Episode Report Card 34 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Stick a Fork in It
By Lauren S | Season 10 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.07.2013
Cristina goes to the research lab to finally check out the printer and finds Stephanie still standing guard while it works away at creating the liver model. She asks casually what would happen if they paused it and Cristina reports that the model would become a useless hunk of plastic and Mere would be set back a full day in her research. (Do I not understand medical research? One day doesn't seem like a huge setback to me given how long I imagine medical studies to take. I mean, I get that it would be a shitty move and waste the printer "ink" and cause a rift and blah blah, but still. One day?) Stephanie adds that also, Mere would want to murder her. Cristina thinks about this and then leaves.
Jackson is helping Derek with Harvey's surgery, and Derek offers to let him do some of the work himself. Leah comes in at that moment to tell him they are needed on a couple of traumas that are arriving and asks if she can do the sutures herself. Jackson dismisses her, saying he'll take care if it and will be there in an hour. Once she shuffles out, Derek stands up for her, but Jackson cockily says that he knows she's good, but he's better. Did he and Mere go out for drinks spiced with extract of jackass ego juice or something? Derek gives him a note about the work he's doing, and calls him a dumbass, which catches Jackson by surprise. Calmly, Derek just keeps instructing him but peppers that with insulting names. He reminds Jackson that Mark used to do this to him when he thought he was better than Jackson, and Derek convinced Mark to actually start teaching him. Jackson is still reluctant to do the same but Derek points out that they have to do it sometime, and better now than later. Derek then gleefully continues to call Jackson names because he's enjoying himself so much, but I think he's also giddy to actually be doing some surgery again.
Alex and Mere make it to Number 8, but instead of tackling the hardest tumor they will face, Mere decides to skip it and come back to it at the end. Alex argues that they made a plan for a reason and also, if they can't get this one there's no point in getting the others so why not try now? Mere and her overinflated head just declare that she will have better exposure if she takes the others out first, and while she hears Alex's objections she is going to completely ignore them because she's the lead surgeon and neener neener neener.
Smash finds Cristina, who reports that Nathan's little body is full-blown rejecting the implant. He triumphantly reports that the FDA agreed to a release and she just has to sign, but she refuses. They argue, but she sticks to her guns and says that they have other options they are going to try first. Smash can't believe his ears and practically stomps his foot as he yells that none of those options are as good as printing out a biological conduit. Cristina finally declares to him that it's Mere's printer, not theirs, and she's using it now so they can't. She adds, "I'm sorry," but it doesn't seem to lessen the blow.