2X02 - ENOUGH IS ENOUGH (NO MORE TEARS)

[Addison M. Shepherd]

GREY'S ANATOMY
2X02 - ENOUGH IS ENOUGH (NO MORE TEARS)
Original Airdate (ABC): 02/OCT/2005

WRITTEN BY JAMES D. PARRIOTT
DIRECTED BY PETER HORTON

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[INT. MEREDITH’S TOWNHOUSE]
Meredith Voice Over (MVO): I have an aunt who whenever she poured anything for you would say ‘say when’.

(Opens with Meredith lying down on the floor of her bathroom)

MEREDITH: It’s not us. It’s them. Them and their stupid boy … penises. They didn’t tell me they had a wife. They gave absolutely no warning that they were going to break up with you.

(All of sudden Cristina slides open the shower door. She is sitting there in the bathtub dressed in her casual clothes)

CRISTINA: It’s not that Burke broke up with me. It’s how he broke up with me. Like it was business. Like it was a business trans, like he’s the boss of me!

MEREDITH: He is the boss of you.

CRISTINA: And what’s worse? Is that I care.

MEREDITH: I’m gonna throw up again.

(She crawls over to the toilet bowl and Cristina slides the shower door shut again)

MVO: My aunt would say ‘say when’ and of course we never did.

(Meredith looks like she’s going to throw up)

MEREDITH: No wait, false alarm.

(She pulls away from the toilet bowl and Cristina opens up the shower door again. Meredith sits against the wall)

CRISTINA: The problem is estrogen.

MEREDITH: No the problem is tequila.

CRISTINA: I used to be all business and then he goes and gets me pregnant.

MEREDITH: With the stupid boy penis.

CRISTINA: I am having hormone surges. He ruined me. I’m ruined. He turned me into this fat, stupid pregnant girl. Who cares! Estrogen!

(She slides the shower door shut again)

MEREDITH: Penises. Penisesisies.

(The bathroom door opens and Izzie and George walk in. George to brush his teeth and Izzie with a bottle of water. The shower door is open again)

CRISTINA: Estrogen George.

GEORGE: Okay. (to Izzie) What is this?

(Izzie pours some water into a glass that Cristina is holding out)

IZZIE: I came home to full on vomit drama. Apparently she dumped Derek and her … (sounds scandalized) she’s been sleeping with Burke!

GEORGE: I knew that.

MVO: We don’t say when because there’s something about the possibility of more.

(Izzie gives George a look and George turns to face Meredith)

GEORGE: So you really broke up with Shepard?

(He starts brushing his teeth)

MEREDITH: I feel empty.

IZZIE: Two hours of vomiting will do that to you.

(Both Izzie and George are now brushing their teeth looking at Meredith)

MVO: More tequila, more love, more anything, more is better.

MEREDITH (more to herself): No, I feel empty.

CRISTINA: You’re lucky. I feel pissed off.

(She slides the door shut)

[EXT. SGH PARKING LOT]

(Meredith slams the door of her car. George, Cristina and Izzie get out slowly after her. Dr. Shepard is waiting for her under some shelter. She walks past him but he follows her)

MEREDITH: Stop.

DR. SHEPARD: What?

MEREDITH: You’re stalking me. Stop it.

DR. SHEPARD: Did we not communicate last night?

MEREDITH: Yes.

DR. SHEPARD: Did you hear what I was saying?

MEREDITH: Your wife screwed your best friend.

DR. SHEPARD: And from that point on she no longer existed to me anymore.

MEREDITH: You had marital amnesia?

DR. SHEPARD: No. Come on I bared my soul to you last night.

MEREDITH: It’s not enough.

DR. SHEPARD: How can that be not enough?

(They’re now at the front of the hospital entrance doors. Meredith stops and turns around to face him)

MEREDITH: When you waited 2 months to tell me and I had to find out by her showing up all leggy and fabulous and telling me herself. (Cristina walks in past them but Izzie and George watch from afar) You pulled the plug. I’m a sink with an open drain, anything that you say runs right out. There is no enough.

(She walks off and Shepard looks sad. Izzie and George walk in past Derek)

GEORGE: She probably could’ve picked a better metaphor.

IZZIE: Give her a break, she’s got a hangover.

(Cut to Meredith walking in the hospital quickly. George and Izzie are a few feet behind. Burke is walking down through the waiting room and sees Derek walking in)

DR. BURKE: Dr. Shepard!

DR. SHEPARD (still looking after Meredith): Dr. Burke.

DR. BURKE: Ah we’ve have an organ donor coming in this afternoon from Wilkinson General. We’re doing a harvest.

DR. SHEPARD: Commendable.

(From a few feet away, Meredith, George, Izzie and Cristina watch waiting for an elevator)

DR. BURKE: In O.R. 1 at 4.

DR. SHEPARD: I’m in O.R 1 at 4.

DR. BURKE: Your surgery is non-critical…

DR. SHEPARD (talks over Burke): You can’t bump me!

DR. BURKE: … until tomorrow. As Chief I can.

DR. SHEPARD: Bump somebody else!

DR. BURKE: You’re in the O.R we need.

DR. SHEPARD: Why don’t they do the harvest at Wilkinson?

DR. BURKE: Small facilities in abundance. A duck in a box. We have the location, the airport nearby and the staff. Your surgery is rescheduled.

(Shepard just stares at him and then walks away. The elevator door opens and they all get on)

CRISTINA (to Meredith): Mine’s bigger than yours.

(Alex walks in quickly)

ALEX: Whip it out, I’ll measure.

CRISTINA: Shut up Alex.

(Burke hears her voice and looks at her standing in the elevator. She stands uncomfortable as the elevator doors close)

(Cut to Bailey with her interns standing in front of an ambulance outside the E.R entry of the hospital. The doors open and a man on a stretcher is wheeled out by 2 paramedics)

PARAMEDIC #1: Male. 55. Victim of a head on collision. GCS is 3, depressed skull fracture, multiple internal injuries. Axcelis protocol started but was vein blue so we’ve been pushing megs down the tube. PEA on arrival.

DR. BAILEY: How long has he been down?

PARAMEDIC #1: We’ve been doing CPR for about 20 minutes. It took fire 20 minutes to get him out of the car. He’s pretty much gone.

DR. BAILEY: Uh, he’s not gone until we say he’s gone. Keep coding.

(The paramedics wheel the patient into the hospital)

DR. BAILEY: O’Malley, get him into a van. Save him.

GEORGE: But he’s dead.

(Another ambulance approaches, Alex, Cristina & Izzie make their way over to it)

DR. BAILEY: Did you not hear me? He’s not dead until we say he’s dead. You know what to do so do it. (George looks off put) Uh Grey, you’re on this too. Move.

(She pushes Meredith towards the entry of the hospital. Meredith walks in, while George just stands there)

PARAMEDIC #2 (from other ambulance): We’ve got three more victims from the other car people coming in. Let’s move people!

(George slowly follows Meredith)

GEORGE (to himself): He’s dead.

(He sighs)

(Cut to a trauma room where the man from the accident is lying on a hospital gurney. His heart monitor is flat lined. Olivia is in there standing next to George. Meredith and other doctors are in there as well. Olivia hands George the paddles to charge the heart)

GEORGE: Olivia. (to other doctors) Pulseless VTAC?

MEREDITH: Line’s in.

GEORGE: Okay, charge to 200.

OLIVIA: 200.

GEORGE: Clear.

