4x15 Recap: Favorite quotes and photos

Cristina: Pull your crap off the floor before this thing eats it.

Meredith: I'm still firing you.

Wyatt: No, you're quitting.

Meredith: No, I'm not quitting. I don't quit things.

Wyatt: Well actually you do. Your mother quit your father.

Your father quit you. You quit your boyfriend. And if I read

your hospital chart correctly, you quit your life momentarily

on a couple of occasions. You quit. It's what you know how to

do.

Meredith: Now you're really fired. leaves

Wyatt: Now we're getting somewhere.

Meredith: Hey

Derek: I'm very optimistic about this new viral cocktail. Adding

an IL-2 should make a very big difference. We're close.

We're gonna open the bottle of champagne soon.

Meredith: I know.

Derek: You okay?

Meredith: I'm fine.

Derek: mhmm, listen, clinical trials can be a grind. If this is

getting to you, I can do this one on my own.

Meredith: I'm not a quitter; I don't need you to rescue me.

Let's just do this.

Alex: Is Tapley in there?

George: No

Alex: you're lying.

George: Yes

Alex leaves

Meredith: Tapley in there?

George: No

Meredith: Liar!

George: Yes

Callie: Something is wrong with her.

Cristina: No it's not, I'm fine.

Callie: She cleaned, cleaned the apartment. Which she

has no idea how to do; so she basically just pushed

dirt around.

Meredith: Oh leave her alone. Not everybody has to be

happy all the time. That's not mental health; that's crap!

Callie: Walter Tapley's here and she doesn't want to meet

him.

Meredith: Well that's..that's bad.

Cristina: You know Torres, mind your own business.

Callie: You need to get help. You're killing me.

Meredith: You hang out till Hahn gets here, you might

get to meet Tapley.

Cristina: I don't give a damn about Walter Tapley.

Meredith: Cristina! Are you in the dark place?

Cristina: Yea

Meredith: Me too.

Rose: Okay the sex, I thought was mind blowing myself. But

I get the impression that you had a really bad time.

Derek: What?

Rose: Why are you avoiding me?

Derek: I'm sorry, I lost a patient. I'm not trying to avoid you.

Rose: So not calling me after the sex is you being a dedicated

life saver.

Derek: It is.

Rose: So I'll see you later?

Derek nods and Rose leaves

Mark: You didn't call her?
Derek: When was the last time you called a woman after
having sex?
Mark: Ah well that's going to change. I'm turning over a new
leaf.
Derek: What was wrong with the old leaf? So they called you
a whore; you're a happy guy.
Chief: Walter Tapley needs a double valve replacement and
Hahn refuses to give it to him.
Mark: What's her problem?
Chief: She thinks she's gonna kill him.
Derek and Mark: Light weight!
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Chief: Oh and another thing.
Derek: mmhmm
Chief: If you spend the night with a woman and call her the
next day and she doesn't call you back. Does that mean she
had a lousy time or does that mean her answering machine
was consumed in a fire?
Mark: See the Chief calls the next day.
Derek: Or you don't have to call her back. You just met
this person. It's new, it's fun, it's casual.
Chief: It's my wife.
Mark and Derek: Ohhhh

Meredith: You haven't spoken to her yet? I already mixed the

virus and the IL-2. We only have six hours.

Derek: We're not going to wait six hours; we're gonna wait three

hours.

Meredith: Derek, the guy we're waiting for doesn't exist.

Derek: I want to give her a little more time to enjoy him. Or

the idea of him, if nothing else. Because once we remove the

tumor it's all gonna disappear.

Meredith: It's not real. It's okay if it disappears. She can go

back to her life.

Derek: She was probably a lonely person. She found a way to

have love.

Meredith: Of course she did. Because that's where love exists

in delusional fantasies. Real love isn't like that.

Derek: Good to know.

George: He punched someone named Harrison.

Bailey: You punched a child?

George: Apparently there's a graham cracker involved.

Bailey: Over a graham cracker!

