"She's my patient..." "Lauren Woods, 33 weeks." "Can you tell me what happened, Lauren, anything?" "Coast guard fished her out of Santa Monica Bay." " Did anybody see anything?" " Already in the water when she was spotted." " Michael?" "Where's Michael?" " Hold on, Lauren." "Hang in there." "She's in v-tach." "Get her in trauma surgery two." "All right, sounds like classic VSD consistent with a large defect between the right and left ventricles." " This is new?" " Never been there before." "The stress from the accident probably blew the underlying defect open." " Pulse ox is dropping." "Her lungs collapsed." " Needs a chest tube." " I got it." " All right, put her under." "Prep for an emergency c-section." "The baby's in severe distress." "Pressure's dropping." " She's throwing multiple PVCs. - She's back in v-tach." "Crash cart." " Lost her pressure." " All right." "V-fib." "Charge to 200." " Addison, we gotta get that baby outta there." " Almost." "She's in cardiac arrest." "Addison, now." "All right, clear." "Hey." "Hey." "I guess you're going to the St. Ambrose thing tonight?" "No choice." "William White's being honored." "He writes my checks." "You?" "Oh, no." "I used to like parties, but now..." "I don't know." "The big crowd..." "Guess that's all part of the crazy, huh?" "Avoiding dull speeches, big egos and drunken colleagues?" "Maybe not so crazy." "Are you being nice to me?" "Maybe." "A little." "Morning." "Morning." "Did you get a chance to look at the data I e-mailed you on my, uh, human cloning project?" "Human cloning." "I've decided it's time to clone people." " Yeah, well, I'm trying to work." " Which is all you've been doing lately." "It's easier here than at home." "Home is lonely, and, uh... work is good." "You know, I could help... with work mostly." "The emotional stuff..." "I'm a little crippled." "Thank you." "Naomi." "I, uh, I..." "Um..." "I'm sorry." "Am I interrupting?" "Yes." "No." "No, we were just working." "I just wanted to say thank you in advance, for tonight." "I really do appreciate it." "Well, I am honored, really." "Sucking up to the boss." "No, I am presenting William with his award" " at the ball tonight." " You're coming, right?" " Got my dancing shoes on." " Good." "Good." "Anyway, I just, uh... wanted to express my gratitude." "I'm sure your speech will be tremendous, impressive as always." "How's Lauren?" "Uh, she's sedated, in ICU." "Echo showed a persistent VSD in her heart." "She needs surgery, and I can't do that until she's stable." " How's the baby?" " Her lungs aren't mature enough." "She's having a hard time." "You were good in there this morning." "Did you get in contact with her husband?" "I tried." "Okay, well, I'm gonna go check up on Lauren and then go back to the practice." "Sam." "Can we just... will you talk to me?" "I'll keep you posted on Lauren." ""No" is not an option." "Addison's memo said everybody goes to the ball." "All right, well, I'm gonna go ahead and pull the "wife died, single parent card," so..." " I'm out." " Oh, I was attacked." "You may have read about it?" "Yeah, it kinda gives me" " carte blanche to ignore all memos." " No, no, no, no." "People, you know, life happens, we move on." "We use big, gaudy events like this to move on with our lives." "Me?" "Broke up with my girlfriend." "Yeah." "Small potatoes, maybe, but I'm really looking forward to getting out there and..." "And forgetting about the past." " You ever gonna grow up?" " Oh, I hope not." "I'm feeling so much younger and freer lately." "Yes." "Hey, can you tell Dell and Violet that this thing tonight is a command performance?" "Oh, it is." "We all go." "We're gonna brush our teeth, we're gonna put on expensive clothes, we're gonna go to this fancy party, and we're gonna have fun." "We're gonna have fun, okay?" "Yeah, so... see you there." "Hey, Sam." "Sam." "Are you okay?" "No, I'm not okay." "I have no idea how to plan a pregnant 15 year old's wedding." " There's no guidebook." "I checked." " Well, it's a wedding." "It's not traditional, I know, but hopefully it's the only one she'll have." " She... she just wants it to be special." " No, what she wants is a fairy tale." "And to be honest, I'm not feeling very happily ever after." "Well, find a balance." "You know, nice but not too big, everything