I know I've slacked on recapping Grey's and I have no excuse. I mean, I have excuses, but to a die hard Grey's fan there is no excuse. Below is a short update on your favorite characters.
Doesn't she look pretty?
I'll start with my girl crush, Izzie. When we here at primetimetvblog last left her... (and by "we" I mean "me") she had just received a fat ass check. Over eight million dollars. Unfortunately, she didn't want to cash it. She thought about things she would use it for. I'd buy myself a house, and since I live in Southern California, I'd then be broke. But Izzie, she decided that she really did want to be a doctor. So the check sat around for weeks. Of course, I'm not really sure how long it's been in Seattle Grace time, since they really aren't too good with making any sense of time.
Anyway, back to the check. I think my girl didn't want to cash it because it reminded her of Denny and cashing it would make his death seem more real to her. Wow, and I didn't even take one Psych 101 class in college. All of my psychology training comes from years of watching movies and TV. Izzie's return to the hospital was bitter sweet. They let her come back but only as basically an observer. She wasn't allowed to touch or interact with any patients, which is really hard when you're a doctor, especially a surgeon.
Bailey is keeping tabs on her though, and when she sees her getting a little emotional with one of her first cases she's assigned, she tries to reign her in. Unfortunately my sweet Izzie just can't seem to emotionally detach herself and when a weird case of a teenager with a curved back comes in, she can't help herself. The girl is all bitter because her back's messed up and she can't stand up straight. I mean, I get it, she's sad, and she can't stand up and she'll never have a boyfriend or a real life. But why do you have to be a bitch? Actually, I guess if you're gonna be a bitch that's a pretty good reason. Callie's able to talk Derek into doing a risky surgery to straighten the kid's back, but the mom gets news that her insurance won't cover it. Oh, wow, I wonder what is going to happen.
Izzie finally pulls herself to the bank and deposits the check in a cute, emotional scene where she's crying and yelling at the bank manager to just take the check, which, since it's been in the kitchen, mostly on the fridge for however long, is covered in food and drink stains. A little later we find out that an "anonymous" donor has given the bendy back mom enough money to cover the surgery $300,000. Good God. Bailey figures it out and is again mad at Izzie for getting so close. Eventually, Izzie has a talk with Bailey, basically saying that she's how she is, she's emotional, and a good doctor and basically that Bailey has to live with it.
Speaking of Bailey, she's gotten soft, but luckily she knows it. She messed up with Izzie, but fixed that a bit having her back and mentoring her again. All that stuff that happened with Burke (see below) and she really wasn't feeling like her normal self. Everyone was up her ass about what happened to Denny, and then all that with Izzie, she didn't feel like the Nazi she once was. Because of everything that's happened, I think she needs a purpose again. She decides she wants to open a free clinic and needs all of the attendings to sign. I think mostly because they sign up for a number of hours a week. At first they won't sign, but then when the Chief tells her that one day she'll be Chief, and the reason he hasn't been helping her get signatures is because he wanted her to do something on her own, without him, she gets that spunk back, finds the attendings and demands they sign. Very cute. Bailey walks into a room with Izzie, after she comforts George (see below) and they talk about the clinic. Guess what's gonna happen? Bailey says she needs funding for the new clinic and Izzie gets a smile on her face and says, "The Denny Duquette Memorial Free Clinic". Tearing up!
A few words about what's going on with the Chief. Remember how Adele kicked him about because she's greedy? Well, not greedy, but she wants him to be around more? Anyway, he's been living at the hotel with all of the other doctors that have been put out of their houses, or basements, or whatever. He's finally decided to leave though, and told the board he will be retiring. Dressed up in his best suit and went over to Adele who's living in "his" house and guess what? She's moved on, with some unseen man. She tells him that it's been months since she asked him that. Wow, she's a bitch. I mean, I get what she means, she wanted him to do it a long time ago, but give him a time frame. Did she expect him to just walk off of his job like Norma Ray or something? Poor Chief. To add insult to injury, he's not allowed to see Ellis anymore. It happened a few shows back and for the life of me I can't remember why.
