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
After he's prepped they wait as long as they can, and have a nurse call Stark every five minutes until he answers, but it's pretty much time to go. Alex also tries to page Bailey but he knows they are out of time, picks up a scalpel and just goes for it.
April gets Bailey all set up with an IV to help set her right, but Bailey's already feeling pretty right -- when her phone rings she delightedly sees that it's the OR and then panics and shoves the phone at April. April, flustered, answers and then tells them that Bailey is indisposed and hangs up, which tickles Bailey to no end. She's in such a good mood, in fact, that she decides now is the right time to call Ben and tell him how well he took care of her NEEDS, and that she made a big mistake by breaking up with him. Oh honey, we all could have told you that a long time ago. When April finds out Ben is her ex, she tries to keep the phone away but when Bailey wants something she generally gets it, and she pulls the phone from April's grasp and implies she doesn't get it because she's a virgin. April is pretty taken aback at how gossip really does travel but Bailey just assures her that she knows everything. Yes, but also, gossip does travel at light speed around these parts. She pulls April veeeery close before loudly pronouncing, "Alex Karev is not the boy you want to take your maiden voyage with!" April is appalled, but Bailey just settles back onto the gurney and muses that she will find a nice boy who loves her. As she babbles, she adds, "Soap and warm water." April is worried that Bailey is somehow referring to her maiden voyage but Bailey is talking about her glued teenagers, and assures her that soap, warm water, and acetone will do the trick. April thanks her and runs off, and fortunately Bailey seems to drift off before she actually drunk dials. That never ends well.
Joe and Derek, who has moved on to water, are watching Cristina do shots with the bachelors when Derek suggests that Joe could fire her for drinking on the job, but it turns out Joe did that hours earlier. He thinks Derek should just take her home but Derek is still holding firm that everyone else has been telling Cristina what to do, so he won't do that -- he won't take her home until she wants to go. I think this is where Derek's method of treatment goes a bit off the rails. I get not pushing her into surgery but taking a drunk married friend away from a group of drunk horny bachelors just seems like something that one does for a friend, whether they are having a life crisis or not. But Derek is just going to stay and make sure she doesn't leave with anyone, saying as long as she's acting like a stripper, he'll act like a bouncer. Joe is incredibly skeptical about Derek's non-plan, and they both just watch the former surgeon while she cavorts with the drunks. Here's my question, though. Couldn't Joe solve all of this super easily by just closing for the night? Bars in Seattle close at 2 AM, and Owen called time of death on that kid at 1:40. He's since been in surgery picking bits of turn signal out of the kid's brother, the Chief has showed up, Meredith has gotten her CT, and the other attendings have all made it home or to the hospital. I know that didn't all happen in just 20 minutes. So why is Joe just watching all of this happen rather than kicking everyone out as is customary once it's closing time? Then again, this is a show that took three seasons to chronicle one calendar year, so I guess I shouldn't question timelines too much in this universe.