- Dr. Richard Webber: Each of you comes here today hopeful, wanting in on the game. A month ago, you were in med school being taught by doctors. Today... you are the doctors. The seven years you spend here as a surgical resident will be the best and worst of your life. You will be pushed to the breaking point. Look around you. Say hello to your competition. Eight of you will switch to an easier specialty. Five will crack under the pressure. Two of you will be asked to leave. This is your starting line. This is your arena. How well you play, that's up to you
- Dr. Cristina Yang: That's the Nazi?
- Dr. George O'Malley: I thought the Nazi would be a man.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: I thought the Nazi would be... the Nazi.
- Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: Maybe it's professional jealousy. Maybe she's brilliant and they call her a Nazi because they're jealous. Maybe she's nice.
- Dr. Cristina Yang: Let me guess - you're the model.
- Dr. Cristina Yang: Katie competes in beauty pageants.
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: I know that, but we have to save her life anyway.
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: [waking up] Ugh.
- [picks up Meredith's bra]
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: This is... uh.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: [grabs her bra from him] Humiliating, on so many levels. You have to go.
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: Why don't you just come back down here and we'll pick up where we left off?
- Dr. Meredith Grey: No, seriously. You have to go. I'm late. Which isn't what you wanna be on your first day of work so...
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: So, you actually live here?
- Dr. Meredith Grey: No.
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: Oh.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Yes. Kind of.
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: Oh. It's nice. A little dusty. Odd. That's nice. Huh. How do you "kind of" live here?
- Dr. Meredith Grey: I moved two weeks ago from Boston. It was my mother's house. I'm selling it.
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: Oh, I'm sorry.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: For what?
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: You said "was."
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Oh, my mother's not dead. She's - you know what? We don't have to do The Thing.
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: Oh. We can do anything you want.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: No, the Thing. Exchange the details, pretend we care. Look, I'm gonna go upstairs and take a shower. Okay? And when I get back here, you won't be here so, um... good-bye, um...
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: Derek.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Derek. Right, Meredith.
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: Meredith?
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Yeah.
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: Nice meeting you.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Bye Derek.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: We should pretend it never happened.
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: What never happened? You sleeping with me? Or you throwing me out this morning? Because both are fond memories I'd like to hold on to.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: No, there will be no more memories. I'm not the girl in the bar anymore, and you're not the guy. This can't exist. You get that right?
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: You took advantage of me, and you wanna forget about it?
- Dr. Meredith Grey: I did not -...
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: I was drunk, vulnerable, and good-looking, and you took advantage.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: I was the one who was drunk, and you are not that good-looking.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Just go to sleep.
- Katie Bryce: I can't sleep, my head feels full.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: It's called thinking. Go with it.
- Dr. Preston Burke: The only one that can keep a promise like that is God, and I haven't seen him holding a scalpel lately. You never promise a patient's family a good outcome.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Stop looking at me like that.
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: Like what?
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Like you've seen me naked.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: I can't think of any one reason why I want to be a surgeon, but I can think of 1,000 reasons why I should quit. They make it hard on purpose. There are lives in our hands. There comes a moment when it's more than just a game and you either take that step forward or turn around and walk away. I could quit, but here's the thing... I love the playing field.
- Dr. Cristina Yang: [Meredith has just finished a surgery that Cristina wanted to perform] We don't have to do that thing, where you know, I say something, then you say something, and somebody cries, and there's like a moment...
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Yuck.
- Dr. Cristina Yang: You should get some sleep. You look like crap.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: I look better than you.
- Dr. Cristina Yang: Not possible.
- Dr. George O'Malley: I'm George. Uh, O'Malley, uh... We met at the mixer, and you were the girl with the black dress with a slit up the side and the strappy sandals.
- [Meredith and Cristina exchange a look]
- Dr. George O'Malley: Right. Now you think I'm gay.
- Dr. Miranda Bailey: I have five rules. Memorize them. Rule number one, don't bother sucking up. I already hate you, that's not going to change.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: The Game. They say a person either has what it takes to play, or they don't. My mother was one of the greats. Me on the other hand... I'm kinda skrewed. I can't think of any one reason why I'd want to be a surgeon. But I can think of a thousand reasons why I should quit. They make it hard on purpose. There are lives in our hands. There comes a moment when it's more than just a game. And you either take that step forward or turn around and walk away. I could quit, but here's the thing... I love the playing field.
- Dr. George O'Malley: Maybe I should have gone into geriatrics. No one minds when you kill an old person.
- Dr. Cristina Yang: Surgery's hot. It's the marines. It's macho. It's hostile. It's hardcore. Geriatrics is for freaks who live with their mothers and never have sex.
- Dr. George O'Malley: I've got to get my own place.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Did you choose me for the surgery because I slept with you?
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: Yes.
- [Meredith gives him a look]
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: I'm kidding.
- Dr. George O'Malley: 007. They're calling me 007, aren't they?
- Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens, Dr. Meredith Grey: No one's calling you 007.
- Dr. George O'Malley: I was on the elevator, and Murphy whispered '007'.
- Dr. Cristina Yang: Okay, how many times are we going to go through this, George? Five, ten? Give me a number or else I'm gonna hit you.
- Dr. George O'Malley: Murphy whispered '007', and everyone laughed.
- Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: He wasn't talking about you.
- Dr. George O'Malley: Are you sure?
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Would we lie to you?
- Dr. George O'Malley: Yes!
- Dr. Meredith Grey: If I hadn't taken the Hippocratic Oath, I would Kevorkian her with my bare hands.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: You know, we don't have to do the thing.
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: Oh, we can do anything you want.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: No, the thing! Exchange the details, pretend we care.
- Dr. George O'Malley: This shift is a marathon, not a sprint. Eat.
- Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: I can't.
- Dr. George O'Malley: You should eat something.
- Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: You try eating after performing 17 rectal exams. The Nazi hates me.
- Dr. George O'Malley: The Nazi's a resident. I have attendings hating me.
- Dr. Cristina Yang: Total 007.
- Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens: 007? What's 007?
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Licensed to kill.
- Dr. Cristina Yang: [Meredith and Cristina are looking for the cause of a patient's seizures] Are you seriously not going to tell me why you won't work with Shepherd?
- Dr. Meredith Grey: No. What about infection?
- Dr. Cristina Yang: No white count, no CT lesions, no fevers, nothing in her spinal tap. Just tell me.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: You can't comment, make a face or react in any way.
- [pauses]
- Dr. Meredith Grey: We had sex.
- Dr. Cristina Yang: [Goes back to the medical discussion] What about an aneurysm?
- Dr. Meredith Grey: No blood on the CT, no headaches.
- Dr. Cristina Yang: Okay, no drug use, no pregnancy, no trauma.
- [pauses]
- Dr. Cristina Yang: Was he good? I mean, he looks like he'd be good, was it any good?
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Only six women out of twenty.
- Dr. Cristina Yang: Yeah. I hear one of them is a model. Seriously, that's gonna help with the respect thing?
- Dr. Cristina Yang: Do we have to do that thing, where I say something, and then you say something, and then somebody cries and there's like a moment?
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Yuck.
- Dr. Cristina Yang: Good.