Grey's Anatomy Episode Guide

Season 1--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Season 1, Episode 1: A Hard Day's Night
27 March 2005
Meet Meredith Grey. Daughter of famous surgeon Ellis Grey and currently a first year intern at Seattle Grace Hospital. On her first day, she meets her fellow interns: Cristina Yang, a highly competitive Stanford graduate. George O'Malley, a quirky yet warm hearted guy. Izzie Stevens, a former model who's always optimistic. Overseeing them is Miranda Bailey, dubbed by her coworkers "The Nazi". Meredith also gets a surprise when she realizes that her one night stand from the night before is her new boss.

Season 1, Episode 2: The First Cut Is the Deepest
3 April 2005
The surgical staff tries to be optimistic as a young woman clings to life after a brutal attack. Meanwhile, Meredith puts her career on the line to save a newborn in the hospital nursery, and the other interns learn that it takes more than just medical knowledge to be good at their jobs.

Season 1, Episode 3: Winning a Battle, Losing the War
10 April 2005
A bike race injures several people, one of whom is left brain dead. Cristina and Izzie want to use his organs for organ donation, but they find the organ harvesting process an emotional one. Meanwhile, George deals with an over-flirtatious patient, and Meredith has to deal with Izzie and George moving in, Alex showing off, and keeping Derek at arm's length.

Season 1, Episode 4: No Man's Land
17 April 2005
George feels less masculine when Izzie and Meredith treat him like a sister. When Izzie's last modeling shoot is published, Alex decides to play a cruel joke on her, and a patient recognizes her. Meanwhile, Derek treats a patient who has several nails stuck in his head, and a woman who knew Meredith's mother arrives in the hospital.

Season 1, Episode 5: Shake Your Groove Thing
24 April 2005
Meredith realizes that she must take on a lot more responsibility when she is told that her mother needs to sign over all of her assets to her. Izzie prepares to have a party for her boyfriend Hank's visit, but the size of the party far exceeds her expectations. Meredith has her first heart surgery, during which she fears that she has accidentally damaged the patient's heart. Meanwhile, Cristina and Burke hit it off.

Season 1, Episode 6: If Tomorrow Never Comes
1 May 2005
All of the interns are in awe when a woman comes in with a record breaking tumor, but it is so far advanced that the woman's prognosis is not good. Now that Bailey knows about Meredith and Derek's affair, their jobs are in jeopardy, and she strongly advises Meredith to end it. Meanwhile, Cristina and Burke's secret relationship gets more complicated, and when no one else can be reached, Izzie has to perform a major procedure on her own.

Season 1, Episode 7: The Self-Destruct Button
8 May 2005
Derek and Meredith try to be discreet as they spend the night together at Meredith's house, but their haggard appearance speaks volumes to Bailey, who warns Meredith to end the relationship. Meanwhile, George suspects an anesthesiologist of drinking on the job, Alex treats a former competitor who now finds honor in self-mutilation, Izzie has to deal with a patient who won't let his girlfriend go, literally, and Cristina battles a case of what seems to be the flu.

Season 1, Episode 8: Save Me
15 May 2005
Meredith grows increasingly dissatisfied with fact that she knows nothing about Derek's life. Meanwhile, Alex treats a patient whose religious beliefs jeopardize her chances for recovery, and Izzie contemplates reconnecting with her estranged mother. Also, a pregnant woman in her 40s who's been diagnosed with cancer disagrees with Cristina's medical advice. And the interns are mystified by a patient who's being treated for seizures and who thinks he's psychic.

Season 1, Episode 9: Who's Zoomin' Who?
22 May 2005
A sexually transmitted disease breaks out and affects several members of the hospital staff. Meanwhile, Webber reluctantly tells Derek about his own medical concerns. Izzie and Cristina worry about a patient's wife and daughter who can't agree on his care. Burke treats his college buddy Bill, whose medical diagnosis raises some questions regarding his wife's actions. And just as Meredith and Derek grow more intimate, a surprise from his past shows up.

