Episode Report Card Joe R: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Bullets with Butterfly Wings
By Joe R | Season 6 | Episode 23 | Aired on 05.20.2010
Back with Alex, they've apparently got the chest tube in, but he's still losing a lot of blood. Mark says they'll need to do a transfusion. Lexie volunteers to go find the supplies, and while Mark objects on gallantry grounds, Lexie says Mark's the one best equipped to keep Alex alive, and she can't just stand there and do nothing. She leans in to Alex and tells him she'll be right back and don't die. She leaves and Alex summons the strength to ask Mark not to kill him. Mark, beleaguered, says he's doing his best.
Meredith is increasingly freaked out as she and Cristina roam the halls looking for Derek. They get to a spot where they can see the catwalk, all the way across the atrium. Too far to be seen or heard, but close enough to have a perfect view of Clark pointing his gun at Derek. Clark rants at Derek about how he's the man now. He wasn't then, when he allowed Derek to "decide she should die," but he is now. A man stands up for his wife. Across the atrium, Derek's wife watches helplessly.
Bailey has somehow found an oxygen mask to put on Percy, and she has Mandy retrieve a pair of those sticky circle things (Bailey's words! You can't yell at me!) that are used to monitor heart rates or whatever. She also asks for a wire, apparently looking to MacGruber this whole deal. She tells Percy he's doing fine, but he doesn't believe her. He thinks he's dying and she's saying what they always say when they're dying. Bailey looks at him and tells him definitively: he is NOT dying. She would tell him so if he was. Now Mandy needs to hold his hand, because she's gonna to something with that wire and those pads, and my guess is it's gonna hurt.
Catwalk. I love how Shonda Rhimes, in her post-show blog, described it as "my beloved catwalk." That explains so much about the geography of this show. Anyway, Meredith is still freaking out, because Derek's still staring down the barrel of a gun. Clark rants about this unsafe hospital and its bloodthirsty surgeons. Surgeons who play God with their patients. He really looks like he's about to shoot him. Derek starts talking about loss, how he lost his dad when he was a kid. "Two guys killed my father for his watch, right in front of me." Did we know this about Derek? That he's Batman, I mean. He says he became a doctor to save lives, not play God. He asks Clark to look him in the eyes, see that he's a human being. He says it again, "I'm a human being. I'm flawed. We all are. Today I think, for you, is just a mistake." He says Clark's a good man, he can see it in his eyes. "Can you see it in mine?"