Episode Report Card LTG: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Get Away From Me!
By LTG | Season 3 | Episode 10 | Aired on 11.29.2006
George watches his father's surgery from the scrub room. Burke enters, and George admits that he's not supposed to be there, and Burke confesses that he's also not supposed to be there. They settle in to watch the surgery together. When Dr. Hahn starts sawing through his father's chest, George can't bear to watch and turns his back to the window. Burke looks over at him and then begins to calmly and dispassionately describe each step that Dr. Hahn is taking. George doesn't say anything, but he seems to find the narration comforting. I kind of agree, although I'm very disturbed to hear that there's such a thing as "bone wax." It sounds like something you should be buying at the local Condom Hut. Or maybe something a mad scientist uses to keep his lab skeletons nice and shiny. Cristina and Burke catch each other's eyes. As always, enigmatic but meaningful.
Over in the other O.R., it's all cut this, sew that, graft the other thing. The big news is that after poking around in the twins' spines, they can tell that the nerves to their legs have been separated and are still functioning. There's applause in the O.R. And then everyone joins together to slide the two operating tables apart, separating the twins for now and forever. More applause. Derek mutters to Mark, "It'd be nice if every love triangle could be fixed with a scalpel." Mark: "If it could, you'd have stabbed me with a ten blade a long time ago." It's not too late for that, is it?
Susan is on a cell phone looking super tense when Meredith approaches her. Susan asks for good news. Meredith tells her that Addison is on her way to explain (which starts out sounding pretty bad), but then goes on to tell Susan that the baby should be fine after some recovery time. The baby's name is Laura, by the way. Susan takes a second to realize that this is good news, and then grabs Meredith up in a big hug. Meredith looks a bit scared. I don't think she got a lot of hugs when she was a kid. Susan backs away and points out that Laura is Meredith's niece. Meredith: "I'm sorry. You're very nice. You both seem so nice. But I don't know you, and you are not my family." Susan is sad, and Meredith walks away.
Back in Mr. O'Malley's O.R., Dr. Hahn is asking Cristina to describe the next steps in the surgery. Cristina answers the question perfectly, and Dr. Hahn tells her, "You remind me of myself when I was an intern." Cristina is surprised to hear it, and Dr. Hahn describes Cristina (and herself) as "focused, intense, cold." But she means "cold" in a good way. Just like all those e-mails I get mean "asshole" in a good way. Dr. Hahn thinks that things like dating, friends, and family are all overrated. Cristina looks over at Burke as she says this. And then there's some unwanted bleeding in the open chest cavity. George hears Dr. Hahn say "this doesn't look good," and he finally turns around to see what's happening. Commercials.