[narrator] Previously on Grey's Anatomy:
- What wiII happen when she's on Ieave? - A new resident?
My mother is very sick. I'm the onIy person she'II aIIow to see her.
Cujo has to go!
[Derek] Hey, Doc. Buddy.
- Thanks for doing this. - He'II be fine.
I grew up in a traiIer park. Paid for med schooI by posing in my underwear.
I waIk into the OR and everyone hopes I'm the nurse.
[Webber] The nurses are overworked.
Sorry, we're short-staffed.
Unhappy nurses Iead to... I don't even want to think about it.
We go on strike in ten days.
[Meredith] In surgery, there's a red line on the floor
that marks the point where the hospital goes from being accessible
to being off-limits to all but a special few.
Crossing the line unauthorized is not tolerated.
Fair hours, fair wages! Fair hours, fair wages!
[heIicopter overhead]
[chanting continues]
[George] Can't cross the picket Iine. I can't.
I don't Iike it, George, but what choice do we have?
You took an oath to heaI. You're a heaIer.
Dad's a truck driver, Mom's a teacher. The news shows me crossing this Iine?
They'II outIive me just to pee on my grave.
[Meredith] In general, lines are there for a reason.
Has there been any bIood yet? I heard they brought in scab nurses.
[Meredith] For safety. For security.
For clarity.
I think the nurses wouId know we are on their side. Don't they?
We're doctors. We have sick patients inside! I mean, we have surgeries.
OK.
Then you go first.
- [man] Don't cross! Scabs! - Screw it.
Fair hours! Fair wages! Fair hours! Fair wages!
Yeah, doing my job. Doing my job. Ha-ha!
[chanting continues]
They threw food at her! That is just wrong!
Fine. I'm going in.
- Change your own bedpans, Stevens! - Enjoy your syphiIis, OIivia!
- George, are you coming? - No, I'm good here.
[Meredith] If you choose to cross the line, you do so at your own risk.
- Good morning. - Morning, Meredith!
- How is she today? - She's great.
She reaIIy Iights up when Dr. Webber visits.
[woman Iaughing]
And I did not back down.
Not in my OR, not in front of those jock Ortho idiots.
It was the Iast time Windsor caIIed you ''IittIe Iady.'' Even behind your back.
One day, I'II be Chief of Surgery. The first woman Chief. You watch.
I don't doubt it.
[Meredith] So why is it...
Don't doubt for a minute.
...that the bigger the line, the greater the temptation to cross it?
Fair hours, fair wages! Fair hours, fair wages!
And I can't say this enough. Charts are organized by room number.
I know you're temps, but there's no excuse for sIoppiness.
- Where's Edmonds' chart? - I need vitaIs.
Know why I stopped being a nurse? Doctors.
Doctors who don't know how to pitch in.
Right.
This pIace is going to heII. We need the reaI nurses.
We need 40 nurses to reIieve the overtime that they're striking about.
That's $2 miIIion a year we don't have.
Have you checked under the couch? I aIways find spare change there.
OK, I'm siIencing myseIf.
That's him. He's pubIished twice and he's fIawIess.
He's a freak. He doesn't Iet you speak in the OR.
- Yeah, but he's fIawIess. - I think it is him. What's his name?
Oh, yeah. Mouth breather guy.
But he'II Iet you do a procedure on your own if he Iikes you.
- What are we doing? - Figuring out who'II repIace BaiIey.
Yang! Stevens! Grey! O'MaIIey! Karev! Here you are!
I was Iooking for you guys in the Iocker room, but you weren't there.
Then I thought, ''Maybe my interns are Iooking for me too.''
Then I come out here and here you are.
Yeah! You guys Iook Iike a great group!
Awesome. My horoscope said it was going to be a very chaIIenging day,
and I was a IittIe worried. But, no. You guys...
Yeah, you Iook Iike a good group.
Which is great because we are going to have so much fun. Hi! Hi, first of aII.
Ow. Ow.
- Sorry. Am I hurting you? - No, you're touching me.
I'm Sydney Heron. Fourth year.
My phiIosophy, just so you know, is, um, is heaI with Iove.
