I do believe this episode was one of the best hours of television I've seen (almost) ever. The elements for a truly good show were there, a baby being born, a man dying on an operating table, a bomb inside a man's body cavity. I mean what the hell? Who wouldn't love a show like this? Make sure to run out and get the season 1 DVD, it came out on the 14th.
On to the show. We return pretty much exactly where we left off last week. Alex and Izzie are just finishing up doing the deed in the broom closet and Meredith's hand is still in the dumbass' body holding the bomb. Burke goes into McDreamy and asks how it's coming with that whole brain surgery thing. Derek spurts out some medical jargon but I'm completely distracted by his beautiful eyes. Let's thank the Lords of Kobol I'm not a nurse in that O.R., because Bailey's husband would be dead. Anyway, the guy's fraked either way it seems. At best he's gonna have some problems with his speech. That won't be too bad, I mean he is married to Bailey who I'm sure does all of the talking anyway. Derek says he's doesn't want to be the guy who kills Bailey's husband and Burke says he doesn't want to be the guy who kills everybody. Touché.
In the operating room Christina and the bomb squad leader (who I'll call Kyle, since he's played by cutie Kyle Chandler) tell Meredith what a moron she is for sticking her hand in. She asks them to suck it since she's not exactly in the best mood, you know, with the hand around a bomb and having a flack jacket put on her. When Burke comes in he demands Christina leave the O.R.. She refuses, obviously wanting to be there for her friend but Burke tells her this isn't some cool surgery and that he needs her to leave. So cute.
In the doctor's locker room Izzie, George and Alex are talking about the stress they're under and what it's doing to their senses. George sees colors and Alex tells him he should have stayed out of the meds. Alex says his smell is heightening and George excuses himself. Izzie on the other hand says how horny she is and starts giggling. She can't stop the nervous laughter and I bet a swift kick in the crotch would do it. It may not hurt as much as it does for guys, but it's not pleasant. So I've been told.
Christina decides to crash McDreamy's operating party and he asks her to leave. She's fairly adamant at staying and since we know how he is with strong women, he doesn't argue. She doesn't tell him it's Meredith in the room with the bomb since she's afraid of Bailey too and doesn't want to distract him.
Down in the Chief's office he's having a panic attack because someone just made him Chief of Staff, oh no wait, he's Chief of Surgery. Anyway, Addy tells him to calm down and he reminds her of the craziness that is Seattle Grace. Dr. Bailey is still refusing to push the baby out, since she wants her husband to be there for the birth. She looks to be in horrible pain, so I'm hoping she abandons this whole idea. Addy thinks they might have to do an emergency C-section to get the baby and the Chief yells that there aren't any free beds. She tells him she doesn't really care where the damned O.R. is, they can fly them out if need be, but she's gonna need one soon if Bailey doesn't start pushing.
They should start charging an hourly rate in that sex closet
Back in the broom closet Izzie's venting to Alex about the smell in the room. She also tells him that she was a bit jealous of Meredith for sticking her hand in because she really wanted the surgery. For the second time that night they do it in the closet.
George finally confronts Bailey about not pushing the baby out. She asks him for a ride home and he wishes her luck on finding a cab at that time of night. He also tells her that if she doesn't start pushing she's going to lose the baby. She tells him to go frak himself. I don't know why, but she thinks by waiting a day that'll mean her husband will be able to be there. She must not have been fully informed of his condition. I've never had a baby, but something tells me clenching doesn't help keep it in.
Kyle tells the Chief that they're ready to move the bomb out of the dude's body cavity and the Chief informs him of a slight snag in their plan. Unfortunately, they had to bring the bomb in the exact room the oxygen line runs under. Kyle goes to tell Burke and they whisper in the doorway, upsetting Meredith. She does kinda have the right to know what's going on since she's the one who's about to blow up. They tell her about the main oxygen line and that medical school training really pays off because she figures out the whole hospital can blow if the bomb explodes in that room.
The Chief's not looking good these days as he gives Alex and Izzie the download on what's going on. I'm sure it's the sex vibe that's coming off of these two that's making his heart palpitate but he collapses. False alarm though, he's just had an anxiety attack. He starts to get out of bed but Mrs. Webber is there and as we know from past experience, she ain't havin' that.
George finds Addison sitting on her ass doing nothing and wants a bit of advice on how to handle the Bailey situation. He asks about a hundred rapid fire questions and Addy can't take it anymore. She goes off on him calling him a sniveling little sh**, telling him that if he had any balls he would figure this stuff out for himself and reminds him that her husband is feet away from getting blown up. George doesn't know what to say so he gives her the finger and walks away. He goes into the stairwell to cool down where he finds Christina Ricci, cowering in a corner. Having your hand in man's chest, touching a bomb will do that to a girl. She has a cut on her hand and he takes her to get cleaned up. She asks about Meredith and is relieved to know she's still alive. Um, wouldn't you have heard a loud explosion? George reassures her that she's not a coward for running out, just a dumb bitch.
"Careful...careful..."
