Grey's Anatomy s17e05 Episode Script

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BAILEY: My mom used to tell me
never to judge people
until you know their story.
Yeah. I can do that.
Just talk to me now
I'll help with those demons you carry
You might think you understand,
but you don't.
I don't know if they go
That's why, as a patient,
it's important to have an advocate.
But we'll be happy someday, too
[CELLPHONE RINGS]
Perfect timing.
I just finished my last
tele-health patient.
Oh, I just woke up.
Aw. How'd you sleep?
Would have slept better
if you were laying next to me.
- Someone to tell your story, to be your voice
- [SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]
to say your name.
Especially when you don't
have the voice yourself.
The great divide
Her oxygen requirements
have come down this much?
Ah. Cytokine storm's leveling off, too.
I mean, look at her CRP, ferritin.
That is great.
Oh, I ordered a repeat chest X-ray
to see if the infiltrates
are decreasing, too.
You talk to her? She feel any better?
Just long enough to tell her
that we got her into
the drug trial.
But she's pretty exhausted.
Well, it's probably the side effects.
And she can sleep all day
if these numbers keep improving.
Keep me posted.
That you are not alone
Jo? Good morning.
It's time to get up.
Afloat
It's a brand-new day
The sun is out to play
God, will you shut up? I'm awake.
Oh, okay. Are you going to work?
Yes.
At the regular time or?
[SIGHS]
Everything okay?
Oh, yeah, everything's great.
I barely get to operate anymore,
and when I do, they don't even
recover enough to go home.
Oh, and how could I forget
the refrigerator truck
full of dead bodies
that I get to pass on the way
from the parking lot
to the hospital?
The only reason I'm still in bed
is that I am paralyzed with excitement.
- So you're going?
- Why do you care?
My bike has a flat tire,
and you're my ride.
[SIGHS]
WILLIAM: She said
the salad I made was too small.
So I go back and make her a bigger one.
She says I must hate her
because it's too big.
- BAILEY: Mm.
- I just can't win.
No, she appreciates you, Dad.
It's not her. It's the dementia.
Knowing that
doesn't make it hurt any less.
We're gonna get through this.
We? I only see you on the phone.
And you can't even bother
to hold the thing still.
I have a hospital to run.
And I didn't know there'd be a pandemic.
Ben's sister gets to stay with you.
To With the boys.
Who I don't see either.
Ben's staying at the station,
and half the time, I'm too tired
to make it to my hotel.
I promise Silver Villas is
more comfortable than my office.
I just hate this. I hate all of it.
It's not fair.
Well, COVID's not big on fair.
Listen, I have to go.
I love you.
Don't go outside, Dad, okay?
It's not safe.
Tell your mom that. She's
the one always trying to leave.
- [SIGHS]
- [SMOOCHES] I love you, too.
[SMOOCHES]
WOMAN: [OVER P.A.]
Dr. Wakeman to Neurology.
Dr. Wakeman to Neurology.
[SIGHS]
RICHARD: Ah. Good morning, Avery.
JACKSON: Not really.
You know how many trachs
I've had to do this week
on long-term vent patients
'cause of COVID?
No, but I have a feeling
you're gonna tell me.
11, Richard.
Gonna be 12 in about an hour,
and this number's
gonna keep on going up,
which is why I need you
to help me with this.
Oh, when did your mother
go to San Francisco?
What? No, no. That's a
That's a fake video background
for when she talks to Harriet.
That's not the point. Look.
You want her to change the background?
I want you to get your wife
to wear a damn mask, okay?
She's in a germ-collecting car
with her driver with no mask.
She wears masks.
On her chin, okay,
or dangling from her ear
like a weird piece of jewelry.
She is living with cancer.
She is immunocompromised.
I got to get to surgery.
Just get her to wear the stupid
mask correctly, please.
Well, you know what it's like
to get your mother to do something!
Yeah, that's why
I'm calling for reinforcements.
REZA: Val Ashton,
status post right hepatectomy
with segments 5 through 8
due to bleeding from hepatic pregnancy.