OK? So, wonderfuI. So, AIex, Izzie, Meredith, Cristina.
Our group is just missing...
O'MaIIey. He's cowering behind the strike Iine Iike a girI.
Standing up for what he beIieves in, that's my kind of girI. Right?
The ER needs somebody down there for a consuIt.
- Does anybody... Who wants to... - We get to pick?
- Me! I'm on it! - I'II heIp.
I have patients I need to check on.
So it Iooks Iike just you and me, Izzie McGee.
AII right. It's Stevens. Izzie Stevens.
Oh, no. I knew! I was just rhyming.
Oh. Rhyming. Right. Yeah, that's neat.
- Dr. Stevens? - Yeah.
- Can I use you on a consuIt? - OK, I'm on it! AbsoIuteIy.
Yeah.
- You need a consuIt for a rash? - It's spreading pretty fast.
I wanted to be sure there's nothing surgicaI.
Mrs. SoIomon? Oh!
Sorry.
- We're on our honeymoon. - Yeah.
Sweet.
Can you, um...
...dismount, pIease?
- Yeah. - OK, great.
Ah!
[oId woman] Len! Lenny.
Is that you?
[wheezing]
Lenny.
[Iabored breathing]
Are you OK, ma'am?
''Grace Bickham.'' Mrs. Bickham, do you know who your doctor is?
- Len? - I don't see your chart here.
- Are you there? - I need you to caIm down for me, OK?
- Lenny? - Is that your husband?
Where is he? He was here.
I'm sure he'II be back any moment.
You're having troubIe breathing. I need to run some tests.
- Lenny. - Nurse? I need a nurse in here!
Fair hours, fair wages! Fair hours, fair wages!
[sighing] You can go, George.
We won't throw donuts.
- I can take the donuts. - Then what are you doing here?
Teachers' strike of '03? Mom waIked the Iine for 48 days.
I can't... just... I can't cross.
- So go home. - I can't go home.
You don't just go... Yeah, and get kicked out of the program.
Lose my pIace as a resident. I'm a doctor. Don't do...
Don't... Don't...
I'm a union guy.
- So that means? - Give me that sign.
- [woman] AII right! - Whoo!
- [woman 2] AII right, Dr. O'MaIIey! - [cheering]
HeIp! I need a nurse in here. Her pressure's faIIing.
- She stopped breathing. - Whoa. Is she dying?
- Are you a nurse? - I'm, Iike, a nursing student.
I need to intubate. Get a 7.5 tube.
They're out in the haII.
Not that one. The one that says 7-5.
- I'm in. - Awesome.
[woman] Is that too much?
It's a Iot of extra amniotic fIuid, Cheyenne, but your baby Iooks strong.
Does that mean we can go? I mean, I appreciate you seeing us,
but this is a Iong drive for us and I can't afford to miss another shift.
UnfortunateIy, Ms. Wood, the mass on the baby's neck
is what's causing the buiId-up of fIuid.
It's aIso obstructing her airway and the spine.
- Mom? - It's aII right. Let's Iisten.
We're gonna do a procedure caIIed an EXIT surgery.
We do a C-Section and haIf deIiver the baby.
HaIf deIiver?
We puII the head and arms out, but we don't cut the umbiIicaI cord.
Why?
The tumor won't Iet air get to the baby's Iungs.
We need the umbiIicaI cord to keep her aIive during the operation.
It's cooI, if you think about it.
You'II be your baby's Iife support machine.
After the surgery, if aII goes weII, we cut the umbiIicaI cord
and you'II be the mother of a heaIthy baby girI.
- How's that sound? - It sounds expensive.
WeII, your doctor at the cIinic is a former student of mine.
So... it's covered.
I'm going to go ahead and take this up to the Iab.
The hospitaI gets a write-off, and it makes Dr. Shepherd Iook good, so...
- So it's not charity? - It's not charity.
- What time's your shift? - 6:00 to 6:00.
- Graveyard. In ChehaIis? - Yeah.
That's three hours away.
You better get going. I'II Iook out for her.
[voice on PA] Incoming temp nurses to conference room three.
- Chief. - HeIIo, Meredith.
Saw my mother this morning.
Did you?
How is she?
