-[Fairy Tale Land - Past]-
(Hook, wearing a cloak to disguise himself, walks up the stairs leading to a tower in the Evil Queen's castle. Along the way, he encounters a guard on the stairs.)
Guard: Halt.
Hook: Food for the prisoner.
Guard: It's not mealtime. Who are you? Identify yourself, slave!
(Hook easily defeats the guard in a fight.)
Hook: Slave? I prefer Captain.
(He takes the keys from the dead guard and continues his way upwards. At the top, he enters a room, where Belle is being held captive.)
Hook: Hi... You must be Belle.
Belle: The Queen sent you, didn't she? She wants you to kill me.
Hook: I'm not here to kill you, love. I'm here to rescue you.
(Hook begins to unlock her shackles.)
Belle: Rescue me? Who are you?
Hook: A friend. We haven't much time. Your father's life is in danger. He's being attacked by the very same monster who stole you away from your family in the first place.
Belle: What, Rumpelstiltskin?
Hook: The Dark One - he must be stopped. You spent more time with him than anyone. There are rumours of a magical weapon that has the power to kill him.
Belle: No, no, no, no. Let... Let me talk to him. He's not a monster.
Hook: Belle, your father's life hangs in the balance. I need to know what that weapon is, and where to find it.
Belle: I don't know what you're talking about, and I have no idea how to... How to kill Rumpelstiltskin.
Hook: You don't?
Belle: No. And... And nor would I.
Hook: Hm. Then, I'm afraid I'm not here to rescue you.
(He backhands Belle, rendering her unconscious.)
Hook: So pretty... Yet, so useless.
(Hook raises his arm, preparing to kill her with his hook, but is stopped by the Evil Queen. She enters the room and magically removes his hook.)
Evil Queen: No. Not useless. She's a valuable chess piece.
Hook: Do I look like I'm playing a game of chess? My hook, if you please.
Evil Queen: No.
Hook: The asking was me being a gentleman.
Evil Queen: Is that any way to address a queen? Even a pirate should have better manners than that. Yes... I know who you are... Captain. I know why you came here from Neverland. And I know all about the crocodile you wish to skin.
Hook: Then you also know, that I'll stop at nothing.
Evil Queen: So dedicated and resourceful. No one has been able to fight their way past my defenses before. She can't help you kill Rumpelstiltskin, Hook. But I can, if you do something for me. Care to join me for a drink?
[SCENE_BREAK]
(The Evil Queen pours out two drinks and hands one to Hook.)
Evil Queen: Things are about to change in this world. Radically. I have plans to enact a curse that will take everyone to a far-off land.
Hook: How will that help me?
Evil Queen: This new realm? It's a land without magic. Where the Dark One will be stripped of his powers. There, you won't need any magical weapon to kill him. You can do it with a mere flick of your wrist.
Hook: Tell me what I have to do.
Evil Queen: There's one person I don't want following me to this new land. You're to see to it that doesn't happen.
Hook: An assassination. Who is it you want me to dispose of?
Evil Queen: My mother.
-[Storybrooke]-
(In Mr. Gold's shop, Regina checks on David, who is still under the sleeping curse.)
Mr. Gold: Any change?
Regina: No. He's not improving. He needs true love's kiss. He won't wake up until Mary Margaret comes back.
Mr. Gold: Until? Well, that's rather optimistic, isn't it?
Regina: What are you talking about?
Mr. Gold: They're up against your mother. The only chance Snow and Emma have of defeating her, is with the squid ink.
Regina: Which is why you sent the message through David.
Mr. Gold: Which would be beneficial, if we knew that message were delivered. But alas, given the Prince's condition, we don't know. As such, it's important we take precautions. We have to consider the possibility that, when that portal opens, it won't be his family that come through. It'll be Cora.
Regina: And neither one of us wants that.
Mr. Gold: We have to find where they're coming through, and destroy that portal.
Regina: But whoever came through would die.
Mr. Gold: Exactly. But, I'm confident between the two of us, we can summon up enough magic to complete the task.
Regina: Well, what if we're wrong? What if that portal opens up, and it's not my mother? What if Mary Margaret and Emma do defeat Cora, and go through it?
Mr. Gold: Well, I believe in this world, they call that a win-win.
Regina: How exactly is that?
Mr. Gold: If we stop Cora, you are protected from your mother's wrath. If, on the other hand, we stop Snow and Emma, well... You become the only mother in your son's life, now don't you? Look, magic is unpredictable in this world. If something unfortunate were to happen while you were attempting to help... Henry could hardly blame you for that, could he?
Regina: No. I can't lie to him. I am trying to be a better mother.
Mr. Gold: You won't be able to be a better anything if Cora comes through. And if she does, she will be a threat to everyone - including your son. So, if you truly want to be a good mother to Henry - to protect him - if you want to be better, prove it.
-[Fairy Tale Land - Present]-
(Mary Margaret and company arrive at Rumpelstilskin's cell.)
MMB: Rumpelstiltskin's cell. I haven't been here since before Regina's curse. This is where he told us you were going to be the saviour.
Emma: He knew?
MMB: It was prophesized. Come on.
(Inside, they find the cell completely empty.)
Aurora: The squid ink - it's not here.
MMB: Gold said we would find it.
(They begin to check the crevices of the walls.)
Mulan: Well, was there anyone else in here with him? Could they have taken the ink?
MMB: No, he was kept alone. Visitors were forbidden. He was too dangerous to allow any human contact.
Emma: How'd he keep from going crazy?
(Aurora finds a piece of paper tucked into the wall.)
Aurora: He didn't.
MMB: What is it?
Emma: Is that a message?
Aurora: Yes. And I think it's for you.
(Aurora hands Emma the paper.)
Emma: Why would you think... That.
(On the paper, 'Emma' is written over and over again, and nothing else.)
-[Storybrooke]-
(Henry is reading the 'Snow White' story to David from his book. Regina enters.)
Regina: I think this time, it'll happen the other way around.
Henry: You think so?
Regina: I do. Which is why I need you to stay here and watch David for a little while.
Henry: Where are you going?
Regina: Mr. Gold and I need to prepare for Emma and Mary Margaret's return. Coming through the portal won't be easy. We need to make sure everything's in place.
Henry: Really? You're really going to help them?
Regina: I promised you I was going to do better - to be better. So, yes, I'm going to do everything in my power to see to it they come home safely.
Henry: Wow. You really have changed.
Regina: Be back as soon as I can.
[SCENE_BREAK]
(Regina and Mr. Gold enter the mines. Everyone else has already left.)
Mr. Gold: I'm really glad you, uh, came to your senses.
Regina: Let's just get this over with.
Mr. Gold: It's right through here.
(They arrive to where the dwarves had found the diamonds.)
Mr. Gold: Ah, yes. Should suit our purposes, no?
Regina: How much do we need?
Mr. Gold: All of it.
Regina: How are we going to do that?
Mr. Gold: With a little help from a fairy.
(He takes out a wand.)
Mr. Gold: Dead one. Believe me, no one mourns her.
(He waves the wand and magically absorbs the power from the diamonds. The diamonds disappear, and the wand glows with magic.)
-[Fairy Tale Land - Past]-
(The Evil Queen waves her hand over Hook's hook, causing it to glow. She hands it back to him.)
Evil Queen: It's now... Enchanted. It will enable you to rip out her heart. I believe you've seen it done before.
Hook: Yes.
Evil Queen: The enchantment will only allow you to rip out one heart, so make sure you do it right.
Hook: What could she have possibly done to warrant such brutality?
Evil Queen: That's my business. Yours is to kill her, and bring her body back to me.
Hook: Easy enough. When will I set forth on this murderous journey?
Evil Queen: Immediately. But you won't be going alone.
(She walks over to the sitting area, where there is a blanket covering something large on the chair. She pulls it back, revealing a corpse.)
Evil Queen: You remember Claude?
Hook: Can't say that I do.
Evil Queen: You killed him in the cell block.
Hook: Ah, yes. I didn't recognize him without my hook in his neck. Forgive me, but isn't he a bit of dead weight?
Evil Queen: I banished my mother to a far-off land some time ago. You're going to need a portal to get to her.
(She pulls out the hat box containing Jefferson's hat.)
Evil Queen: The rules are simple - one goes in, one comes back. Or, in this case, two in, two back. You'll arrive with Claude, and you'll return with my mother.
Hook: Now tell me... Which far-off land do I have the pleasure of visiting today?
Evil Queen: Wonderland.
Hook: Happily named, I'm sure. How will I find her?
Evil Queen: Oh, don't worry. She'll find you.
(The Evil Queen spins the hat on the floor, creating a purple vortex.)
-[Wonderland]-
(In Wonderland, Hook has been captured and is escorted by several guards to the Queen of Hearts and various other citizens of Wonderland. Her face is obscured by a mask.)
Knave of Hearts: Kneel, before the Queen of Hearts.
Hook: Appreciate the warm welcome.
(The Queen of Hearts uses the tube to speak through. The Knave of Hearts relays her message.)
Knave of Hearts: The Queen wants to know why you've come to Wonderland.
Hook: I'm in search of someone. In her native land, she goes by Cora.
(The crowd begins to whisper as the use of the name 'Cora'. The Queen of Hearts removes her mask, and reveals herself to be Cora.)
Cora: In this land, she goes by Your Majesty. Leave us.
(Everyone exits, leaving Cora and Hook alone.)
Cora: Your name, pirate?
Hook: Hook.
Cora: What a clever nickname.
(Hook pulls a pearl necklace out of his pocket and approaches Cora.)
