Episode Report Card Lauren S: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Take Another Little Piece of My Heart
By Lauren S | Season 5 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.06.2008
As he walks into the hall, Richard finds him to ask his opinion about the doctors. He first answers that it's only been a day, which seems to surprise Richard but he takes it and turns to leave. Hunt then lets loose. "They're undisciplined, inarticulate, and they have a lot to learn about respect. Mostly they're more interested in their personal crap than anything else. And I'm not sure they're being taught anything different." I love this man! Less than a week at the hospital and he's the first one to notice all these things? He's awesome. He then informs Richard that he might not continue working there, and excuses himself.
Alex and Lexie head back to the bodies, where they find an absolutely horrified Bailey. She demands that they tell her she's not seeing what she's seeing: "A roomful of bodies half open, scattered, and forgotten about." Lexie weakly tries to justify that they are unclaimed, but she's messing with the wrong emotionally battered doctor right now. Trying to stay calm, Bailey informs them that each of these people was loved by someone, and that they are responsible for treating them as such. "We claim them. And we treat them with respect!" That seems to include not leaving one's half-eaten lunch on the gurneys, weirdly enough. She orders the two docs to close and cover up the bodies and then put them back.
Hunt is sitting in a dark on-call room when Cristina finds him to let him know their patient's wife is there and identified him. Hunt's in the mood to pick a fight, and cuts her off to ask the guy's name. When she doesn't answer, he again asks her condescendingly if she asked the name so that the patient could become a human being to her. He gets going then, and rants that the patients are people, not a game or a contest, and that the doctors get to save them. He admits that she could win all of the contests but that if she's here just to win she should get out. He asks again about his name and when she doesn't answer, he shakes his head as if she's a lost cause. Instead of leaving, she closes the door and sits down in front of him. She tells him a story in fits and starts, clearly not used to telling anyone what she's telling him now. Her dad died in a car accident when she was nine, and she was in the car. While they waited for an ambulance, she tried to hold his chest together to slow the bleeding. "When he died..." she pauses to collect herself and doesn't look up from the floor as she continues, "My hands... felt his heart stop beating." At that, she looks Hunt dead in the eye. "That's why I do this. It's also why I win all the contests. The patient's name is Tom." She then leaves, and he chuckles to himself and once again shakes his head only this time it is also at him as well as her. He muses to himself, "Single malt scotch."