The Gapp Online

[Marks_Mistress]

Season One
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A Hard Day's Night | Air Date: 03/27/2005
I could quit, but here's the thing: I love the playing field.

Meredith Grey woke up next to a guy named Derek. And she promptly said good-bye to him, presumably for good, as she went off for her first day of work as a surgical intern at Seattle Grace Hospital. Meredith, along with fellow interns Cristina Yang, Izzie Stevens, and George O'Malley, all get assigned to surgical resident Dr. Miranda Bailey, but they would all come to know her as "The Nazi" (for her abrasive treatment of interns).

Meredith's first patient, a teenage beauty pageant contestant, recently began suffering from seizures so severe they threatened her life. As a neurological disorder that might need surgery, a neurosurgeon new to Seattle Grace gets put on the case to work with Meredith. That neurosurgeon is none other than Dr. Derek Shepherd, Meredith's would-be one-night-stand. Derek wants to talk to Meredith about the previous night, but Meredith wants none of that. He's an attending, she's an intern, that's what their relationship should be.


Meredith forms an immediate bond with Cristina that gets quickly tested when Derek chooses Meredith over Cristina to scrub in on brain surgery (it would've been a first for either of them). Izzie is assigned to do rectal exams amidst frustrating bouts of deciding when it's appropriate or not to bother Bailey. And George gets selected by the arrogant Dr. Preston Burke to actually perform a surgery - an honor he allegedly bestows on the intern who shows the most promise, but in actuality is for the intern he just wants to torture and make an example of in front of the others. George freezes up during an appendectomy with Burke and gets branded "007" - license to kill - by a fellow intern that rubs everyone the wrong way - Alex Karev. Alex also insults Meredith, but he gets his comeuppance when she is able to offer a proper diagnosis for one of Alex's patients in front of Dr. Richard Webber, Chief of Surgery at Seattle Grace.

Dr. Webber, by the way, turns out to be a friend of Meredith's mother, the famous Dr. Ellis Grey (whom all the interns hold in the highest regard). We get the impression that the relationship between Meredith and Ellis wasn't the best - Ellis didn't think Meredith had what it takes to go to medical school -- but no one, save for Meredith, knows that early onset Alzheimer's Disease has left her a shell of the person she once was, relegating her now to a nursing home.

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"The First Cut is the Deepest" | Air Date: 04/03/2005
Here's what I know. There are some lines too dangerous to cross. But there are others ¦if you're willing to throw caution to the wind and take a chance, the view from the other side is spectacular.

Meredith doesn't want a relationship with Derek, but in a moment of weakness - when it's just the two of them alone in an elevator - she kisses him. Alex gets switched to Bailey's team of interns, forcing him to work closely with those who hate him most. He and Cristina get assigned the seemingly simple chore of delivering good lab results to patients and their families, but they quickly find themselves bombarded with hugs and tears of joy - two things they simply can't handle. Izzie gets to practice "actual medicine" sewing up minor cuts and injuries. One patient, though, who doesn't speak any English, becomes troubling to Izzie, as the patient desperately tries to tell her something and just won't leave. Bailey assigns George to run the code team, responsible for shocking patients on the brink of death back to life when their vital signs crash. And when not fending off the advances of Derek, Meredith is put in possession of a bit of evidence retrieved from the body of a rape victim - the attacker's penis.


Burke's world is turned upside-down when he realizes that he isn't Richard's top surgeon anymore. Richard feels Burke's gotten too complacent, and has brought in Derek specifically to compete to be his replacement one day. This leads Burke to take Meredith's side when she wishes to interfere with a patient in another service (a big no-no usually). Meredith thinks a baby might have a serious heart defect, but the pediatric intern actually caring for the baby strongly disagrees. Turns out, Meredith is right, but Burke still scolds her for using unorthodox tactics to get around the pediatric intern (i.e. going straight to the baby's parents).

When the rape victim's attacker stumbles into the hospital needing emergency care, Bailey gets to make the call - without a hint of sadness - that reattaching his penis isn't possible. Izzie finally finds out what the non-English speaking patient needs - her daughter is outside, also needing medical attention, but is afraid to come in because she doesn't have a green card. Izzie helps the both of them, stitching up their wounds outside the hospital, even though it's way against hospital policy to do so (and could Izzie in much trouble). Failing to save any lives, George learns the sad truth that being on the code team means 90% of all patients are beyond recovering by the time you even get there. And Cristina and Alex don't really learn anything at all, except that they'd rather be doing anything else all day than delivery lab results.

Derek spends a great deal of time by the rape victim's bedside, revealing a softer side to Meredith (the victim has no friends or family in Seattle), but it's not enough to win her over. When given the option to ride in another elevator alone with Derek, she opts to take the stairs.

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"Winning a Battle, Losing the War" Air Date: 04/10/2005
After a while, the rules of residency become the rules of life. Rule #1: Always keep score. Rule #2: Do whatever you can to outsmart the other guy. Rule #3: Don't make friends with the enemy.

It's Dead Baby Bike day in Seattle - the day of an annual bike race with no rules (sponsored by the Dead Baby Bar). This throws off the hospital's entire surgical schedule, filling up the surgical floor with free-spirited - albeit injured - bike messengers, including one named Viper with spokes sticking out of his abdomen. Meredith and Alex both want him, but Viper immediately takes to Alex's handling of the situation - Alex just yanks out the spokes and lets him get back to the race, leaving Meredith to suture and do the paperwork. Meredith reluctantly discharges the charismatic Viper, but not before he kisses her - in front of a jealous Derek who claims not to be jealous.

The race isn't all just cuts and bruises. There is a casualty. Izzie and Cristina are put in charge of an unidentified visitor to Seattle (has no wallet, just a hotel key card), who was hit by a car when jumped out of the way of the racers. The patient is put on the clock - if there's no sign of brain activity in 6 hours, he's to be declared brain dead. This is a very troubling prospect for Izzie⬦

George gets a special assignment from Richard, attend to a close, personal friend who's been admitted with liver failure. When the male patient makes a pass at George, George becomes paranoid that others in the hospital - namely his crush Meredith - might think he's gay.

Should Cristina and Izzie's patient be declard brain dead, Izzie wants to make the guy's death meaningful by getting his organs donated. But that's nearly impossible when the person is a John Doe. Cristina wants his organs donated, too, but really just because she wants to be in a harvest. While the man's family is tracked down, though, the patient crashes, needing a blood transfusion as well as surgery to keep his body viable as a donor. Izzie and Meredith do the transfusion, but Burke has to do the surgery, and he doesn't believe in operating on patients that are already dead (the six hours are almost up). So he declines. And without Burke's surgery, it won't be much longer before the heart fails again.

Derek lets Meredith in on a little secret: "You want Burke to do the surgery, get Richard on board first." And they do, by going to George and getting him to tell Richard that they may have a liver for his friend. It works, but not without raising Burke's ire. The surgery is done, the family is tracked down, and now all they need to do is get the patient's wife to agree to organ donation. It's a job that Cristina can't really handle, as observed by Bailey (who shows she can be as thoughtful to patients and family as she can be tough on her interns).

Viper returns, but not for another kiss with Meredith. He's sustained a life-threatening injury and Bailey and Meredith have to save him. The prospect of the harvest, though able to give the man's death more meaning, still isn't satisfying to Izzie. She really wanted the patient to wake up, to live. And Burke understands where she's coming from. The bittersweet harvest is done, giving Richard's friend a new liver, and when Izzie comes in to sew up the brain dead guy (who's now just dead guy) so he can be presentable to his family, Cristina sticks around to help, seeing the patient as a human being.

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"No Man's Land" | Air Date: 04/17/2005
Intimacy is a four syllable word for "Here are my heart and soul - please grind them into hamburger and enjoy.

It dawns on George that Izzie and Meredith treat him more like a sister than, well, a man, and that's troubling for him. But even more troubling for George: that Alex has picked up on George's "sister role" and won't let George forget it. Cristina's aggressive pre-pre-rounding (arriving to the hospital at least a ½ hour before the other interns) gets her on a patient with pancreatic cancer (and its corresponding "whipple" surgery). That patient is Liz Fallon, a scrub nurse of 20 years for Dr. Ellis Grey. Despite working with Meredith's mom for that length of time, though, she's never met Meredith. George isn't the only one annoyed by Alex. Izzie feels the brunt of his machismo whenever he calls her "Dr. Model" because of how she earned her way through college and med school, a past that directly conflicts with her present when she gets assigned to a patient (with prostate cancer) who's familiar with her work (in a Bethany Whisper lingerie ad). The prostate patient doesn't want her working on him. And Meredith works with Derek (with a little help from Alex and George) on the case of a construction worker with 6 nails embedded in his head.

