Episode Report Card Lauren S: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Good Night, and Good Luck
By Lauren S | Season 7 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.18.2010
Out in the waiting area, Lexie gives Lucas' parents an update on his surgery, but as she turns to go back they call after her to ask if she knows anything about Reilly. Lexie is stunned to realize that they have no idea he's dead, and they pick up on her reaction right away. (I love that this is finally becoming more prevalent on the show -- that when the doctors have really obvious reactions to something, people actually notice rather than all of us pretending that they are doing a good job of hiding their emotions.) She carefully asks if anyone has talked to them and they both grab onto their chairs like they are life rafts -- which answers that question. Lexie takes a moment and then starts into her usual death notification, and the parents realize what's coming and scream and beg for her not to say it. She's left telling them how sorry she is as they wail and hold each other, and it's all she can do to keep it together.
Lexie comes back to the surgery rather depressed after having to go through that, and she chatters that she hopes they can keep Lucas alive, mentioning how guilty he's going to feel when he wakes up. That of course pushes a button in Jackson who hollers at her to shut up. Seriously, bringing the hot therapist in for three weeks to help counsel the doctors did just about nothing other than be soothing to our eyes, seeing as how some of our docs are still so deeply screwed up but yet are still allowed to work. Jackson apologizes but keeps operating with such a vengeance that it looks like he's stabbing some tool straight through Lucas' innards to get his aggression out. Owen is clearly worried, but Jackson does actually have his surgical wits about him, if nothing else. He manages to fix a bleeder that crops up and Owen compliments his work, managing to conceal most of his surprise that Jackson is able to do a good job in his current state.
April is still trying to separate the lovebirds but the acetone isn't working, and she's at a bit of a loss. She thinks that her problems are solved when she sees Bailey walk by and excitedly runs after her to get some help.
What April couldn't tell through the window is that Bailey can only just manage to keep herself upright at this point, and she announces that she's just there to take a nap before she goes home. April still doesn't really notice what's wrong and starts to babble about her patients, and Bailey just babbles back about young people, love and fistulas. But when Bailey can't get a dollar into the vending machine, and then acts sad, like the machine is a friend who has betrayed her, April finally (FINALLY) gets what is going on. She gently asks Bailey if she is drunk and then helps her put her dollar in the machine so that she can get some oh-so-delicious-after-too-much-to-drink chips. Bailey, of course, just claims to be a bit tipsy.