Grey's Anatomy

*THIS TRANSCRIPT CONTAINS SPOILERS*
(Alex walks into the pit. A nurse hands him a patient's file.)

NURSE: Fourth visit in three months.

(Alex walks over to a young patient lying on a hospital bed, her parents on either side of her.)

ALEX: I'm Doctor Karev, and you are...

MEGAN: Megan Clover, and it is not as bad as it looks.

MRS CLOVER: She fell in the playground, and there was a lot of blood and it looked deep.

MR CLOVER: We know how this looks. Just so you know, we know how this looks, and it's not that. She just plays rough, you know. This is her file, and it goes back since way before we got her.

ALEX: Before you got her?

MRS CLOVER: We're her foster parents. She's such a great kid, but she plays really rough.

MR CLOVER: She plays rough.

ALEX: Right. Well why don't you guys go up to the nurses station and let them make a copy of her file for you, and I'll take a look at Megan's leg.

MRS CLOVER: OK. We'll be right back honey. You alright?

MEGAN: Yeah.

MRS CLOVER: OK.

(Mr and Mrs Clover walk over to the nurses station.)

ALEX: You've got some mean looking bruises, you know that? (Alex notices a plaster on Megan's arm.) What, you hurt your arm too?

MEGAN (defensively): Nothing big, I fell off my bike.

(Alex rips of the plaster. Beneath it is a large wound which has been stapled together.)

ALEX: Are those staples? What the hell? Did they do this to you?

MEGAN: No! No!

ALEX: Who did this to you?

MEGAN: I did. I didn't want to go to the doctor again so I just stapled it. It's no biggie.

ALEX: You stapled your own arm?

MEGAN: Can you please just stitch up my leg so we can get out of here?

ALEX: You're not going anywhere with those people Megan. They're never gonna lay a hand on you again.

MEGAN: They didn't do anything. Please, they're my best parents I've ever had.

ALEX: Megan...

MEGAN: They don't hurt me. I can't be hurt. You don't believe me? Punch me in the stomach, right now.

ALEX: The staples are in there pretty deep. I'm gonna have to give you a shot to numb the pain.

(Alex prepares the needle.)

MEGAN: I don't need a shot!

ALEX: Trust me, you want a shot. It's swollen, it's gonna hurt like a...

(Megan pulls the staples out of her arm.)

MEGAN: There. Can I go now?

ALEX: That didn't even hurt?

(Megan motions Alex to come closer. He leans in towards her.)

MEGAN (whispering): I have superpowers, OK?

(Alex enters the pit carrying a bucket of ice cold water and walks over to Megan.)

ALEX: Hey superkid.

MEGAN: Where are my parents?

ALEX: They're talking to some grown-ups.

MEGAN: I'm not a moron. They're talking to a social worker.

ALEX: Megan, these bruises, these cuts all over you, this isn't normal.

MEGAN: I get in fights a lot, OK? Cause I'm stronger than some of the other kids, so I end up defending the ones who are wimpy or small or whatever.

ALEX: You know you're scrawny, right? I mean you're not one of the big kids.

MEGAN: Yeah, but I can take them in a fight.

ALEX: Alright. (Motioning to the bucket.) Put your hands in here.

MEGAN: Why?

ALEX: Because, we're gonna test your superpowers.

MEGAN: You don't believe me? Punch me in the stomach, right here. Come on, punch me in the stomach.

ALEX: Let's just stick to the water. Put your hand in here, and I'll... I'll race you. You can race me. (Megan stares at Alex.) What? Come one. What are you afraid of... afraid of a little ice? You afraid I'm gonna beat you? Come on, on the count of three. One. Two. Three. (They both plunge their hands into the cold water.) Pull your hand out when it starts to hurt please.

MEGAN: What are you deaf? It won't start to hurt. Just think about it, OK? Superheroes are all kids with dead parents. Like me. And they all figured out when they were around my age that they could do things nobody else could. Like me.


(Alex and Megan still have their hands in the bucket.)