Friction forms between George and Izzie when he passive-aggressively "forgets" to buy the tampons she asked him to buy. Cristina finds herself a "cruise director" for Liz, taking her around the hospital to all the old services she used to work with, but not setting up any actual surgery. Derek asks Meredith out for a meal together - which she declines.

Meredith finally meets Liz, admitting for the first time to someone else that her mom is in a nursing home, with Alzheimer's, and that she is the only one allowed to see her or know of her condition. Meredith also visits her mother, who is unable to recall Meredith's childhood or even her own husband. But her old co-worker Liz, though, Ellis recalls with complete lucidity.

Once Alex gets wind of Izzie's lingerie ad, it's just more fuel for him. He copies and hangs up her half-naked photos all over the hospital. The subject of momentary ridicule, Izzie puts Alex and the others amused by the photos in their place by angrily stripping down to her underwear to show them - quite convincingly - that she has no problem with her body and them seeing it, while simultaneously reminding them that this body is why she completely lacks the debt that plagues them.

Meredith suspects there is more to the construction worker's ails than just nails in his head. After Derek removes the nails successfully, she believes the reason why he had the accident with the nail gun in the first place was because of an undiagnosed brain disease. And she's right. He has a tumor. This puts Derek and Meredith at odds with each other for the first time, when she disagrees over the proper course of treatment for the tumor. Derek lets the patient and his wife make the decision - to have surgery that will prolong his life, but potentially wipe out his personality and many memories. Meredith, reeling from her responsibility to take care of Ellis, oversteps her bounds as a doctor and chastises them for their decision, saying they should go for the option that will preserve his memories and personality, even if it means fewer years.

Cristina learns that there isn't going to be a whipple. There isn't going to be any surgery for Liz and there never was. Liz came to the hospital to die, and Cristina was merely giving her a chance to say good-bye to everyone, but not without imparting much wisdom to the hardened intern. When Liz finally crashes, despite Do Not Rescusitate orders, Cristina won't let her go. But to no avail, as Burke and Richard have to practically pull her off the dying Liz. Liz becomes Cristina's first time of death. This isn't easy for Cristina, and Burke is there for her in the end.

Meredith finally agrees to get some breakfast with Derek

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"Shake Your Groove Thing" | Air Date: 04/24/2005
I mean, seriously. Don't be fooled by all the hot shoes and the great sex and the no parents anywhere telling you what to do. Adulthood is responsibility.

Exhaustion begins to take its toll on Meredith. She falls asleep in the shower and she has troubles keeping her eyes open at work. The fact that the nursing home demands her immediate attention to take care of some overdue paperwork for her mom doesn't help either. During open heart surgery with Burke, Meredith has the simple task of actually holding the heart. After the surgery, though, she notices that a fingernail was protruding from a glove and worries that she may have punctured the heart. Should she tell Burke? George points out that had there been a problem, they would've known during the surgery, but there wasn't a problem, the heart is working fine, so telling Burke only risks getting in trouble for something you didn't really do. She opts not to tell Burke, but the issue is still a pressing one for her.

George meanwhile has a case of doctor error of his own to deal with - fortunately not his error, though. He assists Bailey and Richard on a case where a towel is found inside a woman - a towel left in her from a previous surgery five years ago. Bailey orders Cristina to look into the patient's history, to see if she can find out who's responsible. Izzie's boyfriend Hank is visiting Seattle just for the night, so Izzie is planning a really special night - just her and Hank& and everyone else in the entire hospital. She plans a party at Meredith's that just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Just about everyone gets invited, except, of course, for Alex. To Cristina this is telling - Izzie doesn't want to be alone with Hank. But Izzie is in denial, insisting the relationship is still quite strong.

Derek orders Alex to install a central line to a patient with chronic pain problems. Alex ignores those orders when he determines the patient is just a junkie looking for a fix, which doesn't make Derek happy because the first rule in pain management is always to err on the side of caution. He might very well be a junkie, but his pain is very much real to him.

Burke's heart patient, the one that Meredith held the heart for, crashes bedside. They are able to revive and stabilize her, but in a panic Meredith asks if this could have anything to do with her possibly puncturing the heart with a fingernail. Though Burke doesn't think so, her admonition couldn't have come at a worse time - the patient's husband is standing right there. He hears Meredith and decides to take legal action. Meredith and Burke must meet with Richard and the hospital counsel the very next morning - a meeting that will essentially decide Meredith's fate as a doctor.

Meredith's problems pile up when she finally has to find time to go to the nursing home to officially get power of attorney over her mom's estate. Unfortunately, they don't give her a very big window of time to do it, and it's nearly impossible to get out of work long enough to get there in time. When she arrives, her mother is already "sundowning" and not lucid enough to sign anything in front of Meredith (as needed to be).

Cristina finds a file on the surgery where the towel got left behind, and she sees a familiar name on the roster of doctors: Dr. Preston Burke. She gives the file to Bailey, who gives it to Burke himself. When Cristina asks Bailey what will happen, she's told simply not to worry about it anymore. "It's taken care of." Suspecting a cover up, Cristina is immensely bothered.

Izzie has but one more task to do before she can head home to attend her own party and be with her boyfriend - discharge Alex's pain patient. But the pain patient doesn't want to go. He gets in a tussle with the orderlies, bangs his head on some medical equipment, and does severe damage requiring immediate surgery. Derek asks her and Alex to scrub in, to which Izzie can't decline. She winds up missing her own party, having to meet her boyfriend in the hospital parking lot, where they find they don't exactly see eye-to-eye on their relationship. He wants things the way they've always been, but to Izzie, since she's a doctor now, the top priority has to be the hospital and her patients, and things just have to be different.

Meredith doesn't miss the party. She arrives to find her house overrun with strangers. Initially very upset, she has no choice but to give in - after all, she's just hours away from having the fate of her career decided. And that's when Derek shows up. Feeling like she has nothing to lose, Meredith gives in to temptation and she and Derek wind up in his car together, doing what they haven't done since, well& the night they met. Unfortunately for the both of them, Derek's car is blocking in Bailey's, and she sees everything. And she lets them know that she saw everything.

The next morning, Meredith attends her meeting, and it does not begin well. Even though it's agreed that the patient's heart was weak because of excessive weight loss - and not a puncture from a nail - the fact that Meredith said something in front of the patient's husband is considered inexcusable to the hospital lawyers. But it's Burke who stands up for her, using his own mistake five years earlier - leaving the towel behind - as an example of how a surgeon shouldn't act. To him, she didn't make a mistake being honest about the glove. If only he had been as honest about his suspicions that maybe he didn't check everything properly five years earlier, a woman would not have been found with a towel in her today. Meredith did the right thing that he couldn't do five years earlier. She is put on a short probation, and that's it. Thanks to Burke, her future as a surgeon is not in jeopardy.

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"If Tomorrow Never Comes" | Air Date: 05/01/2005
I don't know why we put things off. But if I had to guess, I'd say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of pain, fear of rejection. Sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, any decision, because what if you're wrong?

Meredith assists Derek on a patient with Parkinson's. Their working relationship is now strained, though - not by their rediscovered passion, but by Bailey's knowledge of it. Bailey doesn't want Derek giving Meredith any special treatment, and despite the fact that Derek is technically Bailey's boss, Bailey's threat to keep Meredith out of surgery is enough to get Derek change his attitude around Meredith in public - and not for the better. He's now intentional harsh on her. Other than Cristina & Bailey, no one else knows about Meredith and Derek - particularly George, who's crush for Meredith still rages on.

Alex hasn't been himself lately. As Izzie notes, he actually seems sincere. Annie, a patient with a 70 pound tumor, takes a liking to Alex's bedside manner, not to mention the fact that "he's just so much fun to look at." But when he slips up and shows his true colors - she overhears him make a snide comment about her when he doesn't think she's listening - Burke tosses Alex from the case and replaces him with Cristina (even though Alex rightly notes that his flippant attitude towards patients isn't any different than hers). Cristina and George then get the joyous opportunity to hold up the 70 pound tumor during a 14 hour surgery.

Alex gets to watch over the surgical floor with Izzie, which is left understaffed as so many doctors, nurses, and interns are involved in the tumor surgery that whole day. But Izzie winds up all alone watching over the floor when Alex forgets to change the battery on his pager and doesn't get a single page from her. The floor gets busier and busier, and things reach a boiling point for Izzie when a heart patient starts dying from a massive clot that has to be removed immediately. Izzie is the only doctor around, so she has to do it herself - cut open the patient's chest and reach in with her own hands and remove the clot from the heart. It's a truly heroic maneuver, and she does it successfully. But Izzie doesn't have time to revel in her moment, as she has to ream Alex for abandoning her.

