Complicated ? Caroline Dawn Johnson
INT. TRAILER
Derek gets ready for work and tries to stretch his back, visibly in pain from sleeping on the couch. Addison walks into the kitchen and bangs out a pan, plate, fork, eggs, cheese and bacon.
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������������������������ MEREDITH (V.O.)
Complications. It has been said that they are what keeps life interesting, but it?s cleaning up the debris of the human time bombs that really keeps life interesting.
������������������������ DEREK
��������� When do you go in to work today?
������������������������ ADDISON
��������� I don?t.
���� ������������������� DEREK
��������� Well, then. See you later.
Derek leaves the trailer, hearing Addison bang stuff around.
INT.HOSPITAL ? RIPLEY?S OFFICE
Alex lays across the couch with his feet up on one arm and his arms crossed behind his head on the opposite arm of the couch. Ripley looks irritated, tapping her pencil incessantly on the pad of paper in front of her.
������������������������ ALEX
Well, doc.It?s like this. My puppy died when I was three and I just haven?t been the same since.
�������������� RIPLEY
You know you?re wasting my time.
�������������� ALEX
I have to come to these sessions, but I don?t need them.
�������������� RIPLEY
Right, then Dr. Karev. Think of this more as a getting to know you friendly type meeting that you have to go to every week.
�������������� ALEX
I don?t do the getting to know my shrink thing. Unless of course you think you need an up close and personal look at my personal areas?
�������������� RIPLEY (irritated)
You have a choice. You can make these sessions fly by, or you can make these sessions as excruciatingly painful as possible. It?s entirely up to you, Dr. Karev. Now, please leave. You?ve wasted enough of my time.
Ripley gets up from her chair and sits down at the computer in her desk, opening up a document and signaling that Alex is no longer welcome. Alex gets up and storms out of the room.
INT. LOCKER ROOM
Meredith opens her locker and something falls out. She bends down and picks up a picture of her underwear.
������������������������ MEREDITH
��������� He?s totally holding my underwear hostage.
������������������������ CHRISTINA
��������� The chief?
������������������������ MEREDITH
No, Derek, him and his panty stealing friends got my underwear back, but he won?t give them to me. Damnit!!
Meredith shoves the picture deep into her locker so that it won?t fall back out again for the whole world to see. Meredith pulls her scrubs out and goes to a dressing room.
������������������������ CHRISTINA
What is he doing with your underwear? Wearing them?
Christina follows Meredith and goes into the room next to her, the two continuing there conversation.
������������������������ MEREDITH
I already asked him that question. He said that he has plans for them. What kind of plans could he have?
Meredith pulls her shirt off, as she speaks. She then pulls her scrub shirt on.
�������������� CHRISTINA
Taunting plans.
Christina pulls her pants off, slipping her scrub pants on.
�������������� MEREDITH
That seems to sum it up. He?s pissing me off. How?s Burke doing?
Meredith takes her jeans off, folding them neatly, then pulling her scrub pants on.
�������������� CHRISTINA
How would you be doing if you couldn?t control your left hand, your cutting hand? He?s one of the top Cardiothoracic surgeons and he might not be able to perform surgery ever again.
Christina takes her shirt off, then pulls her scrub top on.
�������������� MEREDITH
Even with the new surgery?
Christina and Meredith pull the clothe open at the same time, both padding out in their socks.
�������������� CHRISTINA
Even with it. This totally blows. He?s talking about taking up fishing.
Christina and Meredith walk over to their lockers, shoving their clothes in and each pulling out a pair of tennis shoes.
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���� ��������� MEREDITH
Why fishing?
Meredith sits down on the bench and pulls her tennis shoes on, tying them as the conversation continues.
�������������� CHRISTINA
I don?t know. He doesn?t even know how to fish. He said something about me going with him.
Alex storms into the locker room.
������������������������ ALEX
Appointments with Buffet are a croc. It?s a waste of my time.
������������������������ MEREDITH
��������� Do you talk to her?
Meredith stands up and closes her locker, then pulls her stethoscope around her neck.
������������������������ ALEX
��������� No. This is total bullshit.
������������������������ CHRISTINA
Ahh. Does the good doctor have your panties in a twist?
������������������������ ALEX
Grow up Yang. I don?t need a head doctor. If anybody does, it?sIzzy and she?s the only one of us not seeing the head doctor.
�������������� CHRISTINA
Her fianc� died.
�������������� ALEX
Because she went postal and cut his LVAD wire. I didn?t cut the LVAD wire. Why does it feel like we?re being punished for Izzy?s actions?
