Things really -- what's the opposite of "pick up"? -- in the second hour. Izzie verifies with Denny that he really did propose to her just before he went into surgery. It's a go, and Izzie is ecstatic. Webber lines up Fool and the Gang for questioning regarding the severing of Denny's LVAD line; when they each confess to the crime, he sentences them to no surgeries until someone spills it. No one does, so he decides a little one-on-one interrogation might be a better method. It's not, despite some great performances by the actors involved, so Webber tries to think what to do .
Things are not going well with Doc, and according to McVet, the disease has spread to his brain, and they're going to have to put him down. Mere, Addie, and McDreamy are all there with Doc when McVet gives him the fatal shot, but then Addie is called away to the hospital, leaving Mere and McDreamy to accidentally brush hands and weep over the death of their dog and their friendship.
On Webber's order, Bailey tasks the interns with planning the Best Prom Ever for Camille and her friends. The teenagers bicker about everything from the theme to the signature colors until Bailey demonstrates, again, how awesome she is in every way: "Silver and black. It'll make your dresses POP." The interns help to blow up balloons and hang streamers, and the hospital prom looks to be one fine shindig. Everyone gets all dressed up, even. Webber dances with his dying niece, and they have a sweet moment together. Callie is still upset with George about the whole "I love you" thing, but then he says he just needs some time to get there, and they make out. Mere dances with McVet, and McDreamy with his wife, but they can't stop looking at each other. They both leave their respective dates and find a quiet room in which to argue a little, then cry a little, then remove their clothing and have sex. After the deed is done, McDreamy disgustingly asks Mere what this means for them now.
Meanwhile, Izzie has arrived at the prom looking gorgeous and radiant. She's ready for the dance, but wants to pay her fiancé a little visit first. Unfortunately, Denny has just recently expired from what they think is a stroke caused by a blood clot in his sutures. Izzie calmly climbs into bed with him, and that is how her friends find her when they hear the news. The rest of the Gang try to get Izzie to get up and release her vise-like grip on her dead husband-to-be, but nothing works. Until, that is, Alex -- evil, awful, perfect Alex -- physically gathers her into his arms and carries her over to a chair, where he holds her until she can get up on her own.
The Gang walks back to the prom as a group, shocked and beat down. Izzie confesses to Webber that she was the one who cut Denny's LVAD line; she then says she was never a surgeon, quits, and walks out. Cristina goes to Burke's bedside and finally shows some support. And Meredith is left to choose between McDreamy and McVet. What the hell kind of cliffhanger is that?
I'd first like to thank Keckler for covering the second hour of this monstrosity. If I'd had to recap all three hours of it, I'm sure I'd have gone as kookoopants as Izzie has by now. Anyway, previously on Grey's, there was a one-hour finale, and then another, and now here we are.
Webber has Fool and the Gang all lined up in his office. Izzie, standing on the end, tells Webber that she cut the LVAD wire. Mere, in line: "Actually, I cut the LVAD wire." George, standing to Meredith, says no, he did it. George has to shove Cristina in the shoulder to get her to say that she, too, cut it, which...hee. And finally, Alex: "I didn't do anything, I'm totally innocent." This sets off the rest of them yelling at Alex about loyalty and friendship and the agreement they had, until Webber shouts above them, "PEOPLE! I know who did this so you might as well come clean. I KNOW." George all-due-respects him, "If you knew, you wouldn't be asking us." Mere joins in, saying he has his suspicions, but doesn't actually know the truth, so he can't do anything to any of them. Webber stands up. "Well, ONE OF YOU compromised a patient's life. One of you STOLE AN ORGAN. Now you tell me and you tell me RIGHT NOW!" The Gang is silent. Webber has no choice but to let them go for now, but he hits them with this on their way out: "No surgeries. No one scrubs in, no one watches from the gallery, no one so much as goes near the OR floor. Until someone confesses, the five of you will share a single patient: Camille Travis. Whatever she wants, the five of you will provide it. Now get the hell out of my sight." Angry Webber is pretty scary, but not scary enough.