(He shocks the body but nothing happens)

MEREDITH: Push 1 of epi. Let’s go again. Charge to 300.

GEORGE: Seriously?

OLIVIA: I think that’s what Dr. Bailey wants you to do George. (he gives her a look) Dr. O’Malley.

MEREDITH: It’s what she wants Dr. O’Malley.

GEORGE: Okay then let’s charge to 300.

OLIVIA: 300.

GEORGE: Clear.

(Cut back to emergency entrance of the hospital with a new ambulance and another victim from the same crash but a different car. Izzie, Cristina, Alex and Bailey are standing over the patient. Two paramedics are with them)

PARAMEDIC #3: Male. 46. Unrestrained driver of the car that jumped lanes. BP 80 over count, tachycardic.

(Another ambulance pulls up wailing. They all start wheeling the patient into the hospital. E.R doctors are there to meet them)

PARAMEDIC #3: Last pulse 128. Got 2 liters of LR1 wide open. Significant abdominal tenderness.

DR. BAILEY: Any history?

PARAMEDIC #3: Uh wife says he’s got a bad liver. He’s one the ah transplant list.

DR. BAILEY: Abdomen’s rigid. Okay hand’s off. We need to page Burke and Domner. Prep this guy for the O.R. Who wants him?

IZZIE (raises her arm, loud): I do!

ALEX: I do.

CRISTINA (raises her arm, also loud): I do, I do.

DR. BAILEY: Uh too late. Stevens take it.

IZZIE: Yes.

(Izzie walks with the paramedics wheeling the patient away)

DR. BAILEY: Karev, take the boy.

(Another gurney is being wheeled in quickly with paramedics and E.R doctors. Alex joins them)

DR. BAILEY: Yang, you take the mom.

(Another gurney comes by with the mom being wheeled by E.R docs and paramedics. Cristina joins them)

DR. BAILEY (calls out): I want to be looking at their films in 15 minutes!

(An E.R doc standing near by holding a chart calls out to Bailey)

E.R. DOCTOR: We’ve got one more for you.

DR. BAILEY: Where? In there? (She looks at the door to the pit) Oh, okay.

(She walks in and the E.R doc hands her the patient chart)

DR. BAILEY: What is it?

E.R. DOCTOR: That guy.

(He points to a guy lying on a hospital bed, gown and all. His name is Mr. Hubble)

DR. BAILEY: He was in the accident?

E.R. DOCTOR: No. Bowel obstruction. He’s not telling us what he ingested but the films look like he’s packing.

(He walks off)

DR. BAILEY (sighs): Can’t people figure out a better way to move drugs.

(Bailey walks into the trauma room with George, Meredith, Olivia and the doctors. George is sticking a large needle into the man’s abdomen)

DR. BAILEY: Grey! (She sees what George is doing) Oh pericardiocentesis. That’s good. Any response?

GEORGE: Mm mmm.

DR. BAILEY: Okay, uh you guys can …

(She gestures to the other doctors to say they can leave)

GEORGE: Should I call it?

(Olivia moves and gets a manual respirator and hooks it up to the patient and starts pumping)

DR. BAILEY: What would you do next O’Malley?

GEORGE: I would call it.

DR. BAILEY: To save him.

GEORGE: Oh, uh I don’t know. A pericardial window.

DR. BAILEY: Excellent. Do it. (She gestures to Meredith) Grey, you’re down here. I’ve got a bowel obstruction for you.

(She walks out)

MEREDITH: Fun.

GEORGE: Well at least your patient is still alive.

(Meredith leaves. It’s just Olivia and George in the room now)

OLIVIA: What next doctor?

(George looks less than happy at the situation)

(Cut to Richard lying in bed still all bandaged up from his surgery. Dr. Shepard is trying to check Richard’s eyes with a small flashlight but isn’t having very much luck. Richard keeps pushing him away)

RICHARD: Okay. Stop. That’s it.

DR. SHEPARD: That is not it.

RICHARD: Oh yes it is. Stop it. That’s it.

DR. SHEPARD: That is not it Richard. Hold still.

RICHARD: How can I hold still when you’re poking me?

(Richard finally stops squirming and Dr. Shepard is able to check his eyes)

DR. SHEPARD: I have to poke you to discharge you.

(Richard sighs and Dr. Shepard pulls away and puts the flashlight away. He walks to the end of the bed. A short slightly over weight black woman walks in. This is Adele, Richard’s wife)

ADELE: What makes you think he wants to be discharged? (Richard looks horrified that she’s here) Derek don’t you know that this hospital will crumble unless Richard’s here holding up the walls?

RICHARD: Adele, you’re supposed to be in the Virgin Islands.

ADELE: Oh you are in 5 kinds of trouble Mr. Man. (She walks up to him and gives a kiss on the cheek) You had brain surgery and didn’t tell me?

RICHARD (timid): It was just a small procedure.

ADELE: It was brain surgery!

RICHARD: I didn’t want to ruin your vacation.

ADELE: You don’t know what a vacation is. How would you know how to ruin it?

RICHARD: Well anyway … (he stops and gives her a look) How did you find … (he stops and then gives Derek a big old glare) You called my wife?

(Derek looks up from the chart he was writing in startled)

DR. SHEPARD: You called mine. (Richard is silent) Look having someone home with you is the only way I’m letting you out of here today.

RICHARD: Fine.

(Addison walks up to the door holding a cup of coffee)

ADDISON: I thought I saw a fabulous looking woman walk by.

ADELE: Addison! Yes see (She walks up and they hug) I told Richard I knew you and Derek would get back together.

ADDISON: Ah actually I’m here on a case.

DR. SHEPARD: Addison and I are over Adele.

ADDISON: It’s not like we’re divorced.

DR. SHEPARD: Practically divorced.

ADELE: You’ve had counseling?

DR. SHEPARD: We had adultery. That was enough.

ADELE: Hmm.

ADDISON: I’ll call you later, okay?

(Adele nods and Addison walks off. Adele walks up to Dr. Shepard)

ADELE: You should give her a chance Derek.

DR. SHEPARD: It’s good to see you. (He gives a kiss on the cheek) Keep him in line.

(He walks off. Adele turns to Richard who looks off put by the whole deal)



(Cut to the son of the accident, Scott Seibert who looks like he’s about 15-16 years old, lying on a table being x-rayed with a neck brace on. Alex is standing in there with him with an E.R doctor standing there as well)

SCOTT: My mom’s okay right?

ALEX: Yeah, yeah I think so.

SCOTT: They’d been fighting at breakfast. (Alex nods) Dad … it’s ugly when it gets like that. Ran three stop light before he even got on the freeway.

(The camera pans out of the room and into the adjacent trauma room where Scott’s mother Lea Seibert is lying on a hospital exam table with Cristina checking over her)

MRS. SEIBERT: My husband Bob’s a, a really good driver.

(The scene switches back and forth from Mrs. Seibert and Scott as they talk. They both speak at the ceiling rather than to any person directly)

SCOTT: Some guy in a pick up cuts us off.

MRS. SEIBERT: Safe. I uh think he saw something in the middle of the road and …

SCOTT: And my Dad just lost it.

MRS. SEIBERT: … and swerved to avoid it.

SCOTT: He started chasing the guy …

MRS. SEIBERT: The crash just, just came out of nowhere.

SCOTT: … blasting through traffic …

MRS. SEIBERT: We’d been having a really nice morning. One minute everything’s fine and the next …

SCOTT: … screaming at him.

MRS. SEIBERT: I see a guy’s face before we hit.

