Who's gonna die? I can tell you who I don't want to die, Denny. If he dies I'm gonna be pissed. He and Izzie need to be together but I fear this will never be. The actor, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, is currently taping episodes of Supernatural up in Canada. He's great in that so check it out if you haven't seen it. The only problem with this is he can't be in two places at one time, so either Denny's gonna go away for awhile, or he's gonna go away forever. This is all I can think about as I watch this episode.
She contimplating sticking Meredith in the eye
We learn from Meredith that this episode is all about superstition. We watch the doctors, Addison, Derek, Burke and Bailey, all prepare for their respective surgeries. Bailey says a prayer, Burke has a lucky cap that he can't find at the moment, Derek plays some music, and Addison sleeps with someone. Unfortunately none of this works and ALL of their patients end up dying. Burke wasn't working on Denny was he? WAS HE? I don't think they would just kill him off in the first two minutes without showing his face, so I'm guessing not.
Our group meets up in the locker room and Christina's noshing on a granola bar or something and George wants some. She tells him that she already has him in her house, she doesn't want him in her food. They talk about the bad luck that's going around and about the superstition that deaths will happen in 3's and 7's. Since there've been 4 already, they assume three more are to come. No Denny! NNNOOO!!! Oh, and in case you cared, George is still ignoring Meredith. Alex walks in and privately wonders to Izzie where she took off too that morning. Yup, that's right people, she's still sleeping with him. I'm sure she's imagining it's Denny, but truly ladies, who wouldn't?
Derek's face in the background is priceless
Addison decides to show her nice face this morning and brings everyone who lost a patient hot cocoa and herpes. She hands it to Meredith who quickly throws it in her face. Addy says it's good "juju" to help them not kill anymore people. Hey, Meredith didn't kill anyone lady, you did. When Meredith walks away Derek wonders what she's doing and Addy comments that she and Meredith are friends. You know, friends with benefits. Apparently the way it works nowadays is if you work with the woman your husband's truly in love with you can consider her your friend. Derek points out that he's not friends with Mark. It's a little different, but I'll go with it. Meredith throws her juju away. I'll say it again, she throws away free chocolate. No wonder she's so damn skinny.
At our trusted surgery board, lots of things are being erased. Burke's on the phone with the President wondering where the hell his damn surgical cap is. The Chief approaches and sees this and insists Burke can do the surgeries without the cap. Yeah, but as a nurse I'd much prefer watching the cute capped Burke.
When our group goes to the pit there's nothing going on. Christina says this and apparently it's like saying "MacBeth" in a theatre. I don't know what that means but it sounds bad. Sure enough right after she says it the doors open and all of these traumas start flowing through. I'm glad she didn't say it three times in a mirror, things would have really gotten out of hand.
"Hi, I'm crazy lightening lady"
A woman who's throwing up blood comes in. Also, a guy with OCD comes from a car accident. Apparently he was rear ended and his head went through the wind shield. When they're leading him in he's counting the siren burst of the ambulance. Also at the same time a woman comes in who claims she was struck by lightening. Apparently her juju is all messed up too and she says her horoscope told her she shouldn't be leaving her house that day. She shoulda listened. The other problem she has is with her boyfriend and a little thing called the truth. Gets in the way sometimes I know. Come to find out, she doesn't have any of the tell tale lightening strike injuries. She admits that she didn't get struck, that it was the tree next to her and then it fell on her. Bailey's not too happy to have to start a new report over.
George comes and gets the Chief because the woman throwing up blood asks for him. When the Chief sees her he's surprised. I'm surprised too, he really likes white women. They're obviously old friends because he tells her about Ellis having Alzheimer's and him visiting her. The woman realizes the Chief is having an emotional affair with Ellis. She also reminds him that this is what caused him to become an alcoholic all of those years ago. She's his sponsor, I get it, that's why she's all up in his business. He learns the reason she's there is because she has cirrhosis of the liver and needs surgery. Replacing the liver would be the best thing, but since they typically don't give livers to raging alcoholics, unless you're Larry Hagman, they can't do it right away. They'll have to insert a shunt and do something doctorly to it. Unfortunately the procedure is extremely dangerous and half of the people who get it done die. The good news is that all of the people who don't get it done and have this problem die, so hey, I'd say those odds are good.
