Episode Report Card LuluBates: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Saint (I Wish I Was) Elsewhere
By LuluBates | Season 5 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.13.2008
Bailey interrupts The Chief's lunch to beg him to make a new rule. She needs him to declare with her as a witness that hospital personnel must respect all religious beliefs of their patients. The Chief scratches his head in confusion, because isn't that just common courtesy? Bailey agrees but asks him to please just declare the rule anyway because Dr. Dixon doesn't do common courtesy. Without a rule they have a pissed off patient, an apoplectic surgeon, and a recipe for a disastrous procedure and a serious failure to woo. The Chief sighs and declares the rule.
Cristina tracks down Dr. Dixon to introduce herself to the new heart surgeon. Dr. Dixon stares at the ground near Cristina's feet and cuts off her introductory speech to ask if she knows who the Final Five are. Okay she really asked if the others have been removed from the case. Cristina doesn't know what she's talking about, so Dr. Dixon elaborates: the black one, the brown haired one, and the one with yellow hair. Cristina says no and Dr. Dixon tells her to stop talking to her then. Cristina runs off wishing Hahn would return. She finds Callie prepping for Mr. Pretzel's surgery. She grills her as to Hahn's whereabouts, but Callie just keeps saying she is gone. And where is Hahn, anyway? Really, one fight and she's gone? She didn't even get to sue the hospital or get them de-certified to receive transplants or to get Izzie fired? She just had one vague disagreement with Callie in the parking lot and that was it? Even if the network had reservations about the storyline or some neo-conservative right wing malarkey about portraying a lesbian relationship on television, couldn't they have at least given McBitchy a decent story arc? Couldn't they have killed her off? Killed by a transplant patient in the parking lot maybe? Or carried off in the Great Seattle Grace Flood of '08? Or Meredith could have held a hand grenade in her chest? So many possibilities and instead they give us this awkward and inexplicable disappearance. If I call the writers lazy will I get hate mail? Sorry. Anyway, Cristina is bitching about Dixon and wishing that McBitchy was back. Callie finally explains that they had a fight. Cristina is unimpressed until she puts two and two together and realizes that Callie switched teams after the O'Malley debacle of '07. Cristina looks impressed. Aren't Callie and Cristina roommates? Wouldn't she know if Callie and Hahn were more than friends? And wouldn't Callie be crying at home or at least watching An Affair to Remember or Love Story and getting her pints of ice cream soggy with tears? Even Cristina would notice that. Maybe. ["Or she would if she spent less time hopping into Meredith and McDreamy's bed all the time." -- Angel]