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Izzie and Meredith share a morning moment with Creepy Callie when she comes into the bathroom topless, pulls down her red lace panties, pees right in front of them, and leaves without washing her hands. Later, Creepy Crazy Callie assures George that she washed her hands in the kitchen and makes George promise to stand up for her and tell his roommates that she's not creepy, crazy, or unsanitary. Unfortunately, in doing so she comes off as creepy and crazy. As for unsanitary, well, she's still sleeping in the boiler room.
An Alabama family gets involved in a major car crash that starts off as a bit funny, with the accents and the Big Jim and the mother powdering her face while in traction, but quickly turns tragic as the pregnant daughter goes in for every kind of emergency surgery. Although the young mother-to-be dies, Alexhole saves the tiny baby and possibly learns something about life and sensitivity, but I'm not holding my breath. Meredith holds the hand of a surgery intern from another hospital who caused the car crash after he feel asleep at the wheel following a twelve-hour surgery. Acting on his McVet issues, McDreamy is nasty to Meredith which culminates him in accusing her of sleeping around. Meredith immediately retaliates by delivering a kickass speech that might as well have been a swift, sharp kick to the nads. McDreamy then (belatedly) announces that they are so over but runs away before she can really "Um? DUH!" him. McVet cooks and tells Meredith she's damaged, but so is he, so it's all good.
Also, Denny collapses in the hallway, after which Izzie shoves chocolate down his throat and forces him to read tabloids in an attempt to make him see what he'd be missing if he gave up the ghost. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
Previously on Grey's Anatomy, the site of George's naked chest made Meredith cry; Alex tangoed with the wrong neonatologist and landed full-time vagina duty; George started hooking up with Callie, who gives Izzie weird smiles; and when Meredith started possibly maybe potentially thinking about dating Dr. Chris O'Donnell, DVM, McDreamy gave her such a look of death that a crash cart was called in. Okay, I think I'm not good with the medical jokes because that one was D! O! A!Oh, this show makes me want to live in Seattle. Meredith's voice-over of the week talks about how we all go through life doing damage to ourselves and other people. Did anyone ever see that Jeremy Irons movie, Damage? That was hot. McVettie calmly cooks for Meredith, who wriggles around like she's trying to dislodge an errant suppository. I think her problem is that she got so used to Selfish McDreamy being so wrapped up in his own gorgeous head that she doesn't expect a guy to pour her a bowl of Muesli, much less make her actual food. That she won't eat. "So, ah," Meredith huffs at McVettie's back, "I don't cook." McVettie calmly tells her he doesn't expect her to cook. Mere babbles more crap about not cooking and not expecting him to cook since she doesn't cook until McVettie finally orders her to sit down and shut up by drinking some coffee, "and I want you to try really hard to act like you aren't scary and damaged." Hee -- he saves animals' lives, he cooks, AND he gets Meredith to shut up. She's going to fuck this up, isn't she? Mere prissily insists that she's not scary or damaged. McVettie puts a plate of food in front of her and asks her to tell him about her family. She won't, but avers that her reluctance makes her neither scary nor damaged. McVettie lets that one go and asks about the last guy she slept with. Mere just stares back at his Paul Bunyan-y unshaven face with a frozen smile of "Not going there either." "The problem is trying to figure out how to control the damage we've done or that's been done to us," Mere voice-overs.
