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Episode Report Card Lauren S: B | 2 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT The Show Within A Show

By Lauren S | Season 7 | Episode 6 | Aired on 10.28.2010

Lily wakes up to find herself with a giant tube coming out of her neck and she gapes like a fish as she tries to talk. Arizona stops her and gently explains to her what happened and that her mom is on her way, and then outside tells the cameras that Lily has a growth on her windpipe that's blocking her airway, and that it keeps recurring and has lately gotten much worse.

Inside the room, Alex shows her the nurses' button and very sweetly tells her to push it a ton and to not worry about being annoying. She makes her fish face again and tears start to run down her face but Alex tells her it will be okay and pulls out her iPod, putting the headphones in her ears so that the Bieb can keep her company. Once outside he explains how often they have to do procedures on kids without their parents being there, because they usually can't take off that much work. He assures us that it doesn't make them bad parents, just busy. He shows how they have parent cots, so that they can spend the night in their kid's room, but that they aren't there all the time. To punctuate it, the camera pulls back to show Lily, lying there alone and looking scared. So... did they shoot all this hoping her mom would sign a release form or did they warn her when she checked in? Am I too practical a person because I kept wondering about this the whole hour?

The arm donor's wife, Nicole, is sitting outside on a bench, crying as she is interviewed. She's played by Audrey Wasilewski who I know most recently from Mad Men but who I suddenly have started seeing everywhere as she's a total HITG. I just had never quite put it together before because she looks so different out of her '60s housewife duds. She admits to having had a bad feeling right before the phone rang with news of the accident. There's a shot of her fiddling nervously with her sweater in case we didn't realize how upset she is from the crying and the fact that her husband is BRAIN DEAD. Thank goodness they clarified that. Over shots of her signing lots of paperwork she explains that even though her husband was a donor they needed special consent to take his arms. She says that of course she'd allow it because she knows it's what Sam (she gives him a name, even though the rest of the hospital staff keeps it impersonal, just calling him "Arm Donor") would want, but admits it's hard to think of someone else holding her husband's hand. When you think of it that way, it does suddenly gets more real and rather awful, really. Well, not awful for Zack, but awful for Nicole and Sam.

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