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  Episode Information  
Title: The Becoming
Episode Number: 75
Season: 4
Season Episode #.: 14
Production Number: 414
Original Airdate: Thursday May 08th, 2008
8/10 (23 Votes cast)
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Episode Crew
Director: Julie Ann Robinson
Writer: Tony Phelan
Joan Rater
  Episode Summary  
The nurses' outcry over McSteamy's frequent trysts leads the hospital to enact a new "date and tell" policy. Meanwhile, news about Burke's career force Cristina to cope with her feelings about the past; Meredith and Derek take in a veteran soldier to participate in their clinical trial; and Callie finds comfort in Sloane when she needs it the most.
 
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  Guest Stars  
Guest Stars
Amy MadiganplayedDr. WyattRecurring (third appearance)
Lauren StamileplayedRoseRecurring (7th appearance)
Loretta DevineplayedAdeleRecurring (10th appearance)
Benny CiaramelloplayedDarren 
Dave GiuntoliplayedTodd 
John M. Jackson (1)playedKevin 
Zilah MendozaplayedKyra 
  Episode Notes  
Ratings: 15.6 million viewers
 
  Featured Songs  
ArtistSong TitlePlayed When
Beth OrtonCarmella (Four Tet Remix) 
Frightened RabbitGood Arms vs. Bad Arms 
Jay CliffordKnow When To Walk Away 
The SubmarinesBrightest Hour 
Taken By TreesOnly Yesterday 
Vampire WeekendMansard Roof 
  Episode Quotes  
Derek: (to Mark) I slept with her ... and the whole time I was thinking of Meredith. Who's the whore?
 
Miranda: Just wanted to drop off the form myself, answer any questions you might have.
Richard: There are interns on this form
Miranda: Mm hm ... I require the energy of youth. Dr. Shepherd was a moment of weakness for both of us.
Richard: Dr. Sloan?
Miranda: Oh, that was many moments. On call rooms. It was ... very hot.
Adele: Mmhm ... McSteamy.
Richard: Alright, Dr. Bailey, I get the joke.
Miranda: See, this is a joke to you. I am a single woman. I've been a single woman for some time now, but the very idea that I could have a sexual encounter, a consensual sexual encounter ... is a joke to you!
Richard: Dr. Bailey I --
Miranda: So much so that you would single me out of this entire hospital as the one person who couldn't interest a person of the opposite sex ... it's .. it's ... just --
Adele: It's harassment.
Richard: Adele!
(Miranda slaps Richard's shoulder)
Miranda: Just shame on you sir! Just shame on you!
 
Erica: So are we on for tonight or what?
Callie: Um, I told you I had a thing.
Erica: I don't ah ... make friends easily. I'm awkward and am bad at small talk and generally don't like people I don't know. But I made friends with you and now you have this thing and that thing is Sloan.
Callie: Are you mad that I'm sleeping with Mark Sloan?
Erica: I'm not mad that your sleeping with Sloan. I'm mad that you didn't tell me that your sleeping with Sloan. I'm mad at you. Because instead of telling me and admitting that your one of those girls who goes all pouffy when she gets a boyfriend, you disappear with your thing. I don't make friends easily.
 
Richard: Going through all the forms I noticed you didn't hand yours in.
Cristina: No sir.
Richard: I need you to. The hospital is still liable even though Dr. Burke isn't here. (Cristina fills out her form)
Cristina: There is my sexual relationship. Preston Burke on paper. Satisfied?
Richard: I know this is difficult for you.
Cristina: It is not difficult sir. It is simple. Burke is not here. He's gone and he's the better for it. He's winning the Harper Avery award and being celebrated all over the world. That is not difficult. He's out there and I'm here where everything is the same. I still live in his apartment, I walk the same halls of this hospital, I wear the same scrubs. It is not difficult. This is where I chose to be. But sir when his hand was shaking I performed the surgeries, I kept his secrets, I nursed his pride.. you know it and I know it, and he knows it. He knows it and yet nowhere in that newspaper article does my name appear. I am the unseen hand to his brilliance. Excuse me. And yet while everything is the same it is very, very different. Now I'm lucky if I get to hold a clamp. Hahn treats me like ... I was his hand and now I'm a ghost. That is not difficult, it's unbearable. Everybody is proud of him, but I'm not. I do not wish him well.
 
Meredith: (voiceover) It was a good day. Maybe even a great day. I was a good doctor, even when it was hard, I was the me in my head. There was a moment when I thought I can't do this, I can't do this alone. I close my eyes and imagine myself doing it, and I did, I blocked out the fear, and I did it.
Meredith: It was a really good day.
Dr. Wyatt: Look, I'm just going to say this because your insurance only covers 20 sessions and I feel we should get right to the point. That was a load of crap. It was not a good day, your patient died alone unable to tell the love of his life how he felt.
Meredith: Yeah, but he did it for his boyfriend. I mean, I actually think it was kind of heroic.
Dr. Wyatt: It's a load of crap.
Meredith: Stop saying that!
Dr. Wyatt: Look, let me draw the parallels for you. The tragic patient dies alone while the love of his life is literally in the next room. That's you.
Meredith: What are you talking about? I'm not dying alone.
Dr. Wyatt: Oh. But I think you are, and you're telling yourself you're a hero, when in reality all you are is alone.
Meredith: That is a load of crap!
Dr. Wyatt: He's with Rose.
Meredith: You know what, I'm not going to do this.
Dr. Wyatt: He's with Rose.
Meredith: (yelling) Why do you keep saying that!?
Dr. Wyatt: Because if you can't see what is wrong with that sentence, He's with Rose, we're never going to get anywhere, He's with Rose.
Meredith: Okay! So he's with Rose. So what?!
Dr. Wyatt: And if he's with Rose that means he's not with you. And do you know why he's not with you? (pause) You're scared.
Meredith: Are you calling me a coward?
Dr. Wyatt: I think you are very frightened Dr. Grey.
Meredith: Are you calling me a coward?
Dr. Wyatt: What do you think?
 
  Cultural References  
Episode Title: The Becoming

"The Becoming" is the title of a song by Nine Inch Nails.
 
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