Season 2--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Season 2, Episode 1: Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
25 September 2005
Season 2, Episode 2: Enough Is Enough
2 October 2005
Season 2, Episode 3: Make Me Lose Control
9 October 2005
Season 2, Episode 4: Deny, Deny, Deny
16 October 2005
Season 2, Episode 5: Bring the Pain
23 October 2005
Season 2, Episode 6: Into You Like a Train
30 October 2005
Season 2, Episode 7: Something to Talk About
6 November 2005
Season 2, Episode 8: Let It Be
13 November 2005
Season 2, Episode 9: Thanks for the Memories
20 November 2005
Thanksgiving sends the occupants of the house in different directions: Meredith escapes to the hospital, George goes hunting with his family, and Izzie throws a dinner that it appears no one is coming to.
Season 2, Episode 10: Much Too Much
27 November 2005
Season 2, Episode 11: Owner of a Lonely Heart
4 December 2005
Season 2, Episode 12: Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
11 December 2005
Season 2, Episode 13: Begin the Begin
15 January 2006
Season 2, Episode 14: Tell Me Sweet Little Lies
22 January 2006
Season 2, Episode 15: Break on Through
29 January 2006
Season 2, Episode 16: It's the End of the World
5 February 2006
The lives of everyone in the OR are threatened when a patient enters with a bomb inside of him... and a young paramedic with her arm inside the cavity is the only thing keeping it from going off.
Season 2, Episode 17: As We Know It
12 February 2006
While the man with the bomb lodged in his chest remains in Burke's OR, Bailey's injured husband remains in Derek's. Meanwhile, Bailey still hasn't delivered her baby.
Season 2, Episode 18: Yesterday
19 February 2006
Derek and Addison are shaken by the arrival of someone from their past. Meanwhile, Burke learns Cristina's secret, and Meredith delves into her family's dirty laundry.
Season 2, Episode 19: What Have I Done to Deserve This?
26 February 2006
Season 2, Episode 20: Band-Aid Covers the Bullet Hole
12 March 2006
Cristina babysits for Bailey and doesn't take to it well at all. Meanwhile, Addison and Derek come to terms with their relationship, and Denny keeps coming between Alex and Izzie.
Season 2, Episode 21: Superstition
19 March 2006
Season 2, Episode 22: The Name of the Game
2 April 2006
George begins to overstay his welcome at Burke and Cristina's apartment. Cristina takes a seminar and discovers that Chief Webber is taking it too. Meanwhile, Meredith learns a startling secret about her father, Bailey worries her colleagues will not treat her the same now that she's a mother, and Alex gets a lesson in bedside manners.
Season 2, Episode 23: Blues for Sister Someone
30 April 2006
While Izzie grills George about the personal details of his life, Addison takes Alex to task about a sensitive case. Also, Burke feels the pressure when he treats his musical hero, and Meredith considers dating a hunky vet.
Season 2, Episode 24: Damage Case
7 May 2006
The interns care for a family involved in a car accident. Derek lets his emotions get the better of him.
Season 2, Episode 25: 17 Seconds
14 May 2006
Burke and Izzie continue to search for a new heart. The residents treat victims of a workplace shooting.
Season 2, Episode 26: Deterioration of the Fight or Flight Response
15 May 2006
The struggle to get Denny a heart continues. Christina gets to run her own trauma. Shepherd is responsible for a friend's life. The Chief's niece is brought to the ER by his wife.

Season 2, Episode 27: Losing My Religion
15 May 2006
The chief tries to determine who's responsible. Callie presses George about his feelings. Derek and Meredith have to make a decision about Doc. The residents are charged with pleasing the chief's niece.

