Episode Report Card Lauren S: B- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Doe, A Deer
By Lauren S | Season 4 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.26.2007
Izzie's next stop on the "please let me appear to be a legitimate doctor" tour is Cristina's room, and she quietly begs to help with Cristina's patient so that the interns don't think she's such a fraud. Cristina (busy "saving lives and taking names") tells her no, and orders her to be a fraud somewhere else, loud enough to undermine her authority that much more. I love that woman. Izzie leaves, telling Cristina, "I don't like you." Lexie then runs in with the x-rays, stammering about how she met her sister, got lost, et cetera; Cristina clearly doesn't care. Lexie's definitely got the nervous, too-much-information Grey stammer down pat. Cristina is distracted for the first time upon learning that Mere and Lexie are sisters, but snaps back to attention when she looks at the x-ray. Cristina tells Lexie to page Dr. Shepherd, which Lexie interprets as "take notes and stammer some more," so Cristina hollers for anyone to page Dr. Shepherd immediately.
Derek finds Mere at the nurses' station, making calls to try and find Nancy's arm. Derek makes cute a bit with her when Lexie runs up, stammering apologies and letting Mere know she learned to never block the ER doors again. Derek turns and realizes, "You're the girl from the bar." It takes Lexie a moment, but then she recognizes him, rather embarrassed to realize that he works there. It's Grey-ja-vu, as Meredith states, "Girl from the bar. I'm the girl from the bar." She storms away, and Lexie seems to realize that her taste in attractive neurosurgeons runs in the family. She dejectedly comments that her sister hates her, taking Derek by surprise, and then FINALLY remembers she was finding him to do a consult for the once-dead guy.
Callie heads into the x-ray room and finds George, and she happily starts chatting -- she missed him that morning. He responds dully, "Yeah, I didn't want to be late for my second first day as an intern." He continues to stare morosely at the screen while Callie tries to cheer him up. When nothing works, she tries telling him, "Maybe they'll see you as the daddy intern!" The look on his face is both flat and yet somehow horrified, which she notices and assures him she's not pregnant, or at least not that she knows of. At mention of her boobs being sore, he gets the same look again and she explains that she was trying to cheer him up. This prompts the uncomfortable question of whether he really wants this, but he avoids it by saying he's distracted and having a bad day. As he storms out of the room, she tells him it's a bad month, and he angrily agrees. She calls out a meek "Love you!" to the closing door.
A little boy runs into the ER, yelling for help. His dad follows him, covered in blood, but remembers to tell him to use his indoor voice before he announces that he found an arm in the road. Mere rushes up to claim it, yet during all this the boy is still screaming for someone to "help her." It's rather alarming that his dad is doing nothing -- not responding, not explaining, not reminding him again about the indoor voice -- as his son shrieks like a banshee about a "her" that is hurt back in their truck. Izzie, happy to actually be a doctor, yells at her interns to get supplies, and has the boy lead her out to the latest victim of the car accident. She adds grandly to the grumbling interns, "Still want to baby-sit the arm?"