Episode Report Card LTG: B- | 2 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Oy, Gevalt
By LTG | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.18.2006
McSteamy enters some doctors' lounge where McDreamy is working on his laptop. McSteamy knows that Addison told McDreamy. He tells McDreamy that they've known each other their whole lives, and McSteamy knows that McDreamy is thinking that he wasted an entire year of his life trying to get back with Addison when he could have been perfectly happy with Meredith. But McSteamy thought the he owed McDreamy the truth, as a friend. McDreamy: "You're not my friend." And then he closes the laptop and leaves. The Mere V.O. in this scene is about doing harm even when you try to help. And then feeling guilty.
Mr. and Mrs. Niles are having a tender moment together while Bailey holds the baby. Savoy walks by and dismissively asks Bailey if she's babysitting. She's perfectly happy to tell him that she is, and that she's being "all unprofessional and emotionally involved" while Mr. and Mrs. Niles have a moment together. She continues, "But you might want to leave now. I'm feeling a rush of hormones coming on and there's no telling what I might do." Savoy, vanquished, walks away. Alex has observed this whole scene. He walks up to Bailey and they chat. After some small talk, he tells her that while he wasn't involved in what Izzie did to Denny, he had the chance to stop it and did nothing. Alex: "You weren't the only one." He walks away, but she calls out his name (calling him "Alex") and thanks him.
Callie opens her hotel room door and finds George there with a bucket of chicken from the GayFC. (Oh, come on, I couldn't let T.R. Knight's public coming out go by without some kind of comment). He's also got some video games to play with her. Callie is not amused: "The other night, when I told you was done trying to compete, that was me breaking up with you." George thinks he really would have noticed that. (And I think that he is not being stupid here -- he's just telling her that he really doesn't want to break up.) But she tells him that his failure to notice is the exact reason she broke up with him.
Addison is in bed next to McSteamy, clearly post-coital. He tells her, "At least now you don't have to feel guilty anymore." But if I were her, I would be worried about STDs with the rate he gets around. She tells him to shut up because, after all, he's sexier when he's not talking. Mere's V.O. tells us that when confronted with guilt, you can either let it pull you back into the guilt-inducing behaviors or you can use it to become a better person.