Meredith is quite upset that Derek has gone from being super-nice to her being a bit of a "jackass" (in her words) to her on the Parkinson's case. A procedure exists that could potentially ease the Parkinson's patients tremors, but the patient is reluctant to undergo any brain surgery - particularly one that occurs while the patient is still awake. Meredith strongly sympathizes with the patient's daughter, since she's in a similar position with Ellis, so Meredith wants to encourage the patient to undergo the procedure. But Derek, with Bailey's threat firmly on his mind, disagrees with her rather harshly. Derek comes around, though, and does talk to the patient about his options again. The patient still declines, but then Meredith has some words of her own for him⬦ And he changes his mind. After the surgery, Meredith and Derek reach an agreement - no special treatment and no acting like a jackass just to appease Bailey.

The surgery to remove the massive tumor is even more complicated than they had imagined. Annie is losing too much blood, but there is little they can do as the tumor is just too entwined in her. Alex, watching the surgery from outside the OR sees trouble forming and runs to get as much blood as he can. But when he returns she's already gone. He's left there, holding the bags of blood in hand, looking down at the lifeless patient who he insulted earlier. It's a moment for him, and one that doesn't go unnoticed by Meredith, as she watches from the Gallery.

Burke finds Cristina in the on call room, where she's recovering from holding the tumor up all day. He admits to doing her a favor getting her in on the surgery, but she isn't as grateful as he'd thought - a "favor" shouldn't leave her in so much back pain. They don't talk much, though, before the sexual tension between them snaps, and they're in each other's arms.

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"The Self-Destruct Button" | Air Date: 05/08/2005
Okay, any blowhard who says you can sleep when you die? Tell'em to come talk to me after a few months as an intern.

George and Izzie catch Derek sneaking out of the house, finally figuring out that he's the mysterious stranger who's been sleeping with Meredith. George immediately becomes jealous, but Izzie is bothered for completely different reasons - no wonder Meredith is getting in all the good surgeries lately.

A flu is going around the hospital, and Cristina feels sick to her stomach. She blames Dr. Burke. A gunshot wound victim gets Alex's attention as he awaits attention in the lobby. Alex wants to know why he isn't in the emergency room. Answer: Because he has an appointment. It was a schedule gunshot wound. His friend shot him⬦ with permission. The scars, apparently, make a great addition to his tattoos. Meredith assists Bailey on a case where a normal sized teenager (who is not now, nor ever was, obese) went to Mexico to get a gastric bypass operation - a bad one -- without her parent's permission. Now they have to undo the damage that's been done. Izzie has to help a man who swallowed his girlfriend's keys just as she was dumping him.


George gets to be a part of the biggest surgery of the day - well, at least initially he does. George works with Derek on the case of toddler with terrible tremors. After viewing films of the girls' brain just a couple months apart, Derek finds that her brain tissue is dying at too quickly a rate, and that the only way to halt the deterioration is with a hemispherectomy - in layman's terms: removal of half the brain (in a young brain like hers, the remaining tissue still has time to adapt and learn how to replace the missing tissue). To George it's an amazing procedure to be done by a man who can seemingly do everything - including Meredith. But George has one other issue on his mind: he swears he smelled bourbon on the breath of Dr. Taylor, the anesthesiologist who is to scrub in on the hemispherectomy. Dr. Taylor outranks George, though, and has a great reputation behind him. George doesn't know if he should say anything⬦

Alex and the tattooed gunshot victim bond over the fact they both wrestled collegiately in the state of Iowa. They also share the same ethos about pain being good for you. Burke, who has seen this patient before, has a hard time hiding his contempt for such self-mutilation. He prefers safer hobbies: like playing the trumpet.

George speaks up to Dr. Taylor - in front of Derek - just before the hemispherectomy. Dr. Taylor is offended George would even suggest such a thing (essentially accusing him of being unfit to administer anesthesiology). Derek, somewhat reluctantly, has to side with his fellow attending Dr. Taylor, and George is kicked out of the surgery, replaced with Cristina.

Meredith discovers that there is more behind her patient's troubles than just a desire to be ultra-skinny. She's under extraordinary to live up her Mother's lofty expectations for perfection. "Life shouldn't be this hard" Meredith tells her. Unfortunately, the procedure to reverse the gastic-bypass doesn't go well. There's complications, the least of which is the patient's bowel exploding on Meredith. The girl, unfortunately, will have to struggle to achieve proper nutrition for the rest of her life.

Alex's tattooed patient begins to crash, as the stress on his body from the gunshot wound has ecsacerbated an infected tattoo he already had. They can't fight the infection though, as it has spread too far, and the patient dies.

During the hemispherectomy, the little girl begins to wake up - as Derek is in the process of removing half her brain! Her anesthesia is too light and Dr. Taylor is fast asleep. Derek kicks Dr. Taylor out of the surgery, and later apologizes to George, where he also comes clean about Meredith, and his intentions with her.

Izzie, who's been giving Meredith a hard time all day, finally confronts Meredith over her indiscretions with an attending. Izzie's vitriol, though, subsides when she makes a startling conclusion: Meredith is actually in love with Derek. And now Izzie isn't quite so upset. In fact, she feels a little sorry for Meredith.

Cristina, thinking her flu-like symptoms might not be a flu at all, takes a pregnancy test. Two of them. And doesn't like what she finds.

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"Save Me" | Air Date: 05/15/2005
See, once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you. Once in a while people may even take your breath away. That's what you have to believe.

With Meredith and Derek's relationship a known commodity among the interns (not to mention Bailey), Derek has been spending almost every night at Meredith's, and everyone seems pretty comfortable with that - except for Meredith. She realizes she knows precious little about Derek. But Derek isn't in a very telling mood.

Izzie makes some brownies, but despite George's adoration, they just don't taste right to her. But she refuses to call the person who gave her the recipe to find out what's missing, because that person is her mom.


Cristina is pregnant, but doesn't want to be for much longer. She schedules an appointment at a clinic to terminate the pregnancy.

At the hospital, Alex and Burke work on a case of a teenaged girl in need of a new heart valve. Standard procedure is to install a porcine valve. But this girl's interpretation of her own religious beliefs preclude any pig products from entering her body in any way. She refuses the valve.

Cristina is assigned to work on a case of a man with seizures he believes are really psychic visions. He predicts that a patient will die on the fourth floor. Moments later, one does. But fourth floor is the ICU, and our interns aren't that impressed, as patients die all the time on that floor. Cristina skepticism is put to the limits, though, when the psychic makes a comment about her being "on the mommy track." Cristina requests to be moved off the case, but Bailey doesn't do switches. Izzie, though, really wants on the psychic case - to prove he's a fraud. So they do wind up switching, and Cristina winds up on Izzie's case - a woman with breast cancer. But the treatment for the cancer is complicated by the fact that she's pregnant (there's no way the fetus can survive the cancer treatments). Cristina just can't escape the issue of pregnancy⬦

Meredith works with Derek on a rock climber with paralysis that's spreading up his body. All tests show nothing physical as the cause though. So Meredith believes it may be psychosomatic.

Alex does some research on his own and finds that a bovine valve is not only an alternative to a porcine valve, but also better in the long run. But he suggests this option to his patient and her family without consulting with Burke first. Burke isn't happy about that. He's never implanted a bovine valve, as it's a much newer, vastly more complicated surgery. He kicks Alex off another case.

Izzie challenges the psychic's "gift." And when she discovers that he has an embelism that could pop during his next seizure and kill him, she's all too eager to sign him up for surgery. The psychic doesn't want the surgery, though. He's worried it could take away his gift. Izzie isn't sympathetic. Her mother, it turns out, blew Izzie's entire savings (for college) on pychics, hence the their non-existent relationship today.

The rock climber's paralysis is worsening, so Derek decides to go with his instinct and open up the man's spine and look for a clot. Meredith strongly disagrees - it's all in his head, any surgery on the spine could make things worse, even kill him. But it's Derek's call and they're doing it anyway.

George has issues doing a relatively simple intubation in front of Alex and Burke. His confidence is shot. Cristina suggests he ask out a cute nurse that's been eyeing him.

Burke admits to Cristina that he's unsure of what to do about the bovine transplant. The family wants it, but he's never done one before. She's not sympathetic, telling him that "your problem has a solution. Some don't."

After some tense moments, Derek finds the clot that he believed was there, but Meredith didn't. Burke asks Alex back on the case to assist with the bovine valve transplant that he's going to perform. Against Cristina's advice, her cancer patient with pregnancy decides to forgo any treatment for the breast cancer so that her baby can go full term. George finally nails an intubation - in front of the nurse, Olivia, that's been eyeing him. He asks her out. The psychic tells Izzie some things no one could know but her, and she too becomes worried that the surgery might change him. But when he comes out, he tells her something that proves he's still got whatever gift he had: her missing ingredient. After making another batch of brownies that taste just right, she gives her estranged mother a call.

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"Who's Zoomin' Who?" | Air Date: 05/22/2005
Medicine has a way of exposing the lies. It might take a while but, eventually, our bodies will betray our deepest secrets. Within the walls of the hospital, the truth is stripped bare. How we keep our secrets outside the hospital, well⬦ That's a little different.

