- Dr. Meredith Grey: [closing voiceover] You think that true love is the only thing that can crush your heart; that will take your life and light it up or destroy it. Then you become a mother.
- Dr. Alex Karev: [to Cristina after she stabbed him with an epi needle] You crazy bitch! You almost killed me!
- Dr. Meredith Grey: [opening voiceover] When my mother left my father, she didn't tell him she was leaving and taking me with her until wed landed to the other side of the country. In those days, it was called family troubles. Today it'd be called kidnapping.
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: Yang, where's Meredith?
- Dr. Cristina Yang: I don't know. They fired her. Maybe she's putting anthrax in Karev's locker.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: I think I stole a baby.
- Dr. Cristina Yang: Okay, first of all, you didn't steal the baby, she's your baby. What you did is... You took her for a nap... in a very odd location and you failed to answer your phone. But y'know, many people find all the technology in our lives to be intrusive, so you're not the first person who didn't answer your phone or your pager. You know, all we have to do is... is find a reason why you were AWOL for an hour.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Four... hours.
- [Cristina glares at her]
- Dr. Meredith Grey: Janet was gonna take the baby, so I took off.
- Dr. Cristina Yang: Okay, okay. You know, people make mistakes. I mean, I almost killed Alex in the OR today, so we'll just figure it out.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: How?
- Dr. Cristina Yang: I don't know.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: No, how'd you almost kill Alex?
- Dr. Cristina Yang: With a cc of epi.
- [Meredith looks shocked]
- Dr. Cristina Yang: Ah, you know, whatever. He'll be fine. Just uh... stay here. I'll fix this.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: What are you gonna do?
- Dr. Cristina Yang: I'm gonna fix it.
- Dr. Miranda Bailey: [to Richard] What did you do?
- Dr. Richard Webber: I want you to shut the door and then I want you to sit down.
- Dr. Miranda Bailey: You're throwing your whole career away for that damn girl.
- Dr. Richard Webber: This is not the end of my career.
- Dr. Miranda Bailey: The FDA will never come anywhere near you again. That is the end of your ilet cell trial, not to mention anything else you might be cooking up with...
- Dr. Richard Webber: Sit down!
- [Bailey sits down and crosses her arms over her chest; Richard hands her a folder]
- Dr. Richard Webber: Open it and read the first page.
- Dr. Miranda Bailey: [grabs the folder from Richard and starts reading it] "The artificial pancreas the cure for diabetes..." How about 'the artifical pancreas, a huge missed opportunity that you blew because you...
- Dr. Richard Webber: Read the next line.
- Dr. Miranda Bailey: Principle investigator, Miranda Bail...
- Dr. Richard Webber: It's yours now. I have no pending trials with the FDA.
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: [to Meredith] I still don't understand what you possibly could've been thinking.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: They fired me. Janet basically told me that they were gonna take Zola away. I mean, possibly send her back to Malawi. You and me... I just needed some time. I just needed to hold her and look at her and just think about how everything, everything got so screwed up. You should take Zola. Janet has a problem with me, not with you and we need to do everything that we can to make sure they don't take her away and if that means that you have custody of her and I don't... then, that's what we need to do.
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: You're not fired. Richard's gonna take the fall for you.
- Dr. Meredith Grey: What? He can't do that. I'm not gonna let him do that.
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: Yes, you will. If you wanna keep this baby, you will let him protect you.
- Social Worker Janet: [to Derek] A lot of questions came up today, about your relationship, your employment...
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: Well, she got her job back. That was a misunderstanding.
- Social Worker Janet: She disappeared.
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: Well, that was a miscommunication.
- Social Worker Janet: And the part about you two living in separate houses, that's miscommunication, too? Look, I get it. It's not easy bringing a child into a relationship. You're allowed to have some bumps in the road, but this afternoon when it looked like you two had split up, your wife got fired, she lied to me and left with the baby. It set off some alarms. Now, I'm trying to dial them all back, but it's not that easy to do. Once a system has been set in motion, there's protocol that needs to be followed once the agency believes there's questions about Meredith...
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: Janet, Meredith is the best mother a child could have. She loves Zola and she loves me and if she has any flaws, it's that she loves people so much she will do anything for them.
- Social Worker Janet: Derek, please. I hear you, but no matter what I say, Social Services still needs to re-evaulate the placement and when that happens, Zola can't be in your home. I'll give you a minute to say good-bye.
- Dr. Owen Hunt: [to Derek] Everything all right?
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: Uh, Meredith disappeared with Zola.
- Dr. Owen Hunt: What do you mean she disappeared?
- [Derek sighs]
- Dr. Owen Hunt: She had a rough day. She probably just went out for a walk. Derek, there are a hundred possible explanations. Don't assume the worst.
- Dr. Derek Shepherd: Do you know why I do that? Because lately the level of insanity in my wife's behavior defies imagination.
- Dr. Owen Hunt: I know, but sometimes even with Cristina, sometimes they surprise us.