Grey’s Anatomy
Season 21 – Episode 1
Episode title: If Walls Could Talk
Original air date: September 26, 2024
Plot: After firing some of Grey Sloan’s best, Catherine continues to interfere with Meredith and Amelia’s research. Accidents at a climate change protest bring unique cases to the hospital, and Bailey encounters a blast from the past.
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Meredith: On average,
a healthy person can hold their breath for up to a minute.
I could have all of you replaced by tomorrow.
What about me?
Can you replace me?
After that, carbon dioxide in your blood
starts to dramatically rise.
Do you know how many doctors I have replaced in my career?
Your rejects can stay,
but your salary will pay for the lawyers
who will fix their mistakes.
You’re done here, Dr. Bailey. Goodbye.
♪♪♪
No. Get out of my office.
I refuse to allow my job to be taken
by someone who only operates on spite and greed.
You don’t see faces. You see dollars.
That’s because this hospital and your leadership
is costing me money!
This profession is a calling, not a business.
When was the last time you actually stepped into an OR,
saved a human life with your hands?
I was doing penis transplants
while you were knee-deep in the sandbox.
[ Scoffs ] You strut around and straighten Richard’s tie
while the rest of us do the work.
No, I do the work.
They do the work.
You don’t get to fire me. You don’t deserve to fire me.
You think you’re God’s gift to this hospital?
Please. It won’t even notice the second you walk out that door.
You’re just another doctor.
♪♪♪
Eventually, a reflex is triggered. [ Gasps ]
And if you resist the urge to let it all out…
You had the dream again? …you pass out…
What happened this time? I slapped her.
…and you don’t know all the damage
you could have caused.
♪♪♪
[ Protestors shouting indistinctly ]
♪♪♪
♪ You said that you believe in leavin’ ♪
♪ I do too ♪
[ Indistinct shouting continues ]
Yeah, we’re gonna be here a while.
They shut down the whole bridge for the protesters.
[ Exhales sharply ]
You okay? Yeah. I’m fine.
You sure? You look…weird.
Thanks?
So…
[ Sighs ]
…I Spy or murder podcast?
♪♪♪
Actually, there is something that I should talk to you about.
So, um… Man: Save our planet!
Solutions, not pollution!
Is that trash?
Hey! Stop polluting! Start living!
[ Chuckles ]
What? They’re saving the planet.
By throwing trash
and risking their lives bungee jumping?
Well, these events always attract a few rogue players,
but it’s the overall message that’s important.
[ Protestors chanting indistinctly ]
Just do your thing already.
Do you know what global warming has done
to the insect disease vectors?
The tick population has exploded.
Do you want Lyme disease, Jo?
The 10 hottest years have happened in the last decade…
[ Car horn honking ]
Well, we’re late in eight minutes.
♪♪♪
Who are you stalking now? No one.
Adams has to give his decision today.
About Chicago. Oh, Dr. Fox didn’t change her mind about him.
Why wouldn’t he go? Because Griffith.
You know, at this point, we should just fire ourselves.
Griffith tried that already.
Well, Griffith’s right here. Just…
if you told him how you feel, he’ll change his mind.
She staged a coup on his behalf.
How does that not say — Still here.
Because it’s Adams.
[ Protestors chanting indistinctly ]
[ Horn honking ]
Okay. You know what? Here.
Hi! Hi, yeah. We compost! Can you let us through?
We love trees!
♪♪♪
Where is Simms Memorial? Spokane, I think. Why?
A recruiter says they’re interested in me.
No, it’s in Eugene, Oregon.
That is far, but a job is a job.
I will commute. I just wish you didn’t have to look.
Dr. Meredith Grey?
Check the third floor.
Your picture’s in the hall.
Not for long.
It’s an injunction from the Fox Foundation.
If you don’t respond, you could be
held in contempt of the court.
Okay. Do you want to go to jail? [ Cellphone chimes ]
Because I really, really don’t.
[ Gasps ] Oh. What?
NYU pulled their funding.
Fox Foundation sent a Cease and Desist.
Well, that’s the second institution
that has dropped us in…a week.
Mm-hmm. What are we gonna do?
We’re gonna keep packing.
I still don’t have any notes for Thursday.
I swear to God,
if somebody doesn’t find my damn cellphone…
Hi, baby!
Hey, Mama. Oh!
Coffee, Ingrid. Mwah!
Alright. How was London?
When you texted me about Meredith,
you failed to mention you fired Hunt and Altman, Mom.
Well, don’t forget about Shepherd and Bailey.
Really? Oh, come on. I kept the interns.
