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
Bailey is wearing an awful turtleneck in shades of green which makes her look just like a turtle about to hide its face away from the rest of the world. She's telling Callie all about why Ellis' surgical plan won't work due to problems with the guy's vein. She seems too scared to talk to Ellis, though, and just wants assurance from Callie that Ellis will read the patient's chart before cutting him open. Callie is less interested in Bailey's problem than in who Arizona is eating lunch with, and Bailey tells her that the random lady is a cardio surgeon. Callie muses that she liked ortho but when Bailey asks her why she didn't pursue it, Callie points out that you don't have a choice when Ellis Grey tells you that you are good at cardio. Man, to enter Elttaes you obviously have to turn in your spine to Ellis at the door. Mere then walks up -- turns out she wasn't going to go face Cristina so much as she was going to whine to Callie that she should do the surgery since Cristina has already done this particular procedure more times than she has. Callie knows this and isn't inclined to budge until Meredith plays the Mommy Card. Since we've just established that Callie does all of Ellis' bidding, she tells Mere that she and Cristina can do the surgery together. Once Meredith leaves, she admits that she'll do whatever Ellis wants and that by sharing the surgery, she at least doesn't have to kick Cristina off the case because Cristina scares her.
Lexille is stuffing medical supplies into her bag, about to bolt, when Jackson catches her and does the worst Ricky Ricardo impression in all of history. He implores her that if she doesn't have this pacemaker put in, she'll die. He offers to explain the procedure to her but she recites all of the details from the brochure and explains while he gapes that she has a photographic memory. He thinks this is an awesome reason for her to go to med school, and she laughs in his face. He presses her, insisting that this could be her glorious second chance -- to become a doctor, meet her sister, and gain a new family, and all that starts with fixing her heart. Instead of mocking him she starts to cry and leans in to him, and he really awkwardly tries to hug her with the least amount of actual physical contact possible.
Cristina is eating her banana when she walks by the surgical board and sees that her surgery is now assigned to both Yang and Webber; infuriated, she storms away.
She storms right into Alex's office, already yelling at him as she opens the door, demanding to know why Mere is now assisting. Her voice trails off, though, when she sees Alex and April engaged in some heavy making out and groping. She just chuckles to herself and saunters out as they watch her in horror.