After a whole summer with only so-so shows, it feels good to be watching good TV. One hour and 2 minutes of
Grey's. What a good day when it can end with this show. Of course, I fraked it up when I watched
Nip/Tuck afterwards, but who cares, I'm still on a
Grey's high.
Anyone who isn't caught up on the show, stop reading right now. I'm talking to you
Mom.
We pick up right where we left off, just about. The prom's over, Izzy admitted that she was the one who cut the LVAD wire and quit, Meredith and McDreamy have just had a romp in one of the patients rooms and now she has to choose between him and Finn, we learned the Chief's wife knew about his affair with Meredith's mother, Callie just told George she loved him and he couldn't say it back and the worst part, Denny's dead.
Meredith's run out of the hospital, still in her gown, the Chief's sitting at the now empty prom, contemplating life, and Addison's in the trailer staring at some panties. Whu? Uh oh. Looks like last night when Meredith couldn't find them, McDreamy pocketed them. He just wants to be caught. Addison's not stupid, she realizes what, i.e., whose, they are and just stares at them. Ewe, I'm not trying to hold onto another chicks underpants. Especially knowing she just did it to my husband. Oh, and my girl crush is laying on the bathroom floor, still in the prom dress, mourning Denny.
They whole crew's outside, wondering what they should do. I'm thinking at least drag her into her bedroom. Maybe strong Alex can pick her up again. That was hot. They're debating on who should go in and they all turn to Meredith. She wonders why, but it's because she's used to all of this, drama. I mean, her boyfriend didn't get shot or her best friend start crying when she was having sex with him, but she's had some pretty messed up things happen to her, so she's their best candidate.
As Izzie lays on the ground, there's a flashback. Yay!!! I love flashbacks. Flashbacks and Grey's, this is my night! This one is at the reception for the new interns. Izzie's all happy Barbie and this is the first time she and Alex meet. Guess what, he's a pig. He says something sexist, but kinda hot, and she's put off immediately... Aaannndddd scene.
When we come back to reality, George is on the floor with Izzie, trying to comfort her. Izzie's not hearing any of it though. It's a touching moment, and my eyes get a bit misty.
At the hospital, some guy from the funeral home is there to pick up Denny's body. For doing this for a living, the guy's a tool. He wants Bailey to identify the body, apparently he's taken the wrong one before. After she identifies it they start to wheel away the body and Bailey stops them, taking a minute to apologize to Denny for you know, letting her interns KILL HIM.
Back at house, Meredith's decided to handle her problems how I handle mind, by eating. Of course, she goes and throws it up afterwards, but hey, I get the idea. She's making sandwiches and Cristina says that when someone dies in the Jewish tradition they sit Shiva, which doesn't involves nasty skinny girl sandwiches. Meredith just starts rambling, and eating (thank God) and Cristina immediately knows something's wrong. Meredith admits that she and McDreamy did the McDeed and Cristina's shocked.
In the trailer, Addison's washed the panties. Yes, she's washed them. I have mixed feeling about this. At first I thought it was sorta psycho, but then I thought it was actually nice, like borrowing someone's sweater, it's just common courtesy to wash it, then again, these are the panties of the women your husband presumably just cheated on you with. Regardless, when she takes them out of the dryer she puts them in her purse. This can't be good.
At the hospital, Derek looks pretty tired. He tells the Chief he's been there all night. I guess not all night, he had to go drop Meredith's panties off sometime. Oh, I just thought of this, maybe he gave Addison his prom clothes to take home since he was staying at the hospital. If that's the case, and he knew the undies were in there, then he is a complete dummy. A hot dummy, but a dummy no less. The Chief tells him to go home, but before he can do that, Bailey says there's a head trauma coming in and they'll need the best brain surgeon in town. Personally, I'd prefer the second best, and the one who's had a full night's sleep, but that's just me.
The head trauma lady shows up. Her husband tells the doctors that they were both on their way to the doctor because they have the flu. She was feeling better so she drove, unfortunately they got into an accident and the poor lady's head is all messed up, enter Derek. They do an assessment and soon realize the husband's coughing up a lung and needs to go outside.
Speaking of outside, it's a mess. People are sick with the flu. Olivia, the syph nurse, brings a baby in that someone found at a high school, in a garbage can. Alex soon realizes something everyone who brought in the baby should have, everyone's sick, real sick, so he picks the baby up and carries him out. Olivia doesn't like this, since it's protocol to not take anyone out of the ER with proper paperwork. It's probably against protocol to give people syphilis, but that didn't stop her. Alex gets the baby to Addison and they figure out the baby has some sort of blood disease. Addison's panties, the ones she's wearing anyway, get into a bunch because she doesn't know why, with all the laws in place, people still dump the babies into trash cans. They could just cheat on them with their best friends. She says they have to find out who the mother is fast, so they can do something technical with the blood, I forget.
