Episode Report Card Lauren S: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT How the West Was Won
By Lauren S | Season 5 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.15.2008
It's time for Duncan's surgery, and he rides excitedly into the OR. He bounces around, asking where everything is, wanting to feel the suction and touch a scalpel. George has him climb onto the operating table and Duncan tells him he wants to see absolutely everything. George shows him the video camera from above, and promises him he can watch it all once it's over. Duncan is really cute, excited and giggling, as George puts the mask over his face to put him to sleep.
Back in the more exciting and disgusting OR, they work away on Arnie's tumor. I peeked over my hand long enough to see Izzie look up to see Alex taking notes. Mark catches her looking and warns her, "Cowboys don't have friends." Oh, but the ladies in the saloon do, Mark.
In Duncan's OR, Hahn gives Mere the tools to do the sutures that she promised and then compliments her work. "You can tell Dr. Yang she's a better teacher than I would have thought." Chastised, Mere apologizes. Hahn tells her to save it, advising that if she has colleagues that know more than she does, she should milk them for all they're worth. But she adds that if Mere ever lies to her again she'll cut her heart out with a steak knife. I wonder if Mere is going to be able to actually control herself and admit when she doesn't know things with that threat hanging over her head? Probably not.
Izzie finds Mrs. Arnie and tells her that the procedure went really well. Mrs. Arnie is relieved, but then spills that she's sure Arnie will never forgive her, and beats herself up for thinking he was lazy and boring. Izzie comforts her but she maintains that as his wife, she should have realized he was sick. Izzie sits down to wisely counsel her, explaining that people are terrible to those that they love, and when they are having a hard time, they take it out on one another. Izzie assures her that she's not a bad wife, she just made a mistake. Naturally, Mrs. Arnie is totally comforted by Izzie's magical personal touch and great wisdom. I just threw up a little, myself. And from across the room, Alex watches her as she leaves. Remember kids -- it's okay to be cruel to someone on a regular basis as long as deep down you love them! Sheesh.
That night, Mere and Cristina are back on the couch in dermatology. Izzie runs in to join them and asks what she missed. Cristina fills her in that one resident gave away a case to another since they thought the other would find it interesting. Izzie wonders if they would be happier if they transferred, but Cristina seems to have seen the light a bit and tells her they'd die of boredom. Mere points out they'd also die with great skin. Cristina tells them that she had about the biggest dermatological emergency one could have that day, but that ultimately all that came of it was the woman needed a biopsy. It's a little less exciting than Izzie tearing a guy's face off and Mere reattaching a child's artery to his heart and Cristina is jealous. They agree that they aren't "happy glowy people" and that they need to get out of there. However, none of them actually moves from the sofa.