Season 3
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Season 3, Episode 1: Time Has Come Today
Original Air Date: 21 September 2006
When Izzie has a mental collapse after Denny's death, Izzie and Christina turn to Meredith to try and make it better for her. Callie tries to cope with George not returning the three word sentiment she said to him. Meanwhile, back at the hospital, Alex and Addison deal with a baby left in a garbage can at a local high school, Richard receives and ultimatum from his wife, and Derrick and George are quarantined in the locker room due to a patient suspected of having the plague.

Season 3, Episode 2: I Am a Tree
Original Air Date: 21 September 2006
Patients include a teen aged boy with a tree run through him, a man with a tumor on his brain that forces him to be honest, and a patient who goes all out on living before her surgery as the interns begin to go all out on Bailey to ask Izzy to come back to Seattle Grace; Dr. Burke's mother goes all out on breaking Christine's will; Addison goes all out with the bottle, because she found some interesting pocket fanfare in her husband's tuxedo after the prom; and Callie goes all out to make George jealous.

Season 3, Episode 3: Sometimes a Fantasy
Original Air Date: 5 October 2006
Cristina refuses to quit, like she thinks Preston has. Finn and Derek refuse to quit on Meredith, who insist that they date her. Izzie won't quit standing out front of Seattle Grace, waiting for the time she feels is right to see Dr. Webber. Mark won't quit on giving up on Addison, who now realizes her marriage to Derek is over. And Alex wishes she would quit picking him as her intern in the OB-GYN department.

Season 3, Episode 4: What I Am
Original Air Date: 12 October 2006
Denny's father (Fred Ward) visits Izzie and gives her something that will change everything. Meanwhile, Meredith is diagnosed with appendicitis and while waiting for emergency surgery and high on morphine has a talk with Addison for the first time since Addison found the panties. Mark "McSteamy" Sloan starts working at the hospital and Alex wants to work under him instead of Addison because Mark has a patient with severe facial burns. And while Callie and George break up, Meredith finally picks one man.

Season 3, Episode 5: Oh, the Guilt
Original Air Date: 19 October 2006
Guilt causes different actions in everyone, the interns are allowed to attend an M&M meeting, and Derek and Addison finalize things.

Season 3, Episode 6: Let the Angels Commit
Original Air Date: 2 November 2006
Derrick's sister comes to Seattle for a visit, and seems more into the extended family and gossip surrounding his divorce from Addison than into him. Meanwhile, the interns are not the only ones jealous of Cristina's opportunity to scrub in with Preston on a "Humpty Dumpty" procedure, and Bailey takes it personal when she learns she's been scrubbed, herself. George works with Addison on a very unusual case and Alex envies him.

Season 3, Episode 7: Where the Boys Are
Original Air Date: 9 November 2006
Derrick was looking forward to getting away from it all for a few days, until his co-workers all go along on a camping trip. Bailey confronts Cristina and another doctor confronts Izzie about her feelings surrounding Denny. Addison and Callie are confronted by a major problem with a pregnant patient.

Season 3, Episode 8: Staring at the Sun
Original Air Date: 16 November 2006
George must deal with his family when his father is admitted, Richard comes to a decision about his marriage, and Burke's secret is closer to getting out.

Season 3, Episode 9: From a Whisper to a Scream
Original Air Date: 23 November 2006
A traumatic car accident fills the ER; Cristina has a crisis of conscience about her deceptive teamwork with Burke; Izzie pushes the boundaries of probation.

Season 3, Episode 10: Don't Stand So Close to Me
Original Air Date: 30 November 2006
Miranda is adamant that Burke and Cristina be punished, Derek doubts his abilities, Izzie takes a stand, and Meredith deals with family in two very different ways.

Season 3, Episode 11: Six Days: Part 1
Original Air Date: 11 January 2007
As Mr. O'Malley's surgery approaches, he begins to suspect how serious his condition is, Izzie has to take a positive step to scrub in on a surgery, and Meredith keeps running in to her father.

