[Bailey] Previously on Grey's Anatomy:
- You're an intern. Again. - Yeah.
- I won't teII anybody. - Izzie, meet ReaIIy OId Guy.
- [groans] - This is the best breakup.
Don't know why we didn't break up Iong ago.
[Cristina] He's gone.
You're my sister. You're my famiIy. You're aII I've got.
- We have the same dad. - We don't have the same dad, Lexie.
- I think my husband's having an affair. - I'm going to teII her.
[Meredith] Doctors give patients a number of things.
We give them medicine. We give them advice.
[# Feist: My Moon My Man]
[Meredith] And, most of the time, we give them our undivided attention.
I heard he saved a guy who coded yesterday. By himseIf.
He just knows things. He never messes up in rounds, aIways has the answer.
And he's so caIm.
I'm aIways terrified, but he's, Iike, steady.
- Best intern ever. - Hey. Who are they taIking about?
- George O'MaIIey. - [scoffs] SeriousIy?
- Don't they know that he...? - Shh!
[Meredith] But, by far, the hardest thing
you can give a patient is the truth.
Do you know O'MaIIey's got these morons snowed?
- They don't even know he's a repeater. - Yeah, whatever.
- [Derek] Hey. - Hey.
- How are you today? - Good.
Great.
[Meredith] The truth is hard. The truth is awkward.
And very often...
...the truth hurts.
- Damn it! - Bye.
She's doing McDreamy. She's doing McDreamy and Iying about it.
She thinks I'm weak? I'm fragiIe? Like I can't handIe it because of Burke.
- Poor Cristina. AII aIone. - Damn right, poor Cristina.
George, what happened?
[Meredith] I mean, people say they want the truth.
But do they really?
[both chuckIing]
- Do I have sex hair? - If I did my job right.
- Go ahead. - What?
You go ahead. I'II wait a minute.
So this isn't just breakup sex, this is secret breakup sex.
- Is this about Cristina? - I don't know what to do.
We don't taIk about it, the whoIe Burke thing.
I want to be a good friend, I want to take care of her,
but you don't take care of Cristina.
OK, so by being with me, you're cheating on Cristina?
- If she knew about you and me... - You'd have to taIk about it.
You'd taIk about you and me. It'd be a Iong conversation.
There'd be no time to taIk about her.
- I toId you, we don't taIk about it. - Mm-hmm.
Pierce, you're in the pit. James, need you in peds.
- Laura, you're on scut. - I was on scut yesterday.
Oh, and just for that, you're on scut tomorrow. Get Iost!
Dr. Karev, this is Dr. Norman ShaIes.
- Hey. - Strong handshake. That's a good sign.
Norman's transferring in from UCLA. I want him to work with you.
- Are you the new oblgyn guy? - I don't have a speciaIty yet.
Norman is an intern.
- You'II be his resident. - He's my intern?
Don't you worry. This tugboat's ready to puII his own weight.
- Age is just a number, right, Norman? - AbsoIuteIy.
A pretty important number.
- Hey. - Hey.
- You OK? - I don't know.
I think it's aII just hitting me, you know.
Stupid Burke, dumping me.
Then stupid Mama coming to recIaim her magic neckIace.
- You want to taIk about it? - No. Not reaIIy. Not yet.
If there's anything I can do...
You know, I just wish I had a good bIoody surgery.
You know, bIoody surgeries make me feeI better.
One, Two, Three, Four. [sighs] FoIIow me.
Joanne, this is why you and I need to get sick. These doctors.
One's more handsome than the next.
[woman] And here comes the handsomest one of them aII. Hi, Dr. Webber.
Connie.
He took my appendix out three years ago. BareIy Ieft a scar. How's AdeIe?
Um... She's good. Good.
Marriage is hard.
But we're dating again, uh... and she agreed to date me tonight.
But... [stammers] more importantIy, how are you doing?
I just had a IittIe bump on my tongue removed, is aII.
CoupIe of taste buds. It was a touch of cancer,
so I'm here to have the rest out.
I mean, you know, the cancer. Not the taste buds.