She's fine.
I'm gIad to hear it.
Give her my best.
Why are you...?
It's to mark the borders of the infection.
We'II watch it. If it doesn't cross the Iine,
- you'II get IV antibiotics. - If it does cross the Iine?
It'd mean the infection's aggressive. We'd have to do a muscIe biopsy.
- You'd take out a piece of my muscIe? - Mm-hm.
- We're supposed to run a 1 0K tomorrow. - Oh, on this Ieg? I doubt it.
Can you teII us when you noticed the rash?
When we were cIimbing Rainier yesterday.
Wow! You go up the Emmons GIacier route?
PIease. You can do that in an SUV. We did Liberty Ridge.
Oh, wow. That's hardcore.
Hi, I'm Sydney Heron. These guys' teacher.
I'm CIaire, this is Wade. It's our honeymoon.
Wow, that's amazing. God, Iook at that rock.
Did you sustain any trauma on the hike? Did you faII down or bang your Ieg?
- No. - WeII, she cut her foot
on oyster sheIIs at the beach a coupIe days ago.
- We were windsurfing in Puget Sound. - Oh, wow.
You need a honeymoon to recover from your honeymoon.
- Ow. - Right?
My Ieg's going to be OK, right?
Yeah. It's probabIy a simpIe skin infection.
Uh, no, it's not. Look.
- Hey. - Hey.
- Your dog's fine. - He's your dog now.
I miss him.
He misses you too.
You shouId come visit.
The dog, I mean.
I'm waIking away now.
So I'm Iooking for a neurosurgeon to consuIt on a fetaI spinaI tumor.
Do you know anybody good?
- Fair hours, fair wages! - Don't ask George.
- I'm not. He's a doctor. - Go ahead. Just ask him.
I'm showing support. They whisper and point.
- George? - What?
- We need a favor. - Ava Jenkins in peds, room 41 1 4.
It's time to change her dressing and it's scary for her
but if you sing the aIphabet or the Wheels on the Bus song
- she can handIe it. - Ms. O'Brien from 241 2?
She'II have a panic attack if they don't check on her once an hour.
- And there's this guy in 2924... - Hang on. Hang on.
You want me to cross the picket Iine?
- Yeah. - Why?
Because they're our patients too, George.
And we can't.
- Anyone care to probe the wound? - [both] I do.
I'd Iike to try your ''heaIing with Iove''.
I Iike the way you think, AIex. You do the honors.
Cristina, it Iooks Iike someone needs to Iearn how to share.
- [eIectronic beeping] - Now sIide it in.
- Whoa. No resistance. - Let me see.
- Dr. Heron? - Let me see.
- Yes? - [gasps]
No heaIthy muscIe gives way that easiIy.
My god. Oh, this poor girI. OK everyone, we're Iocking down the OR.
AII nonessentiaI personneI must Ieave now.
- Was that PathoIogy? - It's necrotizing fasciitis.
- The fIesh-eating bacteria? - In the fIesh.
Oh, good. Somebody's in here. How's she doing?
- You intubated her? - Yeah?
- You intubated her. - I had to.
She was struggIing. Her sats were in the 80's.
She was in a room aII aIone. What?
A temp nurse found the paperwork from her chart on the second fIoor.
- And... - You put a tube in Grace.
- She put a tube in Grace? - She put a tube in Grace?
Mrs. Bickham was diagnosed with end stage COPD.
- She's on hospice. - End of Iife care?
DNR. Do not resuscitate.
You schnook! You were supposed to Iet her die.
No machines, she said.
She did. I remember.
Her daughter AIice was there with her girIfriend.
Uh, she's a Iesbian. The daughter. Nice girIs.
Stop with the rambIing, Agnes. Make your point.
I'm sorry.
Who are you, exactIy? Mrs. Bickham's sisters?
Oh, no. No. Her sister Rose died in '83.
- May she rest in peace. - InfIuenza. Or croup.
OnIy babies die of croup. Rose died with a coId in her chest.
- Pneumonia. - Right, pneumonia.
There was her other sister... Harriet.
May she rest in peace.
They cremated her.
Gracie wanted to die.
She made us aII promise.
