TEXT: (Bailey is standing in the hall motionless while everyone and everything moves around her) MVO: No one believes their life will turn out just kind of ok. We all think we're going to be great. And from the day we decide to become surgeons, we are filled with expectation. Expectations of the trails we will blaze, the people we will help, the difference we will make. Great expectations of who we will be, where we will go, and then we get there. (Derek and Meredith are having dinner at Burke and Cristina's house. Cristina is up on the counter eating cereal while the rest are at the table with good food and wine) Burke: Meredith, would you like seconds? Meredith: I'm great. Maybe Cristina would like some. Cristina would you like some? Burke: I only made dinner for 3. Meredith: You just said there was seconds. Derek: This is...awkward. Meredith: You know, we could go, and you two could talk. Cristina: We're talking. Meredith: To each other. You're enjoying your meal at the international house of silence? Burke, you have to feed Cristina. She doesn't cook and she will starve. Cristina: I've got cereal! Meredith: You two live together. Someone has to be the first to speak. Burke: I am giving a dinner party. If she wants to sit there she can sit there. Let's just enjoy our evening and talk about something else. Derek: I heard a crazy rumor today from one of the scrub nurses that Richard was retiring. Burke: It's an interesting rumor. (Cristina snorts in disbelief) Derek: What? It's true? Richard's going to name a new chief of surgery? Cristina: He asked Burke. But Burke took himself out of the running which apparently is my fault for being part of the team. Derek: He asked you? Burke: Who wants desert? (Seattle scenes) (Derek and Meredith are at her house) Meredith: It's so sad. She's not talking to him. He's not talking to her either. Derek: He said that when he retired I would become Chief
SUMMARY:
After Webber announces his retirement, rumors begin to circulate on his departure and successor. Mark is determined to leave Seattle for good, and irritates Meredith and Alex by making them tend to a patient who will need constant attention but Meredith accidentally gives Mark incentive to stay after letting him know of the open Chief position. Derek is angry at Meredith for causing Mark to remain in Seattle, but soon realizes that she is not the reason he is really angry. The attending physicians at Seattle Grace Hospital fight to get Webber's attention, but he expresses his disappointment in their conduct. He also forces Bailey to get signatures from all the attendings so she can create a free medical clinic, before confessing to her that he thinks she will be Chief one day. Bailey secures the signatures, but has no funding until Izzie offers to spend her entire 8.7 million dollar inheritance on the project. Addison, Izzie, and George treat a patient with a cervical tumor, and Izzie gets worried about George due to his dad having recently died from cancer. Things get more complicated when the patient's Puritan parents arrive. Addison is avoiding Alex following their kiss. Callie and Cristina treat a marathon runner who collapsed after a blackout. George, devastated after his father's death, reunites with Callie and uses sex to overcome his grief, before eventually proposing to her. Cristina and Burke still don't speak to each other, but she eventually breaks, and Burke ends up proposing to her. Webber endeavors to reunite with his wife, Adele, and decides to retire, only to come home and find she's with another man.