Her drains were pulled two days ago,
but this morning she's tachy to 120,
her BP has decreased,
and transaminases and bili
are both trending upwards.
VAL: She's kind, giving, successful,
enjoys a raunchy romance novel.
Without shame. [CHUCKLES]
I need compliments, too, guys.
JO: I'm glad that you're
in good spirits, Val,
but, um, your labs are concerning.
I'm ordering a CT.
I carried a baby in my liver.
Can't you make an exception for
moms and babies who defy odds?
I-I'm sick of video chats.
Luna's gonna think
her mom's a pixelated blob.
LEVI: Technically, that's what
you'd look like even in person.
Babies can only see
about six inches in front
JO: Schmitt! Not the point.
Val, I know that it's not
what you wanted to hear,
but Luna's on a vent, and
moving her is very precarious.
Plus, we we need to make sure
that you're taken care of
before you meet her.
For Luna's sake and for yours.
Okay?
[SIREN WAILING]
Do we know if he's okay?
Not sure. This is him.
KORACICK: You're not listening
I have to be at home.
I don't want to miss it
Oh, my God.
PARAMEDIC: Okay,
we have a COVID-positive male,
heart rate 123, BP 90 over 60.
Pulse ox of 92 on 100%, high flow.
He's incoherent and disoriented.
TARYN: I just saw him
two days ago. He was fine.
Is this a stroke?
Could be. Or encephalitis
brought on by COVID.
KORACICK: I have tickets to Opening Day,
and David's dying to catch a fly ball.
- TARYN: Who's David?
- His son.
Let's get him to a COVID room now.
Hang on. He's seizing.
Let's get him on his side.
- Ready? 1, 2, 3.
- [KORACICK GASPING]
TEDDY: No signs of head trauma,
but, Helm, call up to CT,
let them know we'll be up
as soon as possible.
OWEN: We'll do it. Helm, out.
TARYN: But I've already had COVID
Doesn't matter. You're a resident,
and he's positive. Out. Now.
Get off me. Stay back.
Tom. Tom, it's me.
It's Teddy. Try to stay calm.
I Don't Don't touch me.
Take it easy. We're just
trying to take care of you.
- Push two of Ativan.
- No, I don't I don't know you.
- I don't know you!
- He's post-ictal.
No, I don't I don't know you.
Just wait a minute,
and the meds will kick in.
[GRUNTING SOFTLY]
[SIGHS] Teddy, I got this, okay?
Please, call up to CT.
Okay.
VAL: Hey, Angel.
I'd be there with you,
but the mean doctors say no.
Can you say "mean"?
Can you hold the phone close
enough for me to smell her head?
REZA: How about I bring you
one of her blankets?
Ah! I will literally marry you.
JO: Val.
Crap. That is your bad-news face.
Your CT showed that you have an abscess
that's eroding into an artery
in your liver,
causing what's called a pseudoaneurysm.
Okay.
LEVI: It's a weakening
of the blood vessel,
which is causing it to leak.
We need to take you to surgery
right away to repair it.
I am so sorry that it's not better news.
[CELLPHONE CLATTERS]
Leave.
[MONITOR BEEPING]
VAL: Eight years.
I've wanted to be a mom for eight years.
I've known my baby's name.
I've known the color
I would paint the nursery.
I've known the made-up lullaby
I would sing at night.
And now that I finally
have the chance
being a mom is just some weird TV show
I'm watching on my phone,
and I don't know
if it will ever be real.
[CRYING]
Please make it real.
MAGGIE: Have you heard about Koracick?
BAILEY: Yes. He's getting
the world's best care,
and I'm trying not to think about it.
So, can you wait that long
for the converted rooms?
Is sooner an option?
See, even with the lockdown,
we are getting slammed.
We got six cases today from
assisted-living facilities,
- three from the same one.
- WOMAN: I'll go check.
- Oh, which one?
- Silver Villas in Ballard.
COVID spreads through
those places like wildfire.
Where are you going?!
Uh, that's where my parents are.
MAN: Next.
- A rescue mission?