SCOTT: The next thing I know, we’re upside down on the other side of the freeway.

MRS. SEIBERT (to Cristina imploringly): Do the surgeon’s know that Bob has a bad liver?

CRISTINA: They know.

MRS. SEIBERT: How’s Scotty?

CRISTINA: Your son is in the next room getting x-rayed.

(Cut back to Scott & Alex)

SCOTT: My dad?

ALEX: He’s in surgery. It’s pretty serious.

SCOTT (silent for a bit): Yeah, well at least the son of bitch got what he deserved.

(Alex just stares at him)

Cut to an O.R room where Mr. Seibert the driver of the accident is getting operated on by Burke and Dr. Domner with lots of other doctors in the room standing helping or watching. Izzie is one of the interns watching)

DR. DOMNER (to Burke): What makes people think they don’t need seatbelts?

DR. BURKE: My end is done.

DR. DOMNER: Well the bowel’s a mess but it’s repairable. It’s a lot of work. I don’t see the point with this liver.

(Burke stares at him hard)

DR. BURKE (Izzie): What do you see Dr. Stevens?

IZZIE: A deep laceration, bleeding.

DR. BURKE: What else?

IZZIE: It’s hard and pale, cirrhotic. They said he’s on the transplant list.

DR. BURKE: Does he have family here Stevens?

IZZIE (nods): A wife and son.

(Cut back to the trauma room where Cristina is still checking over Mrs. Seibert)

CRISTINA: Okay, I’m just gonna roll you over, gently.

(She rolls Mrs. Seibert onto her side and lifts up her gown to see her back. There is a very large bruise there)

CRISTINA: Oh, this looks pretty bad. How did you get this?

MRS. SEIBERT (silent for a moment): Well we hit so hard …

CRISTINA: I don’t think this is from the collision. It looks a couple of weeks old.

(Mrs. Seibert is silent and doesn’t answer. Cristina looks up wondering at this)

(Cut to Bailey entering the trauma where George and Olivia are still trying to revive the already dead driver of the other car of the accident. George has a made a pericardial window while Olivia continues with the manual respirator)

DR. BAILEY: Where are you?

GEORGE: I can see his heart. His heart that’s not beating.

DR. BAILEY: Okay ah open the pericardium and aspirate. If the heart is still not beating close and call it. (George looks upset) What? You think we’re defiling this man’s body?

GEORGE: Well, well we’re certainly doing more …

DR. BAILEY: … than what? (George looks resigned) If they’re dead or dying when they come through those doors you hump and hump hard, why?

GEORGE: For the experience.

DR. BAILEY: Uh, no what else? There’s something more. (George doesn’t have an answer) You think on that. It’ll come to you.

(Bailey leaves the room)

(Cut to Mr. Hubble looking a little dumbfounded as he’s being wheeled down the hallway with Meredith and another doctor. Mr. Hubble has a very sweet nature. They stop at the elevator)

MEREDITH: You know Mr. Hubble you might make things easier on yourself if you just tell us what you’ve ingested. We’ll know anyway once we see your films.

MR. HUBBLE: You have the most beautiful features. They’re delicate, almost porcelain.

MEREDITH: Mr. Hubble, whatever you’ve ingested could kill you. Are you sure you don’t want to tell me what’s got you blocked up inside?

(He looks at her then at the other doctor and then back at Meredith)

MR. HUBBLE: It ah might offend you.

MEREDITH: Is it drugs?

MR. HUBBLE: It’s not drugs.

MEREDITH: Mr. Hubble.

MR. HUBBLE: I promise. It’s not drugs.

(The doors bing open)

MEREDITH: Okay. Good. I’m glad it’s not drugs.

(They wheel him into the elevator)

(Cut to Meredith receiving films from Mr. Hubble’s x-ray from a radiologist at the Radiology desk)

RADIOLIGIST: Its drugs. Looks like at least 10 balloons in his bowel. (Meredith holds up the film in the light to see for herself) My guess cocaine.

(Cut to Bailey, Alex and Cristina in the x-ray observation room. Bailey switches on the light on the screen to illuminate Alex’s x-ray)

ALEX: Scott Seibert. 18. No fractures or internal bleeding. Got pretty lucky.

DR. BAILEY: Recommendation?

ALEX: Keep overnight for observation.

(Cristina puts up her x-ray film and switches on the light screen)

DR. BAILEY: Damn!

CRISTINA: Lea Seibert. 43. Multiple fractures on her clavicle and humerus, her 3rd and 4th rib.

DR. BAILEY: She’s either a bull rider or she’s abused.

ALEX: Kid said the accident was road rage. His old man got cut off in traffic, went ballistic.

CRISTINA: Oh, that’s not the story I got. (She puts up another x-ray) She has a large yellowing bruise over her right kidney. Tender to palpitation. Said she got it from a fall last week (Bailey scoffs). She’s bleeding.

DR. BAILEY: Perinephric hematoma. What do you do?

CRISTINA: It should take care of itself. We’ll keep an eye on it. She needs ah bed rest and a shrink.

(Meredith walks in with her films of Mr. Hubble)

MEREDITH: It’s drugs.

DR. BAILEY: Stupid. (she takes the x-ray film and puts it up on all already lit screen) Stupid, stupid. One burst and he’s dead in 5 minutes. Okay what do we do?

MEREDTIH: Run his bowel.

DR. BAILEY: And what does that mean? Yang.

CRISTINA: Ah running the bowel entails removing all 36 feet of the intestine from the body cavity, hand searching for the balloons and then cutting them out.

DR. BAILEY: Grey, book an O.R. Yang, Karev you’re in. I need all the hands I can get.

(Bailey, Meredith and Cristina start to leave but Alex continues to stare at the x-ray. He walks up closer to it)

ALEX: Are you sure they’re balloons?

(They stop at the door and Bailey walks back)

DR. BAILEY: You have reason to believe they’re not balloons?

(Alex points to the screen as Meredith and Cristina walk back in as well)

ALEX: This one here has got a face.

(Bailey dims the light on screen a bit. The balloons take on more face like structures)

MEREDITH: So does that one.

(They all look dumfounded)

CRISTINA: They all do.

DR. BAILEY: I’ll be damned. They’re Judys.

CRISTINA: Judys?

DR. BAILEY: Huh. He swallowed the heads of 10 Judy dolls.

(The camera closes up on a doll face on the x-ray)

CRISTINA: Ew.

[EXT. SEATTLE CITY, DAY TIME]

[INT. SGH, NURSE’S STATION]

(Cristina is sitting on a chair at the nurse’s station. Alex is standing looking over a chart at the desk while Meredith is putting a file away)

CRISTINA: My mother used to buy me Judy dolls. Manhattan Judy, Surfer Judy, Disco Judy.

MEREDITH: I always wanted one.

CRISTINA: I dissected them. Cut of their arms, shaved their heads.

(The camera off shots to Mr. Hubble sitting up on a hospital bed in the pre-op ward and then turns back to the trio)

ALEX: Sounds like there’s a sick and twisted story behind this.

CRISTINA: No they’re sexist distorted devil toys (Bailey comes around the corner which Alex notices) that create unrealistic image expectations (Alex waves bye to Cristina & leaves) carrying to the porn driven minds of men.

DR. BAILEY: You swallow a bitter pill this morning Yang? (Cristina turns around and then sits up and starts typing on the laptop in front of her) They’re dolls. Grey, call for a psych consult. Let’s see if he has family.

MEREDITH: Do I still book the O.R?