tasteful, elegant, but... appropriate." " What?" " You're hired." " No, Sam..." " Look, Maya's gonna come over." "She's gonna drop some stuff off." "You take a look at it, tell me if you think it's appropriate." "Could you?" "Pl..." "Oh, thank you." "Thank you." "Paige..." "Says you've had a fever for a couple of days." "Doesn't seem to be affecting your texting fingers." " That's good." " Sorry." " How's the new school?" " It sucked for a while, eating alone every day." "But I have a lot of friends now, so it's good." "Good." "Friends are good." "You definitely have a fever." "And you look... a little yellowish." "Let's look at your glands." "I just need to take a look." "Okay." "Okay." "How'd you get that?" "Um, I don't know." "It w... it was just there." "It looks like a bite." "You got a wild little brother I don't know about?" "It was probably my curling iron." "I've burnt myself with it before." "Paige, did somebody bite you?" "No." "I'd know if someone bit me." "The nurse said she's coming to?" "In and out." "Her sats are low." "I was just adjusting her oxygen." "Lauren." "Hey." "Your baby was born." "It's a girl." "Her lungs are weak, but she's hanging in there." "I'm still working on her, okay?" " The pressure..." "I can't breathe." " Okay." "Hi, Lauren." "I'm Dr. Bennett." "The reason you're feeling pressure is because your heart isn't pumping like it should." "We discovered a hole in between your two ventricles." "As soon as you get stronger, I'll do surgery." " We can fix this." " Is Michael here?" " Has... he seen the baby?" " We haven't found him yet." "The coast guard is still searching the water." "Was... was he in a boat with you?" "Is that what happened?" "Lauren?" "No." "He... left." "He told me he didn't love me and he left." "How did you end up in the water?" "I thought that if I jumped, the undertow would take me." "I wanted to die." "You shouldn't have saved me." "I w..." "I want to die." "I don't want to feel better." "I don't want surgery." "I don't want to be fixed." "What happened, Lauren?" "W... what happened with you and your husband?" "That's just it." "I don't know." "We were gonna have a baby." "It was fine." "And then I came home, and there was this note... a note... saying that he left." "Most of his things were gone." "And I don't know why." "I waited for days for him to come back or call." "I just felt empty." "I couldn't think." "I couldn't breathe." "And I just wanted it to be over and done so I wouldn't feel that anymore... and I wouldn't be alone." "Well, you're... you're not alone anymore." "You have a baby upstairs." "And I almost killed her." "You can't force me to have this surgery, can you?" "Uh, well, I..." "I think we'd all like you to want it." "Well, I don't." "Just tell them that I refuse." "A human bite?" "She's denying it, but she's got teeth marks" " and her liver's tender, she's got a yellowish pallor." " Well, it's certainly a unique way to transmit hep b." "And if the test confirms it, we're gonna have to find out who it is," " 'cause they're sick, too, in more ways than one." " You think it's, like, a sexual predator who likes biting young girls, he's got her scared?" "Maybe it's abuse." "What about her mother?" "Mean, biting her?" "I doubt that." "Maybe it's some sort of sm thing." "She's 13 years old." "Who goes around biting 13 year olds?" "Try vampires." " Funny." " I'm serious." "Do you not live in America?" "Do the words "Twilight"" " and "New Moon" mean nothing to you?" " They're... they're fictional." "Not to teenage girls who think the bite of a vampire's a sign of eternal love." "How could you let some boy bite you?" "I knew that you shouldn't be hanging out" " with that Amber and Ashley and what's her name." "They didn't do anything." "You have hepatitis." "You're in the hospital." "You're 13 years old." "Paige, I think we're gonna need to know the name of the boy, because he may be sick, too." " You'll tell 'em who it is, now." " Angie." "Angie." "How could I have missed this?" "Why don't you go and grab a cup of coffee, and let us talk to her?" "Thanks." "It's okay." "You don't understand." "He's my soul mate." "We're bound together for all of eternity." " We love each other." " Well, that's nice, but it shouldn't involve" " biting so hard that it draws blood." " Yeah." "It's just a sign of what we are to each