- BAILEY: Yes.
Just stop what you're doing
and get to Silver Villas.
To grab your mom and dad?
I've been trying
to call the front office,
but they're not answering.
Well, where do you want me to take them?
Uh, to my hotel.
Y Uh, I don't care.
Just get them out.
Yeah, I'm on it. I love you.
[CLICK, SIREN WAILING]
- JO: Okay, lap pads
- REZA: Here you go.
LEVI: Khan was an attending in Pakistan.
We could probably be assisting him.
Not gonna happen.
No, I know. I just Making a point.
Suction.
You were a vascular surgeon, right?
REZA: Yes, Dr. Schmitt,
one of the first to be certified
in my country.
Why would you leave?
Okay, Kelly clamp.
Uh, it wasn't exactly a choice.
I love my home, it shaped me.
Still nice not to worry
about religious persecution
or bombings.
- So I just started over.
- Clamp.
Just? It's a five-year residency.
If I finished this
and had to start over
Ugh. Pass. Can you imagine?
Can you imagine paying
more attention to the field
so the patient doesn't die?
Damn it. Her tissue's so friable
it's just disintegrating into my hands.
- We got to get control of
- I know what we need to do!
Everyone shift. We're doing
a modified pringle maneuver.
Clamp.
MAGGIE: Okay, thank you.
Hey. Your phone has been ringing
like crazy.
Oh.
- Oh, wow. Okay.
- [CELLPHONE CHIMING]
Uh, okay. Let's just, uh
[LINE RINGING]
- BEN: I tried to call you.
- Ben, how did it
- I picked up your mom, and she's sick.
- Wait, slow down. I ca
- We're at the hospital.
- Now?!
BEN: Right now.
Mom!
[LABORED BREATHING]
Mom?
Hey, it's me.
I'm here.
- William?
- MAGGIE: Alright, okay.
[GASPING] Where
Where Where's William?
Mom, you're in the hospital.
We're gonna take care of you.
He's gonna be here soon, right?
- Okay.
- Yes, yes. He's coming soon.
- Okay?
- Just lay back and relax.
I can't wear this.
I got to get my clothes.
Where my clothes?
Okay. She seems really agitated.
Are there any meds
we can give her to calm her?
I can order some meds?
[GRUNTS]
I got sunshine
On a cloudy day
- When it's cold outside
- Cold outside
- I got the month of May
- I got the month of May
Yeah.
- I guess you'd say
- I guess you'd say
- What can make me feel this way?
- What can make me feel way?
- My girl
- My girl
My girl
[CHUCKLES] Talking 'bout
- My girl
- My girl
- My girl
- My girl
[MONITOR BEEPING]
What do you see, Shepherd?
Uh, I see a lesion on his thalamus,
but it's small, so that's something.
Have you been able to talk
to him since the seizure?
He was post-ictal,
and they gave him lorazepam,
so he wasn't really coherent.
Okay. I'm coming in.
Are Are you sure? I mean, do
you want me to call Dr. Mehta?
It's Tom. I'm coming.
Thank you.
Uh, Ellis decided she didn't
want her mac and cheese
after begging me to make it,
so if you're hungry
- What's going on?
- [SIGHS]
It looks like Tom is having some
neuro complications from COVID.
- I thought he was asymptomatic.
- Yeah, so did I.
I just pumped, so there is milk
in the fridge for Scout.
Uh, Bailey and Ellis need a nap.
Make sure you check in with Zola
about her homework.
If Scout starts to fuss,
just try the yoga ball.
What am I forgetting?
- To breathe.
- [SIGHS]
We'll be fine here, okay?
Go. Save your friend.
[SIGHS]
He was my teacher.
And he saved my brain.
And, uh, he was my first sex after Owen,
which shouldn't matter,
but it kind of saved me, too,
so I don't want him to die.
And I don't want to leave Scout,
and I'm scared of the pandemic.
You had sex with Koracick?
What?
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
JACKSON: Hey. Oh, um,
Mr. Anderson's trach in 4722
- needs to be suctioned, please.
- I'm on it.
