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It seems that Bailey took a few days off after Jackson's case and she comes back to some awesome news -- the Chief wants to make her an Attending as soon as she's done with her residency in July, since he needs someone new in general surgery. She's thrilled beyond all belief and happy to be back as long as she doesn't have to work on a potentially dying child. So she goes to spend the day working with Dr. Dixon… on a young girl with a heart condition. Bailey freaks out and spends the whole day trying to compose herself, but when the surgery doesn't go well she literally walks out. Later, however, she figures out how to treat the child and Arizona points out that she would actually make a great pediatric surgeon, and Bailey is left to contemplate that, along with everything she learned about helping calm down someone with Asperger's. Earlier, Bailey has a joyous outburst when she realizes how to help the child, and all the screaming, heated emotions and hugging causes Dixon to have a meltdown. When Bailey goes to find Dixon to try and help, she winds up hugging Dixon tightly, which she learns helps calm the nervous system. Cristina comes in and participates as well until Dixon is back to normal.
It's good for Cristina, as she needs to use the same thing later to help calm down Hunt. They spend the day flirting with each other, which would be cute if it weren't for the weird, unironic piano music and slo-mo that accompanies their every glance. At the end of the day, however, the piano is interrupted when Hunt sees a blonde woman walk in and he has an absolute meltdown and runs away. Cristina runs after him and grabs him tightly until he finally manages to calm his breathing, and later she settles in to read while Hunt sleeps with his arms around her in the on-call room. She's pre-reading Ellis' diary because she and Mere are friends again, thank goodness, and Mere needs Cristina to pre-read the details of Ellis and Richard's affair. At the same time Mere's freaking out and wondering why Derek is acting weird. She is literally the only person left in the hospital who doesn't learn that he's planning to propose, which he prepares to do that night until he's interrupted by a phone call from Addison to begin the Big Crossover Event. So we'll have to wait, and I'm sure Meredith will get suspicious about his feelings in the meantime.
Mark and Lexie start off the episode doing some Hunt-and-Cristina-like flirting of their own, but in secret as usual. Lexie realizes, however, that she can't handle all of the secrets anymore and tells Mark they have to go public or end it. Unbeknownst to her, he'd been planning to end it earlier, also because of the secrecy, until Callie points out that he's an idiot who should be happy if he has the opportunity. She's a depressed mess, but her spirits are raised at Joe's that night when Arizona kisses her to show that she's batting for the same team and interested whenever Callie is ready.
But the best thing about this episode is what was missing, and that's Denny. At least for now he seems to really be gone, but he's left Izzie trying to figure out in secret what is wrong with her. She has the interns in the clinic that day and winds up getting them to unknowingly run all sorts of tests to check her out under the guise of learning how to do these things on real patients. But for all of her efforts, she can't figure out what's wrong with her. Which oh boy, means that we've got more time ahead of us of her being secretive and idiotic. However, I'm not going to complain since at least it's not ghost sex! Who knew that the measure of a good episode would one day mean not having to recap imaginary sex with a jerky dead patient?
See what qualified for the most annoying moments on this show (dead Denny definitely made the list). Come back week for Lauren S.'s full detailed episode recap.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!Welcome to another week at Seattle Grace, where Izzie is still acting like a moron. While I'm thrilled that Denny seems to be gone for now, she has decided to test herself to try and figure out what is wrong. Why go for help in a hospital? Why ask your friends, who are doctors, and who think you've been acting strangely, to discreetly assist you? Well, I guess that actually only leaves George, and having him help would mean giving him actual screen time, so that possibility is out. She's trying to draw her own blood and failing as Mere VO's us into this episode. "Every first year med student knows that an increased heart rate is a sign of trouble." All of the interns shuffle into the clinic like they are hung over and bitch about having to spend the day there with Izzie, thinking it's a waste of time. Izzie quickly tries to get rid of all of the evidence of her activities, and then pulls the curtain back to surprise everyone. I guess this week we aren't pretending that the curtains are sound barriers. "A racing heart could indicate anything."
"From a panic disorder..." Cristina opens the door to an on-call room and wakes up a shirtless Hunt, then stutters and apologizes as each of them insists the other one use the bed and sleep. Hunt eventually wins by saying she's been there all night and needs it, and Cristina is stunned but not unhappy when he tells her he just knew. "...to something much, much more serious." This week is going to be particularly literal, it seems, since his pager then goes off to presumably take him to something more serious. Before he goes he tells her she should wear her hair up more often since it shows off the back of her neck, which he likes. She sits down and with a little shocked smile feels the sexy back of her neck.
"A heart that flutters, or skips a beat." Mark and Lexie ride in the elevator with their hands brushing against each other, and then when the doors open, Lexie takes off past Meredith, who is running to catch up with Cristina. Mere looks after her sister like maybe something's up, but chooses to run after Cristina, who she thought was sleeping. When Cristina says that Hunt was in the room already, Mere jumps to the conclusion that they had dirty sex. Ha! I love that finally everyone admits that's all those rooms are for. Cristina is kind of dreamy and tells her she's not sure what it is between them. Mere's VO picks up, "Could be a sign of a secret affliction."
Callie, looking awesome with bangs, walks up to Lexie and asks how it's going. Lexie, too full of her secret to recognize a rhetorical question, immediately starts gushing about how fantastic things are with her and Mark, even when they're not having sex. Callie delightfully muses, "Yeaaah, I don't want to hear this," but Lexie begs her to listen since Callie is the only one who knows about their forbidden love affair. Callie asserts that, "alone people don't want to hear about the together people," and I fear that she's turning into Clichéd Depressed Callie, even though she adds that even people alone by choice don't want to hear about it. Sometimes, but then again... eh, I'm going to leave it. I have a problem with so many different things on this show that the least I can do is let Callie be depressed about her breakup (even if it's out of the blue and after a few weeks of her seeming pretty okay).
