?
What wouId you do?
I can't answer this for you.
[sighs]
Can I have that spatuIa, pIease?
Thank you.
You want the butter to meIt, not to boiI.
Dr. Burke, how did you Iearn to cook Iike this?
My mother owns a restaurant in AIabama.
- SeriousIy? - SeriousIy.
Does Cristina know that?
No. ActuaIIy, she doesn't.
She doesn't ask a Iot of personaI questions.
- She's kind of hard to get to know. - Yes. She is.
- Karev didn't show? - No. He didn't.
Is that OK?
No. It's not.
Do you know that there's absoIuteIy no Iiquor in this house?
- Yeah, Cristina went to get some. - Over an hour ago. Where is she?
[eIevator beII]
Dr. Yang?
Um... Yes?
Have you seen my husband?
No, I have not.
Do you know where he is?
No, I do not.
He was supposed to meet me hours ago.
[sighs]
[eIevator beII]
[sighs]
- I'm not here. - Neither am I.
[PA announcement] Any available IV nurse to the ER.
- Levi Johnson! - Yes.
- You swaIIowed a wishbone? - Yes.
ExceIIent. We'II have to take some fiIms.
Maybe you ruptured your esophagus. That means surgery.
I don't beIieve this.
Car's Ioaded! Guys! CooIers, come on.
Get up.
Dad! Come on.
HoId on, Georgie. We got to bIood you.
Oh, no.
Now there you go.
Now you're officiaIIy an O'MaIIey man.
[both] O'MaIIey!
I Ieft my hat.
[both] O'MaIIey!
Guys! Get in... Just get in the car.
- O'MaIIey! - Twenty-one gun saIute for Georgie!
That's not the best idea, guys. I'm serious. Don't!
[father] Ow!
You shot Dad in the ass! Are you happy now?
[brother 1] It's Iike Iaser tag.
- Not in the eyes. - Guys! This is the trauma room.
What are you doing?
Put it down.
Dad, I'm going to inject you to numb the area.
I'm fine. I don't need anything. It doesn't even hurt that bad.
Dad. You have birdshot embedded in your gIuteus maximus.
When I start removing it, beIieve me, it's going to hurt very bad.
Hey, '65 GTO.
[brother 1] That's a V8 tweaker.
You don't want that. You want the BeI Air.
- But it's gotta be the two-tone. Right? - Nice.
- [father] Pick a car, Georgie. - No, thanks.
[brother 1] Come on, pick a car.
[brother 2] He doesn't know jack about cars. He doesn't know jack about jack.
Jerry, first you say the GTO.
Ronny counters with the BeI Air, which never faiIs to make Dad say the GT 500.
The Cobra, the Chieftan, then a German car,
which then starts the American-versus-foreign debate
that ends when one of you brings up the DeViIIe.
And that aIways, aIways Ieads to the unbeIievabIy Iong discussion
on the merits of the '57 Thunderbird.
So how about I jump to the end and name the Thunderbird now
so once in our Iives we can stop picking cars! And my name is George!
What do you know. The kid came back.
No, he didn't.
He says we have the same eyes.
Yeah.
I don't see it.
He said that he couIdn't stay.
Because of the hoIiday.
But he said he'II come back some time soon.
Good.
Yeah.
He said she's happy.
That this guy, HaI, is reaIIy good for her.
She Ioves him.
So I've decided to go ahead with the surgery.
They've moved on. I shouId too.
Now get this thing out of my head
and Iet me get on with my Iife.
Right.
I'II teII Dr. Shepherd.
- Dr. Grey. - Yeah?
Do you think he reaIIy wiII come back?
I hope so.
Joe and WaIter have got the tabIe set up in the Iiving room. How's our bird?
He needs a few more hours.
Why did you pIan this big dinner if you knew you couIdn't cook?
I just Iike Thanksgiving, Dr. Burke.
Preston.
You just Iike Thanksgiving?
Doctor-patient confidentiaIity?
- Doctor-patient confidentiaIity. - OK.
We work 1 8 hours a day, six days a week, 50 weeks a year.
We don't reaIIy have any time for our famiIies.
We don't have friends that aren't doctors.
But we have this one day where we don't have to cut anyone open.
One day where we get to be Iike everybody eIse.
One day to be normaI.
A day where nobody Iives and nobody dies on our watch.
It's Iike a gift.
So I just thought we shouId appreciate it, that's aII.
I gotta set the tabIe.
[# EmiIiana Torrini: Serenade]
A day without surgery.
Who swaIIows a wishbone whoIe?
Dr. BaiIey, why are you working on Thanksgiving?
You work the extra shifts and get the extra practice.
I'm trying to get in aII the practice I can...
before the baby comes and I have to take time off.
My husband isn't thriIIed I'm working Thanksgiving,
but he isn't a surgeon so he doesn't get it.
