Episode Report Card LTG: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Amish Country
By LTG | Season 3 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.24.2007
Meredith finds Mark standing at a desk and comes to gloat about him finally leaving. He says he's taking off as soon as he can find the Chief to give him his letter of resignation. So he's quitting with one day's notice? Asshole. She asks why he's leaving, and he tells her that he hates the weather, the town, and the people. He calls them "unforgiving." She asks if he's talking about all the people, or just the ones whose initials are "D.S." and who are sometimes called "McDreamy." She also casually drops the news that the Chief probably won't care that Mark is leaving, since he's about to retire himself.
In another hallway, at another desk, Derek casually asks Addison what bait the Chief used to attract her to Seattle. She tells him, and then he asks her if Webber happened to dangle the prospect of becoming the new chief in front of her. From the look on her face, he did. And now she's suspicious.
And then Alex walks up to Addison. She fumbles with her notebook and walks away, claiming to be busy. Before she gets too far, he loudly calls out, "When you get a minute, I'd like to talk about the kissing." She's a little rattled and drops her notebook onto a shelf before stumbling away.
Cristina enters the room in which Alex and Meredith are cleaning their patient's bedsores. The three of them chitchat, but as Cristina turns to leave she runs smack dab into Burke. He asks if any of them is available to assist him on a surgery with a very complicated name. Meredith and Alex are both eager, but he says they can only help if they can describe the procedure. Neither of them can. Cristina clearly can, but that would mean talking to Burke. So she doesn't. Burke leaves, and Cristina chastises Meredith and Alex for being so stupid. Dude. Even the semi-comatose guy with bedsores can sense Cristina's own stupidity in this scene.
Derek leaves an O.R. and walks into the prep room to wash his hands. Burke is there scrubbing in for the next surgery. He apologizes to Derek for the way he heard about the Chief's offer to Burke. There's some bitterness and recrimination, but Burke tells Derek that he doesn't plan to run for chief (like it's an election?) because he's planning on simplifying his life and focusing on the important things. He also thinks it wouldn't be right for him to take the job. Derek: "Well, whether something's right or not doesn't seem to matter much in this place." I think someone needs to remind him that Seattle Grace is not his wife and Burke is not the guy who slept with his wife. And also that he fully knew the two of them were both being considered for the job, at least in the months (or weeks? or days? who can tell with this show) since the second episode.