Grey's Anatomy (TV Series)

I Will Follow You Into the Dark (2009)

Patrick Dempsey: Dr. Derek Shepherd

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• Dr. Meredith Grey : [to Derek]  You cleaned all of your clothes out of the closet at the house.

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : Go home, Mer. Just go home.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : Well, how long are you planning on hiding out here? Because that's what you're doing. You're hiding. You made a mistake, she's dead and you can't hide from that.

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : I'm not hiding. I'm done. I'm done operating.

  [starts hitting empty beer cans with a baseball bat] 

  Dr. Meredith Grey : Oh, okay. So you're just quitting?

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : You should understand better than anybody else. You wrote the book on quitting, running, hiding. You've written a lot of books, Meredith.

• Dr. Meredith Grey : [to Derek]  How'd it go with the lawyers?

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : They told me my death rate.

  [looks at the small pile of files] 

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : These are the people I saved.

  [looks at the big pile of files] 

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : These are the people I killed.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : Okay. Well, most of those people were terminal when they came to you. You were their last chance and you take on impossible cases. Look at the clinical trial.

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : It's just so many people. More than Dahmer, Mason, and Bundy combined.

  Dr. Meredith Grey : You're not looking at the big picture.

  Dr. Derek Shepherd : [points to the big stack of files]  This is the big picture.