Episode Report Card Lauren S: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Blame It On the Rain
By Lauren S | Season 5 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.09.2008
Jack seems to be stable, and Bailey runs in to try and help. Hahn sends her to tell Richard what happened, and then asks about what OR is free. It turns out the one Sloane is in is the only other one available, so she sends Alex to commandeer it for them. Mark is just about to start and is numbing Barry's nose. Behind him, Cristina asks Derek if he's just going to watch. He tells her that he's a pain specialist and so doesn't want to miss it. "So yes, I'm just gonna watch." Cristina fidgets a moment and then whispers angrily, "Don't ever use me again, to try and influence her. You and I are not Team Meredith." There's no chance for Derek to respond because Alex runs in, yelling that they need the OR.
Bailey has done her given task because the Chief is asking in disbelief, "On a patient?" He can't believe it and Bailey explains, in a measured tone, that the staff wasn't hurt, but that the patient's abdomen was, in fact, open at the time. He sighs as Bailey glares at him, and he rightly looks uncomfortable. He then tells her to spread word that they are closing the surgical floor and shipping off the patients. She leaves to do so and he calls after her, "And Dr. Bailey? Try not to gloat on the way out." She promises, "No gloating, sir." And because she's the most awesome, she does seem to mean it.
Back in the OR that still has a ceiling, Hahn, Alex and the others have been pulling the last of the ceiling bits out of Jack's midsection. Alex looks back inside and notices something on the pancreas, asking if it's damage from the debris. Hahn takes a look and sighs, telling him that it's a tumor.
Cristina knocks on the door to Dr. Amy's office and asks if she's the shrink. When Dr. Amy confirms it, Cristina orders, "Well you can't let her quit." From that sentence alone, Dr. Amy guesses that she must be Cristina. At this, Cristina is indignant for a moment, realizing that Meredith has talked about her, but she brushes it off and walks further inside, babbling that she can't let Meredith quit because now that Cristina is being supportive, she's not allowed to have an opinion. "So... you're my last hope." Dr. Amy is confused, and an impatient Cristina asks for confirmation on whether it's her job to have an opinion. It is, so she explains, that Meredith, "... lives her life at an eight. Her pain, on any given day, she lives at an eight. And he doesn't get that." She then goes on a rant about him wanting the roommates to move out, which proves he doesn't understand Meredith, since the roommates are her family. She needs Dr. Amy to tell Meredith not to move them out. "I mean, she thinks she's happy, but she's not. And it's your job to tell her!" I feel like the metaphor is kind of shaky -- I don't feel like Meredith has just one pain blocking out any other pain she might feel. I think she's had a shitty life and is an emotional mess who can't handle the whole kit and caboodle. That said, Meredith definitely still needs to be in therapy. Dr. Amy gives Cristina a totally different answer than what she was looking for, though: "It must be incredibly painful for you, the idea of losing Meredith to Derek." And man, am I glad someone finally pointed that out. I love Cristina so much, but this has clearly been at the heart of some of her problems with Derek. Cristina just furrows her brow and tells her, "You're a terrible shrink!" and leaves.