Episode Report Card 34 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Stick a Fork in It
By Lauren S | Season 10 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.07.2013
Mere is gazing at her fork when the elevator arrives with Derek inside. He's all smiley and on a surgical high but she snaps at him that she could have gotten Number 8, doesn't he believe her? Derek assures her that of course, she wouldn't say it if she couldn't do it. But he seems to be saying that as a way of soothing his wife rather than as someone who knows the actual situation. He's thrilled to have gotten rid of Harvey's twitch, and when Mere keeps pouting he assures her that she's the future of medicine. He sends her off to go check on her liver model and offers to put the kids to bed. Mere finally manages a smile.
She's a little bit surprised to find the lab unlocked, and a whole lot surprised to find the half-finished liver model discarded on the table while Smash and Cristina stare into the printer, with Smash holding the manual. She demands to know what they are doing and Cristina, it should be noted, looks totally conflicted.
Mere's VO is still talking about fighting those billions of cells, standing strong, pushing yourself past rational limits, and the like. The problem is that no matter how hard you try, sometimes you are just outnumbered. Unsaid is that it would be easier to deal with it if you hadn't alienated your friends with your bad attitude.
Bailey sits by herself in Tuck's room, and as time passes she begins pulling and twisting harder and harder at her fingers, one by one, as if she is counting to make sure they are all there. As she goes, she gets rougher and rougher until I thought she was accidently going to break one of them. Something is very seriously wrong.
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