[S11E17] With Or Without You
Evelyn: Not about the fall. About Owen. I didn't mean for him to find out like this. He has a right to be a little surprised... Shocked. But how does he think I feel? A guy like John chasing after a fossil like me. It was weeks before I even realized he was dating me. And then, one night he kissed me, and... I'm not stupid. I know how we must look together. I know what people must think of us. "He's conning her. She's buying him. It's a joke." It's what I'd think. But then he kissed me. And when he kissed me... We were exactly the same age. All those years between us disappeared. John always says, "Ev, there's no difference between us except a bunch of years. And, frankly, they're years I wish I'd spent with you." Owen's always worried that I'm lonely. His dad died 32 years ago, so he worries. But I'm not lonely. I'm having the time of my life. Am I done?
[S11E17] With or Without You
Danny: Yes, I do! I-I can't go out like this, sitting in some hospital bed, waiting, propped up with my special pillows, staring at crap that doesn't mean anything. Some hockey puck you got signed for me out of pity, pictures of our dead parents who would have known better than to just let me sit here and rot.
Kathy: Will he feel better? I mean, he's right. It is his life. He has so little control over anything else, but he's almost 18. He should get a say in what he does in his life, right? That's what he wants. I mean, he just wants to go to games and hang out with girls and junk out on popcorn with his friends at the movies. He's miserable and terrified. And I don't blame him. Just... I'll give consent. Just do the surgery.
Meredith: ( voiceover ) When we go without certain things for long enough, it's easy to forget... Just how much we need them. We forget what we had once. We forget what it's like to live with a thing... not that we need, but that we want.
Derek: I am calling post-it. Zola and Bailey and tumors on the walls and ferry boat scrub caps. I thought D.C. was everything. And I was wrong. You... You. You're everything. I love you, and I'm not gonna stop loving you. Meredith, I can't live without you. I don't want to live without you. And I'm gonna do everything in my power to prove it.
Derek explains to Meredith that he left his phone at the research lab, and by the time he figured that out, he was already at the airport, on his way to her. Meredith asks why his research fellow answered the phone. Derek says she probably thought it was him. He called her from the airport, and then she told him that she spoke to Meredith. Derek insists that is the whole story. If she wants, he can go through it again. The woman is just his research fellow. Meredith wishes she could believe him, but she knows how this works. She was his resident once, and she thinks Derek came home because he thought he was in trouble. He says he came home because he thinks they are in trouble. He came home to work on them. Meredith grabs her stuff and leaves for the hospital, right after telling Derek their kids would love to spend the day with him.
After a few flashbacks of Meredith and Derek's recent fights about D.C., there's a flashback to nine weeks ago, where Derek is questioning a group of doctors. He asks which one of them is patch-clamping nerve cellls. A woman, Renee Collier, says that's her. Her research is going good, all things considered. The synaptic time discoveries she made will help them immensely with their project, so he wants to follow up on her project. He looks forward to working with her, he says.
Stephanie catches up with Jo. She spent so much time with Amelia on Herman's tumor that she's behind on every other specialty, so she needs to log more hours in other specialties fast. April comes over and says she has a surgery, and since Owen had a personal matter come up, she needs one of them to take care of a patient with a headache in the ER. They both volunteer, but April picks Jo. Jo tells Stephanie that the case is probably neuro, so she did Stephanie a favor. However, Stephanie wants Jo to call her if it's something big.
Owen enters the ER to answer a page. Richard says he shouldn't be worried and that she's understandibly embarrassed, so they put her in trauma 1. He lists the injuries and says Shepherd is examining her now. Owen asks who they're talking about. Richard thought Owen had been told about the patient and pulls the curtain aside, revealing Owen's mother. She's embarrassed, because she fell in the shower, so she's wearing nothing but a robe. There's a firefighter by her side, who tells Owen she fell through the glass and that she got dizzy. Amelia wants a head CT. John, the firefighter, says that Evelyn has been feeling dizzy all morning. Evelyn wants John to stay, as he was with her when it happened. Owen tells John he can go, as his part is over now. Evelyn Hunt again says that John was with her when she fell. Contrary to Richard and Amelia, Owen doesn't get it. John says he was making them some breakfast before work. He introduces himself, but Owen doesn't want to shake his hand. Owen hasn't heard about John. Owen's mother didn't tell him that she and John are dating, so Amelia breaks the news.
