Episode Report Card Lauren S: B | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Into the Wild
By Lauren S | Season 9 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.04.2012
Sometime after that, she and Derek are both back at home and having a pretty heated fight about whether or not they are still going to Boston. Derek wants to go but Mere can't understand how he can possibly still consider it. She brings up the valid points of his remaining surgeries and their friends who are still not doing well, and his comeback that he didn't mean they should leave immediately is a little bit weak. He claims he's thinking of her career, which is just about to take off, and not his, which is still very much up in the air. He then reminds her that he could end up as 80% of his old self but Mere hollers at him not to say that. This wakes Zola, who they hear crying via the baby monitor, but before Mere goes to get her she declares that they are staying there and moving into the dream house that he built them like they had planned. He replies that this was the plan before Boston was an option but Mere rather effectively counters that with the fact that the Boston plan was before they were in a horrific plane crash. "Besides, I can't leave the show that is named after me when the only other Grey was just killed off; we're not a daytime soap so she can't come back from the dead and they already tried featuring a ghost on this show with rather disastrous and embarrassing results. I am locked in."
The next we see of her she's sporting dark blue scrubs in Seattle Grace, where she was meant to be. She, Alex and April are sitting on a couch in a patient's room, eating lunch like in the really old days. April's scrubs are grey; it's a little like she's wearing the hospital's version of the scarlet letter: the Scrubs of Failure. Alex needles Mere for blowing off Harvard but she needles him back about Hopkins and we learn that he postponed leaving so that he could take care of pediatrics until Arizona is better. Avery also did the same thing for Mark. April pipes up that she also chose to stay and it's really almost too easy when Alex reminds her with a sneer that she had nowhere else to go. Please, PLEASE, writers, give us something other than "April is pathetic" this season. Alex has a few moments until he has to leave to go see his patient nicknamed "Chunky Stu" (a nickname Arizona finds awful) on account of the fact that this kid named Stuart once puked on him. Meredith asks how Arizona is doing but Alex doesn't actually know since he hasn't gone to see her yet. He points out that it's kind of awkward to figure out what to say to someone who pushed you from a trip out of spite and then wound up in a plane crash, gravely injured.