Hey, got your page.
Did you hear anything from Mom?
She's just texting me back
hearts and "Love you, baby"s
like that's gonna shut me up.
- No, I haven't had the time.
- Richard, this is not something
that can wait till your schedule
frees up, right?
It's my mom. She's gonna give me
a damn rage stroke.
Bailey's mother was just
admitted, COVID-positive.
It's bad.
Look, can you fill in for her
at the board meeting today,
take a few of her patients?
We'll all pitch in.
Yeah, of course. Whatever she needs.
JO: We took a lot more of
her liver than I was hoping to.
Keep an eye on her liver panel.
The next few hours will be crucial.
LEVI: You think
she'll need a transplant?
Knowing her luck, probably.
But if she needs it,
we can try liver dialysis first.
Khan, finish the op notes.
Keep an eye on her.
Dr. Wilson, thank you,
for allowing me to observe your process.
That was amazing.
She could still need a transplant.
Yes, I understand, but
you resected most of her liver,
and she's still alive.
I mean, do you know how rare that is?
That That's unheard of
in so many parts of the world.
I know. Op notes. I'm going.
[SIGHS] Was I really amazing,
or is he just some weird happy person?
If you impressed him,
I think amazing's a safe bet.
Glad you got to operate again.
[DOOR OPENS]
[SIGHS]
BAILEY: Her ferritin is 2087.
600 is severe in COVID.
Her CRP is 87.
Creatinine's 2.3.
W-What about her oxygen requirements?
Caught swimming in your new sundress
[SIGHS] She's at 100% F-I-O2.
40 liters.
She went into A-fib an hour ago.
We pushed dig, but so far, no response.
Keep living like the sun don't set
Her systolic was in the 80s,
but we pushed a fluid bolus
and got it back up into the 90s.
So she's starting to have
multi-system organ failure
in addition to her cytokine storm.
I'm sorry, Bailey.
There is still more we can do.
We can take her to the ICU, intubate
She didn't want to be on machines.
Or be kept alive with medication.
I got to call my dad. Um
I'm here if you need me.
H-How How do I tell my dad
that the love of his life
won't make it through the night?
AMELIA: Neuro exam's intact.
No deficits.
He asked for his son.
I think the seizure and delirium
are secondary to hypoxemia
and inflammation from COVID
Possible early sepsis.
Let's just watch him
and, uh, see how he responds
to treatment.
Okay. Oh, hey,
Shepherd. Didn't realize you were back.
Welcome to hell.
Just consulting on Koracick.
Oh, right, 'cause he needs
somebody to cover his service.
On him, not uh, not for him.
Sats dropped, he's got a fever of 103,
and he seized when they brought him in.
[SIGHS] Well, I hate everything.
WOMAN: [Over P.A. I Dr. Cade to
the ICU. Emma Cade to the ICU.
I was wondering if you get used to this,
but I'm guessing that's my answer.
How's the baby?
Uh, yeah, uh, well,
he won't let me sleep,
but other than that, um, yeah,
I can't wait to get back to him.
Leo and Allison are with Owen's mom.
I'm just I miss them like crazy,
but with both parents
treating COVID patients,
it just It doesn't seem safe.
Uh-huh.
So, um, guess you heard what happened.
Yeah. And I have feelings.
But I've also done
more hurtful and complicated
things in my life
than anyone I've met
outside an NA meeting, so
Some of them to Owen.
Owen won't say a word to me
that doesn't have to do with the kids,
and everyone is ignoring me
or treating me like
I'm wearing a scarlet letter.
What about Tom?
He's hurt, too.
Well, um, I'll keep checking on him.
And, uh, thank you
for getting Mer into the trial.
Oh, yeah, uh, of course.
[SIGHS]
[MONITOR BEEPING]
Hi, Grey.
It's me.
I'm gonna say it.
I miss you.
[SIGHS]
When I was a kid, I had big thoughts.
Big feelings.
And I never knew where to put them.
Physically, they ran through
my body like a high-speed train.
And anytime I felt the train coming,
my mom could see it.