Richard reminded me that if I didn’t,
we’d lose our government funding for the program.
And Lord knows we can’t stand to lose another dime.
These are top surgeons we’re talking about.
If they can’t respect the foundation,
then they shouldn’t work for it.
End of story.
What about Meredith?
You at least try to talk to her since she quit?
I wouldn’t talk to that entitled fire starter
if we were the last two remaining people on this earth
and it was the only way to save civilization.
Okay. Did you read their abstract, at least?
Of course I did. Okay.
Data seems pretty incredible. [ Chuckles ] Yeah.
That’s why we’re not gonna stop until we get it all back.
Mm-hmm.
Woman: Elena Bailey Clinic.
How may I direct? [ Sighs ]
Ms. Nevins needs an updated…
Prescription. I got you. Thank you.
I know volunteering at the clinic
isn’t exactly what you had in mind when you left SFD.
I am helping people and you.
But, uh, it might not be for much longer.
Residency director at Seattle Pres
can squeeze me in for an interview next week.
Uh, what about Grey-Sloan?
I’m not applying to any Fox hospitals.
Your loyalty isn’t necessary. Catherine let you go.
You. [ Sighs ]
I don’t trust her, and you want to slap her.
And then…
Then…?
What?
[ Exhales sharply ]
I heard a rumor that the new residency director starts today.
Oh. Well…
good.
You’re okay? [ Scoffs ]
I’m in my clinic.
I’ve got more time for the kids,
opportunities to pursue research.
Never been better.
I wish the new person… best of luck.
They’ll need it.
Mm-hmm.
Woman: 1335 West.
1335 West.
Whoa! Sorry.
It’s all good. [ Chuckles ]
Nervous?
A-About the new boss.
Right. N-No.
Yasuda said today is the deadline.
Yeah. End of day. I haven’t decided.
Both places have their pros and cons.
Sydney: The energy is so warm in here,
it reminds me of a mother’s womb.
[ Laughs cheerfully ] Not that I remember
being in one, but…
Hi, I am Sydney Heron.
I am your new fearless leader.
I mean, not new new.
You know, I did my residency here.
So think of me as one of you guys, okay?
Who’s ready to heal with love?
Uh, shouldn’t we be getting our assignments?
While moving quickly? Uh, no.
The better I know you, the better surgeon I can make you.
So, name? Nickname?
Novel you’ve always wanted to write?
Who wants to go first, huh?
[ Chuckles ]
[ Elevator bell dings ]
Hey, you two, congratulations…
on…making it to work through the traffic.
You drive electric, Schmitt? I ride a bike.
Even better. Hey, you’re with me today.
Meet me downstairs in 20. Okay.
I keep trying to tell him, and then everyone got fired
and it felt weird to celebrate…something.
[ Telephone ringing in distance ]
And I’m scared of how he’s gonna react,
and I’m scared of how I’ll react to how he reacts.
[ Sighs ] Okay. What?! I don’t make fun of your fears.
It’s literally what our entire friendship is based on.
Oh, whatever.
He thinks the world is gonna end tomorrow anyway
from melting ice caps, so maybe none of this matters.
Maybe it doesn’t matter if you don’t have a baby,
because I won’t be a peds surgeon that can take care of it.
Why does my baby need surgery? That was a hypothetical.
No, your peds fellowship is a hypothetical.
I’m actually pregnant.
You don’t think that that is minimizing my fears?
I have to throw up.
You can’t just use that as an excuse to not answer the…
♪♪♪
Ndugu, I saw that you put my name on the board
for the Ivor Lewis this afternoon.
You need to find someone else.
I need help upstairs.
Thanks to your wife, my department’s down Altman,
and I’m running Owen’s service.
And I’m the interim chief.
Are you avoiding the OR after what happened with Garrett?
Once his aneurysm ruptured, he had a high mortality rate,
no matter what we did.
Yes, it was a bad outcome,
but that’s just what it was.
Not a sign of anything else.
I didn’t ask your opinion.
I’m not scrubbing in on complex procedures.
[ Tires screeching in distance ]
Ian: No! No, no, no! Don’t die! Don’t die!
♪♪♪
Is he dead?! Is he dead?!
Is this simple enough for you?
♪♪♪
Jackson! Hey.
I read your article on salvaging compromised flaps.
I don’t know how you — Where is she?
Uh… Welcome back.
You know, you’re supposed to respond to these, Mer.
You have a lawyer?
Can you recommend one?
Meredith.
Can you tell Catherine to stop sending
Cease and Desist letters to everyone
who’s interested in a potential Alzheimer’s cure?
Your abstract broke the field.