Derek's working on the lady's brain, as George assists. He wonders how Izzie is, although he really wants to know how Meredith is. George says Izzie's still on the floor in her prom dress, but other then that she's fine. Derek, who must not have been watching last last season, says that it's always hard to lose a patient. George points out that he wasn't just a patient, that Izzie was in love with him. Yikes. Derek probably feels like a bastard right now. I hope it doesn't distract him from the BRAIN he's OPERATING on.
At the house, Cristina's still questioning Meredith on what's going on with her and McDreamy, you know, if he's finally going to leave his wife. Flashback time! Meredith remembers being a young girl and on the merry-go-round. Do you guys remember that store, Merry-Go-Round. It was like Forever 21 when I was in high school. Ah, Owings Mills Mall, I miss you. Anyway, little Meredith's having a great time. Unfortunately, her mother isn't. She uses this special time with her daughter to meet with her chocolate lova. She and the Chief are arguing. He's not leaving his wife for her. As she goes around the merry-go-round, Meredith sees her mother crying, and upset, as Richard leaves her. Damn.
"I'm angry again!"
Since we're talking about the chocolate lova, Adele has to book an appointment with him because he's so busy. Wasn't she just with him last night at the prom? Anyway, she looks pissed, then again, she always looks pissed. Before she can get into it, Bailey comes in and says the lady George and Derek just worked on, well, turns out she has the Bubonic Plague. Huh? What year are we in? 1595. I don't even know when the Bubonic Plague was, but I surely didn't think it was in this day and age. If there's ever an excuse to walk out of the room when your wife is talking, this is probably it, although Adele's pissed again.
So they've found four girls from the high school who I guess were around the bathroom at the time someone found the baby, or they found the baby, it's not too clear. They look to be no more then fourteen and their parents can't fathom how one of them was pregnant and they didn't know about it. Addy says she doesn't need their permission to do an exam, that the girls have to submit to it themselves, but none of them want to do that. I would think all you'd have to do is make them run down the hall, the one who passes out from the pain first, is probably the mommy.
George and Derek are in the locker room when a guy in a HazMat suit stops them from leaving. Since the head trauma lady has THE BUBONIC PLAGUE, and the guys worked on her, they have to be quarantined. Basically they're locked in the locker room. The head trauma's husband is also locked in a room. I don't know how great it is to lock a really sick guy in a room by himself. At least transport Derek and George over there. Anyway, rightfully so, the guy, played by the magnificent Steve Harris, is freaking out. Bailey comes by and tries to sooth him. He wants her to stay outside of the door and talk to him, which she does.
Callie stops by with a few bags of food. Meredith wonders if this is for that Shiva thing Cristina talked about. It is. As she comes in she tells Mere that she won't say anything about what she saw the night before, you know, McDreamy and her doing the McNasty. Meredith's relieved, although I have a feeling that before this day is over everyone will know anyway.
Cristina's decided to lay with Izzie next. She talks about Shiva, and what that entails. Izzie's a bit responsive, but then she says that they've taken Denny's body away, and how would she feel if someone took Burke's body away. She's got a point. This shuts Cristina up.
Alex and Addison are still trying to get the girls to consent to a vaginal examine. I guess they didn't like my idea. Speaking of vaginal exams, it's time for Addy to have a flashback. It must be the moment Derek finds out she's been cheating on him. It's raining outside, they're in their brownstone and she's just in a t-shirt as he takes her clothes and throws them out the door. Nice. He's disgusted by her and she tries to apologize and say she doesn't know how it happened, blah blah blah. She wants to try and work it out but he can't even look at her. He throws her out in the rain too and she pounds on the door. Because he really is a nice guy, he lets her in and says he's leaving, and he'll have his stuff out by the morning. She's crying, and I really want to not feel sorry for her, but I do. I mean, how many people can resist McSteamy, who I'm told is coming back for a few episodes.
Yay, more flashbacks. We're again at the reception. Cristina, ever the intruder, approaches Burke who's very into the chick he's sitting with. He tries to be polite as Cristina gushes, but finally, he tells her to stop, and goes back to looking hot. Across the room, George's demise begins. He tries to talk to Meredith and she pretty much ignores him. That my friends, was sign #1. There are about 120831074926349723 more throughout the seasons until the fateful crying incident.
Addy's finally gone to the Chief about the garbage baby. Oh, that reminds me, do you remember Garbage Pale Kids? I loved them! Anyway, she thinks one way they could do it is by taking a blood type test. Why is this less invasive then a vaginal examine? Wait, that didn't come out right. How is this okay but an examine not? The Chief thinks this is a good idea.