So she took me around the corner
to the park
with this strange, twisted tree.
Said it was my tree.
And I could scream at it,
hit it, hold it
And it would make
the feelings small enough
that they would fit back
inside of my own body again.
So I did.
And it worked.
But now I'm an adult,
and tree-hitting is
[CHUCKLING] frowned upon.
I can be your tree.
My mother has Alzheimer's.
I never told you
because she's older,
and I didn't want to bring up
any old pain
for you or Richard.
But it would be a lie
to say that it hasn't been hard.
Or painful.
Even as a doctor
who knows about the disease,
I feel like
I didn't know crap.
like I don't know anything.
It's difficult to talk about it
with someone who hasn't been there,
been through it.
No one understands that you are
watching your own mother die
twice.
I'm so sorry, Bailey.
[CRYING] I wish you were awake.
REZA: Val's still not awake.
LFTs are up slightly.
JO: Okay. Do another panel
in a few hours.
Absolutely, Dr. Wilson.
Okay, has your attitude
always been this good?
My mom used to say every day
above ground is a good day.
Did she get that from "Scarface"?
- She did. Still, it's true.
- [ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
- [SIGHS]
- [TELEPHONE RINGS]
[WOMAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY OVER P.A.]
NURSE TERRI:
You! You're a doctor, right?
- Yeah.
- Great, follow me.
- We're delivering a baby.
- Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm not an OB, I'm a general surgeon.
I don't care. We have an imminent
delivery, and all our OBs are busy.
Hospital rules say we need a doctor.
I haven't delivered a baby
You heard the "I don't care"
part, right?
We'll talk you through it.
- The Elmores.
- Okay.
G3P2 came in fully effaced
and dilated at zero station.
Started crowning by the time
we got her settled on the bed.
Ms. Elmore? Hi. I know
that I'm not who you expected,
- but I am here
- The head is coming now.
Hi. Hi.
Okay. Okay.
[KATHY PANTING]
Alright. Contraction and big push, okay?
- Big push.
- [GRUNTING]
Told my troubled heart
- Okay. Contraction and push.
- [SCREAMING]
The head is out. There
No cord around the neck.
See? Just like riding a bike.
Alright, uh
Pull head down, then up,
to deliver the shoulders.
- Okay, it's coming.
- [SCREAMING]
Coming.
Oh, my God. [LAUGHING] Oh, my God.
Ms. Elmore asked that the baby
go directly onto her chest
- while still connected.
- [BABY CRYING]
Okay, clamp.
Okay. Oh, my gosh. Okay.
A new light shining down on me
Okay.
A new way, a new road
You ready to cut the cord?
Hi. Okay, right here.
Okay, yeah. In between here.
In between, yeah.
Good. Hi, little one!
Take my hand
- [LAUGHS]
- [BABY CRYING]
The worst is over
Weight is liftin'
Off our shoulders
- I can see
- Oh, I can see
- I can see
- I can see
- A new light
- New light
- Shining down on me
- Down on me
A new way, a new road
Just need you to sign
the paperwork, and you can go.
Is it alright if I stay?
Oh, oh, to a new kind of beautiful
Okay. Mommy?
Hey, it's me.
Look, Dad's here, too.
Hi, honey. I'm here.
Wait till you see Miranda's hotel.
I mean, there's room service,
and the view is so much better
than Silver Villas.
You can actually s-see the water.
[WEAKLY] William?
Is that you, William?
Right here by your side, as always.
I love you. I love you so much.
Sweetheart? [CRYING]
Uh, she drifts in and out, Dad.
In her state,
even breathing's exhausting.
I can't do this.
I know.
It's difficult.
I should be there.
It's too risky, Dad.
She should be in her own bed,
not in some sterile box.
She spent 60 years
taking care of me, and now
She hardly ever got a cold before this.
Just call me when she wakes up.
[LABORED BREATHING]
Of course, Dad.
Okay.
[GASPING INDISTINCTLY]
It's a new kind of beautiful
Mommy.
If you're ready to go,
it's okay.
We're gonna be okay.