Back at the Gorgeous Victorian of Alzheimer Mothers, Izzie slaps on a Crest Whitestrip and asks what Mere told McVettie. Mere plucks her brows and admits she "fled the scene" without telling him about George or McDreamy. Izzie determines that Mere likes the hunky vet. "I could like him," Meredith admits. Izzie wonders if the sex is any good, but Meredith wouldn't know. "Four dates and two sleepovers and no sex?" Izzie calculates incredulously. "Not even a kiss goodnight," Meredith admits blandly. If that's all because of that death stare McDreamy gave her, I'm going to need a bedpan over here. Izzie croons that she's proud of Meredith. At that moment the bathroom door bangs open and Callie stands in the doorway. We can only see her slightly blurry form through the mirror, but she looks like she's grinning a bit creepily. I can't figure out what's up with this chick, and it's only about to get weirder. The camera zooms up to Callie's face, which looks like she stepped into some really bad lighting that both Meredith and Izzie managed to avoid. Seriously, her skin looks gray. Callie's smile has dropped and she's frowning in confusion as she mutters, "Morning." Instead of turning around and waiting for the two girls to leave, Callie shambles in, topless, pulls down her red lace panties, and appears to do her business. Meredith and Izzie give each other silently amused looks. We get another really unattractive close-up of Callie's face as she hunches over the toilet. She then licks her finger, which is just so "huh?", and grabs a huge length of toilet paper. A flush and a pull-up and Callie galumphs back out. Dude, she didn't even wash her hands! And she's a surgeon! Izzie snorts and Meredith can't believe what just happened. "I'm having a seizure!" Izzie says through her Crest Whitestrip, "I'm clearly mid-seizure, I'm seizing." Meredith keeps saying, "Oh, my god," and gesturing with her toothbrush. "She didn't even wash her hands!" Izzie realizes. "Sometimes we even think we can fix the damage," Meredith voice-overs as we shoot over to the hospital where Izzie is giving George a bit of a ream-out for his weird, braless, unsanitary girlfriend who doesn't mind peeing in front of people she doesn't really know. George reminds Izzie that she admitted to blocking the sink, and thinks she's exaggerating. "She peed! Naked peeing! Ask Meredith," Izzie announces, then remembers that he's not speaking to Meredith. To Cristina's intense interest, Izzie goes on a tear about how Callie crossed the line. From the sidelines, Alexhole snorts, noting how they're still pretending Izzie's not seeing Magical Heart Patient Denny. Izzie glares at him. "People, what's with all the evil misery?" Cristina wonders, throwing her one arm around Alexhole's shoulder and the other around Izzie's. "Live and let live!" Before anyone can ask who scrubbed in on Cristina's personality transplant, George touches her face and diagnoses, "You're cheerful." They all look scared. Turns out, Cristina helped with a four-hour esophageal hernia the night, then she got laid, and now three ambulances are on their way filled with "bloody, broken car crash victims, all who need to be cut open," and she can't stop dancing about it. Seriously, Cristina actually does a bizarre Happy Dance that makes me wonder if she was a cheerleader in high school. McDreamy arrives on the scene acting very McCrabby as he asks Meredith coarsely, "How's my dog?" Meredith says that McVet is running tests, and corrects him that it's their dog. "What?" McDreamy snaps. "Our dog," Meredith says, prancing a little. Oh, don't prance. Don't prance. "You said 'my dog,' he's our dog," Meredith says, smiling. "Yeah, whatever," McDreamy says, and when she asks what's wrong, he self-righteously tells her, "Now's not the time," as ambulances scream up.
The car crash victims get carried in. As one Noah Reynolds gets put behind one curtain, a woman yells, "Noah? Yew still ahlive?" Noah calls back, "I'm still alive, baby!" Noah explains to Izzie that his wife's side of the car took most of the impact when a car slammed into his in-laws' car and they into them. The pregnant wife's medical situation gets read off and she throws a few "mercy mes" in as she insists that she's fine because of all the airbags. The pregnant drawlin' wife, who will be known as Sister Woman until further notice, asks the emergency team to just check on her baby and the rest of her family: "Noah?! You saw Momma breathin', right? And Daddy -- where the hell is Daddy?! Momma and Daddy are still ahlive, right?" Noah yells back that they were in the ambulance right behind them. Sister Woman pleads with an unsympathetic Cristina to find out what's going on with Momma and Daddy. Cristina responds, "Yeah, I'll ask someone about...Momma." "And Daddy," Sister Woman reminds her. At that moment, George brings in Momma and Daddy and says that both of them are stable, but Daddy is experiencing chest pains. "Dang it all to HECK!" Momma, played by Frances Fisher, bawls, clutching her big white purse. "Excuse my French, honey, but I need some whatever kinda horse pills yew got, because this hurts like the DICKENS!" "That would be Momma," Cristina tells Sister Woman as she preps her for an ultrasound. George and the emergency crew struggle with Big Daddy, who wants to get up and walk around. "Gee off!" Big Daddy orders, reaching for his nonexistent horsewhip. George wants to check Big Daddy's spine, but Big Daddy gets off the bed and insists, "Mah spine is fine and yew can sew up my head later -- where's my girl? Smelly!" "Daddy?" Sister Woman responds. "Jim?" Noah yells." "Noah," Daddy bellows. "Mel?" Momma calls. Good lord, it's like their car crashed into Walton's Mountain. "Momma?" Sister Woman calls, who name appears to be Mel or Smelly. Big Daddy finally sloughs off George, and Bailey walks by, muttering, "It's a hillbilly picnic." Big Daddy, clutching at his IV bottle and still wearing his neck brace and head trauma gear, stumbles over to Smelly Mel. Cristina tells everyone to shut up because she's trying to find the baby's heartbeat. Everyone is quiet. Cristina finds the heartbeat, checks it, and proclaims all to be well. Another ambulance is heard to scream outside and Big Daddy, wild-eyed, hustles over to the rest of the family to announce that Baby and Smelly Mel are both good. "Oh, thank the lorrrrd," Momma trembles, staring in a compact and powdering her face, "thank the lorrrrd they're all right." Meredith brings in another car crash victim, and Momma starts screaming that that's the guy that hit them. "I'll keeeel 'im!" Big Daddy bellows. "You sunuvabeetch!" Webber and the emergency team hold him off, as Momma screams, "Big Jim, jest hold yer horses! He's hurt! He's alreddy hurrrrt!" "Don't ASK me to be neighborly!" Big Daddy screams as he gets wrestled back to his room. "What happened?" John Cho, the driver, asks. Meredith orders a bunch of tests.
