Episode Report Card Lauren S: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Dance The Night Away
By Lauren S | Season 4 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.05.2007
Sloane heads back into the OR to find chaos, and demands to know what Alex did. When Alex answers, Sloane yells some more and asks if he was showing off for his girlfriend. Callie jumps in to save Alex from the beating and says one of the heart grafts blew. Just then Hahn comes to join the party, and they explain what happened. Sloane tells Alex to keep quiet and suction while they work, and Alex again looks up to see Ava run out of the gallery, clearly upset.
In the other OR, George walks back in holding a mask to his face and tells Bailey that Tucker is waiting. She's glad to hear it, but gets nervous when she realizes George is still standing there. He leans toward her and very quietly lets her know, "He said something about you choosing everything over your marriage." Suddenly things are a bit uncomfortable, but he has her go on, and he tells her he thinks that's it. She demands to know if he thinks or if he knows that's it, and George spits out that Tucker said this was the last time and that he's finished. Bailey's struck dumb, but only for a moment, and then she begins to demand answers from George. A nurse glances over as Bailey makes sure that George relayed that she couldn't leave the surgery or a man would die. Finally she tells George that he needs to go back and tell Tucker that she took a vow to save lives and that he took a vow for better or for worse. "You tell him that it's his job, as a husband, to understand that." On the verge of angry tears, she adds that she's standing by her vow and holding Tucker to his; above her a monitor shows Shane's tattoo as if it is mocking her. She adds that Tucker should consider that one day he might need surgery, "and he may not get a surgeon who's not as married to her vows as I am. You tell him that." It's sad to see her fighting so hard and trying to keep her dignity so desperately in front of George and the rest of the staff in the OR. George is also desperate, but his desperation is to not be a part of this terribly personal argument anymore. He leans in and begs to do charts instead, but she snaps at him, "Go!" and he scurries out.
Derek finishes his wiring, and he and Rose look up. Steve is doing a great job holding still, but that's the only good news; the monitor is still black. Rose yells at Derek to stop looking at her like she killed his patient and says she did her best. He evenly tells her she didn't and they argue a bit, her voice still shaking. He then tells her to calm down and breathe, and after a moment she leans toward him and reaches toward his pants...and presses the power button on the computer. It's either actually the monitor's on/off button or the Brain-Saving Machine is also the fastest-booting computer in the world, since immediately the image comes back up. They have a good laugh about her forgetting to hit the restart button and the OR staff bursts into applause. Derek declares, "Santa Cruz is not just a party school!", much to the delight of banana slugs everywhere, and goes back to his surgery.