Grey's Anatomy s16e19 Episode Script

1 Most people believe that who they are today is pretty much who they will still be in the future.
Hi! How was your flight? Ah, it was fine.
Thanks, Meredith.
I mean, Maggie.
Maggie.
Sorry.
Someone didn't sleep on the plane.
Oh, I couldn't.
I've rewritten my talk at least 20 times.
Meredith is so sorry she can't be here.
Babysitter got the flu.
Oh.
Well, I'm glad you're here.
Our minds trick us into thinking our entire history, every choice, every change and chance, has led to this specific moment what we call "Now.
" You seem good.
Chipper.
Ah, I put my blood, sweat, and tears into this PATH pen.
I can't wait to share it with the world.
Mm.
You're You're jumping too far on the last one.
I don't need your help.
Come on! No, wait your turn! Yeah, cut it out, lads.
Come on.
Don't make me regret bringing you.
Let's go.
Just missed it.
Come on, guys.
So close.
Liam, look after your brother, please, will you? Seriously, Dad? Come on.
Dr.
Hayes.
I really hope I wasn't supposed to bring my kids.
No, their, uh, their aunt lives down here.
- So - Oh.
it's a chance for them to see family.
Well, I am heading to something called Heart Valve Happy Hour.
Want to join? Is it as dire as it sounds? Worse, somehow.
But free booze.
Maybe I'll see you there.
Great.
"It is a curiosity that has driven humankind since the discovery of fire" No.
No.
Oh.
"since the harnessing of fire" No.
Yeah.
Okay.
"since the taming of fire.
" Yes! Oh, no turn down service needed.
Thank you! Richard.
It's me.
Aren't you going to invite me in? I'm not sure I believe you're really here.
You here to buy the convention center? Stop me from presenting? I'm here to stop the foolishness! Richard, you said you wanted an apology.
Well, I am sorry.
I am so sorry.
Truly, for everything.
I regret my behavior.
Thank you.
You don't have anything to say back to me? There's nothing between Gemma and me.
Mm-hmm.
I know what I saw.
Well, something almost happened.
W-We went to breakfast, and she kissed me.
Oh, Richard! But I stopped her.
But you didn't tell me.
I I didn't, and I'm sorry.
Oh, Richard, we can fix this.
You know we can.
There are things in this world you can't control, Catherine.
And I'm one of them.
I don't want to control you.
You bought my hospital, for God's sakes! Because of your temper! Worst investment I ever made.
It's just hemorrhaging money.
The foundation board thinks it's a sign of my dementia.
I look like a fool.
No, stop.
I'm serious.
Oh, me too.
This is funny.
This is not funny! You had a fight with your husband and purchased an entire hospital to get back at him.
Pac-North has my name on it! My name! I mean, the worst place I ever worked in my life! Oh, dear Lord.
Do you think there's a couple who ever had such an expensive fight? No.
Well, maybe Anthony and Cleopatra.
Ah.
Come here and kiss me, Cleopatra.
Ohh.
- Mm.
- Mm! - Mm! - Mm! Mm! Mm! Hey.
How are you? Hi! Welcome to Heart Valve Happy Hour! Oh.
Wow.
Yes.
Thank you.
Uh, best party of the year.
Hey! Teddy! Oh, my God! You always see people you know at these things, but they're never people you like.
- Aww.
- Here.
I ordered one for you.
Ooh.
Thank you.
Wow.
They really splurged for the reusable straws.
- I'm so glad you made it.
- Mm.
Evelyn rescued me.
She's with Allison while Owen's at work.
You know, and for the first time that I can remember, no one in a 50-mile radius depends on my breasts for survival.
Mm.
Cheers.
Yes.
Thank you! I know these things are kinda lame, but I kind of enjoy them.
'Cause it's like summer camp.
For people who like to cut into other people.
I never went to summer camp, but this is what I imagine that the Olympic Village is like.
Yeah.
Assembling the greatest talents in the world, putting them in one building.
Professional by day, but screwing each other by night? Y-Yeah, I meant the "gathering of the best of the best" part.
Is that what the Olympic Village is like? Totally.
Oh, my God.
What? Wow.
I mean, he's Do you know him? Yeah.
