TEXT: MEREDITH: In the OR, time loses all meaning. In the midst of sutures and saving lives, the clock ceases to matter. 15 minutes. 15 hours. Inside the OR, the best surgeons make time fly. Outside the OR however, time takes pleasure in kicking our asses. For even the strongest of us, it seems to play tricks. Slowing down, hovering...until it freezes, leaving us stuck in a moment, unable to move in one direction or the other. ALEX (through the door of the bathroom, to Izzie lying on the floor, unresponsive): Izzie. Izzie come on! GEORGE: Okay, she's been in there all night. We have to do something. ALEX: Yeah. MEREDITH: Yeah. CHRISTINA: Yeah. MEREDITH: Why are you all looking at me? CHRISTINA: Well this is familiar territory to you. MEREDITH: There is nothing familiar about this. Unfamiliar. Denny died. The man she loves died. CHRISTINA: Yeah, but you're all dark and twisty inside. MEREDITH: "Dark and twisty?" CHRISTINA: The mother with the Altzheimers thing, and the father that you don't talk to. ALEX: The tequila thing, and the inappropriate men thing... GEORGE: You are dark and twisty inside Meredith, and now Izzie is dark and twisty inside. MEREDITH: So now all the sudden I'm the president of people with crappy lives? GEORGE: Seriously we have to do something. Someone has to go in there. (We see Izzie, still unresponsive and staring into space, still lying on the floor in her prom dress.) Richard (voice over): The seven years you spend here as a surgical resident will be the best and worst of your life. Look around you. Say hello to your competition. (Izzie sits up and stares at the slowly opening door.) (Flashback to the mixer.) IZZIE (introducing herself to Alex): Hi. Izzie Stephens. Washington. ALEX:
SUMMARY:
The interns of Seattle Grace Hospital help Izzie cope with the loss of her fiancé, Denny Duquette as well as her decision to quit the internship program. Meredith is uncertain what the future holds after she has sex with Derek and whether he is willing to leave Addison after a marriage of eleven years. Addison finds Meredith's panties in Derek's tux pocket, and realizes that he slept with Meredith. After spending the night in his office, Webber is confronted by his wife, Adele ( Loretta Devine ). She gives him an ultimatum, forcing him to decide between his career and his marriage. Addison and Alex treat a newborn baby who was found abandoned in a trash can, and they are faced with four minors who could be the mother. George seeks relationship advice from Derek after they are forced to stay under quarantine in the locker room, when Derek confesses his feeling towards Meredith. Bailey gets attached to a patient in isolation whose wife dies, and relives the moments when her husband's life was threatened.