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So, you remember everything that happened last week? Well, it all finishes up this week. Meredith continues to snore, and her gentle rumblings continue to cause stress in her relationship with McDreamy. She's also continuing to freak out about her father, but she eventually talks to him and learns that she got her snoring from him. He tells her about some awesome earplugs, bringing harmony back to the Mere/Derek relationship. Whew!
In more serious storylines, we learn that Addison and Mark were being testy with each other because they've reached the date on which their child would have been born had Addison not had an abortion. For him, it's all about how competitive he is and how he feels like he lost to Derek or Addison or the universe, until Callie helps him realize that he would have been a truly awful father. For Addison, it's a pretty sad week, which leads to her making out with Alex.
Speaking of dysfunctional relationships, Cristina and Burke continue to not speak to each other. But when he hears sad news about George's father, he realizes there are more important things than being right, and he lets her know that he's not had any tremors for the last week. Finally, Izzie anonymously coughs up the dough for spine girl's surgery. Bailey thinks this demonstrates that Izzie is still getting too emotionally involved with her patients, and refuses to let her scrub in on the surgery. In the end, Izzie realizes that she does get emotionally involved with her patients but that she's also a surgeon, and she seems determined to strike a balance between those two things.
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What, you mean I left something out? Fine. In the real main storyline of the night, there's a scare about George's father because his breathing tube needs to be replaced, which is tricky considering that he just had surgery on his esophagus. But Bailey pulls it off, and things seem to be fine. Until the random moment in which we learn that Mr. O'Malley's organs are failing and there's no way to save him. In a gut-wrenching scene, George helps his mother and brothers realize that the best thing to do is take Mr. O'Malley off life support. And it's an even more gut-wrenching scene when Mr. O'Malley dies. George is naturally devastated, and it turns out that Cristina is the one person best able to reach out to him, because her own father died when she was nine. Now you'll have to excuse me -- that bathroom floor's not going to lie down on itself. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
We open on Derek and Meredith, en lit. Mere is wearing a Breathe Right strip, which she has apparently dyed red to match her sheets. Derek has his head jammed under a pillow. Why, you ask? Because Meredith is still snoring. She's also sleeping through the alarm clock, which is buzzing insistently. Derek jerks awake and yells out, "Alarm! Shut it off, please!" Meredith stirs and asks him not to snap at her. If she was awake enough to hear him, she was awake enough to hear the clock and turn it off. I'm just saying. He didn't sleep much that night; she didn't either, because he kept shoving her to try to stop her snoring. As they bicker about the snoring and the shoving, he tries to kiss her. She complains about the stubble pricking her face and tells him to shave. She leaves the bed and he appears to be trying to grab a few more minutes of shut-eye.
Izzie is drinking coffee in the kitchen and cooking something on the griddle. George opens and closes the refrigerator door and gets a panicked look on his face. He starts that trademark O'Malley stammer, trying to tell Izzie that something's wrong as he looks at the floor around the refrigerator trying to find the check. He's crawling all around the floor and shoving Izzie's feet around until she relieves his misery by telling him that she deposited it. He asks if she deposited it in the garbage disposal or maybe in the crazy imaginary bank. As we know, she deposited it in the real bank, and she would really like him to shut up about it. George is stunned: "It's at the bank? It's earning interest?" Izzie: "Did I just not say shut up about it, already?" George is thrilled that his rich friend is now actually rich and starts enthusing about all of the things she can do with the money. She tells him to shut up, again, and he tells her, "I'm just saying, life is short. Cancer happens, and surgery happens, and you know... 'Gather ye rosebuds.' You have 8.7 million rosebuds, Izzie. Gotta spend some rosebuds." Izzie: "You made me burn my French toast." George: "You can buy new French toast." Izzie's had it with this discussion and leaves the room. George picks up a piece of non-burnt French toast from the obviously cold griddle and takes a bite.
We get a shot of a sad-looking Addison on the ferry. They sure are getting a lot of mileage out of that location shoot, aren't they? Cut to Addison walking down the hall of the hospital. She sees Mark coming and turns around to walk the other way -- but that causes her to practically bump into Alex. They're both awkward in a very "whoops, we almost engaged in totally inappropriate kissing" way. And then Meredith's father emerges from a room to ask them how the baby is doing. They both say that she looks good, but I think they're really talking about each other. And I agree with them. (Just because I think they shouldn't date doesn't mean I'm blind.) Thatcher runs off to call his wife and daughter to let them know things are looking good. Addison and Alex do a little side-to-side shuffle as they try to walk past each other. After a couple of seconds of this they both give up and turn around to walk away from this awkward, awkward scene.