Hook: I come bearing gifts, if you allow me.
Cora: This hat - your portal... If I understand correctly, the same number who travels through, must also return. You arrived with him, but who shall you return with?
Hook: You.
(Hook throws the necklace over his shoulder, and plunges his hand inside her chest. However, nothing happens.)
Hook: What?
Cora: I'm the 'Queen' of Hearts. Do you really think I'd be so careless, as to keep my heart where everyone else does? This...
(Cora sticks her hand into Hook's chest, causing him to grimace in pain.)
Cora: Is how it's done. Tell me - who did this? Who sent you here to kill me? Who?
Hook: Your daughter.
Cora: Regina? She... Wants me dead? You're now going to tell me everything, and do exactly what I want. Because when you hold a heart, you control it. You have the power.
-[Fairy Tale Land - Present]-
(The group is still scouring the cell in search of the ink. Emma is still looking at the paper.)
Emma: What does this even mean?
MMB: He was obsessed with you, Emma. You were the key to breaking the curse.
Aurora: We've looked everywhere. There's no ink in this cell.
MMB: Well, it has to be. He told David.
Emma: You were in a Netherworld. Maybe something got lost in translation.
Mulan: No. She heard right.
MMB: You found it?
(Mulan holds up an empty bottle.)
Mulan: In a manner of speaking. There was ink in the cell.
Emma: Son of a bitch...
(Suddenly, Aurora grabs a rock and throws it against a lever just outside of the cell. The door to the cell falls down, trapping the four of them inside.)
Emma: Aurora, what are you doing?!
(Cora and Hook arrive.)
Cora: Helping me.
(Cora magically summons the compass to her.)
Emma: No!
Cora: No. Don't waste your energy, dear. Rumpelstiltskin himself couldn't escape from this cell. Thank you, Aurora. We couldn't have done it without you.
Emma: Why would you do this?
MMB: How could you?
Cora: Don't blame her. She was only doing what she was told.
(Cora pulls out Aurora's heart.)
Emma: You took her heart?
Hook: Actually, I did. It was a gift.
(Cora squeezes the heart, causing Aurora to yell out in pain.)
Cora: Forgive us. We'd love to stay, but Storybrooke awaits.
(The two of them turn to leave, but Emma calls out to Hook.)
Emma: Hook. Wait. Please don't do this. My son is in Storybrooke. He needs me.
Hook: Perhaps you should've considered that, before you abandoned me on that beanstalk.
Emma: You would've done the same.
Hook: Actually, no.
Hook: Do you know what this is, Emma?
(He takes out the mummified bean that the giant had on his necklace.)
Emma: The bean that the giant kept.
Hook: Yes, indeed. A pirate always keeps a souvenir of his conquest, but this... Well, this is much more than a mere trinket. This is a symbol. Something that was once magical, full of hope, possibility... Now look at it. Dried up, dead, useless. Much like you. The time for making deals is done, just as I'm done... With you.
-[Storybrooke]-
(Ruby frantically runs into the mine, where she finds Leroy staring vacantly up at the ceiling where the diamonds once were.)
Ruby: Leroy! What is it? What's the emergency? Leroy.
Leroy: They're gone. They're all gone.
[SCENE_BREAK]
(Henry is still reading by David's bedside. Ruby, Leroy, and the rest of the dwarves enter.)
Ruby: Where are they? Regina and Gold.
Henry: What's going on?
Ruby: All the magic has been drained from the mines.
Henry: They stole it?
Leroy: They snuck in after our shift and took everything. Nobody steals from a dwarf!
Doc: Except the Queen.
Happy: ...And Rumpelstiltskin.
Henry: If they're not helping Emma and Mary Margaret that... That means my mom lied to me.
Ruby: I'm sorry, Henry.
Henry: We need to find her. We need to stop them. We need to help Emma and Mary Margaret.
-[Fairy Tale Land - Present]-
(Emma is futilely banging the door of the cell with her sword, while the rest of them watch.)
MMB: We aren't going to break it down, Emma. It was enchanted to hold Rumpelstiltskin. We don't have a chance.
Aurora: This is my fault.
Mulan: No, it's mine. Cora stole your heart because I failed to protect you.
Emma: That's very sweet, but I believe it's my fault. I'm the saviour, and I'm not doing much saving, am I?
MMB: We're going to win this fight, you know. Good always defeats evil.
Emma: You sound like Henry.
MMB: Guess optimism runs in the family.
Emma: I think it skipped a generation.
MMB: You should know better than anybody. You broke the curse.
Emma: What have I done since then? I got us stranded over here, burned down the wardrobe, let Cora get the ash, and now, the compass. The only reason I ever broke the curse, was because it was exactly what Gold wanted me to do. I had nothing to do with it.
MMB: What are you talking about?
Emma: He told you I was the saviour. It was his plan. Once I fulfilled that role, maybe that's all I was ever meant to do. Everything I've ever done... He had it all mapped out before I was even born. I'm not powerful. I'm... I'm not... A saviour. I'm a name on a piece of paper. I'm a pawn, and that's exactly why we are in here. And Cora's on her way to Storybrooke.
[SCENE_BREAK]
(Meanwhile, Cora and Hook are traveling through a field.)
Hook: Where are we going?
Cora: Lake Nostos. The legend says its waters hold the power to restore what was once lost. It'll return magic to what remains of this wardrobe. And then, we'll be able to cross worlds.
(They arrive at the dried up Lake Nostos.)
Hook: I may be a simple pirate, but... I know one thing - lakes have water.
(Cora waves her hand, and a small vortex magically forms in the middle on the former lake. Suddenly, a geyser of water shoots up from the ground.)
Cora: After everything we've been through, why do you still doubt me?
-[Wonderland]-
(In Wonderland, Cora still has her hand in Hook's chest.)
Hook: I've told you all I know. Now have some honour, and kill me.
Cora: Honour? For the pirate who snuck into my palace to assassinate me?
Hook: At your daughter's behest.
Cora: She should've come. She should've killed me herself.
(Cora removes her hand from his chest, but leaves his heart intact.)
Hook: Mercy seems a bit out of character.
Cora: Oh, not mercy, Hook. You're going to help me. Regina knows my methods better than anyone. If I was controlling you, she'd know. This has to be your choice.
Hook: Why should I?
Cora: Because, my dear, I'm the only one who can give you what you want.
Hook: Is that so?
Cora: This curse my daughter plans to enact? This new land she's taking everyone to? You won't remember who you are. So tell me, Captain - how do you expect to kill someone, when you can't even remember him? But, if you do what I say, I'll make sure you not only kill him, but that you remember every single moment.
Hook: Well, what shall you have me do?
Cora: Get me close to my daughter. And then, I'll rip her heart out.
-[Fairy Tale Land - Past]-
(Cora and Hook return to the Evil Queen's castle. Cora lies in a casket and pretends to be dead. Hook brings the Evil Queen in to show her the results.)
Hook: Satisfied?
Evil Queen: Did she put up a fight?
Hook: Nothing I couldn't handle.
Evil Queen: Thank you. Now leave us. I'd like a moment alone to say goodbye.
(Hook exits.)
Evil Queen: I'm sorry, mother. Without you, I never would've become the person I am now. But I had no choice. I had to do this. After you killed Daniel, you told me something I've never forgotten. Love is weakness. Well, mother, you are my weakness, because I love you. That's why I couldn't risk taking you to the new land with me. Your grip on my heart is just too strong. And for what I need to do... I can't have any weakness.
(She places a rose on top of Cora's body.)
Evil Queen: Goodbye, mother.
(When the Evil Queen exits the room, Hook emerges from the shadows.)
Hook: What happened? You didn't kill her.
Cora: There's been a change in plans.
Hook: What would that be?
Cora: My daughter's curse is coming. We have to protect ourselves.
[SCENE_BREAK]
(The Evil Queen's curse rips through the Enchanted Forest, the smoke quickly progressing across the land. Cora and Hook watch from a distance as it approaches. Cora strikes the ground with her sceptre, creating a beam of light that shoots up towards the sky. Eventually, the beam scatters, creating a domed shield around a small section on the land.)
Hook: Wouldn't it have been easier to reconcile with her before her curse destroys the land?
Cora: Regina doesn't need me - not now. Not when she thinks she's about to win. But I still have a place in her heart. And the curse won't last forever. It will end. In twenty-eight years, there'll be a saviour. And she'll break it.
Hook: Twenty-eight years?
Cora: You won't even notice. You'll be frozen, like all those in this corner of the land. But, when the curse ends, our quest will resume. And, when it does, Regina will truly have lost everything, and then she'll need me. That's when we'll go to this new land. You'll get your revenge. And me, I'll... Help her pick up the pieces.
-[Storybrooke]-
(Regina and Mr. Gold are walking through the woods towards the 'wishing well'.)
Regina: You're certain the portal's going to open up all the way out here?
Mr. Gold: There. This is where things once lost are returned to us. This is where Cora's going to come through.
(The two of them look inside. The water below is bubbling.)
Regina: Unless, it's Mary Margaret and Emma.
Mr. Gold: I highly doubt it.
-[Fairy Tale Land - Present]-
(Emma's group is still stuck inside the cell. Mary Margaret is analyzing the paper.)
MMB: We are going to get out of here.
Emma: How? By staring at that scroll? It's not like it's going to magically open the door for us.
MMB: Yes, it is.
Emma: What?
MMB: When I was a little girl, I used to sneak into Cora's chamber and watch her practice magic. She had a spell book and, Emma... The spells were in the book.