Uh, no, no.
I mean, not really.
We Uh Sort of.
He was one of my residents at Tufts.
I-I doubt he even remembers me.
God, he is so hot! Am I blushing? Maggie Pierce.
Olympic Village.
Find out if he's single and get yours.
No, I don't do that.
You don't have sex? I don't have sex with strangers.
You just said you know him.
Also he's behind you.
What? No.
No.
- Mm-hmm.
- Maggie Pierce.
Hi you.
You don't remember me, do you? She remembers you.
Eh, no.
Yeah.
Dr.
Winston Ndugu.
We worked together at Tufts.
- We did.
- Yeah.
You know, I just remembered my key isn't working, so I-I'm gonna go get a new one.
Three years I've been coming here, and this is the first time I've seen you.
What are you stalking me? Not stalking you.
But seeking? Yes.
I'm gonna be a little forward now.
Is that okay? Mm-hmm.
I have had a crush on you since my first day of residency.
But you were my chief, even though I'm older than you, which just made me crush harder.
So, I bided my time.
But then you went and moved away to Seattle, right before I became an attending, and I never got my shot to ask you out.
But I see that somehow you aren't wearing a wedding ring.
So, hopefully, I still have a shot.
Which is just my long way of saying I'd like to buy you a drink.
Okay, we only have 36 more hours to get to know each other, so I'mma do a lightning round, all right? Don't think.
Just answer.
You ready? Ready.
Favorite snack food? Pretzels.
Wow.
Failed your first question.
How can I fail at naming my favorite thing? Because pretzels are only the favorite snack food of prisoners who haven't had snacks in years and don't remember what snacks are supposed to taste like.
Okay.
Well, I don't fail tests, so give me another one.
Favorite movie.
"Amélie.
" Why? Because it's about hope and resilience.
Perfect day off.
Okay, sunrise run.
Spend the morning at a museum, the afternoon in a park, evening cocktails by a body of water.
A nice dinner, and then ice cream while walking through the city.
Bed early, with a book.
So, your perfect night is a romantic comedy.
Okay.
No, I didn't say who I was doing all of that with.
Well, who are you doing all that with? Me.
So, you like being alone? I do.
To a point.
Favorite movie.
"Ghostbusters.
" Perfect day off.
Wake up well after sunrise.
Roll over to the beautiful heart surgeon in bed beside me.
Do that thing to her that makes her lower back arch.
Okay.
No more lightning round.
Who is your favorite person in the whole world? My mom.
She was my protector.
She was this fierce mama lion.
She didn't let anyone mess with me.
Including my dad.
She died about two years ago.
Ovarian cancer.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
It happened really fast.
My mom died two years ago.
Breast cancer.
No, actually, it was three years ago.
God.
I can't believe it's been that long.
There's nothing worse than watching the woman who protected you from the world get sicker and sicker and you not be able to fix her.
Okay, so do you do this? Do you have med conference flings? I can't say that I've never hooked up at one of these.
But I've never done this.
What's this? Falling this hard in one night.
Me neither.
These conferences are all the same.
Yep.
Just a sea of desperation.
Sales reps trying to unload their equipment before it becomes obsolete.
Or banned.
Wow.
Really sounds like your scene.
If you hate it so much, why'd you come? Well, I'm the new guy.
And Bailey asked me to come represent peds.
Didn't seem like an invitation I should turn down.
The boys get to see their aunt, so Which is your sister or - Sister-in-law.
- Mm.
Evening, doctors.
Dane Pinetti.
I'm with Wilkes and Boon.
Teddy Altman.
Grey-Sloan.
In Seattle.
You look like a man in need of something.
Do I? And what might that be? Hmm.
Not quite sure what to make of this.
Well, you, uh you click the little part at the back, and you write with the front.
- Mm.
- It's called a pen.
Courtesy of Thrivea, who make erectile dysfunction medication.
They do? You don't even know what your own company makes? My friend said a company at a convention was paying 500 bucks, and all I had to do was hand out pens and smile.
That might not sound like much to a doctor, but to a starving artist, that's rent.
Oh.
No wonder no guys want these pens.
What kind of artist? Apart from starving? Mixed media.