Once outside, Izzie tells the rest of the Gang that she'll go back and tell him she did it. Cristina looks like she's considering this to be a good idea, but Mere tells her she'll keep her mouth shut and like it. Alex: "This is crap. I'm turning her in." Hee. Love. Izzie says she's sorry, and she really does appreciate what he did for Denny. Alex tells her to shut up, and says the only reason he did what he did is because he wanted in on the transplant surgery. "I don't care about Denny! And I hope you get thrown out on your ass." Cristina tells Alex to shut his own self up, and says they are going to stick together, because they all did this. True, but only because Izzie started it. Izzie ruins everything! Cristina realizes she's actually just had a human emotion, and stops herself. "Damn it!" Izzie thanks her. George tells them that Camille Travis is a kid with cancer; they give her what she wants for a couple of days -- how hard can that be? "Harder than you might think," says Bailey, who's just come around the corner. She introduces them to Claire and Natalie, Camille's two Promlets-in-Chief. Bailey asks them who Camille Travis is. Promlet One: "Like, the Chief of Surgery's niece." She then asks what Camille Travis wants. Promlet Two: "Like, the best prom EVER!" The Gang all freak out silently.
Cut to the Promlets discussing the prom theme with Alex and George. George is taking notes like he's studying to do a thoracotomy instead of painting a party pic backdrop. Cristina comments to Mere that she didn't like teenage girls when she was a teenage girl. Mere says prom wasn't really her thing; she had pink hair and black clothes, which I find very hard to believe, since, as Keckler noted to me earlier, she's obviously a total head cheerleader type. Probably a stupid flyer, too, as tiny as she is. Cristina confesses that her mom made her go, and her date threw up on her dress and tried to feel her up. That must be a common theme, because it also happened to me. Suck it, Homecoming 1989.
Izzie visits Denny and his new-and-improved Magical Heart. She tells him he looks amaaaazing. Guess she had time to thumb through Tom Cruise's new book -- Amazing, Extraordinary, and Incredible: Three Easy Steps to a Crazier You! -- while she wasn't doing surgeries. Denny smiles and says he has warm hands, which he never had because of his poor circulation. He holds one out for her to feel, and implores her to check out his super-cool regular heartbeat. Izzie gets all awkward and says she has to go; if Bailey catches her, she'll be in big trouble. "And the Chief has us doing this prom thing. You...look...woo hoo, Denny!" she says, edging towards the door. Oh my God. Denny's like, "What, you like your men sick and feeble? You don't dig healthy guys?" Izzie giggles and twirls her hair and says yes, she digs him. Denny: "Then why are you all swirly and twitchy?" Izzie denies that she is either of these things. Denny realizes it's because he asked her to marry him. Izzie's demeanor quickly changes from swirly/twitchy to serious/hopeful. "So you remember that." Denny says it's not the kind of thing he'd forget. Izzie tells him she's giving him an out, only she says a whole lot of other words too, so many that he has to stop her and tell her that it's his turn to talk; she'll have to wait until he's done for hers. So, he meant what he said about getting married, and to prove it, he gives this fine speech: "For five years, I've had to live by the choices of my doctors. The guys that cut me open decided my life. And now I have this heart that beats, and works. I get to make my own decisions...do whatever the damn hell I choose. Here's the good part, so you listen close. What I choose...is you. I choose you, Izzie Stevens." Sniff! Izzie, who should be swirling and twitching again, can't handle it and runs out of the room, her new extensions flying. Denny sighs and checks out his fancy new heartbeat one more time. Commercials.
We return to Webber now grilling Bailey about the Gang. She tells him that she can tell him what she thinks happened, but only the interns know the truth. Webber feels that if he gets them each alone, he'll have better luck coaxing the truth out of at least one of them. Bailey's like, "Knock yourself out, man, and good luck with that." As she's walking away, Webber asks her if she has a dress for the prom. Ha! He says if he has to go, everyone has to go. He then yells to the whole hospital, "Everybody goes to the prom! EVERYBODY!"
George is still dutifully taking notes from the Promlets while Alex bangs his head on the table and groans in frustration. He gets so loud that George has to ask him if he's having a seizure. Alex: "Will that get me out of here? Fine, let's go with seizure. For the love of God you people need to get a life!" George intones, "Chief's niece. Chief's niece..." Promlet Two says it's okay; the hot ones are always mean, it's like a rule or something. Alex tries and fails to suppress a (hot) grin. Promlet One tells Alex not to judge them -- they're just trying to make their dying friend happy. "Color does matter," Promlet One says as seriously as a heart attack, "maybe not to you, but it DOES matter." God, I love how everything is so important to teenage girls.