Season 3, Episode 12: Six Days: Part 2
Original Air Date: 18 January 2007
George's dad has a rocky road to recovery, Cristina and Burke continue their war of silence, and Meredith reaches out to her father.

Season 3, Episode 13: Great Expectations
Original Air Date: 25 January 2007
George deals with his grief, Cristina and Burke's not talking makes for an interesting dinner party, and the Chief has made an decision that sends all the attending doctors scrambling.

Season 3, Episode 14: Wishin' and Hopin'
Original Air Date: 1 February 2007
A toxic cancer patient immobilizes the hospital, George has an announcement, and Izzie frets that her money wasn't well spent. Meredith, meanwhile, has new issues with her mother and Cristina worries that having a personal life could affect her career.

Season 3, Episode 15: Walk on Water
Original Air Date: 8 February 2007
The interns face a mass-casualty incident while George crosses the professional line with Callie, Cristina asks Preston to let her tell Meredith about their engagement before anyone else finds out, and the Chief dons a new hair style.

Season 3, Episode 16: Drowning on Dry Land
Original Air Date: 15 February 2007
Cristina keeps an eye out around the hospital for Meredith to tell her about Cristina's impending nuptials. Izzie fights for the life of her patient, still trapped between two vehicles on the ferry and Derrick also searches for Meredith, wondering where she's disappeared to. Alex gets the job of notifying friends and family members about the status of loved ones.

Season 3, Episode 17: Some Kind of Miracle
Original Air Date: 22 February 2007
Meredith interacts with some memories, all while the Chief, Burke and Bailey devise an unusual resuscitation maneuver. Meanwhile, Cristina has her own therapy and Derek speaks his mind to Ellis.

Season 3, Episode 18: Scars and Souvenirs
Original Air Date: 15 March 2007
A Korean war veteran with an old bullet left in his shoulder is admitted into Seattle Grace. Tensions escalate between Izzie and George, and Callie must reveal a big secret. Alex continues to work with Jane Doe.

Season 3, Episode 19: My Favorite Mistake
Original Air Date: 22 March 2007
Izzie seems to be the only one with a memory of the previous night, Derek gets over-protective when Meredith gets a surgery, and one of Callie's relatives comes to town.

Season 3, Episode 20: Time After Time
Original Air Date: 19 April 2007
Meredith deals with an overbearing step-mother. Christina finds herself caught between Burke and Marlow. Derek fights for the job of Chief. Akex continues the search for Jane Doe's identity. And Izzie's past comes looking for her.

Season 3, Episode 21: Desire
Original Air Date: 26 April 2007
The Chairman of Seattle Grace's board of directors is admitted and all the attendings vie for his favor, Izzy and George keep getting confronted by the results of infidelity, and Preston presses Cristina for a decision.

Season 3, Episode 22: The Other Side of This Life: Part 1
Original Air Date: 3 May 2007
Addison leaves for warmer climes and to figure things out, Susan visits the clinic, and Cristina's perfect wedding is changed when her and Burke's mothers hit town.

Season 3, Episode 23: The Other Side of This Life: Part 2
Original Air Date: 3 May 2007
Addison is pulled into the case of a high-risk surrogate mother, Susan develops a complication, Izzy struggles with George's decision, and Ava has surgery that may restore her memory.

Season 3, Episode 24: Testing 1-2-3
Original Air Date: 10 May 2007
The interns take the biggest test of their careers, their first-year medical exams, as the residents attend to three injured mountain climbers. Meanwhile Callie's suspicions of George and Izzie grow, and Cristina struggles to write her wedding vows.

Season 3, Episode 25: Didn't We Almost Have It All?
Original Air Date: 17 May 2007
The wedding day arrives, and Cristina desperately needs something to take her mind off it, the fourth climber is found and his condition doesn't match the other climbers' stories, and Adele's condition brings a change for Richard.

Season 4

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Season 4
Season 4, Episode 1: A Change Is Gonna Come
Original Air Date: 27 September 2007
The interns, now residents, deal with their own crops of interns. Callie struggles with her new position, and Burke makes a decision.

