Grey’s Anatomy: Here’s to the Future
August 31st 2010 04:42
Meredith: (VO) When something begins, you generally have no idea how it's going to end. The house you're going to sell becomes your home, the roommates you were forced to take in become your family and the one night stand you were determined to forget becomes the love of your life.
~*~*~
George: Izzie? You paged me, are you okay?
Izzie: No, I don't know what to do. I don't know if I should have the surgery. I think I'm gonna die either way. You gotta tell me what to do.
George: You know what to do.
Izzie: No, I don't. I don't.
George: Yes, you do. You're just scared to do it. This back and forth is just fear. You've already made the decision. You made it. You made it the second you decided to fight this thing. Just look, look where you started. Look where you are now. I mean, now you're this incredible surgeon, and teacher. You're a doer, remember? You know exactly what you have to do.
~*~*~
Meredith: You couldn't remember anything. You didn't know my name. You didn't know who Derek was…You didn't know who Alex was. You couldn't even remember how to speak.
Izzie: How come I don't remember any of this?
Meredith: Because, the tumor is sitting right in the middle of everything that makes you, you. I was standing there talking to you exactly like i am now, only you weren't there. You weren't you. You were gone.
Izzie: So, what do I do?
~*~*~
Mark: I wasn't asking you to come see the condo. I was asking you to move in with me. If that's what you want.
Lexie: I do.
Mark: You do?
Lexie: Yeah. Not right away.
Mark: No, of course not. Like... a year.
Lexie: 10 years.
Mark: Wait, what now?
Lexie: Oh, uh, because I'll still be a resident for like 6 more years. And then I'd wanna get my practice up and running. So, how 'bout 7?
Mark: How about 5 years?
Lexie: I'll still be a resident.
Mark: So... Stevens and Karev are residents. Meredith's a resident. Bailey's a resident. All married or soon to be, and happily, or whatever.
Lexie: I'm sorry, ar-are you asking me t-to... marry you?
Mark: No... Why? Would you?
Lexie: Ah, should we be having this conversation?
Mark: No. Probably not.
Lexie: ... Okay
~*~*~
Arizona: Chief.
The Chief: Yes, Dr. Robbins?
Arizona: Chief.
The Chief: Did you wanna tell me something?
Arizona: I am going to cry, and I just want you to know that I know it's going to happen. And, I just want you to ignore it. And, I'm not crying because I'm upset. It's just what happens when I get mad at people of authority.
The Chief: You're mad at me?
Arizona (starts crying): I am mad at you. And, I'm crying because you're the boss. My boss. Which brings up issues of authority and my dad, who you kind of remind me of. Not that you're old, but you command respect. People respect you. I mean, I know I do and I know Bailey does. Which is why I'm mad. Because, it's wrong, sir. It's wrong and mean to use a robot to lure Dr. Bailey back into general surgery, because I don't have a robot. All I have are little kids, and they're not as fun as a robot. And they're not shiny, and new, and silver, and they don't have things coming out of their belly buttons. But, I will fight you, and I will win, ... sir.
The Chief: You think you can fight me, and win?
Arizona: Yes!
The Chief: Good luck.
Arizona: Because I have something that you don't have! I have joy, sir!
~*~*~
Alex: You're having the surgery.
Izzie: What?
Alex: Shepherd said that this is your last shot.
Izzie: Look I under-
Alex: I am your husband, and I say that you are having the surgery!
Izzie: What happened to "this is your decision."?
Alex: That was when I thought you were gonna make the right one! But, you chose wrong so now you don't get to make this decision on your own, because you married me! It's not just your life at stake anymore! It's my life, too. My life with you! So you can tell Swender whatever you want, but I'm telling Shepherd, and I'm telling you that you're having the surgery!
~*~*~
Meredith: We need to go talk to Izzie.
Cristina: No, we are not talking Izzie into having surgery because your future husband is mad at you.
Meredith: But he has a right to be mad, because we didn't talk Izzie out of surgery as her doctors, we did it as her friends.
Cristina: Our job as doctors is to present the options, answer questions, and let the patients decide the course of treatment. That is what we did.
Meredith: Right. Except I may have presented her options as, "You're having this surgery, over my dead body!" He has a right to be mad.
~*~*~
Izzie: If Derek cuts the tumor out I could lose my memory, and if he doesn't I can die. I don't know what to do. Alex, tell me what to do.
Alex: Iz, I can't tell you what to do.
Izzie: Of course you can, you're my husband. That's what husbands do. They stomp around telling their wives what to do. It's your job.
Alex: My job is to support whatever you wanna do.
Izzie: I don't know what I wanna do. That's why I'm asking you. Okay, I have an idea. Let's put it to a vote. All in favor of the surgery.
Meredith: No, we're not voting. No one's-- No one's voting.
Izzie: Opposed?
Cristina: I'm opposed... (Alex shoots her a look) ... to voting.
Izzie: Just decide for me. Please?
Alex: You don't have to know right now. Think about it.
Izzie: I don't have time.