A lot of multiple exposures and instant film transfers.
Mm.
That doesn't make any sense to you, does it? No, the individual words do just not when you put them together.
So, what are you drinking? I'd like to.
But these are not gonna hand themselves out.
Well I go through a lot of pens.
So, how about that drink? Watching the debates They said just a couple more minutes.
Okay.
This is happening.
Are you sure they don't need a few more, like, years? Babe, this is A hysterectomy on a 33-year-old.
They're removing an important part of me.
And if you say "Not a big deal," I am going to kill you in front of our sons and it will be your fault.
I was gonna say "routine," but The surgeon we found she's done more of these than I can even count.
She's minimally invasive, fast recovery time, low post-op complications.
You're in amazing hands.
She's great, really.
Or I'll bleed out or she'll cut into my bladder or I'll get a horrible infection and die.
Well, in that case, me and the boys will move on.
Don't get me wrong it'll be a tough couple of days.
Then single women will start showing up with casseroles.
I mean, I won't even have to try.
They'll feel so bad for me.
- Ohh.
- I mean surgeon.
Sexy widower.
Single dad.
I mean, I'll be I'll be batting them away, honestly.
Uh-huh.
Right.
I hate you.
I love you.
Mrs.
Douglas at school had skin cancer, and she's fine now.
That's a different cancer.
Oh.
But that's really nice to hear, honey.
Hey, could you boys go find Mommy a ginger ale? - It'll make me feel better.
- Okay.
Mrs.
Douglas is the one who accused him of writing swear words on his desk.
She's a monster.
I need you to listen to me.
The nurse should be here by now.
If this doesn't work It has to work.
It's the second clinical trial we've tried.
We're at the end of this.
I'm not gonna be okay.
I've seen people bounce back from far worse than this.
It is likely that you're gonna be doing this alone soon, so I need you to listen.
No.
I'm not.
Make sure the boys know it's okay to cry.
To feel it.
To feel everything.
I don't want them locking this up and letting it eat away at them.
Don't be strong.
Be a mess.
Let them know that it's okay to fall apart.
Please don't do this.
And promise me that you're gonna let the boys see my sister.
I know she's crazy, but she's not a bad person.
And she loves them.
And whenever you have trouble with them, just call your mother.
You are proof that she knows what she's doing.
And it's okay if Austin quits piano.
Yeah.
I told him that he'll get better if he keeps practicing, but I think it's hopeless.
And And And keep an eye on Liam's temper.
'Cause I think he gets it from me.
And we've both seen the mess that can cause.
And it's okay for you to fall in love again.
You have my permission.
I don't want that.
Which is why you need to hear me say that it is okay.
You don't need to beat yourself up or feel guilty.
You deserve to be happy.
Bright side, you won't have to work for it.
Sexy widower, surgeon, single dad.
You'll be batting them away.
Okay, lads.
That's everything.
Can we stay? A little longer? That's creepy.
Oh, no, Austin.
Here.
It's okay.
We can stay as long as you want.
I want Mama.
Me too.
Come here.
Mm.
Did you order these? Guilty.
Do you always sell this hard to everyone here? Well, not everyone here works for Catherine Fox's flagship hospital.
Maybe you should take up your business with her.
You know how hard it is to get face time with that woman? Mm.
Listen, this is a really exciting opportunity.
Wilkes and Boon is looking to expand R&D beyond our laboratories.
We want to partner with the right hospital and develop side by side with you.
That actually could be something I know all about your devices.
I know about the c-30 power morcellator.
Do you know about that one, Dane? Of course.
It's our most popular model on the market.
I bet you'll say it's magic.
What is it? It allows for minimally invasive hysterectomies.
Its little spinning claws chop up fibroids, make them disappear.
But there's a problem.
This fibroid isn't a fibroid.
It's cancer.
But there's no way of knowing that before you cut.
And along comes your morcellator, and What the hell, man? What started out as nicely contained, easily removable has now spread countless cancer cells all throughout the patient's body.
Cancer that metastasizes and grows and can't be stopped.
Less than 1% of benign fibroids turn into uterine sarcomas.
My wife was one of those 1%.
Her name was Abigail.
Your device took her.
It took the mother of my sons.
