Episode Report Card 34 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Stick a Fork in It
By Lauren S | Season 10 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.07.2013
Callie starts off the interview fine, going over Emma's job experience which included a turn at the Cleveland Clinic. She's surprised that she only stayed there a year and Emma tries to give some bubbly bullshit answer about all of the opportunities in Seattle until Callie gives her a look and she admits that she was going through a divorce, her husband worked there too, and eventually it was affecting her work and she couldn't do it anymore. Callie immediately backs off since this feels pretty close to home, and Emma is able to start talking about actual work stuff. But after a moment Callie comes back to it and asks if it was hard for Emma to give up her city and her job to her ex. Poor Emma has no idea what's going on and is caught off guard -- which doesn't really bode well for her being able to survive in this environment with a mind-boggling absence of personal boundaries.
Alex and Mere go in to see their patient, Will, the teenager who was up playing video games. Naturally this means he's totally out now, and they have to yell and pull the pillow off of his head to wake him up. Will reports that he was woken earlier by a scary clown asking if he wanted a balloon animal and Mere admits it's a hazard of the peds floor. They then talk about his surgery -- Will has an aggressive cancer that has resulted in a torso full of tumors. Will's mom is nervous about them trying to take out fifteen tumors at the same time but Mere explains that it's an aggressive cancer, so they have to do all or nothing. They show one of his scans with the tumors mapped out, numbered as they've made a plan of what order to remove them. One of them, Number 8, is buried deep in his liver and they admit it will be tricky to remove, but Alex says they'll do all they can. Mere, apparently feeling buoyed by her fork, says confidently that they will get it, and Alex quickly replies that they will try. He makes a video game reference and she continues to try to be the Woman Who Knows It All by adding some awkward reference to Pac-Man, and Alex basically apologizes for her.
When Bailey gets to her not-good-enough OR, she's already out of sorts and seeing Ben there only discombobulates her further. He thought she'd be happy that he switched so he could work with her, but she just seems perturbed. Princess comes in and when Ben introduces himself she tells him she was at the wedding and bought them a pizza stone. As they chatter about wedding gifts, Bailey stares at the instruments; their voices fade into the background as the light goes funny and the camera tilts at an angle so we know that she's slipping off somewhere in her own mind. She fiddles repeatedly with the instruments and then accuses Princess of dropping her hands below the sterile field, ordering her to scrub in again. Princess argues with her but Bailey responds by basically challenging Princess to call her a liar. Princess turns to rescrub, and Ben asks worriedly if Bailey needs a minute. She snaps at him, and then finally asks for a blade to begin. But the camera is still at an angle just to drive home that she's still not quite right.