Fool and the Gang visit Bailey with their big prom problem, but don't quite know how to address it. She tells them to spit it out, so Alex says the problem is with the colors, and the balloons. "Under the Sea! No, it's Titanic! Hey, let's go with Tears in Heaven; no, too morbid!" George says they're very, very hopeful that Bailey speaks Teenage Girl. Bailey does not let them down, as if there were any doubt, and her rapid-fire response is too excellent not to transcribe verbatim: "Silver and white. It's mystical and magical without being over the top. Ever see Fashion Week in New York? Lots of silver and white runways and backdrops, that's because no matter what color the clothes are, they pop." "They pop?" echoes Promlet One. "They POP," quoth Bailey. I am so in love I would switch sides right now. She tells George and Alex to get five hundred balloons in silver and white, and a hundred in black -- shiny black, not matte -- and then orders Cristina to stick with Camille to keep her spirits up. The rest of them are to attend to other minor details, and when she's finished, they all stare at her like she's grown a second head. Bailey tells them oh, no, they don't get to look at her like that -- they compromised her medical license, nearly killed a patient, lied to the Chief, and made her look bad. "We're doing this prom and we're doing it right. MOVE!"
Callie, George, and Izzie get busy hanging streamers and filling balloons with helium. Callie pulls George off to the side and starts, "You never called. You said you would." George reminds her that a lot of stuff went down last night, seekrit intern stuff that he can't talk about. Callie's like, "You can tell me, George." Alas, he cannot, and tells her that it's like Vegas in that room: what happened there, stays there. Callie angrily says she gets it. George, who does not get it, grins and asks her to go to prom with him. "NO, George! No, I don't want to go to prom with you." Well, considering George's current hairstyle, which has been gelled into a look normally found on six-year-old boys, I can't say I blame her. Izzie asks George what that was all about, and George wearily tells her of Callie's statement of love. Izzie continues curling streamers and acts like she cares.
Cutie McVet shows up at the hospital and tells Mere he's been calling her cell all night. Mere says it's a long story, then asks him to go to the prom. McVet is stoked. "I don't wanna brag or anything, but I was crowned King." Aw, that's...really sweet, but kind of weird? Mere says it's very cute, and he kisses her on the cheek while she giggles about her Prom King. Unfortunately, McVet is there with bad news -- Doc had some seizures, because the cancer has spread to his brain. Guess Callie was right about osteosarcoma patients and the dying and whatnot.
Addie finds McDreamy at the board and asks after Burke. He's recovering nicely, McDreamy says, then looks meaningfully at her. "Addison." Addie doesn't want to talk about it -- they've come so far, and they're trying, right? McDreamy agrees, and then says her name again, more seriously this time. Addie starts to look scared, but then he asks teasingly, "Will you go to the prom with me?" The poor girl looks truly happy for the first time in three hours.
Burke's Room. The patient holds out his hand and stares at it. He slowly makes a fist, and there's an obvious tremor. Cristina walks by and witnesses this, but can't bring herself to go inside. Burke looks out at her...and she walks away. Cristina. Middle-name. Yang. Don't make me turn this car around! Commercials.