And you still sell the thing, even though you know it can kill, and you pay to suppress the proof.
So, no.
I don't want your drink.
And you're lucky I haven't already put that pen through your throat.
O-Okay.
Apologies, Dr.
Altman.
Teddy? been a second explosion, uh, here in Manhattan at at the Trade Center.
We are getting reports that a part of the tower t-the second tower, the one a bit further to the south of us has collapsed.
We We are checking on that.
But obviously, people were, uh, already at work here at the Trade Center when this happened.
We We don't know how many people have been hurt Claire? Uh - Hey! - Hi.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Uh, may I? - Oh, yeah.
Please.
Um, of course.
Hi.
Uh, whiskey, please, and another glass of wine for this one.
How are you? I'm I'm good.
It's so good to see you.
Yeah, you too.
I can't believe we haven't run into each other at one of these things before.
Oh, yeah, I've been practicing in Germany for the past couple years.
That's exciting.
I'm in North Carolina now.
Which is fine.
Clara and I that's my wife.
We are Claire and Clara.
I know.
We have a small practice in, uh, her hometown.
Wow.
I never thought you'd leave New York.
Neither did I.
But, you know, after 9/11, I there was just too much grief there.
In the marrow of that place.
Mm.
I never saw you again after she died.
Where did you go? Afghanistan.
You enlisted? I know.
It's crazy when I think about it now.
You were practically a socialist when I met you.
I can't argue that or totally explain it.
I mean, the closest I've come to making any sense of it is that I-I I wanted to support the soldiers who were trying to get the people that killed Allison, and I-I know that it's not a straight line, but at the time, it was Mm.
There wasn't much that made sense.
It's hard to explain to people who weren't there.
I miss her.
You miss her? Every day of every week of every year of my life.
I don't know why this stuff always happens to me.
Never to you guys.
Only to me.
I swear to God Here's another.
Thank you.
This guy was clipping his toenails Oh.
on the subway at rush hour.
Only in New York.
All right, I gotta go to bed.
Early morning layout meeting tomorrow.
Boo.
It's only 10:00.
I'm not superhuman like you two.
I can't survive on three hours' sleep and then do surgery for 12 hours.
Exactly.
Mm.
Please don't stay up too late.
I need this booty rubbing up against me in bed.
- I will be soon.
- Okay.
No! No! I got nothing.
Must be vascular.
Oh, yeah.
That's me.
Okay.
- I'll see you later.
- Mm.
Please be careful.
Uptown is scary this time of night.
All right.
Look after my girl, Altman.
I'll try.
- Night, babe.
- Bye.
You okay? Yeah.
Just, uh Just tired.
You have to work tomorrow? Yeah.
All day.
Bummer.
I was gonna see if you wanted to come to work with me tomorrow and have fancy breakfast at Windows on the World.
You just said you have a layout meeting all morning.
So I could have breakfast with you.
I had a baby.
- Congratulations! - Thanks.
Uh, pictures, please.
Oh.
Yeah, here.
Oh, my goodness! She's perfect! Look at those cheeks! Ohh! What's her name? Allison.
That seems odd.
What? To name your daughter after My best friend? It's been almost 20 years, Teddy.
You can admit it.
Admit? When Allison first told me that she met this amazing girl and wanted her to move in I remember thinking, "She's not a lesbian.
Perfect.
" In fact, she made me promise that I wouldn't like you better than her since we're both doctors.
The last thing I expected was for the two of you to get together.
Tell me again.
You were wearing your flowered dress with your combat boots, and you were riding a bike.
The one with the basket in the front and it was filled with fake birds.
Oh, my God.
I'm so embarrassed by me.
Shh.
I'm telling it.
- Okay.
- Okay.
And then you almost hit me because I was crossing the street and I was looking at a map, and then I looked up, and I said "Get those birds out of my way, Pollyanna!" I was stressed.
I was a first year attending.
You were mean.
And beautiful.
And I felt desperately in love with you on sight.
You did not.
Okay, I kinda hated you at first.
You were in the bike lane.
I know.
I'm sorry.
But I bought you a bagel anyway.
I'm so lucky you did.
Allison.
Mm.
I can't I can't keep doing this.