MEGAN: And they think it's weird that the can do all this stuff, but don't tell anybody because people would freak out like you did. (Alex's face indicates that he is in pain.) What's wrong with you?

ALEX: Son of a... (Alex pulls his hand out of the bucket.) Ow! Ah! Take your handout of there before it falls off!

(Alex pulls Megan's hand out of the bucket.)

MEGAN: You need to relax.

ALEX: You didn't feel anything? Nothing?

MEGAN: No. Nobody ever believes me. Like yesterday in school this kid said I was full of it. I had to let him punch me in the stomach twenty five times before he believed me. And once with a baseball bat.

ALEX: What?

Alex is getting Megan ready for a CT scan.)

MEGAN: How much is this gonna cost my parents?

ALEX: That's not something you need to be worrying about.

(Alex lifts Megan onto the scanner.)

MEGAN: But this is so stupid. I'm fine. (To a nurse) Hey! Punch me in the stomach, right here.

ALEX: Stop telling people to punch you in the stomach. You need to lie down and not move. Whichof your superfriends can do that?

(Bailey and Addison are talking to Megan's parents.)

BAILEY: Megan's bleeding internally.

MR CLOVER: What?

BAILEY: It appears there's some severe trauma to her abdomen.

MR CLOVER: You're trying to ask us if we hit her. We've said ten times in ten different ways...

BAILEY: Social services cleared you and I'm sorry that we suggested you were mistreating her. But she's hurt pretty badly so we're gonna need to operate.

MRS CLOVER: Oh my God...

ADDISON: Megan may have a chromosomal condition that causes her to not feel any pain when she's injured. It would explain why she gets hurt so often.

BAILEY: We need to do some genetic testing before we can be sure, but let's assume she'll need to be monitored very closely from now on.

(Alex enters the room.)

ALEX: We got OR Three.

MRS CLOVER: So surgery is the only option?

BAILEY: I think it is. I know you've been put through the wringer already today, but I need to ask you to trust me on this one.

ALEX: Where is she? Where's Megan?

(They all look over to the wheelchair where Megan was sitting. It's empty.)

(Alex and George are searching for Megan.)

ALEX: Megan!

GEORGE: It's not easy. If you think you're a superhero, you're not gonna let someone come at you with a knife. There's no way to tell what it can do to your powers. I mean, you take away Green Lantern's ring, Hal Jordan is still a hero but it creates a crisis of confidence when...

ALEX: Come on Megan!

(Alex is still searching for Megan.)

ALEX: Megan? Come on, enough already.

(Alex spots something moving under a gurney. He looks under it and sees Megan.)

ALEX: We've got half the hospital looking for you. Your powers of invisibility are well intact. Get up!

(Alex lifts Megan to her feet.)

MEGAN: You're a hosebag, you know that?

ALEX: And you have a potty mouth.

MEGAN: Nobody's cutting me open.

ALEX: Hey! It's surgery, we do it al the time. In fact, it's all we do.

MEGAN: You can't keep telling my foster parents I'm defective. They can't afford surgery, it's too expensive.

(Alex lifts Megan into a wheelchair.)

ALEX: They can handle it.

MEGAN: They'll send me back.

ALEX: Dude, that's stupid. They've got their own personal superhero. Nobody sends back a superhero.

MEGAN: I thought you said I didn't have superpowers.

ALEX: Yeah well you don't, but take away Green Lantern's ring, the guy's still a hero. Right?

(Bailey is operating on Megan. Alex is assisting her.)

ALEX: Man, she wasn't kidding about the baseball bat.

BAILEY: We need more lat pads. Just keep'em coming.

ALEX: Are your going to reset the liver?

BAILEY: We need to try and do a debrievement. Look at this. Everybody wants a life without pain. What does it get you? She needs to be on a poster somewhere. To remind people pain's there for a reason.

(Cut to: Megan is lying in her room, recovering from surgery, her parents standing over her. Alex watches through the window.)


(Alex walks up to Bailey.)

ALEX: Megan's stable. I ordered a Repute H and H in two hours.

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