George is in the bathroom, examining himself while looking at a book called "Rashes, Hives, and Skin Eruptions." Izzie, waiting to get in the bathroom, thinks he's doing something else to himself. George insists he wasn't doing that. He's got a girlfriend. She doesn't believe him.

The nursing home keeps calling Meredith, wondering why she doesn't come to their family dinners. Derek is getting calls of his own that he doesn't want to talk about.


At the hospital, Bailey lets Cristina and Izzie perform a procedure to remove excessive fluid from a man's abdomen all by themselves. George and Alex work with Burke on one of Burke's old college buddies. Their incredible discovery? Burke's male friend has an ovary. And Richard is having troubles performing a simple surgery that gets Derek's and Bailey's attention.

George asks Alex to take a look at a rash, to help diagnose it. Alex does, confirming that it is, in fact, Syphilis. At least Izzie now believes him that he's got a girlfriend.

Derek finds a tumor near Richard's optic nerve and wants to operate immediately. Richard agrees, but wants it to be kept a secret. Bailey and Meredith will assist as part of the secret team.

George isn't the only with syphilis in the hospital (obviously - he got it from his new nurse girlfriend). There's an outbreak, with multiple residents, nurses, and interns all contracting the sexually transmitted disease. Everyone in the hospital who's having sex with anyone else in the hospital must get tested.

Cristina and Izzie's simple procedure hits a giant complication - the patient dies. Bailey tells them they did everything by the book, the death was most likely the result of the man's poor physical health (big drinker). But Cristina and Izzie aren't satisfied with that. They want an autopsy. But the man's family - namely his daughter over his mother's objections - doesn't want one. The daughter would rather let things rest and move on, and she convinces the mother not to consent to an autopsy.

Derek, Bailey and Meredith close off an OR to do Richard's operation covertly. Izzie and Cristina take it upon themselves to their own secret procedure - an autopsy against the family's wishes. They need to know what really went wrong.

After Richard's operation if over though, first thing Bailey does is look for Izzie and Cristina. And she catches them literally red-handed, the body wide open on the table. Bailey is fuming. This autopsy is illegal and can get them all fired if not put in jail. But Izzie picks up the man's heart. "It's huge" Bailey notes. And there's something really wrong with it - sedimentary material has built up in it, making the heart quite heavy.

Richard's operation to remove the tumor was a success, but they won't know the extent to which his vision will recover until he wakes up. Meredith finally tells Derek her secret - about her Mother. Derek wants to be there for her. He embraces her warmly and kisses her. And Richard opens his eyes and sees everything. And he doesn't approve.

Bailey, Izzie, and Cristina tell the family of the autopsy patient what they found - that the man has a genetic condition that could affect the daughter too. That's why he died, and that's why she should get tested for it. Izzie and Cristina get what they want, and so does Bailey - she gets them to finally sign the consent form (making the surgery retroactively quite legal).

Olivia tries to tell George she's sorry, that she was seeing someone when he asked her out, but it's over between them. It's George she wants to be with now. And then George finds out who the other guy was. The guy that gave Olivia syphilis was⬦ Alex. An enraged George tackles Alex on the spot in the locker room. The other interns have to separate them.

Meredith agrees to a steak dinner with Derek. Derek has something he wants to tell her. They meet in the lobby, all ready to go out on their first official date. And then a woman arrives, the mere sight of her causing Derek to say to Meredith "I'm so sorry." And then the woman says to Meredith: "You must be the woman screwing my husband."

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Season Two

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Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head | Air Date: 09/25/2005
Derek's wife Addison sticks around Seattle Grace to work on a high profile fetal surgery case. Joe, the friendly bartender across the street needs a major surgery, drumming up sympathy from everyone in the hospital -- including Alex. Izzie sees this softer side of Alex. George is assigned "sponge duty" for the still-recovering Richard (brain surgery in 108). Burke wants to go on an actual date with Cristina, but she's got other things on her mind. Meredith has to work with her boyfriend's wife...

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Enough is Enough | Air Date: 10/02/2005
As interim chief, Burke gets a little abuse from his fellow surgeons: It's lonely at the top. Derek and Burke are jealous of each other and competitive, but when push comes to shove, Burke defends Derek, showing him respect as a fellow surgeon. Meanwhile, Richard is not a very good patient. We meet Richard's wife, Adele, who was on vacation. Richard had brain surgery and didn't tell his own wife. An abusive father/husband needs a liver, which Cristina doesn't believe he deserves.

The son is a potential donor (has a choice to donate part of his liver), and Alex relates to him because Alex's father was also abusive. Bailey and Meredith's patient swallowed 10 Judy doll heads. Bailey needs all the interns to help her dissect the doll heads from the patient's bowels. Meredith relates to the patient when he says he feels empty. Meredith still feels betrayed by Derek, and feels empty, like "a sink with an open drain." George's transplant donor is not brain dead as anticipated. She has a tumor on her brain stem, which Derek operates.

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Make Me Lose Control | Air Date: 10/09/2005Ellis is admitted to the hospital. The secret is out -- Meredith's mom, the brilliant surgeon, has Alzheimer's. Cristina faints in Burke's surgery. Addison operates on Cristina who loses the baby and one of her fallopian tubes. Bailey is supportive of Cristina through her surgery and recovery. Burke is concerned for Cristina, but is kept busy in surgery. He finally discovers Cristina was pregnant. The interns sit at Cristina's bedside, after her surgery, but Burke can't bring himself to enter. Izzie and Alex are flirting with each other. Izzie feels left out, always the last to know about everything -- especially when it comes to her friends. George reminds Ellis of Meredith's father. He defends Meredith to Ellis: I don't like the way you talk to her. Then later, he comforts Ellis by lying in bed with her, letting her think he's Thatcher.

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Deny Deny Deny | Air Date: 10/16/2005
There's hope for Meredith and Derek. Derek says Addison is leaving. He shows Meredith the divorce papers that Addison gave him to sign. Meredith's mother is still in the hospital but keeps escaping from her room, thinking she's still a doctor. Meredith wonders/fears if she's anything like her mother. Richard depends on George to watch out for Ellis. One of Bailey's very first patients -- one with Cystic Fibrosis -- returns to the hospital. Bailey is very attached emotionally to this patient and has a tough time when he dies in surgery. Cristina is a terrible patient. She steals charts from nurse's station and rounds with the other interns until Bailey sends her back to her room. Cristina's mother is the antithesis of Cristina. When Burke gets Cristina alone, he says he had a right to know about the pregnancy. Alex asks Izzie out on a date. Alex didn't pass the clinical skills portion of his medical boards. He has four months to take it again and pass or he's out. Izzie and Alex meet at Joe's to go on their first date, but Alex is in a foul mood.

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Bring the Pain | Air Date: 10/23/2005
A power failure cripples Seattle Grace Hospital, trapping Alex and George in an elevator with a gunshot wound victim desperately in need of heart surgery. Alex freezes, but George is able to do what needs to be done. Burke talks George through the operation from outside the elevator's door. Meanwhile Cristina is forced to relieve the pain of a unique patient for whom pain medicine is out of the question. He had been using video porn to relieve his pain (not a perv  it really was the only pain management he could take), and now without the power, Cristina has to paint the same pictures with her words.

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Into You Like A Train | Air Date: 10/30/2005
Meredith waits at the bar for Derek, but before he arrives, a train wreck calls all the interns back to the hospital. Alex, still reeling from his embarrassing moment in the elevator, is forced to watch a couple train victims -- one of whom is in bad shape, the other not. And it's the one who's not -- the one that no one pays any attention to -- that winds up dying. Cristina is assigned by Richard to find the severed leg of a victim, which is more difficult than it should be -- and her boyfriend Burke is of no help. Izzie and Addison treat a pregnant victim who is very badly burned. They are able to deliver the baby, but with her arms badly burned, the only way she can feel her baby is to have the baby held up to face. Meredith, unfortunately, starts off too drunk to do anything.

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Something To Talk About | Air Date: 11/06/2005
Gossip is all the rage at SGH, with Meredith feeling the brunt it. And, medically, one case has peaked the curiosity of the doctors -- a man who presents as pregnant. Even his home pregnancy test is positive. Izzie and Cristina try to steal this case from psych to cheer Meredith up. As the patient becomes as much as a hospital fascination as her love life, Meredith begins to sympathize with him, and eventually kicks everyone out of his room to give the patient his privacy. Burke wants to come clean to the chief about his relationship with Cristina, but Cristina disagrees. When Cristina starts getting a ton of crappy scut assignments -- she assumes Bailey has figured things about between her and Burke and this is her punishment& Bailey doesn't know, though. Izzie is pissed at Alex for being so emotionally withdrawn from her all of a sudden -- he wins her over at the end -- when he finally kisses her quite publicly and quite spectacularly.