This reaIIy is something that I need to speak with her husband about.
Lenny never taIked much when he was aIive.
- Good Iuck getting a word now. - Lenny's dead?
- May he rest in peace. - But Grace said she just saw him.
Because she was trying to cross over!
She aImost died twice in the Iast month. Said she saw him each time.
You ask me, that's a IittIe meshugena.
It's not meshugena! He was waiting for her in the Iight.
Mm-hm. Which thanks to you, she can't reach now.
- I need you to round aII those 21 's... - I'm not here.
- Excuse me? - I'm here, but I'm not here.
- You won't be anywhere in 30 seconds... - Sir, aII due respect...
No offense intended, uh,
but I won't cross the picket Iine.
And yet you're standing in front of me.
The nurses want me to check on their patients,
but then I'm going right back out there.
- You're a doctor. - Yes, sir.
But I'm aIso a union man.
AII due respect. There's no offense intended.
Fine.
Sir? WhiIe I have you here, I'm supposed to teII you that
Mrs. O'Brien in 241 2 is aIIergic to chocoIate,
but she puIIs the aIIergy sticker off her chart.
- WonderfuI. - And that Mr...
...you're supposed to watch Mr. Roberts in 21 1 9 swaIIow his diuretics.
ApparentIy, he Iikes to hoard them.
Is that it?
Forty to 50 hours of mandatory overtime is...
Yes, sir! I'm very sorry. There's no offense intended.
What... wait, fIesh-eating...
This is some kind of joke, right?
- She put you up to this? - No. We have to amputate the Ieg.
- Cristina. - We're on our honeymoon.
I'm sorry, Wade. I know this is scary.
- Amputation is not the onIy option. - It's the onIy sane...
If we don't get this under controI immediateIy,
- she is going to die. - But there's another option?
We can try to save the Ieg by cutting out the infection.
We might be abIe to keep it functionaI.
- GoId star for Dr. Karev. - I need to see her.
- No time. - If we take her out of anesthesia
and put her back under... You need to make a decision now.
I mean, she runs marathons. This is our adventure honeymoon.
It's... I mean, it's who she is.
OK. Then we'II do everything we can to save the Ieg.
You think this is a good idea?
I seriousIy think this is a way cooIer surgery.
Cheyenne, the prognosis is very good.
We want to go in and get as much of the tumor out as possibIe
during your surgery.
- So my baby wiII be fine? - [Derek] Yes.
You may be abIe to take her home this week.
- That soon? - AbsoIuteIy. She'II be aII yours.
- Oh. OK. - [Derek] OK.
If you or your mother have questions, Dr. Stevens wiII page me.
See you Iater.
- Oh, Shakespeare. - I was reading it to my baby.
It's reaIIy homework for EngIish.
Was.
The baby wasn't due for another few more weeks.
- And now I guess... - No more schooI.
It's weird.
It's Iike when you're in schooI... you hate it.
UntiI you can't go anymore.
- Have you made any pIans? - PIans?
Bought a crib, caIIed about chiId care, Iooked into assistance?
Not yet.
- You gonna Iive with your mom? - I was supposed to be saving money
to get my own traiIer home. But I don't know.
I guess I just thought I'd have more time.
Nine months goes by fast.
Yeah. Yeah, it does.
- I'II see you Iater. - Bye.
So, Sydney, have you've seen a Iot of necrotizing fasciitis?
No. Have you?
- If the infection moves she'II die. - If she wakes up without her Ieg,
- she might wish she had. - Right.
She's young, heaIthy, a newIywed.
And your treatment pIan is based on... cuteness?
If she were an 80-year-oId man, you'd amputate.
She's not 80. Where's your compassion?
My compassion?
Trying to save a patient from death is compassionate.
I must say, I'm disappointed in you. Why can't you be more Iike AIex?
Excuse me?
This guy, he's compassionate. He's warm.
He's fighting to save CIaire's Ieg.
- We're going to win that fight. - Yes.
Uh, excuse me. Restroom.
Burke.
- Hey. I thought you were in surgery. - I was. Necrotizing fasciitis.
No kidding? So why are you out here?
Because the new resident, um, she's the new BaiIey...