Season 4, Episode 2: Love/Addiction
Original Air Date: 4 October 2007
Lexie persists in trying to get to know Meredith, and Mama Burke descends once more.

Season 4, Episode 3: Let the Truth Sting
Original Air Date: 11 October 2007
Callie hides in her office, frustrating Bailey who's itching to teach someone, and age becomes the theme as Izzie tries to convince 'Really Old Guy' he shouldn't die, Webber and Sloan set out to prove they're not too old to learn a new technique, and Karev is saddled with an intern who's past his prime.

Season 4, Episode 4: The Heart of the Matter
Original Air Date: 18 October 2007
Meredith and her intern lose a patient after they give her the wrong diagnosis, Callie confronts Izzie, and McDreamy bonds with the other Grey.

Season 4, Episode 5: Haunt You Every Day
Original Air Date: 25 October 2007
Meredith feels she's being haunted by her Mother's ashes, and Cristina is denied a surgery for a surprising reason.

Season 4, Episode 6: Kung Fu Fighting
Original Air Date: 1 November 2007
A man survives a parachute accident without serious injury, two women refuse treatment because of a wedding contest, and Cristina and Izzie jockey for inclusion in Hahn's surgeries.

Season 4, Episode 7: Physical Attraction... Chemical Reaction
Original Air Date: 8 November 2007
Hahn bans Cristina from her service, Bailey covers more and more of Torres' duties, and Izzie and George take go to extreme lengths to recapture the magic of their first encounter.

Season 4, Episode 8: Forever Young
Original Air Date: 15 November 2007
Bailey crosses the line when the guy she had a crush on in high school shows up in the ER during an onslaught of high school students involved in a bus crash. The Grey sisters run and hide when their father shows up drunk, while Derek tries to get back into the dating scene with another doctor and Cristina tries her best to get back into Hahn's good graces.

Season 4, Episode 9: Crash Into Me: Part 1
Original Air Date: 22 November 2007
An accident in the ER bay leaves two paramedics fighting for their lives, and a third who refuses Bailey's care. Meanwhile Alex juggles two women, and Lexie begins to bond with a patient.

Season 4, Episode 10: Crash Into Me: Part 2
Original Air Date: 6 December 2007
Tragedy abounds for everyone at Seattle Grace as they all continue in efforts to get the paramedic out of the overturned ambulance, stop the bleeding of a man who won't quit, and a bigot with a Nazi tattoo on his stomach. On the personal side, Rebecca returns to spend time with Alex, Miranda's husband finds it harder to wait for her while she's in surgery, and Cristina still tries to get on Hahn's good side, even though Bailey has put her elsewhere.

Season 4, Episode 11: Lay Your Hands on Me
Original Air Date: 10 January 2008
Bailey's son comes to the ER, Derek takes a housing step that puts pressure on Meredith, Izzie has a crisis of faith, and Cristina's choice may change her course with Hahn.

Season 4, Episode 12: Where the Wild Things Are
Original Air Date: 24 April 2008
The judgment of the residents is skewed by a competition, Meredith tries therapy and a bear attack may be more than it appears.

Season 4, Episode 13: Piece of My Heart
Original Air Date: 1 May 2008
Addison is not prepared for all the changes that greet her upon her return to Seattle Grace for a specialized surgery, Meredith and Derek begin their clinical trial, Izzie feels left out, and Karev is confronted with an unexpected announcement.

Season 4, Episode 14: The Becoming
Original Air Date: 8 May 2008
The new clinical trial patient has a secret, Yang is dealt a blow from a distance by Burke, the nurses refuse to work with Sloan, and Meredith's therapist tells her some home truths.

Season 4, Episode 15: Losing My Mind
Original Air Date: 15 May 2008


Season 4, Episode 16: Freedom
Original Air Date: 22 May 2008