Ellen Pompeo credited as playing...
Dr. Meredith Grey
- Dr. Meredith Grey: There's an old proverb that says you can't choose your family. You take what the fates hand you. And like them or not, love them or not, understand them or not, you cope. Then there's the school of thought that says the family you're born into is simply a starting point. They feed you, and clothe you, and take care of you, until you're ready to go out into the world and find your tribe.
- [Bailey who is pregnant, is rubbing her stomach and has labored breaths as she walks through the halls of the hospital. The interns are talking as they follow her]
- Dr. George O'Malley: Look at her belly. She's almost as wide as she is tall.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Are her ankles swollen? Is that why she's waddling?
- Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: What's gonna happen to us when she goes on leave?
- Dr. Cristina Yang: She's going on leave?
- Dr. Meredith Grey: What do you think happens when people push babies out of their vagina?
- [George laughs]
- Dr. George O'Malley: Do you think we're going to get a new resident?
- Dr. Alex Karev: Nah. They'll probably just let us wander around unattended. See how much damage we can do.
- Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Yeah, well, you would know.
- [Enthusiastic]
- Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Hey, guys, we should all get together and get Bailey a Christmas gift for the baby, or we could, um, organize some sort of Secret Santa thing.
- Dr. Cristina Yang: Okay, listen Tiny Tim, you can take your...
- [George and Meredith move in next to each other to block Cristina from Izzie]
- Dr. George O'Malley: Sounds great.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Secret Santa sounds great, Izzie.
- Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Okay.
- [turns around and leaves]
- Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: [Cristina has an appalled look on her face]
- Dr. Meredith Grey: We're being supportive.
- [Room is filled with noisy children, playing, which continues throughout the scene]
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Tim Epstein, 38, fell off the roof of his house.
- [One of his children is sitting on him, sticking a fake lizard to his forehead]
- Tim Epstein: I was, uh, stringing Hanumas lights and a shingle came loose.
- Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Hanumas?
- Tim Epstein: Hanumas. Christmukkah. We go all out.
- Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: [Smiling] Awesome.
- Mrs. Epstein: He fell twelve feet.
- Tim Epstein: The good news is, my head broke my fall.
- [One of the children flings a fake lizard, which hits Derek in the face, who smiles in surprise]
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Uh, there are no visible deformities, but he's definitely having some focal left arm weakness.
- Mrs. Epstein: He'll probably be fine. He's always been a little hard-headed.
- [Tim laughs, but seems to be in pain]
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: Does your head hurt when you laugh?
- Tim Epstein: Is that a bad thing?
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: Do you wanna follow my finger with your eyes, please?
- Jake Epstein: [to Bailey] I know karate.
- Dr. Miranda Bailey: [Flustered] Hmm? Uh... You know, your husband might need a little, uh, quiet, so, there's a cafeteria right down the...
- Tim Epstein: No, no. Whoa. Let 'em stay. Pain or no, I don't wanna miss out on the holidays with my kids.
- [Izzie is playing with the kids]
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: Who would like to take Mr., uhm, Epstein down for a CT?
- [Izzie's hand shoots up]
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: Stevens it is.
- [Izzie grins]
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: [Bailey walks up to the Chief who is surveying the OR board]
- Dr. Richard Webber: Anxiety attacks, aneurysms and ulcers.
- Dr. Miranda Bailey: Must be December.
- Patricia: Chief, Adele just called.
- Dr. Richard Webber: Tell her I'm in...
- Patricia: She knows your not in surgery. And she said to tell you, quote, "We are going to our niece's school pageant this morning. You have known about it for months. And after what you pulled on Thanksgiving..." and then she, started using a great many words I don't feel comfortable repeating.
- Dr. Richard Webber: But I have seven surgeons on vacation...
- Patricia: And there was something about "divorce".
- Dr. Richard Webber: [to Dr. Bailey] You'll have to cover my ulcer excision.
- Dr. Miranda Bailey: Yes, sir.
- [Chief and Patricia are walking away]
- Dr. Richard Webber: The woman is unreasonable. When did watching a six-year-old dressed up like a wise man become... You couldn't hang up the phone?
- Dr. Meredith Grey: I got another one for you.
- [hands a chart to Dr. Bailey]
- Dr. Miranda Bailey: He tried to gift wrap a 70-inch TV for his wife?
- Dr. George O'Malley: Hernia?
- Dr. Miranda Bailey: Strangulated. Pretty ugly.
- Dr. Miranda Bailey: And you just know the wife hates TV.
- Dr. George O'Malley: [Following Izzie up a staircase] Izzie, would you, wait?
- Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: I say I like the guy, and you can't stop hating him.
- Dr. George O'Malley: Izzie...
- [Still following her through the hospital]
- Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Then as soon as he screws me over, you're his new best friend.
- Dr. George O'Malley: Izzie. He failed his boards. This is important.
- Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: He cheated on me!
- [George & Izzie run into Meredith]
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Busted?
- Dr. George O'Malley: Yeah, busted.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: His exam is tomorrow.
- Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: You're in on this too? He cheated on me! God!
- Dr. Cristina Yang: [Carrying a small Christmas tree out of a patient's room] Told you she'd find out.
- Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Oh, of course you're in on it.
- Dr. George O'Malley: She let him touch her boobs!
- [Cristina hits George with the tree]
- Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: He cheated on me with George's skanky syph nurse!
- Dr. George O'Malley: That is just plain rude!
- Dr. Meredith Grey: We know, he cheated on you! That's why we let you turn the living room into Santa's freaking Village.
- Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: What?
- Dr. Meredith Grey: We're not big on holidays. You know that. We're trying to be supportive because you're having a hard time. But right now, Alex, he's having a harder time.
- Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Why does everyone care what kind of time Alex is having?
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Because he's dirty Uncle Sal.
- [They all look at her strangely]
- Dr. Cristina Yang: Sorry?
- Dr. George O'Malley: You lost me.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: [Thinking they'll catch on...] Dirty Uncle Sal. Who embarrasses everyone at family reunions, and who can't be left alone with the teenage girls, but you invite him to the picnic anyway.
- Dr. Cristina Yang: Sorry, what?
- Dr. George O'Malley: Still lost.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: I have a mother who doesn't recognize me. As far as family goes, this hospital, you guys are it. So, I know you're pissed at Alex, but, maybe you could try to help him anyway. Sort of like the spirit of this holiday you keep shoving down everybody's throats.
- [Izzie and Meredith walk off in opposite directions]
- Dr. Cristina Yang: [Disdainfully, to George] You...
- [Turns away with the tree]
- Dr. George O'Malley: What?
- Dr. Cristina Yang: "Boob"?