The docs are taking Rob into his shoulder surgery, and Jen's a bit panicky at the idea. Her blood pressure is still too high, so Lexie is tasked with staying there and keeping her calm throughout. Rob dreamily slurs, "Cheeseburgers!" which Callie thinks means the pain medication is working, but he's able to clarify that Jen is calmest when she's eating cheeseburgers. That is a girl after my own heart. Maybe that's what I should do during especially exasperating episodes of this show!
Dixon is telling Stacy's worried parents all about her various problems, and Cristina quietly asks Bailey if she's okay. Bailey just tells her that if Stacy looks for one second like she's going to die, Bailey is bolting. As Dixon explains very technically what's going on, Bailey sees that Stacy is confused and goes over to explain what's happening in kid terms, explaining that they are going to fix the part of her heart that pumps blood to her lungs. Can I have someone come over and explain things to me in this manner each week? It would really help the technical aspect of these recaps, though I also am a fan of the Whatchhoosie Procedure. Bailey compliments Stacy on her socks, and Stacy wheezily explains that she's the best one on her team, which mom says is bragging but which dad says is the truth. Bailey's not above puffing out her chest a little as she answers, "You can't fight who you are, if you're the best, you're the best!" From anyone else, obnoxious but from Bailey, totally awesome. Stacy then asks when she can get back to playing soccer, which cuts right through to Bailey's heart and incapacitates her again.
Derek runs up to Cristina to ask her if she's told Mere anything about the ring, but she just groans that she doesn't want to talk about it. She does add, though, not to do anything big. When Derek reminds her that Mere built the house of candles, Cristina retorts that she did it because Derek likes grand gestures, not Meredith. I really cannot adequately express how glad I am that she and Mere aren't fighting any more. I feel a bit cheated that we didn't get to hear them work it out, but I'll gladly give it up since we get back at least one functional relationship this way.
Anyhoo, Mere comes up and after Derek leaves, she asks how the journal is going so far--is it gross and naked? Cristina tells her not yet and admits, "It's kind of... hot, actually." At Meredith's disgust she quickly amends that it's, "Chastely hot. All stolen glances and loaded exchanges." Mere thinks chaste is good, but Cristina zings her as she walks away, yelling that she'll tell Mere when they do it. Then comes one of the weirdest scenes I think I've ever seen in this show--weird because it's so out of character. A piano starts playing as Hunt comes up and the two of them walk down the hall together, glancing at each other and brushing hands. There's a lot of close-ups of her neck as she stares straight ahead and he glances over at her, and then the piano finishes up and they go their separate ways. Cristina is happy, but my friend and I said out loud to the TV, "What in the hell was that?" Not in the tone of the show whatsoever.
Proving that no one in this hospital can make a decision without someone else's opinion and/or approval, Derek reports to Mark about the baby comment and concludes that Meredith is ready. Richard joins them and asks what's up, so Mark blurts out that Derek is proposing. Derek is peeved but the Chief lights up like a Christmas tree. Hunt shows up too and after Mark lets him in on the secret, Derek asks if he's going to tell everyone. Mark defends that Derek needs advice. He then asks Hunt if he has proposed to anyone, and Hunt just replies that he's not the type to ask. Let's all keep this in mind for a later date, shall we? Mere walks by the boys so they all start fake-hearty-laughing, which totally weirds her out. Derek then turns to Mark and orders him to keep quiet, accusing, "I thought I could trust you." Mark is all serious as he assures Derek that he can, and then he stares meaningfully after his best friend as he walks away.
While Mr. Kramer cools his... er, heels on a gurney, the interns are all gathered and making, "short end of the stick" jokes. Two tells them to stop laughing, "We're gonna get reamed!" which of course makes things worse. Alex comes up to admonish them but when he tells them, "Enough wisecracks," Two can't control his inner 12-year-old and blurts, "Cracks!" I would like to judge them more harshly but I know that I can't resist a crack joke myself and I'd probably be one of them right now. The Chief walks up and puts a stop to it, telling them that they can watch him act like a professional. He goes up to Mr. Kramer and very technically tells him basically that films showed something was suck, and that they're going to get it out. Mr. Kramer is incredibly relieved to hear it.
After all that big talk about how much the clinic sucks, Sadie can't even seem to stick a patient correctly. After hearing the woman yell, Izzie comes up and asks them if they hadn't all practiced this on each other? She has a very good point, but Sadie's ineptitude turns out to be to Izzie's advantage. Iz pulls up her sleeve and has Sadie try it once on her before she goes back to her poor patient, and then as nonchalantly as she can tells Sadie to run her results as well. With this little light bulb over her head, she makes an announcement that all the interns should see her before they run any tests.
Callie and Mark are working away on Rob and talking like no one else is in the room as she asks him if he's going to get back on the horse now that he's got a clean bill of health. Mark wouldn't use the word horse (that's a change for him, never known for his modesty) and admits that things have changed, and he's probably going to break up with Lexie. Callie is stunned but Mark doesn't have a chance to tell her why since Mere comes in at that moment. Making innocent conversation, she remarks on Jen's hypertension and comments that the surgery is more stressful on her than on Rob. So let's make it stressful on Rob! Alarms start wailing and things get tense, of course when Lexie is calling in to see how things are going. As Jen eats a cheeseburger, Lexie pretends she's hearing good news and then carefully reports that the surgery is taking a little longer than expected. Jen's BP immediately starts to rise so Lexie assures her that everything is okay, and that the doctors are just being thorough, which is good! It's still not great lying, but at least it's better than her horrible conversation with Meredith earlier. Jen's BP starts to drop, which pleases Lexie, but then she collapses into a violent seizure.