Episode Report Card Lauren S: C- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Wish I Wasn't Here
By Lauren S | Season 5 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.08.2009
Cristina is angrily sharpening a pencil like it's Meredith's finger in there. Hunt brings her a coffee and she angrily asks what it's for. Hunt thought she needed a friend, but she just declares that "Colleagues aren't friends, they're competitors." It's the first thing she's said that sounds like genuine Cristina and not weird angry pod-Cristina. He figures he'll take the coffee, then, but she immediately grabs it, and he smiles. Derek comes up and announces that Eric has brain contusions on top of everything else, and Mere appears to ask if they can give him more morphine. Derek refuses, and when Mere suggests that it's inhumane, he announces, "No, killing people is inhumane. Denying painkillers is a judgment call." Cristina smiles to hear Meredith get smacked down by her boyfriend. Mere runs after him to demand to know what's wrong, and he spits that he tries to save lives all the time and loses, but that Eric just takes life away and has the nerve to suggest they are two sides of the same coin. I think that if Derek didn't believe that to be true, he wouldn't be losing his mind right now. Meredith argues that they aren't, but Derek only reasserts that Eric doesn't need morphine.
Mark and Callie are lying in bed in the on-call room, but unlike most couples in there, they are totally clothed and actually just talking. Mark is lamenting how great the sex was with Lexie and how they also talked and laughed for hours. It sounds like he really has never had that whole "talking" thing with a woman before and I'll hand it to Lexiepedia -- I wouldn't have guessed her to be the first woman to reach that milestone. Callie, on the other hand, can't have another "romantic disaster" in the hospital, and Mark agrees that her track record is rather impressive. They sit up while trying to figure out something else to think about and try kissing each other, but it's not working. Callie then decides that, since they are addicts, they need a 12-step program. Mark isn't into it at all: "I'm not going to a meeting to discuss my obsession with my best friend's girlfriend's half-sister." But his best friend's girlfriend's ill-fated one night stand's ex-wife assures him it will be just the two of them as each other's sponsors. And she realizes it's pretty much only one step: "Don't get naked with an intern." Mark goes to write it down.
At lunch, George is talking to Cristina about Izzie's birthday, clearly to help give ideas to Alex. Alex actually has it under control, though, on account of the boyfriend lessons. When Izzie gets there Alex cracks a horrifically bad joke about sharing his girl but not his expensive sandwich and Izzie looks uncomfortable -- I can't tell if it's on account of Alex joking about her ridiculous situation or if it's because the joke was just that bad. Mere comes up and George leaves, so she takes his seat. They talk about Eric some and Izzie wonders what he did. Cristina throws out that maybe he caught his wife with someone and killed them, but Izzie matter-of-factly informs her that's a crime of passion, and they forgive crimes of passion. Saintly Meredith counters that all crimes are crimes of passion, you don't kill someone because you forget for a moment that it's illegal, and as I choke on my water Cristina leaves. Sadie then takes that musical chair and Izzie asks slyly, "When you kill her, is it going to be a crime of passion?" Wow, for a split second, there was the old Izzie who I actually enjoyed watching! Sadie asks if they are still fighting and when the answer is yes, asks if Mere wants to know what she thinks. Mere sing-songs that she doesn't in such a condescending way that I'm really surprised everyone doesn't just yell in unison for her to give it a rest with the various holier-than-thou crap this hour.