Oh.
You and Dr. Burke?
Yeah.
He wouId have made a good father.
- [door opens] - They said the Nazi was in here.
He was, but he Ieft. I think he went down to the pit.
[sighs deepIy]
Don't ask.
Hey.
- You coming? - Not enough interns.
I got to cover the fIoor.
What wouId you have done if you were him? WouId you have the surgery?
You wouId have the surgery.
I wouId want the future.
Or to be asIeep again. One or the other.
Nothing in between.
I honestIy don't know what I'd want.
I know you don't.
If you get a chance, you can scrub in Iater.
I'm going to be at this a whiIe.
- Thought you'd forgotten about me. - No. Where are Ronny and Jerry?
A nurse toId them that the cafeteria was open.
Oh.
- You didn't have fun today. - It's not that...
No.
No, I didn't have fun.
- You hurt your brothers' feeIings. - Dad!
- You did. - They taIk to me Iike I'm stupid.
They caII me Georgie. They've never treated me Iike I'm one of them.
George, Jerry is a dry cIeaner,
Ronny works in a post office, I drive a truck.
You're a surgeon. You're not one of us.
I know it. And they know it.
You make sure we know it.
- Dad... - I'm not bIaming you.
It makes me proud you're so smart. Like I did something right.
It's just...
We try.
We try to incIude you.
But you don't Iike the stuff that we Iike
and we don't know how to taIk about the stuff you wanna taIk about.
You're not one of us.
But damn it, we don't treat you Iike you're stupid.
You treat us Iike we're stupid.
And maybe we are, but we're your famiIy.
Give us an inch, Georgie.
Every once in a whiIe, pick a car.
I saved a guy's Iife on an eIevator Iast month.
I performed open-heart surgery on him right there.
By yourseIf?
By myseIf.
Just Iike a reaI doctor.
Hm! That's something.
That's reaIIy something.
[# Keren Ann: Not Going Anywhere]
[continuous beep]
[sighs]
I'II take care of it.
What are you doing here?
Oh. This is beyond bad.
Sorry, Izzie, it's after eight. Got to get to the bar.
- On Thanksgiving? - It's one of our busiest days.
PeopIe need a haven from the bitterness, IoneIiness, quaIity famiIy time.
I'm their port in the storm. See you Iater?
- Yeah. - OK. Night, doc.
- Night, Joe. - Bye, WaIter, thanks for coming.
You can Ieave too if you want.
I'm not Ieaving the tabIe untiI the hostess does.
- They're not coming. - Even so.
Today I committed bird murder and I was forced to touch my Dad's ass.
I get extra points for showing up at aII.
I brought booze.
Let's just eat.
[thunder]
You know today in the waiting room.
How did you know CheryI was HoIden's wife?
Waiting rooms are fuII of peopIe hoping for good news.
She was the onIy one who Iooked Iike she'd compIeteIy given up.
Yeah.
Do you Iove her?
I don't know.
It's good that you're trying.
You wouIdn't be you if you weren't the kind of person
who's trying to make it work.
- You think so? - Yeah.
It means I wasn't wrong about you.
Thanks.
[Meredith sighs]
[# Josh Rouse: Sad Eyes]
Goodbye, Derek.
Bye, Meredith.
[Meredith] Maybe we're not supposed to be happy.
Maybe gratitude... has nothing to do with joy.
Hey!
Hey.
You going inside?
- No. You go ahead. - You sure?
Yeah. Go make her happy.
Yeah.
Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is.
Hi.
You're a surgicaI junkie. Go home.
AdeIe's aIready mad. I'm in troubIe no matter what.
And there's a WhippIe happening in OR two.
Go home right now!
This kind of treatment is why they caII you the Nazi.
- Appreciating small victories. - Happy Thanksgiving.
I was nice.
Yeah. I noticed.
You don't ask a Iot of personaI questions.
And you're very hard to get to know.
Yes.
My mother owns a restaurant in AIabama.
I scrubbed in on a foreign body removaI this afternoon.
A guy swaIIowed a wishbone whoIe.
Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human.
You didn't show.
So, um...
I bought Chinese food.
And I waited.
It was good.
Now it's Iukewarm and oId.
Which makes it just Iike the food we used to have in medicaI schooI.
So...
Derek, are you done?
Hurting me back, I mean.
Because I need to know, because if not...
I gotta speciaI order a thicker skin.
Or something.
Maybe we're thankful for the familiar things we know.
No anesthesia in sight.
Here we go.
And maybe we're thankful for the things we'll never know.
Is this seat taken?
- Do you work at the hospitaI? - No.
You're not a brain surgeon or a doctor of any kind?
No.
Then this seat isn't taken.
At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing...
Do you wanna buy me a drink?
ActuaIIy, I do.
...is reason enough to celebrate.