Emma: Yeah, isn't that what a spell book is? A book that has spells in it?
MMB: Watch.
(Mary Margaret gently blows on the paper, causing the words to lift off the page.)
Emma: Whoa. Squid ink. Gold wrote the scroll in squid ink!
(Mary Margaret blows the words toward the door of the cell. The inked words magically create an exit.)
MMB: Told you. Good always wins.
Aurora: Wait. I can't go. You have to tie me up.
Mulan: No. I'm not leaving without you.
Aurora: I can't be trusted. Not as long as Cora has my heart.
Mulan: Then I will get it back for you.
Aurora: Mulan...
Mulan: I will.
Emma: Mulan. We got to go.
Aurora: Do it.
(Mulan takes a piece of rope, and ties Aurora to what remains of the cell's bars.)
Aurora: Good luck.
MMB: Thank you. Good luck to you.
[SCENE_BREAK]
(The geyser at Lake Nostos gradually subsides, leaving behind a small lake. Cora takes out the vial of ashes.)
Cora: And now, the ashes. Would you care to do the honours?
(Hook takes the ashes and sprinkles them into the lake. A whirlpool magically forms in the center of the lake.)
Cora: Here we go. We'll be in Storybrooke soon enough. I really look forward to seeing my daughter.
-[Storybrooke]-
(Mr. Gold and Regina continue to stare down the well, until they see a change in the water.)
Mr. Gold: It's time.
Regina: So, what are we waiting for?
(They step away from the well, and Mr. Gold takes out the fairy wand. He holds it up towards the sky and summons a thunderstorm. A clash of green lightning strikes the well, which creates an electric barrier of sorts.)
Mr. Gold: Doesn't matter who comes through now. No one can survive this.
-[Fairy Tale Land - Present]-
(Cora and Hook stand near the whirlpool. Cora takes out the compass, and holds it out for Hook to grab.)
Cora: I told you I'd deliver you to Rumpelstiltskin. Now don't let go. Unless, you want to end up someplace that isn't Storybrooke.
(Hook takes the other side of the compass, and the two of them prepare to jump. However, Emma, Mary Margaret, and Mulan arrive at the scene in time to stop them. Mary Margaret shoots the compass out of their hands.)
MMB: You're not going anywhere. This portal's taking us home. The compass - get it.
Cora: Find it first. I'll take care of them.
(Cora shoots a fireball towards the group, but Mulan deflects it with her sword. Emma draws her own sword and starts a fight with Hook over the compass. Cora continues to shoot fireballs at Mulan, while Mary Margaret attempts to assist by shooting arrows from a distance. Cora dodges Mulan by magically disappearing, but the bag containing Aurora's heart is left behind. It is flung towards the whirlpool, but is caught just in time by Hook before falling in. He tosses the bag to Mulan.)
Hook: I may be a pirate, but I bristle at the thought of a woman losing her heart - unless it's over me.
(Mulan looks conflicted over what to do. Mary Margaret approaches her.)
MMB: Go!
Mulan: No, but you need the compass!
MMB: And Aurora needs her heart.
(Mulan gives Mary Margaret her sword.)
Mulan: Take it. It deflects her magic.
(Mulan exits the battle. Emma and Hook resume fighting.)
Emma: I had no idea you had such a soft side.
Hook: I don't. Just like a fair fight.
(They continue to duel.)
Hook: Good form. But not good enough.
(Hook grabs Emma's leg and manages to flip her onto her back. Meanwhile, Mary Margaret and Cora square off. Hook slowly slides his Hook down Emma's sword and pins her to the ground.)
Hook: Normally, I prefer to do other more enjoyable activities with a woman on her back. With my life on the line, you've left me no choice. A bit of advice? When I jab you with my sword, you'll feel it. You might want to quit.
(Emma feels for the compass buried in the sand under her back.)
Emma: Why would I do that when I'm winning?
(Emma grabs the compass and holds it up. Hook is momentarily distracted long enough for Emma to push him off of her. They briefly duel, until Emma gets the upper hand.)
Emma: Thanks.
(Emma, with the compass in her fist, pulls back her arm and punches Hook in the face. He collapses to the ground, unconscious.)
Emma: Now let's go home!
-[Storybrooke]-
(Mr. Gold and Regina watch the storm brew inside the well. Henry and Ruby arrive.)
Henry: Mom? You're not helping Emma and Mary Margaret, are you?
Regina: I'm helping you, Henry.
Henry: What are you talking about?
Ruby: You're going to kill them.
(Mr. Gold magically shoots Ruby back with the wand, knocking her out.)
Mr. Gold: Sorry, dearie.
Henry: Mom, what are you doing?
Regina: We can't let Cora come through the portal. You have no idea what she would do to us.
Henry: Emma and Mary Margaret are going to defeat her. They're the ones that are going to come through.
Mr. Gold: Henry, your mother's right. It's going to be Cora.
Henry: No. It won't. Good always defeats evil. You should know that more than anyone.
Regina: What I know, is my mother will destroy everything I love - and that means you. And I can't let that happen.
-[Fairy Tale Land - Present]-
(Mary Margaret and Cora have still yet to engage in a fight, when Emma charges at Cora with her sword. Cora dodges Emma by magically disappearing.)
MMB: Emma, run!
(The two of them make a break for the whirlpool, but Cora reappears in front of them, blocking their path. She magically throws the two of them backwards onto the ground. Cora then stalks in Mary Margaret's direction. Emma attempts to get up, but is thrown back to the ground by Cora.)
MMB: Why do you want to go to Storybrooke?
Cora: Because my daughter needs me. And now, I'm going to give her the one thing she's always wanted - your heart. Goodbye, Snow.
Emma: No!
(Cora draws back her hand, but Emma pushes Mary Margaret out of the way just before she reaches into her chest. Instead, Cora ends up with her hand inside Emma's chest.)
MMB: Emma!
Cora: Oh, you foolish girl. Don't you know? Love is weakness.
(Cora tries to rip out Emma's heart, but finds she's unable to draw back her hand.)
Emma: No. It's strength.
(Suddenly, a burst of white light spreads out from Emma's body in all directions, causing Cora to disappear.)
Emma: What was that?
MMB: That... Is a great subject for discussion. When we get home.
(Mary Margaret grabs Emma's arm and the two of them dash towards the whirlpool.)
MMB: Ready?
Emma: Yeah. Let's go.
(The two of them jump into the whirlpool portal.)
-[Storybrooke]-
(In the forest, Henry tries to run towards the well, but is restrained by Regina.)
Henry: You can't! Stop it! You can't! You're going to kill them! Please! No! They're going to make it through! We have to turn it off! You're going to kill them!
(Henry manages to break free from Regina's grasp, but she quickly pulls him back.)
Regina: Henry! What are you doing?
Henry: Emma and Mary Margaret are going to come through. I know it. You said you wanted to change - to be better. This is how. You want me to have faith in you? Have faith in me.
Mr. Gold: Regina.
(Regina approaches the well and extends her arms over the electrical barrier. She uses her magic to absorb the storm into her body, effectively removing the barrier to the portal. The power of the magic throws her back. Despite the threat being removed, no one appears to be coming through the portal.)
Henry: No!
Regina: I'm sorry, Henry. I'm sorry.
(Suddenly, a hand comes out of the well and grabs the edge. Emma pulls herself out, followed by Mary Margaret.)
Henry: Mom?
Emma: Henry!
Henry: Mom!
(Henry rushes to Emma and the two of them hug. Mary Margaret joins in.)
Emma: I missed you!
Henry: I missed you, too.
Emma: I missed you so much.
(When they draw back from the group hug, they see Mr. Gold silently slinking away, Regina on the ground, and Ruby finally coming around.)
MMB: What's going on? What happened?
Henry: She saved you. She saved both of you.
Emma: Thank you.
Regina: You're welcome.
Ruby: Are you okay?
(Ruby runs towards Mary Margaret, and the two of them also share a hug.)
MMB: Where's my husband? I need to find him.
(Ruby and Mary Margaret exit.)
Emma: Um, your mom... She's, uh... She's... A piece of work, you know?
Regina: Indeed, I do. Welcome back.
Emma: Thanks.
[SCENE_BREAK]
(Mary Margaret and Ruby enter Mr. Gold's shop, with Emma and Henry trailing behind. David is still lying unconscious, and the dwarves are still gathered around the bed.)
MMB: David?
(She kisses David, which causes the sleeping curse to be broken. A pulse of magic spreads throughout the room. He wakes up and gasps.)
David: You... You did it.
MMB: Did you ever doubt I would?
(They kiss again.)
David: No. Though, the burning red room did give me pause.
[SCENE_BREAK]
(Emma confronts Mr. Gold alone in the main part of the shop.)
Emma: We need to talk.
Mr. Gold: Yes. I believe apologies are in order.
Emma: No. No apologies necessary. I understand why you wanted to keep Cora out of here.
Mr. Gold: Just remind me never to bet against you in the future, Miss Swan.
Emma: It's not really a bet when the game is rigged, is it?
Mr. Gold: To what exactly are you referring?
Emma: Your scroll. I saw it in your cell. You wrote my name again, and again, and again.
Mr. Gold: Just wanted to make sure it would stick.
Emma: The ink - it was there all the time. You could've gotten out.
Mr. Gold: I was exactly where I wanted to be. You needed to find that, so all this could occur.
Emma: You created the curse, Gold. You made me the saviour. So everything I've ever done... It's exactly what you wanted me to do.