Momma sits up, slapping at Alex's hands, demanding to know what he thinks he's doing. Alex says he's just trying to examine her. "I don't THINK so!" Momma tells him, then whispers, "I don't have any panties on and I do not know you well enough to let you see my Good Girl." Good Girl? Va-jay-jay? Not that I should be one to make fun of euphemisms or anything. After Momma insists he get her a "lady doctor," Alex shouts, "I need a chick over here!"
Meredith tells McDreamy that John Cho is named Marshall and he's a surgical intern over at Mercy West. McDreamy checks Marshall out and tells him to remember three words that Meredith will ask him for later. McDreamy gives Meredith final instructions and says, "Not now," when Meredith tries to ask what wife crawled up his butt and died. Meredith turns her attention to Marshall, who can't remember the words McDreamy told him, nor can he figure out what happened.
That stream of gin from the opening doesn't remind me so much of "kicking back with a few martinis to slough off the day's giant tumor" as it does "extraordinarily hydrated man peeing from a very great height." I think it's the arc.
George throws up some X-rays and says they are Big Daddy's. There's some back and forth where Alex calls the Waltons "stupid hicks," George yells at him, and Izzie sees fit to say something about even Big Daddy knowing how to wash his hands after he pees. Bailey snaps them back in line and tells them to discharge the mother and father and get Noah in the OR for surgery. Addison arrives and wonders why Alex isn't up checking on her patients. Alex snots that there was a car accident and he's been checking on a pregnant mother. Addison blandly tells him she was going to have him scrub in on a few of her surgeries today, but now thinks he should stay by Smelly Mel's side all day. Busted. Addison leaves. Bailey tells Izzie to scrub in on Noah's patella fracture surgery, and orders Alex to find his patient. "The She Shepherd just walks in here and pulls me off surgery?" Alex demands. "You burn the She Shepherd, she burns back. Now go," Bailey responds calmly. Smelly Mel asks, "The CT won't hurt the baby or nuthin', right?" "No, it won't hurt the baby...or nuthin'," Cristina sighs. Smelly Mel babbles about the baby shower she was having that day and how nice it was that her parents were in town for it. Alex arrives and announces he's "Captain of the Vagina Squad." Cristina happily tells Smelly Mel that Alex is going to take care of her and that he really likes to talk, so Smelly Mel should tell him all about everything. Alex mutters something irritable to Cristina as Smelly Mel wonders, "What she mean 'Captain'? And what kinda squad you on?" He's Captain of the Good Girl Squad, hon.
George checks on Marshall and finds him reading his own chart because he wants to find out what made him swerve his car into oncoming traffic. Marshall wants to know if the people he hit are going to be okay: "No serious complications?" George says they're still being checked out as Izzie barges in. She tells Callie that she'll be her intern for the patella surgery. Without looking at her, Callie tells her to prep the OR while she puts on Noah's splint. Izzie makes hand-washing motions at George, who shoves her out the door. Seriously, it's getting a bit bitchy, Izzie. Callie starts to examine Marshall. George sidles up and whispers, "D'you wash your hands?" "What?" Callie hisses between clenched teeth. "You washed your hands, right?" Callie whispers that of course she washed her hands. Marshall looks up. George goes away. Marshall starts reading medibabble from his chart and determines that he wasn't drinking or under the influence. Callie snaps a bone back in place. Marshall reacts with pain. I'm getting slightly nauseated.
