Episode Report Card Lauren S: C | 1 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT It Always Ends with Tequila
By Lauren S | Season 8 | Episode 13 | Aired on 02.02.2012
As the meeting breaks up, the Shepherds kiss each other goodbye, and Owen takes the kids to daycare. Once Callie and Addie are alone in all their long, gorgeous, wavy-haired (seriously, I didn't realize I missed Callie's really long hair until she showed up looking exceptional here) and red-lipped glory, Addie comments on how good Owen is with the kids and asks how he's doing. Callie isn't entirely convincing as she tells Addie that he's okay, and, "I think we're past it." Ladies and gentlemen, I present a textbook case of someone trying to lie to herself. Addie agrees that it's hard to come back and points out that they have no idea what happened "over there" so we know this Owen was a soldier in Iraq and still has PTSD. He also has a buddy named Teddy who has been helping him cope via Skype, and Callie doesn't question that Teddy is of course a dude. She tells Addie that there hasn't been another "episode" since "that one." We don't know if Owen choked her or what, but it sounds bad and Callie tries way too hard to assure Addie that they are over. Addie is too caught up in her own problems to notice just how hard Callie is gritting her teeth and Callie excitedly talks to her about the baby, and how she and Derek will be fine, because they are the perfect couple! As she walks away, Addie's face falls. So, as Joe Reid so aptly pointed out, red lipstick is a symbol of emotional troubles and self-denial.
Richard is talking to Derek, trying to assure him that what Ellis meant by cutting him off at the knees during the meeting is just that she wants him to use his full potential. And she has Richard to serve as her PR lackey, smoothing all of her rough edges with her underlings. Mere walks up as Richard reminds Derek that he used to talk about doing a clinical trial, but Derek grumps that he has no time with a baby on the way. Richard tries to press that he should think about it, and then walks away. After some uncomfortable moments waiting for the elevator, where Meredith brightly says hello and he actually just grunts back at her, he declares the elevator to be broken and leaves. She gripes about him being an ass and walks off the other way. We know the elevator is just HEARTbroken because it hasn't had the chance to host the emotional hills and valleys of the Saga of Derek and Meredith.
Jackson is working the ER with Owen, and they are called into action when a dreadlocked, heavily tattooed, female cokehead is brought in mid-OD, unconscious and convulsing. They need to shock her to get her heart working and then move her on to the bed, and when the camera pans to her face -- featuring multiple piercings -- we are all shocked to see that this is Lexie.