Mr. Gold: I created the curse, dearie, but I didn't make you. I merely took advantage of what you are - the product of true love. That's why you're powerful. And everything you've done, you've done yourself.
Emma: So you don't know.
Mr. Gold: Know what?
Emma: Cora... Tried to rip my heart out, but she couldn't. She was blasted back by something inside me. By... By-
Mr. Gold: By magic. Whatever that was, I didn't do that. You did.
-[Fairy Tale Land - Present]-
(Mulan has brought the bag containing Aurora's heart back to the cell. Mulan carefully takes the heart out of the bag. It glows and beats in her hand.)
Aurora: Have you done this before?
Mulan: No.
(Mulan lifts the glowing heart to Aurora's chest and pushes it inside of her. She briefly stops breathing, but suddenly gasps.)
Aurora: Thank you...
Mulan: What now?
Aurora: Cora told me something. When a wraith consumes a soul, it's not trapped there forever. It can be reunited with its body.
Mulan: You think we can save Phillip?
Aurora: We can try.
Mulan: Then let's try.
(Mulan extends her hand to Aurora, and the two of them exit the cell.)
[SCENE_BREAK]
(Cora stares vacantly at the now defunct whirlpool portal. Hook has also regained consciousness.)
Cora: We failed.
Hook: Really, Cora. After all this time, why do you still doubt me?
(Hook holds up the mummified bean.)
Cora: Well, that bean's petrified. It's useless.
Hook: But these waters have regenerative properties. Perhaps, it's time to do some gardening.
-[Storybrooke]-
(Everyone is still gathered at Mr. Gold's shop. Henry approaches Regina, who is standing off to the side.)
Henry: I was right. You really have changed.
(Henry wraps his arms around Regina, who cautiously returns the hug.)
Henry: Thank you.
(Emma reenters the room.)
MMB: Emma...
David: Looks like we have some catching up to do.
Emma: You have no idea.
Ruby: How about dinner at Granny's? On me.
Emma: As long as it's not Chimera, I'm in. Hey, kid. You hungry?
Henry: Yeah.
(Henry breaks away from Regina and joins Emma. Everyone begins filing out.)
Henry: I'll see you later.
(As everyone exits, Regina begins to tear up. Eventually, Regina and Mr. Gold are the only two that remain.)
Mr. Gold: Congratulations. You just reunited mother and son. Maybe one day, they'll even invite you for dinner.
[SCENE_BREAK]
(The reunited group happily walks down the main street of Storybrooke to Granny's Diner. On the horizon, a large ship is seen drawing near the town. On board are Hook and Cora. Cora is holding a black wilted rose, while Hook inspects the town through a telescope.)
Hook: There it is.
Cora: Storybrooke.
-[End]-


(SGH)
(Derek is in the OR performing surgery on a patient. The gallery is empty aside from Meredith who is standing by herself)
MVO: As doctors we're trained to skeptical because our patients lie to us all the time. The rule is: every patient is a liar until proven honest.
(Cristina enters the gallery and gives Meredith a wry smile and Meredith smiles back. Cristina walks up to the window to peer and looks down into the surgery)
Meredith: Why aren't you prepping for rounds and stealing all the good cases?
Cristina: Well why aren't you prepping for rounds and stealing all the good cases?
Meredith (shrugs): No reason.
Cristina: No reason?
MVO: Lying is bad. Or so we're told. Constantly, from birth. Honesty is the best policy.
(Cristina sits down next to Meredith)
MVO: The truth shall set you free. I chop down the cherry tree. Whatever.
Meredith: I'm waiting for McDreamy.
Cristina: I'm avoiding Burke.
Meredith: Why are you avoiding Burke?
Cristina: He thinks I moved in with him. Why are you waiting...
Meredith (interrupts): McDreamy is doing me a favor. Burke thinks you moved in with him?
Cristina: Wait you're calling him McDreamy again?
(Cristina shakes her head at Meredith)
MVO: The fact is, lying is a necessity.
(Trauma room where Meredith is sitting on a table as Derek draws out her blood)
Meredith: Thank you for doing this. With the needles and the blood. They won't accept her without a full family history.
Derek: I'm happy to get your mom into the clinical trial. Even with the needles and blood.
(He stands up and they 'gaze' into each others eyes)
Derek: All done. How's that feel?
MVO: We lie to ourselves because the truth, the truth freaking hurts.
Meredith: Feels good.
(Cristina is standing in a hallway waiting for Meredith. Meredith walks up to her and they start walking down the hall together)
Meredith: Burke thinks you moved in with him? What does that mean?
Cristina: Ok it's not important. You're calling Derek, McDreamy again.
Meredith: It's nothing.
Cristina: All right, what are you doing?
Meredith: What are you doing?
Cristina: Stop repeating what I say.
Meredith: Stop asking me questions.
(They stop and look out over the railing of the mezzanine and hear some banging. George is banging on a window of the hospital with Izzie standing next to him, arms crossed holding a leash with Doc on it.)
George (yells): Cujo has to go!
(Intern locker room where the interns are getting for rounds. Meredith is sitting down on a bench, already in her scrubs with Doc laying next to her)
Izzie: He peed on my bed. My bed, Meredith!
Meredith (defensive): He's our dog!
George: No, he's not my dog. You two bought him, without even asking me.
Meredith: We rescued him from certain death. (She pouts) Come on you guys.
George: I'm putting my foot down. Either the dog moves out or I do. Foot. Down. Now. Me or the dog, which is it?
(Meredith looks down at Doc contemplating and then back up at George)
George (shocked): You hesitated! She hesitated!
Izzie: You hesitated?!?
Meredith: I didn't hesitate. I was thinking.
George: You have to think about it, fine! I'm moving out right now.
(He heads to the door to exit the room but as he opens the door, Bailey is revealed standing there. He swivels back towards his locker)
George: Later. I'm moving out later because right now I have rounds.
(Bailey walks into the room)
Bailey: Tell me that is not a dog.
All: It's not a dog.
(Bailey's pager goes off)
(Bailey is standing outside the emergency double doors with Cristina, George, Meredith, Alex, and Izzie. An ambulances double doors open up and paramedics start wheeling out a patient, including Tony the paramedic)
Tony: Rick Freeark. 29. Severed 3 fingers on his left hand. Controlled the bleeding in field. Vitals stable. Gave him 5 of morphine on the way in.
(They all start wheeling the patient down the hallway)
Bailey: The fingers?
Tony: Had some trouble retrieving them so we took off. Rich behind us found them. They're iced and ready to go. 10 minutes out.
Bailey: Continue with IV fluids and start a course of antibiotics.
(Bailey stops Cristina)
Bailey: Yang, wait outside for the fingers.
(Cristina heads back out)
(Rick's trauma room)
Rick: You can sew them back on right? Cause they sewed that guy's pen1s back on after his wife chopped it off, right?
Bailey: Penises and fingers. Like apples and oranges.
George: How did it happen?
Rick: I was loading my gear onto my truck for a gig and my hand got caught in the lift gate.
Alex: You're a musician?
Rick: I play the friggin guitar. (to Bailey) You can sew them back on right? It's not that big of a deal right? Oh dude I better not be out of the band.
(Trauma room, where now there are only scrub nurses and Derek checking on Rick's fingers. Cristina enters the room with Rick's detached fingers in a towel)
Derek: Well the cuts look clean. That's good. Clean and severed makes reattachment easier. I'm not going to lie to you, if the surgery is successful; we're looking at a long recovery. Lots of physical therapy. (Rick looks pained at this) You smoke?
Rick: Why?
Derek: Cigarette smoke constricts the blood vessels. I've seen really good grafts fail over a few cigarettes.
Rick: So what are you saying? I, I smoke a cigarette after my operation and boom my fingers fall off?
Cristina: No first they turn black and necrotic and then they fall off.
(Derek smiles apologetically at Rick)
Rick: Well I don't smoke, so ...
Cristina (holding up one detached finger): Really? Cause judging by the nicotine stains, your fingers do.
(Rick looks alarmed at the idea of having to give up smoking)
(George is rifling through some charts at the nurses station when he hears a voice call out from a patient room)
Sophie: Anybody out there? Hello!
(George shoots a glance to Nurse Debbie who is also at the desk)
Debbie: Don't look at me! She had hip replacement surgery a month ago and was discharged last week.
George: Then why is she still here?
Debbie: Because I am not a bouncer and this is not a nightclub! I am doing what I can (Richard walks up and Debbie walks directly to him) with extremely limited staff and resources and if you have a problem with that take it up with 'Chief!'
(She storms off. You can hear Sophie sing now)
Sophie: Don't know why, there's no sun up in the sky ...
(Richard shoots George a look)
Richard: Mrs. Larson's got to go.
George: If she refuses to leave what can I do?
Richard: She's 78 and non-ambulatory. You have the upper hand here. Use it.
(Bailey, Izzie and Alex walk up to them)
Richard: Karev, can I talk to you for a second?
(He and Alex walk off to the side and he hands him an envelope)
Richard: The results of your medical board exam.
Alex: Thanks.
(Richard walks off as Izzie looks on curiously. George dumps a bunch of charts into Izzie's arms and heads off. Bailey looks on disapprovingly. Alex walks back up to Bailey and Izzie)
Izzie: Aren't you going to open it?
Alex: Yeah, I'll open it.
(George is entering Sophie Larson's room. An elderly yet very vibrant and energetic woman)
Sophie (sings): I'm weary, all the time.
(George claps loudly)
Sophie: Oh, thank you. Thank you.
George: Ok, Mrs. Larson I'm Dr. O'Malley.
