Episode Report Card Lauren S: B+ | 2 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Crazytown
By Lauren S | Season 4 | Episode 15 | Aired on 05.15.2008
Greta's sister catches up to Derek and Meredith to voice concern -- she tells them that Andre doesn't actually exist. Greta went on a cruise four months ago and came back saying she'd met him, but there are no pictures and no one else has seen him. That was also around the time that her symptoms started. She asks Derek if he'll talk to Greta about it since they can't wait for someone who doesn't exist to show up. Derek adopts his sadly thoughtful expression.
George is standing guard outside a conference room where Tapley is rumored to be with the Chief. As Mere hovers, Callie pulls Cristina around the corner and grabs Mere to tell her that something's wrong with Cristina. Cristina says she's fine but Callie points out that she cleaned, adding she doesn't actually know how so she pretty much just pushed the dirt around. Mere tells Callie to leave her alone, that not everyone has to be happy all the time. "That's not mental health. That's crap." Callie counters that Cristina doesn't want to meet Tapley, and Meredith has to admit that's a bad sign. Cristina tells her to mind her own business, and Callie shoots back that she needs help, and leaves. Meredith tells Cristina that if she hangs around until Hahn gets there, she might get to meet Tapley but Cristina pouts, "I don't give a damn about Walter Tapley." Good grief. Meredith finally gets help so we have increasingly one-note Cristina. This Cristina is no fun to watch. Mere pauses and then asks her, "Are you in the dark place?" Cristina admits she is and Meredith tells her, "Me, too." They part ways as Hahn barrels into the conference room.
Hahn greets Tapley and heaps praise on him, and he and Richard have a laugh like old buddies. But once the laughter dies down, he admits he didn't come to visit; he needs a double valve replacement and tricuspid repair. Everyone's faces and the music all go dramatically somber and Tapley pulls out his charts and x-rays for them. His colleagues refuse to operate on him because he's got all sorts of secondary problems and they think they might kill him. Hahn asks why he thinks they won't say no here, and he straight-up admits that elsewhere, he didn't start the careers of the presiding doctors. "They can say no to me. Webber can't." I like a guy who doesn't beat around the bush.
Hahn is in Richard's office freaking out about the surgery, which she really doesn't want to do. After some ranting, she sits down and Richard starts to tell her a story. She interrupts immediately to ask if it's a story about how he was a struggling black med student and then Walter Tapley gave him a chance and became his mentor, and without him he wouldn't be where he was today? It is. Hahn still refuses to do the surgery.