Episode Report Card LuluBates: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Saint (I Wish I Was) Elsewhere
By LuluBates | Season 5 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.13.2008
At the end of the day, Bailey walks Dr. Dixon to the elevator. She thanks her for all her hard work today, but Dixon doesn't accept the thanks. She asks Bailey if she knows what Asperger's is and Bailey shrugs yeah. Then the lightbulb goes off. Dr. Dixon knows that she may have significant social impairment and doesn't get sarcasm and other cues, but she knows when she's being manipulated and when she's being made a fool of. She does not like this hospital at all. Bailey chews her lip at her error and at her remarkable failure to woo. I am usually a huge Bailey booster, but this is ridiculous. How could she not notice the incredibly obvious autistic bent of Dr. Dixon? She's a doctor for crying out loud. Has she seriously never seen Rain Man? What about America's Next Top Model-the Heather years? It just doesn't make any sense.
Derek finally sees his opportunity to talk to Sloan about Lexie. He starts by explaining that Meredith has concerns, but when Sloan denies it, Derek tells him to keep his Little Sloan out of Little Grey. It's just so... Ick! Sloan points out what we are all thinking: Creepy. Sloan adds that it is also inaccurate. It's not Little Sloan. It's Big Sloan. Double Ick! On a stick! Makes me sick! Pepto. Quick!
Izzie packs up to leave the hospital and head home. Denny waves goodbye at the hospital door, but Izzie stops and says goodbye. Like for reals. She will always love him. He will never be forgotten. She is sorry they never had their chance to grow old or have children. He asks why she is telling him this? She knocks him on the head and tells him she wants him to have peace. Fuck that, I want peace. From this storyline! I keep expecting them to make a pot together or something. Or Whoopi Goldberg to walk in. Ugh. Izzie says goodbye some more. She is ready to let him go. Ready for his soul to be at peace and quit Patrick Swayzeing around the damn hospital.
Cristina takes the time to track down Lexie in the locker room. She knows Lexie didn't pick up that suturing technique from Cristina because Cristina can barely do it herself. She isn't exactly sure what the interns are doing, but they had better shut it down. Now! I know nothing about medical school, but is there really no way to learn suture techniques? What happened to the blood-spewing dummy? Can't they practice on him? Or could they start embroidering? That is much more wholesome than self-mutilation.
After a hard day at the office, Callie, Sloan, and Cristina console themselves with drinks. While Sloan makes moonie eyes at Lexie (I refuse to call her Little Grey, because then I have to think about Little Sloan), Callie sighs about Hahn. Cristina notices Hunt drinking alone at the bar. How screwed up are your social skills if your co-workers are sitting ten feet away and you choose to drink alone? Even if you don't like them very much most people would fake it for a round. Does Hunt have Asperger's, too?