Episode Report Card Lauren S: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Quittin' Time
By Lauren S | Season 7 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.04.2010
Mary may not be alive and pumping blood through her veins, but the autopsy is still nice and disgusting as Anna finishes cutting out her ribcage. Bailey takes it and moons over it while Anna gets to work and simultaneously handles some dinner reservations thanks to the modern marvel of bluetooth technology. Bailey notices that she's pulling out blood clots that resemble pebbles but has a hard time breaking in through Anna's arguing with the poor sod on the other end of the line. Finally she manages to get the other doc's attention and asks if they could mean something baditis, but Anna just brushes off that these are normal postmortem clots before getting back to the task of straightening out her supper plans.
Callie is signing some final paperwork but is much more interested in griping to Mark about Richard's "big plans" comment. She snarks that it doesn't matter, because she'll be creating bones out of dirt, then decides she's thinking too small and upgrades herself to using blood diamonds and ivory as well. Way to be a mature individual about the work you're going to do for needy children in Africa, Callie. Mark comments that those things might be frowned upon by the world community, but Callie flippantly jokes that it's not about making friends. Neither is the way she's behaving right now.
Outside. Dummies. Fake guts. Pouring rain. Basically, this has turned into the most miserable certification any of them could ever imagine, and April either hallucinates or tries to one-up Owen and make up her own rules when she claims to hear a helicopter. Owen doesn't answer because he's too busy chastising Alex for having mocked up some rain gear for himself out of a biohazard bag, since that would be better used on a patient. Alex doesn't care, seeing that the patients aren't actually real, but April is livid that he might mess up their certification. Alex just needles her that she's too uptight, which is why she has no friends, but Jackson actually calls, "Hey!" so Alex graciously amends it to her having one friend. It's kind of a nice reminder that these two supposedly really are friends, since we don't really see much interaction with them that would lead us to believe they are any closer with each other than with any of their other co-workers. Something about this exchange, though, makes April finally snap, and she goes and rips the bag off of Alex and puts it on her dummy, turning slightly manic as she does. Owen then announces that the green team's patients are all dead, but he makes the team "take a knee" and watch everyone else as they continue to work. Something about "take a knee" is what sets Jackson off -- he announces, rather crazed, that this is Apocalype Now and that Owen is going to just scalp all of them.