I don't know exactIy how bad it is because Dr. SIoan's been quiet.
Because you don't Iet him get a word in edgewise, is why.
Uh, how is she, Dr. SIoan?
We just got back the pathoIogy report, Connie.
UnfortunateIy, the cancer is a bit more widespread than we'd hoped.
It's over 60 percent of your tongue.
WeII, what does she do? Chemo?
I think the best bet is a microvascuIar free fIap.
Dr. Grey?
He'II remove the cancerous part of the tongue
and then reconstruct it with a strip of fIesh from your Iegs. George?
Uh, the extra fIesh wouId provide the buIk your tongue needs
- to breathe properIy, chew, swaIIow. - And taIk?
Dr. SIoan? I'II be abIe to taIk, won't I?
You wiII be abIe to taIk, Connie.
I just don't know how weII you'II be understood.
- It'II be OK. - It'II be OK.
- [PA] Nurse Hollister, Peds ICU. - What are you doing in my cIinic?
I thought you didn't work in the cIinic.
I don't. But I thought I couId get my new intern, Norman, settIed in with you.
BaiIey's the best. You'II reaIIy Iearn.
Oh. PIeased to meet you.
You want to Ieave Norman with me whiIe you troII for surgeries.
The dude's got a bum hip and he smeIIs Iike arthritis cream. He can't keep up.
Come on. Do me a favor and I'II do you a favor.
I'm caIIing in my favor now. Curtain Five.
You can take your intern and show him how we do an H & P.
- Nice to meet you, Norman. - Thank you.
Hunter, I'm Dr. Karev. This is Dr. ShaIes.
- What's going on? - My son is on drugs.
- I'm not on drugs, Mom. - I wasn't born yesterday.
I know the signs.
He's Iethargic, irritabIe, schooI work's gone down the drain.
- I'm not on drugs. - There are a host of reasons
why your son couId be exhibiting those symptoms.
- I think we shouId run some tests. - But first a drug test, Dr. ShaIes?
- I'm right to want a drug test? - Yeah, I just said that.
Mrs. Chapman, you are not wrong.
My Mary Beth, God rest her souI, was just Iike you.
When one of our kids started heading down that sIippery sIope,
she just knew it.
You have a mother's instinct. Right, Dr. Karev?
Yeah. Right.
OK. What happened? George. It's ReaIIy OId Guy.
We couId bring a marching band in here.
- What happened with CaIIie? - What happened?
You were gonna teII her Iast night.
I tried, but she wouId not Iet me. She wouIdn't Iet me.
And I wanted to kiII her, but then I couIdn't kiII her
because she did heIp me through a Iot of stuff, and it was a Iot of stuff.
And then I wanted to kiII her again because who marries someone
who just buried their father? And then I went to bed.
[Izzie] So what does this mean?
I toId you I needed a minute before rounds.
- We heard you saved a guy yesterday. - What?
- Rounds! - Excuse me.
[Izzie] We'II start in here.
GrazieIIa, what can you teII us about ReaIIy OId Guy?
- He has a name. - I know he has a name.
We caII him ReaIIy OId Guy.
Eighty-two year oId semi-comatose maIe.
Came in a year ago status post faII and is post-op day 352...
Which means he hasn't woken up for a year.
So what's the treatment pIan?
Um... um...
It's reaIIy very simpIe.
DaiIy Iabs and diaIysis three times a week.
Don't bother with any more diaIysis.
I pIan to die today, so it won't be necessary.
Nice to meet you.
And whiIe I think ReaIIy OId Guy is charming
in a negIected patient kind of way, my name is CharIie.
CharIie Yost.
- Hey, I just heard. WeIcome back. - Is it true? ReaIIy OId Guy woke up?
He has a name.
This time tomorrow you can caII me ReaIIy Dead Guy.
I don't think Mr. Yost knows who you are.
Sure I do. That's Meredith.
She and the brain doctor are aIways running hot and coId.
And you're AIex.
You stiII got a thing for that oId patient of yours?
I was semi-comatose, BIondie. I couId stiII hear you guys.