McDreamy barges in and asks if Meredith got the CT on Marshall. She didn't. Marshall spouts more medibabble, wondering why he would need a CT. McDreamy demands to know why Meredith didn't follow his orders. "CT was backed up and he's lucid now, so..." Meredith explains. "So, get it done! NOW!" McDreamy screeches, banging the door shut.
Cristina tells Burke that the "Daisy Duke case" is boring her to tears, and wants to know if he's got any good heart action for her. Burke just gives her a dirty look. Turns out she fell asleep. On him. During sex. Cristina apologizes a bunch of times and says she was really tired. Burke just stares her down. Cristina tells him not to let it threaten his manhood or anything. Burke waves that off and says he's very confident "in [his] manhood, thank you very much." Cristina's happy about that and says, smiling, "I feel asleep because I had already finished. [beat] Twice." So, either Cristina's being Dr. Competitive again or she's still trying to pump up Burke's manhood. This recap is starting to read like a Harlequin Romance. "I hadn't finished," Burke clarifies. They argue about Cristina's obsessed-with-surgery issues and Cristina says that, just like him, she's a surgeon first. Burke contradicts her: he's a person first. And a hot one.Izzie responds to a page and finds Magical Heart Patient Denny collapsed on the floor. Apparently, Denny tried to do the stairs. I can barely do stairs. I wonder if I'm a Magical Heart Patient as well. Oh, he was trying to walk the stairs. Never mind. Izzie darts off to get Burke. Back in his bed, Denny tells Burke he wants to go home. Izzie frowns. Burke tells him going home isn't an option. Denny gets pissed at being told what to do. Burke does a double-take at Denny's Magical Passion. "My heart may be on your battery packs, but it's still my heart. It's my decision. It's my damn life, " Denny announces. Burke couldn't agree more, "and it is your life that will end if you continue to push like you did today." Denny just wants to go home. Outside his room, Izzie asks Burke what they do. "Put him on a tight leash and tell the nurses to keep an eye on him, make sure he doesn't take any more endurance hikes in the stairwell," Burke tells her. "Yeah, but," Izzie says, looking down, "Preston, what do we do?" Oh, she's first-naming him! It's fuzzy friendship time now. I'm trying to be snarky now to prepare for the waterworks that will be exploding from me by the end of this episode. Burke explains how they can't control the damage to Magical Heart Patient Denny's spirit. "Give him room, Izzie," he finishes quietly.
In the CT room, Smelly Mel is scanned, and the results are horrifying. Apparently, she has every kind of organ failure going on. Bailey orders, "Karev, page Shepherd, Burke, Montgomery-Shepherd, the Chief, and every surgeon with an available hand and get an OR open -- GO!" Bailey tries to talk to Melly, but she's not responding and there's that ominous beeping of unhealthy stuff happening.
George, looking stunned, runs into Callie, who demands to know where Izzie got to for Marshall's surgery. George just looks at her and walks into Noah's room. The rest of the Waltons are there as well. Momma babbles about how much she likes Callie because of the pain shot she gave Noah. George carefully tells them that Melly is in trouble. "When your daughter came into the OR, her body was over-pumping her bloodstream with adrenaline, which kept her conscious and alert and pain-free. During the CT scan, she was lying still for an extended period of time, so her body relaxed and the adrenaline stopped flowing, which allowed her to succumb to the full extent of her injuries, which are...they're catastrophic," George explains. Damn. Damn.
In the OR, cutting, slicing, and suction happens. Alex tries to get a look at the proceedings until Addison orders him to sit by the fetal monitor and keep an eye on the baby's heartbeat. Alex snarks something unpleasant, but no one listens to him. Lots of scary-ass tools come out. The Chief calls Addison over.
George explains to the shell-shocked Waltons that they are going to do everything they can to save their daughter.Addison determines that the baby is safe, and tells the other surgeons to go about trying to save Mel. All sorts of bad stuff goes on and they can't stop the bleeding. All the attendings agree that all they can do is damage control at this point. The Chief reminds them that they know the rules. They have to work as quickly as possible to manage the crisis without worrying about repairs. "Just get it done. Once she reaches The Triangle, we stop. No exceptions," Chief finishes. Alex wants to know what The Triangle is. "Blood stops clotting, her muscles produce acid, and her organs get cold," Cristina head-of-the-classes. "You're talking about the triangle of death," Alex realizes.