DR. BAILEY: Blocked bowels become necrotic bowels. Check with Dr. Burke. See if we can bump someone. Those Judys’ gotta come out today.

(Cut back to the O.R where Dr. Domner is still operating on Mr. Seibert with Burke standing nearby. Izzie is still there watching the surgery.)

SCRUBS NURSE #1: Hanging another B neg.

DR. DOMNER: He’s going through a lot of blood.

SCRUBS NURSE #1: Noted.

DR. BURKE: What’s the word from General’s?

IZZIE: He’s on the list but they don’t have a liver for him.

DR. DOMNER: This won’t help him now. We can work all day but this liver won’t stop bleeding. And it won’t support his recovery from surgery.

IZZIE: What about the donor from Wilkinson that’s coming in?

DR. BURKE: That liver has already been committed. Mr. Seibert’s only hope is a family donor.

DR. DOMNER: Maybe we should call it? No use in tying up an O.R if we’re just postponing the inevitable.

DR. BURKE: How much work do you have left here to complete Dr. Domner?

DR. DOMNER: 5, maybe 6 hours.

DR. BURKE: Then that’s how much time we have to find him a new liver.

DR. DOMNER: You’re the chief.

(Cut to Olivia and George in the trauma room still trying to revive the man who is dead from the accident. There is an awkward silence as they try to revive him. George is putting stitches to close the chest with a gun like instrument)

GEORGE: Any family members waiting?

OLIVIA: Still trying to reach them.

GEORGE: Good. I’m mean not good that we haven’t reached tha … good I don’t have to ah …

OLIVIA (interrupts): It’s always hard.

GEORGE: Yeah.

OLIVIA: I’m sorry about Alex.

(George squeezes the gun harder)

GEORGE: It’s fine. It’s good you know. No need to talk about it.

OLIVIA: You do understand that I had sex with him before you, not during? (George squeezes the gun really hard) Because when you and I were having sex …

GEORGE (interrupts): I understand.

OLIVIA: I just wanted to clear the air.

GEORGE: Oh. It’s clear. (Again squeezes the stitch gun really hard) Perfectly cl …

OLIVIA (interrupts): Okay.

GEORGE (nods): Okay.

OLIVIA: And about the syphilis …

GEORGE (quickly): We really don’t have to talk about this.

OLIVIA: Which is I mean, I didn’t know I had it. I should’ve, I’m a nurse. I mean there was the sore and I was all itchy.

(George squeezes the gun hard again)

GEORGE: Okay! (he backs away and almost knocks the tray next to him over) You know I uh, uh got it. You know things happen.

(He moves to the door far away from Olivia)

OLIVIA (rooted to where she is standing): They, they really do. Things you wish you could change.

GEORGE (nods): Yeah. (His beeper goes off and he scrambles to get it quickly and reads it) Oh, it’s the Chief. I gotta take this.

OLIVIA: Sure.

(George leaves eager to get away)

OLIVIA (calls out): George.

(He walks back in)

OLIVIA: You have to call it.

GEORGE: Call it?

OLIVIA: Him.

GEORGE: Oh, uh (he grabs his pager to check the time) um, time of death 1.48.

(He walks out)

(Cut to Alex and another doctor wheeling Scott down a hallway who is lying on a hospital bed. Scott is mindlessly hitting the railing with one of his hands looking very upset. They wheel him into an elevator)

ALEX: I got it.

(The other doctor leaves and the elevator doors close)

ALEX: This guy came in this morning with 10 Judy doll heads in his abdomen. Is that some kinda sick or what? I mean when you think about it those things can’t be thay easy to swallow. They’ve still got their hair on them. That’s some bad spaghetti. Dude’s crap toys.

(Scott almost smiles but is too upset. Alex sighs)

ALEX: You know when you’re little you can hide. You know the shouting, the screaming, you pretend like you’re some place else. Then when you get older, bigger, you feel like you should be doing something. Something to stop it. You know to protect her. (Scott still hits the side of the bed) And when you can’t you don’t know who to be angrier at. Your old man or yourself. Usually it’s yourself.

SCOTT (stops hitting): Did she tell you?

ALEX: She didn’t have to. It’s all over her films. He’s not beating you is he?

SCOTT: No, just her. So what do you about the anger?

(The doors bing open)

ALEX: Me? I think about the guy who eats doll heads. He’s got problems.

(Alex starts pulling Scott out of the elevator and into the hallway. Izzie rushes up to them)

IZZIE: Hey, I’ve been looking for you guys.

SCOTT: It’s my father.

(Cut to Mrs. Seibert’s room. A bunch of doctors are standing in there including Dr. Burke and Cristina. Mrs. Seibert looks upset)

MRS. SEIBERT: Bob liked his beers. His liver started to fail a couple of years ago. He quit drinking and we put him on the transplant list but his blood type.

DR. BURKE: B-negative.

MRS. SEIBERT (nods): There just aren’t that many available. They suggested a family member.

DR. BURKE: Any luck?

MRS. SEIBERT: My son. They said Scotty is a good match. He’s 18 …

CRISTINA (interrupts): Family members shouldn’t do it out of obligation. It’s a risky operation.

(Burke looks at Cristina)

MRS. SEIBERT: Scotty’s had counseling. You know they just don’t let you do it. (Cristina nods) He hasn’t made his mind up yet you know. (Cristina notices Burke staring at her) We actually have a date set for surgery. I just (She cries a little) I just, I don’t want to pressure him.

CRISTINA: Well then you shouldn’t.

MRS. SEIBERT (cries): Oh, Oh god, I don’t want to lose Bob.

DR. BURKE: We’ll give your son as much time as we can to make a decision. Yeah?

(The other docs nod)

MRS. SEIBERT (sobs): Thank … (she continues to cry)

(Burke gives Cristina a hard look and everyone leaves the room. Cristina walks out last and is stopped by Burke in the hallway)

DR. BURKE: Would you care to explain?

CRISTINA: Seibert is a wife beater. Her films show years of abuse.

DR. BURKE: I didn’t know that but still …

CRISTINA (interrupts): Multiple fractures. She has a kidney bleed from a beating she took last week. Plus it was, it was his road rage that caused the accident. The guy in the other car died!

DR. BURKE: And that means what? No heroic measures? Leave him on the table?

CRISTINA: Well if it were up to me …

DR. BURKE (interrupts): Think like a surgeon Dr. Yang! We have a dying patient and a liver that could save him.

CRISTINA: Well this more complicated than that.

DR. BURKE (in a hard tone): No. For social workers, yes! For the family. Not for you. It isn’t up to you!

(He begins to walk away)

CRISTINA: Yeah you made that perfectly clear.

(He hears this and walks back quickly)

DR. BURKE: Well I’m glad we have an understanding.

CRISTINA (shakes her head): I’m sure you are.

(She walks off in the other direction. Burke walks off as well)

(Cut to Burke walking with Patricia, Richard’s assistant down the open walled hallway in the hospital)

DR. BURKE: The donor from Wilkinson?

PATRICIA: Should be here at 3. Harvest team is on their way in.

DR. BURKE: I also need to touch base with the transplant centre about Seibert getting his son’s liver.

(Meredith walks up to them from the opposite direction)

MEREDITH: Dr. Burke. (They stop walking) Dr. Burke, Dr. Bailey needs an O.R and they’re all booked.

DR. BURKE: For?

MEREDITH: An emerging bowel obstruction.

