Episode Report Card Joe R: B | 65 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Whose Bed Have Your Scrubs Been Under?
By Joe R | Season 8 | Episode 16 | Aired on 02.23.2012
At the ambulance bay, Sloan and Avery are receiving victims of an espresso-machine explosion at a local coffee house. The barista has burns all over her face and is kind of freaking out about it. Avery gets short with the paramedic over something about the IV bag. Meanwhile, Meredith is treating the other espresso victim, who took the brunt of the actual machine-parts into his chest. Lots of shrapnel wounds. He's also freaking out, but he's asking for "Angie," the barista.
Cristina's still stalking Summer Glau, and now we figure out why: she walks up to Owen and they have something of an extended chat, just outside of Cristina's earshot. She's trying to glean as much as she can from the nonverbal, however, and then she sees it: Summer puts her hand on Owen's arm. The dramatic push-in on Cristina's face feels a bit melodramatic, sure, but come on. The arm-touch is a total flirt-ninja move, and we all know it.
At home, Richard wakes up to the beeping sounds of an alarm. Not a phone alarm or a clock, either. Adele's not in the bed with him, which makes him panic even more. He rushes downstairs to find a pan in flames on the stove. He puts it out, but not before lighting his sleeve on fire a little bit in the process. He calls out for Adele, and she shows up looking confused. She's all right, physically, but that's about all that can be said. She's scared, and Richard hugs her. But who will hug Richard??
Altman is leading Drs. Torres and Robins down the hallway in a pedeconference of bitterness and despair. She knows her presentation to the Board went horrifyingly, and how her proposal for growing a heart from stem cells is as dead as her husband. Arizona barely gets a word of comfort out before Teddy pontificates that the nice thing about your husband dying is that you never have to care about anything again. If it even occurs to Callie to play the George card here, she chooses (probably wisely) not to do it. Instead, she tells Teddy to as Owen for help, as a recommendation from the Chief of Surgery carries some weight. Teddy just spits out that she doesn't speak to Owen Hunt anymore.
Callie joins the surgeons in with Devin, the shrapnel-chested coffee enthusiast -- Cristina, Owen, and Meredith. While Mere preps him for surgery, Cristina gingerly asks her husband why he didn't come home last night. He mumbles something about being busy, and it's all so sad. Thankfully, Callie changes the subject, telling Owen about Altman's Board proposal and that she could use some help. Mere asks Devin if he wants them to alert his parents that he's going into surgery. He says they're old and he doesn't want to worry them; just tell Angie the barista girl of his dreams that he's okay, since she's probably super worried. Just then, some intern pops into the room to alert Mere that Webber's in the ER. Like...in the ER.