Sophie: Oh an Irishman! I love the Irish. They have a sparkle. You can see it in the eye and the swagger. Come on Dr. O'Malley, show me the swagger.
(George looks slightly uncomfortable but swaggers half-heartedly up to Sophie's bedside)
Sophie: The eyes are right, but uh you'll have to work on the swagger.
George: Mrs. Larson...
Sophie: Call me Sophie. Now, be a doll and bring me a remote. (She holds up and shakes it in front of him) This one's busted.
George: Sophie, I can't bring you a new remote because you are no longer a patient at this hospital. Now according to your chart you have a room waiting for you at the Sugar Maple Nursing Home.
Sophie: I'm staying until my daughter's house is ready. She's converting her den into my bedroom. She's doing it a shade of pink. Now bring me a remote Irish. I'm going to sing until you get back. (She starts singing loudly) Can't go on. Everything thing I have is gone! (George holds out is hand and she slaps a remote into it) Stormy weather-
George: Coming right up.
(He leaves)
(Trauma room where a young Asian woman named Yumi sits on a bed continuously hiccupping. Yumi's Coach, Mr. Kamaji is also in the room)
Alex: Ah Yumi Miyazaki. 22. She presented this morning with persistent hiccups.
Izzie: She was given 50 chlopromazine which stopped them for a while but then the hiccups returned so she needs a surgical consult to rule out esophageal perforation.
Bailey: When did your hiccups start?
Mr. Kamaji: A few days ago. She doesn't speak English.
Bailey: Are you her boyfriend?
Mr. Kamaji: Her coach.
Alex: Oh she's an athlete.
Mr. Kamaji: Ah, Yumi is a competitive eater.
Izzie: Eating is a sport?
Alex (nods): Miyazaki ... yeah, yeah. She's like a Rock star in Japan.
Izzie: Again, eating is a sport?
Alex (to Mr. Kamaji): Tell her I saw her on TV. Tell her that I'm an athlete too. I'm a wrestler.
Mr. Kamaji (in Japanese to Yumi): The young doctor wants you to know he's a wrestler. I think he's flirting with you.
(Yumi gives Alex an appraising look)
Yumi (in Japanese to Kamaji): Tell him I eat little boys like him for breakfast.
Mr. Kamaji (to Alex): She wonders how a wrestler got smart enough to be a doctor. Most wrestlers she knows are dumb.
(Alex and Izzie smile. Izzie more of a oh my god smile)
Alex: Just tell her that she hasn't been hanging around the right gyms.
Bailey: How bout instead you tell her that persistent hiccup could be an indication of something much more serious. (To Alex and Izzie) Schedule an esophogram.
Mr. Kamaji: Oh she's competing this afternoon at the 'Taste of Seattle'. Can't you just give her a stronger dose of that drug? It seemed to work.
Bailey: Did the hiccups come back?
Mr. Kamaji: Yes, but...
Bailey: Then it didn't work.
(She moves and starts to walk off, but stops suddenly clutching her stomach in pain)
Izzie: Dr. Bailey.
Bailey: Be quiet.
Izzie: Dr. Bailey, are you ok?
(Bailey tries to shrug it off, but she still seems to be in pain)
Bailey: All right somebody page Addison Shepherd.
(Izzie moves off quickly while Alex stays with Bailey)
(Bailey is lying down being given an ultrasound by Addison in an exam room)
Addison: There he is. Heartbeat's strong. Since there's no dilation or effacement, looks like nothing more than Braxton Hicks.
(Bailey sits up)
Bailey: Except I know the mild concerned tone. I've used it myself from time to time.
Addison: Sometimes false labor is the body's way of telling you to slow down.
Bailey: I'm a surgeon.
Addison: I understand the realities of your job but you need to understand the realities of your pregnancy and take it easy. Is there anything I can do to help?
Bailey: Uh, yeah for starters you can help me get up off this table.
(Izzie knocks on the door and enters)
Izzie: Dr. Bailey. The GI lab has a couple of questions about Miss. Miyazaki's esophagram.
Bailey: Well let's go.
(Bailey walks out of the room)
Addison: Dr. Stevens.
(Izzie stops following Bailey)
Addison: Keep an eye on her today. Watch out for any painful contractions. More than 5 in an hour. Anything that could indicate pre-term labor. (Izzie shakes her head) The favor is not for me Stevens, you know that.
(Izzie nods and walks off)
(Patient room where a middle aged woman named Naomi Cline lies on the bed looking very happy. Meredith and Burke are at the end of Naomi's bed. Tom Cline, Naomi's husband is also in the room)
Meredith: Naomi Cline. 43. Had her tricuspid valve replaced 3 years ago with a porcine valve, sir.
Burke: Ah Naomi, surprised to see you back again so soon. Pig valve usually holds up 10 to 15 years. But yours seems to be degenerating a little too quickly for my comfort.
Naomi: Oh, heart valve, schmart valve. (excited) I got married Dr. Burke! (She laughs) I found him. My true love. My 'you jump, I jump'. (Burke and Meredith exchange looks. She holds out her hand to show her wedding ring) Look. Isn't it beautiful? And look, look at that beautiful, beautiful man.
(Meredith and Burke turn around to see a middle aged balding man named Tom Cline.)
Tom (uncomfortable): Heh. We ah meet in the grocery store.
Naomi: Oh honey ...
(She gestures for him to come be by her bedside)
Burke: Oh, congratulations. It's good to see you so happy Naomi.
Naomi: Yeah.
(Tom comes by her bedside and Naomi becomes very affectionate)
Tom: So Naomi's heart valve, what does this mean?
Burke: Well there's an underlying cause for your wife's valve failure that remains undiagnosed. Theories, Grey?
Meredith: Rheumatic fever, chronic use of migraine meds- (A large bark from Doc in the hallway interrupts her) or IV narcotics could all cause uh valve disease sir.
Naomi (smiling): Oh I don't use drugs. Don't need them. I've got Tom, he's my drug. Aren't you baby?
(Meredith looks weirded out by Naomi's happiness)
(Meredith and Burke are walking out of Naomi's patient room walking down the hall)
Meredith: She's high Dr. Burke.
Burke (chuckles): Oh, she's in love. She's happy.
Meredith: Nobody is that happy. She's on drugs.
Burke (sighs): Run a tox screen but Naomi doesn't strike me as a liar. If she says no drugs, then it's no drugs. You develop a sixth sense about these things.
Meredith (shrugs): Everybody is a liar.
(Doc barks loudly again from the hallway)
Burke: Dr. Grey, is that a dog?
Meredith (shakes her head): No.
(Derek is with Rick in the trauma room.)
Derek: Look, we need to keep this elevated ok?
Rick: Ok.
Derek: I'll be back to check on you in a little bit.
(Derek heads out of the room into the hallway where Cristina is dumping some waste into a waste bin. They start walking down the hall together)
Derek: Yang, you were a little harsh in there.
Cristina: He was lying. Besides your harsh is another man's refreshing.
Derek: Well he's in shock. The man's lost his fingers and his only remaining habit in one day. We need to be compassionate.
Cristina (looks upset): Compassionate?
Derek: Yes. It's an emotion. Have you ever heard of it?
CRISTINA: Oh, have you? (Derek looks shocked at Cristina's audacity) She's barely back on her feet and you've got her calling you McDreamy again. You know I was just telling the patient the truth. So you might want to try it sometime.
(Cristina walks off)
(George is standing on some shelves rummaging around a utilities room. Richard walks by but double backs when he realizes what George is doing)
George: Remotes. (He pulls out a stack from a box) More remotes.
Richard: O'Malley?
George: I'm getting a remote for Mrs. Larson.
Richard: What happened to the upper hand?
George: Have you met Mrs. Larson, sir?
Richard: Why do you think she's been here this long? In a private room?
George (amused): She handled you, too?
Richard: Well, she sang for the troops, you know.
George: Can't we just keep here until her the room in her daughter's house is ready?
Richard: No we can't. Not on surgical service, anyway.
George: Oh, ok... but some other service?
Richard: I'm the Chief, O'Malley. I can't condone turfing patients onto other services. You hear me O'Malley?
(Richard walks off)
(George is entering Mrs. Larson's room smiling)
Sophie: I'm ah, I'm missing my program Irish and I don't see a remote in that hot little hand.
George: I noticed that urine output has increased slightly since yesterday. I'm going to have to take you to gynecology to make sure you don't have a prolapsed uterus.
Sophie: Honey my uterus hasn't been an issue for 30 years.
George: I know, but it might be an issue now. ... You know one that could keep you here in the hospital for tests.
(Sophie grins broadly and grabs the metal triangle in front of her for grip)
Sophie: You drive, I'll ride shotgun.
(Izzie comes to the door as George prepares to move Mrs. Larson's bed)
Izzie: You're not moving out, George.
George: Oh yes, I am. I gave an ultimatum. Threw dawn the gauntlet. I drew my line in the sand.
Izzie: Well un-give, un-throw and un-draw.
George: A man does not give an ultimatum and then back down.
(Izzie helps George move the bed out of the room and down the hallway)
George: Meredith had a choice and she chose the dog.
Sophie (shocked): A girl chose a dog over you?
George: Yes.
Izzie: No.
(Izzie and George stare at each other)
(Hospital outdoor cafeteria. Alex is sitting at a table by himself looking over the envelope Richard gave him. There is also an unusually big pile of hotdogs sitting in front of him. He puts it away quickly as Cristina and Izzie come up and sit down at the table as well. Cristina also has a large plate of hotdogs)
Alex: Are we gonna do this or what?
