EXPLORE All The Shades of Grey

Meredith: [voiceover] People have scars. In all sorts of unexpected places. Like secret roadmaps of their personal histories. Diagrams of all their old wounds. Most of our wounds heal, leaving nothing behind but a scar. But some of them don't. Some wounds we carry with us everywhere and though the cut's long gone, the pain still lingers.

[Izzie comes out of shower]

Izzie: ALEX! God!

Alex: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've seen it all before.

Izzie: What the HELL are you doing here?

Alex: Movin' in.

Izzie: What?!

Izzie: Alex is moving in?! To this house?!

Meredith: He's taking George's room.

Izzie: Why?

Derek: I was asleep just a minute ago.

Izzie: Uh! And I was naked - in the bathroom - when Alex walked in. I'm lucky I didn't come out of the shower to see him peeing all over the seat.

Derek: And we're up.

[Derek leaves]

Izzie: What's wrong with where he was living before?

Meredith: I don't know where he was living before.

Izzie: Probably a whorehouse.

[Meredith laughs]

Izzie: I can't have him living in the room right next door. It's weird.

Meredith: People are what matters. Alex is one of our people. We can't just leave him out in the cold.

Izzie: 'People are what matters.' You don't like people. Is this about your mother?

Meredith: No! I had a near-death whatever and I was dead. And now I'm not. So, I'd like to use this chance I've been given to be more positive. People are what matters. Paint with all the colors of the wind.

Izzie: Oh, okay. You're crazy now.

Meredith: [giggling] I'm alive.

Izzie: Yeah, okay.

Izzie: He's in George's room, and when George's stupid marriage crashes and burns, he's gonna wanna move back in, he won't be able to. His life will be in shambles, he'll finally notice that his dad is dead, and he made a fool of himself by marrying someone he doesn't really love, and he'll have no place to go. Is that what you want?

Meredith: That's exactly what I want. [rolls eyes]

Alex: [to Izzie] Look who found some clothes.

Izzie: Shut it.

George: [to Meredith] How you doin?

Meredith: Okay, everybody? Let's just do this once: I'm fine. She's cremated. I picked out a beautiful urn and she's hanging out in the back of my closet. Any more questions about my dead mother, or can we get back to work?

[Izzie walks up to large crowd, including Meredith, Cristina, and George]

Izzie: You guys seen Bailey? [pause] What are we doing?

George: Uh, checking out the new chief candidate.

Meredith: Chief sent in the ringer. We're lurking in a way that was subtle when there was two of us, but isn't now that it's 12.

Cristina: I heard it was someone from Stanford. All the professors there loved me.

Alex: They loved you?

Cristina: I was a great student.

Burke: How you doin', Grey?

Meredith: Oh, I'm fine, sir, thank you.

Cristina: Move, move, move. [pushes Burke]

George: She doesn't like it when people ask.

Cristina: The ringer's in there with the Chief.

Izzie: Yeah, and whoever it is loves Cristina, because everyone at Stanford just loved Cristina.

Cristina: Shut up.

Burke: She's a motivated student. It's nothing to be ashamed of.

Cristina: Thank you.

Burke: A bit of a kiss-ass, but that's hard to control.

George: Look, they're coming out.

Burke: That's Colin Marlowe.

Alex: Like the Marlowe transplant?

Burke: Like the greatest thing in cardiothoracic surgery in a generation. Dr. Marlowe. I'm Preston Burke. I'm a great admirer of your work, sir. Particularly the...

Colin: Yes, thank you...Would you excuse me for just a second?

[walks over to Cristina, group of interns backs away]

Colin: Well, you going to give me a hug or what?

[hugs Cristina, and squeezes her ass]

Izzie: What are you doing tonight? Cuz I don't wanna go home and find Alex there, and it's just the two of us, ya know? Weird and awkward and he doesn't know whether he should talk to me or not talk to me and it's just such an awkward situation and I'd just rather it'd be group awkwardness, ya know?

[Meredith ducks into closet]

Izzie: I don't just want to be standing there staring at him. Meredith?

Cristina: Hey, have you seen Montgomery?

Izzie: No. Hey, whatchya doin' tonight? You wanna come over? You and I never really get a chance to hang out and it might be kinda fun.

[Cristina ducks into closet]

Izzie: Alex just moved in, which was Meredith's brilliant idea and he still has a thing for me, so it's kinda... What the hell?

Cristina: He was my professor, we were close.

Meredith: He had his hand on your ass, I sure hope you were close!

Derek: [about Meredith, to her father] She’s tough. She tries to hide it. She’s difficult. But if you make an effort, she’s worth it. She’s worth the effort.

Meredith: [voiceover] What's worse, new wounds which are so horribly painful or old wounds that should've healed years ago and never did? Maybe our old wounds teach us something. They remind us where we've been and what we've overcome. They teach us lessons about what to avoid in the future. That's what we like to think. But that's not the way it is, is it? Some things we just have to learn over and over and over again.