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
Harvey is examining his face in a mirror while the doctors grin at him expectantly, and he admits that he misses the twitch a little bit since he'd had 20 years to bond with it. Leah then runs in and asks Jackson which of their two patients he'd like to see first. When Derek gives him a look, he offers one to Leah with all of the excitement of someone about to have a root canal. Derek raises an eyebrow, and Jackson takes a moment and then grits his teeth and gives both to Leah. She does a little excited wriggle like a puppy and grins at him, promising that she won't disappoint him.
April is getting Richard settled back in bed with oxygen, and he admits that he's exhausted but that it's a good exhausted. He tells her that he's been reminiscing about his whole life to try and feel like himself again, and now he's ready to BE himself again. Just in case April missed that she should be applying this to herself, he delivers a frying pan to the face when he says that he lost himself for a while, but now he's ready to get himself back.
Back up in the NICU, baby Nathan is in full heart failure. Smash won't let go of the biological conduit idea and he tells Cristina that actually, it's the hospital's printer, and she was the one who taught him to take what he needs for a patient. She still shuts him down, and he still persists, telling her that he went over Mere's research and she's months away from making a portal vein for an actual human being but they could save this baby TODAY. Cristina finally snaps a little and points out that she knows this full well, but still gives him other instructions.
Alex and Mere are still arguing about Number 8 and when he tells her she's on a power trip she acts like she might pull rank on him again until Stephanie interrupts and says that they can use the two challenge rule. She quickly explains it to them and Mere replies, with absolute self-assurance, that she and Steph are challenging Alex to shut up. Alex responds that he's challenging her back, and they both turn to Stephanie. She's deathly nervous but after a moment, begins a long string of compliments about how Mere is amazing and she feels honored to be a part of her research, but that she's currently pushing it too far and Steph agrees with Alex. Mere spits at him that he can close up the patient and practically throws down her scalpel in a huff before storming out of the OR. Stephanie is batting her eyelashes in a way that seems to convey, "I'm about to vomit because of what I just said."