Meredith sits with a distraught Marshall, who tells her he had just finished a twelve-hour surgery on top of a thirty-hour day. A twelve-hour surgery in which he saved someone's life. On the way home, he closed his eyes for a second in the car. "Meredith," Marshall asks, "does this mean...are we actually saying that, today, this morning, because I stayed in the OR to save a life, I may have killed a pregnant woman?" Meredith is saved from answering by a CT tech, who has her CT room ready for Marshall. Meredith asks her to give her a moment. CT tech starts to bitch about being backed up, but Meredith is having none of it and shuts Square-Glasses Face up. Unfortunately, when Meredith turns back around, Marshall is gone.
Izzie perches on an unwilling Denny's bed. She makes him smell and eat Swiss chocolate and look at tabloid headlines. Denny gets really irritated and tells her to stop it. He goes off about losing his life: "I'm a man. I'm a strong, virile horse of a man stuck in the body of some weak-sick bastard that I don't know, like, or recognize." Denny rants that if Izzie understood that, she never would have convinced him to let a battery run his heart. "If you knew what it feels like, Izzie, you would've let me go," Denny clenches. Izzie just shakes her head and won't meet his eyes. Izzie, you gotta let him go be with his sons. I have a feeling they really need him.
More bad stuff goes wrong with Melly, and now the baby is fading. The Chief says they've reached The Triangle: "Hands out." Protests all around. The Chief yells, "Dammit, stop! Everybody stop!" They all stop. Except for Cristina. Burke says quietly, "Cristina, let her go." Bailey reports that the heart is slow and erratic, but it's still beating. Addison reports the same for the baby. Burke asks for the plastic. They're going to keep Melly open, cover her in plastic, and get her to the I.C.U. "And then what?" Alex drawls. "Then we're going to see if she survives," Burke responds. McDreamy looks up around his Itty Bitty Brain Light and sees a disheveled and insane-looking Marshall in the observation gallery. His hair is huge, dude. Marshall's, not McDreamy's. McDreamy's is perfect and hot.
After the commercial break, McDreamy settles Marshall into his CT scan and goes to ream out Meredith. Meredith tries to explain that Marshall is a surgical intern, but McDreamy interreams her. He lectures her, he chastises her, and he accuses her. "This is YOUR fault. You had him and you LOST him." McDreamy starts to walk away but turns around to gesture some more: "You have GOT to take responsibility for your actions FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE!" Meredith stares after him and barks, "Derek!" but he doesn't come back. Instead, McDreamy just paces in a small area and takes deep breaths. Bailey explains to Momma and Big Daddy what they're doing with Melly. Addison and Bailey explain that they want Melly to get her strength back before they operate again. If they operate too soon, she will die. If they operate too late, she will die. It's a balancing act. Momma breathes hard and cries silently. Bailey tells Cristina to call her if Melly bleeds out too much. Alex tries to get away, but Addison snaps him back like a first-year cadet and tells him to sit and watch the fetal monitor. "You're kidding me, she's circling the drain," Alexhole says. Just, ew. All I can think of is a hair clog. Death and a hair clog. Drano can fix only one of those. Addison drops the significant information, "You know how long a baby can survive inside its dead mother? Four to five minutes. Minutes, not seconds, Karev." Addison orders Alexhole to look at Melly and realize that everyone around her is concerned with taking care of her. Her job is to take care of the unborn baby. "Now I've got a surgery scheduled, so when I step on that elevator and leave, you are going to be the only one on this entire floor responsible for that baby. Do not let me down, Karev," Addison says, and walks away.
