Episode 1 | A Hard Day's Night

The first shift for new surgical interns Meredith, Cristina, Izzie, George, and Alex proves eventful and backbreaking.

Episode 2 | The First Cut Is the Deepest

A rape victim is admitted, who managed to hold onto part of her attacker; Izzie has difficulty with a patient who cannot speak English; Meredith becomes concerned about a sick baby.

Episode 3 | Winning a Battle, Losing the War

Izzie and Cristina are assigned a close-to-brain-dead John Doe who may be a viable candidate for organ donation, and helpful to George's patient, who needs a new liver. Meanwhile, Meredith and Alex butt heads over a patient of the...

Episode 4 | No Man's Land

Alex uses Izzie's modeling against her, and her last ad causes a patient to reject her care. Meredith finds parallels between a patient and her mother, and Christina must deal with a hospital-savvy patient.

Episode 5 | Shake Your Groove Thing

Meredith worries she did something wrong during a heart bypass, an error in a past procedure is discovered, putting a staff member's conduct under scrutiny, while a party thrown by Izzie to introduce her boyfriend becomes a fiasco.

Episode 6 | If Tomorrow Never Comes

A woman with a massive tumor is admitted, with all the surgeons required to scrub in. In their absence, Meredith is assigned a patient with Parkinson's and, because Alex's pager is not working, Izzie is left in charge of the floor...

Episode 7 | The Self-Destruct Button

Izzie and George find out about Meredith and Derek, while Cristina makes a discovery of her own. George thinks an anesthesiologist is drinking on the job, and Meredith deals with a young girl who has had illegal surgery.

Episode 8 | Save Me

Meredith wants to learn more about Derek, but he remains cagey. Meanwhile, a supposedly psychic patient proves bothersome, Alex must convince a young girl to agree to a life saving operation, and Cristina is conflicted about her p...

Episode 9 | Who's Zoomin' Who?

George finally gets laid but gets syphilis. It's rampant among staff. Surgeon Webber is losing his sight. He wants Shepherd to operate secretly. A male patient has an ovary. A lifesaving autopsy's performed without consent.