(She hands him one of Mr. Hubble’s x-ray films, which he takes and holds up)

DR. BURKE: Drugs?

MEREDITH: 10 Judy doll heads.

DR. BURKE: Seriously?

MEREDITH: Yes.

(Patricia looks at the film as well)

PATRICIA: I can see their little faces. (she puts on a voice) Help. Let me out.

(Burke pulls down the x-ray film quickly)

DR. BURKE (to Patricia): Bump Warner’s hernia in 1. But don’t tell him what we’re removing.

(He hands Meredith the x-ray film back)

MEREDITH: Thank you.

(He and Patricia continue walking and Meredith walks off in the other direction)

(Cut to Burke entering Richard’s office. He’s surprised to see Adele in there rifeling through some of the papers)

ADELE: If he can’t be here obsessing he wants stuff to obsess with at home. (Patricia walks in) I’ll be done and out of your way in a moment.

(Patricia hands Burke a piece of paper)

PATRICIA: Intern time cards. Sign. (She waves to Adele, who waves back and leaves the office)

ADELE: It’s always something isn’t it? Some emergency surgery, some annoying administrative problem. (Burke looks at her as he signs the time cards on the round table in the room) Being chief is a lot like being an intern. The work never stops.

(Burke walks over to the desk as Adele gathers a big box of stuff to take out. He sits down at the chair at the desk)

ADELE: You know when I found out Richard had a tumor you know what I felt? Relieved. (Burke is looking at the computer screen not really listening) I was hoping he’d finally be forced to retire. (He looks up at Adele at this piece of news, intrigued) Ah. That has your attention doesn’t it? How we both would like that to happen. (She grabs her bag) I could finally book a vacation for two. (she chuckles) You know you’re perfect for this job Preston. Unattached, obsessive. This hospital, this job, it’s enough for you isn’t it?

(She leaves the room leaving Burke to contemplate what she has said)

(Cut to Scott lying in a hospital bed in his own patient room. Izzie and Alex are in there with him. Another doctor is there as well who is checking the movement of Scott’s limbs. He hands Izzie a package)

SCOTT: It has to be today?

IZZIE (to the doctor): Thanks. (to Scott) He won’t make it off the table with his own liver. He’s bleeding a lot.

SCOTT: When you get counseling they tell you not to force it. The decision you know. One day, one moment you just know the right thing to do. It should be easy right? He’s my father.

ALEX: Well it’s a tough operation. It’ll be a big change in your life.

IZZIE: The upside is that the liver is the only organ that regenerates itself. (Alex looks annoyed at this) I mean they’ll only take half of yours and it’ll be back to normal size in 2 months. You probably won’t be running any marathons any time soon but …

(Alex grabs Izzie’s arm and interrupts)

ALEX: Dr. Stevens can I see you outside for a moment?

(He pulls Izzie outside into the hallway)

IZZIE: What is your problem?

ALEX: (angry) You’re doing a sales pitch. The recipient is your patient. You shouldn’t even be talking to the donor.

IZZIE (defensive): The recipient is his father who he’s going to lose if he doesn’t make a decision.

ALEX (angry): And he understands that alright? Believe me he understands that. You have no idea what is going on in that kid’s head! None!

(He walks back in to the room leaving Izzie looking perplexed)

(Cut to George wheeling Richard dressed to go home in a wheelchair down the hallway. Adele is walking beside them holding the box she had when she was in his office)

RICHARD (to George): Call 3 times a day.

ADELE: Do not call 3 times a day.

RICHARD: Look and if my wife does not put you through …

ADELE (interrupts): I won’t put you through.

RICHARD: Keep calling until she does.

GEORGE: Yes sir.

(Adele gives George a look. He shakes his head no at her but Richard doesn’t see. They pass Mr. Hubble’s patient room where the psych intern Raj is walking out with Dr. Bailey and Meredith. Raj and Bailey stop to discuss Mr. Hubble while Meredith goes to put the chart away)

RAJ: He’s not talking. It could be pika. Doubtful for a man his age. Maybe an edible complex or an idolization of the doll as his partners. (Bailey gives him a weird look) Or it could be that he simply enjoys it.

DR. BAILEY: Now I’ve seen a lot of strange things in strange places but how does he enjoy this?

(Meredith walks back up to them)

RAJ: He’d enjoy it when they came out.

DR. BAILEY: I didn’t need to hear that.

(Addison walks by)

ADDISON: Dr. Grey, may I speak with you for a moment?

(Meredith looks at Bailey who moves to sign the chart Raj is holding out)

DR. BAILEY: Don’t look at me for help.

(Meredith walks up to Addison and they walk down the hallway together)

ADDISON: I assumed he told you why he left me.

(Meredith looks annoyed at this and stops walking in front of Addison)

MEREDITH: Dr. Shepard with all do respect, this has nothing to do with me.

(Meredith walks off but Addison follows her)

ADDISON: Really? So you didn’t take him back. Good girl.

MEREDITH: And in the future I’d appreciate it if we could keep our relationship strictly professional.

(Addison stops walking and Meredith continues to walk away. Addison calls out to her and Meredith turns around)

ADDISON: Meredith. … Sometimes people do desperate things to get someone’s attention.

(Meredith makes a face and walks away)

ADDISON (calls out): There are two sides to every story!

(Cut to Cristina, Izzie and George walking in the outdoor café with food trays)

CRISTINA: The father is an alcoholic wife beater. I mean there shouldn’t even be a question.

IZZIE: But if you could save somebody and you didn’t, wouldn’t you feel like you were committing murder?

CRISTINA: Like the guy did when crashed into George’s DOA. He’s the killer not the son.

(George stops when he sees and empty table with 10 headless Judy dolls sitting all arranged in a circle)

GEORGE: Oh! That is sick!

IZZIE: Who would do that?

(Meredith is all of sudden behind them with her own tray and they all turn to see Alex sitting by himself at nearby table looking smug and gestures as if to say of course it was me)

CRISTINA: Oh. (she picks up a Judy) Look see Judy fly. (She throws it at him and he ducks to the side so doesn’t hit him)

(Olivia walks by with her own tray as they all sit down at the table with the Judys)

OLIVIA: Hey George.

GEORGE (dismissive): Hey.

(Cristina, Izzie and Meredith give each other confused looks and all look at George questioningly)

GEORGE: What?

MEREDITH: George. She was trying to make up with you. You should go eat with her.

(George picks up a Judy and starts playing with it)

GEORGE: No. No I shouldn’t.

IZZIE: She’s cute and she likes you. You shouldn’t let a little syph get in the way.

GEORGE: It’s not the syph.

CRISTINA: It’s so the syph.

GEORGE: It’s not the syph!

IZZIE: Then what is it? (George doesn’t answer and looks down) Oh.

MEREDITH: What? (George shrugs) What is it? Out with it.

IZZIE: There’s this other girl.

GEORGE: Izzie!

CRISTINA: Other girl? You have another girl?!

IZZIE: He hasn’t told her yet that he likes her.

GEORGE: Izzie! We are not in high school.

IZZIE: George has a little crush.

GEORGE: I do not have a crush.

(Cristina laughs while Meredith looks at George contemplating who is still playing with the Judy doll)

GEORGE: It is a thing. A thing that is very personal. One day I would like to build on this thing with this other girl. Woman. She’s all woman.

(Meredith snatches the Judy doll away from George and slams it onto the table)

MEREDITH: What are you doing?

GEORGE (apologetic) : I was playing with …

MEREDITH (interrupts): No George, with Olivia. (She picks up the doll and starts pointing at George with it) What are you doing with Olivia?