Up in Bosnia Christina notices something outside of the O.R. she and McDreamy are in. She goes out to see what it was and it's Meredith, the guy on the gurney and the bomb squad, slowly moving down the hall to another room, away from the oxygen line. Kyle's annoyed that Christina's there, but when he realizes she's helping Meredith relax, he lets her stay. He goes over the plan to take the bomb out, making sure it's kept flat, not swinging it over her head, or going for the long pass, things like that. Meredith tells him to shut the frak up, and that she doesn't like bossy men. To distract Meredith, in a good way, Christina tells her that Burke said he loved her the night before. Kyle rolls his eyes, realizing that he needs a job at Seattle Grace because everyone's screwing here. Meredith wonders what Christina said and she said nothing, because she was pretending she was asleep. It didn't matter anyway, because he said it to the "sleeping" Christina and that doesn't count. He also beats the "sleeping" Christina but that doesn't count either. While they're wheeling the gurney down the hall there's a threshold metal thingy which I can't remember what you call it at the moment, but I've included a picture so you know what I'm talking about. The gurney hits that and everyone takes a deep breath, thinking they're gonna die. They don't, and make it into the O.R.
Coach George
Addy's having no luck getting Bailey to push. She's basically balled up in the bed, refusing to push, care, live, all that. Addy's gotten permission from the Chief to do an emergency C-section. Seeing Bailey like this causes George to snap. Addy thinks he should back off but he approaches Bailey and gives her a speech. He tells her that he expected more from her, that she's Dr. Bailey, that she's a "Doer" and although there are lots of things that people can't control, this, she can control. He rubs her head and encourages her in what I think is one of the best scenes so far on Grey's. He physically gets behind her on the bed and coaches her through the delivery. As the baby's being born Bailey tells him to stop looking at her va-jay-jay. Ha, that's a new one.
Christina has returned to McDreamy's O.R. and when he asks about the girl with the bomb, Christina doesn't control it anymore and tells him that the girl is Meredith. He's distracted for a moment until Dr. Bailey's husband flatlines. At this exact moment the baby is being delivered and although it would be completely poetic, I'm hoping the show goes the easy route and doesn't kill him on the day his child is born. McDreamy won't take this man's death lying down and starts pounding on his chest. Suddenly his heart begins again and I continue breathing.
"Show me, sand the floor"
In the operating room with Meredith, Kyle instructs her again about pulling the bomb out and handing it to him. She begins telling both Kyle and Burke her last will and testament about Izzie and George being able to stay in the house. Um, these two guys are just feet away from you, if you blow, they all blow. You better write this down somewhere or something. Kyle tells her that he knows she doesn't like him, but encourages her to think of someone she does like. Of course he fades out and McDreamy fades in, giving her the words she needs to go through with it. She eventually pulls the bomb out and hands it to Kyle. I'm still a bit concerned because the bomb's still close. Kyle walks out and Burke starts operating on the frakin' moron who caused all of this. Meredith follows Kyle after a minute, because she's curious, to thank him for helping her through this, not really sure. As she moves into the hallway and watches him walk down the hall with the bomb, it suddenly EXPLODES!! Cute Kyle gets thrown everywhere, turning into that pink mist stuff, knocking Meredith on her ass and knocking her out.
See that pinkish stuff in the middle? That's Kyle
Unfortunately, after that, no one downstairs seems to care that the bomb squad guy just got blown up. I kinda wonder if they didn't rewrite the scene to have that happen after the show was already filmed. The Chief is out of his hospital room and the admin area is all a buzz because "they're" on their way down. I'm thinking it should have been the people carrying the liquid form of Kyle, but it's Burke and McDreamy. They give each other congratulatory nods and call each other by their first name, which as we know is a big step for Burke. The dumbass bomb guy's wife is concerned about her dumbass husband and Burke gives the credit to him still being alive to Ricci. Nah, it shouldn't go with Meredith who kept her hand in there, or the poor bomb guy who just exploded.
McDreamy is looking around frantically asking where "she" is. The Chief points to Addison who comes running up and hugs her husband. Mrs. Webber sees McDreamy's reaction and tells her husband that this wasn't the "she" he was talking about. Ya think?
George goes to find Meredith and she's with Izzie and Christina. She's in a daze as the two other women help her into the shower to wash Kyle off her face. George's dream from that morning, of the three of them in the shower together, comes partially true, but in reality it's a tender moment between three best friends.
Once everyone gets home Christina lays down next to Burke, who's sleeping and tells him that she loves him. I was hoping he'd be awake, but a bit predictable if he was. Dr. Bailey goes to her husband's room, who's thankfully conscious, and introducers him to their son, William George Bailey Jones. Am I the only one who thinks it's cute she not only named her son after George but after Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life.
At Meredith's, Izzie tells her that she has a visitor. Why he can't walk his ass up to her room I don't know, she almost just got blown up. She goes downstairs and McDreamy is there. He says that he just wanted to make sure she was okay. He starts to leave and she admits that she can't remember the last time they kissed. He starts to leave again and turns back around. He gives her a play by play of what happened the last time the kissed. Something about an old shirt with a hole in the back and the way her hair smelled. I'm really not sure what he said because I melted into the couch. She tells him that the smell he was smelling in her hair was lavender. He smiles and finally leaves. Damn this show is good.
