Posted by Dustin on 05.16.2008 at 12:50 am

In this episode the Chief’s mentor, the godfather of cardio thoracic (so probably spelling that wrong and not looking it up at this hour) surgery, showed up at the hospital with heart issue’s of his own. Hahn however refused to operate on him, not wanting to be the surgeon who “killed” him. The Chief, after a stern talking to from the guy about what kind of Chief he was, ordered Hahn to do the surgery as he was her boss.

Also going on, the Chief was upset that Adelle hadn’t returned his call after their night of lurve. Adelle never appeared in the episode and given “Eli Stone” is back next season, I have to wonder what will happen with these two. Will they break up or work things out, with her appearing only occasionally? I like them and would like to see them work. At the end of the show the Chief got a 😉 email from her, after emailing her for a date on Derek and Mark’s advice, but had no idea what semi-colon parenthesis meant until it was explained to him by George that it was an email wink.

Derek and Meredith had yet another patient for their tumor trial this week, one Greta. Greta didn’t want to have the surgery until her boyfriend Andre showed up. She recently met Andre on a cruise, and she wanted his opinion, saying a few last months with him might be worth it if she might die in surgery. The sister tried to convince Derek and Meredith that her sister had made up Andre, as no one had met him let alone seen a photo of him. Derek wanted to give a few hours for him to show up, Meredith disagreed.

Meridith fired her psychiatrist Dr. Wyatt because she called her a therapy quitter. Not exactly a good reason to fire her, as it shows you are a quitter! She spent half the episode trying to get her case file back, but Dr. Wyatt kept telling her to make an appointment and come in to get it.

Rebecca came in determined to see Mark. Izzie was furious as she had not been returning her calls. Izzie told Rebecca she wasn’t pregnant and she thought she was trying to trap Alex with the baby mama thing. Rebecca insisted she was pregnant, even telling Izzie to do another test if she had to. With Rebecca’s permission, Izzie told Alex. Alex then told Izzie off saying she didn’t know what she was talking about and to stay out of his business! You know I’ve really had it with Alex on this show. He is the most loathsome character and I would not miss him at all if he was written off at this point! Though he won’t be, cause they need that kind of character to round out the show.

Speaking of loathsome, Christina seemed to have a stick up her butt in this episode. First she laid into George saying nobody around her pities him, only Burke did, and Burke is gone. Then when Lexie wanted to talk to Meridith, Christina told her that Meredith hated her and to get lost! Meredith did nothing, which ticked me off! I thought she and Lexie were trying to get along better, so when she said nothing that annoyed me to no end. I usually feel for Meredith, but not in that scene at all.

Mark had a talk with Callie. He was basically tired of being man meat, he wanted her to want him for his brain as much as what was in his pants. She just sorta laughed at him. Hahn sat down and made some lesbian jokes about the two of them. They both joked about a threesome with Mark, which made him horny and ran him off! Too funny! However I have to wonder if Hahn was joking or not?

When Andre hadn’t shown, Derek and Meredith began to think perhaps the tumor had caused her to imagine Andre. It wasn’t helping when she told them a story about how she met Andre because she was running to get back on the ship and lost her shoe, and he found it and brought it to her that night. Cinderella anyone? The woman soon broke down, thinking maybe she really had made Andre up. She agreed to go along with the surgery. Oh boy it doesn’t take a brain surgeon to see where this one was going!

Ava meanwhile went to see Mark, deciding her boobs didn’t match her new face, so she apparently wanted a boob job! Mark told Izzie that he was worried she may have some psych disorder. Alex continued to not want to hear it, but a test showed she was never pregnant. Rebecca wouldn’t hear this and was convinced she lost their baby. Izzie thinks she had a hysterical pregnancy, but I’m beginning to think she has one of those brain tumors and might be Derek and Meredith’s next patient . . . the one they actually save?

Meredith confronted Dr. Wyatt while she was making tinkle in a stall, still wanting her chart back. Dr. Wyatt only wanted to pee in peace, again telling Mer to make an appointment. In came Lexie who told Meredith off and good! She said she had forgiven her for treating her like crap, she forgives Christina for what she said and Meredith not standing up, that all she wanted out of her was a sister, but Meredith has failed on all fronts. However she still loves her and forgives her. After that, Meredith agreed she still needed therapy. Amen! I still never heard an “I’m sorry” from Mer!

Mark began teasing Callie about having a threesome with Hahn, saying not to say she hadn’t thought about reaching over during surgery and grabbing some of Hahn’s golden hair. That clearly hit a nerve with Callie, who was getting turned on at the thought? That or she had honestly thought about it! Meanwhile Erica Hahn began the surgery on the Chief’s mentor and saved his life.

Meredith went back to therapy, and Dr. Wyatt pointed out how she seems to have suicidal tendencies. She let herself drown in that water, she stuck her hands in a man with a ticking time bomb. She seems to like teetering between life and death. She thought something her mother said made her feel worthless and she believed it. That seemed to get to her and she stormed off.

Meredith and Derek began the surgery on Greta, and of course Andre showed up! You could see that one coming. They managed to inject the tumor, but unfortunately the tumor had caused brain swelling they had not missed. While it seems they treated the tumor, the brain swelling became the issue that put Greta into a coma from which she was never expected to wake up. How fricken depressing! I’m over these tumor trials and they better save someone (Rebecca?) in the finale!

Tucker showed up in this episode, as Tuck got kicked out of the hospital daycare for punching a kid. Tucker weighed in with his expert opinion, the child was angry that he was being left in daycare for hours a day when he’s clearly used to being at home with him. Okay Tucker, www.shutyourmouth.com! You are where? Oh yes, you are out dating and having fun and all that stuff you missed cause you “had” to stay at home with the kid. Bailey gave it to him, saying he had something and took it for granite, the luxury of spending all day with their son. She said she did not have the luxury of taking off work for a year knowing her job would be there for her to come back to. She felt she was sacrificing a lot for this family and he didn’t appreciate it. They left Tuck with George while they went to try and work things out. I’m kinda not wanting Baily to work things out with him, ans he’s being an arse at this point. I think he has severe female career superiority issues.

The show had a three punch ending. Mark got in the elevator with Erica and Callie. Callie teased Mark had been thinking about the threesome idea all day. Hahn ended up kissing Callie then telling Mark he just couldn’t handle them both. Hahn got off the elevator. Mark wanted to go to the on call room stat! A clearly kiss-stunned Callie followed. I am starting to wonder if we’ve been duped? What if Hahn isn’t a lesbian, but the whole point of this story was to make Callie face that she was?

Rose confronted Derek for basically sleeping with her then running away. Derek said he had already done complicated, he wanted this to just be easy and fun. She seemed to be okay with that. Oh boy, Derek needs to stop lying to himself as much as Meredith does. He seems to want to blame Meredith for the reason they broke up, but maybe he needs to be seeing Dr. Wyatt himself!

Finally Meredith went back to Dr. Wyatt and said after her father left, her mother tried to kill herself. She never told anyone that. She said she was broken and the doctor wanted to fix her, so fix her!

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