Episode Report Card Lauren S: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Fun With Morphine
By Lauren S | Season 3 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.11.2006
In the morgue, Cristina watches closely as Burke's hand shakes and he has problems. She stutters, shocked that the tremor is still happening but he talks over her, basically narrating what he can't do and what he needs for this procedure. When she yells that she thought he was fine, he yells back that he's not, and that she just wanted to believe he was fine. "My hands, are the only things that I have that are of any value to me. To you." She argues that's not true but he goes on that she wants Preston Burke. It's a little bit different than when he made the speech about how he was more than a surgeon, but it looks like his perspective has been shaken by the bullet he took. I think that HE wants Preston Burke even more than she does. "They stare, and he holds his hands up, under the light in the otherwise black room. "My hands, these, are who I am. If I can't do this, if I can't finish this surgery... " And his hands fly away. She finally stares at the corpse, not able to look at him, and he stares at her, nearly crying. With that, she springs into action and figures out how she can help him with the surgery so that he can finish. Without looking at him, she quietly tells him, "Nobody has to know." Come one, come all, see the surgeons at Seattle Grace! Some have tremors, some steal hearts! Really makes you comfortable with the profession. But he nods. I guess they'll both do whatever they can to get Preston Burke back.
The Chief grabs Derek and continues to explain his hiring Mark, and Derek only answers, "You did what you thought was best for this hospital." "I did." He finally asks Derek if he's okay, and McDreamy responds by asking him a personal question -- why he left Ellis. Chief says that he could have left his wife to be with her, but that he would have had so much baggage that he would have been no good to her. "I never would have made her happy. Not like she deserved to be happy. I was a better man for walking away. I loved her enough to walk away." Those Grey women and their married doctors are just a recipe for heartache.
George is pushing Meredith towards surgery as she shouts instructions to keep her covered on the table. "Too many people have seen me naked already. I'd like to keep whatever dignity I have left." Girl power! Or something. She sees Mark then, and delightedly calls out, "McSteamy! Woohoo!" George drops his head in defeat. She wipes her nose ungracefully and unselfconsciously as he saunters over. He asks her with a smile, "Is that what you're calling me now, McSteamy?" "Yeah," she admits, "But I don't think you're supposed to know that." "How's my favorite dirty mistress?" he asks. She's wheeled away and yells out gleefully, "Haven't you heard? Now I'm an adulterous whore!" He laughs, and it's the most genuine he's looked all hour, without his assy doctor-face on.