Episode Report Card Sars: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Greene With Envy
By Sars | Season 6 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.13.1999
Brassy and Corday walking outdoors. A distressed Brassy gasps, "I can't really -- run away -- can I?" Corday says, "You can delay, but not for long. Elaine, if you're worried about reconstruction, I can make an appointment with a plastic surgeon --" Brassy interrupts, "What will happen to it -- after you cut it off?" and Corday rather unsupportively tells her, "Now you're being morbid." Brassy asks, "Why? It's a part of me," and I hate to admit it, but if I had to face the prospect of a radical mastectomy, I'd probably obsess over my poor, lonely, diseased breast getting dumped into the incinerator like just so much garbage myself. Corday tells her that the breast will go to Pathology, "and then it'll be gotten rid of." "Just thrown in the trash?" asks Brassy, going on, "It's medical waste, and I'll have a blob of gel instead." She cries a little and touches her breast and then asks, "What will it feel like -- when I touch it? When somebody else touches it?" Corday tells her firmly that "lots of women have this type of surgery," and putting myself in Brassy's shoes again, I have to say that I wouldn't find Corday's statement particularly supportive or helpful. Brassy protests that "I can't imagine feeling anything, and if I can't, how will anybody else? I mean, how can I ever be with anybody again?" Corday condescendingly tells her that she can't "let this define" her, and Elaine weeps, "It's hard not to. I was happy with who I was," and she covers her face. Corday says, "That's exactly who you'll still be." Um, Elizabeth? Enough already with the platitudes, okay, because at the end of the day, you'll still have both your breasts, and Elaine won't, so leave the buck-up-little-camper routine to Dawson Leery. Anyway, Elaine composes herself and says she'd better come back in: "I may be vain, but I'm not stupid. Just -- can you do something for me?" "Of course," Corday says. "When you cut," Elaine whispers, "cut everything. Don't leave anything -- you cut it all." Corday looks at her pityingly.
Hawkeye tries to cheer Crystal up by telling her that sickle-cell sufferers don't get malaria, thus ingratiating himself folksily with Crystal and her parents. He prepares to release her, and Mark eyes the chart and asks Chuny if the labs he ordered over Hawkeye's head have come back yet. She says no; he tells her to let him know if they do.
Dr. Carl De "You're So" Raad introduces himself to Luka by saying, "Your psychiatric hold? Way out of line, my friend." Lucy tries not to let her face say "I told you so" but fails. Luka asks why, and De Raad says that, in order to justify certification, the patient has to present a danger to himself or others. "He is a danger to others, come on! Just look at his wife," Luka protests, and Lucy says quickly, "She says she fell off a ladder." Luka snorts, and De Raad says, "Until she says different, nothing we can do. I'm sorry." Luka asks De Raad if he's talked to Paulie, and De Raad says he's seen Paulie and he knows why Luka had him committed, but he won't even take Paulie upstairs for an evaluation. Luka rubs his forehead stagily and asks De Raad to talk to Paulie before releasing him. De Raad asks, "What's the point?" and Luka says, "Please, you and me -- let, let's talk to him." Luka and De Raad go into the next room, and Paulie says, "Look, it's the crazy foreigner! They should put these [restraints] on you, you know?" Luka baits him about hitting his wife, and De Raad tells Paulie to settle down, and Paulie tells them to ask Loren whether he ever hit her, and Loren says he never has. Lucy asks if Loren wants them to release Paulie, and Loren, knowing she'll get it worse at home the longer they keep her husband, says urgently, "Please." De Raad mutters, "Okay, let him go." Luka keeps needling Paulie as the attendants release him from the restraints, and Lucy asks, "What are you doing?" and De Raad tells him to "leave it, Kovac," and Luka implies that Paulie kicked and stomped on Loren, adding sarcastically, "Wow, what a man," and Loren knows this won't help her once they leave, so she snarls at Luka, "Shut up!" Luka makes one last provocative comment. Paulie punches him in the face and starts screaming that he'll kill Luka, and Luka gets up and says, "See? 'Danger to others,'" and De Raad yells at Luka, "Get outta here!" as the attendants hold Paulie back from attacking Luka.