A new kind of beautiful, oh, oh
[VOICE BREAKING] We love you.
But we don't want you to suffer.
Oh, oh
I'm not r-ready.
If you're tired, I understand.
A new light
I love you.
Shining down on me
Ready to die?
A new way
No.
A new road
I-I want to go home.
Oh, oh
To a new kind of beautiful
BEN: Hey, you've reached Ben
Warren. Please leave a message.
- [BEEP]
- Yeah, I Ben? Um, it's my mom.
I think she was just lucid with me,
and she said some things
that I don't understand,
and now I-I don't know what do,
and I need someone
to tell me what to do.
Just, uh, call me as soon as you can.
Uh, I love you.
[SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE]
MAGGIE: Hey.
I saw you leave. I wanted to check.
She said she's not ready to go.
For a split second,
my heart was filled up with so much joy.
But now I'm just mad.
Mad because no one told me she was sick,
mad because she probably
has no idea what's happening.
You know, if I'm being totally honest,
I don't want her to suffer
from this Alzheimer's anymore.
You know, it's a horrific disease,
and I want her to be free.
But I don't want COVID to be the reason.
I d I don't want her to be just
another Black woman statistic
in this pandemic count.
Yeah, I hear that.
100%.
None of this is easy.
All of it is confusing and
[SIGHS] hard and awful.
But even with Alzheimer's,
she's been healthy.
And now I'm watching her struggle
to do the most basic
of human reflexes breathing.
And if she's saying
she's not ready to go
I don't know what to think.
I felt so sure
that she wouldn't want to live
like she's been living,
but maybe I'm wrong, yeah?
Maybe she's happy in the world
her mind takes her to.
Now I'm questioning every choice I made.
I mean, s-should I be doing more?
Should I move her to the ICU?
Intubate her?
Am I just thinking about how I feel
instead of what's going on
with her inside of her mind?
- Do you want my opinion?
- Please.
I've been the one who does everything,
who fights tooth and nail
against death at all costs.
But truthfully, with my mom,
it didn't give me
more peace of mind in the end.
It might have done the opposite.
I didn't think so at the time,
but it was the easier choice.
To fall back on acting like a surgeon
and searching for all the answers.
Bailey, you've given your mom so much.
She's gotten to raise you
and watch you turn into
this incredible surgeon
and chief of a hospital.
She watched you fall in love.
- Twice.
- Twice!
[LAUGHS] And raise a family.
Of course you're never going
to feel ready to say goodbye,
but
she's had an amazing life.
BAILEY: I brought my parents
to Seattle kicking and fighting.
I promised them, if they moved here,
it was the right thing to do
so they could be closer
to their only daughter.
I told them I knew best.
Just listen to me.
And if they hadn't done that,
they would still be at home.
Isolated.
And Mom wouldn't be dying. Not yet.
You don't know that.
She was exposed at the place
that I set up for them.
The The facility let someone
move in from New York,
a retired surgeon.
He became symptomatic
the day after his arrival.
After they said they had
shut down to all outsiders,
including family.
How in the hell could you have
known that was going to happen?
How could you have known
any of this was going to happen?
Bailey, you cannot
feel guilty about this.
[CHUCKLES]
My mom, she left me five voicemails
for my birthday last year.
She kept calling
because she forgot that she had already
wished me happy birthday.
- There they are.
- ELENA: Happy birthday to you
I never deleted them
because I guess I realized
that it might be the last time
she remembered at all.
[PHONE CLICKS, SINGING STOPS]
She raised me to be a good little girl.
And even when I defied her
[CHUCKLES] I was never disrespectful.
And I tried to be good at everything.
A good student, a good mother.
Wife, doctor, chief.
And now she just needs me
to be a good daughter,
and I'm not sure how to do that,
even though it's what I've been
the longest.
You've chosen palliative care.
You're giving her the best care possible
while keeping her
as comfortable as possible.
That is good.
And it is kind and respectful
and brave.
I'm gonna lay down
I wish I could've given my mom
a more dignified death.
Lay down some roots,
this rolling stone
But I pushed so hard.
