Episode Report Card Lauren S: N/A | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Scared Straight
By Lauren S | Season 6 | Episode 24 | Aired on 05.20.2010
Bailey is, as promised, sitting with Charles, who realizes that it's a bad sign that he doesn't feel any pain anymore. Keeping to her promise to tell him the truth, she agrees that this isn't a good thing, and is obviously nervous by the way she is playing with his hand, even though she's keeping a straight face. Charles then asks her if she can find Reed and tell her he had a crush on her, since he's pretty sure she didn't know. Mandy echoes the reaction of women across the country at this moment and assures him that she knew, that girls always know. It's not clear if Bailey knows at this point that Reed is dead, because her struggling to maintain her composure at this moment could be on account of what he's saying and how extra-sad it makes this conversation, or it could just be because in general, holding one of your employees while he dies isn't an easy thing to do. He repeats his request and adds that he wants them to say he was brave, even if he caves and starts begging for his mom in a moment. Bailey assures him that he's super brave and that she was a coward to tell Gary she was a nurse, but Charles points out that this was smart. He then tells her he knows she never liked him, and Bailey laughs out loud through her tears and assures him that she did like him. He is sure that she didn't, but he tells her that she was his favorite doc, and then finally his voice trails into silence and he dies with Bailey stroking his hair. Look, he was a totally pointless character and never given anything to do, but when I said he didn't need to be on the show any more I wasn't wishing a gruesome, gunshot-wound-to-the-abdomen death on him, and the whole thing is horribly sad and I will admit to tearing up a little. You can't watch Mandy Moore and Miranda Bailey cry and stay stoic forever, people.
By the time Mere and April get Owen on the operating table he's awake again, and he struggles to get up and go back to Cristina but Mere shoves him back down and orders him not to move. This is now the second time we've seen her freaky superhuman strength -- don't mess with Mere when it comes to the ones she loves, it seems. They realize the bullet went cleanly through his shoulder and he'll be fine, which Owen had already figured out, and he tries to get back up but again Meredith forces him back down and he and April prepare to at least clean the wound. But even though she's turned Superman-strong, the stress of the day seems to have taken its toll; she doubles over with some pain and April starts to freak out again when she realizes there is blood running down Mere's legs. April thinks she might have been shot, but Mere calmly tells her she's having a miscarriage, and continues to work on Owen, who has been stunned into cooperation by the revelation.