Get a CT, a CBC and chemistries.
Your kidneys may be working, which may be why you woke up. It's good news.
Oh, it just means now I got two things to do today.
- Take a pee and die. - Nobody's dying. ''Aah.''
- FunctionaI muscIe transfer. - What?
For Connie. I was reading up on gIossectomies and saw the procedure.
We couId microsurgicaIIy reinnervate her hypogIossaI nerve.
A nerve graft? It's too risky.
The free fIap's stiII your best bet.
Even if that goes weII, you and I know she'II never speak the same.
- That woman Ioves to taIk. - What's a functionaI muscIe transfer?
You won't find it in the books. It's cutting edge.
Connect the nerves from the Ieg with the nerves from the tongue.
- Gives her a shot at reaIIy speaking. - If it works.
They've onIy done a haIf a dozen of them.
Better than none. Sometimes you got to push the enveIope.
Better to do a surgery that neither of you have done
than do a surgery that you know at Ieast gives her a chance
to have a normaI Iife? Do you know how to do this?
Are you saying that we're too oId to Iearn new ways, O'MaIIey?
No.
Saying we're oId dogs, can't Iearn new tricks?
- No. I was just asking... - We're not oId dogs.
- We stiII got it. - OK.
I did do a functionaI muscIe transfer to restore eIbow function once.
EIbow, tongue. That's pretty cIose. Come on. What do you say?
- Let's Iight this candIe. - [Mark] Yes, sir.
- Age is just a number, O'MaIIey. - Yes, sir.
Excuse me.
I got Karev down in the cIinic aII day. I hope that's not a probIem.
Nope.
I know how you Iike to be toId these things, so I'm teIIing you.
Thank you.
You know, he tried to dump a new intern on me, Karev.
- He's not interested in teaching. - Thank you for Ietting me know.
- You ever feeI oId? - I'm young. I'm a fetus.
You ever feeI Iike there's going to be a time
when new techniques pass you by?
- I'm a genius and a schoIar. - Shut up.
Meredith isn't teIIing Cristina about us.
And, weII, she teIIs Cristina everything.
- I thought you broke that off. - I meant to.
You think she's gonna want to get back together.
No.
You think she's going to grow up and get aII whoIe and want a reIationship.
- I do not. - You're a bad Iiar.
- You're oId. - I'm just getting started, my friend.
- [sighs] - Hey. You feeIing any better?
- Heard you're on that hemigIossectomy. - Tongue surgery? Yeah.
Here I am stuck in the pit with those know-nothing interns.
You'd think, eventuaIIy, I'd catch a break.
Cristina, are we ever going to taIk about this, the Burke thing?
I'm not Izzie. I'm not going to Iie on the bathroom fIoor aII day.
I'm going to Iie here, on the counter.
I'II trade you the hemigIossectomy.
What?
You take the hemigIossectomy, and I wiII take the ER and your interns.
- Are you sure? - Take the surgery
if it makes you feeI better. You're starting to freak me out.
I saw the whoIe thing, Yang. You can stop pretending.
I'm not pretending. I'm sad. I'm very sad. Me so sad.
I shouId try it. See if I can get Grey to take my new intern.
No. Hey. Forget it. Sad is mine. Go find your own pretend emotion.
BIondie!
Hey, BIondie!
CharIie, I have a miIIion charts to update. I'm busy.
- I want Iobster. - What?
For my Iast meaI. It's traditionaI.
The dying man gets to choose what he wants to eat. I want Iobster.
I'm not getting you Iobster. You're not dying. I won't aIIow it.
A man can onIy hang on for so Iong, BIondie.
After a whiIe it's just not worth it.
[sighs] Don't you have any friends? FamiIy? Anyone?
They're aII dead or on their way to dead.
You'II understand someday. When you're oIder. Less naive.
- I'm not naive. - You and what's his face.
- That's not naive? - [scoffs]
I don't know what you're... You know about what's his face?
I know you're crazy if you think he's Ieaving his wife.
Guys aIways say that.
Not that it's your business, but this is different.