Finally we get to Denny and he's not doing so good with the heart valve they replaced last episode. In fact, it looks to Izzie and Alex like he may have a pulmonary embolism. Nothing with the word "embolism" sounds good, so they go get Dr. Burke.
Meredith and Christina meet up in the elevator. They each have their patients, who should start dating after this because they're both a little off. Meredith complains to Christina that Addison "juju'd" her. Lightening strike girl tells them that there's no juju rule that says you have to honor the juju. I mean it's your juju, no one tells you what to do with your vajayjay, why would you care what anyone said about your juju.
In the nasty moment of the night, George's lady doctor, Dr. Torres, sets the lightening strike girl's broken leg or knee or something else I don't want to think about. George is there trying to woo Dr. Torres and she's not having it. She doesn't like men who don't call. I hear ya girlfriend. Meredith walks in and George doesn't know what the hell to do. Dr. Torres tells her that there's no way she got this break from a tree falling on her. The lady finally admits that the tree didn't fall on her, she fell out of the tree. Something tells me she was up in it with some binoculars spying on this guy she claims is her "boyfriend". After doing tests they realize she has a lacerated spleen that needs to be operated on immediately. She says she doesn't want the surgery since her horoscope told her today was a bad day. She refuses to have the surgery until midnight that night, also because she heard all of this 3/7 talk and didn't like the odds on that. Meredith picks up on the fact that lightening strike girl's a few cards short of a full deck. She also asks Bailey how she feels about the whole 3/7 superstition and Bailey pretends she thinks it's bull, but you can tell she doesn't.
Bailey starts to get mad at the crazy woman because she's refusing to have this surgery. She says that spleen trumps horoscope. I think everything trumps horoscope. The lady won't hear it and wants them to call her boyfriend to let him know she's crazy, oh I mean in the hospital. Meredith pets her head and says 'Sure I'll call him, sure."
Christina and Burke meet up and she comforts him the best she can for losing a patient earlier. You know, comfort like tell him he needs to kick George out. He, of course, has a heart, so doesn't want to. He complains about not having any of his caps and she admits to having one of them in her locker. She doesn't think the cap is the key to his amazing talents, especially since he doesn't have one on in the bedroom. Finally she says she'll give him the cap if he kicks George out. He, again, is a decent guy so he doesn't want to do it. He does find George and tells him that Christina has a cap and wants him to get it back from her. Later, when George is going through her locker she walks in on him. He tries to bribe it out of her, doing her laundry, dishes, anything, but since she doesn't do any of that anyway, she doesn't care. We all know what she truly wants... world peace. And for George to move, but of course he doesn't want to.
Burke, Izzie and Alex are doing the procedure on Denny's heart. He's awake for it and Izzie's holding his hand. To distract himself, hopefully not the doctors, he starts talking about horses. Alex, to fit in, blurts out that his uncle was a rodeo clown. What the hell? Unfortunately, Dr. Burke tells them that the clot's too big and they'll have to open him back up. Later in Denny's hospital room, we're treated to why we thought Alex was a d*ck in the beginning. He basically tells Denny that Izzie likes to sugar coat things (insert your own joke here) and although she says there's a good chance things will work out, his odds are pretty terrible. He also suggests maybe Denny tone down the flirting because unfortunately, it doesn't look like he's gonna make it for that much longer and that would just hurt Izzie. If Denny were his normal strong self he could totally take Alex on.
Christina takes her OCD guy for an MRI and while they're preparing for it, the psyche guy comes down and evaluates him. OCD tells them that he knows it's annoying and that his mother had it and his father ended up bludgeoning her to death with a bat because of it. While he's explaining all of this, George is in the observation room, staring at Christina. He then puts his face up to the glass to further annoy her. I see, he's going to annoy her so much she's forced to give it to him. This is actually a pretty good plan, Christina is easily annoyed and doesn't like being out of control. They start prepping the guy for surgery and it's obvious he's not too off from Christina. Any straight A student who's always perfect could end up being an OCD freak that's about to go into brain surgery. Ha, you cheerleader bitches!
