Episode Report Card Lauren S: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Good Night, and Good Luck
By Lauren S | Season 7 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.18.2010
Ever the goody two-shoes, April is appalled to find Meredith and Alex eating pizza in the attendings' lounge, worried they will get in trouble. But they aren't worried, so she hangs there and complains about her glued patients. Alex suggests she try acetone but April is still fully invested in her grudge and ignores him, asking Meredith for advice. Once she suggests acetone, April thanks her and skips out. Once she's gone, Mere does some complaining of her own about Stark and when Alex hears that she called him in, he laughs out loud. He repeatedly then tells her that the number one rule of the night is that you don't call Stark. She's at a loss, though, since she hasn't been on peds in a while. Alex, however, is turning into Awesome Peds Phenom, so she gives him the info and he suggests some additional tests that she can run. He insists that she has to totally cover her ass so that if she really does have to call Stark, he'll have no choice but to come back in.
Back at the bar the docs watch as Callie writes down something for the redhead, but she comes back to the table and announces that in fact she was eyeing Callie's new haircut, not what was under the hair. The women start grousing about dating again, and Bailey interjects that she wants a man that can talk fistulas. Yep, it came out just as random as you can imagine, and she silences the others. She then declares matter-of-factly that if you find a man interested in fistulas and pancreases (she has some trouble with that word and generously adds a lot of s's) that you'll then find a man that's not internet dating. She looks very pleased with herself with this "advice" but the others are confused as not much about her sentence actually made sense as a response to anything.
Alex finds Meredith waiting around; it turns out that she's waiting for her CT but there's only one tech and he's really backed up. As she's complaining, Richard sweeps into the room, thoroughly pissed to have been called at home by a mother concerned that his residents are about to kill her son. He's not worried about how she got his number so much as why she felt like she needed to call. For her part, Mere doesn't let herself get intimidated and just explains the backup in the CT lab.
Richard just marches over to the CT room and confronts the tech, who at first is so blasé about it that I figured he somehow didn't know who Richard was. His voice drips with attitude as he says that the backup tech didn't feel well, so he gave him the night off, which is something sweet they do for each other. It's pretty ballsy to talk back to the Chief, and as Mere and Alex watch Richard hollers that he needs to call the guy and order him to come in immediately. Something about his tone gets the guy to finally hustle and obey and it's a good thing, because Richard announces himself to the tech at the other end of the phone and warns him that if he's not there in five minutes both of them will lose their jobs. Fear properly instilled in those employees, he turns to the residents and announces, "That's how you get things done at night."