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
Hunt offers to Cristina that she can help him set up and the skills lab, which would give her both her certification and an easy day. She shows a spark of her former self by snarking that it's a skills lab, so it's already an easy day. However, the point is moot because Teddy runs up to tell them that lungs are now available for Roy, and since Cristina is the one who helped him get on the list, he's now her patient. She wants Cristina to monitor him until she gets back, and New Cristina is back, as she very tensely asks if she'd be on her own. Teddy reminds her that a doctor none of us have ever heard of, Dr. McQueen, will be there if she needs him. Before she runs off she throws out that she managed to convince Roy's daughter to show up, and then she leaves for lung transport duty. Cristina tries to pull herself together and Hunt assures her too heartily that it will still be an easy day, and she'll be fine. In her strange, perky voice she answers, "I know!" and takes off while he watches her go, obviously not as sure as he sounds that she will be fine.
Meredith saunters into the skills lab and she and Alex gripe about how dumb this is going to be; Alex explains to Jackson that they will work on some dummies and get an early lunch, and that it will overall be a lame experience. But Hunt then runs in with a stack of gowns, yelling that a plane made an emergency landing and collided with a bus, and has them follow him. They are all too suddenly pumped up to realize what's obviously coming -- Hunt leads them outside, where they find bloody dummies all over the ground, and while he looks on proudly, Mere grouses, "This is gonna suck."
Owen then divides them into teams of four, and they get nine casualties each. Resident Steve shows back up as if, like the security system, he's been here all along -- he's there to help organize and run the lab since Cristina is busy. While he seems to be randomly putting different colored tape on each docs' gown to divide them into teams, of course the only four we know (Mere, April, Alex and Jackson) wind up together. An ambulance is in front of them and Owen tells them that all they have to work with is what they can grab from the ambulance with their two hands, a helicopter is on its way, and if they can get their patients on the helicopter they will get certified. He then lets them at it and they all run and shove their way inside to grab supplies.
For reasons I don't quite understand, Lexie isn't taking part in the certification drill (since Steve has the job Owen offered to Cristina, I assume this means he'll come out of the day certified himself, and he and Lex are the same year) but she's working with Mark instead. They meet their patient, Christy, a 28-year-old wisp of a girl who is there for a gluteoplasty. Lexie murmurs to Mark that she's so tiny, there is hardly anything to lift, and Christy of course hears but good-naturedly tells her that's the point. Lexie is mortified but Christy is fine and Mark explains that she is getting implants so, as Christy finishes, she can get some, "junk in this trunk." Mark pulls up a computer rendering of what her new butt will look like but Christy has him bump up the size a few times, until he's reached Kim Kardashian proportions. Lexie is horrified but an excited Christy just tells them, "That's my ass!"