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Everyone at Oceanside continues to be a total mess: doctors, patients, receptionist/midwife-in-training. Let's start with him: Dell's partying hard, coming in late, and luring slutty-looking women into the office to sleep with him by saying he's a doctor. He won't listen to Naomi, so Sam finally yells at him. Let's hope that one takes. Sam's an expert witness in a malpractice case (on the doctor's side). He finds out the doctor knew the patient had an aspirin allergy and lied about it. There's a lot of drama about whether he will lie for the doctor or come clean. And guess what? He comes clean. His lawyer is also one of his closest friends, played by D.B. Woodside. By the end of the episode, Naomi's going on a date with him, which is so many kinds of wrong. What guy would date his best friend's ex-wife? What woman would date her ex-husband's best friend? Apparently these two. Maybe they deserve each other, but neither of them deserve Sam. He plays nice, but I cannot wait until the moment when he blows up at someone other than Dell.
Pete has a child patient with allergies, who's trying to set Pete up with his divorced mom. It's surprisingly easy. One visit after he meets her, and he's asked her on a date. She accepts. Violet is jealous and needy about it, but knows Pete isn't the guy for her because he's a manwhore. Violet confides all of this in Charlotte, who tries to tell her Pete can change. She uses her own recent mess-up as an example, but since that mess-up included Charlotte cheating on Violet's best friend, you can guess how that went over. By the end, though, Charlotte send Cooper home to be with Violet, because she needs him. I'm liking Charlotte again, more and more. Cooper and Naomi are also dealing with a 12-year-old patient whose mom is trying to get her birth control. When she ends up pregnant her mom wants her to get an abortion, but she doesn't want one. Cooper lectures the mom -- justifiably -- all episode, but ends up telling her that she needs to be there for her daughter now that she'll have a child of her own, because the girl wants to keep it and her mom can't force her to have an abortion.
The biggest mess of all is Addison, who's still trying to save squeaky-voiced Morgan as Noah, who loves Addison but is married to Morgan, looks on. Morgan codes once, but Noah saves her. Then he avoids her until Addison tells him to step up and be there during surgery. He shows up and surgery apparently goes smooth (though we don't actually see the end of it). He celebrates by showing up at Addison's in the rain. They have a steamy, sexy kiss in her doorway and then she pushes him away and shuts the door. It's hard to tell if she's thinking she's bad or that was good, or what, but it doesn't really matter. We all know this show is all about Addison, so she's going to get the guy if she wants him, even if he's married.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!No previouslies, because apparently everyone who watches this episode is already supposed to know that Addison's been considering being a homewrecker. Instead we get cheerful music in the Oceanside lobby, as Addison's getting on the elevator. Naomi asks if she has hospital rounds, but she says she has a house call. Addison smiles awkwardly, so Naomi asks what's up. Turns out she's going to see Morgan, the squeaky-voiced wife of the doctor that Addison is in love with. She overjustifies it all and exposits so that we all catch up, sort of.
At the home of Noah and Morgan, Addison and Noah talk awkwardly. She compliments his home, and he credits Morgan. She says Morgan's taste is exquisite, which I'm thinking is more about the husband than the home. Oh, show, you're so subtle. (Exactly. It wasn't obvious at all as they focused on husband's face for like 10 minutes when she said it. -- Angel) They head up the stairs toward Morgan.
Cooper's giving a mother a health report on her daughter: All is great (5 feet, 84 pounds, and she looks about 12), or as Cooper thinks the kids say, "ab fab." The girl leaves to take a cell phone call from a friend. Cooper comments on how much she's grown up, and the mom tells Cooper that Sarah needs to see a female doctor, because Sarah needs birth control. And, as usual, it's such a sunny topic leading us into our sunny credits.
Morgan's afraid she's lost another baby, and asks Addison to just tell her. Noah tells Morgan not to jump there, and she snaps that she does that because she's lost every baby she's ever carried. Wow. Squeaky-voiced, looks like hell, and snappy? Maybe I'm starting to see why Noah loves Addison. She certainly looks glamorous and uncrabby in comparison. And he doesn't really know the level of arrogance and crazy yet. Anyway, he tells Morgan not to be scared. Addison tells Noah that her cervix is open and the amniotic sack is protruding out. She's going to have to sew the cervix closed. Addison asks Noah to call an ambulance, which they'll ride in together. Noah will meet them there. He leaves to call the ambulance, and Morgan tells Addison she knows she should be scared now.
Naomi greets Principal Wood (who we're calling "Duncan" now) in the lobby at Oceanside. She asks him if Sam's running late, but he says the great thing about practicing law is that court tends to start late. (They never mention this on law shows when they are running to trial. -- AC) She tells him he looks "good" dressed up, but he doesn't think that's a compliment, so she says stunning and handsome. Sam comes in, and they go off to court together. Sam's apparently the expert witness.
In court, Duncan's questioning Sam on the stand. Sam is saying that Dr. Allen did exactly what anyone else would have done in the circumstance, so some patient's death is totally not his fault. Sam says that some patients just can't be saved, which isn't malpractice; it's just life. The widow and son's attorney quotes Sam's book at him. It's a quote about how every person is different, and things can't be done by the book. She asks if that contradicts what he just said. He stands behind what he said, so she asks if he didn't mean what he wrote. He did. Then she starts acting about his own medical practice. She brings up the measles outbreak. She also asks about Fake Lance dying. Sam says he told him not to race, but he was "pig-headed." The attorney rightfully calls him on that, and asks if he talks about all his patients like that, or only the dead ones. She garners sympathy for her clients, saying they lost a husband and father because he didn't get the treatment he needed. She says it might be okay with Sam that patients die, but it's not okay with her clients. Then she wants to talk about Sam's nickname, "Dr. Feelgood."
Back at Oceanside, Naomi's lecturing Cooper because the twelve-year-old girl is the happy, healthy daughter that the mom he yelled at is raising. Is Naomi crazy?! Wait, don't answer that, because she isn't in love with Sam anymore, so she must be, right? Anyway, Naomi says Yvonne is doing something right, but Cooper says that doesn't mean she should let her daughter have sex in the room to her. Sam asks Violet to back him up, but she says adolescent sexuality is not that simple, blah, blah, blah. Violet agrees she's doing the right thing by channeling her daughter's sexual desires "safely." What. Ever. If your twelve-year-old wants to have sex, I think it's probably okay to go so far as to put her in an all-girls school, or even lock her in your house. Because twelve is way too young. Dell walks in and stops Violet from climbing onto the counter to get something out of the top of the cupboard. It's weird and dumb, but Violet thinks it's cute when he gets things for her, I think. She says, "Hey little, Hopscotchers." I have no idea what she's talking about. Why does this show make me feel like an idiot? Dell butts into the conversation to disagree strongly with the women, saying that men can have a say, too. Cooper acknowledges that mother doesn't always know best. Naomi says it's apples and oranges (which there are a bowl of in front of her). Cooper disagrees, and doesn't know how Naomi, a mother of a girl, wouldn't. He says motherhood is not the trump card, but Violet says parents get to decide these things, not doctors. Dell hopes someone like Cooper is there when Betsy's twelve.