Episode Report Card Lauren S: B- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Sound of Silence
By Lauren S | Season 7 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.28.2011
Alex, meanwhile, seems to have taken a liking to his African Kids Plan, and he's going through a mess of papers on a table while trying to tell Stark about it. Stark looks as if he's getting a whiff of some particularly pungent fertilizer as Alex tells him they have 8 patients from 3 countries already lined up. The problem is that while he's excited, he's a total unorganized mess who can barely find his own notes and Stark isn't one to award points for enthusiasm. He tells Stark that he's got a bunch of surgeons lined up to work pro bono but Stark isn't impressed and just asks how Alex is planning to pay for all this. He of course already knows the answer, but lets Alex dig himself a little deeper, saying that he would take care of the "logistical crap" if the hospital could then fund everything. Stark of course shuts him down, and Alex mopes that he should have known Stark would do that. I actually agree with Stark when he cuts Alex off and says that he's not allowed to paint Stark as the bad guy when he comes in with a totally half-baked, unorganized plan. But he's Stark, so he then takes it too far as he tells Alex that there are people who can do thinks like this, but Alex isn't one of them.
Doris' face may look as ill as a person can look, but she's got some sassy, fire-engine-red fingernails. Alex goes in to help roll her over and the two exchange more biting insults, but as she moans about suing them and all of her piles of money, Alex has an idea. She's highly skeptical when he pulls up a chair and announces that she could donate her money to a good cause. He tells her about his plan to bring over the kids from Africa but when he mentions needing at least $100,000, she scoffs at him and tells "Sally Struthers" to get lost. Unfortunately her rant causes her to start coughing and Alex gets the oxygen mask and helps hold it to her face so she can breathe and live another day to keep insulting him.
Meredith and Derek are discussing Adele, whose score on the Alzheimer's test is much lower than last time. Derek points out that the upside is that she can now be in the trial, but Mere is worried at just how fast she is declining. She suggests slipping Adele some of the medicine on the side but Derek is adamant that he doesn't want to do anything that could jeopardize the trial and additionally, their careers. He tries to console her a bit by admitting that the thought had already crossed his mind.
If all the lung cancer and Alzheimer's wasn't depressing enough, now Sofia is suffering from heart failure and she needs surgery ASAP. Arizona has been trying all of the hospitals but no one is available, and Stark tells her that while he is fully aware she doesn't like him, he's her only real option and he at least has done the procedure before. He then tells her that she's not technically related so Sofia, and her hackles go right up until he finishes his thought, which is that there is no ethical objection to her being in the operating room to observe. She's shocked but totally touched, and April quietly smiles to herself that people are seeing that somewhere, deep down, Stark has some gooey insides. Well, semi-soft, at least. I don't know if I'd go so far as to call it full goo. Sadly he's still not feeling quite so charitable about her and when she asks about prepping the baby, gripes that he's stuck with her.