Kissing me? No, I just I can't keep sneaking around and lying to Claire.
She's our best friend.
Oh.
I know.
Oh.
I know.
I'm an awful person.
No.
You are the best person.
I'm telling her.
I'm telling her tomorrow.
Then what? W-We all come home to the apartment that we share and help her pack up and move out? Or we could move out.
And then she's stuck with three shares of the rent? You're right.
I know.
But I can't keep lying to her, either.
I love her.
And I love you more.
Don't say that.
Okay, say it again.
I love you more.
I love you more.
- Mm.
- I love you more.
How long did you know? I suspected for months.
Mm.
Did you ever stop and think about what it would do to me, or did you just not care? No, it tore me up, Claire.
I But not enough to stop.
I requested her phone records after she died.
I kept trying to imagine her in those last minutes.
"What did she do? What did she see? Was she in pain?" So I got her phone records, from that that clunky little Nokia she had.
And I found out that you were the last person she tried to call.
At 8:57 a.
m.
On September 11, 2001.
Allison Robin Brown tried to call you, Teddy Altman, as the Twin Towers fell around her, as she as she fell out of the sky.
Not me.
Not her parents.
You.
That's how I found out.
She was the love of my life.
And you were the love of hers.
Take care, Teddy.
There was this one time you let me scrub in on a piggyback transplant.
Oh, my God.
I was so nervous.
I was afraid I was gonna drop the donor heart on the OR floor.
This is so crazy.
'Cause that is how I felt every single time I saw you.
Except in the OR, because in there, I'm a superhero.
But in regular life, I am a neurotic mess.
I do not see that.
I guess I'm not.
With you.
I mean, at least not for the last few hours.
Mm.
For the last 12 hours? Is it morning?! Oh, my God! Oh, look.
The sunrise.
It's time for your run.
Which talks are you going to? Um "Bioethics in Crisis Zones" and "Innovations in Pathology: Presenting" The PATH pen! That's Richard's talk.
And Richard is? My biological dad.
Remember? I told you.
Oh, right.
Yeah.
Richard.
So, is it gonna be weird if I meet this man on what amounts to our first date? Yeah.
Incredibly weird.
Yeah.
But everything about this night has been weird.
Weird and Mm.
perfect.
Mm.
Conference.
Advancement.
Mm-hmm.
Expanding our minds.
- Right.
- Mm-hmm.
Surgical.
Innovation.
Technology.
Mmmmmmm.
Hi there.
Mm.
Good morning, Cleopatra.
Oh.
There's coffee.
Mm.
You know, maybe it's okay that we fight like cats and dogs.
Maybe if we stopped fighting, that's when we need to start to worry.
Now healthy cells never stop dividing.
It's not until they're harmed in in some way that growth stops.
But cancer cells they keep growing even if the conditions aren't ideal.
Baby, please tell me you're not comparing us to cancer.
Okay, the problem isn't that cancer cells keep growing.
It's that the good cells stop.
Catherine, you are a genius.
Ohh! You have to make that presentation in a couple of hours.
You better hurry up.
Okay, I'm going as fast as I can.
Hey.
Hey.
Do I smell like sex? I mean, I took a shower, but I just I'm not sure I got it all off.
Do you really want me to smell you? I just never knew it was possible to like someone so much that you know so little.
You know what? I'm, um I-I'll catch up to you, okay? Claire, I owe you an apology.
No, you don't.
I had too many free drinks last night.
It was 20 years ago.
Bygones.
It's not bygones.
I mean, not even a little bit.
And we both know it.
I met the father of my daughter in Afghanistan after Allison died, and he saved me from a grief so huge, I probably would have let it kill me.
And for years, I loved him so much, I felt guilty.
Guilty for loving him half as much as I loved Allison.
Guilty because he was with someone else.
And guilty because because maybe I wasn't capable of letting someone love me fully.
And Allison did love me, yes.
But she loved you, too, Claire.
Allison was in love with the both of us.
And at the time, I didn't believe it.
I I thought no one could love more than one person at once.
I-I thought I thought love couldn't be divided like that.
But now I do.
I believe it.
And I am sorry for the lies, and I'm sorry for the betrayal.
I was a bad friend, and I was selfish.
