Episode Report Card Lauren S: B | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Let's Go Crazy
By Lauren S | Season 6 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.01.2009
"...What if you didn't? What if the patient dies and you could have prevented it?" Alex is wheeling Cheekless to the OR with Nurse Olivia, as if we haven't gone eons without seeing her. She wants Alex to relay any news he hears about the merger because, "Nurses are always the last to know, first to go."
As he turns a corner, a girl calls after Alex and honestly, for a few seconds I totally didn't recognize it was Izzie and thought we were going to have some sort of awful "Alex is tempted by an old flame" storyline. Thankfully (I suppose) it's Izzie in a crazy red wig that makes her look just like her mom -- and turns out in fact to be a gift from her mom. She's excited about how real it looks while Alex is speechless because, well, that wig is many things but realistic isn't necessarily one. I think I used that same wig the year I was Lindsay Lohan for Halloween. He asks what she's doing there and she tells him she's working as if it's the most obvious thing in the world, but he's confused as they had discussed her resting for another three weeks. She thinks she needs to come back while there is still a job to come back to, and that she needs to show people she isn't going to die. She's also bored, which I get, but girlfriend -- you had Stage 4 cancer. She changes the subject back to her wig and asks for confirmation that if you didn't know she had cancer, you'd never guess, right? Mere VO's" "So you check your work one more time before you close.
Paranoia is a surgeon's best friend." Derek and Sloan meet Alex in the OR with Cheekless and get ready to go to work while talking about the merger. Derek is ticked off that Richard shut himself in his office after his initial announcement and won't talk to anyone. Mark's not worried as he thinks it's just "financial restructuring" and Derek has to point out that generally that means a personnel change. After declaring he's not ready to lose good people he seems to make a decision, tells Mark he's got the surgery, and marches off to go talk to the Chief.
Mark runs out after him, which is really nice for the poor kid with no cheek that his surgeons won't just get on with his surgery, already. But he actually displays some maturity as he tries to convince Derek he's too tired and angry and will say something he regrets. He tries to convince him to go hit golf balls or take a walk with Meredith, but Derek counters that Meredith won't leave the hospital. A scream in the distance announces Lexie's arrival as she sprints through the door with an armful of blood, trips, spills it everywhere and then lands on top of it. Derek asks Mark to tell him that Lexie's not worried but Mark concedes that she's totally worried. And, fade to white.