What do you expect? Right.
And now a lot of people want to work with us.
Those people aware of your misuse of funds?
Breach of contract? That you signed a non-compete?
I’m not here to make things easier for you.
I was also the source of those letters.
Something you would know if you answered
any of my calls or texts.
[ Sighs ]
♪♪♪
Look, I need a crash cart under C-collar!
Adams, fire department’s on the way. Can you feel the pulse?
Uh, I’m trying, but he looks pretty —
[ Gasps ] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There’s a pulse.
Diminished breath sounds bilaterally.
Abrasions. No apparent deep lacerations.
I’m Dr. Adams. Can you tell me your name? C-Charlie…
Charlie? We’re gonna get you out of here, okay?
I think you’re gonna be okay,
but we need to get you inside.
I’m gonna be in so much trouble. It was an accident.
I don’t even have my license yet.
I snuck out with the car to go get boba, and then
I was somehow — I was in the wrong lane,
and then I was on the freeway, and then there was a couple guys
hanging from the bridge.
and then suddenly one just fell into my dad’s car.
What the hell happened? Bungee jumper off the bridge,
his cord snapped.
[ Charlie vomits ] Lucas: Damn it!
Winston: Hold on. Nobody touch the car
till we can secure his airway.
He gonna be okay? Richard: Kwan, get the kid inside.
Protect his airway.
He’ll be impossible to intubate in this position.
Insert this all the way to the back of his mouth.
Alright. How do I know when it’s all the way in?
You’ll feel resistance.
Okay. Good.
How’s she doing?
She’s okay.
Simone: Wanda Gallagher, 67.
History of DVT, currently on warfarin.
Sustained blunt trauma to the neck
after being struck with an object. A police baton.
I wasn’t struck with it. I kind of ran into it.
Because you were resisting arrest from the Seattle police.
She was protesting,
even though she promised me she was done with all that
after I bailed her out last year for vandalism.
I wasn’t resisting arrest.
I was trying to separate myself from the disrupters.
They ruin it for the rest of us.
Also, last year was a misunderstanding.
Mm-hmm. Passion so important in one’s life.
Dr. Yasuda? Plan?
I don’t see any hard signs of vascular injury,
but we should run labs to check her INR
and do a cervical CT angio
since she is at high risk for bleeding
because of her blood thinners.
Bleeding? Mom, this sounds serious.
You know what’s also serious?
The effect of wildfire particles on the young person’s
respiratory system.
Might as well have them start smoking in elementary school.
I’m fighting for my grandchild,
which is more than their mother is doing.
I’m growing it.
And where was this concern when I was growing up?
You worked for one of the biggest oil
companies in the world.
I need to go call Michael and tell him what happened.
Excuse me. Unreal.
[ Indistinct announcement over intercom ]
[ Exhales sharply, gasps ]
Bailey!
You back? Shh! Shh.
And…no. [ Whispering ] Then what are you doing?
None of your business. Mm.
Okay, wait. I heard the new residency director started.
Have you seen them?
[ Gags ]
What…?
Sydney: You remind me of myself
when I was an intern, Dr. Miller. It’s Millin.
Inquisitive, you know, direct, air of mystery.
Always important to…to keep that sense of wonder and awe.
[ Gasps ] Miranda Bailey! Come here!
[ Giggling ] J– Uh — Mm.
Sydney.
Oh, isn’t this fun?
Having a new generation of lady doctors
alongside our generation of lady doctors,
all working together to make the world a better pla–
You know, oh, Dr. Bailey and I
were co-residents back in the day
and quite competitive, am I right?
We…had our moments.
Uh… Oh! Look at that.
A 911 at the clinic. I better get back.
Clinic? Look at you doing the clinic thing again.
Good for you.
You know, I cannot imagine being out of the OR,
but, you know, if it works for you…
great.
So, uh, where were we?
Um, oh, yeah.
And I’m the one that brought you in.
I rearranged whole departments, I fundraised.
I hired Nick and Amelia.
Well, I was never officially hired.
No one asked you to hire Nick.
Nick could have gotten a job anyway.
Oh, that’s not the point, and you know it.
Okay, this is not just about you and my mom.
I brought you in so that I could be a part
of groundbreaking work.
If it were just you, that would be okay.
But it isn’t. You have no idea
how much you two are alike.
Catherine broke more rules in all of us,
but she was strategic about it.
She understood how to play the game.
I don’t have time for games.
Give Amelia, Owen, and Teddy back their jobs.
I’ll sell a percentage of my shares of Grey-Sloan
and I can pay you back everything.
This isn’t about money. Not anymore.