Alex is first up in Chief Webber's Office of Surprise, Fear, and Ruthless Efficiency. The only thing missing is an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope. Alex starts off by saying he went to college on a wrestling scholarship, but also played other sports, so they'll go with football. Webber asks what the hell football has to do with anything. Alex: "Let's say you were drafted to a team that wasn't your first pick. You don't like the players, you hate the way they play the game...and the quarterback's a pain in the ass you don't owe a damn thing to. But, it's your team. You don't quit. You just go out there every Sunday, and you make the blocks, and you take the hits, and you play to win. You show up, and you suit up, and you play. 'Cause it's your freakin' team." Yay! I would just like to state for the record that, although he can be an enormous asshole, I have always loved Alex -- and this is the reason why. It's the same reason I'm inevitably drawn to the biggest thugs in NBA basketball (hi, Sprewell and Iverson!). They're freaking idiots off the court, but then they slash into the lane and hit the pull-up jumper at the last second, and you rememb
er why you loved them in the first place. Okay, that was bad, but hey -- one sports analogy begets the other.Cristina's turn. She looks terrified, which isn't like her at all. Webber tells her that he knows how hard it is for her to be away from the OR, so if she wants to get back there, she better tell him what he wants to know. Cristina says no, it's not easy; it's also not easy for her to sit in front of an authority figure and give him the exact answer he wants to hear -- but right now, she doesn't have any of those answers. "How do you keep your edge, Sir?" she suddenly asks. She says she watches him, and he's clean and focused -- nothing gets to him no matter what. "And the thing is, Sir, I was like that. Until I got here. Until I actually started doing this job, and now everything is...fuzzy." Webber sits back, realizing he's gotten himself into trouble with this one. He says this is beside the point. Cristina says no, this is the point, because she can't tell him what happened in that room, and before? She could have, before she had those stupid loyalties. Before, she wouldn't have even been in the room, or gotten involved. "I would have never frozen in surgery, and I would have been able to tell him what he thought he should do. I had an edge, Sir. I had an edge, and I've lost it. And I need it. I need it back. So...if you could just tell me...how you keep yours...and how not to be affected? I know I could be a great surgeon. So if you could just give me the answers, I would really appreciate it." A single tear drops from Cristina's eye as she says this last, and I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT. So if someone could just give me the answers, I would really appreciate it. Webber regards this genius of his for a moment, then abruptly excuses her. Cristina panics: "I'll tell you. I'll tell you who cut the LVAD wires if you could just please..." Webber says he doesn't want to know, not from her. He has the answers, he says, but he can't tell them to her, because he won't be responsible for her becoming less human. Cristina looks at him again with those sad, sad eyes, and I don't know how anyone could resist telling her anything she wanted to know.
Izzie opens her interrogation by informing Webber that she's a pretty girl, and not in a "from a certain angle" way, in an obvious way. "It's the blonde thing. And the boobs thing. Big boobs are the key to the pretty, if you know what I'm saying." Heeee. Webber is disgusted, yet oddly aroused. He tries to get her back on topic (and Lord have mercy, do I know how that feels), but Izzie keeps on. She says the pretty confuses guys into thinking she's someone else, and she's used to walking away from that. "But then Denny goes and asks me to marry him!" she gushes. "He doesn't make me feel like I'm a pretty girl. He makes me feel like me. I think he might know me." If she did cut the LVAD wire, she continues, and she's not saying she did, but if she did? She doesn't feel guilty. "And I know that I should and I would if it were anybody else. But I can't feel anything but happy!" Webber starts to cry in frustration.
George is silent. Webber stares and tries to intimidate him into talking. George is silent some more. Minutes tick by. George finally breaks by saying he's not going to break. Webber stares harder, edging into Blue Steel territory. George: "I'm getting a little freaked out, but I'm not gonna break." Heh. George says it's not because he doesn't care; he just can't tell him what he wants to hear, which seems to be a theme in his life. He launches into a spiel about how you can want to say something, but don't, and not want to say something, but do, and how life is so complicated, and also...well, sucks. Webber is so confused right now, and it is a beautiful thing.
And finally, Meredith. Webber attempts to guilt her into telling the truth, but Meredith has a little guilt stored up for him, too. "I've been going over this and over this in my mind, trying to piece this together." Webber nods, thinking he's finally getting somewhere, and he's so earnest that I feel a little sorry about what's coming. That's when Mere hits him with this: "It was you. You were the reason my parents broke up. And it wasn't just an affair. She really loved you. She left her husband for you, but you stayed with your wife...because it was the right thing to do." Webber is having trouble, now, deciding whether to a) shit, or b) go blind. He turns his head, unable to even look at Mere, and we go to a blessedly tension-breaking commercial.
Mere finds McDreamy relaxing with a coffee and a magazine, and tells him McVet says they need to make a decision about Doc. McDreamy: "Good for Finn." Jesus gay. Mere asks if they can just do this one thing together without arguing, because she thinks they may have to put him to sleep. McDreamy says whatever she wants to do. "What if there's a chance he can get better?" Mere asks. McDreamy states flatly that he's not going to get better. Mere says Finn thinks they should do it today, then, and slams the door. Okay! Great scene, you guys. Not ridiculous or TOTALLY RETARDED at all.