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Let It Be | Air Date: 11/13/2005
Friends of Derek and Addison's from NY come to Seattle but not for a social visit. The wife would like a preventative hysterectomy and mastectomy because she just discovered she has a gene that makes her susceptible to cancer in those regions. The wife wants the surgery, the husband thinks she's going too far, and the doctors -- including Izzie who's on the case -- are all in between. George nearly gets trampled by a window washer who falls from a high window.

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Thanks For the Memories | Air Date: 11/20/2005
Meredith, Bailey, Derek, and Richard -- each for their own reasons -- decide to work on Thanksgiving while everyone else takes the day off. Izzie cooks a spectacular Thanksgiving dinner for everyone -- except that no one really shows up. After Cristina bails to head back to the hospital to help with some holiday related surgeries, Izzie and Burke wind up preparing the dinner by themselves for Joe and his boyfriend. George is spending the day with his blue collar brothers & father, working through major issues with them.

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Much Too Much | Air Date: 11/27/2005
Meredith tries to dismiss a one-night-stand from her house much like she did Derek many months earlier -- and like Derek, she's surprised to find the guy at the hospital later that day. Unlike Derek, he's not a doctor  but a patient. He has an erection that won't quit, and actual requires medical attention from Meredith, Cristina, and Bailey. For all intents and purposes, it looks to them like Meredith broke the man's penis. And when the cause of the "priaprism" cannot be diagnosed, they have no choice but to call in for a neurological consult -- from Derek himself. Cristina wakes up to find that Burke has "keyed" her. He not only wants her to have a key to his apartment, he actually would like for her to move in with him. Cristina has issues with this, and she takes Burke to her apartment to show him just how bad of an idea that really is -- Cristina is the single messiest person in the world.

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Owner of a Lonely Heart | Air Date: 12/04/2005
Cristina has little sympathy for Constance Ferguson, a prison inmate who jeopardizes her health just to get out of solitary confinement. Meanwhile the interns all keep careful watch on the family of premature quintuplets with a variety of serious health challenges, Izzie's anger at Alex reaches a boiling point, and Addison decides to teach Izzie a very painful lesson.

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Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer | Air Date: 12/11/2005
A young boy needs a heart transplant but doesn't seem to want it, and an argument over his treatment exposes major philosophical differences between Burke and Cristina -- he's spiritual, she's not. Burke won't operate on the boy until his mind accepts the heart, because he believes the body will reject it if he doesn't. Cristina, though not a believer, makes a connection with the kid over their shared skepticism, and gets the boy to want the heart. Meanwhile, when the interns rally to help Alex prepare to re-take his exam, Izzie feels betrayed (after all, Alex just cheated on her). Meredith has to remind Izzie of the true spirit of the Christmas holiday.

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Begin the Begin | Air Date: 03/02/2007
Richard enforces an 80hr rule for the interns -- 80hrs per week of work and that's it. Meredith is sent home for working too long of a shift. She does laundry and then goes to visit her mother at the nursing home -- where she finds Derek. Derek wants to help Ellis, but Meredith doesn't want his help. Derek needs Richard to intervene. Izzie seems to be getting over Alex when she shares an undeniable chemistry with Denny Duquette, a patient who's awaiting a heart transplant. Bailey goes to retrieve Denny's heart, taking Cristina along for the ride. Meanwhile George and Addison treat Bex, a young teen hermaphrodite. And the dog proves troublesome to all who dwell at Casa de Interns -- including Meredith, after he destroys her freshly washed laundry.

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Tell Me Sweet Little Lies | Air Date: 01/22/2006
Meredith is calling Derek "McDreamy" again as he helps her get her mother in a special clinical trial. Cristina reveals to Meredith that she hasn't really moved in with Burke  he only thinks she has. George tries to turf an elderly patient onto another service, to get her off the surgical floor a month after she actually had her surgery. Alex and Izzie deal with a competitive eater with a bad esophagus, but they have other things on their mind: Alex just got his medical exam results back, and Izzie wants Meredith to get rid her dog. George gives Meredith an ultimatum: "Either the dog goes, or I go." Meredith hesitates. Bailey suffers from some false (and distracting) labor pains that worry Addison. Oh, and the dog is at the hospital.

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Break On Through | Air Date: 03/09/2007
The nurses are on strike and everyone is suffering. Bailey is on bedrest, meaning the interns are being overseen by a new resident, Sydney -- the anti-Bailey. All the interns find a way to avoid this ever-chirpy cheerleader of a surgeon, except for Alex and Cristina, who wind up working with her on a case of flesh-eating bacteria on her leg. Alex and the resident try to save the patient's leg, where Cristina sees amputation as the only way to save the girl's life. She even goes to Burke for help, having his question the resident's methods in the OR while she operates on the leg. Cristina winds up wrong and Burke isn't very happy that he overstepped his bounds as a doctor because of his role as her boyfriend. Izzie on a case with Addison with a pregnant teenager who's baby needs an EXIT surgery -- a risky operation that requires half-delivering the baby before operating and then finishing the delivery. The girl, though, is not sure of her ability to be a mom so young, to which Izzie makes a startling revelation -- she had a daughter when she was 16 that she put up for adoption.

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It's the End of the World | Air Date: 02/16/2007
The episode begins with a dream of Izzie, Cristina, and George in the shower together. It's George's dream. Meredith refuses to go to work. She has this feeling that she will die. George and Izzie can't get her out of bed, they have to call in Cristina. Once at the hospital, the premonition seems to have some validity. A trauma victim is brought in by a paramedic with her hand still stuck inside him to stop the bleeding. As Alex soon discovers though, her hand isn't the only thing inside of him -- after trying to make a homemade bazooka, he's also got a piece of unexploded munitions inside of him. This places the hospital on Code Black, which essentially shuts down the surgical wing -- save for the one operation that has already begun: Derek and Cristina operating on the brain of a man who happens to be Bailey's husband.
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As We Know It | Air Date: 02/16/2007
Without her husband by her side, Bailey refuses to have the baby. Addison strongly disagrees -- that baby has to come out, and Addison would much rather have Bailey's cooperation on this. George works with Addison to convince Bailey to have the baby, and it's George who finally gets through to her. Richard isn't doing so well, though, with the stress, and he suffers an anxiety attack that lures Adele to the hospital.
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Yesterday | Air Date: 02/19/2006
Meredith and Burke treat a patient who probably won't survive surgery. The patient asks Meredith to videotape where he vents out to everything who's ever wronged him. Cristina and Alex work with Derek on the case of a teenager with Lionitis -- but his disfigured appearance doesn't keep him from flirting with Cristina. George and Izzie attend to a patient with Addison -- a woman suffering from spontaneous orgasms. Personally, Mark, Derek's best friend who slept with Addison, returns to convince Addison to come back to him. But he winds up moving in on Derek's case instead (when he's not hitting on Meredith). Burke finds out that Cristina didn't really move in with him -- she still has another apartment.

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What Have I Done to Deserve This? | Air Date: 02/26/2006
No one knows what transpired between George and Meredith but George and Meredith -- and they aren't talking, but everyone knows something happened. They suffer in silence over their transgression -- until everything bubbles to the surface, and once the secret is spilled, it's only a matter of minutes before George spills, too -- down a stairwell, where he dislocated his shoulder and then meets a fan of his. Addison suffers for her transgression, too, in the form of poison oak on her va-jay-jay.

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Band-Aid Covers the Bullet Hole | Air Date: 03/30/2007
Meredith and Derek try being friends -- but she won't go far enough into the friendzone to tell him about George. Izzie and Alex both have talks with Denny. Alex tells him that he and Izzie are back together. Izzie convinces him that he needs to stay with her in the hospital. Cristina is stuck babysitting for Bailey's baby, and George and Callie further their flirtations over a teenaged patient who decides to chop off his own finger after Callie refuses to do it for him. Burke shows a preference for living with George over Cristina, and Addison gets a long-awaited admonition from Derek that shows some hope for their marriage after all.

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Superstition | Air Date: 03/19/2006
After four deaths in the morning, every doctors' personal superstitions and rituals come into focus. And the belief is that three more patients will die before the day is done. George continues to ignore Meredith -- but Callie seems to have lost patience with him as well, since he hasn't called her yet. Meredith and Bailey deal with a woman who claims to have been struck by lightning -- but clearly wasn't. Cristina has to deal with a patient with OCD who suffered a head trauma.

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The Name of the Game | Air Date: 04/06/2007
Meredith takes up knitting -- and a vow of celibacy. Cristina competes with the Chief during classroom exercises. Burke tries to teach Alex a lesson about bedside manner, but it's a lesson that falls on deaf ears. Izzie knits, too, makes a sweater for Denny, and when she's not knitting, she's trying to get George to move back into the house and at the same time find out from Callie what her secret is (she seems to be hiding something, according to Izzie). George carries around the burden of discovering that Meredith's sister -- a sister she never knew she had -- is a patient of Addison's. And Bailey becomes Derek's intern for the day -- so she can get more OR time. Oh, and Meredith meets Doc's vet.