I don’t know why her ego should inhibit this work.
What about you?
You know how many people
are desperately waiting for help,
and progress takes money.
We have it.
What are you suggesting? You want my first born?
Worse.
Apologize.
Charlie Scott, 29, fell headfirst
30 feet into the windshield. How is he alive?
Oh, X-rays show a displaced clavicle fracture,
rib fractures, buckle fracture of the sternum,
bilateral hemothoraces, and a hand injury.
Looks like somebody shattered a crystal vase inside his chest.
Alright, Adams, what’s our next move?
Bilateral chest tubes and pan-scan him from head to toe.
You got it. Let’s prep for bilateral thoracostomies.
Well, it looks like you have all your bases covered. Okay?
With all due respect, he has multiple traumatic injuries,
and we’re short surgeons.
We need all hands on deck. Chief.
♪♪♪
Where’s his right index finger?
Severed on impact. Adams, do we have the finger?
Then find it. I have no idea.
As a surgeon, you should know how important a digit is.
Give me gloves.
♪♪♪
Your heart rate’s elevated.
Last time I snuck the car out, I dented the bumper.
I was grounded for two weeks.
They’ll never trust me behind the wheel again,
which means I’ll never pass my driver’s test.
Well, there’s always rideshares.
You shouldn’t be driving without a license.
But you didn’t cause that wreck.
It was an accident. Happens with the best of us.
Do you have any idea what it’s like to be
in your dad’s car all by yourself one moment,
then all of a sudden, bam, someone just shows up,
completely blindsiding you?
Have you called your parents?
You have your phone, right?
It’s in the car still.
Look, I can’t go back in there.
We’re so sorry, Ms. Gallagher. Radiology is backed up.
The protests brought in a surge of patients.
How was your pain? Oh, barely feel it.
Uh, where’s Lacey?
On the phone, in the waiting room.
She was always closer to her dad.
Hey. I worked at a pipeline company for 20 years.
Helped get her to college, but the hours were long.
Didn’t allow for a lot of mother-daughter time.
Do you still work there? No. I quit 10 years ago.
I’ve been an activist ever since.
I worked in the PR department
After the eighth oil leak,
I decided I can’t write another press release.
You know, if our hearts were really going out
to the community,
we’d stopped spilling the damn stuff.
That’s why I’m on the frontlines fighting.
My daughter will never let me meet my grandbaby
if I get arrested again.
Hey, do I have time to go to the bathroom before my scan?
Uh — Sure. I’ll show you where it is.
Thank you. Mm-hmm.
So, you can’t imagine doing good things for people?
Then you don’t get to be a doctor.
I’ll tell you what you need to get —
Where are the damn urinary cups?
Uh, Bed 4’s all checked in.
Should I tell her that you’ll be there
after you take your anger out on these gauze pads?
Her philosophy is “to heal with love.”
Love does not heal. Science heals.
Medicine and trained doctors heal. 100%.
What are we talking about? [ Exhales sharply ]
Richard replaced me with Sydney Heron.
Sydney Heron. We were in the same residency class.
She took my interns when I was pregnant
and slowed them down
with positivity and smiles and — and butterflies.
Sounds…evil?
I am the one that got those residents back in shape.
I went on to be chief resident
and I stayed to be an attending here
while she took a job in Florida.
Florida! Yeah, but you’ve got your clinic,
your research ideas. Don’t throw my words back at me, Ben Warren.
Ndugu’s doing a quick consult. He’ll meet us in CT.
Okay. I’m surprised to see you with us, Schmitt.
You’ve been spending most of your time
with Dr. Beltran. Um, right.
Uh, I actually might be reassessing peds.
Reassessing?
I might want to keep my options open for a bit.
Maybe stay in general surgery like you.
Schmitt, you’re a fifth year and a chief resident.
You need to be clear on what you want,
or no one’s gonna take you seriously.
Understood. Sir, I just want to make sure that…
[ Monitor beeping wildly ]
Left chest is full of blood.
He’s getting more hypertensive and tachy.
We’re gonna take him straight to the OR.
I’ll page Ndugu on the way.
♪♪♪
[ Toilet flushes in distance ]
Excuse me. There are two police officers in the exam room.
They want to speak to my mom.
After she’s done in the bathroom,
we’ll take her to radiology.
They can speak to her after that.
Did her results come back?
According to her labs, her blood is clotting too slowly,
so we would like to admit her for observation.
And she should really speak to her primary doctor
about managing her blood thinners. [ Scoffs ] Good luck.
My mom is more concerned with Puget Sound
and its population of zooplankton than her own health.