Izzie, Meredith, and Cristina sit in a lobby and put themselves in Marshall's blood-stained shoes. One minute he's a surgeon and the , he's destroyed an entire family. Izzie remembers falling asleep in the parking lot on a bench before she made it to the car. Meredith adds, "I fell asleep on a table. At a restaurant. When I was on a date." I don't believe her. I mean, until the recent McVettie, hasn't it all been McDreamy, McDreamy, McDreamy, Potential Pink Mist, McDreamy, McDreamy? Cristina, in a tone of trumping them all, says she fell asleep during sex. I don't find that as weird as the bench or the restaurant. I mean, you're already undressed, in bed, pillow in sight -- it's a natural reaction no matter what is going on with your Good Girl, right? George comes over and whispers to Izzie that she blew off Callie's surgery. Izzie says she had a thing with Magical Heart Patient Denny. "You were hanging out with Denny?" George whispers. Izzie tells him not to go there with the judgments and the standards: "The girl can't even wash her hands." Izzie and Meredith laugh nastily. I think Callie is totally weird and creepy and that they are building up to her doing something completely psychotic, but I kind of hate Izzie and Meredith right now. Well, I pretty much always hate Meredith with her half-closed eyes and her weird lisps and her uncanny aping of Renee Zellweger, but hating Izzie is a new feeling and I don't exactly like it. George looks over at Meredith, who is in mid-bitchsnort. She pauses. He walks away. She sort of looks ashamed, but actually looks more annoyed that he even dared look at her. Cristina tells Meredith not to sweat Bambi: "If Burke can forgive me for falling asleep then George can forgive you for crying." Meredith points out that Burke hasn't forgiven Cristina. Cristina looks around all, "Oh, right. Oops!" Callie fixes a splint on Noah's leg. George pokes his head in and says that Izzie had a patient. Callie pauses, looks down for moment, and shakes her head slightly: "I knew you'd take her side." Before George can feel around for a spine, Callie walks out ordering him to fix an IV for Noah. George stands there, twisting in the wind, and Noah says, "She's mad at you." George didn't realize he was awake, but he is, and it's time for him to tell George a little Walton allegory about how he met and married Melly. Melly was this big-haired, drawlin', Southern girl that he met in college and married. Everyone he knows back home in Seattle thinks he's crazy, but he loves her. "And what's happening is that my big-haired Southern girl could be dying and I can't think about that. You know, I need to think about something else, something that doesn't matter so much. Something that doesn't have me burying my twenty-two-year-old wife and baby, so um, so what the hell did you do?" Noah demands through his tears. And mine. Dammit, AB, how the hell do you do this every week? I'm going to be dehydrated by the end of this recap and that WON'T BE PRETTY! George steps up and makes me smile when he baldly says, "I believed my friend when she told me Dr. Torres doesn't wash her hands." Noah takes this in and says sincerely, "Well, I hope that's not true." He gestures at his leg. "Seeing that she just performed surgery on me...and all." "Yeah," George agrees.
Meredith gives McDreamy Marshall's CT results, which seem to check out okay. His short-term memory loss was from the concussion, so McDreamy wants to keep him there overnight for observation. Marshall says he has to apologize to the Waltons. McDreamy tells him to get some rest and leaves. Meredith follows. In the Stairwell of Confessions, Meredith announces, "I never should have told you about George." "No, it's fine. I'm glad I know about him. And the vet. You really get around," McDreamy responds. GASP! I need an oxygen mask, STAT, because he didn't just go there! "What did you just say to me?" Meredith asks with less zeal than I would have hoped. I guess it takes a lot of energy to get mad. Maybe if she has a sandwich she can ream him out right proper. "It's unforgivable," McDreamy says, bored. What is? Marshall? George? McVettie? Her sunken eyes? Meredith doesn't recall ever asking McDreamy to forgive her. "So was the knitting a phase? Who's ? Alex? 'Cuz I hear he likes to sleep around," McDreamy comments. You'll be hearing a lot more of that if my prediction of Addison and Alex working themselves up into a sweeps-fired heat and then doing each other after a particularly acrimonious hysterectomy comes true. Alex will finally get whipped by a woman and not be able to get over her, and Addison will walk away, bored, slightly disgusted, but sexually satisfied. "You two have that in common," McDreamy finishes, and starts to walk away. How is he not dangling over the railing by his BALLS right now? God, I was so in love with him in Can't Buy Me Love and now I want to beat his pretty, sorry ass.
Meredith grabs McDreamy's arm and spins him back to face her. "You don't get to call me a whore," Meredith announces. "When I met you, I thought I had found the person that I was going to spend the rest of my life with. I was done, so all the boys, and all the bars, and all the obvious daddy issues, who cared? Because I was done. You left me. You chose Addison. I'm all glued back together now. I make no apologies for how I chose to repair what you broke. You don't get to call me a whore." Damn. DAMN! I don't often feel this way about Meredith, but KICK. ASS! McDreamy takes a breath, looks down, and decides, "This thing with us is finished. It's over." Man, what a dick. He calls her a slut, she makes an awesome speech, and he steps all over it by restating WHAT WE ALREADY KNEW as though it were HIS idea and HE was breaking up with HER! No. Uh-uh. You don't get to break up with her. "Finally," Meredith says, nasal with clogged tears. "Yeah, it's done," McDreamy says again. "It IS done," Meredith agrees twitchily. McDreamy goes up the stairs and shuts the access door. Meredith waits a bit, then clomps downstairs, running her hand through her hair and breathing hard.