And I never, ever meant to hurt you.
I could never stay mad at anybody for loving Allison.
She's Allison.
Ah.
Honey.
I think I've cracked it.
That's great, dear.
All right.
Okay.
So, here we go.
Um "Thank you very much.
I can't tell you what an honor it is to be here.
" Well, wait.
Why don't you make it funny? Make a joke of it.
Oh.
That's a good point.
That's a good point.
Joke.
Yeah.
Okay.
Um "Also, I can't tell you how many times I've rewritten this presentation.
" Nervous? Energized.
Break a leg.
Okay.
Look at you.
Come back to Boston.
What? With me.
Come back with me.
You want me to move back to Boston to be with you? Yes.
Or I'll move to Seattle.
I know.
It's crazy.
But this happens, right? I mean, sometimes you just meet somebody and you know.
And, look, after my mom died, I-I've been a little bit you know seize the day.
"O Captain! My Captain!" - "Dead Poets Society.
" - "Dead Poets Society.
" - It's my second favorite - It's my second favorite So, I'm I'm a person who I need time to make decisions.
I need to weigh and measure and make spreadsheets.
Got it.
- Okay.
Okay.
- Okay.
Take as much time as you need.
Get a focus group together.
Do a study.
Write a paper.
Okay.
I just don't think that I'm gonna feel any differently about this in a few hours or a few months.
But you do you.
Over three decades as a surgeon, teacher, and chief of surgery at Seattle's Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital Jackson! Nothing's showing yet.
I know, Ma.
Calm down.
You said this was gonna work.
Will you sit down, please? I'm working on it.
Our next speaker has built a sterling reputation.
In Washington and abroad How do you know how to do this stuff? Everyone knows how to do this stuff, Mom.
and his medical judgment is second to none.
Please join me in welcoming my colleague and friend Dr.
Richard Webber.
Whoo-hoo! I think I just heard Auntie Maggie say "Whoo-hoo!" Me too.
Oh, did it start? He's going on right now.
I'm sorry.
Thank you so much, Cynthia.
I can't tell you what an honor it is to be here.
Also, I can't tell you how many times I've rewritten this presentation.
I've worked hard He looks good.
to develop the PATH pen - I'm just pointing it out.
- but that's not why I'm here anymore.
Because this morning, with my brilliant wife's help - What's that? - I have figured out how to cure cancer.
Now, good cells need favorable conditions, nurturing and loving conditions.
What is he doing? What is happening? I don't know.
Think of everything in in your life.
Every moment, every cell, every atom as having a simple positive or negative charge, which is just you know good or bad, right? Something is wrong.
Um Okay, uh let's see.
Um Uh-huh.
Ah.
Okay.
So, um, now, it's not fair to blame the environment or toxins o-or or family history.
Um cells need apologies.
Dear Lord.
- He's drunk.
- They need to know on an elemental level that we are sorry.
What's Uncle Richard saying? I don't know.
Will you go grab my phone? Um Okay.
Um Uh Circle! I-I need the circle! No.
Here we go.
Where Okay, I'm I need a circle.
Ah.
So, um, if we divide a circle into fourths and then we remove one of those fourths We have to get him down from there.
I'll call for a gurney and oxygen.
now a third of of the remainder.
Um you see? Okay, a-and then all of the pieces will continue to make make the whole, eh, if the whole is filled with with, uh, evidence.
Now, this evidence that we're talking about is Richard, Richard, Richard.
Richard.
Okay? We're gonna take you home.
You're not feeling well.
Uh, you know what? I'm I'm fine.
You're You're You're embarrassing me.
I'm I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen.
But the historic illusion of, uh Please, Richard.
W-Who are you? It's me.
It's It's Maggie.
Um Um, oh oh but Oh, yes.
Yes.
- The The historical illusion that - Okay.
Dr.
Webber.
Get your hands off of me! Oh! - Uh, if if - Somebody please call 911! I think he's having a stroke.
And can somebody turn on the lights? I have to finish my my presentation.
- I-I gotta finish this.
- Oh, my God.
Maggie.
What's happening? I don't know.
I'm not sure I really believe you're here.
There's coffee.
Oh.
That's a good point.