Thatcher is holding a cup of coffee and speaking to his family on a cell phone. From a distance, Meredith and Cristina watch him. Meredith asks, "How am I related to that man?" Well, Meredith, sometimes when a man and woman love each other very much... Oh, it turns out that Meredith just doesn't see any resemblance between herself and Thatcher, who she describes as "a mess." He doesn't help his case by spilling coffee all over himself as he gesticulates. Izzie is watching this with Cristina and Mere, and she doesn't see quite what Meredith is getting at. Meredith calls Thatcher a "stammering, mumbling, clumsy disaster." When she claims to have absolutely nothing in common with her father, Cristina and Izzie exchange a disbelieving glance. Izzie: "I hate to break this to you... " Cristina: "Yeah, you do your share of stammering yourself." They also point out that she shares her nervous talking and messiness with Thatcher. Meredith claims that Cristina is the messy one; Cristina allows that her apartment is messy, but that she herself is immaculate. Whereas Meredith is apparently walking around in a cloud of detritus, much like Pig Pen. Meredith gets defensive; she accuses Cristina of being "in a relationship with no words." And she calls Izzie "a millionaire in twenty-dollar shoes." Mere storms off and Izzie and Cristina continue to watch Thatcher. He is now covered in coffee and holding a crumpled up wad of newspaper that he used to try to wipe up the coffee he spilled on the floor. Cristina and Izzie laugh at how exactly like Thatcher Meredith really is.
Izzie walks into Heather's room to find Bailey, Derek, and Callie consulting with Heather and her mother. Derek tells Izzie that Heather's spine surgery is back on. Izzie asks if the insurance company changed its mind, and Bailey pointedly tells her, "It seems an anonymous donor has offered to foot Heather's entire bill." No pulling the wool over her eyes. While Izzie and Heather make small talk, Bailey stares daggers at Izzie. Bailey walks to the door and stares at Izzie until Izzie gets the point and walks out of the room.
Bailey follows Izzie into the hallway and asks her, "You spend three hundred grand so you could scrub in on this surgery?" Izzie denies it, and then blathers on about how miserable Heather is and how she can use the money she got to do something good for someone. I do love that Izzie's idea of "desperate" is never having a date and never being able to wear high heels. I guess that makes me desperate too. Bailey listens to this speech and tells Izzie, "I was hoping you would tell me you spent this money so you could scrub in." Because that would be the healthy answer of someone eager to be a surgeon (albeit a surgeon with lousy priorities); Izzie's answer tells Bailey that she is still getting emotionally involved with her patients and letting that involvement cloud her judgment. As a result, Izzie will not be scrubbing in on the surgery. Commercials.
Addison is sitting at a table in the cafeteria reading something on her laptop when Callie sits down with her. Callie: "George kissed me. Yesterday. One minute he's holding a urine bag, the minute he's kissing me." If I ever date a doctor, remind me to have him wash his hands before he touches me. Addison is completely non-responsive, and Callie decides that means Addison thinks George is just freaking out about his dad and may not have meant the kiss. And Callie agrees. Addison is the best silent therapist ever. And then Addison registers Callie's presence for the first time, and Callie realizes Addison hasn't heard a word she said. Callie gets a bit sarcastic: "Geez, it's all about you, isn't it? It's all about Addison." Addison: "I aborted Mark's baby." Callie, seriously, tells her, "It is all about you." Addison tells Callie the story: about eight months earlier she learned she was pregnant. At first she wasn't going to even tell Mark about the pregnancy, but she changed her mind. He got all super-paternal, but Addison didn't want a baby. At least, not with him -- she wanted one with Derek, which would have also meant, you know, being with Derek. So she got an abortion. Had she not, the baby would have been born today. And now she's feeling sad, because she never thought she'd end up alone. Callie points out that Addison is far from the end of anything. Addison knows that, but still feels sad this particular week.