other." "And he's not sick, so you don't need to do anything." "He might not be sick now, but he's carrying the disease, and it could be damaging his liver, which is very serious." "If my mom knows who he is, she'll never let me see him again." "So if I get him to come in," " will you promise not to tell my mom?" " W... she should know." "She can't." "So you promise... or I'm not telling." " You can't promise not to tell." " That kid bit her." " He drew blood." "He got her sick." "Her labs are getting worse." " I know, but it's her boyfriend, and they were necking in some perverse way." "It's sexual." "It's not violent." "It's like any other consensual sex act a minor tells us about." "We are bound..." "doctor-patient confidentiality." "Your dating habits aside..." " sucking blood is not sex." " Your lack of dating habits aside, you heard what she said." " She thinks she's in love..." " She's 13." "Bottom line is, it's sex." "It's not violence." "We can't do anything about it." "I'll make her the promise." "We'll get the kid in here." "I'll see if he's sick." "We'll figure it out from there." "You know, we could always seal his coffin, expose him to sunlight." "Without the surgery, she will die." "Which is why you have to 51-50 her." "Not having the surgery" " is just another way for her to attempt suicide." " Well, legally and ethically speaking, refusing treatment isn't the same at all." "And she's depressed." "She's not crazy." "She tried to kill herself and her baby." "That's not crazy?" " No." " So she tries to kill herself, fails," " but gets close enough that she might actually get her wish?" " She agreed to try antidepressants." "That might help." "Though I think she probably only agreed to it" " 'cause she's hoping he'll change his mind and come back." " Well, we can't wait for the antidepressants to work." " She'll die." "We have to force the surgery." " No." "Her depression makes that a bad idea." "It doubles her risk of dying on the table, and it's dicey enough as it is." "All right, then I'll..." "I'll go find Michael," " get him to come here." " What, you think it's that easy to just make him love her?" "His wife is dying." "He has a baby." "There could've been a thousand reasons why he walked away." " I'm gonna go find him." " Good luck trying to change his mind." "We've been calling, leaving messages." "I know." "I got them." "Your wife and child are in the hospital." "Lauren's refusing to have a surgery that could save her because you're not there." " She said you left out of the blue." " Ou... out of the blue?" "Look, this didn't just happen." "I tr..." "I tried to get her to see for a long time." "She just didn't... she didn't want to see it." "She didn't want to listen." "Then she got pregnant, and I tried to make it work." " But I just..." "I..." "I can't." " What about the baby?" "I never wanted a baby." "She knew that." "And I..." "I..." "look, I tried to be okay with that, but I'm not." "I don't love her anymore." "Okay, Michael, look, can you just be there for her," " just for now, just until she's a little stronger?" " Look, I'll support the baby." "I told her that." "But if I... if I go back, she's just gonna do it again the next time I go, and I'll never get away." "Look, what I did to Paige, it's not a bad thing." "It just signifies that our souls are connected." "Yeah, but your viruses, too." "It's a health hazard." "So I do need to know... if you've done this biting thing with any other girls." " Of course not." " I'm just asking, you know, doctor to patient, just us." "I don't mean to embarrass you." "Look, you may not understand this, but..." "We're destined for each other." "I would never betray that." "I've walked this earth for 2,000 years, searching for her." "Yeah." "Um, I've used a lot of lines in my day." " I'm not buying that one." " Well, I'm not asking you to." "Okay, I'm gonna need to know the names of all the girls" " that you've done this biting thing with." " Paige told me." "You can't tell anyone." " No, but I can tell her what a little schmuck you are." " And you think she'd believe you?" "She and her friends love all this vampire crap." " Tell me who else you have bitten." " No offense, but bite me." " Hey." " Hey." " You have a minute?" " You okay?" "Ugh." "One of my patients has hung her entire life's happiness