Episode Report Card Lauren S: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Fun With Morphine
By Lauren S | Season 3 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.11.2006
In an OR, Alex hands a newborn baby to Ms. Natural Birth. Both are alive, and the mother thanks Addison. Disgusted, Alex leaves the room. Meredith, meanwhile, is covered up in another room and they take out her appendix with no problems. Bailey has George finish up the procedure and he comes through with flying colors. Alex walks into Mark's OR with his coffee -- hang on, do they really allow coffee in an operating room during a procedure? You can already leave towels in people, I know I wouldn't want to give someone the opportunity for something non-medical to accidentally end up as part of my insides. Since it took him so long to deliver the beverage, what with the emergency c-section on the way, Mark doesn't let Alex scrub in for the "real" surgery.
Derek finds Finn reading a book in Meredith's empty room. Finn asks him about his fishing, which Meredith told him is one of Derek's hobbies. "She tells me a lot of things." Finn continues and asks if he's fished a particular spot and Derek is surprised to learn he fishes too. God, please don't let them become friends, that would be too much, even for this show. Finn laughs about his wife hating it, and it's the first Derek has heard of her. Finn explains that he's a widower and seems a bit delighted that Meredith doesn't talk a lot like that to Derek. But then the emotional scars of his past show through, and he makes sure that even though this is routine surgery, she'll really be fine. This makes Derek thoughtful, and he observes that Finn really likes her and is a good guy, to which Finn replies he thinks and hopes that he is. They have their own staring moment, and he leaves.
Mr. Duquette is explaining to Izzie the parade of doctors that they saw and how every prognosis was worse. He's struggling, and he tells her, "The thought of having to bury your own son... his mother and I, we didn't handle it very well." They came home one day to a note from Denny, saying he didn't want them to watch him die. It turns out they thought he had already died, and had no idea he was in Seattle going through all of this. Izzie's eyes fill as he goes on. She assures him she had no idea, and that if she had known, "Believe me, I would never have let him get away with that." Mr. Duquette seems to know she's telling the truth, and he smiles at her. "I believe it." She explains that she worked through med school, and he interrupts her, embarrassed, assuring her she doesn't need to explain. But she does, and goes on. She explains that she had no debt, and she didn't need his money, "I had everything I needed. I had everything I needed, until... " "You miss him." She cries, and agrees. He reaches into his coat and pulls out an envelope. "It's for you. It's from Denny." I know, I know, he and his wife would have been notified if he was actually dead -- which is proven by the fact that they were notified of his ACTUAL death, but I loved Denny, and I love him and Izzie together, and my fairy-tale loving heart is just going with it. So there.