Posted by Dustin on 10.30.2009 at 2:44 pm

Grey’s Anatomy
Last night’s “Grey’s” was great and much like the “Grey’s” of old. The whole episode, well most of it, surrounded a co-worker at the hospital who had an inoperable brain tumor, so he was told, and came to Derek to save his life. Derek didn’t think it was possible at first, but later did. The Chief however put his foot down. There would be no surgery, the guy was sure to die, he didn’t think insurance would cover it and it was sure to bring a lawsuit against them.

The power struggle began as Derek planned to defy the Chief and do the surgery. Oh yeah, Derek has not been happy with the Chief and he was flexing his muscles. Of course the kicker was that everyone on staff was behind Derek! Even Bailey helped warn him when the Chief was close to finding him in surgery. The Chief did though, and it was Arizona who stood up to him and told him off for being a bully basically. Woohoo! The Chief was stunned when he realized he had a mutiny going on.

In the end, Derek saved the guy, performing what everyone was calling the surgery of his career, one he could retire on. The Chief told Derek “Your fired!” Derek then turned around and said “Sleep on it, think about it, we’ll talk tomorrow!” DAYUM! Checkmate basically. Derek knows after that surgery, the Chief can’t fire him . . . and the Chief knows it too. He’s golden, hospitals all over will want him. I have to say, I loved seeing everyone basically turning on the Chief in this episode.

Private Practice
Over on “Private Practice,” the two women that Naomi implanted the wrong embryos in were back. The two women had become good friends, as the one woman’s husband couldn’t take what happened and had basically left her. However problems occurred. That woman was having problem’s with the baby, eventually she lost it. The other woman was devastated, her husband was dead and that was her last chance to conceive. Then a double whammy when the other woman’s husband came back, she felt like she was all alone now except for the baby, she didn’t even have her friend anymore. She planned to run and keep the couple’s baby. Even though she did, the other woman felt she would come back with it as she was a good person and would do the right thing. My guess is we still haven’t seen the end of this story.

Sam and Addison continued to fight over whether to hire Charlotte. Addison was for it, but Sam against it as he basically just didn’t like her. Even Cooper had some issues with her joining the practice.

The big story of course was Violet was called to testify against Katie. She was paralyzed with fear at first, and later Katie’s dad asked to meet her. He said how Katie was getting better and felt Violet was the only one helping her. He said he won’t excuse what she did, but if she goes to jail, she’ll not get help and relapse. He said Katie wanted to meet with her, and Violet agreed to hear her out. Katie seemed more calm and rational. She said she was not herself that night, she had to see it, she is not that monster. Violet let into her, saying she ripped her baby out, she left her to die, why should she care what Katie wants? It was an emotional performance, I think it’s going to get Amy an Emmy nom and possibly a win.

In the end, Violet did the right thing professionally by not lying, saying in her professional opinion Katie was delusional that night. Pete was furious with her, telling her later that Katie had to be punished. Violet then realized Katie hadn’t just hurt her, she hurt him as well. She reached out, but he backed away. He told Violet to “just come back to him” and walked off.

I’m not surprised that Violet did what was best for Katie, even if Katie didn’t deserve her sympathy. It’s who Violet is. I think in a way it will also help Violet heal . . . but now it seems Pete has to heal as well. I think he’s put all his focus on the baby that he’s ignoring his own issues. Why do I smell Sheldon to the rescue?