on a man." "He's gone, and now she wants to die." "Well, she wouldn't be the first person." "Why do women let men do that to them, let 'em get inside their head and make 'em crazy?" "And they make us feel really good when it's... good, and then... they make us want to" " curl up in a little ball and die when we can't have them." " We are talking about your patient, right?" "How's that speech going for tonight?" "Oh, ugh." "William White..." "I mean, how do you write a speech about a billionaire?" " You write about the man, not the money." " Yeah, I know, but it is William White." "You know, that's a man who could get into your head and make you crazy." " You know... you know what I think?" " William White?" "William White?" "No." "All right, there... there was a look." "Uh-huh." "And a... moment." " And he touched my hand." " Oh!" "He likes you." "Oh..." "All right, there was... there was definitely something." "But I just..." "I can't decide whether it was exciting or..." "Sexual harassment-y or..." "All the more reason to go tonight, to find out." "I mean, that's what these events are for." " And there's an open bar." "I mean, you get drunk, get lucky." " Yeah, but the idea of getting dressed up and... and pretending to enjoy myself" " with everything that's going on, it's just..." " Oh, come on." "It'll be fun." "We could both use it." "William White." "William White." "Hey." "Your fever's down." " That's good." "How you feeling?" " Great." "Good." "I told you Seth couldn't get sick." "He's too strong." "I must have gotten this some other way." "Okay, um, Paige, there's no good way to say this, so... he's been biting other girls." "It doesn't work that way." "These other girls could get sick." " He said they were your friends." "We need to know who they are." " Seth wouldn't do that." " My friends wouldn't do that to me." " Well, Paige, he..." " You don't get it." " Paige..." "Stop trying to turn this into something bad." "Oh, I gotta admit, Sam, I'm lost." "This is all very pink." "Yeah, she wants, uh... pink candy almonds with "Maya and Dink forever" stamped on them." "So I'm trying to find..." "So I guess the, uh," " the horse drawn carriage is out?" " Okay." "Wait." "A hot air balloon... those are her ideas." "Hey." " Hey." " Hi." "Wow, wedding stuff, huh?" "You need a hand?" "Uh, no." "We're good." "We're good." "Thanks." "What's up?" "I just wanted to talk to you about Lauren." "Did you talk to the husband?" "Yeah, he doesn't want anything to do with her or the baby." " Do you want me to go with you to tell her?" " We can't." "What, you can't tell her?" "You think it's better to give her false hope" " that he's gonna show up?" " If it gets her into surgery, yeah." "Oh, good." "All right." "So then we lie to her," " I fix her heart, then we break it again." " But she'll be alive." "Unless you have a better idea." "I mean, this way we have time for the antidepressants to kick in." "I mean, maybe he'll change his mind and come around." "Oh, do you really think that's gonna happen, Addison?" "You really think that she should wait around for that?" "Violet, can you give us a few minutes?" "Yes." "Really, Sam?" "You're gonna be this guy?" "I tell you we can't be together, so you're gonna be the guy who punishes me" " for doing the right thing?" " Oh, please. "The right thing"?" "You're afraid of Naomi." "I am not afraid of Naomi." " I don't want to be a cheater again." " We are two grown, single adults." "Please tell me how that is cheating." "Because I would be betraying my best friend." "She's my ex-wife." "She does not get to decide what happens between you and me." "She does not get to decide." "I decide." "You decide." "You're scared." " I am not scared, Sam." " You're scared because you know that this could be real." "Nothing's standing between us." "I'm not married." "I don't live in Seattle." "This could be real, and you don't know how to do real." "N... no, no, that is not it." "This is about Naomi." "She's my best friend." " You divorced her, Sam." "I'm not willing to do that." " She... she would understand." " If you were honest with her, she would get over it." " Oh, what planet are you on?" "Y... she won't even forgive her own child for getting pregnant by accident." "You're planning a wedding by yourself." "You really think she's gonna forgive us?" "So my ex-wife gets to dictate who I can and can't sleep with?" "Good." "Great." "Perfect." "Sam, please..." "William White has shown us all what can be achieved when there is a strong will backed by a kind heart and deep pockets." "His generosity is..." "I love Naomi, but is this speech gonna end while I'm still young?" "I can't believe I'm here, stomaching this about William White." "It's a fund-raiser for the hospital, Charlotte," " your hospital." " William remains a small-town boy at heart..." "Well, some things never change." "Cooper. 