Grey's Anatomy (TV Series)

Here's to Future Days (2009)

Katherine Heigl: Dr. Izzie Stevens

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• Dr. Alex Karev : [to Izzie]  Look, you went crazy. When Denny signed that DNR, you went crazy. Is that what you want? You want me cutting LVADs?

  Dr. Izzie Stevens : No.

  Dr. Alex Karev : You want to wreck my career? Because I will! I will freaking cut LVADs before I let you just... just wait! Stop!

  [they stop pushing the gurney] 

  Dr. Alex Karev : You don't get to quit. You don't get to quit on me. Please. Tear it up. The DNR. Tear it up!

  Dr. Izzie Stevens : Where your eyes are supposed to be right now, I see white, sandy beaches. And there's an ocean behind your head, and there are ghosts wandering in and out. I can't live like this. And I can't live if something goes wrong in that surgery. I don't want any extraordinary measures taken to keep me alive. It's not what I want. I went crazy when Denny signed the DNR because I didn't understand. I didn't understand, but now I do and I need you to understand. I don't want you to go crazy. I want you to have a brilliant career and I hope that I get to be there for that, but if I can't, I... I just want to go to the other side. I don't know what's there, but it's got to be better than hospital beds and tubes down my throat. Please. Please don't cut LVADs. Just... if it comes down to it, just let me go. And right now, kiss me. Please, please just kiss me and close your eyes because the beach is so distracting.

  Dr. Alex Karev : [crying]  Alright.

  [kisses Izzie] 

• Alison Clark : [to Izzie]  Don't do it. That's my vote. Don't have the surgery. I didn't. I frigging hate surgery.

  Dr. Izzie Stevens : I'm hallucinating, Allison. I have really long conversations with dead peopl and I see that aren't... Like right now, for example, I'm pretty certain there aren't birds flying over your head, because this is a hospital and that would be weird. But, that's what I'm seeing. I have a brain tumor. Am I really not gonna let them cut it out?

  Alison Clark : I didn't let them cut out mine. It's like... Okay, one minute, I'm this college kid, rowing crew, and being an idiot, and forgetting to bring my sunscreen, and thinking it doesn't matter. Because, I'm me, and life has turned out pretty good for me. And then the next minute, they're cutting into my body every other week. I had 15 surgeries, and then I said... enough. Forget it. I'll rogue through in heaven, or whatever. And then, the IL2 worked. It worked. I come here every 3 weeks, I get my medicine and I don't have a brain tumor anymore.

• Dr. Alex Karev : [to Izzie]  You're having the surgery.

  Dr. Izzie Stevens : What?

  Dr. Alex Karev : Shepherd said that this is your last shot.

  Dr. Izzie Stevens : Look, I under...

  Dr. Alex Karev : I am your husband, and I say that you are having the surgery!

  Dr. Izzie Stevens : What happened to "this is your decision."?

  Dr. Alex Karev : That was when I thought you were gonna make the right one! But you chose wrong, so now you don't get to make this decision on your own because you married me! It's not just your life at stake anymore! It's my life, too. My life with you! So you can tell Swender whatever you want, but I'm telling Shepherd, and I'm telling you that you're having the surgery!

• Dr. George O'Malley : Izzie? You paged me. Are you okay?

  Dr. Izzie Stevens : No, I don't know what to do. I don't know if I should have the surgery. I think I'm gonna die either way. You gotta tell me what to do.

  Dr. George O'Malley : You know what to do.

  Dr. Izzie Stevens : No, I don't. I don't.

  Dr. George O'Malley : Yes, you do. You're just scared to do it. This back and forth is just fear. You've already made the decision. You made it. You made it the second you decided to fight this thing. Just look, look where you started. Look where you are now. I mean, now you're this incredible surgeon, and teacher. You're a doer, remember? You know exactly what you have to do.

• Dr. Izzie Stevens : [to Derek]  You can do it. You can cut into my brain again.

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : Okay.

  Dr. Izzie Stevens : You can do it, but I don't wanna end up a vegetable.

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : Izzie, you won't.

  Dr. Izzie Stevens : No, just listen. I want the surgery right now, but if something goes wrong, I don't wanna end up on a ventilator, so I'm signing a DNR.