George: They said they want you to talk to him.

Bailey: What? he's 14 months old. What do they think I'm gonna

do, give him a lecture on non-violent conflict resolution?

Cristina: Yay, yay for Georgie. Georgie saves the day.

George: I give you Tapley and you pass it over to your intern.

What the hell is wrong with you?

Cristina: You think if you um, kiss the Chief's ass enough by taking

care of Tapley, something magical is gonna happen? Like what, you'll

earn your magical resident wings? Ahh well, no, not gonna happen

George. You're suck, you are where you are. You know the only

way you'd get out of your miserable situation is if Burke were here.

Because you were Burke's guy. For some reason he pitied your

pathetic ass. But he's gone now. No wings for Georgie.

Derek: Was I happy when I was with her?

Mark: Off and on.

Derek: I think I idealize it. I mean you wouldn't hang on to a

woman who's unavailable, unpredictable, right? You'd move on,

keep it casual.

Mark: Don't sell yourself short. Allow yourself to grow with Rose.

Share experiences, build memories.

Derek: Is this the new leaf?

Mark: Yea

Derek: Haha, needs work.

Mark: Oh my God this is gonna kill me.

Meredith: Lexie's coming over , let's try to keep the carnage to

a minimum.

Lexie: Hey um, can I talk to you about something?

Meredith: Maybe some other time.

Lexie: Um, but..

Cristina: Look, she hates you. Okay? She's not gonna say it to

your face. Because she's too polite. But she thinks you're

annoying. You showing up here like the good little girl daddy

didn't abandon; is like the worst thing that's happened to her

in months. And that's saying a lot coming from Meredith Grey.

Callie: Hmm give me two minutes and I'll meet you in the 3rd floor

on-call room.

Mark: No, we're gonna sit and enjoy a meal together.

Callie: I don't get it.

Mark: I've turned over a new leaf. From now on if you want this..

points down..you're gonna get this too. above picture

Callie: eww

Meredith: I need to talk to you.

Wyatt: Make an appointment.

Meredith: I don't want to make an appointment just to get my

chart back. I'd like you to get it right now.

Wyatt: I would like to go to the bathroom in peace. Seems everybody's

dissatisfied here.

Meredith: Where do you get off suggesting that I'm a coward and

a quitter? Are you trying to make me feel bad about my life,

so that you can fix me?

Wyatt: We'll talk about it in therapy.

Meredith: No, I don't need therapy!!

Lexie enters

Lexie: I forgive you.

Meredith: Lexie

Lexie: No, I forgive you. I forgive you for treating me like crap.

And I forgive you for letting your friend treat me like crap.

Meredith: Lexie

Lexie: I don't know how you get up in the morning. I honestly

don't. Our dad abandoned you and your mom, by all accounts

was the meanest person ever and you can't let Derek love you

and it all really really sucks. But ever since I knew you existed

I had this fantasy about my big sister and you have failed on

every occasion to live up to that fantasy. But I still love you,

whether you are capable of letting me or not. So, I forgive you.

Lexie leaves

Wyatt: 2 o'clock work for you?

Meredith: Yea, okay.

Callie: Hey so, let me get this straight, if I wander into an on-call

room, you are not gonna follow me?

Mark: You ever think about why you need sex all the time?

Is it replacing something or are..

Callie: I use it to clear my head. So onnn-callll room.

Mark: We can sit in there and talk but we are not having sex.

Callie: whining Why, what do we have to talk about?

Mark: At lunch you seem to want to talk about three-somes.

Callie: You are so not a new man.

Meredith: We've got this patient and she's got true love. Do you

want to know why? Because her boyfriend doesn't exist. Derek is

all broken up over her. Like it means something that she's having

an affair with a hallucination.

Wyatt: But Derek wasn't ready to give up on the relationship

and you were.

Meredith: No I didn't give up. I wanted to try again and then

he went and kissed Rose. So he's the one who messes up, not me.