George (not wearing scrubs, since he's not working) enters the gallery where the other interns are watching Heather's surgery. Alex asks how George's father is doing -- you'll be happy to hear that he's still peeing like a champ. Cristina leans over and asks George if he's seen Burke. George: "Even if I did like you, I still wouldn't tell you that." I'm glad to see somebody knows how to nurse a grudge. Izzie asks George why he's so buddy-buddy with Burke and yet so angry with Cristina. George responds that he's forgiven Burke because his career was on the line when he lied, whereas Cristina's wasn't. Which doesn't really ring true to me, since I would think the lowly intern would have a lot to lose by participating in a cover-up. Meredith asks Cristina why she doesn't just ask Burke about his hand; Cristina reminds us all that she's not talking to Burke. Alex wishes that he could find a woman who would date him but not speak to him. And then he practically jumps out of his seat when Meredith asks, "Hey, how's it going with Addison?" Meredith, of course, is asking about the condition of her niece, but Alex turns into a slightly more stammery version of George as he fumbles to respond. Izzie and Cristina both give him odd looks. It's not clear what Izzie is thinking, but Cristina thinks that he's working some devious plot to get good procedures, and she wants in on it. Alex freaks out and leaves the gallery. After he's gone, Izzie starts complaining that she should be scrubbing in on Heather's surgery. And then George's pager goes off. He reads it and runs out of the room with a worried look on his face. In the O.R., Callie looks up and sees him run out. And then Meredith's pager goes off; it's a 9-1-1 on Mr. O'Malley, and she leaves. Izzie and Cristina both look worried, but neither one leaves the room.
Down in the O.R., Callie asks Derek if he can proceed without her. I know the interns don't actually do anything in a surgery (except, of course, for when they're covering up their boyfriend's inability to operate), but I would think the resident would be pretty involved -- especially in a procedure as complex as this one. Derek seems surprised, too -- but not because Callie is so essential. He just thinks it's odd that she would leave such a rare procedure when she was the one who brought the patient to him in the first place. Callie looks up at the gallery and sees Cristina run out, and she tells Derek that she doesn't want to leave, but she feels like she has to leave. She does, leaving McDreamy all on his lonesome to rebuild Heather's spine.
In a conference room, Bailey (with Meredith standing at her side) sits at one end of a table while the O'Malleys (mother, George, and the meatheads) sit at the other. Bailey tells them that she called the family in because she has to perform a procedure on Mr. O'Malley and wanted to inform them. George sees Callie outside the window and nods for her to come in. The medical details are not especially important (they need to replace Mr. O'Malley's breathing tube because it has developed a kink, but because of the surgery on his esophagus, there's a chance they won't be able to get a new tube in once they remove the old one), but the dynamic in the scene is very important. Bailey tries to explain things at the simple level she would for any patient's family, while George holds himself back from speaking to her in complex medical terms. All the while, Mrs. O'Malley and the meatheads ask the typical uninformed questions any normal person (who doesn't ever watch any medical dramas on television) would have. Before long, George finds his niche, filling in bits of explanation for his brothers and giving his mother cues about what is or is not troubling in Bailey's explanation. The end result of the meeting is that Bailey tells the family to be prepared for Mr. O'Malley's potential death in the few minutes if the new intubation is not successful.
Cut to the O'Malleys and Callie all leaning up against a wall as they wait for news. One of the meatheads makes a face and covers up his nose, and then George and Callie start to look like someone just cut one. Which someone just did. It's the meathead on the end, who claims that being nervous makes him fart. And then he proves that he's really, really nervous as he proceeds to tear gas the hospital. He keeps letting them rip, and in seconds everyone else is reduced to laughter. Callie leans into George as she laughs and covers her nose with the hood of his sweatshirt, and we see that the two of them are holding hands.
Burke is in his room working on the crossword puzzle while the hot nurse (whose name I should learn someday) does... something. It doesn't matter what, because Hot Nurse is only there so that Cristina can enter the room and ask him to tell Burke that Mr. O'Malley is having a medical crisis. Hot Nurse points out that Burke is awake. Cristina tells him that she's aware of that fact and leaves the room.
In Mr. O'Malley's room, Bailey (accompanied by Meredith, the Chief, and some nurses) prepares to replace the breathing tube. She asks the Chief if he'd rather do it, but he tells her that she's had a lot more practice recently than he has. She seems unsure of herself, and the Chief reminds her that she needs to think of George's father as just another patient. She takes out the old tube and then has trouble getting the new tube in. But within moments the new tube is in and Mr. O'Malley seems to be fine. Meredith leaves to tell George, and Bailey staggers back and looks wrung out. The Chief asks her if she's fine, and she tells him, "My son is named after his son. I just need a minute." Commercials.