He's gonna lay down
You know, it's her own
damn fault, really.
For you
My whole life, she told me
to push through.
[CHUCKLES]
Be strong. Fight the good fight.
My mom was kind of the opposite.
Like, overprotective, like, hovering.
There was a reception
sponsored by
the Daughters of the Revolution.
They had given me a scholarship.
[SNORTS]
So my mom said
I should take the scholarship
but not go to the reception.
But I didn't want to give them
that satisfaction.
No, I wanted them to see
what "Miranda Bailey"
looked like, right?
So I went with my dad.
[BOTH LAUGH]
We had a good laugh
at those very proper ladies.
I think you mean "white" ladies.
- Uh [LAUGHS]
- Yeah.
Watching them try to hide their horror
when they saw who they had
given their scholarship to,
- yeah, that was classic.
- [CHUCKLES]
Oh, and guidance counselors, oh, my God.
Oh, yeah, yeah, always trying to suggest
a school where we might
feel "more comfortable."
"Oh, Wellesley.
That's a fine school, Miranda.
But, um, I think state school
is more your speed."
- Mm-hmm.
- Like I don't know my speed.
- Please.
- Try harder and do better
just to be considered average.
Or to be considered at all.
But how they underestimate
our greatness.
- Graduated magna cum laude
- Mm-hmm.
with my biology degree, by the way.
And you better bet my mom cut
out the graduation announcement
from Wellesley and mailed it
to my guidance counselor.
[BOTH LAUGH]
[SIGHS DEEPLY]
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
I don't know how I'm gonna do this.
[SIGHS]
I can come back.
No. No, no, no. Uh, no,
I just finished up his EEG.
I wanted to, um, make sure
that the seizure was a one-and-done,
before I head home,
take 10 scalding hot showers,
and hug up on everybody.
Um, Maggie says
that his numbers are holding.
Good. Thanks.
[DOOR CLOSES]
[MONITOR BEEPING]
I don't know if you were ignoring me
when I came by the house
or or if you were
just too sick to answer,
but I-I'm I'm gonna go with too sick
'cause then then maybe
there's a-a ray of hope for us,
which I could really use right now,
and I know you could.
You know, I'm I'm gonna stop asking.
I'm just gonna decide.
I-I'm deciding that
we mean enough to each other
that, even though I hurt you and I-I
I hurt you
more than I could ever imagine,
that a repair could be made, that
maybe you could remember
some of the things
that you don't hate about me
and we we could salvage
our friendship because
I don't know how we're going
to get through this pandemic,
but I do know I do know
that we're not going
to get through it alone.
So if you want
to have nothing to do with me,
then you are just going
to have to get all better
and tell me yourself,
because until I hear you say the words,
you're not gonna get rid of me.
Oh, my God. Tom. Tom?
Tom, can you hear me?
It's me. It's It's Teddy.
KORACICK: You were wrong.
Wrong about what?
The setting free
When you came to my house.
I was ignoring you.
The bittersweet but sweet release
Did you hear everything II just said?
A heavy sky
[CHUCKLES] I hate you.
Hangs on the sea
Well, we both know that's not true.
[LAUGHS, WHEEZES]
Then all at once an opening
[SIGHS] Hey.
What would you say to a sponge bath?
[LAUGHS]
Well, but, you know, as friends.
Friendly sponge bath. [CHUCKLES]
I am lifted, I am lifted
I am lifted, I am free
I've been holding on,
I've been holding on
I've been holding on, now I'm lifted
We can learn to love
- Without looking back
- Hey.
I rounded on all of Bailey's patients.
DeLuca said he'll keep an eye on
them for the rest of the night.
Yeah, thank you.
Yeah, I hesitate to ask,
but how's her mom doing?
They don't expect her to last the night.
Everything is beautiful
That's [SIGHS]
I am lifted, I am lifted
You realize half of our COVID
patients are Black and brown?
I know.
In a city that's 7% Black?
Like, how does that even compute?
It doesn't.
