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By Lauren S | Season 5 | Episode 16 | Aired on 02.19.2009
Callie is looking at a badly swollen and bruised ankle -- her patient fell down a flight of stairs and she thinks it was caused from his gall bladder surgery. She pulls a bandage aside to show Hunt and Cristina a long, nasty-looking incision, and they're stunned that the surgery wasn't done laproscopically. Once the man tells them that Dr. Campbell was his surgeon, Cristina snarks that that explains it. Hunt pulls them aside to find out what's going on, and Callie explains that Campbell was Seattle Grace's first female surgeon who mostly works in her office but occasionally does surgery. Cristina smirks that she generally only botches surgeries and offers to page the Chief, but Hunt stops her and says that Campbell should be paged. Cristina still thinks the Chief is a better idea, "Instead of some dinosaur who refuses to retire her scalpel and go join her friends in Boca." And as happens in all TV shows, Campbell has walked up right behind her. "The dinosaur is here!" Faye Dunaway announces. "No need to page me." Look, I love Faye Dunaway. LOVE. I'm totally on her side in the Hilary Duff catfight. But... that is one odd-looking lady -- a cautionary tale against plastic surgery, really.
Callie finds Mark and asks if he's checked out Arizona yet, but he hasn't had the time. Callie is placated only because she thinks he brought her coffee, as does Addison when she walks up. But he grabs it away and tells them it's not for them, and instead takes it and runs after Lexie. Lexie tells him she doesn't want the secret coffee and she doesn't want to date Anne Frank (as in, someone she has to smuggle to and from her attic bedroom), but it should be noted that she doesn't actually let go of the coffee. Smart girl. Mark promises he's going to tell and that once Derek proposes, Lexie will be Mark's date to the wedding. This is Mere and Derek we're talking about here -- I would maybe promise, like, going publicly into the living room or something else more realistic. Until those two are in front of an official saying "I do," I'm not sure I'm going to believe it will really happen, no matter how functional they have seemed lately.
Arizona seems to still be wearing her Heelys, since she rolls up to Bailey to ask if she's excited about her peds application. Bailey is rocking new, AWESOME curly hair and looks fantastic, she feels good, and she has amazing recommendation letters to, "put the competition to shame," in this competitive field. She reads excerpts from Derek's and Mark's letters, but when Arizona asks about what Richard said, Bailey has to admit she doesn't have his letter yet. All of those who can see where this story is going from a million miles away, raise your hand. Well, I can't raise mine because then I'd be typing with one hand, but I'm doing it in my head. Arizona reminds her for good measure that his is the only one that matters, but then softens and grins to say that she couldn't be more excited to have Bailey on board. The Chief then comes down the stairs and Bailey reminds him, but he just says he'll remind Patricia and she'll have the letter by the end of the day. George is also writing a letter so that he can get some more screen time this hour, but he claims more time to finish. Not only is he not getting any, but Bailey tells him that she picked him because he won't screw up, "So don't."