It's another tense morning in Meredith's bed. She and Derek each stare at the ceiling, looking incredibly tense. He tells her that she might want to consider a surgery to cure her snoring. She tells him she'll do that when he investigates "halitosis cures" and "stubble cures," because it has become too painful to kiss him in the morning. He yells that he's too tired to shave. Meredith, by the way, is now wearing two strips on her nose. One is red and the other is green. Her nose is looking like the flag of Ghana. Maybe she's not wearing the strips to help her snoring -- maybe she's just supporting her favorite team in international soccer.
In the hospital, Alex runs after Mark. Alex demonstrates his flexibility by simultaneously trying to hand Mark his morning coffee and kiss his ass. Mark responds to Alex's attempt to suck up and get in on a surgery by asking him if he's been working with Addison. Alex gets Georgesque again as he stammers about how he is totally working with Addison and not kissing her at all. The reason Mark is asking is not because he thinks Alex and Addison are sucking face, but because he wants to know if she's miserable and moping around. It takes kiss-ass Alex only seconds to realize what Mark wants to hear and tell him that Addison is totally miserable, mean, and grumpy. But Mark still won't let Alex scrub in on a nose job.
In the... on call room, I think it's called? The one with the bunk beds? Cristina and Meredith are sacked out on the top and bottom bunks, respectively. Cristina asks if Mere is sleeping. Mere isn't, although she should be since she hasn't been sleeping much at night. Although if she wasn't sleeping I really don't think she would be snoring, so she must be getting some sleep. Cristina hasn't been sleeping either -- she's gotten too used to sleeping with Burke and can't sleep alone. She accuses him of getting her "strung out on him" and then disappearing. Meredith points out that he didn't disappear -- he came to the hospital for surgery. Cristina: "I just want to know how he's doing." Meredith: "You could just ask him." Cristina: "He could just tell me!" Meredith laughs, and then drops the bomb -- George's father is going into renal failure. Meredith knows that if George's father died he would be devastated, and she keeps seeing her own father and realizing that if he died it wouldn't matter to her at all. Meredith: "Is it weird that I'm a little jealous of George?" Cristina takes a long moment before finally answering, "Yes."
George is in Burke's room where Burke is looking over Mr. O'Malley's chart. Burke tells George that nobody is to blame for the fact that his father's organs are shutting down. George is looking for some reassurance that a patient can recover from this kind of situation, and Burke doesn't give any. He tells him that now is the time for faith, because there's nothing more that science can do. Burke offers to pray, if that's what George would like him to do. You'll all be happy to hear that he manages to make it through this entire scene without calling George a faggot.
George and his mother are in the waiting room. Heather's mother is also there. Mrs. O'Malley and Mrs. Heather commiserate about how difficult it is to wait through a loved one's surgery and then not know if they'll ever wake up. George's mother expresses some surprise that they went through with Mr. O'Malley's surgery, since he had cancer. I don't quite get the connection there -- he had the surgery because he has cancer. I think I see where the meatheads get their cognitive abilities. But Mrs. O'Malley's stray comment has clearly touched something in George, who looks thoughtful. And then Izzie arrives to tell Mrs. Heather that Heather has woken up and is asking for her. George's mom may not be the smartest, but she's clearly one of the nicest, as she looks genuinely happy for the good fortune of this relative stranger. George just looks more and more angry as he thinks about what his mother said.
George walks up to the Chief and Bailey in a hallway and starts asking them (loudly) why they went ahead with the surgery once they saw that the cancer had spread. Neither of them answers his question until he guesses that Mr. O'Malley asked them to go ahead no matter what. The Chief tells George that they were honoring their patient's wishes. George walks closer to Bailey and tells her, "You said you would be straight with me." George thinks his father might have lived weeks or months longer if they had not proceeded with the surgery. Weber starts to defend himself by once again pointing out that George's father made a choice, and George just starts screaming, "He didn't know any better! You knew better! You shouldn't have done it. You shouldn't have done it!" He walks away, in tears. Bailey looks like her heart is going to break. Amazing work from T.R. Knight, and from Chandra Wilson, who didn't say a word but conveyed a million with just her face. Commercials.
Addison enters the doctors' lounge and finds Mark coughing and looking like crap. She notes as much, and they agree that it's the constantly falling yet seldom seen rain that's making him miserable. She tells him that it takes a while to adjust. Mark: "I don't want to adjust." Addison: "Then go home." He tells her that if she had gone through with the pregnancy, they would still be together and would be in non-rainy New York. Addison: "You didn't want to raise a child, Mark. You wanted to trump Derek. You wanted to win." He accuses her of trying to shift the blame to him because she didn't want a baby. She tells him that she did want a baby and then surprises him by pointing out that she knew all about his many infidelities. Even with the baby, she wouldn't have stayed with him, and he would have made a terrible father. Addison: "I did want a baby, I did. I just... I just didn't want one with you." Well, um, ouch! But he's kind of a huge douche, so I don't feel too terribly bad for him.
