(Cut to Seattle at night. (Cut to shot of a helicopter over the city, cut to the interns and Bailey moving a stretcher over to it, on the roof of the hospital.) (Meredith is panicking. A doctor who knows what they're doing. And I'm your intern. And on your first day, with very little training, you helped save her life. Dr Grey! Dr. Grey? It's a cerebachnoid haemorrhage. Meredith comes in. Meredith enters a room filled with other interns as a doctor talks.) Meredith: Katie Bryce is a pain in the ass. She's not in a hurry. She's short, black and a bit overweight. That I'd never make it. That was only four. The seven years you spend here as a surgical resident will be the best and worst of your life. Today, you are the doctors. Which is where you come in. Woman: He'll be fine? You can have it.
Plan: A: Meet Meredith Grey; Q: Who is a woman trying to lead a real life while doing a job that makes A: a real life; Q: What is Meredith Grey trying to lead while doing a job that makes having what impossible A: a first year surgical intern; Q: What is Meredith Grey's job? A: Harvard; Q: What is the toughest surgical residency program west of Seattle Grace Hospital? A: students; Q: What were Meredith and her fellow first-year interns yesterday? A: today; Q: When did Meredith Grey become a doctor? A: doctors; Q: What are the young people struggling to become? A: a world; Q: What is filled with intensity, humor, sex and pain? A: the doctors; Q: Who is struggling to remain human? A: the interns; Q: Who discovers that neither medicine nor relationships can be defined in black and white? A: shades; Q: What kind of grey is life? Summary: Meet Meredith Grey, a woman trying to lead a real life while doing a job that makes having a real life impossible. Meredith is a first year surgical intern at Seattle Grace Hospital, the toughest surgical residency program west of Harvard. She and her fellow first-year interns were students yesterday; today they're doctors in a world where on the job training can be a matter of life and death. Meet the young people struggling to become doctors and the doctors struggling to remain human. It's a world filled with intensity, humor, sex and pain, in which the interns discover that neither medicine nor relationships can be defined in black and white -- real life only comes in shades of grey.