Izzie bounces back into Denny's room as Bailey's checking him out. She tells Izzie to come back in one hour -- she's no longer a doctor, and she'll observe visiting hours just like everyone else. Izzie says she can't wait. Denny: "Ixnay on the insubordination-ay." Aw. Over Bailey's protests, Izzie says, "But it's my turn to talk," and Denny tells Bailey to hold on. "It's her turn," he says softly and with adorable happiness. Izzie doesn't mince words this time -- she says "yes." Bailey looks at them both like they've gone even crazier, and Denny tells Izzie that she's gonna make his heart stop beating. It's much less cheesy than it sounds, I assure you. Izzie goes over to touch him, but Bailey nearly slaps her hand. "I will call security on you." Izzie says fine, she'll come back during visiting hours. "And it's prom, so I'll show you my dress." Off Bailey's look, she repeats petulantly, "I'm going!" Denny calls after her to tell her she did good. Izzie grins and runs off. Denny confides to Bailey, "I tricked her into marrying me. How smart am I?" Not smart enough to keep your sweetheart from breaking every rule in the book, but it'll do.
Cristina finds it in her heart to stop by Burke's room. She tells him they're throwing a prom. Burke says O'Malley mentioned it. Cristina: "George came to see you?" Burke: "He's my friend." Oh, ow. That hurts, and she deserves it. Burke has his head turned away from her, unable to look her in the eye. "I won't bear a grudge," he says, and breaks every heart in the world. Cristina gets closer, trying to understand what he's saying. Burke finally looks at her. "I have to take care of me. I don't expect you to take care of me, but I have to take care of me. If this...if you can't stay here for this, I won't bear a grudge." Oh, Burke. Cristina asks if he's going to tell McDreamy about the tremor. Burke hesitates, then says not yet. He obviously needs time to regain control of his INCREDIBLE HOTNESS before he does.
McVet's Office of Euthanasia and Sadness. Mere, McDreamy, and Addison are all there. McVet explains that he'll give Doc an injection to make him sleepy, then another injection of phenobarbitol to stop his heart. Everyone looks so sad, I can't take it. Mere asks what they do after, with his body. McVet says they can dispose of it for them, but at Meredith's protests that they can't just throw him away like garbage, McDreamy says there's that clearing by the trailer, overlooking the water, and they can bury him there. Addie says that sounds nice, but you all know she's not really involved in this, right? Mere's already crying, but tells McVet she's ready. Addie, of course, is called away to the hospital, so she says goodbye and leaves. McVet gives Doc the injection, and Mere pets the dog tearfully. McDreamy does too, and at a certain, really sad moment, their hands
touch, which is really the point of this whole thing. McVet says he's gone, and Meredith is near hysterics. She says she has to go home and change. McVet stops her to say how sorry he is. Mere whispers through her tears, "It's okay. He wasn't really my dog. He was more Derek's dog." McDreamy tells her what a good dog he was, and Meredith agrees. It would be really awful, too, if "dog" didn't so obviously = "relationship of Mere and McDreamy, now dead." Commercials.When we get back, it's the prom, everybody get ready to rock! Everything is beautiful, per Dr. Bailey's fabulous instructions, and every-one looks beautiful, just dressed to the nines. Bailey and Cristina chat about Burke, which Cristina doesn't really want to do, but she's totally stuck by the punch bowl with no one to rescue her. Hee. McVet the Prom King is there, and asks McDreamy where Meredith is. McDreamy doesn't think she's there yet, but then they both turn around, and there is Mere coming down the stairs in her sparkly black dress. She looks great, and their expressions both reflect that. McVet goes to greet Mere, and Addison catches up to McDreamy. She gives this hilarious speech about the traumatic memories this prom brings back -- she was apparently a band geek with braces and a lisp, who spent the whole evening with a fellow geek named Skippy, talking about STAR WARS. Ha ha haaaa! How's that for perfect? She asks McDreamy to dance, and he accepts, though it is beyond me how he refrained from making some kind of "Addie-Wan Kenobi" joke.
