Episode Report Card Lauren S: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Take Another Little Piece of My Heart
By Lauren S | Season 5 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.06.2008
Callie, Cristina and Hunt are working on John Doe. Callie can sense the tension in the air and apologizes for before, adding that everyone kind of ends up in everyone else's business there. Hunt gruffly says it's best to keep it professional and Callie agrees. Unfortunately she doesn't stop there, and starts to muse about how one minute you're friends, and the next minute... she forgets the entire genesis of the conversation and starts griping about how there's pressure to define who you are. Hunt cuts her off to ask if she realizes she's doing it again and then Mr. Inappropriate Fraternization himself, Sloane, comes in to do his part of the surgery. After some customary blustering, he manages to continue to make Cristina look even more unprofessional by flirting about his own surgical prowess and talking about how great he is when he manipulates a little skin. Oh, Sloane, isn't that obvious even for YOU? Callie shoots him a "What the hell?" look as Hunt dismisses Cristina from the surgery.
Once she's scrubbed out, she runs into Lexie who thinks she might get to scrub in. Cristina informs her that there's no way, and then asks why she smells like formaldehyde. Realizing what she just asked, she turns and again asks Lexie why she smells like death. Lexie clearly panics...
...Because Cristina strolls through the doors and happily announces that she sees dead people. When Alex runs up to stop her, Cristina gives him a once-in-a-lifetime offer, "I'm going to trade you my beaten-to-a-pulp, traumapalooza patient for no less then three of your cadavers. Pony up." He calls it a deal, and Cristina and Mere plop down happily in front of a body. Izzie then wanders in with her lunch to find some company, and thanks Alex for her corpse bouquet. Lexie then slumps in and asks if she can try something, but before she says what they all shoot her down. Mere then happily shows off a technique for holding instruments that she learned from her "dead mommy." It's weird, but Mere really is almost like a functioning adult in this episode! Izzie wants to know if Mere sees her dead mommy and laughs it off when Mere explains the journal reading. But when Mere adds that she once saw her mom, bomb squad guy, and Denny, Izzie looks like she might lose her lunch all over the nearest body while she asks if that was today. Duh, silly, it was when Mere was dead. Lex unhelpfully adds that she feels her mom sometimes. Actually, it was kind of helpful, because it causes Izzie to flee to try and get off the case. Lexie then asks again if she could try something and is shot down yet again.