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Blues For Sister Someone | Air Date: 04/30/2006
Derek and Addison aren't having the best sex, something Meredith learns of by accident, just before Finn asks her out. Cristina works with Burke on one of his musical heroes. George and Izzie try to induce a seizure in patient, only to induce an argument over Meredith between them instead.

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Damage Case | Air Date: 05/07/2006
Derek is mad at Meredith. George is living back the house, though still not talking to Meredith. Cristina begins the day on a rush from just having been to a major surgery -- and sex to boot. But, though Burke involved in the latter, he's not entirely sharing Cristina's joy. In fact, they're last sexual encounter has left a bad taste in his mouth. Cristina doesn't notice, though, she's too excited about the incoming trauma cases: an exhausted surgical intern at another hospital falls asleep at the wheel of car and causes a three-car accident -- two of the cars contain members one big, loud Southern family -- and all of them need medical attention at SGH.

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17 Seconds | Air Date: 05/14/2006
A shooting a nearby restaurant bombards the hospital with plenty of gunshot victims -- and one intended victim that didn't get shot, but is a pain to everyone nonetheless. Burke is still mad at Cristina, and he lets Alex go with him to retrieve a heart and not her. Cristina winds up on the case of a couple where the boyfriend used his girlfriend as a shield during the shooting. When Izzie finds out that the heart is for Denny, she begs Bailey to be on the case, so she can tell Denny the good news and prep him. Meredith works with Callie on a victim who was shot in the leg. She uses the time with Callie to pick her brain about bone cancer in her dog, but Callie doesn't have time for any dog talk -- until George says he has a right to be mad at Meredith, but Callie doesn't. George and Derek attend to a victim left brain dead -- and pregnant.

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Deterioration of the Fight or Flight Response | Air Date: 05/15/2006
Burke has been shot and Izzie has just cut Denny's LVAD wire. George, Meredith, and Cristina all wind up helping Izzie keep Denny alive long enough to get moved up the transplant list and get the heart in question. Addison figures out that Richard's niece's (Camille) cancer has unfortunately returned. Bailey and Derek are attending to Burke -- and it's Derek who must operate on Burke to help save his surgical skills. Richard and his wife discuss his past affair with Ellis Grey. Meanwhile Alex desperately stalls at Mercy West in order to maintain possession of the donor heart while the rest of the interns struggle with each other in their fear of losing their places in the program&as well as Denny, who makes a surprise marriage proposal to Izzie amidst the madness.

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Losing My Religion | Air Date: 05/15/2006
Derek and Richard finish Burke's surgery as Denny successfully undergoes his heart transplant. Until one of them admits to cutting Denny's LVAD, the interns must attend to Richard's niece, which includes giving her a prom. As they each struggle with their own personal problems, they blow up balloons, hire catering, and decorate. As everyone works around him, Burke unfortunately finds a tremor in the movements of his right hand. Meredith and Derek sadly make the decision to put Doc to sleep. Richard continues to interrogate the interns, one by one, not receiving any direct answer about Denny's LVAD wire, only learning his interns' personal problems themselves. Izzie accepts Denny's marriage proposal. Meredith, Derek, Addison, and Finn finally put Doc to sleep as the hospital staff begins to arrive, dressed in full prom regalia.

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Season Three

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Time Has Come Today | Air Date: 10/26/2006
It's the day after the prom and everyone is worried about Izzie, who is still mourning Denny. She just lies on the bathroom floor of the house and refuses to eat or change out of her prom dress.

Cristina tells Meredith she's the best candidate to go comfort Izzie, because she's "dark and twisty."

Miranda stays with Denny's body until the funeral home picks him up. There won't be a funeral, at his family's request. Before he's wheeled off, she tells him, "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."

Meredith confesses to Cristina that she snuck off from the prom and slept with Derek, but that she has no idea where things stand between them.

Adele makes an appointment with Richard, saying it's the only way to see him. She offers an ultimatum: Retire or she's leaving him.

Omar and his wife, Giselle, come into the E.R. She was driving them both to the hospital for severe flu when she passed out at the wheel. Omar is running a high fever and it turns out he was exposed to someone with bubonic plague. Quarantine is immediately declared.

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I Am a Tree | Air Date: 09/28/2006
Izzie is coping with her grief by baking muffins nonstop. George tries to appeal to Miranda to talk to Izzie, but she won't listen.

Cristina surprises Burke in his hospital bed by stripping down to her lacy red underwear -- just as his parents arrive for a visit.

Cristina agrees to meet the mother in the cafeteria for a chat, but first begs Burke to get her out of it. Mrs. Burke says she assumes that Cristina intends to follow a less time-consuming career path if she expects to marry her son. While Burke is getting coffee, Mrs. Burke tells Cristina she's selfish for getting him out of bed and that's why their relationship won't last long. Stung by the criticism, Cristina stops by that night on her way home, and asks them both if they need anything.

When Miranda sees Meredith's panties pinned to the lost and found board, she's furious -- and sure they belong to either Meredith or Cristina. Callie comes to their rescue by pretending they are hers, which causes George to become insanely jealous. Meredith offers to tell George the truth, but Callie says she loves him being jealous.

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Sometimes a Fantasy | Air Date: 06/21/2007
Meredith likes this dating thing: She's juggling Finn and Derek and dreaming about them both. In the same dream.

Finn shows up at the hospital to have lunch with her and Derek pulls her away for an operation. So Finn just happens to show up at Meredith's house when Derek and Meredith come back from their dinner date. Meredith chews them out for not giving her a real date and goes inside the house without either of them.

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What I Am | Air Date: 06/21/2007
Addison and Derek are both horrified to see Mark shaking hands with the Chief, who's just hired him.

They're distracted by Meredith, who keeps throwing up after complaining of a stomachache. She collapses and Cristina asks her if she's pregnant, in earshot of everyone. Meredith says she can't be pregnant, but if she is, it could only be Derek's. She thinks she has an ulcer from trying to juggle Derek and Finn; it turns out she has appendicitis.

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Oh, The Guilt | Air Date: 12/21/2006
Derek is very upbeat about finalizing his divorce from Addison. He lets her have the Manhattan brownstone and their house in the Hamptons; he just wants to keep his trailer in Seattle. She tries to tell him it wasn't just a one-night stand with Mark, but he's determined to be the bad guy since his adultery involved an actual relationship.

Izzie's happy too. She shows Meredith and George the $8.7 million check -- and promptly spills orange juice all over it! She talks about what she might do with the money -- maybe open a bed and breakfast. They anxiously urge her to deposit it in a bank, and she says she will, right after she cleans out her hospital locker. She later tells Addison she feels guilty about the money.

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Let the Angels Commit | Air Date: 12/28/2006
Legal clears Izzie to come back to work, but Miranda is surprised that the Chief wants her to oversee Izzie again. She thinks Izzie should get a fresh start, but the Chief makes it clear several doctors on staff have concerns about Miranda's judgment and she needs to prove herself via Izzie.

Miranda takes a hard line with her prodigal intern. Her long lists of "don'ts" includes no surgeries and no being alone with or talking to patients. And she's to be be paired up with another doctor. The first day is none other than Meredith.

Cristina has taken over writing in surgeries on the O.R. board to protect Burke by making sure that he's not booked into the gallery O.R. and that despite bribes from residents, none of them scrub in.

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Where the Boys Are | Air Date: 03/01/2007
Derek decides to go camping, so he invites Burke and somehow all the men of Seattle Grace, except for Mark, tag along.

When Richard doesn't have a tent to camp in, he asks Joe and his friend Walter, if he can sleep in their tent but the realizes that Joe and Walter are a couple.

While fishing, Joe tells Richard they're thinking about having children and Richard says he and Adele never did because she didn't want raise them alone since he was always at the hospital Joe says Walter says the same thing, since he's always at the bar, but that he'll do whatever it takes to keep Walter.

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Staring at the Sun | Air Date: 03/08/2007
Meredith goes to visit her mother, and finds she hasn't been eating. Richard shows up and brings her a box of chocolates, because he knows she hasn't been eating regular food.

Her announcement to the other interns that she's now "bright and shiny" because of getting back together with Derek takes a bit of a setback when she finds out that George's dad is in the hospital. He passed out and broke his clavicle in a fall.

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From a Whisper to a Scream | Air Date: 08/23/2007
Meredith and Derek are still sticking to their "no sex" policy so Cristina isn't interrupting anything when she barges into Meredith's bedroom early in the morning and demands to talk to Meredith alone. She asks Meredith a hypothetical question: What if Derek robbed a bank and Meredith drove the getaway car? Would she turn herself in too? Before Meredith can figure out what she's really asking, Cristina leaves.