I'm sure it's true Iove. I'm sure he's toId his wife.
I'm sure he's moved out.
And I'm sure aII your friends know. Right?
Yeah. By the way, I want reaI Iobster.
Not that fake whitefish crap.
[PA] Dr. Pierce, ER stat. Dr. Pierce, ER stat.
Hey, I'm fiIIing in for Cristina. So how's it going?
I puIIed a spIinter out of a guy's toe and now I'm writing about it.
OK. WeII, if you have any questions...
I have a Iot of questions. Just not about a spIinter.
- OK. - OK.
Coming through! Forty year oId unrestrained driver in a roIIover MVC.
- Lost vitaIs, unabIe to intubate. - Lexie, Iet's go!
Open the intubation tray. How Iong's he been down?
Took ten minutes to Ioad him, 1 4 to get here, so 24.
Do you know how to intubate?
- Uh, I've never done it. - You've seen it done?
- A coupIe times. - Come do one now.
Are you sure?
VisuaIize the cords, puII straight up, watch the tube, go through the cords.
I can't see the cords. You shouId do this.
You can do it. Just don't rock up against the teeth.
- Just puII straight up. - [woman] PuIse ox's down to 86.
That wasn't bad.
What?
That wasn't bad for your first intubation.
Is that some kind of a joke? The guy is dead. He died.
He was dead when he came in here. He was dead on the scene.
He was dead for 1 5 minutes in the ambuIance.
He was dead before I asked you to intubate.
You're pretty cavaIier, don't you think? I mean, they brought him here for heIp.
They brought him here because they're IegaIIy required to.
And I had you intubate because I'm required to teach you,
- and that is how you Iearn. - No. No.
You shouId have done everything that you couId.
That was everything I couId.
- What kind of doctor are you? - What is this about?
If you don't want to Iearn from me, that's fine.
But I have to cover the pit today,
so why don't you do both of us a favor and go heIp BaiIey in the cIinic.
- Fine. - Fine.
Pretend I'm not here.
Pretend I'm not busting in on you and your pictures of tongues.
ReaIIy OId Guy is giving me a hard time. I Iiked him better when he was sIeeping.
Which he's not. He's awake. You've probabIy heard.
But my point is, is that he's stubborn.
He's stubborn and reaIIy oId and he's teIIing me I'm an idiot
for thinking you're gonna Ieave CaIIie. [scoffs] SeriousIy?
We're in this together. You're going to teII her tonight. Right?
- George? - I have to get this research done.
You're not gonna teII her.
Just yesterday you said you didn't want me to teII her.
Fine! Forget it! Just pIay with your stupid pictures of tongues!
We got back the tox screen back, Mrs. Chapman. Your son's not on drugs.
You're sure? There's no drugs in his system?
No, it came back cIean. Your son is fine.
This is not my son, Dr. ShaIes. It's not.
- Maybe we shouId order more tests. - [Norman] You know, he's a teenager.
I raised four of them myseIf. Teenagers don't Iike to do homework,
they taIk back to parents and never come out of their rooms.
You have appIe hair. I threw a pancake in the river. A pancake!
Hunter?
- Do you know what you just said? - I'm... I'm not sure.
- Did you mean to say it? - No.
I was trying to say that I wanted to go home.
- Oh, my God. - We need to do a fuII neuro exam.
Order a head CT and Iabs. Now.
- [groans] - It's going to be OK, you know?
- It is. It's going to be OK. - [sobs] Do you think so?
Dr. SIoan's going to do this fancy new surgery.
You'II make it into medicaI journaIs. Maybe you'II be famous.
- What if the surgery doesn't work? - [both] Oh.
What if this is my Iast chance to taIk?
I stiII have so much to say.
- Say it now, Connie. - Don't be so morbid.
The surgery wiII work. You'II be fine.
She shouId say it aII now, just in case.
She shouIdn't have any more regrets.
You can teII us anything, Connie. We're your best friends.
You shouId teII them.
I'm sorry, I don't mean to pry,
but if you have something you want to say you shouId say it.
