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Meredith: [voiceover] Surgeons always have a plan. Where to cut, where to clamp, where to stitch. But, even with the best plans complications can arise, things can go wrong. And suddenly, you're caught with your pants down.

Addison: God wants you to be an adulterer..?

Izzie: God got a virgin pregnant by magic, God isn't playing by the rules.

Cristina: Nobody, meaning me, needs to hear George's rendition of "Sexyback" at three in the morning.

Izzie: Hours. Hours of out life that are all I can think about and you seriously can't remember?

George: Look, Izzie, I was drunk!. Whatever I did, whatever I said, I'm sure I didn't mean it.

Izzie: Yes George, you meant it. You meant it a lot. You meant it more than once.

Mark: What do you consider your weaknesses?

Addison: I don't have any. I'm that good. What are yours?

Mark: I'm an easy mark for evil redheads.

Alex: Let's meet the contenders. Lets see. This is, this is Maggie. Married a high school sweetheart and has two kids. Loves being a mom. Coaches her daughters basketball-team. And makes an insane banana cream pie. [Jane Doe looks at him funny] Shut up, its my favorite. And this is Elizabeth. Graduated from Northwestern. Met her husband at a political rally where they got arrested and fell in love. She's all angry and fired up, but everyone forgives her cos she means well. This one. This one is Ava. She's funny, she's tough and a little neurotic sometimes, but you get used to it. You can tell she's been through a lot in her life, but it only made her stronger, you know?

Izzie: What she was afraid of was that you were taking on so much of her disease that you were freezing up too. You've spent so much time planning and helping her progress, God knows that's what you should've been doing, but she was worried. You have a healthy body Nina, if you fall down you won't turn to stone. And your mom so wanted you to just let yourself fall. Messing up, it's what makes a person, it's how we learn, where we find joy. And the things you don't plan for, are the things you never see coming.

Izzie: OK it happened, it was a mistake and it happened. People make mistakes. We need to figure out where we go from here we need to figure out how we tell Callie.

George: I'm not going to tell Callie. Do you know how much this would hurt her? I'm not going to clear my conscience at her expense. She has done nothing but support me and encourage me and believe in me and this is how I pay her back. I have to live with what I did. This is our secret. OK?

Izzie: OK

Meredith: I let Mark use the memory of my mother to win points with the Chief. You were right.

Derek: I'm sorry.

Meredith: You know what's weird?

Derek: What's weird?

Meredith: It's exactly what she would have wanted.

Derek: Dead mommy's proud?

Meredith: Dead mommy's proud. [pause] How was your interview?

Derek: Not great. It wasn't great. [Meredith rolls over.] I was distracted.

Meredith: By what?

Derek: Nothing. I don't know.

Meredith: On a scale of 1 to 10 how bad is it?

Derek: Eight.

[Meredith kisses Derek.]

Meredith: How about now?

Derek: Seven.

[Derek kisses Meredith and Meredith rolls on top of Derek.]

Meredith: How about now?

Derek: Six.

[They kiss again. Derek rolls Meredith over.]

Derek: Five, Four, Three...

Meredith: [voiceover] The thing about plans is they don't take into account the unexpected, so when we're thrown a curve ball, whether its in the OR or in life, we have to improvise. Of course, some of us are better at it than others. Some of us just have to move on to plan B and make the best of it. And sometimes what we want is exactly what we need. But sometimes, sometimes what we need is a new plan.