Grey's Anatomy

Previously on "Grey's Anatomy"...

I'm getting married to Burke.

I went to the board this morning and told them I was retiring.

One of us could be chief.

We were here long before you two started fooling around.

He is my husband.

Stop saying that like it means something.

Jane Doe, about six months pregnant.

Found under a pile of rubble.

She can't remember anything from before the accident.

Go 60 days with no sex, no other women.

My mother's dead, isn't she?

Why didn't you stay and fight for us?

I-I tried.

Alex, I'm sorry. I can't.

People have scars in all sorts of unexpected places,

like secret road maps of their personal histories,

diagrams of all their old wounds.

Alex! God.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Seen it all before.

What the hell are you doing here?

- Moving in. - What?

Most of our old wounds heal, leaving nothing behind, but a scar.

But some of them don't.

Alex is moving in?

To this house?

- He's taking George's room. - Why?

I was asleep just a minute ago.

And I was naked in the bathroom when Alex walked in.

Lucky I didn't come out of the shower to find him peeing

- all over the seat. - And we're up.

What's wrong with where he was living before?

I don't know where he was living before.

Probably a whorehouse.

I can't have him living in the room right next door. It's weird.

People are what matters.

Alex is one of our people. We can't leave him out in the cold.

"People are what matters"? You don't like people.

Is this about your mother?

No. I had a near death whatever, and...

I was dead.

And now I'm not, so...

I'd like to use this chance I've been given

to be more positive.

People are what matters.

Paint with all the colors of the wind.

You're crazy now.

- I'm alive. - Yeah, okay.

No, no. Um, I'm not done in there yet.

Oh, don't worry. Not looking, not interested.

Some wounds we carry with us everywhere,

and though the cut's long gone...

No, she's selfish, is Izzie's problem.

The pain still lingers.

She's not selfish. She's generous. But...

She-She's self-absorbed.

I mean,

her problem is that she doesn't see other people's perspectives.

Hey, give me a bite.

You know, it's weird because

she's so ridiculously compassionate with her patients.

You'd think she'd roll some of that out for her friends, but...

How about we not talk about her anymore?

That's a fine idea.

He is in George's room,

and when George's stupid marriage crashes and burns,

he's gonna want to move back in, and he won't be able to.

His life will be in a shambles, he'll finally notice that his dad is dead

and he made a fool out of himself by marrying

somebody he doesn't really love, and he'll have no place to go.

Is that what you want?

That's exactly what I want.

Hey, look who found some clothes.

- Shut it. - How you doing?

Okay, everybody, let's do this once.

I'm fine, she's cremated,

I picked out a beautiful urn, and she's hanging out in the back of my closet.

Any more questions about my dead mother, or can we get back to work?

Does anyone know who the new chief candidate is?

The chief's bringing in a ringer

in case he doesn't want to give the job to either of your boyfriends.

O'Malley, you're with Shepherd today.

Yang, Dr. Montgomery. Stevens, to the clinic.

Karev, Jane Doe.

Grey, scut.

Once again, I am fine.

You can tell everybody you fine till you're blue in your face.

Your mom died, and you almost joined her.

You're taking it easy.

Anybody come looking for me yet?

Well, no match on your prints, no.

No hits from missing persons,plus--

My face is hard to identify.

Well, the second they find something out

about your identity, I'm gonna come tell you.

Dr. Sloan says I need surgery on my eye.

He just wants to make sure you don't lose vision there completely.

But Dr. Montgomery says I should wait a day or two 'cause of the baby.

I don't know what I'm supposed to make of that.

Yeah, well, I mean, surgery can be hard on a baby,

but you're gonna be on a fetal monitor the whole time,

so if anything goes wrong, we'll catch it.

Thank you.

I really-- I really appreciate you taking the time to...

I mean, you're-- you're all I've got in this place.

Does that hurt?

Of course it hurts. Don't poke it like that.

Has the lump been there a long time?

I got shot 50 years ago.

It's been there a long time.

But it hasn't bothered you till... recently?

It bothers me there's a bullet in there.

It'd bother you, too, but it didn't start hurting

till a couple of months ago.

- You think it's a bullet? - I don't "think", lady.

I know. I wanted it out.

But the army doctors didn't want to go get it.

So they let me keep it in for half a lifetime.

Let's get some pictures, see if you're right.

I know I'm right. Save your film.

Just get me something for the pain.

Mr. Scofield, I'm sure you are right,

but we're still gonna do this my way.

- Derek. - There she is.

How was your flight?

They didn't feed me, which I don't understand.

Dr. O'Malley, Dr. Crawford.

- She's a big pain in the ass. - Pleasure.

He says that because we worked together in new york

and I was the only one who never had a crush on him.

No, I-I don't buy that.

What do we know, O'Malley?

Dr. Crawford has a parafalcine meningioma

along the superior sagittal sinus.

You've operated three times. It keeps on coming back.

Yeah, it's in dangerous territory,

so we leave a little bit of the tumor behind each time,

and we go back every couple of years and tune it up.

But this is the last time.

- Sorry? - This is it, Derek.

I'm done after this.

Helen...

the recovery takes forever,

and it's not like when jake was around.

I go through this by myself now.

Don't throw in the towel.

I'm looking at the situation as it is.

I am going to do this now,

then I am going to spend the next two years of my life

lying on a beach, enjoying the sun.

Stop looking at me like I killed your cat.

The decision is made.

You guys seen Bailey?

- What are we doing? - Checking out the new chief candidate.

Chief's in with the ringer. We're lurking

in a way that was subtle when it was two of us,

but isn't now that it's 12.

I heard it was someone from Stanford.

All the professors there loved me.

They loved you?

I was a great student.

- How you doing, Grey? - I'm fine, sir. Thank you.

- Move, move, move. - She doesn't like it when people ask.

The ringer's in there with the chief.

And whoever it is loves Cristina because

everyone at Stanford just loved Cristina.

Shut up.

She's a motivated student. That's nothing to be ashamed of.

- Thank you. - A bit of a kiss ass,

but that's hard to control.

They're coming out. Look away.

That's Colin Marlowe.

Like the Marlowe transplant?

Like the brightest thing in cardiothoracic surgery in a generation.

Dr. Marlowe...

I'm, uh, Preston Burke.

I'm a great admirer of your work, sir.

- Uh, particularly the-- - Yes, thank you. I--

Would you excuse me for just a second?

Well...

you gonna give me a hug or what?

So what was that, exactly?

He was my professor. We were close.

"close" appears to be something of an understatement.

It was a long time ago.

I talk about him all the time. You never thought to mention it?

Well, um, I didn't think you wanted to hear about every guy I ever slept with.

I have a hysterectomy to prep.

Are we done with the curiosity?

Great.

What are you doing tonight?

'Cause I don't want to go home and find Alex, and it's just the two of us,

You know? It's weird and awkward, and...

And he doesn't know whether he should talk to me or not talk to me.

It's just such an awkward situation.

I'd rather it be group awkwardness, you know?

I don't want to just be standing there staring at him.

- Meredith? - Have you seen Montgomery?

Hey! What are you doing tonight? You want to come over?

'Cause you and I never really get a chance to hang out and...