Episode Report Card Lauren S: D+ | 1 USERS: F YOU GRADE IT My Favorite Mistake
By Lauren S | Season 3 | Episode 19 | Aired on 03.21.2007
Meredith is practicing her bone harvesting skills on a dummy head. Derek comes in to get her feedback on an idea for his interview and she tells him, "I'm trying to be supportive but this graft is really tricky," trying to get him to leave her to it. His response is to tell her hopefully, "You don't have to do it. I talked to Mark, and... " And... way to go, buddy. She's aghast, believing he thinks she can't do it, and he counters with some charges against Mark, that he's doing it to impress the Chief. "If it goes well, he gets the credit. If it goes poorly, he gets the save." She thinks that this has become all about Derek beating Mark again, and won't hear it when he argues that he's only trying to protect her. She orders, "You don't need to. Close the door on your way out." His protecting techniques, while full of good intentions, appear to be a little bit like closing the barn doors once the horse is out, what with the drowning and all.
Mark seeks out Bailey, asking if he can help her carry anything, which she correctly interprets as his needing something from her. He wants her ideas on what she would change, which she correctly interprets as his wanting ideas for a 10-year-plan to present to the board. In true Bailey fashion, she smacks him down. "I have patients in need of medical attention right now. This guy here, is about to have one less appendage. I don't have a 10-year plan for him. I have a right now plan for him. Cut off his foot to save his life. So you need to get out of my way, right now, so I can do my job." "Right now?" he asks. "Right now," she repeats.
Izzie sits down in the cafeteria with Cristina, Alex, Meredith, and Meredith's plaster skull on which she's still practicing. Iz comes right out and asks Meredith about blackouts. Meredith assures her that she's okay but is quickly corrected that this time it's not about her, and Izzie needs to know more about her tequila days. Alex jumps in to explain, "The stuff you don't remember is usually the stuff you don't want to remember," looking kind of sly and delighted at the idea of her not wanting to remember something. And seriously, have none of them figured out what happened yet? Because none of this has been exactly subtle. Oh wait, except that they wouldn't expect it either, just like NO ONE in the entire television viewing world would, so they remain blissfully unaware for now. Cristina changes the subject to ask if they have any suggestions that might save her patient's foot. She continues that he was neglectful and made a couple of bad calls, "Does that mean he has no hope? Does that mean he can't have a do-over?" Izzie starts to nod emphatically, and Mere has to explain to Alex, the one still in the dark, that now they're talking about Burke. Izzie tells Cristina, "You need to fix it. Because it seems like you guys have a pretty good thing and pretty good things are rare and hard to come by. And the really screwed up, complicated things seem to be everywhere." Again ignoring the big neon sign on Izzie's forehead screaming that she slept with George, Cristina just asserts that she'll get everything back to the way it was, and leaves. Once she's gone, Izzie asks if Crush picked her new face, musing about how cool it would be to do that and start over. I guess so, if you ignore the amnesia, the mysterious pregnancy, and the hospital bills.