She’s not wrong. It’s what the salmon eat.
It’s like a whole thing. I read about it.
How long has she been in the bathroom?
♪♪♪
Mom? Mom!
Are you okay? Simone: Ms. Gallagher?
She couldn’t have just…disappeared.
Or…maybe she could have?
She climbed into the ceiling.
Your assistant isn’t at her desk.
I’m sure she’d call security.
I’m here out of respect for Jackson.
[ Groans ]
Catherine? Catherine!
Damn it! Catherine!
Catherine.
Catherine!
Why aren’t you in the OR?
Because I’m looking for our patient’s finger —
index, right hand. I can’t believe the guy who lost a digit
scored higher on the ABSITE than me.
I didn’t lose it.
Our patient did when he busted through the windshield.
Help me look. Can’t. Looking for Ian’s phone.
Finger trumps phone. I’ll give you a finger.
Have you always been an ass,
or did it start when that girl left you?
What are you talking about? Your fiancée.
Molly, right?
Ex-fiance. And she didn’t leave me.
You know what? Forget I ever said anything.
[ Sighs ]
Aha!
[ Chuckles ]
Bye, loser.
We tried to track all the different routes
she could have taken, but security will only allow
maintenance in the ceiling, so — So are they
in the ceiling looking?
What exactly is the protocol?
Patients usually stay on the ground.
Lacey. Lacey. I want — Okay.
I want you to try to stay calm, okay?
Mhm. Okay? Let’s keep that baby safe, right?
So what they’re trying to say is there is no protocol
’cause this has never happened before.
Which is strange because odd things often happen here.
But we will find her.
So take a seat. Deep breaths. Yep?
[ Breathing deeply ]
Good. Great.
[ Indistinct announcement over intercom ]
Okay. Now —
We’re gonna keep looking. I think I’m gonna go to the left. I swear, we had no idea —
Whoa, who else was nervous about her going into labor?
It’s just what we need, right?
A baby in the lobby and Grandma in the ceiling.
So I’m gonna forward you the hospital blueprint I received.
And also, I issued a hospital-wide alert, so…
That — That’s it?
You’re not gonna get mad or yell at us?
Yell? Oh. How silly. No. Hop to it.
Preferred yelling. Obviously.
[ Monitors beeping wildly ]
Levi: I don’t see how gluing yourself to a train
or blocking a bridge will save us from climate change.
You tell that to the people who marched across
the Edmund Pettus Bridge for civil rights.
GIA stapler, Bokhee.
That is a compelling point, and I apologize.
Link: Research has shown that a lot of childhood diseases
could have been caused by some kind of environmental exposure.
Contaminants, pesticides, solvents.
We have the solution to prevent pain and loss,
but instead, we just keep making it worse.
I apologize again. Winston: Alright.
We stapled the lung bleeders,
ligated the intercostal artery, even clamped the hilum.
Still bleeding. Where’s it coming from?
It must be venous. Coming from above. The subclavian?
No, that’s too far north.
The displaced clavicle fracture could have injured it.
Alright. Fine. Let’s check.
Okay, Schmitt, let’s retract the lung out of the way
so we can see, okay?
Ah, that there. See that break in the pleura?
Now, it must be the subclavian vein.
Alright. Um, clamp. Let’s ligate.
No, no, no, you won’t get enough access here.
You’re gonna have to do a subclavian incision higher up.
The patient’s bleeding out.
I’m not doing another incision. Clamp. Now.
♪♪♪
Damn it. I can’t get full visualization.
Like I said, it’s impossible from that approach.
♪♪♪
Alright, I’ll do a subclavian incision,
but we need to move fast,
and I need everyone’s help resecting the clavicle.
So let’s pack him and reposition.
♪♪♪
[ Groans ]
Are you in any pain?
What happened?
You collapsed.
CT shows subacute Budd Chiari syndrome.
You have a blood clot in your hepatic vein and IVC
due to the hypercoagulable state of your cancer.
Did you call Jackson or Richard? Not yet.
Okay, then. I need to start you on anticoagulation.
I want to start a heparin drip,
and we’ll run some tests and do some more labs
and see if you’re a candidate for a TIPS procedure.
You’ll do heparin only, nothing more.
I’m not pursuing any invasive treatments.
I know. You could go into liver failure.
What about the tumor on your spine?
Do you know about that? I saw it on your scans.
I do know about it.
But Richard and Jackson don’t.
And you are not going to tell them.
♪♪♪
Hey, uh, Heron paged me, said you needed help
looking for a patient.
It’s okay.
I get it. What?
Chicago.
You should go.
Whatever you and I are or…were —
Security thinks she went south.
