Episode Report Card LTG: B- | 2 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Oy, Gevalt
By LTG | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.18.2006
On the bridge of sighs and regrets, Burke chases after the Chief and asks for a minute of his time. Burke tells him that the M&M reminded him of how important it is to always "be at the top of your game." Burke starts to tell the Chief about his shaky hand, but the Chief just cuts him off to tell him how glad he is that Burke is back and how much they need him, because the staff respects him "as an authority figure." An authority figure who knows how to choke a bitch. And then the Chief walks away. I'm getting sick of this storyline, mostly because I don't believe people would be so unwilling to actually listen to Burke for five minutes. Although maybe everyone's just trying to end any conversation with Burke before he loses his temper and chokes them.
Meredith walks down some stairs (but not in the stairwell of shameful secrets) and runs into McDreamy. He's glad to see her back at work. They make eyes at each other and generate enough electricity to heat a small cup of water, but neither one tells the other that they're both finally free (i.e., that McDreamy is divorced and Mere is vet-free). McDreamy's omission is especially glaring, because Mere gets paged by Addison and calls her McDreamy's wife, giving him the perfect opportunity to point out the truth. And then he walks away.
Meredith tells a nurse that she was paged "by Dr. Montgomery-Shepherd." Addison walks up, welcomes Mere back, and tells her that it's just "Dr. Montgomery," since the divorce was finalized that morning. And then Addison tells Mere that they've been asked to "consult on a case where a woman has a foreign object stuck...inside of her." She grimaces and opens the door to an exam room.
And in that room we see a middle-aged woman straddling a middle-aged man. She complains that it hurts whenever he moves and he tells her he wouldn't move if she wasn't putting weight on his bad knee. She forgot which knee it was, and he thinks she should have figured it out after nineteen years of marriage. And then Addison needlessly tells Mere that the foreign object stuck inside the woman is her husband. The two patients simultaneously correct her: "Ex-husband!" Commercials.
Addison and Meredith peek under the sheet that is covering the lower extremities of the couple. For reasons that will become obvious, I will call them Pierce and Di (and I know it wasn't a diaphragm, but I can't make a good nickname out of "IUD"). Anyway, Di blames their predicament on Pierce's new genital piercing. And let's just be glad it wasn't a tongue piercing. Pierce can't believe she just told them about the piercing, but she notes that they're obviously going to see it sooner or later. Pierce is embarrassed, but Di is far more embarrassed by the fact that she's stuck to her ex-husband while she's supposed to be meeting her current husband for lunch. Di begs Addison and Meredith to fix the problem. The first step is figuring out what the piercing is caught on. Gingerly, Addison asks Di, "Do you have any... piercings?" Di is shocked at the notion, since she sells real estate. And unless the real estate market has really gone downhill, I'm not sure what the state of her genitals has to do with her profession. But Pierce also sells real estate, and he obviously doesn't think a realtor can't be pierced. Di and Pierce have been divorced for five years but keep running into each other in professional settings and occasionally falling into bed together. We get shots of Addison and Meredith each realizing how much like Di and Pierce they each are with McDreamy. Addison tells the two of them that the first step is for Mere to get x-rays. She also suggests that Di cancel her lunch plans. Because Addison is all about keeping adultery secret.