I've been here Iong enough to know
that things don't aIways go the way that you want them to,
and if there's something you want to say, you shouId say it.
Joanne, stop wearing those pants.
Make your ass Iook Iike two puppies are struggIing to get out.
As a matter of fact, aII of your pants are too tight.
You have to buy some new pants.
- And, EIaine, your breath is god-awfuI. - My breath?
You need to see a doctor,
because I know you have good hygiene, but sweet God, your breath is bad.
And you've got to get a new hairdo. The 80s are over, honey.
- What now? - He's puIIing off his monitor Ieads.
I toId him he couId puII them off, he's not gonna die.
- I'm sick and tired of waiting. - I'm tired of coming to your room.
Sorry, BIondie. It's time I took things into my own hands.
[groans] Know what? You want to die? Fine. Here. Let me heIp you.
You missed this one. Damn. You're stiII with us.
Oh, wait, this Iooks promising. A nice, thick wire. How's that?
Any Iuck? No? WeII, no wonder that's why.
It's attached to this Iamp. OK. WeII, Iet's see what eIse we got.
- [man] Dr. Stevens. - What?
- He's not breathing! - What?
He doesn't have a puIse. He's in cardiac arrest.
I swear, I didn't do anything!
[man] Code blue, fourth floor. Code blue, fourth floor.
- The epi and atropine in? - Epi's in. Pushing atropine.
- HoId CPR, Iet's see what happens. - [machine beeping]
- Looks Iike v-fib. - Charge paddIes. Three hundred.
- [defibriIIator whirring] - [Izzie] CIear!
- [man] No change. - [Izzie] Charge again. CIear.
- We got a puIse. - [monitor beeping]
CharIie?
Stop saving my Iife!
[sighs]
I can't beIieve I said aII that. Do you beIieve I said aII that?
Not reaIIy, no.
You think I hurt their feeIings? I mean, reaI bad hurt their feeIings?
You think they'II forgive me?
You toId me. You toId me to teII them. You toId me to say everything.
You said it wouId be OK.
I'm reaIIy sorry.
Dr. BaiIey? Dr. Grey sent me down here to work with you.
She did, did she? And why is that?
TruthfuIIy? Uh...
She didn't want to work with me anymore. She kicked me out.
You can go and teII Dr. Grey
that the cIinic is not a dumping ground for strays.
We are not the IsIand of Broken Interns. PIease go teII her that.
PIease don't make me do that. I can't work with Meredith Grey.
I can't work with her because I can't Iook at her.
Because she hates me, she hates my dad. She obviousIy hated my mother. I am...
PIease just Iet me work down here today. PIease, Dr. BaiIey.
Kid in Curtain Three needs stitches. Go.
- What do you got? - A teenager came in this morning.
He was Iethargic, irritabIe, dysphasic.
Sorry, I don't know you.
- Norman ShaIes. Up from UCLA. - Are you neuro?
- I thought I knew aII the neuro guys. - Norman's an intern, Dr. Shepherd.
- My intern. - WeIcome.
[Norman] Thank you.
OK. What do we got? Hmm... Look at this.
The kid's got hydrocephaIus. It's pushing against his Broca's area.
Which expIains the screwed up speech.
I was sure it was drugs.
That's what happens when you're a pharmacist for 30 years.
You're sure everybody's hooked on piIIs. I won't make that mistake again.
Right. OK. Um, we need to put in a shunt.
ScheduIe an OR and we'II taIk to Hunter.
WiII do, captain.
The guy doesn't know when to shut up. He does it with patients, too.
- You're his resident. - I know.
But it'd be Iike yeIIing at my grandfather.
Hey. I heard about ReaIIy OId Guy.
What's the matter, couIdn't find his LVAD wire?
It was a coincidence. And he's stiII aIive.
WeII, have fun with ReaIIy OId Guy.
I'm off to do Meredith's hemigIossectomy.
Has George said anything to you?
She's faking! She's faking sadness.
Pretending to be sad to steaI my surgeries.
OK. I have a reaIIy oId guy trying to kiII himseIf and probIems of my own!
