Episode Report Card Lauren S: B- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Sound of Silence
By Lauren S | Season 7 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.28.2011
With Adele's surgery looming, Mere is still thinking about Alex's gloating -- she wasn't privy to all of his financial horror, so she's still under the impression that crime pays handsomely. As dramatic music swells, she walks up to the pharmacy door and punches in the code she learned a few weeks back. Once inside, she grabs packet 122 and tries to read what's inside but when she can't, she hides it inside her lab coat and goes to an exam room to hold it up against one of the x-ray viewing light panels. (What? I'm certain that's the official term.) That does the trick, and she sees, sadly, that Adele is scheduled to receive the placebo. She sneaks it back into the pharmacy and starts to leave, but then the devil on her shoulder whispers something so she pulls out packet 123 and heads back to the exam room. Patient 123 is scheduled to receive the actual medicine. She stuffs the packet back inside her coat and scurries out, but she winds up bumping into Alex and he tries to give her the info on her African child. She wants him to hold on to it for a moment but he tries to make her take it and in the ensuing tousle, the packet slides down to the floor. Alex is shocked and asks her what she is doing, but she coyly just says she's working. He's totally serious, though, and asks her again. Seriously, when Alex Karev thinks you are doing something ethically questionable, you are in some extra-deep shit.
She's saved, though, when Lexie runs up to give Alex an envelope that just arrived from an attorney. Alex figures he's busted, and as Lexie tries to argue with him Mere is able to slip away back to the pharmacy. Inside, she quickly pulls out the offending placebo from envelope 122 and switches it with the goods from envelope 123, so that now Adele is going to be receiving the medicine. Now, isn't this way more obvious than just slipping Adele the medicine on the side? I mean, at least that way there's a CHANCE you might not get caught. But as the FDA keeps a close eye on everything going on in the study, there are going to be some serious questions asked when they realize that those particular numbered patients didn't get what they were supposed to. (Also: why are these envelopes not sealed? I know the packet with the actual medicine and the placebo/active information is sealed, but it seems that it would be a good idea to have an extra layer of security. You know, just for this kind of situation.) I get that she wants to help, but this is only going to end in tears. Tears, or suspended medical licenses. Or very likely both.