William Dunn

William Dunn was a murderer and patient at Seattle Grace Hospital.

Childhood and growing up
William told Meredith that as a child, his parents would beat him everyday so he would hide under the sink and learnt to read by looking at the letters on the detergent bottles. However, when Meredith asked if it was true he replied "Whatever helps you sleep at night".

When his grandfather died he told Dunn he smelt lemons but Dunn never knew if it was true because his grandfather was a liar.

Personal life
William Dunn was detained in a high security prison after murdering five women. He was admitted to Seattle Grace Hospital a week before his execution after being stabed in the spine with a toothbrush that was sharpened.

Owen Hunt, Derek Shepherd, Cristina Yang (he described Cristina as "a bitch") and Meredith Grey were the only doctors assigned to the case. Derek strongly disliked him because his father was killed by a murderer and William provoked him further by saying that when people meet them, they are alive but one way or another they end up dead. Derek and Cristina gave him the necessary treatment and no more but Meredith still gave him some extra morphine when he said he was in pain.



William started talking to Meredith when Cristina and Derek were not around and he asked her which way medically would be better to die, hanging or lethal injection. He also told Meredith he was not afraid of dying, he just didn't wasnt to die strapped to a table like an animal. When he met Jackson Prescott, he offered his organs but obviously Jackson couldn't take them. Meredith told him that the organs were a match. After a surgery Meredith warned him that his head was quite fragile and not to hurt it, taking the hint he started to bang his head off the bed. When Cristina checked on him later and asked why Meredith hadn't paged Shepherd for his injuries Meredith insisted that she was following her patient's wishes. He was brought to surgery andDerek told her that he was just manipulating her.

His surgery was interrupted by Miranda Bailey who after hearing that Dunn's organs were a match for her patient, Jackson asked Derek to put down the scalpel and let Dunn die. Eventually she couldn't let him die and asked Derek to continue.

After the surgery, Dunn asked Meredith if she could attend his execution so he could at least see one friendly face in the crowd. Meredith attended it at Caldwell Correctional Facility and before he died he said quietly that he finally smelt lemons just like his grandfather said he had.