�������������� MEREDITH
Because we knew and none of us told. You knew before the rest of us, so it goes double for you.
�������������� ALEX
This is stupid.
�������������� MEREDITH
Do you box?
�������������� ALEX
What?
�������������� MEREDITH
Do you box?
�������������� ALEX
That?s a random question.
�������������� MEREDITH
You?re the type of guy that seems to do anything and everything physical. No pain, no gain.
�������������� ALEX
Yeah, I box.
�������������� MEREDITH
Can you teach me? I have some aggressions to work out. Beating something up sounds like fun.
The interns then rush into the hallway where Bailey is waiting.
INT. MEREDITH?S HOUSE
Izzy is in her pajamas and sits at the table in the kitchen, staring at the stove looking like she is contemplating something important.
������������������������ IZZY
To bake or not to bake? That is the question.
Izzy gets up and walks over to the fridge. She takes out ingredients for making a chocolate cake from scratch.
INT.HOSPITAL ? BURKE?S ROOM
Burke lays in bed, reading a novel when Christina enters and flops on a chair next to the bed.
������������������������ BURKE
��������� Hey there.Shouldn?t you be working?
������������������������ CHRISTINA
I thought I?d come see how you were doing before rounds.
������������������������ BURKE
��������� Restless.Not much to do here. I want out.
������������������������ CHRISTINA
You?ll be out soon. You know they have to keep you for observation.
�������������� BURKE
I don?t want to be around the hospital right now.
�������������� CHRISTINA
You?ll be able to go home soon.
�������������� BURKE
I don?t want to be here anymore.
Dr. Sheppard enters the room with Burke?s chart.
������������������������ DEREK
Good morning Dr. Burke. How are you this fine morning?
�������������� BURKE
I want out of here.
�������������� DEREK
Soon Dr. Burke.Very soon.
�������������� BURKE
When is soon?
�������������� DEREK
We?re just waiting for your vitals to level out for a few hours, then you?ll be set to go.
Derek makes notes on the chart and glances over at Christina.
������������������������ DEREK
Dr. Yang, you?ll be able to drive Preston home?
�������������� CHRISTINA
I?m supposed to be working.
�������������� DEREK
If you talk to the chief, I?m sure he?ll let you have the day off.
�������������� CHRISTINA
Right.
Christina looks miserable at the thought of missing a day of work.
INT.HOSPITAL ? PATIENT?S ROOM
Meredith, George, Alex and Bailey stand around a patient?s bed. The patient is TOM his whole body is puffy.
������������������������ GEORGE
This is Tom O?Riley. He?s fifty-eight years old and was brought in because of a food allergy.
�������������� BAILEY
And why is this surgical?
�������������� GEORGE
We had to go in last night and pump his stomach.
�������������� BAILEY
Why is he still here?
�������������� GEORGE
We sent him home where he ate the food that he is allergic to the first time. We have to pump his stomach again.
�������������� BAILEY
Mr. O?Riley, we?ll be pumping your stomach again, but you can?t eat that food anymore.
�������������� TOM
But I?ve never had an allergic reaction to it before.
�������������� BAILEY
You?re having one now and if you continue eating-
Consulting the chart.
������������������������ GEORGE
��������� Shellfish.
������������������������ BAILEY
Right, shellfish, then you may end up dieing from the reaction.
�������������� TOM
But, I?ve never had this reaction before.
�������������� BAILEY
Regardless, you have developed one now. George, keep an eye on him.
�������������� GEORGE
Yes, Dr. Bailey.
�������������� BAILEY
Good. Now, where is Christina?
�������������� MEREDITH
I think she?s with a patient.
�������������� BAILEY
Seriously? How am I supposed to teach when my interns don?t show up?
Bailey?s pager goes off and Bailey lifts her pager.
������������������������ BAILEY
��������� Karev, Grey let?s go.
Meredith, Alex, and Bailey take off running down the hall and into the emergency room. Hurriedly, they put smocks on and tie it around their neck.
������������������������ BAILEY
Alex, you?ve got the first ambulance, Grey you?ve got the second.
�������������� ALEX
What have we got?
PARAMDIC #1 and #2 wheel a gurney out of the back of an ambulance.
�������������� PARAMEDIC #1
Burn wounds and metal rod through his right leg.
�������������� MEREDITH
What?s wrong?
PARAMEDIC #3 and #4 wheel another patient out of the back of the second ambulance.
�������������� PARAMEDIC #3
Massive heart attack.
�������������� MEREDITH
All right. Olivia, page Dr. Keyes and let her know we?re on our way up.
Meredith takes over pushing the gurney.
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