GEORGE: Oh. Nothing.

MEREDITH: You’re letting her think you’re emotionally available. You’re letting her think she has a chance. (in loud voice) And there is nothing worse in the world than thinking you have a chance when you really don’t!

(She throws down the Judy doll)

CRISTINA: Meredith is right. Tell her there’s someone else. Tell her why George. I mean, (she yells) I mean at least give her the chance to have some feelings about for god’s sake!

GEORGE (shocked): Why are you yelling at me?

CRISTINA (loud): Because of the estrogen George! Because of all the estrogen!


(She takes a bite of her salad angrily. Meredith looks at George also angry. George looks taken aback by the whole situation. Izzie just tries to smile it off)

IZZIE: So new subject.

(Cut to Burke standing in front of the O.R board in the hallway looking at it thoughtfully. Derek walks down the stairs behind him and stands next to him)

DR. SHEPARD: It’s a mess.

DR. BURKE: No it isn’t.

DR. SHEPARD: I think I know a mess when I see a mess. You’ve got the harvest tying up O.R 1. Seibert tying up O.R 2. Bowel obstruction in O.R 3.

DR. BURKE: It’s simply overcrowded.

DR. SHEPARD: Well your crowded is my seriously overbooked. And in my book seriously overbooked is a mess.

(A scrubs nurse walks up to Burke and Shepard)

SCRUBS NURSE #2: They need to know if there’s any word on the Seibert liver.

DR. BURKE: How much time do they have left?

SCRUBS NURSE #2: Couple of hours.

DR. BURKE: Tell them I’ll be in to see them.

(The scrubs nurse walks off. Dr. Warner and his staff walk down the hallway up to Burke)

DR. WARNER: You bumped me for a bowel obstruction?

DR. SHEPARD: Ooh, uneasy lies the head that wears the chief’s cap.

(He walks off)

(Cut to Meredith with some other doctors wheeling Mr. Hubble for his bowel obstruction surgery down a hallway)

MEREDITH: Was it an act of desperation?

MR. HUBBLE: Not at all.

MEREDITH: Something to attract attention?

MR. HUBBLE (raises his eyebrows): Of course not.

MEREDITH: I’m just trying to understand here, Mr. Hubble. Why 10 doll heads?

MR. HUBBLE: Well because 11 would’ve been too much.

(Cut to the O.R with Mr. Hubble’s surgery. Cristina, George and Alex are in there on one side. Bailey, Izzie and Meredith are on the other)

IZZIE: I think it’s something to do with his mother. Maybe she always wanted a girl and gave him Judy dolls for his birthday presents.

GEORGE: Ah, ah I’ve got another one.

(He pops up a Judy doll head in the intestine)

MEREDITH: Uh!

DR. BAILEY: Drawing clamps to Yang. Grey, push the head up to the incision.

(Meredith starts squeezing the doll head up through the intestine)

ALEX: Maybe his mother looked like Judy and he’s into voodoo. Instead of sticking pins. Heh.

(They pop a small black doll head with an afro out of the intestine)

DR. BAILEY: Yep. Ah. (She holds up the doll head with a clamp) Black Judy. What they gave her long hair back when she had the afro. She came with ‘go go’ boots and a leather jacket. (She puts the doll head into a large silver basin) Shame it’s a real collector’s item.

ALEX: Collectable dolls with a twist.

CRISTINA: Seriously, you can identify these dolls by their heads?

DR. BAILEY: You got a problem with that Yang? I like Judy dolls. I own Judy dolls. The only problem I have with Judy dolls that are in the bowel of this man.

(Burke walks into the O.R)

DR. BURKE: Bailey, I need an intern in the E.R to meet the harvest donor.

DR. BAILEY (she looks at George): O’Malley.

CRISTINA (to George): See ya, boo-boo.

(George leaves the operating table)

DR. BURKE: You good here?

DR. BAILEY: Couple more heads to go.

DR. BURKE: Then Karev, Yang, Stevens scrub out. I need to get an answer from Seibert’s son.

(Cristina and Burke share a look. He leaves the O.R and they all start scrubbing out. Bailey removes another Judy doll head)

DR. BAILEY: Ah yes. Mod Judy. Came with a yellow vesper. You know what’s strange?

MEREDITH: We haven’t had enough strange?

DR. BAILEY: She looks a little like you.

(Meredith doesn’t respond to that. Bailey dumps the doll head into the silver basin)

(Cut to Olivia opening the doors of a patient room. George is a few feet behind her with a chart and is being followed by a nurse and 2 doctors wheeling a man on a hospital bed)

NURSE #1: This is the donor from Wilkinson General.

GEORGE: Just put her in here (he gestures to where Olivia is) until the ah harvest team comes done. Thanks.

(They wheel her into the room)

GEORGE: Well this, this one’s heart is still beating.

(They all leave except for George and Olivia. Olivia shuts one of the doors to the room. She and George share a look)

GEORGE: I think Bailey would want me to ah …

(George starts checking the patient and Olivia walks to the other side of the bed and puts on the monitor)

OLIVIA: We finally reached the family members of the dead motorist. Live in Portland. Should be here in a few hours. Want me to page you when they get here?

GEORGE: Yeah. Do they know?

(She walks behind George)

OLIVIA: Only that we were still working on him. (She clicks on a switch) I think it’s always better to hear bad news firsthand. (George gets a look on his face) I know I’d like to talk to the doctor who called it. (she speaks quietly) Get some answers. (normal voice) So I could get on with my life.

GEORGE (tries to ignore this): Ah.

OLIVIA: George.

(He presses down on the patient’s sternum and the patient reflex’s her whole body upwards off the bed)

GEORGE: Did you? Did you see that?

(He does it again)

GEORGE: She’s decerebrate. Her brain’s, her brain’s stem is still alive.

(The transplant team has come to the room and opens the wide door/wall Olivia closed. Dr. Orsen, the doc in charge with several other doc’s come in)

DR. ORSEN: Okay, we’ll take it from here.

GEORGE: But, would you look at this?

(He pushes down on the patient again who reflex’s up again)

DR. ORSEN: She’s decerebrate. (to the other doctors) Okay.

GEORGE: Yeah but she can’t really be declared brain dead.

(They start wheeling the patient out)

DR. ORSEN: It’s a small reaction. They probably just missed it. The cortex is dead. The brain stem will follow. (The team start wheeling the patient down a hallway) Death is imminent we just have to wait it out.

(George looks shocked and confused by this as Dr. Orsen follows the team)

GEORGE: Yeah, but don’t you …

DR. ORSEN (interrupt): She’ll be dead by the time we get to the O.R doctor.

(The team walk off)

GEORGE (to himself): But she’s alive now.

(Cut to Scott’s patient room where he is lying bed looking contemplative. Alex comes to his door with a wheelchair and knocks on the door. Scott looks over at Alex)

ALEX: It smells like a hospital in here.

(Cut to Burke entering the O.R with Mr. Seibert being operated on by Dr. Domner with surgical staff there as well)

DR. DOMNER: What are we doing with this guy Preston? Is this just an exercise? I don’t need the practice.

DR. BURKE: Transplant committee gave us the green light. Trying to get an answer from the son.

DR. DOMNER: Well this guy goes through his liver like there’s no tomorrow. And I mean that literally.

DR. BURKE: How much work do you have left now?

DR. DOMNER: Maybe an hour and a half. But without a liver I don’t think this guy is going to last that long.

