Grey's Anatomy, Season 2

Webber:
[one on one meeting with Cristina] I know your type. You're a surgical junkie.

Cristina:
Yes, sir.

Webber:
I'm just saying, it's not going to be easy for you to be away from the OR that long.

Cristina:
No, sir.

Webber:
And if you want to get back to the OR, you're gonna tell me what I need to know, aren't you?

Cristina:
You're right, it's not easy for me to be away from the OR. And it's not easy for me to sit in front of you, or any other authority figure for that matter, and not be able to give you the exact answer you want to hear. I'm the one with the answers. I've always been the one with the answers. But right now sir, I don't have any.

Webber:
Dr. Yang.

Cristina:
How do you keep your edge sir? Because I've watch you and you've been doing this a long time and you're clean, you're focused, you are the job, nothing gets to you. And the thing is sir, I was like that, until I got here. Until I actually started doing this job and now everything is, is fuzzy...

Webber:
That's beside the point.

Cristina:
No see sir, this is the point. Because I can't tell you what happened in that room, I can't tell you. And before I could have, no guilt, no loyalties, no problem. Before, before I wouldn't have even been in that room. I wouldn't have gotten involved. I would have never frozen in surgery. And I would have told him what I thought he should do. I had an edge, sir. I had an edge and I've lost it, and I need it. I need it back. [tearing up] So, if you could just tell me, how you keep yours and how not to be affected, I know I could be a great surgeon. So if you could just give me the answers, I would really appreciate it.

Webber:
You're excused Dr. Yang.

Cristina:
But...

Webber:
You're excused.

Cristina:
I'll tell you, I'll tell you who cut the LVAD wires, sir, if you'll please...

Webber:
No you won't, I don't want to know. Not from you. Yeah, I have the answers, but I can't tell them to you. I'm not going to be responsible for you becoming less human.