Episode Report Card LTG: B- | 1 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT What? No Cyndi?
By LTG | Season 3 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.18.2007
Marlowe, Burke, and Cristina enter a patient's room. Marlowe introduces Burke to the patient as a doctor who will assist on the surgery. The patient is playing chess against himself. If a metaphor could be said to be chewing the scenery, I would say that the chess metaphor is approaching Ethel Merman levels of mastication. Marlowe introduces the patient to "Cristina Yang," and she obnoxiously tells the patient, "Soon to be Dr. Cristina Burke. We're getting married. Next month." She wraps herself around Burke as she says this. And if Cristina Yang changes her name, she is dead to me. (Assuming, of course, that they ever actually get married.) Marlowe is looking a little ashen (I mean, more than he usually does), and he asks Cristina to explain the procedure. As near as I can determine, the surgery involves putting in a new heart but leaving in the old one, so the patient ends up with two hearts. Like Spock! Cristina describes it as the two hearts pumping blood together as one glorious romantic unit. I think they should put that in their wedding vows. Marlowe tells her it's more accurate to think of the hearts as competing against each other in a vicious professional struggle that will leave them hating each other. Or something like that. The patient thinks the whole thing sounds risky. Marlowe tells him that since he'll be running the surgery, there's nothing to fear: "You've picked the best man for the job."
Burke and Cristina walk down the corridor, and he asks her what the previous scene was all about. She tells him, "That was my smug, passive-aggressive, limey ex-boyfriend trying to show me I picked the wrong guy." Burke understood all that -- he's actually asking what the hell was up with Cristina and the clinging and general grossness. Cristina: "You're gonna have to put up with me being...nice and sweet. For a little while." Burke: "That'll be a nice change of pace." She tells him to shut up, and he seems glad to have the real Cristina back.
On the bridge of sighs, Addison tells Alex that she saw Crush and that she looks terrific. He says that Mark did a great job, and Addison tells him, "Yeah, you had something to do with that, too." After all, Mark's coffees weren't going to fetch themselves. Alex deflects the praise, and Addison accuses him of false modesty. He tells her, "Well, I just don't want people thinking..." Addison: "What? You're trying to build a perfect woman." And then a nurse tells them that the police think they found Crush's family and are coming over.