Episode Report Card Lauren S: B+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Father Figure
By Lauren S | Season 5 | Episode 21 | Aired on 04.30.2009
Izzie shuffles out of the bathroom, and Izzie helps her get back into bed, much more the mom than Robbie, who is talking on the phone and doesn't notice a thing. She keeps thanking whoever it is and then happily tells "Cricket" that she'll be fine; Izzie/Cricket guesses correctly that she was on the phone with her psychic. She then notes it's a psychic with an internet connection, when Robbie reports that he said skin cancer is highly curable if caught early. She asks Bailey pointedly if she caught the cancer early and Bailey struggles a bit before Izzie jumps in to say that Robbie can ask her any questions she has. Poor Robbie is trying to understand the best she can, but she just comes off as terribly naïve, talking about a woman on Tyra who had a mole on her private parts that no one caught. She tells them it was bad, "She was bald, and everything." Well, clearly she did not have the luck to have Derek, Saver of Hair, operating on her. (Yes, I know she was probably bald from chemo. Humor me.) Bailey and Izzie are both somewhat amused, but overall it's really kind of pathetic.
Hunt talks to Richard about GSW guy, then turns to Kate and tells her that they are rushing him into surgery because of his major injuries. Kate calls after him that Maddie needs to tell him he's sorry before the surgery and as Mere works on the little girl, Kate goes over and sternly tells her that people die in surgery, putting words in her daughter's mouth about how she doesn't' want him to die without hearing how sorry she is. And here's where I respect Meredith, because while I know Kate is also battered and in a horrible position... Sweet Fancy Moses, woman, this is sick. Maddie goes to jump down and follow her mother, but Mere stops her and declares, "No." Despite Richard saying he name with heavy warning, Mere tells Kate that she should be the one apologizing to Maddie; that she knows Kate is the victim, "But there is no room for you to be a victim when your six-year-old is on the line." She goes on that Maddie was stronger than Kate and stood up for the two of them, which is more than Kate did, and repeats that Maddie won't say anything. There's some very heavy, overly dramatic music just in case we didn't really get the gravity of that scene.
Julie has been on the phone and comes in to give her sister some good news -- the company that bulldozed her has agreed to pay her medical bills and not sue her for trespassing if Willow won't sue back and never trespasses again. Willow is appropriately appalled and yells about everything the company is destroying, while the doctors look uncomfortable about being caught in the middle. They leave and as the sisters continue to yell, Mark comments how grateful he is to not have siblings. Callie just replies that they are yelling because they care, which is what she expected her family to do. Mark adds to the, "Just lie, it's not their business" vote, adding his reasoning that there is no reason for Callie to have to hurt this much. I always knew there was a squishy middle under that tough man-whore exterior!