(A man knocks on the window from outside the hospital. (Bailey is walking down a dark hall with a nurse.) (Derek and Meredith in a woman's room.) (Derek comes up to them. (Derek stares hard at Anna's father)
(Derek and Meredith walking up an empty stair way)
Derek: Hmong? (He runs off down the hall)
(George and Alex are intubating Pete)
George: When's Burke coming back? (Richard looks at her) Um I need to get on back down to the ...
(She gestures to the elevator and walks off. Addison holds up her hands in defense and walks after him.) Alex just looks away from the scalpel and scissors. Choose me. Cristina: Burke wants to have a relationship. Ellis: But I still have patients to see. I'm just a guy with access to a helicopter. It takes away his pain. Izzie: Burke is talking George & Alex through heart surgery in the elevator. Izzie: You definitely did not have a heart attack. Meredith: One of her souls. Take it up with the treating physician. Tell me what to do. The one who breaks up a marriage or begs you to want me. The patient's husband is there as well)
Mr. Bradley: You shouldn't have tried to walk the dog in the rain. There's not enough power to move those elevators? They can get the doors open. We anaesthetize...ride it out, embrace it, ignore it...
(Cristina enters in the pouring rain, soaked)
MVO: And for some of us, the best way to manage pain is to just push through it. We need to get him to the OR. We're just gonna have to get a shaman.
Plan: A: Meredith; Q: Who does Derek ask to start a new life with? A: a young Hmong woman's traditionalist; Q: Whose father forbids her to have a life-saving operation? A: religious father; Q: What type of father forbids a young Hmong woman from having a life-saving operation? A: her; Q: What does Meredith ask Derek to choose? A: her souls; Q: What does the young Hmong woman's father want a shaman to retrieve? A: George; Q: Who steps up to help Alex? A: Alex; Q: Who freezes when Burke hands him the scalpel? A: critical condition; Q: What condition is the patient in when George and Alex are trapped in an elevator? A: Burke; Q: Who tells George and Alex they must perform surgery in the elevator? A: the scalpel; Q: What does Burke give Alex through the elevator door? A: the patient; Q: Who is in critical condition after a gunshot wound to the heart? A: a stable condition; Q: What condition did George get the patient to? A: the rescue team; Q: Who gets George and Alex out of the elevator? A: a heart attack; Q: What does Izzie treat an old lady who has the same thing every year? A: the same day every year; Q: When does the old lady have a heart attack? A: Cristina; Q: Who treats a man who watches porn to handle his pain? A: his pain; Q: What does Cristina's patient have to watch porn to handle? A: his marriage; Q: What does Derek struggle with trying to repair? A: Addison; Q: Who does Derek want to try to repair his marriage with? A: the hospital; Q: Where is Ellis discharged from? Summary: Meredith and Derek have to use more than medicine when a young Hmong woman's traditionalist, religious father forbids her to have a life-saving operation unless a shaman is called upon to "retrieve her souls". George and Alex are trapped in an elevator with a patient in critical condition after a gunshot wound to the heart. Burke tells them they must perform the surgery in the elevator because there isn't enough time to try to get to the OR. Burke hands Alex the scalpel through the elevator door, but Alex freezes. George steps up and successfully gets the patient to a stable condition and the rescue team gets them out. Izzie treats an old lady who seemingly has a heart attack on the same day every year, whilst Cristina treats a man who has to watch porn to handle his pain, and has to come up with a different way to manage it when the power cuts. Derek struggles with his decision to either try to repair his marriage with Addison or divorce her and start a new life with Meredith. After trying to play it cool, Meredith breaks down and asks Derek to choose her. Ellis is discharged from the hospital.