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
Sloan finds Callie staring blankly at the board. He asks, "Did she say goodbye to you? Are you okay?" Callie asks if she looks okay. Sloan replies, "You look great." Aww. Callie says she is great. I wish these two would get together already!
Izzie asks the Wizened Navajo how he and his people get rid of ghosts. He explains that there is a nine-day ritual to exorcise ghosts. When the Wizened Navajo asks why Izzie is so interested, Izzie opens up about Denny. She asks the Wizened Navajo if a ghost can bring cases to a person because she keeps getting cases involving hearts and LVADs and she thinks Denny must be bringing them to her. The Wizened Navajo is not sure, but he is sure that he wants Blondie McFroot Loops off the surgery because he doesn't want her and her ghost Macarena-ing with him and his ghost during his operation. I guess the doctors had to respect his religious belief, because during surgery, Izzie watches from the viewing gallery. When Dr. Dixon removes the piggyback heart (sorry about my use of the colloquial), Bailey informs her of the well-established rule regarding respecting patient's religious beliefs. Dr. Dixon agrees, but half-heartedly. Heh. Sorry. Denny has joined Izzie in the viewing gallery. He keeps insisting that he's real and begging her to touch it. (Dirty!) He says that he can touch her and that will prove that he's real. She wisely declines. You know, I like Jeffrey Dean Morgan as much as the next girl, but doesn't he get just a tetch tired of always playing dead people? Do you think his agent calls him whenever some new longed-for dead guy role comes up? "Jeff, baby, I think you'd be perfect for this part! You're dead, see, and this chick totally misses you. What do you think? Should I set up a read through?" Izzie tells Denny that she misses him everyday and every day she wants him back, but she won't touch him. Izzie wants to know why he is there and Denny explains that he is there for her. Anyway, while Izzie determinedly ignores Denny's demand that she touch it, down in the operating room there is some magic afoot. I mean Wizened Navajo mysticism. When the piggyback heart is removed and the LVAD is about to be hooked up, the Wizened Navajo's heart begins to beat on its own. Obviously Dixon does not like this turn of events. It doesn't make any sense medically or plot wise. But anyway, oh goody! Modern medicine versus mystical beliefs! How not fascinating.
Derek (with an assist from Hunt) finally convinces Mr. Pretzel to get surgery. Lexie gets to assist and Meredith and Derek both notice the extra special attention Mark is paying her despite Derek's warning lecture.