Episode Report Card LTG: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Amish Country
By LTG | Season 3 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.24.2007
Showdown on the bridge. Burke finds Addison standing on the bridge of sighs and whispers and asks her if she's waiting to see the Chief. She is, don't you know. So is he. But neither one really wants to say what for. And then Derek walks up. He thinks it's incredible that Addison is waiting to see the Chief. She calls him on his bullshit for thinking that he and Burke are the only candidates. And then Mark joins them. And then the poor Chief comes walking across the bridge. He's nearly mobbed by the four attendings running up to him. I think I saw a scene like this in ads for 300. (Now I'm picturing Derek, Mark, and Burke in leather loincloths. Niiice.) They're all shouting and screaming over each other. The Chief shuts them up and then asks Mark what the hell is going on. Mark tells him that obviously, they all want to take his job. The Chief: "I have had a perfect day. I went to the Board this morning and told them I was retiring. I saved a life. And now I am off to see my wife. It has been a perfect day until you four fools tried to ruin it. A man can't be happy he's retiring around here. Not with you vultures trying to pick my bones." Bailey has walked up behind the Chief and hears this speech. She interrupts him, asking, "Chief? You stepping down?" He tells her that he's stepping down as soon as the Board finds a replacement for him, but he doesn't know how long that will take considering what slim pickings there are in terms of potential replacements. The Chief walks away, followed by the slim pickings. Bailey just stands on the bridge. She looks steamed. Commercials.
The Chief, in his suit and out of his lab coat, is waiting for an elevator. Bailey walks up to him and asks him why he didn't bother to tell her he was stepping down when she came to him for support on the clinic instead of making her chase after the attendings for support. He tells her that she'll need them to sign off on the clinic, since one of them might end up being Chief of Surgery before too long. The Chief tells her that since she's not ready for the job, one of the attendings will have to do it for a few years. Bailey is as shocked as we are that he thinks a resident will be ready to be Chief of Surgery in a few short years. Weber: "It's you in the chair eventually. That's who you are. But you're going to have to get a new chair, because you're short. You have short legs. But someday you are going to be Chief of Surgery." He leaves her.