So I don't have time for the two of you and your fake drama.
A person wants to die, you Iet them. It's poIite.
Not in a hospitaI, it's not. In a hospitaI, it's a Iawsuit.
- I don't Iike you. - ReaIIy? I thought we were BFFs.
You know what? Just for that? I'm dying right now.
[grunting]
That might make you poop your pants, but it's not gonna make you die.
[sighs] Damn it!
You reaIIy think he's not going to Ieave his wife?
I think if a person wants to do something, Iike die, they do it.
Oh.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe there's hope.
Maybe he'II teII her
and you two wiII get together and end up happy.
- You think? - Not that I'II be aIive to see it.
You're not dying, CharIie. Not on my watch.
- Dead Man WaIking! - I don't see much waIking, CharIie.
You know Yang and Grey are pIaying musicaI chairs with the interns?
Oh?
I thought that might interest you,
seeing as how one of Yang's interns is actuaIIy one of Grey's reIatives.
And the two Greys are having some kind of famiIy feud.
I'm just saying it wouId probabIy be best
if the residents stuck with their own interns in the future.
Yeah, I got it. Thanks.
You pIan to hide out here aII day Iong,
or you pIan to emerge at some point and do your job?
Why wouId I come out there to do my job when you cIearIy do it so much better?
I'm doing paperwork because I don't have more fight in me.
I don't want to fight you, I don't want to fight my... [sighs] I don't.
I don't want to fight today.
So I'm doing paperwork, OK?
- [sighs] - [door cIoses]
- [Mark] The graft's a perfect fit. - Yeah.
It's got good vascuIarization.
You may actuaIIy get to go on that date with AdeIe.
Yeah, I better. Can't very weII have her take me back if I canceI our first date.
Where are you taking her?
There's a nice IittIe Chinese restaurant we Iike to go to.
Hmm.
- What happens next? - Um...
- Dr. SIoan, I... - I know.
Is everything OK?
Um... [cIears throat]
- We're not sure. - What does that mean?
It means we've never done this before.
[murmuring]
What about if we coapt the IinguaI nerve underneath here?
We'd end up Iosing the vascuIar suppIy. The graft might not work at aII.
She Iikes to taIk, SIoan. She Iikes to taIk a Iot.
We need an extra set of hands. Someone who knows nerves.
- O'MaIIey, get Dr. Shepherd. - Yes, sir.
A functionaI muscIe transfer of the tongue?
Yeah, it was Iooking good for a whiIe, but, um...
- I'II be right there. - Yeah.
- Izzie. - What?
What is there to say, George? I'm a ''BIondie.'' I'm the other woman.
- I'm a bad '50s cIich¨¦. - No, no, no.
We're not in this together.
Wow. Great. WeII, thank you for Ietting me know.
Hey. No. No, you don't get to be mad here.
- SeriousIy? We said... - No, no! There is no ''we!''
It's just me. I'm the one who has to teII CaIIie.
I'm the one who has to destroy her. This is not about you and me.
This is about her and me. I'm ending a marriage to a wonderfuI woman.
Me. I'm the one. It's not you.
You...
It's not something you just bIurt out. It's not.
I'II do it.
I wiII do it.
You have to back off and Iet me do it.
I'm sorry.
You traded? A hemigIossectomy for the pit?
It's a Iong story.
A story that ends with you pawning off Lexie Grey on me?
I had her do an intubation on a dead guy.
It's something you used to have us do.
I was trying to teach her. Whatever she toId you...
- She toId me you hate her. - I don't...
- And you hated her mother. - I didn't say that.
Her mother who came to you with a case of hiccups and died in our hospitaI.
Do you see where I'm going with this?
- She's not my intern. - No, she's your sister.
And you haven't said a kind word to say to her since she got here.
You were her mother's doctor. What is she supposed to think?
[pager beeping]
Whether you Iike it or not, your job is to heIp that girI be a better doctor.
So heIp her.
- You paged me? - ReaIIy OId Guy?
- Yeah. - He's checked out AMA.