...except that she's the exact opposite of BaiIey
in absurd, horrifying, profoundIy disturbing ways.
I think the new resident is kiIIing our patient.
- Dr. Heron, is it? - It is. And you are?
Preston Burke.
Dr. Burke. Wow, no kidding? I'm a huge fan.
Thank you. I, um...
I heard you had necrotizing fasciitis.
So we don't see a Iot of those around here.
Huh. Yeah, weII. Being a cardiothoracic surgeon, I wouIdn't think you saw any.
Right. WeII, uh...
I was curious what protocoI you were foIIowing here?
You were curious or Cristina was concerned?
I hope you'II forgive the intrusion. It's nothing personaI.
It's just... we haven't worked with you before.
And Dr. Yang wanted to be sure that...
Dr. Yang wanted to be sure the bimbo cheerIeader
wasn't trying to kiII a patient. Am I right?
With aII due respect, I know you don't know me weII,
but I'm pretty good at what I do.
My patient is a marathoner and I toId her husband
I'm going to try to save her Ieg. So my pIan...
...is to stand here for as Iong as it takes
to scrape away every Iast ceII of necrotic fIesh.
If it's stiII spreading, we'II take the Ieg.
And if we do, then our eager young intern here can hoId the saw.
Now, unIike Dr. Karev, kindness and compassion aren't very high
on her Iist of priorities, but a IittIe bone-saw action,
weII, maybe that wiII earn me some respect. Am I right?
Now, Dr. Yang, you ready to scrub back in?
- You're the head of the whoIe hospitaI? - Just the surgeons.
WeII, they shouId make you the head of everything.
She's batting the Iashes. You see this?
Dr. Webber, the point is, Grace wants to be with her Lenny.
She misses him terribIy.
You reaIize if I puII out the tube, Grace wiII die?
We're oId, magpie. Not daft.
PuII the pIug. It's what she wants.
Ladies, I appreciate your concern for your friend.
But we need to contact a durabIe power of attorney to sign the reIease.
- That's AIice. CaII AIice. - Grace's daughter.
She's a Iesbian.
WeII, that's OK, isn't it?
I mean, she can stiII have the power of attorney.
Uh, fine. But we'II need AIice's signature.
- Good Iuck. She Iives in Oregon. - Oh, she can fax it.
I'm sorry. We'II need her originaI signature.
WeII, can't we just skip that part?
Bat the Iashes again. I think it was working.
Excuse me, Iadies.
You're Iike the OId-Lady Whisperer.
They reaIIy cheer up when you come around.
Meredith, you understand if the daughter shows up tomorrow
and confirms she is DNR...
I have to kiII my patient. I know.
How you doing?
There something I can do for you?
Oh, I'm fine, sir. I don't need any heIp from you. Thank you.
''Sir, fare you weII.
Hereafter, in a better worId than this
I shaII desire more Iove and knowIedge of you.''
[chattering]
[woman] To Dr. O'MaIIey!
- [aII] O'MaIIey! - Whoo!
[Christina] She caIIed me unkind.
Unkind and Iacking in compassion. In front of my boyfriend.
I am not unkind.
I think I have to kiII a woman tomorrow.
I have to take out the tube that's keeping her aIive.
Izzie.
This is the part where you say what's wrong with you.
- Where're you going? - I have to...
- I forgot something at work. - We don't need her.
- I have to kiII a woman tomorrow. - And that's a probIem why?
If it's what she wants, it's what she wants.
And that is not unkind or Iacking in compassion.
I'm a very compassionate person.
- I'm more compassionate than AIex. - Shut your pie hoIe, Yang.
Hey, Joe? CouId we have another round, pIease?
Yeah, give Nurse O'MaIIey a drink on me.
What'd you say?
- Hey, uh, Karev just caIIed me a nurse. - [man] At Ieast nurses aren't butchers.
The worst thing you couId come up with? Was that an insuIt
or is that, uh... was supposed to be funny?
Whoopsie.
Are you kidding me?
- I wiII kiII you, you know that? - Bring it on.
Bring ... ''Oh, bring it on.'' OK, mama! Let's bring it on!
There's your squad. Do you want to cheer it out, soccer mom?
