Episode Report Card Keckler: A | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT A Day of Damage on Walton's Mountain
By Keckler | Season 2 | Episode 24 | Aired on 05.06.2006
George checks on Marshall and finds him reading his own chart because he wants to find out what made him swerve his car into oncoming traffic. Marshall wants to know if the people he hit are going to be okay: "No serious complications?" George says they're still being checked out as Izzie barges in. She tells Callie that she'll be her intern for the patella surgery. Without looking at her, Callie tells her to prep the OR while she puts on Noah's splint. Izzie makes hand-washing motions at George, who shoves her out the door. Seriously, it's getting a bit bitchy, Izzie. Callie starts to examine Marshall. George sidles up and whispers, "D'you wash your hands?" "What?" Callie hisses between clenched teeth. "You washed your hands, right?" Callie whispers that of course she washed her hands. Marshall looks up. George goes away. Marshall starts reading medibabble from his chart and determines that he wasn't drinking or under the influence. Callie snaps a bone back in place. Marshall reacts with pain. I'm getting slightly nauseated.
McDreamy barges in and asks if Meredith got the CT on Marshall. She didn't. Marshall spouts more medibabble, wondering why he would need a CT. McDreamy demands to know why Meredith didn't follow his orders. "CT was backed up and he's lucid now, so..." Meredith explains. "So, get it done! NOW!" McDreamy screeches, banging the door shut.
Cristina tells Burke that the "Daisy Duke case" is boring her to tears, and wants to know if he's got any good heart action for her. Burke just gives her a dirty look. Turns out she fell asleep. On him. During sex. Cristina apologizes a bunch of times and says she was really tired. Burke just stares her down. Cristina tells him not to let it threaten his manhood or anything. Burke waves that off and says he's very confident "in [his] manhood, thank you very much." Cristina's happy about that and says, smiling, "I feel asleep because I had already finished. [beat] Twice." So, either Cristina's being Dr. Competitive again or she's still trying to pump up Burke's manhood. This recap is starting to read like a Harlequin Romance. "I hadn't finished," Burke clarifies. They argue about Cristina's obsessed-with-surgery issues and Cristina says that, just like him, she's a surgeon first. Burke contradicts her: he's a person first. And a hot one.Izzie responds to a page and finds Magical Heart Patient Denny collapsed on the floor. Apparently, Denny tried to do the stairs. I can barely do stairs. I wonder if I'm a Magical Heart Patient as well. Oh, he was trying to walk the stairs. Never mind. Izzie darts off to get Burke. Back in his bed, Denny tells Burke he wants to go home. Izzie frowns. Burke tells him going home isn't an option. Denny gets pissed at being told what to do. Burke does a double-take at Denny's Magical Passion. "My heart may be on your battery packs, but it's still my heart. It's my decision. It's my damn life, " Denny announces. Burke couldn't agree more, "and it is your life that will end if you continue to push like you did today." Denny just wants to go home. Outside his room, Izzie asks Burke what they do. "Put him on a tight leash and tell the nurses to keep an eye on him, make sure he doesn't take any more endurance hikes in the stairwell," Burke tells her. "Yeah, but," Izzie says, looking down, "Preston, what do we do?" Oh, she's first-naming him! It's fuzzy friendship time now. I'm trying to be snarky now to prepare for the waterworks that will be exploding from me by the end of this episode. Burke explains how they can't control the damage to Magical Heart Patient Denny's spirit. "Give him room, Izzie," he finishes quietly.