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
That night, Owen is walking Emma out and telling her how much everyone loved her but she cuts him off to tell him she can't work there. Based on having worked with her ex-husband, she knows that if they ever break up, everyone at the hospital will be on his side and will shut her out -- obviously what she experienced in Cleveland -- and she can't deal with that. Owen, who somehow hasn't learned that she's totally right and one might want to date people outside of their workplace, dopily asks if she's planning to break his heart. She smiles at him, he begs her, and she shows that she might be one of the smartest people on the show when she firmly turns him down. Then as she leaves she calls out sweetly that she doesn't want him to break her heart either. This would be so sweet if I could get invested in these two at all. She is a sweet, totally unremarkable, placeholder just there to be Not Cristina.
Will's mom is understandably worried about the doctors not getting Number 8, and Will realizes that it means he's going to be spending yet more time in pediatrics. Alex feels horrible that they couldn't get it, so he comes up with some ways to make the room more comfortable for a teenager -- he takes down the animal pictures, offers to increase visiting hours so his friends can hang out, and says he'll make sure no doctors do rounds on him until after 11 each day so he can sleep in. Will smiles and agrees, and Mom seems happy.
Outside in the hall, though, Mere is sulking and when Alex walks out she growls that she could have gotten Number 8. Alex sticks to his guns and says that they made the right call because no one could get the tumor but in response Mere pouts, "I COULD HAVE." Seriously, where did this complex come from? Someone is really overcompensating after her fight with Cristina. Speaking of, her former Person comes up and asks to talk to her about the printer, but Mere keeps snidely shutting her down each time Cristina tries to talk. Cristina manages to say that she needs the printer, and when Mere says, "It's mine," like a 7-year-old with a Barbie Dream House, Cristina points out that it belongs to the hospital. Mere goes slightly unhinged at this point and shrieks that she got it for the hospital with the money from HER research grant. Cristina's pleas to use it to help a patient immediately fall on deaf ears and Mere yells that just because she made a fork, it doesn't mean she and her research are a joke. And there we have one of the reasons she's become an insufferable jerk. Cristina desperately tries to reassure her that no one said that but I think plenty at least thought it – Cristina herself, however, never did. They argue some more and Cristina tells her this is time-sensitive but Mere just maintains that she can submit a proposal to the board. Cristina finally gives up and Alex turns on Mere, realizing that Mere's attitude is a result of Cristina calling her a bad doctor and Mere needing to prove that wrong. Mere pouts that he's wrong but of course he's right, and he shouts that if she needs to hear she's good then fine, she is, but today she was a bad doctor. He leaves, and Mere looks genuinely surprised to be told she's anything less than a genius.