Episode Report Card Lauren S: A- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Pigging Out
By Lauren S | Season 5 | Episode 6 | Aired on 10.30.2008
Meredith is busy playing with Anatomy Jane while she, Richard, Bailey and Hahn are in a meeting about Tori. Richard is clearly uncomfortable watching her fiddle with the tiny organs, but he's brought back to the subject at hand when Hahn announces that three other hospitals turned Tori away and they should have as well. Bailey rightfully demands, "What is the matter with you?" We the audience know what's up, but to Bailey this is just Hahn being an even bigger bitch than usual. Everyone throws out ideas, but Hahn systematically shoots them all down, then demands to know who all the people are who are staring through the window. Bailey points out all of the members of Tori's extended family, and when Richard asks why they are staring Bailey tells them she thinks they are just waiting for news. Richard gets a page and leaves after warning them to come up with something before he gets back. Hahn just tells Mere to close the blinds.
Derek was the one who paged Richard, and he did it just to whine about Hunt: "Rambo's completely out of control." Richard's slow on the draw and asks what Derek is talking about, so Derek pouts that Hunt, "kicked [him] out of [his] own ER." Your ER, huh Derek? I would bet there's a few doctors that might raise their eyebrows at that -- guess that article is keeping you quite warm at night these days. When Richard establishes that Hunt hasn't killed anyone, he leaves to go back to the meeting, telling Derek only to call him if Hunt does in fact kill a patient. He explains that he's got a bunch of bickering doctors, and Mere playing with a doll. Derek smiles and asks, "Anatomy Jane?" Richard gripes that Mere dragged Jane all over the hospital when she was five, and that it was much cuter in a child.
Mere is still fiddling with the doll when Richard gets back, and he finds that they haven't come up with any sort of solution. Hahn continues to not only be unhelpful but to berate his decision to bring the girl here, informing him that she knows he's desperate to be #1 but that he can't take in every "charity case" since it's only a waste of resources. Isn't someone world-class supposed to be up for a challenge? Richard finally snaps at Mere to put Anatomy Jane away, telling her it's not playtime. She defends that she's thinking, not playing, and asks if they could take out each organ where the tumor interferes with its blood supply. Hahn shoots that down as too dangerous, so Mere suggests taking them out one by one. Hahn snots that they don't have the time, but Richard asks, "Well, what about if we made the time?" Hahn sighs at the idea that they might be able to save the life of a child, but Richard tells Bailey to start putting some stuff up on the board behind them.