Episode Report Card Lauren S: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The One Where George Admits It
By Lauren S | Season 4 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.10.2007
Mere decides to try to out-Cristina Cristina. She catches her in the hall and links arms, and says sensitively that she's been thinking about Cristina being sad and she wants to help. Cristina too quickly asks if Mere has another surgery, but Meredith declares that that's not what she needs. Meredith instead offers her time, and suggests they go home, get into pajamas, and talk all night long. Cristina is as horrified as if Meredith had just suggested they go skipping through a field of daisies with a basket full of kittens. Meredith adds one more important step: "And cry! Cry," she says seriously. Cristina pulls away, knowing that Meredith knows. Meredith confirms, "You're damn right I know, surgery-stealer." Cristina's comeback is, "So? Person who's sleeping with Derek." Meredith can't believe it and demands to know how Cristina knows. It's because she has eyes, Mere. Cristina doesn't bother to point this out and instead just asks, "What, you think I'm too fragile to handle your sex life?" But despite the fact that it didn't line up with the person she should know Cristina is, Meredith was trying to help, and she points out, "Well, he did leave you at the altar. And I'm your person." Cristina straightens Mere out by reminding her that protecting her isn't how to be her person. "That's not what we do. You know that." She says she doesn't need to be taken care of, and Mere agrees, but warns that Cristina owes her a surgery. Cristina searches for a comeback and then demands, "Yeah? Well you owe me...sex details." The continued awesomeness of their relationship does help to make up for the awfulness that is some of the others currently on the show. Alex then walks past them to segue into the next scene, asking, "Are we doing this or not?"
"This" is gathering in Formerly Really Old, Now Really Dead Guy's room. George runs in last, and Alex sneers at him. The Fab Five gather around the bed; it appears Izzie has gathered them for a memorial. She implores each of them to say something nice -- as he wasn't conscious for 99.9% of their relationship, these things include not complaining, taking his meds, living through twelve surgeries, and, courtesy of Alex, hardly ever farting. Once they've gone around the circle, Izzie says her own piece. She announces that Charlie was a mean, stubborn bastard. That might have been because his doctor was a bitch, I don't know. But she adds, "He knew what he wanted and proved if you want something badly and are determined and patient enough, eventually it will happen." So, she's using a memorial to a dead guy to send a message to George, since he stopped her from talking to him about it normally. I'd say this might even be more egregious than using an interrupted wedding to send a message to the best man. But because she's Izzie, this all gives her hope, so she thanks Charlie and says goodbye, and they all stare at bed.
We must be coming to a close, because here is Omnipresent Meredith Voice-Over. "The truth...is painful." George is in with Connie as she wakes up, and tells her that her surgery was successful. But with just her eyes, she asks after her friends, and George has to admit he hasn't seen them. At that very moment, however, Joanne and Eileen bust in with flowers and balloons, nervously asking if she's okay. Once they learn she is and that she'll talk again, they decide it's time to deliver a little bit of truth on their own -- namely, that her first husband was handsy, and her second husband was ugly. Oh, girls, if he's her ex-husband, my guess is she already knew that.