Not-Bailey said a patient was in the ceiling.
Please tell me there’s a translation for that.
There is a patient in the ceiling.
I’ve spent my entire day looking for people and fingers.
Millin probably digs Heron. Why would you say that?
Well, she heals with love. Probably meditates.
She’s untraditional. No, she touched my hair.
No one should touch hair. I miss Bailey.
Me too. Adams got us into this mess.
Bailey was standing up for him.
No way. She was standing up for all of us.
And I never asked anyone to do that.
Ah, well, Griffith did. Can everyone just shut up
and find the patient?
It’ll go faster if we split up.
Get brooms.
♪♪♪
♪♪♪
Griffith, I’ve worked with this hospital
long enough to know hardly anyone uses this closet,
and nothing I’m taking will be missed.
We lost a patient. Well, losses come with the job.
No, no, no, she’s not dead.
We literally don’t know where she is.
[ Scoffs ] Not my problem anymore.
It should be.
♪♪♪
Why aren’t you fighting for your job?
Is it that easy to leave after everything
you’ve been through with us?
Why aren’t you banging on doors? Yelling?
I thought you believed in us. I thought — [ Banging ]
Wanda: [ Muffled ] Hello?! Excuse me! Oh, my God.
Security is on their way. What’d they say?
They mostly laughed. Wanda: [ Muffled ] I’m so sorry.
I just — I saw the police, and I got so nervous
and I thought that it would lead straight to the next room,
but then I fell over something in the dark,
and I landed, trapped between the walls.
Okay, we’re getting help, Wanda. Just hang in tight.
Okay. I just — I really need to pee,
and it’s getting harder to breathe.
Oh, are you claustrophobic?!
She could be bleeding. Her neck is —
What? She sustained blunt trauma to the neck.
She had a small contusion.
She disappeared before we were able to scan her.
She’s on blood thinners from a history of DVT.
Okay. Expanding neck hematoma could be closing her airway.
[ Loud thud ] Wanda? Wanda?
Jules: Did she collapse? Say something.
Oh, my God. Oh! Damn it! Oh! Hey, Millin.
Uh, get a crash cart. Yasuda, get maintenance now!
What is…? Oh. Wanda?
No. Uh… Wanda, can you hear me?
[ Gasps ] Oh, good, good, good. Okay. Get out of the way.
Out of the way!
[ Banging ]
You know, you really don’t have to wait with me, Dr. Grey.
Okay, well, then I should just go tell Jackson
to watch your heparin drip.
Richard should know, too.
I’ll tell them when I’m ready.
When will that be?
When your liver fails? [ Scoffs ]
Or when you need a transplant?
What late-stage cancer patient gets a new liver, huh?
Which is why you should consider
letting me do the surgery for this clot.
Could we just let the heparin have a chance to work, please?
It would not hurt to think ahead.
Do you know how much work planning for your own death is?
And I’m not just talking about picking out a casket
or making out a will.
I’m talking about taking stock of your life
and making sure you’ve done everything
you wanna do with it.
I think about this every day,
and when I do, there’s two things that I know.
My family is perfect, especially my grandbaby…
and I’m not ready to sit on the sidelines.
Catherine Fox, you have had an extraordinary career.
What more do you want? What more do you want?
The more surgeries and invasive procedures I get,
the more they define who I am.
I want people to remember my name because of
the advances I’ve made in medicine,
for the risks that I’ve taken to save lives,
for the firsts that I have achieved.
I would think you of all people would understand that.
So keep your mouth shut. And what if I don’t?
Then you and your friends will never get your jobs back.
You’re threatening me over your health?
I’ve blackmailed people…
over far less.
[ Banging ]
Simone: Can you see her yet?
I’ve got the crash cart.
Oh! I see her!
Ahh, she’s unconscious.
Okay, okay, we gotta go.
Come on, come on.
Alright, we’re coming, Wanda!
Maintenance is here! Come on, let’s go.
Hi. She’s down here.
[ Tools whirring ]
♪♪♪
Is he okay? The guy, is… is his family here yet?
I’m not sure, but I can check.
I just made the junior varsity tennis team
and we have a match on Wednesday.
Sophomore formal’s on Saturday.
This guy might not live, and, I…
I can’t do anything ever again if he can’t.
You can. You’ll pick up the racquet, put on the suit,
or get behind the wheel again,
and you’ll put one foot in front of the other.
And it’ll suck for a while,
but…
eventually it’ll suck less.
Look, I know it sounds cold, but it’s life.
You really think that? I…do.