Alex and Meredith walk into Danny's room, and Alex asks where his sister is. Probably finding more stupid stuff to cram into this room, Danny replies, gesturing to the objects that are in there to make the room feel more homey. As Meredith starts examining, Danny's sister Kathy comes in. Alex says they think another infection is developing. Kathy asks if they can't just do the catheter procedure again to drain the infection, but Meredith interrupts and says she thinks they can go in surgically to do a procedure that would prevent infection from recurring. Alex says that's risky in Danny's state, so Alex would rather continue with the antibiotics until a liver becomes available. Meredith says the procedure could get Danny out of the hospital for a while, which makes Danny wanna go for it. Meredith suggests they run more tests, so she and Alex can come to an agreement on what to do.
In the ER, Jo is talking to Andrea, a woman who's had a constant headache for a month. It moves around. She went to China last month and she's afraid she has the bird flu or something. She also has nosebleeds, where the blood starts to come out of her nose, but then it goes back up. Jo puts on a mask as there's blood coming out of Andrea's nose. Jo wants to go at it with a tissue, but then it goes back up. She says it's definitely not a nosebleed.
Alex asks Meredith why she'd bring up the surgery to Danny without talking to him about it first. Meredith says he asked her for her opinion, so she gave it. Alex says Danny has difficulties stopping his blood from clotting, so he thinks Danny won't even survive a surgery that big. Meredith reminds him he brought the case to her and says she's sure she can handle the surgery. Alex wonders what's going on. He asks what her deal is today, but she claims there's no deal.
Danny is having difficulties breathing. He says he wants the surgery, but Kathy doesn't allow it. Danny insists he can't keep doing this. He wants to stop waiting for a liver in the hospital. He's completely done with all the stuff she brought. It's his life and choice. He asks Meredith for the surgery, today.
Kathy is upset and leaves the room. She knows he's right. He's almost 18, so she wants to honor his wish. He's miserable and horrified, so she'll give her consent if that means he can get out of the hospital. She wants to hear from them that it's going to work. She spent her entire adult life taking care of him, so she wouldn't know what to do without him.
After a series of short flashbacks of the plane crash, Zola's adoption and the fertility treatments, a long flashback shows what happened four weeks ago in D.C. Renee is getting coffee, but she spills on herself and throws the mug in the sink in frustration. Derek comes in to check on her. She apologizes for the cup. He offers to talk about what's going on with her. She's been working on her project for over a year, but nothing comes up. She feels like she's waiting her time. Derek says she feels like that because she's close to a breakthrough. He recognizes that feeling. He advises her to keep going. She's close to the line and she can't stop before she crosses it. They stare into each other's eyes. He says she needs to get some sleep. She says she'll try.
Meredith and Alex are operating on Danny. Alex wants to pack him and stop, but Meredith says he'll die within this week if they stop now. She knows Danny won't get a liver this week. Alex is still clearly not on board and shoots down the solution she offers. He says he hijacked her patient to perform a surgery on him that could kill him, while he only asked her opinion. Danny's pressure drops, so Meredith decides to put a shunt in from the splenic to the IVC as it's the only possible option.
Richard asks Evelyn is feeling okay because her blood pressure dropped since the last check. She feels like she's being made to much fuss over because her son is the boss. John appears in the doorway. He did some chores for her and brought some clothes and a new diary, as he couldn't find her old one. She says he didn't have to do all that. John asks if she's okay. Evelyn says he's very sweet, but she doesn't think they should continue this. She says he doesn't need an old woman who falls in the shower. He knows this is about Owen. Evelyn says that Owen does everything for her and that he's been to hell and back, so if he doesn't feel like this is okay, she can't go through with it. John asks if she feels that way to. Before she can answer, she screams in pain. Richard asks for help and feels her abdomen's rigid. Since her blood pressure is dropping rapidly, Richard asks a nurse to page Maggie and Owen. John looks worried as Evelyn continues to scream in pain.
Owen asks Richard and Maggie what happened with mother as they wheel her into the OR. Richard says it's a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. The symptoms must have been caused by a sentinel bleed. Owen questions how they didn't see this. Maggie says all her injuries were consistent with her fall, so they didn't think about looking further. Richard assures Owen that they got her. 041b061a72