Ooh, it's a slow song. Webber cuts in on his niece Camille and her terrified date. Camille laughs and asks her uncle what he said to her boyfriend to make him that scared. Webber says he's just a frightening man where Brian is concerned. Camille gets the old tear ducts all warmed up when she tells Webber to be kind to Brian, because he loves her. "I've been loved, and that's something everyone should have once in their life. I've been loved." She puts her head on his shoulder and thanks him for the prom. Webber can barely get out a "you're welcome," he's so choked up. Join the club, Richard.
Callie's all ready for the prom, but she's mad as hell at George. He follows her through the hospital and asks where she's going. Callie: "I'm wearing a dress, I have on heels, I shaved my legs, I'm going to the prom." What I will never understand is why the stylists on this show feel the need to dress Callie in some of the most unflattering outfits I've ever seen put on a body, when she is clearly this gorgeous specimen of woman and deserving of so much more. Keckler has a theory that they're doing this because Callie's going to turn out to be a nutbag, but I think it's just as simple as the fact that they don't know how to dress a person with thighs bigger around than a number two pencil. Meredith. Anyway, her dress is awful, but she still looks pretty hot. She's also upset with George because she told him she loved him, and has never said that to a guy before, ever, and now she's just this idiot who says "I love you" and then gets avoided. George denies that he's avoiding her, but also tells her he's not going to say it back. Callie is humiliated, and George has to fight her to keep her in the room. "If I say it back right now, you know I'm just saying it because you said it to me. When I say I love you, I wanna mean it. You just have to give me some time to mean it." Aw! Bad hair and all, George is still my guy. Callie says she hates that she's so into him, and George kisses her passionately in response. Make-out session at the prom! Awesome.
Mere and McVet slow-dance and have a little state-of-the-relationship talk. McVet tells her that when his wife died, he didn't want to plan anything in advance because her death was so sudden; he just concentrated on living day-to-day. But now that he's met Meredith..."damn, I have all kinds of plans." He tells her not to freak out, to which she replies that she's not. "You have plans." McVet: "I have plans." Too bad those plans are about to be ruined by that dastardly McDreamy, who is dancing with Addie across the room and shooting Woo-Woo Eyes over their way. He looks at her with such intensity that I'm thinking Mere needs to check the limit on her V-card. The music swells; certain other parts of hot neurosurgeons do as well. Mere gets the message, and says she's feeling a little claustrophobic and needs some air. McDreamy lies that he needs to go check on a patient.
Mere runs down the hall into an empty room; McDreamy follows. Mere tells him to leave her alone, but of course he doesn't. He "just wants to make sure [she's] all right." Mere says no, she's NOT all right, because he has a wife, and he called her a whore, and their dog died, and now he's looking at her. "Stop looking at me. You are looking at me. And you watch me. And Finn? HAS PLANS!" She says she likes Finn, and she's really trying to be happy, but she can't breathe, not with him looking at her like that, so just stop! McDreamy: "Do you think I want to look at you? That I wouldn't rather be looking at my WIFE? She doesn't drive me crazy. She doesn't make it impossible for me to feel normal. She doesn't make me sick to my stomach thinking about my veterinarian touching her with his hands!" I'm thinking maybe he needs a little help for that one. Perhaps some Pepto-Bismol? McDreamy says he would give anything not to be looking at her. So, you know...then they kiss. And I want to hate them. I do! Alas, I cannot. Because Patrick Dempsey is really, really pretty.
Oh, y'all. Izzie runs down the stairs of the hospital, and she looks...amazing. Extraordinary. Incredible. That's right, I've turned into Tom Cruise. If I could only figure out a way to impregnate her from afar. Alex is going up the stairs at the same time, and comments on her great beauty. She thanks him and asks if he has a hot date. "Nah, this thing is cheesy, I wouldn't waste a chick on this." Heh. Izzie says she'll be in soon; she just wants to check on Denny first. A slow, sad song starts up, just so we can all prepare for what's coming.
Denny smiles to himself in his room. He's happy, for the first time in a long time. Not as happy as Mere and McDreamy, who are busily...uh, getting busy -- complete with slo-mo licking and panty removal. I'm not kidding. Someone pass the Pepto-Bismol.
Denny reads a magazine in his room, a slight smile on his face. He looks up from the page, as if in surprise, and his smile turns to a grimace. As he leans his head back onto the pillow, his monitor flatlines over the music. No one comes.
