Yesterday

"After careful consideration and many sleepless nights, here’s what I've decided. There's no such thing as a grown-up. We move on, we move out, we move away from our families and form our own. But the basic insecurities, the basic fears and all those old wounds just grow up with us. And just when we think that life and circumstances have forced us truly, once and for all become an adult, your mother says something like that. Or worse, something like that. We get bigger, we get taller, we get older. But, for the most part, we're still a bunch of kids, running around the playground, trying desperately to fit in. I've heard that it’s possible to grow up, I've just never met anyone who’s actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don’t go our way. We whisper secrets with our best friend, in the dark. We look for comfort where we can find it. And we hope against all logic, against all experience, like children, we never give up hope."

- Meredith Grey

 is the eighteenth episode of the second season and the 27th overall episode of Grey's Anatomy.

Short Summary
A unwanted figure appears at Seattle Grace, as Mark Sloan tries to do surgery on a boy with facial tumors, which Derek deems too risky. Izzie deals with a patient with spontaneous orgasms, while Meredith visits her father.

Full Summary
Episode in detail.

Main Cast

 * Ellen Pompeo as Dr. Meredith Grey
 * Sandra Oh as Dr. Cristina Yang
 * Katherine Heigl as Dr. Izzie Stevens
 * Justin Chambers as Dr. Alex Karev
 * T.R. Knight as Dr. George O'Malley
 * Chandra Wilson as Dr. Miranda Bailey
 * James Pickens, Jr. as Dr. Richard Webber
 * Kate Walsh as Dr. Addison Montgomery-Shepherd
 * Isaiah Washington as Dr. Preston Burke
 * Patrick Dempsey as Dr. Derek Shepherd

Guest Starring

 * Eric Dane as Dr. Mark Sloan
 * Jeff Perry as Thatcher Grey
 * Julio Oscar Mechoso as Chuck Eaton
 * Arlene Tur as Pamela Calva
 * Jesse Plemons as Jake Burton
 * Steven W. Bailey as Joe
 * Kate Burton as Ellis Grey

Co-Starring

 * Carlos Cervantes as Mr. Calva
 * Deborah Geffner as Mrs. Burton
 * David Grant Wright as Mr. Burton
 * Brooke Blanchard as Jill the Paramedic
 * Ariel Felix as CT Tech

Featuring

 * Chad Fisk as Anesthesiologist

Uncredited

 * Gary Houck as MRI Technician

Patient

 * Diagnosis:
 * Doctors:
 * Treatment:

Music

 * "Diplo Rhythm" - Diplo, Pantera Os Danadinhos, Sandra Melody & Vybz Cartel
 * "Night Rocker" - The Chalets
 * "Just One Breath" - Devics
 * "Closer" - Joshua Radin
 * "It Don't Matter to the Sun" - Rosie Thomas
 * "Everybody Needs a Fence to Lean On" - Headlights
 * "Like a Star" - Corinne Bailey Rae
 * "Wish I Was Dead Pt. 2" - Shout Out Louds
 * "Cosy In the Rocket" - Psapp
 * "Baby Blue" - All Sad Girls Are Beautiful

Notes and Trivia

 * This episode's title originated from the song Yesterday, originally sung by The Beatles.
 * This episode scored 24.36 million viewers.
 * Meredith coins Mark's nickname of "McSteamy" after first trying "McSexy" and Izzie suggesting "McYummy."

Quotes

 * Richard: Punching out people on my surgical floor. My head of neurosurgery punching out people on my surgical floor!
 * Addison: Put the ice back on your hand.
 * Derek: My hand is fine.
 * Richard: Put the damn ice on your two million a year hand! Now, would someone tell me what the hell happened?
 * (silence)
 * Addison: That was Mark.
 * Richard: Who’s Mark?
 * (pause)
 * Addison: He and Derek used to work together back in New York. (pause) And … They - we were all … close friends. (pause) Until... Derek found us in bed together.
 * Richard: (bending himself at Derek) Did you put your weight behind it?
 * Derek: Yes, sir.
 * Richard: Well, all right then.


 * George: Why is he suturing his own face?
 * Cristina: To turn me on.
 * Alex: Because he’s Mark Sloan. He’s like the go-to plastic surgeon on the east coast.
 * George: That’s the guy Addison was sleeping with?
 * Izzie: You can’t really blame her, can you?
 * Cristina: No, not really.
 * George: Yes, you can.
 * Meredith: McSexy wants an X-ray to check for fractures and I think it’s a bad idea if I take him.
 * George: Why? Why?
 * Alex: I'm on it.
 * George: Why's it a bad idea?
 * Cristina: McSexy?
 * Meredith: No?
 * Izzie: McYummy?
 * Meredith and Cristina: No.
 * Meredith: McSteamy.
 * Cristina: Aw, there it is.
 * Izzie: Yep.
 * George: Excuse me, I'm just choking back some … McVomit.


 * Cristina: (about Addison Shepherd) Anyone get what McDreamy or McSteamy sees in her?
 * Alex: She's McHot.
 * George: McYeah, she is.


 * Cristina: Ok, what's wrong with you?
 * Meredith: My mommy's is a filthy whore.