Episode Report Card Lauren S: B+ | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Here Come The Brides
By Lauren S | Season 7 | Episode 20 | Aired on 05.05.2011
Stark finds Arizona in the cafeteria, stirring up a giant bowl of what looks like yellow cake batter or cornbread. Yes, please! With a sneer he gives her hell for not answering her pages and giving him post-op reports on Asha because she's cooking instead. April isn't very good at being mad or standing up for herself but Stark is forcing her to learn quickly, and she gives him all of the info he needs to know, including reminding him that she knows and followed the protocol for checking herself out after being exposed to HIV-positive blood. He prompts her about what she is stirring and she explains that this is a corn porridge like what Asha might eat at home, and she found the recipe online so that once Asha finally decides she's ready to eat, she'll have something familiar and not some disgusting, processed American hospital food. Heck, I'm used to it and I still would rather have this porridge than disgusting hospital food. April's not a yeller but she gets close as she finishes that while she can't make Asha talk, she can make her some food and unless Stark has more insults he needs to unload, she's busy. Stark just stares at her, not sure what to make of the little heartbreaker in front of him.
Once Arizona gets home, she and Callie talk with Callie's dad, who is rather devastated about what went down with Callie and her mom, but he can't get her to see reason. Her mom has apparently planted herself in the car like a toddler having a tantrum, but Callie manages to stay calm and tells her dad he has to go. He protests but she insists that he needs to go now so she doesn't start crying and make him feel even worse. He's troubled, but he follows Callie's wishes, gives her a big hug, and goes, while Arizona stands with her for support.
The next morning, Meredith comes down for breakfast at Chez Grey and finds Alex eating cereal at the table and ignoring her completely. After she tries a few times to get him to respond, he just tells her that she wanted him to shut up, so that's what he's doing. Childish, yes, but he's also dead serious and seems to be making his point; Mere can't take it and finally walks over and defends that she didn't change any data or falsify anything in the trial. That may be true, but Alex guesses that she did switch out the syringes so that Adele could get the medicine and Mere can only stare at him, which confirms his suspicions. Meredith seems to be arguing with herself as much as with Alex as she tells him that nothing she did will change any results or affect how effective the drug might be. Unfortunately for her, Alex won't be swayed by anything she says and I rather doubt the FDA will either since I feel certain someone will notice pretty quickly when reading the data that the wrong number patient got the medicine. Alex points out that this will finish Seattle Grace as a research institution and will affect every doctor there because of it. But what really cuts into Mere is when he tells her that he's a lot of things, but not a liar, and he thought she wasn't either. She's livid but she stays calm as she asks if he's going to tell Derek, who walks in on cue and wishes them good morning. Alex takes off for work while Mere stares at his empty chair; thankfully for her Derek is so happy about both Zola and the trial that he seems not to notice whatever weirdness keeps going on between his wife and his roommate.