(Burke just looks at Mr. Seibert)

(Cut to Mrs. Seibert lying on her side in her patient room. Cristina checking her back)

MRS. SEIBERT: I need to speak to Scotty. I can talk to him. I need to talk to him.

(Cristina is done and Mrs. Seibert rolls on to her back)

CRISTINA (avoids eye contact): I think they want him to make the decision on his own.

MRS. SEIBERT: You think I’m sick for wanting me to save my husband. Don’t you?

CRISTINA: I think … you’re feeling very emotional and when we’re feeling emotional sometimes it’s, sometimes it’s hard to keep a level head and consider all the facts. …. Your husband killed a man on the highway today. He almost killed you and your son. Those are the facts.

MRS. SEIBERT: Have you ever been in love Doctor? (Cristina looks at her) Have you?

CRISTINA: Love has its limits.

(Cristina walks out while Mrs. Seibert shakes her head)

(Cut to Dr. Shepard walking down a hall eating a snack. George comes racing after him)

GEORGE: Dr. Shepard!

(Dr. Shepard stops and turns to meet him)

DR. SHEPARD (chewing): Dr. O’Malley.

GEORGE: I was just in the ICU with harvest donor and ah Dr. Bailey, she has us do exams and procedures on patients even if they’re …

DR. SHEPARD (interrupts): Whatch you find?

GEORGE: Ah, she’s decerebrate. The donor, her brainstem is still alive.

(Cut to Dr. Shepard and George walking quickly down the O.R hallway. They come up to the transplant team with the donor)

DR. SHEPARD: Excuse me, Derek Shepard. Head of Neurosurgery. Do you mind if I take a look?

(He starts checking the patient)

DR. ORSEN (looks like he can’t believe this is happening): Ah, okay, yeah she’s ah still fostering. We have every intention of waiting until she’s dead. She’s in an irreversible coma.

(Derek pushes on the patient’s sternum who reflex’s up again)

DR. ORSEN: Hines, the neuro at Wilkinson ran the protocol.

DR. SHEPARD: They missed decerebration. What else did they miss? (He grabs the donor’s chart and flips through it) She has a tumor, ah on her brain stem right? I don’t see the M.R.I. Did you do an EEG to confirm brain dead?

(Dr. Orsen shrugs his shoulder annoyed that this is even happening)

DR. ORSEN: Yeah, according to Hines.

DR. SHEPARD: I don’t know a Dr. Hines.

(Meredith standing at the nurse’s station looks up and watches the situation from afar)

DR. ORSEN: We have 6 patients in 3 states waiting for this woman’s organs.

DR. SHEPARD: Yeah and I’m sure they’ll all be happy to know that the organs that they’ll be receiving are from somebody that’s actually brain dead.

(Burke walks out of the Seibert’s O.R and notices the heated battle between the 2 doctors and makes his way over)

DR. ORSEN: No one’s going to touch her while she’s alive. For you to imply otherwise …

DR. BURKE (interrupts): Is there a problem here? Dr. Orsen? Dr. Shepard?

DR. SHEPARD: Yeah we have a donor who’s still decerebrate.

(Cristina rounds the corner and also notices the situation and watches)

DR. SHEPARD: I want to do an EEG and a M.R.I.

DR. ORSEN: An expensive waste of time.

(Burke flips through the donor’s chart)

DR. SHEPARD: I insist on it.

(Burke gives Shepard a weird look)

DR. BURKE: You insist on it?

DR. SHEPARD: I do.

(Cristina and Meredith make eye contact and Meredith raises her eyebrows to say another pissing contest)

DR. BURKE: If my head of neurosurgery says he needs an EEG and an M.R.I, (he hands the chart over to Derek) then he needs an EEG and an M.R.I.

DR. ORSEN: You realize we have 6 patients waiting?

DR. BURKE: That is not my call Dr. Orsen. Who gets the organs is up to U.N.O.S. Who donates the organs is up to the families. Hell I’ve got in the O.R that’s waiting for a liver that may not deserved to be saved and again that’s not my call. But you want to know what my call is? Everything else. (he turns to Derek) The patient is yours Dr. Shepard.

DR. SHEPARD: Thank you Dr. Burke.

(Dr. Orsen shakes his head and storms off. Most of the transplant team leaves as well. Shepard and some other doctors start wheeling the patient down the hall)

DR. SHEPARD: Dr. O’Malley do you want to assist with this M.R.I?

(George follows Dr. Shepard. Burke is left standing there and notices Cristina watching. The camera switches to Shepard who notices Meredith watching from the nurse’s station)

DR. SHEPARD (to a doctor): Carry this for me. First we’ll do an EEG. George, you with me?

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(Izzie rushes outside looking for somebody and notices them. The camera cuts to Alex wheeling Scott in a wheelchair further down the footpath adjacent to the hospital)

SCOTT: What if he goes back to hitting her?

ALEX: You can’t make that call. Whatever you do you can’t make the decision on anger.

(Izzie runs down the pathway behind them)

IZZIE (calls out): Alex!

SCOTT: So what do you with it? What did you with yours?

IZZIE (calls out again louder): Alex!

(Alex pushing the wheelchair and turns around as Izzie runs up to them and stops a few feet away)

IZZIE: Hey. You shouldn’t be out here. Dr. Burke needs a …

ALEX (interrupts): Can you just back off? Please?

(Izzie sighs and walks to the side. Alex squats down next to Scott)

ALEX: My anger had a life of its own. I walked off, became a wrestler and the next time he laid a hand on my mother I beat the living crap out of him. When he got out of the hospital he took off. Just took off and never came back. He was a cold mean tempered bastard, but he was still my old man you know? (Scott nods) But now, now I can’t stop wishing that I never laid a hand on him. Wish somehow that I could’ve worked it through.

(Scott looks at him and Alex nods. He turns to see Izzie still standing there and he turns back to Scott and rolls his eyes. He stands up and wheels Scott over to Izzie)

ALEX: What is it?

IZZIE: I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to interrupt you, I …

ALEX (interrupts): What? What does Burke want?

IZZIE: I’m sorry Scott. He needs a decision now.

(Cut to Mrs. Seibert’s room where Alex, Izzie, Cristina and Burke are standing awaiting Scott’s decision. Mrs. Seibert is sitting upright looking heartbroken and anxious at Scott’s decision. Scott is just sitting in his wheelchair, looking down with one of his hands fisted rhythmically banging against the handle of his wheelchair. He hits for a while)

MRS. SEIBERT (to Dr. Burke): When would it happen?

DR. BURKE (walks over to the bed): We would take Scott to pre-op immediately. The transplant surgeon is on call and waiting. There isn’t much time.

MRS. SEIBERT (imploringly): Scotty. (tears in her voice) Scotty.

(Scott just continues slightly hitting his fist against the handle of his wheelchair rhythmically and looks up at Alex. He looks down and finally stops hitting his fist against the handle. He takes a deep breath. The others just look at him. Mrs. Seibert struggles not to cry. Scott lifts up his head)

SCOTT: Yeah, okay. (Mrs. Seibert tilts her head back in relief) I want to do it.

MRS. SEIBERT (whispers): Oh thank you.

DR. BURKE (heads to the door): Let’s get him to pre-op. I’ll call the sur …

SCOTT (interrupts, staring at his mother): I have a couple of conditions.

