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Meredith [voiceover]: A surgeon's education never ends. Every patient, every symptom, every operation...is a test. A chance for us to demonstrate how much we know. And how much more we have to learn.

Cristina: How do you treat pancreatic divisim?

Izzie: Ugh, Cristina, if you're not gonna let me sleep you have to at least let me put coffee in my cup.

Cristina: OK, so go. No one's stopping you.

Izzie: I'm too tired to go.

Meredith: Hi.

Derek: Hi....Look, I know, I know this is an impossible day for you, so I just wanna say one thing: I brought a black suit. Just in case.

Meredith: Thank you. But I think this is something I need to do by myself.

Derek: OK. If you need me, just...just let me know.

Burke: Look, I know this is test day and I'm not supposed to be talking about the wedding on test day, but since tomorrow's our wedding day...

Cristina: You have five seconds. Go.

Burke: Bill Adams can't make it. I have no best man.

Cristina: Oh, no, baby, I'm sorry.

Burke: And I need your vows -

Cristina: OK! Time's up!

Burke: Cristina!

Cristina: Test day!

Burke: What am I supposed to tell the minister?

Cristina: Test day!

Rebecca: She's got my dad's nose though. Girl's gotta have a big personality to pull off that nose. [pause] What?

Alex: You remember your dad.

Rebecca: No. No, I don't.

Alex: You just said...

Rebecca: I know, but I...I have no idea where that came from.

Alex: That was a memory. That's what it's like sometimes. It doesn't always come back all at once, it can happen in bits and pieces.

Rebecca: Don't get all...

Alex: Dude, your memory's coming back!

Richard: So, how you feeling, Preston? You ready?

Burke: Well, I'm always ready for surgery.

Derek: I think he's talking about the wedding.

Richard: Yah, tomorrow's a big day.

Burke: And apart from the fact that Cristina hasn't written her vows, my best man just cancelled, and it's still raining.

Derek: He's not ready.

Richard: You're never ready. I certainly wasn't. And then, the minute I saw Adele coming down that aisle...Well. Have you picked your best man?

Burke: Actually, Chief...

Derek: You can't be his best man!

Richard: Why not?

Derek: It's unethical; it's a conflict of interest. The man wants to be Chief of Surgery.

Burke: Actually, Derek...

Derek: Not that that's why you're asking...

Burke: I was going to ask you.

Derek: Ask me what? [pauses...wheels turn in his head] Oh! Really?

Burke: We have been through a lot this year.

Derek: And everybody else turned you down. Alright, what do I have to do?

Richard: Well, traditionally, the best man plans the bachelor party.

Derek: Drinks at Joe's after work.

Burke: I knew you were the man for the job.

   Meredith: I was just on my way...
   Thatcher: [interrupting] No, I came here to tell... You are not invited. I don't want you to come, Meredith.
   Chief: But she wants to come...
   Thatcher: She trusted you. She came to you for help and you killed her. You did. You killed my wife, you took her family!
   Molly: Dad!
   Thatcher: So, I don't wanna, wanna see you.. I don't wanna hear from you and I do not want youm and any one of you! You understand me? Do you understand me?
   Molly: Dad, Dad! Come on. This... we have to go.
   Thatcher: She was everything to me, all I had. She was all I had! She was all I had!

   Chief: You're not to blame for Susan Grey's dead and you know that, and your father knows it too. He's just... well, he's never been the best communicator. And he just lost his wife.
   Meredith: Stop acting like my surrogate father.
   Chief: Meredith I'm, uhm...
   Meredith: Just because you slept with my mother... That does not make you my father!

George: It's like we're going on a train that's going 200 miles an hour... It'd be so nice to get off... to stand on the platform for just a minute.
Meredith: Looks like I'm off the train.

   Izzie: Here she is..
   Chief: Thank you Stevens. You can go out.
   Izzie: [to Meredith] I will be waiting right outside.
   Meredith: You don't have to.
   Izzie: Shut up.

   Meredith: If you called me here to lecture me...
   Chief: There's a copy of the interns' exam on the table. And a number two pencil and a bottle of water and a sandwich if you get hungry. I assigned a proctor and I will come back in a few hours to check on you.
   [The Chief starts to leave]
   Meredith: You're not my father.
   [He stops immediately and looks at her]
   Chief: I know that.
   [They exchange a look, then he pulls her into a hug. Relieved, she sinks in his arms and starts to cry]
   Chief: I know.