Episode Report Card Lauren S: C+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Boxing Day
By Lauren S | Season 5 | Episode 16 | Aired on 02.19.2009
It's not clear what the doctors told them, because next we see Derek and Addison bickering outside the room. Addison is arguing that it's a serious condition, but Derek thinks they just had the first ray of hope in a week and she squashed it. Yeah, I'm siding with Addison here, given that it's a serious medical condition. Derek takes off and Addison sends Alex -- after he's told Mere that his guy won this round -- to get some test results. Once it's just the two women, Addie asks why she shouldn't go to the Chief about this. Mere weakly argues that the surgery was successful but Addison reminds her how Derek made a mistake that has caused a series of complications, so why let up on the worrying? Mere actually tells her that he lost a lot of patients in the clinical trial but it was good for him. "He cares more, if that's possible." Really? Because all I've seen is a mopey man-child with no confidence. She tells Addison to try and trust him, and Addie for some reason agrees.
Callie walks up to Arizona, who has grown on me quite a bit, but I can't quite get on board with her huge smile. I love a huge smile but there's something that seems almost guilty in hers. Not that I get the feeling she's guilty, but that her face just makes that look a little bit. But for all the time I just spent explaining that, I find her cute as a button. She calls Callie "Calliope," which is a little bit funny, and the two flirt a bit, with Callie admitting she's been avoiding Arizona. Callie screws up her courage and says she's ready to go on this adventure for the second time, and asks Arizona on a date. Arizona's usual smile falls when she learns that Erica was Callie's first. She then gets a little bit weird, and politely declines but says she's flattered. Callie is flabbergasted, given that Arizona kissed her first, but Arizona says that Callie's in a new, awesome experimental phase. She even adds a happy, "yay!" in honor of that, very much like the "yay!" in my current favorite commercial, the butt-dialing one. But Arizona spends her day around newborns, so she tries to stay away from them in her personal life. Oh, ouch. That's going to leave a mark. She tells Callie she's really flattered, but it does little to lessen the sting.
Richard finally hands Bailey her recommendation letter, but he's pretty brusque doing it. Callie comes up and starts to complain about the newborn comment, listing all of her life experiences. She realizes Bailey isn't listening, and that's because Bailey is pissed to realize that Richard wrote her a form letter. Callie can't believe it. She grabs the paper, exclaiming, "He's the Chief and you're Bailey." She reads some excerpts out loud but by the time she reaches, "Serviceable amount of research," they both know it's bad. He has said that Bailey would be, "A fine addition to any program." Bailey is totally offended and asserts that she pulled off both a domino surgery and the taking out of six of a girl's organs and putting them back in again. "I am Dr. Bailey. I'm better than fine." She storms off while Callie calls after that at least he didn't call her a baby.