Cristina: Yeah, let's go.
(George comes up running with his own plate of hotdogs)
George: Don't start without me.
Alex: We're not gonna start if Izzie doesn't focus.
Cristina: Izzie, come on.
Izzie (ignores this): What should I put on the flier?
George: I don't know.
Cristina: Destructive, aggressive, uh hell dog available.
George: That's not helping.
Cristina: Fine, uh playful, protective puppy needs loving home.
Izzie (approvingly): Good.
(Meredith comes with her own set of food and Doc on a leash. She sits down)
Meredith: Hey, George.
George (looking down at his food): Don't talk to me! You'll only make me mad. You're gonna mess up my game and I'm in the zone.
Meredith: Okay. (To Izzie): What are you doing?
Izzie: Oh it's a flier that I'm gonna put it up...
Cristina (yells): Izzie, come on! George (yells at the same time): Izzie!
Izzie: Okay! Keep your panties on!
(Izzie picks up a stop watch as George, Alex and Cristina all prepare to have a hot-dog eating contest)
Izzie: All right.
(George picks up one of his hotdogs)
Cristina: No touching!
(George puts down his hotdog making a face at Cristina)
Izzie (struggling not to laugh): Go!
(George, Alex and Cristina start wolfing down their hotdogs. Though Cristina opts for eating the actual hotdog meat first quickly, rather than bun and dog like Alex and George)
Meredith (looks at the flier): You're advertising for a home for Doc? I said I would do it.
Izzie: And you haven't and you won't. And I don't want George to leave.
(She makes a funny face when she looks at George's eating)
Meredith: Well at least put down he's not house-broken. (Izzie gives her a look) What? It's the truth.
Izzie: Ok, so you want me to put the truth. Fine.
(Cristina has now finished her hot dog meat and only left with the buns with she is now wetting down with water, mushing up and then stuffing into her mouth)
Izzie: Vicious, hyper devil mutt is available. And will pee on the bed.
Meredith: He's your dog too. We got him together.
(She gives the others a weird look at their eating contest. It seems Cristina is winning, Alex followed closely behind, and George is pretty much screwed)
Izzie: We got him together, please. He's not your dog either. He doesn't even know us. We are not home enough for him to know us.
(Cristina stuffs the last of it down her mouth and shouts victorious. Though it's very muffled and hard to understand since she still has a mouth full of bread. Alex and George also protest muffled as she hasn't chewed it all down. Cristina stands up and starts gloating and making hand gestures)
Cristina: You want to be! You want to be me but you can't be me! You want to be me...
(She stops abruptly and looks like she's gonna chuck)
George: Uh, oh.
(She sits back down woozy)
Izzie: Crap, she's gonna blow.
(They all stand up quickly and run off, leaving Cristina sitting by herself trying not to throw up)
(Patricia and Richard are walking down a hallway together. Patricia is reading from some papers)
Patricia: The surgical floor has become a dumping ground for patients who aren't even surgical. We are overworked and exhausted. This makes for un...
Richard (interrupts): The nurses again? Can't you do something about this? You used to be one of them. Don't you speak nurse?
(Richard stops in front of the OR board)
Patricia: That's why you don't get any respect from the nurses; surgical arrogance.
Richard (huffs): I'm not arrogant.
Patricia: You're killing them with that workload. Look at the board!
(The board is absolutely filled)
Richard: What? That's a beautiful board.
Patricia: That's a crowded board. (She hands Richard the paper she was reading from) We need more nurses.
(She walks off)
(Exam room, where Yumi is lying down on a table undergoing an ultrasound. Izzie, Bailey, Alex and Mr. Kamaji are in there. Yumi is still hiccupping)
Bailey: Mr. Kamaji, this is probably what's causing her hiccups. (Izzie points to a screen) A tear in the lining of her esophagus.
Mr. Kamaji: Can you fix it?
Bailey: Yes, surgically the sooner, the better.
Mr. Kamaji: Ah, after the competition today her schedule is clear until March.
Bailey: No her schedule is clear now. She can't compete today. And if she enjoys the taste of solid food, I recommend giving up the sport for something a little less aggressive. Say boxing.
(Yumi just lies on the table looking scared and at Mr. Kamaji to tell her what's going on)
Mr. Kamaji: I see. Could you give us some privacy please?
(The three doctors all exchange looks and leave the room)
Bailey: Karev, get the translator up here. Let's make sure she's getting the whole truth.
[SCENE_BREAK]
(Patient room where Rick is. Cristina comes in and finds Rick's band mates and friends in the room, smoking and drinking)
Band Mate: Busted
Cristina: Put that out!
Band Mate: Sorry.
Cristina: I gotta prep you for surgery. Can you ask your friends to leave?
(The band mates hug Richard and leave. Cristina starts prepping Richard and notices a carton of cigarette's on his lap. Richard notices this and holds up the packet defensively)
Rick: I wasn't gonna light 'em. I was just holding them.
Cristina: Ok.
Rick: Seriously, take 'em. Throw 'em out.
Cristina: No you hang onto them.
Rick: Seriously, I wasn't going to smoke.
Cristina: Seriously, I don't care. Do what you want.
Rick: You don't think I'm going to be able to quit, do you?
Cristina: No. I don't.
(George is walking down the hall when he stops suddenly hearing a voice)
Sophie (singing): I'm lonely all the time ...
George: Oh no.
(He looks over at the nurses' station where Debbie is standing)
Debbie: Oh yeah.
(George opens the patient door apprehensively, not wanting to believe it)
Sophie: Irish. That nice lady doctor in gynecology said that since I had a hysterectomy back in '74, I don't have a uterus to prolapse.
(George walks in and sits dejectedly on the couch seat in the room)
George (to himself): Damn it.
Sophie: I've been feeling a bit feverish. (George sits up quickly and grabs Sophie's chart of her bedside) A woman my age with a fever could be an indication of oh any number of awful diseases.
George (disappointed): They took your temperature an hour ago. It was normal. I am sorry Sophie, but I'm going to have to call your daughter.
Sophie: I'm telling you, I'm warm.
(George walks over and places a hand on Sophie's forehead. She places her own hand over his and smiles)
Sophie: That must be one hell of a dog.
George: Excuse me?
(George removes his hand from Sophie's forehead but she still holds onto it)
Sophie: With those eyes and those nice firm hands ... A girl who chooses a dog over you ... It must be one hell of a dog.
(George smiles at Sophie)
(Burke and Meredith are walking down a hallway together)
Meredith: Mrs. Cline's tox screen and titer both came back negative. I was sure I was right about that.
Burke (chuckles): Gonna have to adjust your world view Dr. Grey. There are people out there that don't lie.
Meredith: Maybe.
Burke: Although frankly, the drug use would've explained the valve failure.
(They stop walking in the middle of some stairs)
Meredith: So how do we proceed?
Burke: Schedule Mrs. Cline for a surgery.
Meredith (nods): Ok.
(Meredith starts heading back up the stairs)
Burke: Do you want to come over for dinner?
(Meredith stops abruptly on a stair and turns around shocked)
Meredith: What?
Burke: Dinner. Our place. Mine and Cristina's.
Meredith (still shocked): Why?
Burke: You're Cristina's best-friend. I want her to feel welcome to have friends in our home.
Meredith: Oh, so she moved in with you?
Burke: Yes. (suddenly confused) Didn't she tell you?
Meredith (forces a smile): Of course she told me. Why wouldn't she tell me? She's in, right? Which you know, I think is great.
Burke: Right.
(He heads off down the stairs leaving Meredith standing looking confused)
(Derek is standing in front of an elevator revealing Cristina standing by herself. He walks in. Cristina avoids looking at him)
Derek: Just came from Mr. Freeark's room. He's convinced that he won't be able to quit smoking. Says that you agree.
Cristina: No he asked my opinion. Want me to apologize?
Derek: No I want you to go in there and tell him that you're wrong. That you're having a bad day. You're favorite uncle died of lung cancer and that every time you see a cigarette you freak out. Say whatever you need to say. Get him to believe that this about you not him. Because if he thinks he won't be able to quit, he won't. Then we shouldn't even do this surgery.
Cristina: Fine.
Derek: What is your problem? I'm your boss. What's the matter...
Cristina (interrupts): No you're not my boss right now. We're in an elevator. That's your specialty right? McDreamy moments in elevators.
Derek (warningly): Dr. Yang.
Cristina: You know just for a moment, I'm not Dr. Yang and you're not Dr. Shepherd. You're the guy who screwed up my friend. The guy who drove her to get a dog she can't keep. The dog she only got because her boyfriend lied to her about his wife.
Derek (interrupts): I never lied to her!
Cristina: You know what I know a liar when I see one because I'm a liar. Fine you want me to lie to the patient. I'll lie.
(The doors ding open and she leaves)
(Alex walks back to the Yumi's exam room with a translator. He looks in the room but it's empty)
Alex: Yumi?
(He walks out and to the closest nurses' station)
Alex: Hey, the translator is here. Where's the patient Miyazaki?
Nurse: She left with her friend about 20 minutes ago.
Alex: She wasn't discharged.
Nurse: Sorry, we're short staffed. I assumed someone else had done the paperwork.
(She leaves)
Alex: Damn it.
(Rick is in a hallway banging against a vending machine)
Rick: Come on. Damn it. Uh! Uh.
(Cristina walks down the hall and rushes up to him)
Cristina: What are you doing out of bed?
Rick: I gotta get a candy bar, man.
Cristina: Uh, you're on morphine. You're about to have surgery and you can't eat. Mr. Freeark, please.
