After that exciting day, Jess bids an intern goodnight, she heads for exit, but is stopped by Ruby.
“Hey, Jess! Crowley asked to see you in private before you go. You know. Already has his coffee, but maybe he wants some coffee cake too.”
Jess laughs at the little joke, “Alright. You need any help?”
Ruby blows her off, “Nope, I'm good!”
Jess bids farewell to her retreating back and heads over to where Crowley's in the classroom, and knocks on the door.
“Come on in, Miss Moore.”
Jess enters, and asks, “You wanted to see me?”
Crowley nods, “I did. Have a seat.”
Jess asks, “Everything okay?”
Crowley starts, “Today you followed your gut, and it turns out 6ou were absolutely right. I should've listened when you said Noah is blind.”
Jess is surprised to be getting suck an outright compliment. “Thank you.”
Crowley goes on, “About that alibi…”
Jess, thinking he's going to try and get her to admit it, “Look, I can't…”
But Crowley has another reason for bringing it up, “You took initiative to come in early and talk to your patient one-on-one so you could get it. That's the making of a good doctor. You also gained your patient's trust, and kept it. That makes an even better one. You're very smart, Jess. Smarter than most of the guys I'm mentoring.”
Jess is blown away by all of these compliments, “Wow.”
Crowley moves onto why he actually called her here, “I think we should start talking about your career path. You thought about where you're going to intern over the summer?”
Jess wasn't expecting that, “Um, actually no. Not really. I know it's even more competitive than law school.”
Crowley rolls his eyes, “Come on. We all know how people win competitions, right? It's about destroying anyone that gets in your way. Knowing your opponent's weaknesses, and exposing them for your advantage.”
This is all starting to make Jess feel uncomfortable, but Crowley keeps talking.
“Knowing exactly what you want, and what you're willing to do to get it. So my question is, what are you willing to do?” And he leans forward to kiss her, planting his lips on hers.
What neither of them can see is Ruby came back, saw the kiss, and stormed off, disgusted.
So she completely misses Jess pulling back and slapping him. “What the hell are you doing?”
Crowley just says, “You're very pretty.”
Jess stands up, clearly upset, “So all that talk before? About me being smart?”
Crowley explains, “I'm just another man who knows what he wants, and I get it.”
Jess says, “And I'm a medical student who's just realized her professor is just another neanderthal.” And storms out. She hears him call out, “Too bad. I thought you wanted to be a doctor!”
Jess moves straight for the exit, down the long hallway, but apparently Ruby never left at all, and she stops Jess to tell her, “You really had me going there for a while.”
Jess is too upset to really comprehend what's happening, “Huh?”
Ruby says, “Why don't you sleep with the chief of medicine too? Then we can get the whole case thrown out!” And storms off.
Jess finally makes it outside the hospital, tears in her eyes, when surprisingly, she bumps into Sam, who can clearly see she's upset.
“I'm getting the hell out of here.”
Sam has no idea what could've changed her mind so fast, “What? Why?”
“This was a mistake. Med school, the internship, all of it!”
Sam's quick to remind her, “No, it wasn't! You earned it!”
Jess yells, “I didn't earn one damn thing! Crowley just gave me the internship because he wanted to get in my pants. Which he wasn't shy about tonight when he kissed me.”
Sam's shocked. He can't believe his own boss would do something like that. “Crowley what?”
Jess moves on, “Forget it. I'm going home. No more lab coats, no ugly scrubs, no more playing dress up! I'm clearly not supposed to be a doctor.”
Sam says, “Well, what if you are? To hell with Crowley! Stay and fight this!”
Jess’ mind is made up, “Look me up if you're in my neck of the woods, alright?” and walks to her car and drives away.
Next morning, she's at the nail salon saying goodbye to Donna, and Donna's just finishing her spiel on why she should stay.
“What's the point, Donna? All anyone is ever gonna see when they look at me is a piece of ass. Nobody is ever gonna give me a real chance. Nobody in medical school does, Brady doesn't. Pretty sure my own friends from home don't either.”
Jess pauses, and admits the real reason this all just royally sucks,
“It just felt like for the first time, someone was actually giving me that real chance to be someone other than a party girl.”
Donna nods, and Jess goes on, “But who am I trying to fool? All Crowley saw was someone he could take advantage of, not a med student. It's no different here than anywhere else. I'm just another thing for them to laugh about after I'm long gone.”
Donna shakes her head, “No, hun, you're not.” and hugs her again.
When they pull back this time, Jess says, “Hell with Harvard. I just came to say goodbye.”
But what she doesn't see is that Professor McLeod is in the salon as well, and heard everything. Now, she turns to look right at Jess as she says,
“If you're really gonna let one stupid wanker make you give up on yourself…”
Jess is surprised, but doesn't move as McLeod walks over to where they're standing.
“You're not the doctor I've been seeing in my classes the past two years.”
And in that one statement, two things become apparent to Jess. One, her toughest professor just called her a doctor. Two, she realizes how little and insignificant Crowley is in her life, along with Brady. Sure, she came to Harvard for Brady, but she had to do all the work to get in on her own. She aced her MCATs and got in, and when she realized Brady still saw her as some stupid fling, she got serious. And regardless of Crowley's motives, she DID get that internship. And she didn't need Brady's approval or affection to know she could do all of that. She did all of that on her own.
And more importantly, she's become so attached to the life she's started to build here, she realizes she doesn't want to give it up. Not for Crowley, not for anything. She's got more work to do.
