Episode Report Card Lauren S: D+ | 1 USERS: F YOU GRADE IT My Favorite Mistake
By Lauren S | Season 3 | Episode 19 | Aired on 03.21.2007
George approaches Izzie in the hallway, and she knows that he has remembered. He walks to the linen closet, and she follows him in. Inside, they can't even speak. He's clearly torn up and angry and slams a storage cart while she holds her head in her hands. They finally stare at each other, and she puts her hand on his cheek. He takes her hand, then after a moment puts it down, and then slams out of the room. She stays and cries.
Izzie seems to have collected herself and enters Mrs. R's room, complimenting Mrs. R and her daughter on the dollhouse. Mrs. R holds a chair as Nina glues it together, and you do see that the two of them enjoy their time together, despite the tension about her condition. Izzie needs to draw blood, and Nina gives her very precise instructions about how to do it and which vein to use. Izzie, though, ends up knocking against the table and spilling some instruments, and Nina goes ballistic. She declares that Izzie's too clumsy to work on her mother and goes to find a nurse. Once she's gone, Izzie and Mrs. R wait uncomfortably. Mrs. R says sadly, "She's not even a person anymore." She goes on to explain she knows she's going to die and she just wants to talk to her daughter, but Nina won't let her. Izzie nods in understanding.
Derek is supposed to be preparing but instead is moping in a darkened breakroom. Richard comes in and joins the pity party, mad that there's no coffee and that Colin's got a plan. Derek only muses that plans don't matter, and the Chief sees what's going on and calls him on Meredith's near drowning. Derek repeats what we know, that she was like ice when he got to her and that she knew how to swim but had given up. Now, though, he can't let the image go, and he's afraid that the second he leaves her be, she's going to give up again. It gives some insight into his smothering -- it turns out not all of life is a pissing contest between him and Mark. He admits that he could come up with a plan, but that he really has no idea where he will be ten years from now.
Mr. Torres finds George in the hospital and tells him how he respects George for wanting to take care of Callie himself. But he reminds George that she's his little girl, and "you need to promise me that you'll love her and protect her. Because the minute you hurt her... " Callie walks up to them, and her dad seems to know how well this threat would go over with his little girl and just finishes up, "You understand?" George nods, understanding loud and clear that his privates will be ripped from his body and hung from the flagpole, from the sounds of it, if Papa Torres ever finds out about last night's dalliance. He claps a nauseated-looking George on arm happily and says that now Callie's mother can plan the party. Oh, mom-wants-to-plan-the-party shenanigans! But Callie relents with a smile when her dad pleads with her, and then he kisses her goodbye and leaves for the airport. As with all TV out-of-town family visits, he seems to have flown into Seattle for approximately four hours and then is heading home. Once he's gone, Callie giggles and tells George how proud she is for his standing up to her dad. She tries to kiss him and he pulls back, so she launches into an apology. "Listen, about last night, I don't know about you but I'd like to take back about 90% of what I said." He agrees, much to her relief, but then he bolts, and she calls after him that she'll see him in surgery.