Wyatt: But, it's a relationship; people make mistakes. And you

stand back waiting for him to fail, so you can say 'AHA now I quit.'

Meredith: No, it wasn't working.

Wyatt: Was your life not working when you let that slip out from

under you?

Meredith: Okay when are you gonna stop suggesting that I'm

suicidal?

Wyatt: When you start acting like someone who wants to be

alive.

Meredith: Give me my chart.

Wyatt: Why?

Meredith: Because I'm not suicidal and if it says that then it's

wrong.

Wyatt: What happened last year when you fell in the water?

Meredith: I almost drowned, you think I did that for kicks?

Wyatt: You put your hand in a body cavity that contained

unexploded ordinance.

Meredith: I was trying to save a patient.

Wyatt: Why is it that every other person in that room had the

sense to hit the deck? You know, people run away from this

line between life and death. You seem to stand on it and wait

for a strong wind to sway you one way or the other. You're

careless with your life. You're not slitting your wrists but

you're careless. Probably because your mother told you,

you were a waste of space on the planet. The problem is

you believed her. If you don't watch out one of these days

you're gonna die because of it.

Meredith: Hand me my chart! Now!

Derek: Is there a problem Dr. Grey?

Meredith: Andre's here.

Lexie: Are you okay?

Cristina: Don't ask me if I'm okay.

Lexie: Okay

Cristina: Ugh, you make me sick. Have some fire. Be unstopable.

Be a force of nature. Be better than anyone here and don't give a

damn what anyone thinks. There are no teams here. No buddies.

You're on your own. Be on your own.

Lexie: Dr. Yang I just scrubbed in on Walter Tapley's double

valve replacement. I watched Dr. Hahn excise a piece of his

pericardium, from like three inches away. That's what I got to

do while you made notes in charts. So whatever crap you want

to rain down on my head, go for it. Cause I just saw the inside of

Walter Tapley's heart and that is something you can never take

away from me.

Cristina: Yea, okay.

Lexie: Okay then.

Chief: What are you doing with Bailey's child?

George: Dr. Bailey and I are in love and I'll be heading back to

Vegas with her once my divorce from Dr. Torres is final.

George: You know what that was? That was the atta boy!

This may have been the most exhausting day of my life,

my back is killing me, no offense and I haven't seen the inside

of an OR in...I don't know how long. But I got the 'atta boy.'

I'm turning it around. And you're gonna get the punching under

control right? Oh, you and me, really takes us a while, but we get

there.

Meredith: Mr. Barrett, we're so sorry. We should have waited.

We didn't think, I didn't think you were coming. The whole story

sounded so incredible.

Andre: She told you about the shoe right?

Mark: Ladies

Callie: He's thinking about a three-some.

Mark: Am not.

Callie: You are. He has been all day.

Mark: Ok fine, I got a new leaf. Not a lobotomy.

Hahn: You couldn't handle the two of us.

Mark: Oh but I could; I won't, but I could.

Hahn: You wouldn't find it intimidating?

Mark: Not at all.

Hahn kisses Callie

Hahn: See, too much for you.

Hahn leaves the elevator

Mark: Damn it! On call room, right now.

a shocked Callie goes after Mark

Derek: Rose! You want to grab dinner?

Rose: No I'm sorry I can't.

Derek: Oh come on Rose.

Rose: Derek, we spent a night together and then you vanished.

Now I wished I was secure enough to handle that without a

bruised ego and a lot of processed sugar. But I'm not.

Derek: Wait wait, can't we just make this easier.

I don't..I don't..you see I've done complicated. I don't

want to do that again. Can't this just be easy? Fun? We don't

need that fairy tale thing right now, we just need happy.

Meredith: My mother tried to kill herself when I was a kid,

after the love of her life disappeared. I never told anybody

that before.

Wyatt: Okay

Meredith: So you think I'm broken. Fix me. Cause I'm no

quitter. Let's go.

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Written by: Debora Cahn

Directed by: James Frawley