Episode Report Card Lauren S: N/A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Hooking Up
By Lauren S | Season 7 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.02.2010
Callie, meanwhile, is feeling on top of the world after her successful hip replacement and when she sees Alex she tells him she's taking him out for celebratory drinks. Alex looks a little bit sheepish and admits he can't, because Stark turned out to hate the other guy even more than he hates Alex, and is having Alex assist on a surgery. Callie looks totally betrayed but tries to play it cool, and when Alex tries to explain his decision Callie just tells him to go. After he walks off, she tells the stuffed Santa on the counter next to her that she's still awesome. She is. She could also take some freaking responsibility for what happened and stop looking for everyone else in her life to fill the Arizona-sized hole that was left.
Teddy has kind of the same problem as she looks for any way to help assuage her guilt over what has become of Cristina. She finds Henry with his bags packed and watches as Richard says he'll be set up in the clinic when he needs it. It's the basic kiss-off that Teddy was worried about, and after Richard leaves, she apologizes for everything. Richard at least scored him a number of free samples of his medicine, so that will hold him for a little while. He's obviously rather defeated but trying to stay positive and something in him tugs at Teddy's heartstrings, as well as her guilt. She tells him that she's got great health insurance, but Henry doesn't get it, so she searches for the right words and finally says that she will marry him. Henry is stunned and says that while it's totally generous, he can't do it. Teddy persists, and while Henry tries to argue he's also in desperate need of the help and can't keep saying no. He finally tells Teddy she'll regret this in the morning, and the two stare at each other for a while before Teddy says that he's dying, but he doesn't have to because she can and will help by marrying him. Teddy! Oh, this is so bad and misplaced it hurts me to watch it, but she seems to be sure and hey, he's quite good looking. But in terms of bad ideas... let's all remember a certain patient-doctor relationship that resulted in a cut LVAD wire, death, and then ghost sex. Please, please, let Henry live if only so we never have any threat of ghost sex again.
After her performance in the conference room, Bailey goes to Eli to tell him to keep doing just what he was doing, taking out the drains on day three, unless he hears otherwise from her. She's all excited and asks if he really knows what this all means, what he did? I'm glad she said that because I was a mite worried in the conference room that she was going to take all of the credit when it turned out it was Eli who initially stumbled on to the solution, even if he didn't track it and realize that it was, in fact, a solution. Bailey is beside herself so Eli uses the opportunity to ask her out on a date. I didn't see that coming at all and neither did Bailey, who looks at her feet and struggles for words. Like all good Seattle Grace employees Eli has the gift of gab and knows how to babble to fill an awkward moment, and he says that the shocked look on her face from a nurse asking out a doctor is cute. He figures she's trying to figure out a way to say no but she decides that he gets a date since he gave her a fistula cure -- hey, she's getting the very guy she was imagining when she was drunk at Joe's a couple of weeks earlier! Eli points out that he's also very handsome, which is something he mentioned before and even though he's right, he might want to watch how often he makes a point of reminding people just how aware he is of that fact. The ego can outweigh the abs after a while, dude.