MEREDITH: Human beings need a lot of things to feel alive.
GEORGE: Family.
CRISTINA: Love.
IZZIE: Sex.
DEREK: But we only need one thing…
RICHARD: …to actually be alive.
CRISTINA: We need a beating heart.
ADDISON: And when our heart is threatened —
ALEX: — we respond in one of two ways.
GEORGE: We either run or —
IZZIE: — we attack.
RICHARD: There’s a scientific term for this.
ALEX: Fight.
ADDISON: Or flight.
BAILEY: It’s instinct.
MEREDITH: We can’t control it.
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