Episode Report Card Lauren S: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Three's A Crowd
By Lauren S | Season 7 | Episode 13 | Aired on 02.03.2011
It's the moment of truth for Daniel, and Alex and Derek open up the medicine and the envelope. Upon seeing that he's getting just the placebo, Derek manages to stay professionally neutral but Alex is obviously disappointed and shakes his head.
Daniel wakes up from his surgery, reaches out, and Rose takes his hand. As he comes to she asks how he is feeling and he says he just has a minor headache. When he finally turns to her, though, he is confused and asks for Victoria. Rose stands up and starts to walk out but Alex goes to her and assures her that Daniel just woke up, and this confusion doesn't mean that the surgery won't work. He says that even though this doesn't seem like her husband, he's someone who needs whatever help she's able to give him. It does the truck, and after Rose considers this a moment she takes a deep breath and tells Daniel that she's going to call Victoria and get her here as soon as she can. He's still obviously confused, but thanks her. Honestly, I can't even imagine what that would be like.
Outside, Derek compliments Alex on how he handled the situation but Alex used up everything he had doing it, and he tells Derek that he's quitting the trial. He admits that Meredith told him what to do and advises that Derek needs to get over just looking at her as his wife, "Because your wife? Is the only person twisted enough to handle this crap." Not to be totally selfless, though, he asks Derek to put in a good word for him with the Chief, letting him know that Alex put patient needs over his personal gain, which will help in the Chief Resident race. So, actually, he still managed to get a little bit of personal gain out of the whole thing.
Jackson is glowering as Cristina talks to Martha and her husband post-surgery. When she walks out of the room they stare each other down and as she leaves, she throws up her arms in victory. Poor Jackson just whispers, "Bite me, Yang." I think he's a better doctor than he realizes, and he just somehow needs to find some confidence and his own way of doing things because if he just tries to out-Cristina Cristina, he's going to fall on his face every time.
Bailey goes in to Richard's office to update him on their patient, who is doing well after their Twitter-inspired procedure. He's too busy combing through Ellis' journals to really pay attention, and he doesn't notice her hanging around until she finally starts to tell him about an amazing robotic surgery she has scheduled for the next day and how she'd like to tweet it. Before she even finishes her question he gives her the okay and then finds what he was looking for and orders her to tweet some surgical trick that Ellis once taught him. Bailey's a little confused but she's not one to question it when she's gotten her wish and so she heads out before he can change his mind.