Callie and Meredith are sorta bonding, when Finn comes in. Meredith gets cold feet and runs out of the room to check on Izzie, who's still on the floor. Callie and Finn have a heart to heart. She basically tells him not to worry, that all interns are socially retarded. Seeing they've had their heads in a book for the last ten years and didn't grow up normal. Finn seems to accept this odd excuse.
Meredith uses Finn as an excuse to go check on her near catatonic best friend. Izzie says that she feels like everything is moving in slow motion and that she feels everyone is waiting for her to freak out and start bawling like a baby. I don't know what would have given them that impression? She just doesn't know what happened. She should read my recaps.
Before our next flashback, George and Derek are still locked in the locker room, raiding the unlocked lockers. How many times can I get the word "lock" in a sentence? Awe, that reminds me of John Locke. I hope he's okay. They find food and start eating it as Derek, I assume, has a flashback of the first time he met Meredith, in Joe's bar. It's a cute little exchange, nothing to write home about. They're doing shots, flirting, everything we imagined it'd be. George is now in mini-freak out mode. Derek's cool as a cucumber but really, did we expect anything less? George is freaking out because he thinks he has the plague because he's sweating, but that's only because he's pacing. He then tells Derek about Callie saying she loved him and him not saying anything. He now wishes he would have said it, although he admits that he isn't in love with her yet, but feels like he would be soon. Derek tells him to not let anything stand in his way and to say it before it's too late.
Bailey finds Steve Harris in his room. She tells him through the door that unfortunately, the plague and his wife don't go well together, and she died. Uh oh. Steve's not doing well here. She tries to break in, but the HazMat guy won't let her in. Now, I love Bailey, you know I do, but she does not do it for me in this episode, and definitely not in this scene. I don't know, maybe the actress was pissed they did her hair like that or something because she doesn't do a great job. She tries to comfort Steve, to the best of her ability anyway.
At Meredith's Finn and Callie have bonded over food. Callie realizes this isn't going to be pretty and walks out when Meredith comes in. Finn tells Meredith that he doesn't know what happened the night before with her and Derek, but he never said they were exclusive, so he can't blame her, although he's mad. Wow, he's such the girl in this relationship. He wants her to know though that his hat is still in the ring, if there's a ring and it's 1924. He also tells her that Derek's no good for her, and that he's great for her. Then he calls her "Blondie" and tells her to watch her caboos.
"I'm again, still"
Adele is still roaming the hallways, pissed. Um, if I knew the BUBONIC PLAUGE was in the building, I would not be hanging out. But she is. She tells the Chief that she's been second fiddle, back burner, all the cliches, to his career for too long, and she's tired of it. She wants him to retire. I'm sorry, Adele pisses me off. You've been married to him for 30 years! Is this news to you that he's always picked his job over you? He picked you over what could have been the love of his life, doesn't that say anything? Probably not.
So, Addy's plan to blood type match the girls worked. It eliminated two of the girls, leaving only the other two as possible mothers. She takes them to look at the sick baby, hoping this will strike a cord, because dumping it in a trash can sure didn't. Finally, one of them admits to it being hers. Addy hugs her and thanks her for telling the truth. Then she calls her a dirty whore. Oh wait, that was me.
George and Derek are finally told there's no more plague and immediately rush to Meredith's. Callie greets George at the door and tells him how much she loves him and how scared she was. He still can't bring himself to say he loves her too. What was all that talk about, huh?
Luckily Finn's gone and Derek finds Meredith. He tells her that since they hooked it up the night before, she now has a choice to make, him or Finn. How about he divorces his wife first, then she can make the decision. He finally tells her that he's in love with her, and that he made the wrong choice. FINALLY! He wants to be with her and tells her to take her time and make the decision. Hopefully she won't choose wrong like he did.
A bunch of stuff happens at the hospital. Adele finds the Chief again and tells him to decide, her or his job. He says he needs time to think but she tells him to tell her that night. He says he can't, that he needs more time. She says she doesn't have anymore time to give and walks away. We then see that Addison has pinned Meredith's clean undies on the bulletin board under "Lost and Found". Ouch. Hahaha. Yay, we finally see Burke. Cristina comes to visit him and snuggles in bed with him. Cause really, who wouldn't? Suddenly she breaks down and starts crying, something we've, thankfully, never seen her do. He comforts her and she just looks at him and says "Don't die". Awe.
At the house, Izzie has one more minor flashback of the interns party, them all leaving it, and this inspires her to get up. Meredith helps her out of her dress, and it's not lesbian, it's sweet, really it is.
All in all, not the best episode, although really, their best is still better then most. I'm definitely happy that this is the first of at least 22 episodes. Ah.
We Are Marshall
A Good Year
Code Name: The Cleaner (hahahah)