Cristina enters Burke's room, holding a tray of food. She gives him a tiny smile, and I'm sure we all thought she was there to make up with him. Au contraire, mon frère! As he reaches for the tray, she pulls it back out of his reach. It's entirely wordless blackmail. It's like blackmail interpretive dance. Or mime blackmail. Burke isn't beaten, though -- he presses the call button by his bed and crosses his arms while he waits for a nurse. The nurse enters and tells Cristina that she's been looking everywhere for the lunch that she's carrying. The nurse tries to take it, but Cristina won't give it to her. Cristina claims that Burke is restricted from food and that she's his doctor, but the nurse knows that neither of these things is true. They play tug of war with the tray. On a lesser show, this would have resulted in the tray and all of its contents going flying. I wouldn't have minded seeing that happen, provided most of the food ended up on Isaiah Washington's face. Cristina tells the nurse that she just wants to know how Burke is doing. He wonders if he's suddenly been transferred to Gitmo so that Cristina could use non-torture torture to get information out of him. Cristina relents and gives up the tray. As she walks away, the nurse asks Burke, "You want me to call security?" We leave before we hear his answer.
Addison listens to the heartbeat of Baby Grey (a remarkably lifelike little puppet). Alex enters and they greet each other, not nearly as awkwardly as before. Apparently he's been avoiding her the last couple of days. And then we get a first for this show. An attending apologizes to an intern for the inappropriate sexual contact between the two of them. It's almost like someone with a sane view of romantic relationships wrote this episode. (They don't hire people like that for the Grey's Anatomy writing staff, do they?) Alex doesn't respond to the apology at all. Instead, he asks how the baby is doing and is pleased to hear that she had her first bowel movement.
In Papa O'Malley's room, George shaves his father's face. George decides to tell his father some things he's been holding on to. Such as the fact that as a boy he did hit a neighbor kid in the face with a stick and then lied about it. George's dad was so certain that George never lied that he took George's side and started a major feud between the families. (A feud that apparently culminated in the meatheads blowing up the neighbor's lawn mower). George apologizes to his unconscious father and then leans his forehead against his father's temple and whispers, "If you have any more fight in you... if you could fight this thing just a little bit harder, that would be good. That'd be good right now." George kisses his father on the forehead. Commercials.
This act opens on a shot of Meredith's empty bed. Meredith enters the kitchen and Izzie asks where Derek is. It turns out that he slept at his place. Izzie laughs and Meredith asks if she really snores. Izzie: "Well, I grew up a freeway so it really doesn't bother me. But yeah, you do." Meredith asks Izzie if she got any sleep the night. She didn't; she stayed up baking and "cleaning the bathroom floor in case George wants to lay down on it." Izzie talks about how useless it is to have all that money if she can't use it to save George from losing his father. As an alternative, she made cobbler. And we get a wider shot in which we see half a dozen pans of cobbler sitting on the counter. You know, this kitchen has a lot more pans in it than I would expect from such an undomestic family. Also, it looks like peach cobbler, which is the very worst cobbler of all.
In the hospital, Callie walks up to a desk at which Mark is standing. They give each other a glance. After he looks away, she looks at him more closely. He looks back and asks, "She told you?" Callie hesitates at first before acknowledging it. He gets up in her face and asks her if she thinks he'd be a terrible father. She denies having any basis on which to make such a judgment but then decides to take a stab at it. She asks him if he likes kids. He tells her it depends on how they're cooked. Er, I mean "on how loud they are." She looks thoughtful and asks him if he likes his family. He tells her that Derek's family was really his only family. He also doesn't remember things like birthdays or anniversaries. He asks her if all men aren't as selfish and thoughtless as he is, and she tells him, "To some men, family's everything." He asks her if she knows any of these mythical men. Callie, with a smile on her face: "I do. I know one." I think she just started ovulating. Hell, when I see the look of utter contentment on her face I think I just started ovulating. Mark thinks for a second and tells her that he would have made a terrible father.