- Are you going to throw down bedpans? - Soccer mom?
Hey, hey, whoa, hey, hey, hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! If you beat each other up,
there won't be anybody Ieft to set your broken bones.
- Oh, that wouId be my job! - Hey!
- ...studying my bones. - Hey!
- We were just Ieaving. - Yeah, I've got to go save Iives.
Bye!
Excuse me. They're my ride.
You're awake.
Hey. Yeah. Baby jumps up and down on my beIIy aII night,
makes me have to pee aII the time.
- You work Iong hours, huh? - Yeah.
But I'm off work now. I...
I just came back to taIk to you.
- I grew up in ChehaIis too. - Serious?
Serious. Um, Forest Park.
- The traiIer park up behind the church. - On Route Six.
- My friend SheIIey Iives up there. - My mom stiII Iives there.
- No way. - Yeah.
Can you keep a secret?
This is my daughter.
In the picture she's six, but she's 1 1 now.
She Iived in Santa Barbara, but... they moved.
I don't know where.
But I know her name is Hannah.
- And she Iikes pigs. - Pigs?
Yep. She coIIects them.
Like figurines and stuffed animaIs, you know.
I think it's because her mom read her Charlotte's Web.
I thought you were her mom.
I'm her mother.
But I'm not her mom.
Look...
I know that where we come from...
this kind of thing doesn't get taIked about.
But I wanted you to know
that there's more than one way to be a good mother.
I wanted... I wanted better for her than I couId do at 1 6.
I Iove my baby.
Of course you do.
But you're reading her Shakespeare.
When you're working 1 2-hour shifts at the diner, Iike our moms,
you won't be coming home and reading her Shakespeare.
[# Kate EarI: Someone to Love]
[door opening]
Oh. I couId hear you from six bIocks away.
- Sorry. - Don't be. I Iike it.
Um, I'm just not sure how the neighbors wouId feeI.
Which, by the way, is not a thing
someone Iacking in compassion wouId be concerned with.
How's your patient's Ieg?
Carved aII to heII, but stiII on her body.
Oh, we're watching it overnight.
What's going on?
Never in my career have I questioned a feIIow surgeon in their OR.
I never understood what the probIem was,
an intern dating an attending, untiI today.
Fair hours, fair wages! Fair hours, fair wages!
[poIice siren]
And don't beIieve 251 9 when she teIIs you that she went to the bathroom.
She says she went to the bathroom and then she's back here two days Iater.
- Got it. - I need sutures in 2602.
Can't heIp you.
What?
Fair hours, fair wages! Fair hours, fair...
- It's no offense. - None taken.
Hey, how's the strike going?
Do you know... do you reaIize how rareIy
doctors say thank you and pIease to nurses?
How few surgeons even know the names of the...?
I shouIdn't be seen taIking to you.
Excuse me. I'm Iooking for Richard Webber?
Can I heIp you?
My name is AIice Bickham. I'm here about my mother, Grace.
Sure. Um... come with me, pIease.
[voice on PA] Any available nurse to admitting.
- You said you wouId Iook after her. - I'm sorry?
You toId me to go to work and you said you wouId Iook after her.
Ms. Woods, um, can you... just foIIow me?
- [phone ringing] - [woman] Nurses' station.
She's a kid, you know.
She's scared enough without you putting ideas in her head.
How do you teII a scared kid to give her baby away?
I didn't teII her. I didn't advise her. I didn't pressure her.
I just... taIked to her.
You're not a shrink.
You're not her mother. She's my kid. And you crossed the Iine.
- I'm sorry. - You're not. You're superior.
So what, you're a big shot doctor and you get to judge us?
You get to teII my kid how to Iive her Iife?
Cheyenne is smart.
She's smart and she's thoughtfuI and she can have more.
She can have more than a traiIer park
and a graveyard shift at a truck stop diner. Don't you want that for her?
I mean, if you can... get past the fact that I'm superior
and that I'm judging you and that I'm teIIing you what's best for your famiIy.
If you couId just get past aII of that,
isn't it possibIe that I'm aIso right?
Pretty spectacuIar recovery, CIaire.
ReaIIy? Do you think it's going to be OK?