♪♪♪
♪ Yeah, I know what you’re feeling ♪
♪ I can see it in your eye ♪ Good. Thank you.
Pulse is weak, but it’s there.
Okay. She needs an airway right now. Tube please.
Jules: On it.
Alright. Thank you. There you go.
♪ I know it haunts you ♪ Good, good, good, good.
Ahh, come on, come on. Damn it.
It’s too much compression. I won’t be able to get it in.
We need to decompress the hematoma.
Millin, betadine. Griffith, be ready to pack the wound.
Yasuda, oxygen.
♪ If your fire burns out ♪ Scalpel. You ready?
♪ I’ll keep it smoldering on this side of town ♪
♪ And I’ll walk with you on your way out ♪
Oh, goodness. [ Exhales sharply ]
Hit her. Pack. Okay.
We need to get her to an OR.
Winston: He’s getting too hypotensive. We need to move fast.
Link: Alright. Removing the clavicle.
♪ Then I’ll be right here when you come around ♪
Alright, alright. I see the injury.
Clamp. ♪ Yeah, I’ll be right here ♪
There we go. ♪ I’ll be right here ♪
Alright, bleeding’s stopped.
We’ve got proximal vascular control.
5-0 proline. ♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
Dr. Webber, you caught the bleed.
Why don’t you do the honors?
No. Go ahead. You’re already there.
No, no, I insist.
♪♪♪
♪ So, feel it and feel it go ahead and give in ♪
You want to stay in general surgery, Schmitt?
Time to step up. ♪ …not something you’re given ♪
Let’s do it.
I found the finger! Uh, well, Kwan did, but it’s here.
Keep going, Schmitt. It’s too late.
♪ And if your fire burns out ♪ Let’s go.
Hey, uh, we had to decompress the hematoma.
Her sats have been increasing over the last three minutes,
but she needs a formal neck exploration and closure in the OR.
Okay, we are headed straight there. Yep.
Special thanks for helping my interns, Miranda.
Yeah, you can go now. Yeah, I got it from here.
♪ And if your fire burns out ♪
♪ Then I’ll be right here when you come around ♪
♪ Yeah, I’ll be right here ♪
I’m sorry about the planet.
Sorry about your ABSITE.
Damn it, Jo.
Kyler Murray, ninth overall pick in the 2018 draft
by the A’s — top left fielder,
but also the number one overall pick for the Arizona Cardinals.
Cardinals is football.
Okay. Okay, um…
take Quidditch. Harry, he’s the seeker.
But there’s no reason he couldn’t also be a chaser.
They all fly brooms. They all train the same way.
He might not even know yet if he has the skills
to try a different position.
You’re gonna be a good dad.
[ Chuckles ] I already am.
That’s what I meant.
[ Telephone ringing in distance ]
Hey, were you able to reattach it?
Uh, it had been too long.
Lincoln just closed the wound with a flap.
She saved me.
Molly.
When — When my mom was sick, I was drowning in grief,
and… she pulled me out of it.
One day, we got into an ugly fight.
And before I knew it, she drove away.
S-She didn’t even make it to the highway
before she was hit by reckless driver.
And just like that…
I was a stranger.
And I…
I — I couldn’t stay.
♪♪♪
I’m sorry.
Yeah.
Me too.
♪ I know you won’t admit it ♪
♪ But there’s a rip in the page ♪
♪♪♪
♪ A pause in the rhythm ♪
♪ A story in the space ♪
Is she gonna be okay? She is.
We found the source of the bleeding and stopped it.
We’ll go over her recovery with her in the morning,
if you’d like to join me. ♪ You’re gonna hurt me ♪
♪ Trying not to hurt me ♪
You almost got yourself killed. Again.
You climbed into a ceiling?
♪ I already know ♪
I don’t wanna talk about this right now.
Of course you don’t. [ Scoffs ]
You march on bridges and scream at CEOs and fight fossil fuels,
but you won’t even talk to your own daughter.
♪♪♪
I know you’re trying to make up for what you did in the past,
but that should include me, too.
You want a relationship with your granddaughter.
[ Crying ] Well, I wanted a relationship with my mother.
♪♪♪
♪ If you’re scared of the message ♪
♪ Let go, you’re safe ♪
♪♪♪
Wanda’s in the ICU.
Her wound explanation was simple.
We irrigated, ligated, and…
Dr. Heron let me close.
How nice.
♪♪♪
And I did fight.
Putting my job on the line for all of you?
That was me fighting.
What happened, it’s not your fault.
You can’t carry everyone else’s choices on your shoulders.
♪ You’re keeping me at arms length ♪
Hey. ♪ When I already know ♪
You always know where to find me.