(She tries to move him down the hall)
Rick: My Dad's Mr. Freeark. He's gotta a comb over and ah, and an annoying wife named Kimberley so-
Cristina (interrupts): Rick. Listen. Earlier I was out of line.
Rick: No you got me to think. I don't want to be a guy, sitting in a bar with a stump for a hand. Having a smoke 10 years down the line bragging about how I used to play better than Dave Navarro.
Cristina: Yeah, you don't wanna be creepy, bitter guy.
Rick: Here's the thing. My last cigarette was this morning. Only, I didn't know it was my last cigarette.
(Cristina and Rick are standing outside the hospital where Rick is having what looks like to be a very gratifying cigarette. Derek notices this and walks outside and hits against the glass)
Derek (to Cristina): What the hell do you think you're doing?
(Cristina has a look on her face that says 'oh sh1t')
(OR where a surgery is being performed. Meredith and Cristina are both standing at the edge of the gallery with cups of coffee as all the seats are taken)
Cristina: McDreamy's being McDouchey. He's making me stand at the back of the O.R while he re-attaches Rick's fingers. I can't even touch a retractor. I hate him.
Meredith: Truth. Did you move in with Burke or not?
Cristina (sighs): I told him I moved in with him. I'm keeping my old apartment.
(Meredith turns around and gives her a look)
Cristina: What? I sleep with Burke every night. My clothes are there. So I still have my apartment, big deal.
Meredith: You have to tell him.
Cristina: Actually I don't.
Meredith: So I'm supposed to go to dinner at your fake apartment with the guy you fake live with?
Cristina: Oh, I would never have you over to dinner with Burke. That's weird.
Meredith (spins around instantly): This is my point. Stop with the lying.
Cristina (whispers accusingly): And you're being honest? That last time you called him McDreamy you were all a-twitter with love.
Meredith: We're just friends.
Cristina: Uh huh.
Meredith: We are.
(Infectious Diseases department. George is there with Mrs. Larson talking with an ID resident who is looking through Mrs. Larson's chart)
Resident: West Nile virus. Are you kidding me?
George: No, look at her. She's feverish. She's much weaker than she was this morning. She could be de-compensating.
(Sophie tries to look sickly and coughs)
Resident: She's been here for a month, Dr. O'Malley. You seen any mosquitoes in this hospital lately?
Sophie: Oh, such a handsome young man ... (The resident gives her a weird look) Those chocolaty eyes ...
Resident (tries not to smile): In order to test you Mrs. Larson, we'd have to do a spinal tap.
Sophie: Will you be doing it?
Resident (tries not to look off put by the idea): Yes, ma'am.
Sophie: Well then, call me Sophie.
(The ID resident moves to George's position to wheel Sophie's bed down the hallway. George starts walking off)
Sophie (calls out): Oh, nice meeting you, Irish!
(She waves and George waves back. He walks off looking pretty smug with himself)
(Naomi's room, where Meredith is talking to Mrs. Cline. She hands Mrs. Cline a chart)
Meredith: So if you'll just sign here, we can go ahead and schedule you for surgery.
Naomi: Oh, ok. ... You know you are a gorgeous young woman. Look at you. (She signs the chart) You should smile more.
(Meredith fakes a smile and leaves the room. Meredith is outside the room, where she notices Mr. Cline, sitting on a chair out in the hall looking downcast. She walks up to him)
Meredith: Mr. Cline.
Tom (stands up): Oh, ah ... do me a favor.
Meredith: Sure.
Rom: Don't tell her you saw me. I'm, I'm not sure that I'm going to go in. She's ... she can be exhausting.
Meredith (nods): Yeah, she's...really happy.
Tom: You know I thought it was just ... falling in love, the wedding, but I was kinda hoping the honeymoon would be over by now, you know? (Meredith nods) I mean it's not normal, right? (He whispers) Nobody's that happy.
(Meredith is walking up to the lab tech guy Jeffery at the lab desk)
Meredith: Run another tox screen on Naomi Cline.
Jeffery: On whose orders?
Meredith: Dr. Burke's, of course.
(She ticks the form for the test and pushes it forward to Jeffery)
(Izzie is walking up to the on call room. She knocks on the door lightly and enters. Dr. Bailey is lying down on one of the bottom bunks)
Izzie: I'm sorry to bother you. The paramedics are on their way in with Yumi Miyazaki. She collapsed at the 'Taste of Seattle' and is vomiting blood.
(Bailey looks frustrated and sits up)
Bailey: Damn fool, probably tore her esophagus in two by now.
(She gets up and murmurs a bit, looking like she's in pain)
Izzie: Are you ok?
(Bailey takes a moment and then grabs her coat and starts making her way out of the room)
Bailey: Complications of Boerhaave's syndrome. Go.
Izzie: Pleural effusion, sepsis, shock.
(Pre-op ward where Yumi is lying, breathing difficultly on a bed and Alex is checking her vitals. Bailey and Izzie are there as well. Including a few nurses. Mr. Kamaji is watching from outside looking anxious)
Alex: Cyanotic with shallow breast sounds. BP is 76 over 42. Tachycardic in the one thirty's. Start her on high flow O2 and give her a second dose of saline.
Bailey: Alright, let's get her to the O.R.
Izzie: They're ready and waiting.
(They're about to start moving Yumi's bed when she grabs Alex's hand pleadingly looking upset as if to say why is this happening? Alex looks down and the looks through the glass wall, shooting daggers at the coach)
Alex: The freaking coach should be the one this gurney.
Bailey: Let's keep our eyes on the prize Karev. Saving this woman's life.
(They start wheeling her out)
Alex: I'll meet you guys up there.
(Alex starts walking over to the coach. Izzie notices this)
Izzie: Me too.
(Izzie walks up quickly to Alex)
Izzie: Hey, hey. What are you going to do? Punch him out?
Alex: Yeah.
Izzie: So you're going to kick his ass, get yourself kicked out of the program, before you have to open your board scores which is incase you failed. (Her beeper goes off) God, you're such an idiot.
(She walks away)
(O.R where Bailey is operating on Yumi. Alex and Izzie are helping and watching)
Bailey: Dr. Karev, how do I begin the esophagomyotomy?
Alex: Cut proximal and distal to the tear to expose the mucosal defect.
Bailey: Correct. Then we'll move to debridement of the defect-
(She gasps suddenly)
Bailey: Oh!
(She backs away quickly from the operating table, dropping the surgical tools and starts breathing in and out quickly)
Izzie: Dr. Bailey, those aren't Braxton Hicks contractions. I believe you're in pre-term labor.
(Bailey gives her an annoyed look)
(Richard is entering the OR all scrubbed up)
Richard: Why didn't you call me sooner? (Bailey just shakes her head) Alright, just get out of here.
Bailey: I was gonna fashion a gastric patch.
Richard: I taught you the procedure. Now leave.
(Bailey sighs and leaves)
(Meredith is walking up to the blood lab for the results but finds Dr. Burke already there. She walks up slowly to him)
Burke: I got paged, Dr. Grey. Jeffery wanted to give me the results to the extensive blood work that I ordered. (He gestures to the forms Meredith filled in) You forged me signature?
Meredith: That's really bad, right?
Burke: Yeah that's really bad. Naomi is not on drugs. The tests came back negative.
Meredith (amazed): They did?
Burke: They did. Again. (Meredith shakes her head in disbelief) Next time you forge me signature, let me know. Save me a trip.
Meredith: That's it? You're not going to yell and say 'Damn it Grey' and storm out?
Burke (smiles): I will if you want me too.
Meredith: No.
Jeffery (walks up to them with another test): Dr. Burke, here's another one. Her serotonin level is through the roof.
Burke: Dr. Grey, you took a detailed history?
Meredith: Mmm Hmm.
(They start walking down a hallway)
Burke: When did Mrs. Cline develop asthma?
Meredith: After the first surgery. Why?
(Cut to Naomi's room where she is sitting happily on her bed. Tom is standing by her bedside. Burke and Meredith are in there as well)
Burke: We found a carcinoid tumor in the lump. Very rare. Almost impossible to diagnose. It masks itself as a bunch of seemingly unrelated symptoms. Adult onset asthma, valve failure...
Meredith: An increased level of serotonin in the blood.
Burke: Which creates a false sense of euphoria.
(Naomi smiles broadly)
Tom: So, Naomi is not actually this happy. She just has a tumor?
Burke: Exactly.
(Meredith nods)
Tom: Thank god.
Naomi: You people with your tumors. I tell ya, I'm infected with love!
(She laughs)
Meredith: I'm sorry. Your body is lying to your mind.
Naomi: Oh let the lie continue, (to Tom) right baby?
Tom (chuckles uncomfortably): How soon can you cure her?
Burke: Tomorrow, we can take the tumor out. If all goes well, Naomi goes back to normal.
Tom: Alright, thank you both.
(Burke and Meredith leave the room and walk into the hallway)
Meredith: Thank you for not chewing me out for forging your signature.
Burke: Thank you. (Meredith looks confused) I know it was probably you who convinced Cristina. She's very strong but she listens to you. If you told her to move in ... (He smiles briefly) Anyway, thank you.
(Burke walks off and Meredith is left looking a little uncomfortable)
Meredith: No problem.
(OR, Derek is about to start performing surgery on Rick. Cristina is in the OR but watching right from the back)
Derek: Now do you have any sensation in your left arm at all?
Rick: Nope. (A doctor moves to shield Rick from watching) Actually, could I watch?