You know who I don't feel sorry for? Addison. Okay, I do feel a bit sorry for her, but hey, she got to kiss Alex. More on that in a second. She and Derek were technically still married last time we talked about the show. They finally got that divorce, and Derek was happy they could still be friends. She had to admit to him though that her one night stand with Mark wasn't that. They actually lived together after he left New York. Ruh Roh. That didn't put our dear McDreamy in that good of a mood. So poor Addison, she had her ex-husband who hated her, and her ex-lover, even though such a cutie, still around, treating all the interns like crap. And then, she gets all sad, and I'm watching thinking, what's wrong with her? And then Mark is all pissed off at her and I'm again wondering if maybe I missed something. But no, it was explained to us that Addison got pregnant, just about nine months before, with Mark's baby, but got an abortion.
Doesn't it look like she's looking at McSteamy's name goin', "Yup, that man is HOT!"
Oh SNAP! I guess Mark was excited to be a dad, but after some moping around, Addison explained to him that he'd be a horrible dad and she did want a baby, but not with him, with Derek. Damn. He didn't agree with her until a little talk with Callie. Addison and Callie are now sorta friends. They bonded once they realized they'd both slept with Mark. Actually this is kinda cute. Well, while Addison was feeling all sad and vulnerable, she and Alex had a moment, where they almost kissed. Then she saw him at Joe's and they had a moment where they did kiss. Then it got weird and he told her that the kiss was nothing, and that he doesn't want her, which surprised her a lot. I think he does want her and he's trying to play it cool. Eventually she got over it, a little, and invited him to a surgery, since McSteamy only likes to have the interns with him fetch his coffee and dry cleaning. What a hot bastard.
I know this is going to sound weird, but the most normal couple on the show is Derek and Meredith. At first, after she broke up with the adorable Finn, she thought that telling Derek he'd fall back into her arms. Unfortunately, he had just found out that Addison and Mark's fling wasn't really a fling, so he wasn't biting. Eventually they did start dating again, and now it's pretty much like they live together. She snores and claims that he has bad breath in the morning. It's actually cute. They got over it, and then had a mini fight, but we learned that she had never fought with someone like that before, a boyfriend. As we know she's not really a boyfriend type a girl. It was endearing.
All while this is going on, Meredith's father returns. Her sister has a baby and the baby's not doing too well. Meredith doesn't handle this family thing very well, and every time her dad tries to talk to her she bolts. He wants her to hear his side of what went down. She's resistant to it, even rebuffs his wife, saying she isn't their family. Finally, though, she does come around a little, asks him about the snoring thing, and he tells her about some earplugs that work. They do, and McDreamy can finally sleep. Not that I'd want McDreamy sleeping if he was in the bed next to me. WHAM! Her father also tells her his side of the story, which is pretty lame, about her mom not letting him see her, which we already knew. A guess it's a little step in the right direction.
Poor George. George's father came in for a fractured collar bone or something mundane and it turned out that he had cancer. George's whole crazy family was with them and although he and Callie were avoiding each other, it was clear that they still had a connection, even if he couldn't say those three magic words. Anyway, a bunch of stuff happened with Burke (see below) and the surgery finally happened. George just asked that he be told everything. But before they could go into surgery, George's dad stopped Bailey and the Chief, who were doing his second surgery to remove the cancer, and told them that he wants them to take it out, even if it's spread. I guess normal procedure calls for leaving it in if it looks like the cancer has spread enough for it to be inoperable. But George's dad wanted them to take it out, regardless, because he wants a fighting chance to beat the other stuff.
When they open him up, it's inoperable, but since they promised, they start taking it out anyway, much to Meredith's confusion. When George's dad comes out of surgery, he's in a coma. Burke tells George to make sure that his kidneys are functioning, and when he pees for the first time, he and Callie, who's been with him through all of this, do a little dance and he kisses her. Their joy is soon shattered when it seems the rest of his body is failing. George also learns that they went ahead with the surgery, even though that's against normal procedure. He's pissed at both Bailey and the Chief. Eventually they decided to turn the machine off and his father dies. It's quite sad and when he leaves his father's room, all the other interns, including Alex, are outside, there to support him. This is one of the reasons I like Alex so much. Like when he talked about being on a team when the Chief asked him about Denny, or when he picked Izzie up off the bed after Denny died. Ah, tearing up now, love him!