♪ You’re keeping me at arms length ♪
♪ Keeping me at arms length ♪
♪♪♪
♪♪♪
What’s with the urgent text?
Uh, I wanted to go over Charlie’s surgery
with you again, step by step.
Well, did something happening? Is he okay?
No, he’s fine. He’s still stable.
Sorry. I should have led with that.
No kidding.
Look, I gave the vascular repair to Schmitt
because I didn’t feel up to it.
And I haven’t decided anything about my future in the OR yet,
but I just don’t have it in me
to do a skills assessment tonight.
Well, this isn’t for you. This is for me.
We both know I was trained by the best,
but I’ve been taught to operate
within a very specific specialty.
And today, when something outside of that field went wrong,
I didn’t step back to look at the whole picture.
I want you to take me through it all again
and show me what I missed and why we fixed it the way we did.
Well, they taught surgery quite differently when I trained.
This could take a while.
I got all night.
Show me what you have. Alright.
Ahh. Oh, here you all are. [ Chuckles ]
In the best room in the hospital.
The room for improvement. [ Chuckles ]
Get some rest, and I will see you
bright and early tomorrow morning, 6:00 a.m.
The early bird does get the worm!
[ Groans ] [ Sighs ]
I need a drink. Anyone?
I need to make a call.
I don’t want to get stuck in a wall.
[ Chuckles ]
Is that your way of saying
we need to talk about what happened?
What almost happened. Okay, what almost happened.
I think a patient died. Mm-hmm.
We were upset. Mm-hmm.
And…we had a moment where we felt terrible
and we were just trying to — Not feel terrible.
Exactly. Yeah.
Friends?
♪♪♪
♪♪♪
♪♪♪
[ Exhales sharply ]
♪♪♪
[ Laughs ]
♪♪♪
I almost told him twice today.
You have to tell him, I’m not raising this baby with you.
Shut up! [ Sighs ]
I’ve been puking all day. It’s all gone.
All the crackers and fluids and dignity.
It’s all down the toilet. Okay, we need a safe word
for the next nine months for when you get too graphic.
Or mean. Like “jelly beans” or “disinfectant” or something.
We need to put a limit on how much you can talk.
Why are you in a good mood?
I need you to be miserable with me. Think about peds.
No, I’m gonna think about Quidditch.
Huh? I might find a new path. Or not.
For all I know, I might be
some other specialty’s secret weapon.
Quidditch? What?
♪♪♪
[ Chuckles ] Thought that dude was eyeing Schmitt.
Good for him. [ Groans ]
You’re turning down fries and…
wine?
♪♪♪
Are you…?
Are we…?
♪♪♪
♪ I see the moon and the stars tonight ♪ [ Laughs ] Oh, my God!
♪♪♪
Meredith: If you do the work,
you can train yourself to hold anything inside
without negative consequences.
♪♪♪
My shift is over.
If you need something, I can help you inside.
I’ve spent the past few years putting together memories,
trying to rebuild my life so I can know who I am
and who I’m supposed to be.
But after everything…
I’ve always felt like something was still missing.
♪ Ooh ♪
No, it —
♪ There’s beauty ♪ This is you.
♪ In the darkness ♪
But most people don’t have that discipline or time.
♪♪♪
They just bury it inside and hope it stays there.
♪ Dance on the edge and I’m unafraid ♪ Hey.
You should apply to Grey-Sloan. Mm-hmm.
I built a world-class program, and you deserve to be in it.
♪ Run through the fire — it’s all a game ♪
Even without you? No.
‘Cause I’m getting my job back.
♪♪♪
[ Loud knocking ] Don’t do it.
Let it out. Be loud.
Yeah! I’m coming! I swear to God… ♪ And into the light I go ♪
♪♪♪
Hi. Hi.
Is everything —
♪ Ooooh ♪
♪ There’s beauty ♪
♪ In the darkness ♪ I’m staying.
You’re not going to Chicago? I’m not going to Chicago.
♪ Ooooh, I know that ♪
♪ We can find it ♪
♪ Ooooh ♪
Make everyone hear you.
Because if you don’t… How’d it go?
Good. Good.
Where the hell were you?
You talk to my mom? I did, yeah.
Uh, she said you will stop the injunctions and the Cease and Desist letters, and everyone can have their jobs back.
Oh, thank God!
And you’ll continue the research?
Yes, I will.
But not here.
Not here?
I thought you said we could have our jobs.
You can.
You should take yours in Seattle.
♪♪♪
And, uh, the research will just go in a different direction.
♪♪♪
…it will eat you up inside.
♪♪♪
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