Episode Report Card Lauren S: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Daddy Dearest
By Lauren S | Season 6 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.08.2009
Hunt and Izzie have clearly given Randy and Angela the news that they couldn't do anything, because Angela is railing against them for just sending him home to die. Randy assures her they are doing all they can but Izzie is clearly building up a righteous fit, and asks to talk to Hunt outside. Once there she suggests various procedures they might try, but he has a very good reason why not to try each of them. He points out that Randy has a 13% survival rate, so he won't put him through another painful surgery. Izzie counters smugly that she had a 5% survival rate, and that she's alive because no one told her they'd done all they could. She hits him where it hurts pointing out that Cristina is the one who fought for her, and that this guy deserves a chance to fight. Hunt's not pleased and storms away without answering.
Meredith is pleased with herself for being a big person and offering, but is even more pleased that Thatcher turned her down. She tells Alex about it, and instead of congratulating her for her generosity he tells her she has to go back and make him accept. In one of his flashes of married-man maturity he reminds Meredith that he's the sick one and she's not, and tells her that she has to try again.
Derek then sees her sitting in the hallway, then pacing, clearing mulling it all over. Cristina comes by and sees her but Derek stops her from going to Mere, realizing she has to do this on her own. They watch as she continues her pacing and pondering.
Mark has run all of Irving's bloodwork, and like Mere he's clear for surgery. Doc Abbott is appalled, and asks if his father is really going through with it. When Irving says he is, however, Doc drops his bomb. He says that if Irving does this, he and his wife are taking him out of the home and moving him to their house to share a bedroom with pretty-but-dumb Janie. Irving doesn't want to, but his daughter-in-law condescends that the home is clearly causing him to make irrational decisions, and that seeing a younger woman and sneaking into her room is not appropriate at his age. Mark finally can't take it anymore, both for Irving and because that last comment hit a little close to home, methinks. He yells at them, "Come on! It's just an erection!" He points out that this is their father, who did everything for them, and now they are throwing it in his face. He asks if they know how many people would give up everything without blinking for their parents. And, he adds that there is nothing wrong with dating a younger woman as it keeps you young (in his professional opinion). Irving just looks at the kids, clearly pleased with all of Mark's points.