If I hear one more person blame
it on pre-existing conditions
as if the conditions aren't
manmade to begin with
Like we're not pushed into the
front line of all of our jobs
and forced to live
in overcrowded situations,
surrounded by environmental hazards.
Yeah, people want
to make everything bad
that happens your own fault.
Yeah, when systemic racism is the root
of the whole damn thing.
Forget the pre-,
it's the existing condition.
Existing while Black.
I am lifted, I am free
I've been holding on
You know, Richard, we both know
my mom is stubborn.
I've been holding on too long
And everything she's been
through, I feel like
she thinks she's invincible now,
and she's not.
I've been holding on too long
We can't lose her, Richard.
The world can't lose her, you know?
It's been handled.
Oh, you talked to her?
Oh, good.
What'd you say?
I think it's best kept between us.
Why are you being weird about it?
'Cause it's about sex, isn't it?
- It is.
- Thanks. Right. Good night.
- [CLEARS THROAT]
- I am free
Oh, my God. That smells so good.
We're sharing, right?
Pod together, eat together?
Please say yes.
I delivered a baby today.
- Is that a yes?
- Yes!
- Oh.
- Yes, yes.
Wait, weren't we together all day?
What do you mean
you delivered a secret baby?
Happened very quick.
I went to check on Luna,
and this nurse said that there
was an imminent delivery,
and the next second,
I was catching a baby.
I was literally the first person
in the universe to hold him.
And then I handed him to his parents,
and their faces were just
No wonder Val's so depressed.
It's the happiest thing I've ever seen.
It was just so pure and simple
and perfect.
I was buzzing.
But it was a total random fluke,
and tomorrow, I'll be back
to the same depressing crap.
I mean, you did save Val's life today.
You think that's why Carina DeLuca
is always in such a good mood?
[CHUCKLES]
She's just, you know,
handing out babies,
and it shoots her serotonin
level through the roof.
Well, yeah, but doesn't she also
have, like, an orgasm hobby?
What if I changed?
Changed what?
Careers. Programs.
- [CHUCKLES]
- Is that insane?
- [SIGHS]
- Khan did it, and what he did
is so much harder
than switching specialties.
He started over with nothing.
And I know I know
I've put years into surgery,
but if it's not bringing me any joy,
then wouldn't it be insane
to not change?
I think you eat and then sleep
before you make any major li
Oh, my God. I sound like my mother.
- [SIGHS]
- I want to be happy.
Everyone's dying.
Meredith's
Tomorrow is not promised.
Not in marriage.
Not in life.
I want to be happy.
She's decompensating.
You should go in.
She barely knows who I am.
And I want to be there for her.
I-I want her husband
to be there for her.
She deserves to be surrounded
by love and family.
But Dad's in quarantine.
He's high-risk, and I don't
want him to expose anyone.
I don't want him to be exposed.
I know this is not what
you imagined for your mother.
And I'm sorry about that.
But she needs you now.
It's time.
And if you don't go in,
I promise
you will never forgive yourself.
[CRYING] I'm scared.
I've got sunshine
I know.
- We'll do it together.
- On a cloudy day
BAILEY: Patients lose their power
when they are referred to
as "Bed number 4"
or "arm pain guy." [SIGHS]
I've got the month of May
Even in their deaths,
they are not faceless.
They are not nameless.
I guess you'd say
They are more than statistics.
What can make me feel this way?
[DOOR CLOSES]
More than "co-morbid conditions"
or "nursing-home patients."
My girl
They are sons, brothers, and uncles
who speak five languages
and run restaurants Wade Klein, 66.
My girl
They are great-grandfathers
who love Broadway
Jacob Lappin, 92.
I don't need no money
Fortune or fame
I got all the riches, baby
They are baseball loving nurses
with an easy laugh
Dane Wilson, 45.
I guess you'd say
What can make me feel
- This way?
- This way?
- My girl
- My girl
- Talking 'bout my girl
- Talking 'bout my girl
My girl
It's okay.
- Okay.
- My girl
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They are the world's greatest mothers,
and they are the most beloved wives
Elena Rose Bailey, 84.
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