Episode Report Card Lauren S: B | 1 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Death Becomes Her
By Lauren S | Season 5 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.22.2009
Cristina is sitting in her bedroom, looking at Hunt asleep in her bed. She eventually gets up and slams the door on her way out so that he wakes with a jump. After a moment he realizes where he is and that the other half of the bed is still made, and looks rather horrified to remember everything.
Bailey tells Alex and Izzie that they are with Jackson all day, and explains for our benefit that since he doesn't have a liver or a small bowel that toxins will build up in his system, causing his brain to swell. The best they can do is try to slow that down since they can't stop it. Denny's standing to the side and has stopped his wisecracking -- now he's Serious Dead Denny -- and tells Izzie she doesn't have time to think about anyone else. Bailey thinks (rightly) that she's not listening and asks for confirmation, and when Izzie says she's all Bailey's, Denny gives her a snide "thanks for listening." Clearly being dead has not blessed him with self-awareness -- if he's not going to give her a good, non-riddle reason for his being there, she's going to try and ignore him. Richard swings by to ask how long they have, which is 16 hours at the most. Arizona offers that there is a liver dialysis machine being used elsewhere in a clinical trial, so Bailey sends Alex off to go get it for Jackson and sends Izzie off to do various tests. Once they are gone Bailey starts mildly hyperventilating as she repeats to herself that she wants off this case, and then tries to brush it off. She says to Arizona that she can't watch Jackson die, but then tries to suck it up and get back to work. She won't hear of it when Arizona suggests that maybe she get some much-needed sleep. (All the better for a completely crazy-eyed showdown with another surgeon later. Sleep makes you rational and rationality doesn't make good TV!) (Whoops, did I just give away the scene that they already put into every advertisement for this episode for the past week? Bad Lauren.)
Derek arrives at work all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and pulls Meredith into an office to cover her with "my mother likes you and so now I can really like you too" kisses. He realizes she's not as perky as he is but she brushes it off, saying it's just that she's been working all night. He asks how Eric is doing but Meredith neglects to give him any pertinent info, so Derek just happily tells Mere that she got the Mother Seal of Approval and then practically skips back out the door. Bailey watches him go and then sees Mere slink guiltily out after him and gives Mere a bit of a disbelieving face since it's clear she didn't admit anything.