Cristina voices her fears to Burke that George will reveal their secret to the Chief. Burke tells her it'll be fine, because he hasn't had a tremor in a week and that they're still a strong team.

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Don't Stand So Close to Me | Air Date: 05/31/2007
All the residents except for Meredith are shunning Cristina, now that her secret is out. George is particularly bitter because she was willing to let Burke operate on his father. The Chief won't punish Cristina and Burke, much to Bailey's dismay. The Chief orders Burke to get his hand fixed but Burke tells Derek he doesn't want another surgery, implying that his tremor is all Derek's fault.

Meredith tries to convince a distraught Ellis that Richard's leaving her happened years ago. Ellis says it's all because she had a daughter and that she should never have had children.

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Six Days - Part 1 | Air Date: 05/24/2007
George is upset when the $8.7 million check that Denny left Izzie keeps falling off the refrigerator. He urges her to finally deposit it in the bank, but she refuses.

Cristina and Burke have made up, but still aren't speaking. She wants Meredith to ask Derek how Burke's hand is healing, but Meredith doesn't want to get in the middle. Cristina keeps trying to get other people to ask him, but Burke is onto her. He won't tell anyone but George, as long as he promises not to tell Cristina. Addison asks Burke why he and Cristina aren't talking and he explains it's like "Say Uncle," where whoever gives in is the loser. She tells him he's being pathetic.

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Six Days - Part 2 | Air Date: 05/24/2007
An anonymous donation arrives so Heather can have the $300,000 experimental surgery to straighten her spine. Miranda knows it's from Izzie and asks if she did it so she could scrub in. Izzie says it was because she wanted Heather to have a normal life. Miranda tells her she's once again overly involved in a patient's case so she can't scrub in.

After their near kiss, Alex and Addison are incredibly nervous around each other. Callie is asking Addison's advice about George's suddenly kissing her and realizes Addison isn't listening. She confesses what's on her mind: she aborted Mark's baby and today was the due date. Mark had wanted the baby, but she had wanted a baby with Derek, not him. "I never thought I'd end up alone," she says.

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Great Expectations | Air Date: 08/30/2007
Burke and Cristina still aren't speaking, which makes it very awkward when he cooks dinner for Meredith and Derek but not for Cristina. Meredith urges them to speak to each other, but they insist they're fine.

Derek changes the subject to Richard's stepping down and Cristina reveals that he first asked Burke to be the next Chief of Surgery. Derek is hurt that he was passed over and that Burke never told him.

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Wishin' and Hopin' | Air Date: 09/06/2007
George and Callie show up to work with a surprise: They ran off to Vegas and got married! Izzie and everyone else is less than supportive.

Meredith's mother, Ellis, unexpectedly wakes up lucid one morning. She recognizes Meredith and remembers everything -- except for the last five years that she's been in a home with Alzheimer's. Meredith gently breaks the news to her and she collapses. Ellis ends up at Seattle Grace with heart arrthymia. Richard gives Meredith the day off to spend with her mother, but she'd rather be working.

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Walk on Water | Air Date: 07/12/2007
Derek finds Meredith in her tub, completely under the water, and pulls her out. She tells him she doesn't need rescuing. But he knows she's melancholy after the hurtful things her mother said to her when she was lucid and is afraid she was trying to drown herself. Meredith asks Izzie why she can't just believe in "happily ever after" and Izzie says she doesn't know what to believe in herself anymore.

Burke, Mark and Derek are amused to see that the Chief has dyed his hair now that he's single again. Addison comes to his defense and tells them all to leave him be, then confesses that she dyed her hair blonde after Derek left her the first time.
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Drowning on Dry Land | Air Date: 07/19/2007
At the disaster scene, other rescue workers find the man with the injured leg at the edge of the dock. He's got Meredith's tag on him, but she's nowhere to be found. Derek assumes she finished with him and moved on.

George lies to the mother whose son is missing that he's found him so that she'll consent to go into surgery. Miranda insists he really find the boy by the time the mother wakes up. _____________________________________________________________

Some Kind of Miracle | Air Date: 07/26/2007
TThe doctors continue to work feverishly over Meredith, but she still has no heartbeat. Addison tells her friends to "prepare themselves."

Meanwhile Meredith is mentally still in the empty room with Denny and Dylan, who argue about the best way to break it to her that she's dead. They're joined by her dog, a dead nurse that used to work for Ellis, and a teenage girl, Meredith's first patient who died.
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Scars and Souvenirs | Air Date: 08/02/2007
Izzie is shocked to find Alex in the bathroom when she comes out of the shower. Meredith explains that Alex is moving into George's old room.

Izzie examines a Korean War vet who's complaining about a pain in his shoulder: he was shot and the army doctors refused to take it out but now it's infected and starting to bother him. He tells her and Richard that he was shot by his own men after he made a call they didn't like. The man agrees to surgery, providing they show him the bullet so he can prove who shot him. Richard is able to remove the bullet, but it's too badly damaged to be able to prove anything.

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My Favorite Mistake | Air Date: 08/09/2007
Izzie is reeling from the realization that she and George slept together, but George doesn't remember anything. All he knows is that he has a killer hangover.

Callie tells George to forget about their argument: for today, they have to be the perfect couple since her father has just learned of their marriage and is in town to meet George.

Cristina tells Meredith she's going to try to get things back the way they used to be with Burke. She brings him coffee at the hospital, like she used to, but he reminds her they stopped doing that when she moved in and they made coffee at home. He tells her he's interested in moving forward, not backwards.

After just one day at Seattle Grace, Colin Marlow has drawn up a 10-year plan for the hospital. Once word reaches the attendings, who are all in competition for Richard's job, they try to outdo one another. Mark tries to pick Miranda's brains about what she thinks the hospital needs, but she snaps she doesn't have time, all she can think about is what needs doing right now.

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Time After Time | Air Date: 08/16/2007
Meredith's stepmother, Susan, keeps stopping by with groceries, even though Meredith tells her she doesn't need to. When she shows up at the hospital, saying she really needs to talk to her, Meredith tells her it's all too much, she doesn't need to be mothered, and Susan should just leave her alone. But Susan comes by later to explain why she's being so overly attentive: She feels guilty for not encouraging Thatcher to visit Meredith more often when she was young. Meredith finally relents and tells her she's just not used to this kind of overprotective mothering.

Mark catches Richard doing some very awkward flirting and decides to help him improve his game. He effortlessly hits on a nurse to show Richard how it's done. Richard guesses that Mark is trying to hard to help him because he wants to be the new Chief of Surgery. At Joe's, Richard is finally making some headway with a pretty woman, but balks when he realizes she's only a student. Addison takes the seat next to him and suggests he try practicing his moves on her, but he declines.

Derek confronts Richard about his promise to name Derek as his replacement, saying that's why he came to Seattle Grace. The Chief tells him he knows he and Meredith are happy together and that if he became Chief, he would lose her, just as Richard lost his wife. Derek insists that's not the case, but Richard is firm, saying he swore an oath to Ellis to look out for Meredith. Derek confides in Miranda that it seems like he has to choose between being Chief and having Meredith and she tells him to choose Meredith, because being Chief doesn't mean anything if he's alone.

In the locker room, George promises an exhausted Callie, who's worked all night, that he'll meet her at 3 p.m. for some coffee. In walks Izzie, carrying a rosary. Alex is surprised she's doing penance and says, "You did something bad." She and George exchange guilty looks.

Izzie tells George that doing penance helped all the sin "go away," but he says he needs some space until things blow over, like when he had the very bad pity sex with Meredith. She is hurt that he's comparing their drunken one-night stand to the legendarily bad sex with Meredith.

A couple, the Kleins, approach Izzie and ask for her help. Their daughter has leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant. She points them to the hematology department, but they explain that they're the adoptive parents of the daughter, Hannah, she gave up 11 years ago and they need her to be a donor. Izzie says, of course, she'll see if she's a match, and that she wants to meet Hannah. The Kleins agree, but say the choice is up to Hannah.

Before Izzie goes to meet Hannah, she has a good cry in the bathroom. Miranda overhears her and demands to know what's going on. Izzie tells her about Hannah and swears her to secrecy. Miranda goes with her to provide moral support, but the Kleins reluctantly tell her that Hannah is "too tired" to meet her right now. Izzie is crushed but agrees to go through with the bone marrow matching process. Miranda gets the other interns to cover for Izzie while she's getting the test done. George wants to know what's going on with Izzie but Miranda tells him it's none of his business.

Miranda hands off Izzie's specimens to Meredith and instructs her to hand carry them to the lab and to tell no one. George worms out Izzie's whereabouts from Meredith and goes to see what's wrong. Izzie tells him to leave but he refuses. With George there to hold her hand through the painful procedure, Miranda leaves. Afterward, Izzie is in too much pain to redress herself, so George helps her. She tells him the truth and he says he admires her for what she's doing. They walk by Hannah's room and he tells her she can sneak a peek, since Hannah can't see her. She's overwhelmed at seeing her daughter for the first time.