In the week (?) following George's dad's death, he goes on a sex binge with Callie. Callie's happy to be there for him, but can't take the all nighters. I don't know how I feel about that, I guess it's cute? Anyway, she's trying to avoid George and it seems George is avoiding his feelings. Izzie tries to confront him, but he tells her that he can't get any comfort. She just hugs him and it looks like it helps a bit. George finally finds Callie at her apartment and she tries to explain to him that she is tired of having all this sex. He then tells her that he's so sad about what happened, but that when he looks at her, he's happy again. And he doesn't care if they just look at one another, even though he'd rather do more, that he just wants to be with her. Then he gets down on one knee and proposes!!! It's such a touching scene, but she doesn't necessarily look like she's ready for it. Tune in next week to find out what happens on, "I love my attending". I know, Callie's not an attending, but I was going for something there.
Finally, Burke and Cristina. Last we left them he was having a bit of a tremor in his hand, from when he was shot. Cristina decided she'd help him out and they went on a surgery run for awhile where she would assist in the surgeries. Most of the time though, he would just give her a look and she would take over. Now, this was great practice for her, but not sure if I would want an intern doing my heart palpatation chronodectomy or whatever the heck they were doing.
They got a crazy case at one point and Bailey wanted in. She put her name on the board, and Cristina erased it, causing Bailey to think that Burke didn't want her in on it. Then came George's dad, who had to have heart surgery before he had the cancer surgery. Of course George wanted the best, but after he saw how Cristina was acting, and noticed Burke's hand twitching on a fishing trip all the guys took, he realized that something was wrong.
Burke knew what he was doing was wrong, and so did Cristina, but it was hard to stop, and his hand wasn't getting any better. Eventually though, it got too much, with George's dad and all, and Cristina folded. Burke was about to fold too, anyway, but this caused a huge riff with them. And of course George wasn't too happy at Cristina, who he felt put his dad's life at risk. The Chief was upset because Burke had lied to him, and of course Derek was upset because he was his surgeon, and Burke never said anything to him in his exams. Everybody was just mad at everybody.
Derek redid the surgery and Cristina and Burke, who we were told after the show came back after the holidays, were still together after she ratted him out, but weren't talking. She wanted updates on his recovery, but everyone kept silent, so that she would talk to Burke about it. Meredith and Derek even went over for a dinner party, but Cristina wasn't invited, and Burke just ignored her. But the bond between them was strong, because she still stayed there, even after his surgery in the hospital room, slept on the couch, and he knew she was trying to see how he was, but they're both just so damn stubborn.
Cristina got an interesting case with Callie. The women obviously don't like each other, but they bonded over this runner who passed out during a marathon. Callie told Cristina at some point, that you just wanted to finish the race, even if you didn't win. And as we all know, Cristina was just being silent because she wanted to win. In a very touching scene, in their apartment, Cristina caved. She told him that she was in this for the long haul, and although she knows she was right in going to the Chief, he still thinks she was wrong. And that she doesn't want him to forgive her, because it'd be patronizing, but that she's there, and she wanted to be there, and basically everything you can say except "I love you". After she finished her rant he just looked at her and said, "Marry me Cristina Yang." OH SO CUTE!
Looks like there's going to be a hot race for the new Chief of surgery, and I'll have to start calling him by his name. Richard I think it is. All of the attendings are in it to win it, and although McDreamy's ego took a hit when he learned the Chief offered it to Burke awhile back, he, Addison, McSteamy and Burke are all now back in the running, although I'm not really sure any of them will do it. Please bring in a new hot doctor, please bring in a new hot doctor. I'm trying to manifest it here.
So that was the last 6 or so episodes of Grey's, wrapped up into a nice neat shell. A lot of detail I left off, but I think I got the gist of it. If I think of anymore crazy plot points that you just have to know, I'll be sure to update this post.
