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
Callie finds George changing in the locker room after Meredith's surgery. She smiles saucily at him and asks if he's ready to go. He explains that Izzie called and needs him. Which she does, and he's making the right call, but it pains me that he can't just get that across and comes across as a buoy being tossed around in the ocean that can't sack up and do what he needs to do when he needs to do it. Yes, I know that makes no sense but I'm so frustrated with him that I'm mixing my metaphors, insults, and probably not even using proper punctuation right now. Callie's stunned, commenting that it's always Izzie or Meredith and never her. George brushes this off, but though we know he's got a good reason, from her point of view from all of his actions, it's totally true. He takes her hand, but she asks, "How am I to you, George? Am I your girlfriend? Am I somebody you mess around with? Do you even know?" He doesn't say anything, natch, and she tells him, "Well guess what. Now you don't have to bother figuring it out."
Bailey walks into the Salesmans' room and asks how they are, and Mrs. S tells them they're getting an update. McSteamy's been reading the chart and glowers at Bailey for being there. His wife looks so hopeful, and he clinically explains that the surgery went well... medical jargon, blah blah blah... "and if his body responds, in three or four weeks... " "He'll have his face back?" She asks with naked expectation. Mark explains that his face might never be the same, and she trails off, "But he's a salesman... He has such a nice face." Mark's brow is furrowed, at a loss, and Bailey stares at him expectantly, and a little bit disgustedly when she realizes he has no answer. In her tough love way, she talks to her patient. She tells him his wife and his fellow salesmen are all waiting and rooting for him, and that even if his face ends up different he'll still be the same guy. She gives Mark a mean sideways glance as she tells him this. She assures him that having people he loves that love him is what's important, and he takes her hand and gives it a squeeze. "Yeah, McSteamy, THAT'S how it's done." She didn't say that, I just announced that at the television screen. But you know she was thinking it.
Derek hears giggling from Meredith's room and finds Finn waiting with her. She reports that she's mortified, as he's explaining what she was like on morphine. He leaves but Finn goes to get her ice chips. Once alone, he's quiet and sits down on the bed. After gazing at her, as she stares at him with a (mc)dreamy smile, he says, "You deserve to be with somebody who makes you happy. Somebody who's not going to complicate your life. Somebody who won't hurt you. He stares, and her face slowly falls. "He's a better guy, Meredith. Finn's the better guy." "Derek." "I'm walking away." She gives a hint of a nod, and he smiles sadly and leaves. She looks sick once again.