Episode Report Card Lauren S: B | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Smells Like Team Spirit
By Lauren S | Season 8 | Episode 7 | Aired on 10.27.2011
Lexie goes up to the roof where she finds Owen and Derek doing batting practice. Thank goodness they have a bit more sense with this than they do with their golfing and they are using a net so as not to bean some unsuspecting passerby down below with a softball. Though I suppose that would give Derek another awesome brain surgery. Lexie is annoyed because their patient's mom wants to know if her daughter is having surgery and she obviously considers softball kind of a waste of time. Owen, though, insists that he's just giving his brain a break to see if somehow he gets inspired once he loosens up. He gets a call so he has Lexie take over tossing balls for Derek; she gives him a bunch of tips and finally admits to a surprised Derek that she used to be a pitcher. She then brings up Mark's newest love, who has clearly set up camp right under Lexie's skin. At Owen's cheerleading she goes back to just giving Derek pointers and tells him that he needs to adjust his head since it's not connecting right with his body. This does suddenly give him an idea -- he declares that the head is at the wrong angle, and the two run off to go think about actual surgery again.
They then go to talk to Mrs. B, and Derek is confident that he can get the entire tumor, but does admit that there are bigger risks to this surgery than the other. Mrs. B is mainly worried about her daughter dying on the table though she talks as if this other brain surgery is totally risk-free. I mean, it's still brain surgery. Regardless, she's against having her daughter be the first test patient. Derek has thought out his approach this time, though, and he asks her if in all of her research she found any case that involved the child actually fully recovering? He knows full well what the answer is and reminds her that this way her daughter could actually have a life, and that this is the best shot she has. Her mom turns to look at her daughter in bed -- the future of America, texting furiously away.
Bailey walks in to the conference room where Henry and Owen are handing out jerseys and admits that she might not make it to the game since she has 49 more patients to call to tell them that their devices might wind up failing. Mark is there and tells them that Derek's going to miss the game too because of surgery -- I guess this means Mama B said yes. Teddy starts wriggling and shoots her hand in the air, begging again to be pitcher, and finally Owen agrees. Callie then comes in and smoothly asks him to sign off on something, but Owen doesn't miss that she's asking for approval for lots of expensive titanium hardware and whatnot for a hand she said wasn't going to make it. Callie just tells him she's trying to rebuild the hand and arranges to meet April in the OR. April then has a small meltdown when it turns out that they are out of small shirts, which shouldn't have happened with her order, so we know she hasn't yet kicked her admin assistant attitude. Mark and Jackson share a manly high-five over how awesome they are going to be, which just makes Lexie cranky. Jackson tells her that Mark is in a good mood which is actually making life great for Jackson since he's handling a ton of procedures, and seems to still be oblivious about the fact that Lexie is completely and totally jealous of Mark's new girl and associated sexed-up good mood. Everyone except the managers head out and Owen and Henry just keep trying to convince themselves that they are winners already because of their winning attitude.