Episode Report Card Lauren S: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Fun With Morphine
By Lauren S | Season 3 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.11.2006
Addison walks past Meredith's room and Mer druggedly calls out to her, twice for good measure. Addison goes back in, defeat etched across every fiber of her being, and asks, "You bellowed, Dr. Grey?" She says in her small voice, "Hi," and Addison replies, "You certainly are, aren't you." She takes the chart from the nurse and seems incredibly relieved that Mer isn't pregnant. Meredith asks if she's okay, and Addison gets her armor back on and tells her she's fine, and gives a very obligatory and hearty, "How are you?" to which Meredith replies about the needing to choose between two men. Again. Addison takes that as her clue to leave, but Mer reels her back in. She asks how she knew Derek was the one. "I know you hate me and all, and you don't owe me anything. No-thing. Noooo-thing. What was I saying?" "Derek." "Right." She blindly continues, "I want him to be the one. But I would know if he was the one, right? You knew, right?" Addison stares in disbelief, but her face softens and she relents. Kate Walsh needs an Emmy. She's taken a character who shouldn't have been sympathetic and made her one of the most complicated, sympathetic, wonderful, layered people on the show. She explains that she didn't know, but he knew that he wouldn't hurt her. "Not on purpose, anyway. Not the way I hurt him." Meredith: "He hurt me. When he chose you." Addison admits that she should have just let him go. "I should have stepped aside. Been a better person. I should have... " At this, she finally looks right at Meredith. "A lot of things." Meredith replies, "Me too. A lot of things." Addison's face melts a little bit more, and though Meredith's full of drugs, it's a fantastic moment between the two. Addison grudgingly admits, "I don't hate you." Meredith delightedly asks her how come they never talked like this before and she answers, "The only reason we are talking like this right now, is because I know you won't remember a single word of this, once the drugs wear off." I was about to get all indignant and refute this, having had surgery and experience with powerful drugs, when I remembered that, despite having thought I could recount every moment of my stay, two months later I realized one friend had visited me and I had no recollection of it whatsoever until someone else mentioned it. So I've got to admit, she's right. But it's a big moment for the two women, even more so because it would never happen under normal circumstances. They smile.