In Melly's room, Cristina reports on Melly's temp and pH. Burke and Webber mutter some things about oozing wounds and fine lines. Momma sits in the corner in her tailored red suit with her folded hands and says, "Y'all don't have to whisper. I'm sittin' righ' here, I kin hear yew ennyway. And she's mah baby. She's mah little gurl. A big decision like this, going back in and sewing up her," Momma falters, "…organs. It's the kinda decision that a momma oughta be involved in." Momma goes on that Melly has asked her mother to be involved with everything, from the dress she wore to a kindergarten dance to what to name her baby. "Because I'm her momma," Momma explains, tearfully, and shrugs, "and it's my job to have an opinion and it's my job to have an answer. Well, I may not have an answer here, but I'm still her momma, so y'all just don't have to whisper." I need an I.V. to replenish my tear ducts. Webber agrees, and he and the rest of the surgeons talk in normal voices about what they have to do. Bailey thinks if they don't do something soon, she'll go into multiple organ failure. Webber agrees and says, "If it's all right with you, Mrs. [Walton], we think it's time to get back in there and finish what we started." Momma nods, smiling through her tears. Happy that she was asked.
In the OR, McDreamy finishes his part. The rest of the surgeons work fast, but stuff is failing. Alex reports that the fetal heart rate is failing. They try to use the internal defib panels. It doesn't work. The Chief orders Alex to get Addison. He scampers off. Addison, however, is mid-surgery, or, as she puts it, "elbow-deep in a patient's uterus," and asks Alex what the hell she can do for Melly. She's not going to leave her current patient and baby to die. She tells Alex to do what he can and she'll be there when she can. George sits silently with Noah and the Waltons. I embarrass myself by snuffling loudly and wetly into my pizza in front of my guests. I can't help it, I'm not used to this kind of recapping! Where's the hate? The repulsive fashions? The horrible continuity errors? I need the hate! I am not made to be a sodden mess of a recapper who is easily manipulated by fake death and music! Momma checks with George that "they" will know where to find them when there's news. "Yes, ma'am," George assures her. "Is there something I should be doing, someone I should talk with, some…" Big Daddy trails off. George quietly tells him he's doing all he can. Meredith pokes her head in and summons George over. She explains that Marshall wants the chance to apologize. George is impassive until Meredith reminds him, "He's one of us, George." George nods without looking at her and return to the Waltons. Meredith backs out of the room, and we don't yet know if George will deliver her message.
Alex returns to the OR and reports that Addison is tube-tied up. Bailey reports that Melly's heart is asysto. Alex asks how long Melly's been down. Five minutes. Alex looks around quickly, at Melly's face, the monitor, the other surgeons, and announces, "I'm going to do a C-section. Glove me." Bailey stares at him. "We need to get that baby out, tell me what to do," Alex says. Bailey gives instruction, while Webber orders Pediatrics to report to them. Alex pulls out a very small, very purple baby. Webber doesn't think the baby looks good, and asks how Melly is doing. She's bleeding too much, and Bailey can't control it. Webber turns to Burke, who says, "She's not coming back." They stop. I cry. Webber calls the time of death just as Addison walks in. She takes in the situation and looks over at Alex and the purple baby. Alex seems to be suctioning the baby's nose as well as pushing on the tiny chest with his fingertip. The baby joins me in crying.
OR. Bailey stands watch over Melly, whose body is draped from the neck down. Surgeons, interns, and nurses clean up. Bailey stands there, thinking about her own baby and her own motherhood. Webber folds his arms and stands to her.
George leads Big Daddy into Marshall's room. Big Daddy looks fierce, his lower lip is stuck out, and his heavy brows are contorted. Meredith and Marshall look up warily. "I am sorry," Marshall says brokenly, "I am so -- I am so, so sorry." Big Daddy approaches the bed, still looking mad as hell but also like a hurt kid. "Please," Marshall pleads. Big Daddy stands over him. George looks quickly at Meredith, who seems calm but choked up. Big Daddy reaches out with a huge ham of a hand and gently touches Marshall's shoulder and lightly strokes his face. Marshall breaks down, and I can no longer see my computer screen or breathe out of my left nostril. Big Daddy stands there for a moment, letting Marshall sob and hold onto his hand. Then he backs away and walks out with George.
