Episode Report Card Lauren S: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Oh Henry!
By Lauren S | Season 8 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.10.2011
Owen is having a secret argument with Richard about what to do, and cannot handle not telling Teddy immediately what happened. Richard, ever the calm one, points out that a patient is on bypass and will die if Teddy walks off of the surgery. Owen is tortured, not least of which because Teddy is such a good friend, but Richard reminds him that right now he needs to think like the Chief, not like a friend, and an hour won't change what happened to Henry. Finally, Owen admits that when Teddy finds out they waited, she'll never forgive him. Richard counters sadly that her husband just died in their care, so she's never going to forgive any of them. I hope, though, that she does forgive Cristina since she's the one who pushed and pushed for her to do the surgery in the first place against everyone else's advice. But I fear that isn't necessarily going to be the case.
It's a tough day to be Hunt -- Derek sees him talking to Richard and walks up to tell him that they lost contact with the ambulance, and he needs to call emergency dispatch. He picks up his phone and dials, but Derek immediately senses that something else is wrong and asks the men what it is. I'm relieved that we don't have to see them answer.
It doesn't look like Teddy is going to be out of surgery anytime soon. Owen goes back in and things are still going quote badly. He stares weirdly at her a while until she gets nervous, but when she asks how Henry is doing he manages to smile and tell her that he's fine but woozy, and his vitals are good. She asks some other questions, including if Cristina figured out who it was she was working on, and he sadly laughs and tells her no. But it's the finest job he's done all hour of actually hiding his true thoughts and emotions. Teddy tells him she told him so, and that sometimes Cristina's lack of interest in the patient personally can come in handy. Well yes, until you tell her afterward that her mentor's husband just died on her operating table. Teddy keeps chatting away, and Owen just smiles and nods. Mere picks up her voiceover to say that when really terrible things happen, that's when we beg for all the little things like a root canal or an IRS audit that suddenly don't seem so bad.
The baby is still in the incubator, and both Alex and Mere manage to get themselves up though Mere has a nasty gash on her head. She immediately reaches down and opens the incubator, pulling out the baby. Alex thinks she's insane but she shows that her mothering instincts are alive and strong and tells him that the baby was just thrown around inside a plastic box and needs to be held and have a human touch. Alex accepts this but tells her they have to get out, and when Mere points out how much stuff she is hooked up to Alex just quickly figures out what each of them can grab (oxygen, IV, etc.) so that they can go outside and take their chances. The open the door and step out to find that the rain has stopped... but in front of them is an overturned truck, on fire, and three bodies lying in the road. (At first, I was sure these were dead bodies but I am not entirely sure if that's the case.) They must be in some serious shock because all they do is stare as Mere finishes up with a question: When we have some kind of little bad thing happen, would it help if we could see what gigantic horrible thing was on the horizon? "Would we have known that those were the best moments of our lives?" Well, we will have to answer that question in a few weeks, dear readers. While we ponder, I wish all of you a Happy Thanksgiving!