(The doctor drops the covering so Rick can see)
Rick: I wanna see every blood vessel and nerve I'm gonna screw up if I ever smoke again. Not that I'm gonna. Ever again. (He makes eye contact with Cristina) I smoked my last cigarette.
(Derek notices this)
Derek: Ok, let's get started.
(Miss. Larson, Sophie's daughter is talking to Nurse Debbie at a nurse's station)
Miss Larson: The nursing home said she never showed up. How exactly is that possible?
Debbie: She wouldn't leave.
Miss Larson: My mother is old and infirm. You couldn't make her leave?
Debbie: Have you met your mother?
Miss Larson: Fine. Where is she now?
(George who is walking by notices Miss. Larson)
George: Oh, hi I'm Dr. O'Malley. She's in the infectious disease service.
Miss Larson: Infectious Disease. Since when does she have an infectious disease?
George: She doesn't. She just doesn't want to leave.
Miss Larson: Ah, she's unbelievable.
George (smiles): Yeah she is. ... So is her room ready? I could go get her right now.
Miss Larson: They've had the room ready for weeks.
George: No, ah not at Sugar Maple. I meant at your house.
Miss Larson: I'm sorry?
George: The, the pink room ... (realization dawns) at your house.
(Miss Larson just gives him a look)
(George is entering Sophie's infectious disease room where she's watching television)
George: Hi Sophie.
(Sophie switches off the TV)
Sophie: Irish, what a wonderful surprise! You won't catch my disease will you?
George: No, I think I'll be ok... Sophie, your daughter was just here.
(Sophie stops smiling instantly and gets teary eyed)
Sophie: Nursing homes are for old people. I know I'm elderly. I do know that. ... But if I have to go that place, I'm afraid I'll become old.
George (takes her hand and smiles): I don't think that's possible.
Sophie (smiles): Oh.
George: You know that I, I would keep you here if I could.
Sophie: Oh, no darling you can't waste any more time with me. You have to go balls out with the dog.
George: Excuse me?
Sophie: So she chose an animal over you! So what? Women are fools. That's old news. But life's too short for you to give in, Irish. ... So fight, you fight for what's yours.
(George leans down and kisses Sophie's hand and walks to the door)
Sophie: Now that my friend is a swagger.
(George closes the door and places his hand against the clear glass door. Sophie lifts her hand to return the gesture. George heads off)
(Richard is in the O.R operating on Yumi with Izzie and Alex helping)
Richard: I'll be closing the peritoneal cavity with zero chromic sutures.
(Nurse Debbie knocks on the glass window of the scrubs room holding up a piece of paper)
Alex: Chief.
(Richard turns around and sees Debbie and then turns back to the operating table)
Richard: Let's get back to it. Pull back on that retractor. Give me more suction. I'll need a sponge on a stick.
(Debbie enters the O.R)
Richard: What's going on?
Debbie: I tried but you wouldn't listen. It is now 6.07. The second shift of nurses started at 6. They're not coming in.
Richard: Do you have any idea what a sick out would do to this hospital?
Debbie: I've already put in the call for temps.
(She puts down the paper she was holding on a table nearby)
Richard: What's this?
Debbie: Official notification. We go on strike in 10 days.
(Yumi's post-op room where she is lying on a hospital bed. Alex is writing in her chart and Izzie is checking on her)
Alex: You're doing good Yumi. You're doing just fine.
(Yumi speaks Japanese)
Izzie: We should get the translator back up here. She doesn't understand what's going on. (To Yumi) We'll be back.
(They head out of the room where they run to Mr. Kamaji in the hallway)
Alex: What the hell are you doing here?
Mr. Kamaji: I never would've ... I thought she would be fine. I'm sorry.
Alex: Don't tell me. Tell her. Tell her how her career is over because of you.
(Alex steps aside so Mr. Kamaji can walk in. Mr. Kamaji walks in slowly and bows deeply in apology and shame. Alex looks back at Izzie who nods. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out the envelope Richard gave him. They move away from the door)
Izzie (pats Alex on the back): Way better than punching him out.
Alex: Hey uh ... can you (he holds out the envelope to Izzie)
Izzie (takes the envelope): You want me to open it?
Alex: Yeah, yeah you know it's just, I can't. Izzie (she tries to hand it back): I shouldn't, I mean I...
Alex (interrupts): Look you already think I'm an idiot. It won't be any great shock.
(Izzie sighs and opens the envelope. She pulls out the letter and reads it. She puts the letter in front of Alex)
Izzie: Congratulations. (Alex grins at her and looks down at the letter) You are not an idiot. Except when you're being an idiot.
(Izzie walks off)
(Cristina is checking on Rick's fingers in his patient room. She walks out the room where she runs into Derek)
Derek: How's he doing?
Cristina: Ah jonesing for a cigarette but I'll think he'll make it to the end of the day.
Derek: Good. ... I was being nice to her.
Cristina: Ok.
Derek: I can be nice without being ... (he gestures)
Cristina (disbelieving): McDreamy, I know.
Derek: I really can.
Cristina (still disbelieving): Ok.
Derek: Ok then.
(He walks into the room)
(A nurse is pushing Dr. Bailey dressed to go home in a wheelchair down a hallway. Addison is walking beside her and they are being followed the 'gang' Cristina, Izzie, Meredith, Alex and George)
Addison: Bed rest at home until the baby comes. You do know what bed rest is don't you Miranda?
Bailey: Yeah hell.
(She's being wheeled backwards into an elevator)
Izzie: Hell with TV and books. (She hands Bailey a present) Here it's from all of us.
(Bailey takes it grudgingly. They all smile at her from outside the elevator. They elevator doors begin to close, but Bailey stops it with her foot)
Bailey: I may be 47 months pregnant (The group looks apprehensive as they were about to walk off. Addison has already walked off) I may be on bed rest. I may not be able to see my own feet but I am Dr. Bailey. I hear everything. I know everything. I'm watching each and every one of you. And I will return.
(The doors close)
(Richard is wiping the OR board clean himself. Burke is standing near the stairs watching him. Derek walks up to Burke)
Derek: Strike?
Burke: Strike.
Richard (turns around): You are all a bunch of arrogant surgeons.
(He walks off. Burke and Derek exchange looks)
(Cristina walks into an empty gallery except for Meredith who is on her mobile)
Cristina: Hey.
Meredith: Hey. (She hangs up) That was Izzie. She refuses to take the dog home.
Cristina: Mmm Hmm. (She sighs and sits down in front of Meredith) Fine, if you want me to tell Burke I didn't move in I'll tell him.
Meredith: No don't.
Cristina: What?
Meredith: Don't tell him. At least not right now or tonight. (Cristina sighs in relief) I just mean wait. It can wait. (Cristina nods) I lied about Derek. We're not just friends. I mean, I'm not. He's still McDreamy.
(Cristina stands up and rubs Meredith's arm comfortingly)
Cristina: I know.
(She walks out of the gallery)
(Intern locker room, there is a notice board showing a flyer for Doc. George walks in and sees Doc lying down on the floor. In fact there are a lot of fliers advertising Doc. Meredith is sitting dressed to go home in front of her locker. George sits down next to her)
George: You don't get to choose.
Meredith: Huh?
George: I know you've been going through a bad time. I know you miss Shepherd. And I know that your life has admittedly been pretty unpleasant these days. You get points for breathing in and out. You get to be a little selfish. But you don't get to choose a dog over me. ... I'm George. I sleep down the hall from you. I buy your tampons. I have ... held your hand every time you've asked. I've earned the right to be seen. To be respected. To not have you think of me as less than a dog that you got at the pound. ...So, I'm not moving out. Whether you like it or not, I'm staying.
(Meredith just looks at him)
MVO: No matter how hard we try to ignore it or deny it. Eventually the lies fall away.
(Cristina is sitting up-right looking hesitant on Burke's bed. She sighs and lies down next to Burke who wraps his arms around her)
Burke: I'm glad you moved in.
Cristina: So am I.
MVO: Whether we like it or not.
(Izzie, Meredith and George are exiting out of Meredith's Jeep. Izzie hands George some Doc's toys while Meredith gets Doc out from the back)
Meredith: Ok, Doc. Let's go.
(They're in front of Derek's trailer. Derek and Addison out and meet them. Meredith looks upset)
Derek: Hey Doc. Hey buddy. Welcome home.
Addison: Hey. He's beautiful.
(They start patting Doc)
Izzie: I brought his toys.
George: And his food and water.
Meredith: Here.
(Meredith hands the leash over to Addison)
Meredith: Thanks for doing this. I know it's a lot to ask.
Addison: It's all right. It's just a dog, right? Come on Doc.
(She walks away and takes Doc into the trailer)
Izzie (to Meredith): Ah, we'll just wait by the car.
Meredith: Ok. (George and Izzie walk back to the car) So he ah chews everything. So don't leave anything out. (Derek nods) He hates cats and small little yappy dogs. Oh (she shakes her head) not house broken.
Derek: Oh!
Meredith: Probably should've told you that.
Derek: Yeah.
(They stare at each other for a bit)
Meredith: You don't have to do this you know?
Derek (nods): What I got, I got all this land. It's just going to waste.
(Meredith nods)
Meredith: Derek.
Derek: It's just a dog. It doesn't mean anything. He'll be a fine.
(Meredith forces a smile)
Meredith: Yeah. Ok. Goodnight.
Derek: Goodnight.
(Meredith turns back towards her car)
MVO: But here's the truth about the truth. It hurts.
(Derek looks on after her for a bit and then heads back into the trailer)
MVO: So we lie.