Grey's Anatomy (TV Series)

How to Save a Life (2015)

Samantha Sloyan: Dr. Penelope Blake

Quotes 

• Dr. Derek Shepherd : [thinking to himself]  My head. Look at my head.

  Paul : Sedation, please. You need to calm down, buddy.

  Dr. Penelope Blake : He's a surgeon. He's a surgeon and he just saved everyone from the car accident that just came through.

  Paul : Doctor, we're gonna sedate you now so we can secure your airway. You're gonna be fine.

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : [thinking to himself]  No. I'm not. You need to wait.

  Dr. Penelope Blake : [as Derek tries to grab her arm]  It's okay. We've got you. It's all gonna be okay.

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : [thinking to himself]  This isn't right. You should have taken me to get a head C.T.

  Dr. Penelope Blake : His pressure's holding. Maybe we should get the scan.

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : [thinking to himself]  Yes, listen to her.

  Paul : Too risky. He could bottom out in the scanner. We need to open him up. Find the source of the bleeding.

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : [thinking to himself]  No, you don't. You have the time.

  Paul : We have to work fast, people.

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : [thinking to himself]  I'm stable. Guys, I'm stable. Take me to get the head C.T.

  Paul : Let's set up for an ex lap. Coming through.

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : [thinking to himself]  I'm going to die because these people aren't properly trained.

• Dr. Penelope Blake : [to Winnie]  That man... do you know him?

  Winnie : Yeah, that's Derek.

  Dr. Penelope Blake : Derek? Derek who? Is he a family member? A neighbor?

  Winnie : He's my friend.

  Dr. Penelope Blake : Okay. Do you know your friend's last name?

  Winnie : No, I mean, I just met him today. He pulled me and my mom out of our car after the accident. He fixed her leg, he helped Charlie and put Alana's insides back in. He saved us.

  Dr. Penelope Blake : He saved you?

  Winnie : All of us. He's a doctor.

  Dr. Penelope Blake : He's a doctor?

  Winnie : A surgeon, I think.

• Dr. Penelope Blake : [crying; to Meredith]  I'm so sorry. I know that that's useless to you right now, but I am. He saved all those people. And it was my job... to save him. And I failed. And now... he's gonna die... because I was not a good enough doctor... to keep him alive.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : Yeah, you're right. You did fail. You weren't good enough. But do you know what tomorrow is? It's Friday. There's gonna be more patients who come in who need you to save them... Someone's mother, someone's kid, someone's husband. They need you to save them because they can't save themselves. So learn from this, better yourself and you will be better for next time.

  Dr. Penelope Blake : What if I'm not?

  Dr. Meredith Grey : You will be.

  Dr. Penelope Blake : How can you know that?

  Dr. Meredith Grey : Because he was your one. Every patient you treat, you're going to see my husband's face and remember that he was the one that died on your watch. He will haunt you. The hard ones always do. And it only takes that one. But that one, will make you work harder and they make you better. Or they make you quit and you don't get to waste what would have been the rest of my husband's life being a quitter. So get back inside because you're not saving any lives out here.

  Dr. Penelope Blake : I really am so...

  Dr. Meredith Grey : Yeah, I know. I know.

• Dr. Cohn : [When the neurosurgeon arrives to operate on Derek]  What the hell have you people screwed up now?

  Dr. Penelope Blake : Us? You're on call for trauma. What took you so long?

  Dr. Cohn : Who the hell are you?

  Dr. Penelope Blake : Your response time was supposed to be 20 minutes.

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : [thinking to himself]  It wouldn't have made a difference.

  Dr. Cohn : If you guys had ordered a head C.T, you would have called me sooner. What am I supposed to do about that?

  Paul : We needed to control...

  Dr. Penelope Blake : He was bleeding into his belly.

  Dr. Cohn : He was stable. You had the time. Now I gotta work like hell to save this man, thanks to you.

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : [thinking to himself]  There's no point.

  Dr. Penelope Blake : You were supposed to be here in 20 minutes. Not an hour and a half. We had a chance. He had a freaking chance.

  Dr. Cohn : Get out of my O.R.

  Dr. Penelope Blake : What?

  Dr. Cohn : You heard me. Unless you're gonna be cutting into this man's head, you can get out. Now. Now!

  [Penny leaves] 

  Dr. Cohn : I'm gonna scrub in. Someone pull in a craniotomy tray. We've already wasted enough time.

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : [thinking to himself]  It's too late. You're too late.

• Dr. Cohn : [to Meredith, who has her back turned away]  Dr. Grey. Dr. Grey, I can't... We can't tell you how sorry... I am so sorry for your loss. Dr. Shepherd was a tremendous surgeon... t-tremendously gifted. I've long admired his techniques. I... it... was an honor.

  [Meredith turns to face him and looks angry; she extends her hand to Penny for Derek's file] 

  Dr. Meredith Grey : [as she looks through the file]  The call to not get a head C.T was a bad call.

  Dr. Penelope Blake : We're not a trauma center. We're a teaching hospital.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : You did the best you could.