(Mrs. Seibert looks sharply at him and Burke walks back in. Scott wheels his wheelchair up to Mrs. Seibert’s bedside)

SCOTT: You’re gonna tell the cops the truth about what happened in this accident mom. (Mrs. Seibert looks shocked and looks at others as if to say help and then looks back at her son upset, trying not to cry) And as soon as we get back home you and I are moving out. Enough is enough.

(Burke walks out of the room. Cristina, Izzie and Alex follow slowly one by one)

(Cut to Cristina walking up with Mrs. Seibert’s chart to the nurse’s station near Mrs. Seibert’s room. Burke is there talking to the nurse on duty)

CRISTINA: You know she’s just gonna go back to him?

DR. BURKE: Well I don’t know that. It’s not my …

CRISTINA (interrupts, softly): It’s not our call.

DR. BURKE: Well, Cristina … …. Uh … I was wondering uh, I mean ah I was hoping that we can ah … I know we didn’t …

CRISTINA (interrupts softly): You’re asking me …

(She tilts her head for him to finish his sentence)

DR. BURKE: Are you okay?

CRISTINA: Can I scrub in?

(He takes a breath and nods slightly)

CRISTINA: Then yes Dr. Burke, I’m okay.

(She walks off. Burke walks away from the nurse’s station as well)

DR. BURKE: Karev, let’s get him to pre-op.

(Cut to George and Dr. Shepard in the M.R.I viewing room as the donor patient lies in the M.R.I machine. They’re looking at images of her brain)

DR. SHEPARD (points at the screen): You see the tumor on her brain stem right here?

GEORGE: It looks pretty bad.

DR. SHEPARD: You ever had a crappy day O’Malley? I mean really, really crappy?

GEORGE: I have had many crappy days.

DR. SHEPARD: This one just got better. (He looks to his side and the camera pans to show Dr. Orsen and the transplant team standing waiting at the door way) You might as well go home gentleman. I will be the only one of us performing surgery here today. My friend here has a viable brain.

DR. ORSEN (nods, difficulty): Okay.

(He walks off)

TRANSPLANT TEAM member #1: That’s it then.

TRANSPLANT TEAM member #2: Yep.

(The rest of the transplant team head off)

GEORGE: Do you really think she’ll be okay?

DR. SHEPARD: With the tumor out she’s got a good shot of recovery.

(He smiles at George and gets up and walks to the doorway)

DR. SHEPARD: Look out for her.

(George looks up and realizes he’s talking about Meredith)

GEORGE: Meredith?

DR. SHEPARD: Yeah.

(Derek walks away. George looks bewildered but that soon changes as his pager goes off. He checks it and leaves)

(Cut to George walking down the hallway. He turns a corner into the pit where he runs to into Olivia)

OLIVIA: Oh, um …

(She gestures to a waiting through a window where a family sits waiting)

GEORGE: Is it the family of the dead guy?

OLIVIA (nods): Yeah.

GEORGE: Look, maybe I’m not over the Alex thing or the syph thing, yet. That, that’s not really the problem. … …. (Oliva looks slightly pained) There’s a girl who I uh, and it doesn’t matter there’s this other guy and frankly I wouldn’t care if she gave me the Ebola virus. (Olivia smiles briefly) I like you Olivia, I but … I just don’t like you enough.

OLIVIA (nods forcing a smile): I gave it a shot, right? (George slightly huffs. In a more serious tone) And you were honest. That’s good.

(Olivia looks down sad overall and George moves takes her head in hands and kisses her forehead. George moves away, walks past her and starts making his way towards the family. Olivia turns to face George)

OLIVIA: You know what you’re going to tell them?

(George stops and walks slightly back towards Olivia. He looks at the family again)

GEORGE: Why do we hump on every dead or dying patient that comes through those doors?

OLIVIA: Experience?

GEORGE: So we can tell their family that we did everything we could.

(He walks into the waiting room as Olivia watches on through the window)

GEORGE: Are you Ted’s family?

(Cut to Derek standing in an empty elevator entering something into his mobile phone. Addison walks into the elevator dressed to go home)

DR. SHEPARD: Just when the day was improving.

ADDISON: You told Meredith what happened?

(He puts the phone away and walks over to the other side to push an elevator button)

DR. SHEPARD (he gives her a weird look): I did. What did you tell her?

(The doors to the lift shut)

ADDISON: That sometimes people do desperate things to attract attention.

DR. SHEPARD (disbelieving): What? Wow. That’s your side of this? That I didn’t pay you enough attention. Is that you were thinking when you got naked with my best friend?

(Addison reaches over and hits an elevator button as well)

ADDISON: No, by that point I wasn’t thinking at all Derek. By that point I was just scratching an itch. We got successful you and me. We got busy and we got lazy. We didn’t even bother to fight any more Derek. And Mark was there and I missed you. And now I’m sorry. (Derek pushes his floor button again) I’m more sorry than you can possibly imagine. (The elevator bings) But at least I’m talking to you about it.

(The doors open and Derek heads out)

ADDISON (imploringly): Derek.

DR. SHEPARD: I’m a sink with an open drain honey.

(He walks off quickly leaving Addison looking slightly confused at his statement)

(Cut to the post-op ward where Mr. Hubble is sitting upright on a hospital bed. Meredith is standing at his bedside checking on him)

MR. HUBBLE: Did you get them all?

MEREDITH: Yes. It wasn’t easy. Or very pleasant. How do you feel?

MR. HUBBLE: Empty. I feel empty now.

MEREDITH: Yeah. I’ve been feeling a little bit of that myself lately.

MR. HUBBLE: I can see that.

MEREDITH: Mr. Hubble, why does eating doll heads fill you up? What’s the satisfaction?

MR. HUBBLE: Do you really want to know?

MEREDITH: Would it be too much information?

MR. HUBBLE (half shrugs): Might.

MEREDITH: Maybe I’m better left in the dark.

(She walks off)

MVO: There’s something to be said about a glass half full.

(Cut to Burke walking down a hallway, past Scott’s post-op room where Alex sits at his bedside. Izzie is there talking to a nurse)

MVO: About knowing when to say when.

(Cut to Burke in the hallway in front of the O.R. board. Dr. Domner walks by and gives Burke a pat on the arm. Burke smiles and lets out a breath of air)

MVO: I think it’s a floating line. A barometer of need and desire.

(Burke watches as a scrubs nurse wipes of some surgeries written on the O.R board and starts writing on new ones)

MVO: It’s entirely up to the individual.

(Cut to Burke walking up to the doorway of Mrs. Seibert’s room. Mrs. Seibert who is actually looking more bruised and battered than before sits up. The camera shows 2 police officers in there with notepads)

MVO: And depends on what’s being poured.

(Cut to Burke walking past one of the O.R’s. Camera moves in to show Bailey holding a plastic bag filled with 10 Judy doll heads. She shakes her head in displeasure of it all and throws it in the waste bin)

(Cut to Burke smiling walking down a hall. He stops when sees Cristina a few feet away. She stops walking as she’s about to enter a room. They make eye contact and stare at each other for a bit.

MVO: Sometimes all we want is a taste.

(Cristina breaks and walks into the room. Burke turns and continues walking)

MVO: Other times, there’s no such thing as enough. The glass is bottomless.

(Cut to Dr. Shepard operating on the donor transplant patient in an O.R. George stands very close next to him observing. Camera pans up to the gallery where Dr. Burke is standing watching the procedure. He moves and leaves the room. As he moves he reveals Meredith standing there watching as well)

MVO: And all we want is more.

(Camera switches down to Derek operating and then back to Meredith watching him)

[END]