Episode Report Card Lauren S: B+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Father Figure
By Lauren S | Season 5 | Episode 21 | Aired on 04.30.2009
A shot of some very pink, very high, very Barbie-esque shoes pans up to reveal a black skirt, pink top, purple jacket, and... Sharon Lawrence. She asks Alex for help and when he looks up, immediately turns her flirting up to eleven. He kills the mood a bit by calling her "ma'am" and when she seems to really have no reason to be there, he starts to turn away. She finally tells him that she's looking for Izzie, calling herself "an old friend" so as not to actually appear, too, well, old. When she walks into Izzie's room, flirting all the way, Izzie exclaims, "Mom!" which stuns Alex. Izzie clearly had no idea she was coming, but her mom is more concerned with making sure Alex doesn't think she's that old. I might as well tell you that we are robbed of the moment where she finds out that Alex is actually Izzie's boyfriend, which I think is a shame because I rather love Sharon Lawrence even though she's playing a fairly one-dimensional stereotype.
Lexie is nervously fiddling with the pencils on the Chief's desk in his office when Mere joins her. They both are nervous, but Lexie is really panicked since neither of them knows why they are there. Mere makes a not-terribly-funny crack about if they killed anyone and they don't remember? Richard then walks in and announces that Thatcher is there, recently sober, and taking it seriously. He explains that the ninth step in AA is to make amends wherever you can, and he paged them so they could hear him out. He asks them to do it as a favor to Richard, which... why exactly would either one feel they owed him a favor? Regardless, Lexie looks shattered and dumbfounded while Mere tries to get out of it, but Richard sternly says he'll have someone else cover the pit. She's clearly pissed and her face remains stony as Thatcher shuffles in.
Cristina turns out to be the person Richard got to cover Mere's shift, and she's surprised to see George out in the ambulance bay since it's her territory. She's even more surprised when George says he's on Hunt's service, and Owen walks out. Two ambulances arrive with three patients, one of whom is in critical condition with multiple gunshot wounds. As he looks at the guy, George comments that someone meant business while a woman holding a little girl comes out of the other ambulance, pleading that she didn't mean it and is sorry. She then turns to the little girl to tell her to tell the doctors she is sorry. Ah yes, because this darling, doe-eyed little girl is the one who did the shooting, much to everyone's shock. Hunt calls for Richard to be paged, and before we cut to commercial there is a drawn-out slow-mo shot of the girl's face just so we really, truly, for sure don't miss absolutely that she's the one who committed this heinous act.