George his been so occupied with Izzie, he's completely forgotten about his coffee date with Callie. He lies and says he was busy in the clinic. She knows something is off about his story but doesn't press it, saying she's tired and is going home.

Jane Doe is admiring her new, post-surgery face. Since the swelling's almost completely gone, they release her photo to police and the media to help in identifying her. A couple, the Malones, comes forward and says they think it's their daughter, Shannon. All the characteristics match up: pregnancy, height, hair, blood type, even a lack of tonsils, even if the face doesn't quite match. The Malones tell Alex and Addison that Shannon, their daughter, was missing for months. She'd gone after her husband, who left her because he didn't want the baby.

The Malones tell her who Shannon is: a second-grade teacher who lives with them in North Bend. Jane asks Alex if she can leave the hospital to go home with them now. He says she's on strict bed rest until the baby is due, but he'll check with Addison.

Mr. Malone and Jane are bonding beautifully when Mrs. Malone tells Alex she can't let Jane come home with her because she's sure now that's not her daughter. She says her husband is just more desperate to believe than she is. Alex tries to break the news to Jane. He calls her "Ava," the name they picked out to go with the face she chose for her surgery, but she insists he calls her Shannon. She doesn't want to believe him and says he's being selfish and that he just doesn't want to let her leave.

Colin asks Cristina to assist him on a "piggyback" heart transplant and grudgingly says that Burke can also scrub in. Cristina decides she must treat Colin's continued pursuit of her like a chess match, and outflank him. She plays up her affection for Burke in front of him, holding hands, showing off the nail colors she's trying out for the wedding. Colin sees right through her little game, however. It's only when he catches her asking Burke a surgical question that he knows she already knows the answer to, that he realizes he's seeing their true relationship. The Cristina he knew, he tells her, would never stoop to building up a man's ego. He says there's no point in pursuing being Chief here to be near her, since the woman he knew is gone. Back at home, Burke says he's relieved she can now go back to "the real Cristina," but it's obvious Cristina isn't so sure who that is at the moment.

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Desire | Air Date: 04/26/2007
The interns are cramming for their boards and everyone wishes they could get their hands on Callie's notes because she was ranked first in her year. Meanwhile, Burke is trying to get Cristina to sample cakes for the wedding, even though she doesn't care.

Meredith feels bad for telling Derek he was "hovering" so she says she's going to communicate more, but she can't see that he's the one who's being withdrawn and distant now.

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The Other Side of This Life | Air Date: 08/24/2007
Addison takes a leave of absence to visit her old friends Naomi and Sam in Los Angeles, a couple who work at the Oceanside Wellness Group. She immediately thinks of Seattle Grace when the first person she encounters at the co-op is a hot guy in the elevator.

However, Naomi isn't exactly pleased to see her since it's been more than a year since they talked. Addison says she's had a lot going on, such as the divorce, and Naomi tells her she and Sam are also divorced. Sam is now a medical guru with a best-selling book. Addison is surprised to find that they still work together.

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Testing 1-2-3 | Air Date: 09/13/2007
Cristina, Izzie and Alex have crammed all night for their boards test and wonder if, with Susan's death, Meredith is ready. First she's going to the hospital, than the funeral, than onto the test. Cristina urges Meredith to ask the Chief to take the test later but she won't hear of it.

Callie is more excited than George that he's been accepted to Mercy West, pointing out that it has fewer interns and "fewer distractions." Izzie pleads with him not to go but he insists he can't keep kissing her in elevators. "I'm a married man," he says and walks away.

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Didn't We Almost Have It All | Air Date: 09/20/2007
Meredith tells Cristina that her marrying Burke is a sign that "women like us" can really have it all. Cristina wants to scrub in but Miranda orders her to go home since she's getting married in less than 12 hours.

Richard is indignant that, since he's still Adele's husband, he was not notified she was in the hospital. Addison finally tells him Adele might be having a miscarriage. Adele comes to and is flustered to see Richard at her bedside. Addison leaves Richard alone with her. He wants to know why she didn't tell him and she snaps at him that he must have work to do. He insists on staying right where he is.

Rina, Joe and Walter's potential birth mother, needs to have her twins delivered immediately. She's upset because she hasn't made a final decision on who to give her babies to and they assure her that it doesn't matter right now. When the babies arrive, they each hold one.

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Season Four

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A Change is Gonna Come | Air Date: 11/29/2007
After failing his exam, George reluctantly faces his first day reliving his internship among a sea of fresh faces. Meanwhile, Cristina, Meredith, Izzie and Alex are in charge of their own interns and George is assigned to Meredith.

Neither Cristina or Meredith have heard from her exes since the wedding, and they don't seem overly concerned, which astounds Izzie, who is counting every day since she last spoke to George. George asks to talk to Meredith but before he can get her alone, the rest of the new interns show up in the hall and are shooed off by the residents. George gives up and joins the interns. Cristina nicknames him "Bambi," saying he needs to learn how to deal with his new situation.

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Love/Addiction | Air date 10/04/2007

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Let the Truth Sting | Air Date: 10/11/2007
When Meredith greets Derek in the elevator, Cristina realizes that they're back on. Meredith feels guilty about it, since Cristina has lost Burke, and tells him they have to keep things between them a secret. Cristina pretends to be severely depressed about her breakup and gets Meredith to swap a surgery for a shift supervising interns in the pit.

Derek complains to Mark about the secrecy with Meredith and Mark is surprised that Derek didn't really break up with her. He tells Derek that he's foolish for hoping they'll officially get back together and is skeptical when Derek says he's not expecting that.

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The Heart of the Matter | Air Date: 10/18/2007
After his admission that he slept with Izzie George is stunned when Callie says, "I forgive you." He tries to find Izzie to tell her the bad news, but Callie finds her first and, in front of a set of interns, orders Izzie to meet her in the cafeteria at noon.

Word quickly spreads through the hospital that Callie is going to fight Izzie in the cafeteria. Alex asks Izzie what she did to piss Callie off and, after making him swear not to tell another soul, confesses she slept with George. Alex walks away in disgust.

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Haunt You Everyday | Air Date: 10/25/2007
It's Halloween at Seattle Grace and the newly formed resident management team of Callie and Miranda instruct the residents to watch out for weirdos, especially injuries related to the annual chainsaw pumpkin-carving contest. Callie tells Izzie to address her questions to Miranda and when she asks why, Callie announces to everyone that it's because Izzie's been sleeping with her husband.

Meredith is surprised but supportive of the new couple while Cristina huffs in disgust when they say they're waiting to be together "out of respect for Callie." When Mark hears that Callie is free, he offers to comfort her, day or night, especially night, but she declines.

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Kung Fu Fighting | Air Date: 11/01/2007
Izzie finds George sleeping in the on-call room and announces that she's tired of waiting, they're going to have hot sex tonight.

Meredith can't sleep and Cristina diagnoses severe abandonment issues. She wonders if maybe Meredith should stop having "breakup sex" with Derek.

A sky diver miraculously survives a 12,000 feet fall even though his parachute didn't open. It appears all he needs is an appendectomy. The residents watch the video of the accident, during which the diver proclaims that he loves Sally, the instructor.

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Physical Attraction... | Air Date: 11/08/2007
George and Izzie finally have sex -- and it's horrible! Izzie despairs that they don't have chemistry anymore and tries everything, including booze, to get it back.

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Forever Young | Air Date: 11/15/2007
An accident brings a busload of high school students into the hospital. The driver, Marcus, happens to be someone Miranda knew -- and still has a crush on -- from high school. George is amazed to see her stitch up the man's arm himself. Erica diagnoses a slight heart condition and tells Miranda that if she weren't busy flirting, she could have made the diagnosis herself. George asks if they were high school sweethearts and, as Miranda is filling out Marcus's insurance forms, she admits that she was only his tutor. Richard instructs Miranda to let Marcus fill out his own paperwork and just then Marcus goes into cardiac arrest.

Cristina is jubilant that she's back on rotation with Erica in cardiology, but can't find a way to impress her. Callie tells her to back off or she'll blow her chance.

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Crash Into Me - Part One | Air Date: 11/22/2007
Miranda's husband is fed up because she's never home now that she's Chief Resident. He insists they talk so she tells him to come by the hospital for lunch.

Meredith wants to tell Derek she doesn't want him dating anyone else, but can't bring herself to do it. Derek asks Rose about the ring she wears on a chain around her neck and she says it's a ring from an engagement that ended a year ago. Derek looks thoughtful as she says it ended because she knew what she wanted and her ex-fiance didn't.

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All Data collected from the ABC website HERE