Cut to the very anguished face of George. The O'Malley clan have gathered in the conference room, where the Chief, Bailey, and Meredith have just broken the news that Mr. O'Malley is not going to wake up. The choices are to keep him on life support while he slowly dies or to remove the life support and let him die more quickly. The meatheads are both near tears, and one of them asks George what he thinks they should do. His mother is also looking to him for guidance. In that minute, George becomes the man of his family. Or at the very least, he becomes a man. He swallows his own desire to be held and comforted and tells them that Mr. O'Malley is in pain and that the pain will only get worse. Mrs. O'Malley asks if George is saying that it's time to let him go. George looks to Bailey for guidance, and she tells him, "We can't tell you what to do here, George." Her voice nearly cracks as she speaks. George looks at his family and tells them, "He's not Dad like this. And he's not gonna wake up, Mom." Mrs. O'Malley sobs and takes her sons' hands. Another lovely scene from all involved. Do you think this show has a crying coach on staff? Commercials.
NICU. Thatcher is watching over his granddaughter when Meredith enters. Calling back to a bit of dialogue from the episode, she asks him if there's a drawer of unopened cards somewhere. He didn't watch the last episode, so he's confused. Meredith: "I just wanted to know. I've only ever heard my mother's version of the story of why you left, and I was just wondering if maybe you have a side that I haven't heard." He pauses for a long, recapper-friendly moment and then stammers for a second about how Ellis moved to Boston and asked him not to call or stay in touch. And then eventually he remarried. So, he's exactly the weak nonentity I've been imagining. Meredith asks him if he snores. He's confused (natch), so she tells him, "It appears that I snore. My mother never did, so I just... forget it." She turns to leave, but he calls after her that he does snore, so she must have got it from him. Thatcher: "The wax earplugs work pretty good." Meredith thanks him and walks out.
In Burke's room, silence continues to reign as Cristina sullenly reads charts in a chair to Burke's bed. Derek enters and Burke greets him. Burke asks for an update on Mr. O'Malley, and Derek breaks the news that they're going to let Mr. O'Malley go. In her own special impassive way, Cristina looks especially sad. Burke looks at her and then tells Derek that he hasn't had any tremors in the past week. Cristina realizes that he just gave in to her. I suspect this victory is not as sweet as she imagined.
Mr. O'Malley's room. The family is gathered around as Bailey disconnects his breathing tube and turns off some other life support equipment. And after a few moments, George's father dies.
George emerges from his father's room, alone. Callie, Alex, and Cristina are all in the hallway, all looking incredibly sad. George slowly walks past them. Cristina looks thoughtful for a moment and then turns to follow him.
In a different corridor, we see Heather using a walker to take a few upright steps, accompanied by her mother and (I assume) a physical therapist. Izzie turns a corner and sees this, and smiles.
Izzie finds Bailey sitting on a gurney in a corridor. She sits to her and says, "I'm both." In response to Bailey's confusion, Izzie continues, "I'm both. I'm a surgeon and I'm a person who becomes emotionally involved. I will never again cross a line like I did with Denny. I've learned my lesson. But I'm still both, and I'm not gonna give up either part of me, and I'm not gonna apologize for it." Bailey nods, and Izzie stands up and walks away. And Bailey sobs.
George is standing in front of the hospital. Cristina walks up to him in the obvious cold and tells him, "There's a club. The dead dads club, and you can't be in it until you're in it. You can try to understand, you can sympathize, but until you feel that loss... My dad died when I was nine." George nods slightly. Cristina: "George, I'm really sorry you had to join the club." George, his voice raw, tells her, "I don't know how to exist in a world where my dad doesn't." Cristina: "Yeah, that never really changes."
Joe's bar. Addison looks sad over a drink. Alex enters and orders a beer. He also is the one who has to break the news about George's dad to Joe. Addison says "hey" to Alex and he sits to her. She asks him if he has a father, and he tells her that he doesn't really. She strokes his face, and they move in for the very, very inappropriate kiss. At this point, Izzie is the only intern who hasn't started a relationship with an attending or a resident. You are a sorry bunch of people if Izzie Stevens is the one amongst you with the best boundaries.
Meredith is sleeping on her side in her pretty red sheets. The camera pans over to the pillow to her, on which she has left a box of wax earplugs. Derek climbs into bed and smiles when he sees the earplugs. He puts them in his ears, smiles, kisses Mere's cheek, and cuddles up with her. If he really wanted to show some appreciation for the earplugs, he might have shaved or taken a swig of mouthwash. Credits.