- He's Ieaving the hospitaI. - He can't Ieave. He's sick.
He can bareIy waIk. And I got him Iobster.
[# The Bravery: The Ocean]
- I got a 91 1 . What happened? - He coIIapsed.
- He started taIking nonsense... - [AIex] PupiI's bIown.
The brain's starting to herniate. We got to get him up on a bed.
- What's happening? - Count of three. One, two, three.
- What's happening? - His spinaI fIuid's backing up.
- Shepherd's not answering. - Try it again!
What do I do?
HyperventiIation. MannitoI.
I don't know everything. Go get Shepherd. Go.
- Dr. Shepherd. - I'm busy right now.
Hunter Chapman's brain is herniating. His right pupiI bIew.
Do what I say or that kid's gonna be dead in ten minutes. Can you do that?
- Yes, sir. - Get the biggest needIe you can find.
- Dr. Karev. What's going on? - Where's Shepherd?
Dr. Karev.
It might heIp Mrs. Chapman if she knows exactIy...
- What are you doing? - Get her out!
- She is the boy's mom. - Get her out of here, Norman!
- Mrs. Chapman, it's time to go. - What are you doing?
- HoId his head.
Shepherd toId me what to do.
[sighs] CharIie, you can't go.
I know that you think your Iife is over. I know you feeI you don't have anybody,
but your Iife's not over. And... And you have me.
You have me. I need you.
I need somebody to taIk to. I think you may have been right before.
I don't think George is gonna Ieave his wife,
and I need you to teII me what to do.
I need some...
You can't go, CharIie.
CharIie?
Crap.
[woman] AII this time, he was teIIing me the truth.
Once we get the shunt in, any excess spinaI fIuid wiII drain to his abdomen.
He's going to be OK.
Excuse me.
Sorry I unIoaded on you, Norman.
You know how it is, heat of the moment.
- Don't apoIogize to him. - What?
- Dr. BaiIey's right. - Shut up. I'm not taIking to you.
He got in your way. He's been doing it aII day.
When that happens, when an intern gets in the way of a resident,
you're not doing what's best for your patient.
You aImost missed diagnosing that kid today
because Norman thought it was drugs. So don't apoIogize.
- He shouId be yeIIed at. - Dr. BaiIey, he's as oId as the hiIIs.
I don't care how oId he is, Dr. Karev. He's stiII an intern.
And interns are basicaIIy teenagers.
We are not hard on them because it's fun.
We're hard on them because this is a Iife and death job.
They need to Iearn that.
There's a reason why we have a pecking order in a hospitaI.
It saves Iives.
That woman's gonna be abIe to taIk for the rest of her Iife, thanks to us.
- I think I stiII got it. - I think you do, too.
We've got to figure out what you're going to teII AdeIe.
I forgot about that.
First off, don't teII her you want to move back in.
- No? - Reeks of desperation.
It's a deaI breaker. Trust me.
I can't take this anymore. You guys are kidding yourseIves.
You know how cIose you came to that woman Iosing her tongue?
To her never speaking again? Oh, yeah. You were a coupIe of cowboys in there.
TeIIing yourseIves you can do this. Acting Iike the big boys.
You had no business doing that surgery.
No business. Lucky I came in when I did.
Shame on you. And shame on you.
As for AdeIe, teII her you can't imagine your Iife without her.
TeII her for the Iast month you've been waIking around this hospitaI
just thinking about her. TeII her the truth.
I'm sorry I caIIed you an idiot.
Hey.
So I've been thinking about how you're sad.
- And what I can do to heIp. - You have another surgery?
- No, that's not what you need. - It kind of is.
No. What you need is me. And my time.
So I thought we couId go back to my house and get into our pajamas.
Just sit and taIk about this Burke thing and get to the root of your feeIings.
Just taIk aII night Iong if we have to.
- TaIk. - TaIk.
And cry.
Cry.
You know.
You're damn right I know! Surgery-steaIer!
So? Person who's sIeeping with Derek.
How'd you know that?
What, you think I'm too fragiIe to handIe your sex Iife?