2:00." "Such a whore." "You okay?" "Not like I care." "Ladies and gentlemen, our man of the year, Mr. William White." "Nice speech." "Mm." "I'm gonna go work the room." "Our doctors are just not that much fun." " Tell me about it." " Now have a drink" " and tell us what you really think about him." " I meant what I said." "Right, after he forced me down your throat?" "Uh, figuratively speaking." "Or maybe you've forgiven him after you've realized I'm not so bad." "Admit it." "I'm not so bad." "Hell of a speech." "I'm not sure I'm worthy." "It was, um..." "Thank you." "I heard what you're going through... with your daughter." " The assistants talk." " Yeah." "Um... well, I, uh," "I, uh, I just want you to know that it..." " It's not going to affect my work in any..." " I'm not worried about your work." "Okay." "I'm worried about you." "Oh, no." "I'm fine." "I'm fine." "Are you?" "Yeah." "I am." "I'm..." "I'm..." "I'm..." "Well, you know, y..." "All right." "You know what?" "I'm furious." "And I'm on edge." "I'm uncomfortable in my skin, and all I do is work all day." "All I do is mix sperm and ova into petri dishes all day." "All I do is make babies for people who would do anything to have a baby, you know, people who are praying to have a baby." "And my stupid child goes and makes one in an instant, and I just kinda want to scream." "I want to scream because it's just, like, it's crazy karma." "And I, uh... and it's like life spanking me in the face." "And I'm just trying to push through." "And, you know, I'm just eating too much cake and doing as well as I can, you know?" "And then you show up here today, and... and you're my boss, and... and I think you're flirting with me, which is... because if you're not flirting with me, then clearly I can add delusional to my list of flaws," "and, uh, also fired, because I just said that out loud." "But I'm just spending so much time these days keeping my mouth shut and not talking about things and pretending that things aren't happening, and... and I just can't do that anymore, you know?" "'Cause I learned a long time ago that in order to make speeches in public, sened up, so I had to drink three martinis before I could get up there and make the speech, and also two glasses of wine, and so now..." "I'm just a little loose right now." "I'm just a little loose and a little furious, and, um, that's... that's kind of where I started talking." " So I'm..." "I'm gonna stop." " Okay." "I don't know where to start." "Um..." "First..." "I'd be furious, too." "Second, I..." "I don't think it's karma." "I think it's just life." "And third..." "I am flirting with you." "You are?" "Is that okay?" "Uh..." "Yeah." "Come on, let's dance." "Word is I'm pretty good on my feet." "Cooper was just telling us this great story about this time when he was" " in Fort Lauderdale on spring break..." " Yeah." "And he got thrown into jail for stealing a boat?" "Yeah, well, you should get him to tell you about the time his mother caught him in his closet" " with an issue of "ladies' home journal"..." " Okay, okay, yeah." "It's good seeing you." "Oh." "What?" "Did that help?" " A little." " Okay." "Violet, you came." "Well, uh, I'm drinking fruity drinks with umbrellas in them." " I..." "I would give you this one, but it's for Dell." " Oh, that's good that he's here..." "And you're here." "You're done being mad at me, huh?" "Yeah." "Thank you." "Forgiveness is... that..." " That's very big for me right now." " Me, too." "You..." "You know I'm still messed up, Pete." "I mean, I'm better." "But I'm..." "I'm not..." " I mean, I..." "I can't..." " I know." "Okay." "Well, I..." "Yeah." "Why does this suck so much?" "'Cause we're screwed up." "'Cause people have screwed with our lives, and now we're... stuck."