Episode Report Card Lauren S: B | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Let's Go Crazy
By Lauren S | Season 6 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.01.2009
Derek is surprised to see a be-wigged Izzie on her service and when he asks her how she's doing, she says she's great and pointedly avoids telling him How She's Doing. She then goes through all of the patient's info. When it's all good, Derek asks her and the interns if they have any questions. Stinky Two asks for any news about the merger, on account of he and intern Megan (who is now his wife) having a baby on the way, he wants to know if he's going to lose his job. Derek tells them that the only thing he's concerned about right now is his patient, and that they should do the same.
Lexie is bandaging Tom's wrist but he doesn't pay much attention to her and instead is convinced that Megan, laughing with someone outside, is laughing at him about his haircut and his ears sticking out. Lexie tries to assure him that they aren't laughing at him and asks him how the bandage feels. He keeps looking at Megan and talks about his hand falling off and snakes, so Lexie moves very carefully as she goes to put away the supplies she used. Tom then notices that her name isn't on her lab coat though all the other doctors had that. She tries to tell him calmly that she had to change, but he now thinks he's being played, that they have his mother and are trying to get him, and he shoves her away and to the ground in a panic before bolting out the door.
Lexie is in an understandable panic about having just lost a mentally ill patient, and she and Olivia are bitching at each other. Lexie wants to know why psych hadn't shown up yet and how Tom could have gotten out of the ER, while Olivia defends that she stepped away from her desk to tend to a patient and had already called psych twice. She growls that she's usually used to being a punching bag for the doctors but that in this merger she won't go down for a mistake that isn't hers, and stalks off to page psych again.
Izzie is briefing her patient about his surgery, letting him know it's a simple procedure but she still has to go over the complications. Alex pokes his head in for a word and won't let Izzie shove him off, so she stalks out. He checks up on how she's feeling as well as if she's taken her meds, which she totally hasn't. That's really responsible for a doctor with aggressive cancer. Alex orders Stinky to get her pills from the locker room and when Izzie tries to tell him not to go, Alex threatens him and he scampers off. She tells Alex that he can't treat her like she is sick, ignoring the major point that she is. He fixes her wig and tells her, "I'll stop hovering if you stop acting like an idiot." That's a pretty tall order -- we have yet to see her not act like an idiot pretty much ever. He reminds her to take her pill at 2, and not to do it on an empty stomach, and then kisses her and leave.