This is more action than George's gotten in a long time
Later in the cafeteria George puts aside his hatred for Meredith and sits with the group. He starts staring Christina down. To really get her he starts chewing in her ear. Okay, I'd give up my first born to make someone stop chewing in my ear. She tries to ignore him as much as she can. Izzie stops by and tries to convince everyone that she's not worried about Denny. I'm worried about Denny and I don't even know the guy. Later in the bathroom George follows Christina in and tries to physically take it from her. Dr. Torres walks in and tries to ignore them. Because George is a big pus he doesn't get it from her.
Whoa, my girl crush is ready to fight
Izzie goes in to talk to Denny and he's all business after his little talk with Alex the a**hole. He talks about his last will and testament. He even calls her Dr. Stevens. Oh no he di'int. Yes he did! When superstitious Izzie finds out that Christina has Burke's cap she goes balls out. She threatens her with physical harm if she doesn't give it back because she knows how superstitious he is. It's awesome. I'm hoping they start throwing down but Christina gives in. She finds Burke in the hall and gives it to him. The cap I mean. She tells him that she's had it for awhile so it'll remind her every day about being a great surgeon. He tries to play like he's not that excited to have it back, but he is.
Izzie finds Alex and asks him what he said to Denny. He says he told him the truth and this just upsets her more. She tells him that on his best day, Denny's twice the man he'll ever be. And she breaks up with him! Finally! I mean I was a champion for these two when I thought Alex was just a misunderstood hottie. But it turns out he's a mean hottie. When Izzie and Alex get into surgery Burke tells them to leave and not even watch from the galley. He doesn't want their energy messing up his juju.
And now the dying begins. All the surgeons start their surgeries. Meredith's lightening strike girl starts crashing and she pulls Bailey out of surgery to help. She lies to the lady and tells her that her boyfriend called and he wants her to have her surgery. Too late though, the poor girl because number five.
In surgery the OCD guy takes a nose dive and unfortunately he doesn't make it either. That makes six. So now it's between Denny and the Chief's cirrhosis lady. Alex, Izzie and a few nurses are standing around looking at the board to see who's died. Alex bets them $20 it's gonna be Denny. WTF. When they make him an ass they make him an ass. Damn. The Chief goes into his sponsor's room and tells her family that she made it through the surgery. Damnit!!! That means...
We see Izzie crying in Denny's room. What the Sam hell. You can't kill off one hottie and make the other hottie an ass. Well, they didn't! Denny's alive. Izzie knows she's wrong, and that she shouldn't fall for a patient, but the smart girl leans down and kisses him. Hold up hold up, girl. Be gentle. He just had open heart surgery.
Everyone's in the locker room and George walks in. He slightly avoids Meredith and goes to his locker. Because Alex is furious that Izzie dumped him, he does some classic projection and starts yelling at George. He tells him to stop feeling sorry for himself and be a man. He says that if he wouldn't get kicked out of the program he'd smash his head into the locker. Whoa man. That's harsh. The girls try to defend him but it's too late, George's ego has been hurt pretty bad. Luckily George takes this and turns it around. He goes to Dr. Torres and asks her out again. She says no, that he had his chance and blew it because he never called. When she walks away he whips out his cell phone and calls her. She finally agrees to go out with him.
As everyone is leaving the hospital Addison's handing out her damn juju again. This girl knows how to hand it out doesn't she? Meredith takes a sip and then throws it out again. Not in front of her, damn that'd be embarrassing. As Burke and Christina are leaving, he gives his cap back to her. He says he'll kick George out tonight. Christina, after just hearing how bad Alex just treated him, suggests they not do it that night. The morning is fine.
Well, even though some people died, I was sure happy as hell it wasn't Denny. His number's going to be up soon, but after those few episodes of 24, I just couldn't take anymore death.
