Episode Report Card LTG: B | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Yatta! Hello, Seattle!
By LTG | Season 3 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.04.2006
Meredith is looking for Megan, calling out her name and sticking her head in various doors. She opens a supply closet and finds Addison having a quiet cry. Addison: "Weren't you just on the third floor?" She was, but then Hiro teleported her downstairs. Meredith starts to explain about the lost little girl, and Addison just tells her to pick a floor and stick with it. Addison: "Because I really need a moment or two without you. Your face shows up in my head, your panties show up in my husband's pocket. Really, you're everywhere, and I need a moment or two without you." Meredith tells her that she understands and leaves her to cry.
Alex walks down an empty corridor and spies Megan's green socks sticking out from under a gurney. He throws the sheet aside and bends down to talk to her. He pulls her out from under the gurney and she calls him a hosebag. I think her real power is super perception. She tells him he doesn't want the surgery. And then she tells him to stop telling her foster parents that she's "defective" because she's scared that they won't want to keep her. Alex pauses and then tells her, "Dude, that's stupid. They've got their own personal superhero. Nobody sends back a superhero." She points out that he told her she didn't have superpowers, and he whips out the Hal Jordan example to tell her that even without them she can still be a hero.
McDreamy and Cristina are performing a neurological exam on Taylor. Just to note, the surgery was at 4:00 and McDreamy's date with Meredith is at 8:00. Taylor must have powers of super recuperation, because there's no way he should be this awake and alert so soon after having a man's hand in his brain. Taylor's physical responses are all fine, and Leanne makes a joke about him always testing well. Taylor boasts about kicking ass on the S.A.T., but can't remember what the actual test is called. So McDreamy asks him to identify a cup, and he can't name that either. (There's a tiny moment where Cristina asks him if he's having trouble seeing the cup -- very good doctoring, that.) And then he can't name his wife or son. Leanne is freaking out and pressing him to come up with names that he should know. But it doesn't really help. Commercials.
McDreamy, Cristina, and Leanne are in the corridor outside Taylor's room. Leanne notes that Taylor was the one who named the baby. McDreamy explains that cutting the linkage between the two halves of the brain may have made it hard for Taylor to access the names of things, but that with a lot of work he'll grow new pathways and recover those names. McDreamy tells Leanne, "Recovery's hard work. It's a learning process. You need to be patient. You need to help him. He can't do this without your support." And what do you know, Cristina hears all this and gets a thoughtful look on her face. Who could have anticipated that a patient's condition could have some relevance to the lives of one of our characters? This show's just full of surprises.