Episode Report Card Lauren S: N/A | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Scared Straight
By Lauren S | Season 6 | Episode 24 | Aired on 05.20.2010
Cristina runs and grabs a wheelchair and on her way back notices April, who has turned an unhealthy shade of grey and is sitting against the wall hugging her knees. Cristina tells her that she's going to take Derek to the OR where Teddy is working so that she can save him, but April can only respond by stuttering that she learned on Oprah that if you give personal details to a potential killer, he's less likely to kill you. I think April's PTSD when this is all over is going to strongly rival Owen's, as she's clearly not handling any of this terribly well. And hey, this is not a knock -- I would probably turn to a blubbering mass of jelly if facing the business end of a gun -- but she seems to be having the hardest time holding herself together of anyone we've seen so far, including the ones who were shot. Cristina just yells at her and finally pulls her up so that she can come help.
While Lexie is gone, Alex tells Mark he should have eaten more bacon. Isn't that true for all of us? Can one really have enough bacon? Alex clearly thinks he's going to be a goner and advises Mark to have more bacon and more sex because life can be short, and Mark promises the former while pointedly not responding to the latter. He then tries to get Alex to hold on until Lexie comes back with more supplies.
Lexie, however, is detained -- as she pushes a cart piled with supplies down the hall, she finds herself face-to-face with Gary and mumbles his name, terrified. Gary admits that he didn't plan to shoot a bunch of people, and Lexie tries to play along and agree, but he just goes on and tells her that he only planned to shoot Derek and Webber... and her. He points his gun at her while reminding her that she's the one who unplugged his wife, and she closes her eyes, waiting for the inevitable. There's finally a gunshot and she falls to the floor, but it turns out she just fell in shock, and she sees that Gary is the one who has been shot in the shoulder, then turns the other way and sees a police sharpshooter motioning to her to run. She doesn't waste any time and, sobbing, grabs her cart and runs down another hall. Here's my question, though -- once she was out of the way, the guy presumably had an even clearer shot at Gary then before, and he's obviously the gunman as, well, he's got a gun in his hand and was threatening someone. So why doesn't the guy just shoot him again? Or at least get closer and try to capture him? Yes, it's far too early in the episode for him to be caught, but they might have come up with a more graceful way to work this out than for leaving us questioning the abilities of an elite professional law-enforcement unit.