We fade to Izzie getting into the elevator, radiant in her pretty pink dress. She's so beautiful it's indescribable. It must be the boobs. Oh, I'm just kidding. The song tells us that nothing comes easy -- ain't that the truth -- as we go to commercial.
Mere gets frantically dressed while McDreamy asks her over and over what this means. Mere is more worried about her finding her panties and him fixing his tie to answer. Callie opens the door and immediately knows what's up. "The nurse told me to come find you. You have to come now, it's Izzie." Mere starts to walk out of the room, but Callie stops her. "Wait," she says, and helps Meredith fix her dress. "Okay, go." Callie then looks back at McDreamy with a look of such fantastic revulsion that I stand up and salute. Having no response to this outstanding display, McDreamy busies himself with his tie. Maybe just a little tighter, jackass.
Webber's alone in one of the OR observation rooms, which is where Bailey finds him. He tells her that he's spent nearly his whole life in this hospital, and is obviously trying to make some statement about...I don't know, who cares. Bailey sits down to him and says, "Sir. Denny Duquette died at 7:42 this evening." Hello, lachrymal glands, my old friends.
The Gang plus Callie finds Nurse Olivia of the Syph outside Denny's room. She tells them that Izzie is in there, with him. They walk int
o the room and find Izzie on the bed with Denny, her arms around his neck, and her face buried to his. It is absolutely heartbreaking. Izzie tells them, not moving, that it was probably a stroke; he was prone to blood clots, and one could have formed on his sutures and traveled to his brain. Mere says her name: "Iz." Izzie is clearly in shock -- she says Dr. Hahn did a beautiful job on the surgery, but she doesn't know why she didn't think of blood clots. "He died all alone. He was alone." George says there was nothing she could have done. "I changed my dress three times. I wanted to look nice. I would have been here sooner, but I couldn't figure out which dress to wear." Everyone looks positively AWFUL, and I see now why Shonda Rhimes put them all in black so they all looked like they were at a funeral, while Izzie's the only one dressed in cheerful, hopeful pink.Her friends try to convince her to get up -- she shouldn't be in here, they need to move him, she can't stay here even though they know she wants to. Izzie asks them to please, please just get out; she wants to be alone with Denny. It is Alex who finally says something she hears. "Izzie, that's not Denny." He walks over to her, the only one with balls enough to get close. "Iz, that's not Denny. The minute his heart stopped beating he stopped being Denny. Now I know you love him, but he also loved you. And a guy who loves you like that, he doesn't want you to do this to yourself. Because it's not Denny. Not anymore." Izzie says he was just proposing an hour ago, and now he's not here, isn't that ridiculous? She starts sobbing, and says, "Isn't that the most ridiculous piece of crap you ever heard?" It is. She's wailing full-on now, and Alex picks her up in his arms, takes her over to a chair, and sits down. He holds her tight as she grieves, and it's probably the sweetest thing our evil frat boy has done in his bad, bad life. It's perfect.
Cristina watches Burke watch his trembling hand from the doorway of his hospital room. She strides over and closes her hand over his.
McDreamy and his guilty self meet up with Addison in the hospital lobby. McVet and Bailey are there too, as is Webber, who's looking for Izzie. An exhausted Izzie, followed by her friends, walks over to the Chief. Izzie tells him, with tears in her eyes, "It was me. I cut his LVAD wire. I did and no one helped me. And now...I thought I was a surgeon, but I'm not. So I quit." This time no one says anything in her defense, but Bailey calls after her as she walks out, "Izzie." She doesn't stop, just keeps walking, and as she walks down the stairs, George and Alex follow behind her -- her two guys, always there, right? Shut up, this is the finale and it's the time for BEING SENTIMENTAL and CRYING.
Back in the lobby, Addie says this probably puts an end to the evening. Webber agrees, and they both walk off. McVet tells Mere he'll drive her home, but Meredith is rooted to her spot. She looks over at McDreamy, who says questioningly, "Meredith." McVet does the same: "Meredith?" Mere stands there, the three of them forming a triangle, and fade out. And that, my friends, is how not to do a cliffhanger, because...seriously?
Thanks for a great season, everybody, and I'll see you year!