Izzie closes the shades and doors to Denny's room. "Are we going to get in trouble?" Denny asks. Izzie doesn't care. "I'm not going to cheer up for you," Denny announces. "You don't have to cheer up," Izzie tells him, "I'm not here for me." She takes off her shoes and lies down to him. "I'm here for you, okay?" She puts her arm across his chest and her head on his shoulder. Meredith voice-overs that we're all damaged, "some of us more than others." Cristina sits down to dinner with Burke, who notes, "You must be tired," as he digs into his food. "Yeah," Cristina agrees thoughtfully. Burke picks up a book and says, "I'm tired too." He eats behind his book. Cristina thinks.
Mere tells us, "We carry the damage with us from childhood," as Noah reaches into an incubator and touches his baby's tiny, tiny hand. Alex watches this from behind the glass. Exactly where George and Meredith would stand and look in at the babies when they were having a bad day, I think. "Then, as grownups, we give as good as we get." Addison walks in, sees Alex, and compliments him on his work that day. Alex turns away from the window: "Yeah, the kid's alive. Without a mother." He walks out. Always gotta ruin the moment and look like the toughest guy in the baby ward.
In the locker room, Meredith and George get dressed without acknowledging one another. "Ultimately, we all do damage," Meredith's voice-over concludes. I hate voice-overs. There's this enormous pressure to recap them because they're "imparting" "pearls" of "wisdom," but they're such a pain to follow. And also? Trite. It made more sense when Doogie Howser did it because he was actually writing in a journal of sorts, but these random ones are just annoying. Is she talking to me? To her mother? To herself? I just don't know. George bangs his locker shut and shuffles a bit. He steps near Meredith and ventures, "See you at home?" Meredith whips around to look at him: "Yeah." "Okay, see yuh," George nods, and leaves. "Okay," Meredith says hopefully. "And then," Meredith's voice-over informs us, "we set about the business of fixing whatever we can." Izzie and Denny lie together. "Izzie?" Denny asks. "Would it be wrong for me to feel you up right now?" "Not so much," Izzie replies. See, time Denny wants to die, instead of bringing chocolate, just bring your dinners. Denny and Izzie giggle. "Such a dirty boy," Izzie tells him. "I know," Denny says happily. So? Is he going to feel her up?
In the boiler room, George sits with Callie, who is lying down in bed in what is a very unattractive angle. Why must they shoot her in such bad light and angles? She looks insane. Callie tells George that she washed her hands. She went into the kitchen and washed her hands. "I didn't wash my hands in the bathroom because those girls were staring at me like I was a rodent or something." Putting on a bra and not peeing in front of people might help. "Like I was in high school and I was having the naked dream and it was actually happening. I didn't even know they were home. I washed my hands," Callie insists. But again, there's knocking on the bathroom door before entering, there's wearing a top when walking around someone else's house, and there's still that choice NOT to pee in front of people you barely know or like! George leaps onto Callie's bed and snuggles with her. Callie fixes George with what I choose to see as a crazy look. "You have to stand up for me," she tells him, "you have to say I washed my hands." George lies down her and Callie takes his arm and puts it around her. Note that George doesn't do it himself. "I'm sorry," George says, holding her close.At McVettie's, Meredith hangs over McVettie's shoulder in the kitchen. I hate when people do that. I'm always stepping on them, or spattering them, or stabbing them with my chef's knife. McVettie tells her that she's driving him crazy with the hovering. Meredith prances into a corner and breathes deeply and deliberately. Is she doing yoga now? McVettie might like her Downward Dog. She thinks the two of them could be a mistake. He's a really nice guy and he doesn't want to get involved with her. "If you knew me," Meredith starts. "Scary?" McVettie supplies. "Finn," Meredith pleads. "And damaged," McVettie finishes, "see? I told you." Meredith starts to babble about what he would think if he knew her, knew her family, knew the guys she had slept with lately: "The scary and damaged may actually be more than you can handle." McVettie puts down his glass of wine and is about to make me love him. He looks Meredith square in the face and says, "My mother's dead. She got cancer when I was ten and she suffered for a really long time and then she died. And my father never recovered -- it was kind of like he died with her except his body is above ground and permanently placed in front of the TV with a bottle of scotch in his lap." Hey, I do that with wine! "The last woman I slept with was my wife, and she died too. It was a car crash, so it was quick. She didn't suffer, which I appreciated." Yep, throw in that he sometimes has to deal with cute, dying, fuzzy things, and he WAY out-damages Meredith and her Alzheimer mother, absent father, and several heartaches. McVettie tells her he thinks his luck is changing because he met her and she likes dogs and pony births and has the ability to save lives. "I never said I wasn't scary and damaged too," McVettie concludes. Meredith takes this all in and finally kisses him. She pulls away and they look at each other, smiling.