Episode Report Card Lauren S: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Daddy Dearest
By Lauren S | Season 6 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.08.2009
Mere, though, did Get It and is just avoiding It. She's having the gang eat lunch in a lab so that they can hide from Lexie and her big sad eyes. Cristina asks if she wasn't a match, and Alex jumps in to remind Cristina that it's his case either way. Izzie asks if she is getting tested, and when Mere tells them she's not, as she barely knows him, they exchange looks and Cristina and Alex both try to talk her into it on account of Thatcher giving her the ultimate gift of life. Izzie calls them out on just desperately wanting a surgery and Cristina doesn't hide it: "Mama needs to cut." She's a junkie that desperately needs a fix. Izzie then tells Alex he's got some dirt on his neck but as the girls look at it, they realize it's a swollen tick. Alex lets loose his second girlish screams of the day as he yells at them to get it off of him while they just all gawk.
Mark and Irving are talking, and Irving says that while his kids think this is about vanity, he needs it. Mark tries to tell him that if this woman loves him, she'll understand. Irving counters that Mark doesn't understand this now, because he's young, but that one day he's going to wake up and find all of life's milestones are behind him. He hasn't wanted to make love to anyone in 20 years since his wife died, but one day they sat him at a table with Marian, and Mark finishes his sentence, that then he just knew. Irving tells him, "She's my tomorrow."
Mark's tomorrow comes out of her dad's room to talk to Bailey. Stuttering, but getting to the point quickly, she flat-out asks Bailey to lie to the transplant board and say that Thatcher has been sober for a year. The kid's got guts, that's for sure. Of course Bailey doesn't agree, pointing out that she has 15 other people on the list, none of whom drank themselves there. She asks if there are any other questions, and Lexie sheepishly shakes her head.
Cristina is taking the tick out the neck of a very embarrassed and squicked out Alex. She's all business and narrating each step of the process while Alex curls up in the fetal position to complain about their current living situation which involves things crawling all over them and squirrels on the roof. Apparently there also isn't plumbing, just a bucket under the toilet that catches everything. Seriously, is this the way things were when Derek lived there? Because I can't see Meredith standing for that, and I especially can't see the Chief dealing with that well when he had his own RV parked up there for a while. But it's the way it is now, and Alex is upset that Izzie is trying to sell it like it's an adventure, just the two of them, married and exploring the wild. Cristina's just upset that it was so easy to get out the tick, but she snaps to when Alex declares that they are moving back to Meredith's. She tells him they can't do that, it's not how it works, and that Izzie's been through hell and isn't okay yet. "Just give her one, Alex." Alex asks her when she became a marriage counselor and Cristina thinks a moment before admitting, "I guess when you save someone's life, you kind of want it not to suck."