Episode Report Card Lauren S: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Big Pimpin'
By Lauren S | Season 4 | Episode 16 | Aired on 05.22.2008
Callie and Mark are, as he puts it, doing it like bunnies, and he's talking dirty to her about Erica being there and what Erica would be doing to Callie right now. Callie seems both disturbed and yet really into it when her pager goes off. There's a trauma coming in, so she tells Mark they have to finish up the fast way and he grins like a devil while his head goes out of the shot. It's probably about as graphic as this show's ever gotten.
Mere is monitoring her interns as they put files together; the clinical trial patients they have coming in are their most promising yet and she wants no mistakes. Izzie comes up and demands to know where she was the night before. Mere tells her that Cristina needed her, but Izzie counters that Ava's at the house, and Izzie needed her, too. George, who followed after Izzie, supplies that she's crazy. Mere turns to George and reminds him that they've talked about it before, and that calling Izzie crazy isn't appropriate. "She's... spirited!" Easy joke, but it worked just perfectly. Izzie smacks George and corrects that it's Ava who is crazy and that Alex is pretending she's not. She seems to earnestly be asking for help but before she can get the question out, Cristina sashays in and greets everyone. Lexie immediately starts stammering that she was just helping and was on her way to check on Cristina's patients. It's the most pathetic Pavlovian response ever. Surprisingly, though, Cristina says it's fine and to take her time. Cristina kicks back smugly against the desk and tells them all she's getting her groove back, while she does a little dance. Finally she gloats, "Meredith gave me Sparkle Pager!" Izzie is aghast and while Meredith justifies what she did, Cristina stands behind her doing what can best be described as a Snoopy dance. Cristina explains that this way she can get out from under Hahn, and if Hahn won't teach her, she'll teach herself. Despite the fact that she's still gloating, it's an excellent point. Izzie argues that she'll use it for good and Cristina for evil, and then turns to George, who tells them he thinks it's non-transferable. After all, he is the Chief's intern. Cristina calls him the Chief's bitch and tells him he has no power and that the power is in the Sparkle Pager.
George is paged by the Chief and leaves, and Izzie turns back to Mere to talk about Ava. But Meredith happily says that they're using a new technique today in their trial so she has no time to think about Ava. "Work it out." Izzie's spirits are lifted when she's paged for a trauma but quickly dashed when Cristina poaches it away with the Power of Sparkle and Izzie has to head to the pit. Callie rushes in and acts all weird and jittery while everyone looks at her weird and Mark tries to sexy talk her. But everyone is struck silent when they walk around the corner and find a terrified boy encased in concrete. The firefighters ask what the docs want them to do, but the docs all stand, dumbstuck, while the boy pleads through chattering teeth, "Help me!"