5x17 I Will Follow You Into the Dark - Grey's Anatomy Episode Guide

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- Episode 05x17

Episode: 05x17
Title: I Will Follow You Into the Dark
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 517
First Aired: Mar. 12, 2009

Season 5 » Episode #17 - I Will Follow You Into the Dark

Grey's Anatomy - 05x17 I Will Follow You Into the Dark

Summary: Izzie has the interns help her identify "Patient X"'s dilemma, and is unprepared for what they find. Bailey and Meredith perform a surgery where they remove a woman's stomach to protect her from a very invasive form of stomach cancer that runs in her family. Hunt and Karev treat a high school marching band player with seizures. Shepherd has to come to grips with killing one of his patients.

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Who appeared in this episode?

Dr. Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens	played by Katherine Heigl
Dave Young	played by Larry Sullivan
Blowhole	played by Larry Sullivan
Kendall Sully	played by Emily Kuroda
Dr. Ryan Spalding	played by Brandon Scott (II)
Milo	played by Candace Brown (III)
Dexter	played by Michael Merton
Shayna	played by Greta Sesheta
Sharon	played by Darcy Martin

Season 5 / Episode 17: - I Will Follow You Into the Dark

Dr. Meredith Grey: Meredith [closing voiceover] Practicing medicine doesn't lend itself well to the making of friends. Maybe because life and mortality are in our faces all the time. Maybe because, in staring down death every day, we're forced to know that life, every minute, is borrowed time. And each person we let ourselves care about is just one more loss somewhere down the line. For this reason, I know some doctors who just don't bother making friends at all. But the rest of us, we make it our job to move that line, to push each loss as far away as we can.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

FAKE: The patient awaiting a face transplant - the one they call "Blowhole" - has no visible lips nor moving mouth parts. Yet he is able to clearly form the "b", "m", and "p" sounds which require the lips to interact with each other, as well as the "f" and "v" sounds which require the teeth to interact with the lips. The actor was either wearing a full prosthesis and speaking with his normal mouth behind the prosthesis, or his entire dialog was dubbed later without the prosthesis on. A patient with such a facial deformity would have a severe speech impediment, particularly with the letters listed above.