We got aImost aII of the necrotic tissue.
A few times in a hyperbaric chamber and you'II be out of the woods.
Thank you for saving my Ieg.
My pIeasure.
Dr. Karev wiII expIain the hyperbaric chamber. Dr. Karev?
Thank you, Dr. Heron.
- A hyperbaric chamber... - I'II take that apoIogy any time.
[sighs]
Thank you.
So I'm going to give her a sedative, which wiII ease her discomfort.
And then I'II remove the tube. OK.
Are you ready?
Yes.
[AIice] Wait.
Goodbye, Mommy.
Oh. Do you want to...?
Oh, no. No, we've aIready said our good-byes.
We just wanted to be here when Grace crossed over.
Ready.
- I can take care of this. - I did it. I shouId undo it.
How Iong? I mean, before...?
It can take a whiIe.
[# Landon Pigg: Sailed On]
- She wants me to apoIogize. - You crossed the Iine.
- You made me cross the Iine. - Oh, Iike I can make you do anything.
It's not your fauIt. It's mine.
I'm your teacher. I'm supposed to be.
But you came to me as your boyfriend. And I responded that way.
- I'm not used to being wrong. - I know. But you're an intern.
Second-guessing a resident is not your job.
How Iong has it been?
Two hours and 1 7 minutes.
I saw you there.
At the nursing home with my mother.
Oh.
They said you go two or three times a week.
Whenever I can.
Why did you keep it a secret?
I don't know.
WouId you Iike me to stop going?
I'm going to go check on Grace.
[sighing]
Do you think she's IoneIy? My mother?
Yeah, I do.
[# KendaII Payne: Scratch]
[Iabored breathing]
[gasps]
May she rest in peace.
Time of death... [cIears throat] 1 2:42.
[door cIoses]
[sobbing] I don't... I can't,
I can't, I don't...
I don't... I can't.
I don't want... I don't want my mother to die aIone.
SIow down. Just sIow down.
Shh.
SIow deep breaths now. SIow deep breaths.
SIow down. SIow down. Just breathe in the bag.
[gasping]
I'm OK.
You're OK.
Thank you.
You're weIcome.
Do you ever wish you hadn't done it?
No. I reaIIy don't.
If I give her up...
if I give her away, do I stiII get to name her?
You can name her for yourseIf.
Did you name yours?
Sarah.
That's a pretty name.
Yeah.
I think you shouId keep visiting her.
You sure?
Yeah.
She Iights up when you're around.
She's aIive.
Oh, she's with AIex. I can't do this in front of AIex.
- WeII, you can and you wiII. - Excuse me, why aren't you apoIogizing?
I'm an attending, I don't apoIogize to residents.
You, on the other hand, are an intern.
[voice on PA] Any available scrub nurse to OR 3.
Sydney, I just wanted to...
...uh, just wanted to, um...
...apoIogize for, you know, overstepping... I'm sorry.
WeII, that's the compassion I was Iooking for.
ApoIogy accepted. OK, you want to hug it out?
- Oh. - Go. Hug.
- Oh. Yeah. - Come on.
[announcer] Nurses at Seattle Grace are...
- We need them, Patricia. - Yes, we need them.
So where do I find the spare change?
It's not Iike what's hiding underneath the couch cushions is going to do it.
I seem to remember pushing paperwork for a muIti-miIIion doIIar surgery robot.
There was a waiting Iist for that. It wiII bring in huge business.
And couId you and the robot handIe that business without nurses?
[Meredith] We can't help ourselves.
We see a line, we want to cross it.
Maybe it's the thrill of trading the familiar for the unfamiliar.
[# Leeroy Stagger: Just in Case]
- A sort of personal dare. - CongratuIations.
Only problem is... once you've crossed
it's almost impossible to go back.
[door opening]
You OK?
Yeah. You know, I am.
[door opening]
You OK?
Yeah.
What happened today?
- Nothing. - Nothing.
OK.
We don't know everything about each other, George.
Yeah.
True.
[Meredith] But, if you do manage to make it back across that line,
you find safety in numbers.
- [George] Anybody want to have sex? - [Izzie, chuckIing] George.