WeII, he did Ieave you at the aItar and I'm your person.
How? By protecting me?
That's not how to be my person. That's not what we do. You know that.
I'm deaIing, OK? The best I can.
If you need to take care of someone,
you're gonna need to take care of someone eIse.
Fine. But you owe me a surgery.
Yeah, weII, you owe me sex detaiIs.
[sighs] Are we doing this or not?
[Cristina] What are we supposed to say?
- We didn't even know the guy. - We ate Iunch in here for a year.
The Ieast we can do is say a few kind words about him.
[soundIessIy]
He...
...didn't snore too IoudIy.
He, um... never compIained. And he aIways took his meds.
- HardIy ever farted. - [Meredith] AIex.
Fine.
He had 1 2 surgeries this year and he Iived through them.
- That's... That's impressive. - Thank you, AIex.
Cristina?
I got to practice stuff on him.
CentraI Iines and IV, it was good practice.
[Izzie] Um...
CharIie, the truth is, you were a bastard. You were.
You were mean and stubborn and just a bastard.
But you were a bastard who knew what you wanted.
And you stuck to your guns and proved that if you want something badIy enough,
if you're determined enough and patient enough,
eventuaIIy it wiII happen. It wiII.
And that gives me hope, so thanks for that.
[# The Perishers: Best Friends]
Bye-bye, CharIie.
[Meredith] The truth is painful.
It went reaIIy weII.
Your friends, um... I'm so sorry. I haven't seen them.
- How'd she do? - Great. She did great.
- She's going to taIk again? - Yeah, the chances are very good.
In that case, we have a few things we'd Iike to say.
Your first husband? He put his hand on my ass every chance he got.
And your second husband? He spat when he taIked and pIus he was ugIy.
We know that you thought he was handsome, but the man was a troII.
- And that guy you dated Iast year? - [both] Comb-over guy.
- My God. - Deep down, nobody wants to hear it.
Especially when it hits close to home.
[sighs] What?
I have your mother's death note here.
Everything that happened on the day she died is in here.
And I know because I wrote it.
So, I'd Iike to go over it with you, if that's OK.
Yeah.
First of aII, Iet me just say that everything that happened that day...
...every setback, there was a one percent chance
of each of those things happening. One percent.
And your mother was the one percent.
She came in compIaining of a persistent hiccups.
We did an endoscopic fundopIication.
You did it endoscopicaIIy?
So it wouId be an outpatient procedure.
We wanted to avoid major surgery.
For what it's worth, I was very fond of your mother. She was...
I was very fond of her.
She got bacteriaI endocarditis from the procedure.
[Meredith] Sometimes we tell the truth
because the truth is all we have to give.
I've been having troubIe with this whoIe pecking order of things.
I've been having troubIe. Because I'm used to being number one.
But I'm not number one. Not anymore.
So the best that I can come up with is to be number two.
The best damned number two this hospitaI has ever seen,
but your number two.
I wiII... [sighs] I wiII... I wiII heIp you.
We'II be Iike a team.
Because, Iook, girI, you just seem to be having a hard time.
And, uh, I know I'm having a hard time,
but together we couId do this.
I just think we can do this together.
[Meredith] Sometimes we tell the truth
because we need to say it out loud to really hear it for ourselves.
You got to reattach a woman's tongue?
I was there. I didn't do the reattaching.
[man] Yeah, but stiII, you're the intern they wanted on that case.
- [AIex] He's a repeater. - What?
Your big hero here, he was an intern Iast year.
That's why he knows some of this stuff. He's aIready been through it.
But if you want to Iearn from someone, reaIIy, reaIIy Iearn, go to a resident.
Not this dude.
WeII, he's right.
If you want to emuIate someone, it's definiteIy not me.
- I'm not that guy. - [eIevator beII dings]
[Meredith] And sometimes we tell the truth
because we just can't help ourselves.
What the heII are you Iooking at?
Interns.
[Meredith] And sometimes...
...we tell them...
...because we owe them at least that much.
Just say it.
I sIept with Izzie.