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
Richard is performing a surgery with Lexie assisting, while about ten other residents in the room text with a degree of fervor generally seen in lovestruck 13-year-olds. Seriously? I stand by my argument from the last episode that there isn't any place for this in the OR, but it seems I am to be overruled and labeled a fuddy-duddy. It also turns out that in fact they aren't technically texting, but rather tweeting. Richard somehow doesn't hear the clicking of 20 thumbs on tiny keyboards but does finally take notice when someone's phone beeps, and he hollers at all of them. April explains that they are following Bailey's surgery on Twitter since there was no room left for all of them to observe in person. Of course Richard has no idea on earth what those words mean.
Cristina and Jackson, meanwhile, are ready to claw each others' eyes out to be the one to assist Teddy during a quadruple bypass. Teddy warns them that driving her nuts so early in the morning isn't going to win anyone any points either with her or towards their goal of becoming Chief Resident. Jackson backs off and says he's going to the skills lab to practice the grafts for the surgery, but while he's sucking up Cristina reaches in, deftly grabs the chart and sprints away with it. After an indignant yelp, Jackson gives chase.
Mark and Callie arrive at the hospital and keep talking about the pregnancy while walking down the hall. They're playing rather fast and loose with this secret, just chatting away in normal voices out in the open, but fortunately there isn't anyone who awkwardly overhears and therefore thankfully is no excruciating storyline wherein Lexie finds out about this from a third party. Callie tells Mark that even though Arizona said she's in, Callie's not moving back in until she's really sure Arizona won't bolt. I... it's just... clearly, no one is going to call Callie on this one-sided, revisionist crap wherein she's just the innocent victim so I need to just stop commenting on it and I will instead just pray that this ends soon and I don't pull all of my hair out in the meantime. From here on out, we'll just go with whatever they are trying to feed us about their relationship and that's that. Lexie bounds up then and tells Mark she wants to make him dinner at his place, and after she leaves Callie assures him that she's letting him off the hook and that he could just be the kid's "cool uncle." He doesn't need reminding of what happened the last time an unexpected Sloan baby turned up, but she mentions it anyway. Despite all that, he forcefully assures her that he wants to be the kid's dad. Callie rightfully points out that he's going to have to tell Lexie, and soon, if that's the case.