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Okay, people it's not a beach party. Let's go now.

You have full hospital privileges.

Transplant team's standing by.

Sarah's sister's inside. How much time do we have?

She'll go into full renal failure within 72 hours

without the sister's kidney.

It's not a perfect match, but the next best thing.

D... oh, hi. Hi. Come on.

Oh, I don't get my kidney until I dish?

That's right.

Uh, Seattle Grace is merging with Mercy West,

which means half the doctors in the city are out of a job.

I'm getting a divorce, which means I'm a single mom.

Stevens has cancer.

Meredith and derek got married on a post-it note.

And George O'Malley is dead, but you knew that already.

Um, I don't sleep much anymore because I lay awake at night

and wonder where all the joy is.

During the day,

I realize that the joy packed its bags and left.

The glasses of t world are half-empty. But... You're an attending.

I am an attending. How are you?

I... Dr. Bailey.

Ah, this is our chief of staff, Dr. Charlotte King.

Oh, I appreciate the professional courtesy.

I hear you have a nice little hospital here. We're small but efficient.

You came to the best place to get the job done... Mm.

Right this time.

The donor's a single mom with three small children

and an ex-husband who likes to hit things.

Jumping on a plane out of state's not an option.

Otherwise, Seattle Grace would have been the obvious choice,

cutting-edge teaching hospital and all.

Here at St. Ambrose, you'll find the doctors don't need teaching.

They already know what they're doing.

Excuse me.

Sorry about that. She's a little, uh...

I don't have to like her. I just need her OR.

Dr. Bailey. Well, well, well. Look at you.

Why are we looking at me?

No, I just meant that... I didn't mean...

Hello.

What are we waiting for? Where's my kidney?

Bailey's here.

Sam's agreed to be internist to both sisters.

Emily, this is Dr. Bailey. She'll be performing

the transplant. I'm ready.

Okay, well, first we'll take you through

The pre-surgery protocol. You already have my file.

I was tested as a partial match three years ago.

Sarah needs my kidney now. Your sister's stabilized.

If we do this tomorrow, we should be fine. Sarah fought to stay alive for three excruciating years

while you waited to find a match.

Now somebody screwed up, and she's dying.

She's done waiting. I'm done waiting. Sarah's gone through a tremendous amount

of physical trauma in the last 24 hours.

She just got off an air ambulance.

Her system was fragile even before she had

the failed organ transplant.

Now, hey, I'm the first to admit, we made mistakes.

But we will not rush her into another surgery

before we've got a whole slew of tests telling us

that she's strong enough to handle it.

We do this right, or we don't do it at all.

Yes, I'm... I'm sorry.

It's just... it's my sister.

Well, I'm going to fix this.

Welcome back.

Oh, thank you, Sheldon.

How are ya? No, no, not therapeutically.

I mean just as friends.

You know, when someone mes back to work,

it's a friendly question, you know, so...

Well, letting that go.

How's the baby? You found a good nanny?

I gave him to Pete. What?

I gave the baby to Pete. To babysit? To... to visit? To... to what?

To live. To be.

To... I...

Gave him to Pete. Lucas could be my son.

I know. He is your son, and you gave him to Pete?

You gave him to Pete? It was... (sighs) for the best.

It's for the best? I... I have no words.

There are no words. Words are not enough!

Sheldon, Sheldon, this is my first day back.

I am... doing the best I can.

Could you just go?

Can you go?

Well, I... can you just...

'cause it would really help if you would just...

Luke is living with you?

Shh. Lucas is trying to sleep.

So...

so Violet just gave him to you?

What's going on, Pete, with Violet?

She's working on things.

Don't worry, Sheldon. Lucas is fine.

Okay. Everything looks good.

Now we're gonna let teresa take a blood sample from you.

Uh, my blood type is a-b, I'm r-h positive,

and I'm a scorpio.

What more do you need to know? Probably nothing.

But why don't you let us do our job

So Dr. Bailey can do hers? Is she good... Dr. Bailey?

Because after what happened in Seattle... Dr. Bailey is one of the best.

She seems a little, um... cold.

She's a surgeon.

Uh, you want her to be quick, decisive, and she's both.

She's good. You have nothing to worry about.

I have three kids to worry about.

Uh, Sarah saved us... all of us.

I married a bad guy, and I couldn't get out.

I just... Watched my life

turn into this terrible place.

Then Sarah flew in.

She took care of the kids, stayed with us for six months

and made sure we were all safe.

My babies don't have a dad. They don't have grandparents.

They have me and they have Sarah.

We need her.

You're giving up an organ. We don't take that lightly.

Okay.

Oh, hey.

You're good with her.

Thanks. How's the sister?

Oh, she's stable for now.

And you're comfortable with this match?

It wasn't a good match three years ago,

but with all the progress in anti-rejection drugs,

we'll make it work.

Hey, it's all we got.

Okay.

How are those anxiety attacks?

Asthma. Right.

It was asthma.

Ryan's driving me crazy.

I keep telling him at it takes time

to build a new immune system from scratch, but...

But he's 16, and he's living in suburban jail.

Not that it's not beautiful.

My man.

Do you know how many things you can't do

while your mother is watching every second?

Yeah, 2,563.

Two years, Coop. Almost two years in a bubble.

Yeah, with digital cable

and wi-fi, dvr, dvd.

There are a lot of people that would call that heaven. You want me to grow up to be a eunuch?

Spill it.

Homecoming, tomorrow.

Kelli's going, I'm not, and Francis Stokes is. She'd kiss a guy named Francis?

Okay, look, you're gonna get outta here.

It's not like the old days, when being born

without an immune system meant you have to stay

in a place like this forever. You are getting better,

but we gotta be really careful with scids.

And, you know, I know that this kissing stuff

feels important... Coop, I know 16 was a long time ago,

but you have a girlfriend. You have sex.

I have talk and talk.

And talk is starting to get really... old,

like you.

That's funny. You know, talk can actually be hard to come by.

I think my girlfriend could take some lessons from yours.

Ry.

Hey, Ry. How's the bubble boy?

She won't be my girlfriend for long.

Isn't there something more you can do to get me outta here?

I feel like I'm in a spa.

When will the waiter come by with champagne?

Addison... Uh, Dr. Bailey. How are you? Naomi. Right.

Uh, I thought you left the practice. Uh, I did.

Naomi went downstairs to run a different practice.

I, uh, I tried to call you, twice.

I know. I'm sorry. I've just been crazy busy.

I just came up to, you know, welcome Violet back.

Thought the two of you were best friends.

We were. We are. Uh, I just...

Oh, Cooper, Cooper, uh, this is, uh, Dr. Bailey,

My friend from Seattle. Oh, hey, wow. Wow.

You're shorter than... than I thought.

I mean, given what Sam says, and Addison, about...

that's... it's a compliment. Um...

I have twins waiting.

Hope he's better with kids than adults.

Mm.

Oh, Violet.

Our therapist. Dr. Bailey.

Oh, hi.

Well, I...

Wait. So is she the one you said had the baby

and then... Yeah.

She's back at work? Mm-hmm.

Oh, if that had happened to me,

I'd be spending my time in a padded room.

Oh, is that the father?

Yeah. Well, one of 'em. T... there's another one?

It's complicated. This place is better than a telenovela.

It's not a telenovela.

Addison? Dr. Montgomery.