~*~*~
Owen: I realized the reason why I haven't told my mother I'm back is because part of me is still over there. I made a commitment to the army that I wasn't able to fulfill. If my unit hadn't been destroyed. I would still be there. So, no wonder I can't sleep at night, or look my mother in the eye. No wonder you and I, we can't move forward. My work there isn't done. Until it is, I have no business being here. So, I've decided to go back.
~*~*~
Arizona: Dr. Bailey, are you busy today?
Bailey: That depends. Do you have any more dying children you want me to become overly attached to before they expire?
~*~*~
Chief: Who is Santa Claus?
Bailey: An old white man, who lives at the North Pole, and enters people's homes inappropriately.
~*~*~
Chief: Dr. Bailey, are you making Light Saber noises?
Bailey: Uh, not anymore, sir.
~*~*~
Charlie: Dr. Torres, Dr. O'Malley, I just wanna apologize for...
George: It's okay, Charlie.
Callie: You don't have to do that.
Charlie: No, I do. ... 'Cause you both were just trying to do your job back there, and your job is to put people back together, not take them apart. I get that. And I know that it doesn't make sense to you that I would want to go back to a place where people get hurt and die... but we're there because we're trying to help people, save people, the same as you. It's my job, who I am. ... If something happened, and suddenly, you couldn't be a doctor anymore, if someone told you, you couldn't do it anyomre... Wouldn't you wanna do everything you could possibly do to be a doctor again?
~*~*~
Bailey: You okay?
Callie: I cut off a healthy leg. I just cut it off. It was for the patient’s own good, but still, I feel like a butcher.
Dr. Swender: My miracle case is on life support. I thought I had one. One miracle. I hate this job sometimes.
Callie: I don't know why we do this.
Bailey: Come on, come with me. (they follow her)
Callie: Okay, what are we doing here?
Bailey: We came to see that (they look at Arizona's patient)
Dr. Swender: What?
Bailey: The joy. It comes around rarely, so rarely we forget it can happen. But that, that's why we do this. The joy.
~*~*~
Meredith: I always thought it would be me. I'd get Alzheimer's like my mother and forget everyone. Let’s go to city hall tomorrow. I don't wanna spend another day not being married to you.
Derek: Okay.
~*~*~
Cristina (to Owen): It doesn't matter how good you are. Or how hard you work. You can do all the research, you can master all the latest techniques, I mean you can be the best. You can be the best surgeon in the world, but your patients are still gonna die. 'Cause the next day, or the next month, or the next year, you know they're just gonna get hit by a car. Or find a mole on their back. There's nothing you can do about it. (looks at him) I don't want you to die.
~*~*~
Denny: Nice ring. Alex outdid himself.
Izzie: We're gonna have beautiful kids, don't you think? Is four too many?
Denny: Four is perfect.
Izzie: Ideally, it would be two boys and two girls, one of which would definitely be a tomboy. And I was thinking I should have them pretty close together, though that might be stupid.
Denny: Why wait?
Izzie: Exactly. That way, if I'm not able to practice medicine anymore...
Denny: You won't want to.
Izzie: You think?
Denny: Do you?
Izzie: I'm asking you. Why do you keep agreeing with everything I say?
Denny: Because I am you. I'm your tumor. You're talking to yourself.
Izzie: Right.
~*~*~
Alex: I need you to not talk medicine to me, okay? Talk to me like I'm your friend, like I'm the guy whose cereal you eat in the morning, and tell me what to do.
Derek: Karev--
Alex: Please.
Derek: Karev, I can't tell you what to do.
Alex: What if it was Meredith? What would you do if you had to choose between spending a few more months with Meredith, knowing she was gonna die, watching her...watching her sick, or spending the rest of your life with someone who looked like Meredith, but wasn't her anymore? She's the one good thing that ever happened to me. The one good thing. So I need to know what to do. I need you to tell me, what if it was Meredith?
Derek: … I would ask her to have the surgery.
~*~*~
Alex: Please.
Izzie: Alex.
Alex: Look, you went crazy. When Denny signed that DNR, you went crazy. Is that what you want? You want me cutting LVADs?
Izzie: No.
Alex: You want to wreck my career? Because I will! I will freakin' cut LVADs before I let you just...just wait! Stop! (gurney stops) You don't get to quit. You don't get to quit on me. Please. Tear it up. The DNR. Tear it up!
Izzie: Where your eyes are supposed to be right now...I see white, sandy beaches. And there's an ocean behind your head, and there are ghosts wandering in and out. I can't live like this. And I can't live...if something goes wrong in that surgery, I don't want any extraordinary measures taken to keep me alive. It's not what I want. I went crazy when Denny signed the DNR because I didn't understand. I didn't understand, but now I do, and I need you to understand. I don't want you to go crazy. I want you to have a brilliant career, and I hope that I get to be there for that, but if I can't, I I just want to go to the other side. I don't know what's there, but it's got to be better than hospital beds and tubes down my throat. Please. Please don't cut LVADs. Just...if it comes down to it, just let me go. And right now, kiss me. Please, please just kiss me and close your eyes because the beach is so distracting.
Alex (crying): Alright. (kisses her)
~*~*~
Meredith: (VO) We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it.
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