Episode Report Card Lauren S: B | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Let's Go Crazy
By Lauren S | Season 6 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.01.2009
Tom seems to have finally believed Bailey, as he and his mom are both on gurneys in the OR, ready for surgery. She asks him what they need from the store as a doc administers anesthesia, and Tom recites fruit until he falls asleep. Jodie is visibly terrified, and asks Bailey what happens if she doesn't make it. Bailey tells her to let Bailey worry about that, and Hunt and Lexie come in. She looks at her son once more, and then they wheel her to the next OR.
Derek's craniotomy is coming to a close and as they get ready to finish up, Izzie sways a little bit. He tries to dismiss her but she insists she is fine -- I guess being roommates for a while really made her comfortable in not listening to his orders regarding leaving the room to fight with her boyfriend or relaxing after a hard surgery. He points out that her cap is soaked through with sweat and so she goes to the nurses and they start to take it off. She finally breaks face a bit, though, and desperately tells them to take off the wig and pat her head down, and then put just her cap back on. Derek watches this all, and Izzie walks back over and again declares she's fine.
Derek, not satisfied with his earlier fight with the Chief, goes back for more. He points out that Izzie was on her feet in surgery for five hours because she was scared for her job, not because she was ready. Richard is incredibly mature and just ignores Derek, so he goes on and says that's fine, but even if he doesn't talk to Derek he needs to talk to the staff. Richard finally cracks as he feels like his stellar leadership is being questioned and yells about his having been there 30 years, he knows his people, and he's spent three days trying to save as many as he could. He then admits that HR is currently sending an email to the people who are getting fired, gets his bag, and says he's heading home. Wow, talk about avoiding your duties -- he hides for three days in his office, and then hides behind an email? This isn't the Chief of the five previous seasons, that's for sure. And I get that he's scared, but this seems too out of character. Derek is appropriately appalled at the idea of the email.
Meredith pages her friends and explains that they need to check their email and why. She's still calm, but this is the kind of calm that could snap at any moment, not the realistic calm of earlier, and she admits that if any of them got an email (she didn't) she's not going to be calm any longer. Everyone checks their Blackberries and other assorted PDA's, and none of them have the email. Izzie, however, paused a moment before saying that and I thought we were going to find out she lied. It looks like she didn't, or at least we won't learn about it this week, as it never comes up again. Meredith is relieved and happy, but Cristina rains on her parade by grousing that this is just the first round, and she stalks off.