There was no resolution in either the death row or bad-liver kid cases again this week, and although the Dizzy situation is still going on, on all other accounts (Hunt’s post-battlefield trauma, Mer and Der’s love life, Der’s wacky mother, the nurturing friendship between Sloane and Torres), Grey’s Anatomy is hitting some of its highest notes since season one. – Carrie Bell
Live(r) of Die: Derek (Partick Dempsey), dead set on not letting the serial killer (Eric Stoltz) cheat the system, wanted to let him stay in the hospital with all-you-can-eat Jello and pretty women, because he didn’t want him to die naturally from his brain contusions instead of being executed. Meanwhile, Bailey (Chandra Wilson) woke up peds doc Arizona at 2:30 a.m. to chat about creative ways to move Jackson (the sick kid from last week) up the organ donor list and chewed out Sadie for talking out of turn with his mom and called her squirrelly.
After a chance meeting in the hall, the bad guy offered Jackson his liver and intestines. Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) tested her patient and he was a match, but the docs agreed to play by the rules this time. They got the call they were praying for. Arizona and Alex (Justin Chambers) flew to pick up the organs, and she grilled him about whether Izzie (Katherine Heigl) was the one. He was said nonchalantly that he was not the type to think ahead. Seeing the child donor rattled Alex and he took it out on Arizona during the flight back when she brought up Valentine’s Day.
During the surgery, Sadie noticed that the organs were dying. Simultaneously, the con started coding and begged Mer to let him die instead of operating. Der and Yang (Sandra Oh) rushed in and took over. When Mer refused to sign the form, Der yelled at her and asked Yang to scrub in instead. After Bailey told Mer that the only thing left to do was “wait for a miracle,” Mer told the patient that his surgery left part of his brain exposed and if it were to get damaged, he would die. Before he beat himself, he asked if she was doing this for the kid or for him. She dodged the question.
Mommy Dearest: Mama McSteamy came for a visit and Mer met her potential mother-in-law for the first time. Over a strained lunch, Mer fled the scene when her dead parents came up, but eventually came clean to McMama about “being a fraud” and admitted that she was “dark and cloudy and felt bad for serial killers.” Later Der’s mom gave her wedding ring to her son because his dad wanted him to have it “for the right girl.” Der wondered how she could tell after spending less than an hour with Mer. “I know enough. I know it is easier to have compassion for a good person than a murderer. I know how angry you still are about dad. You see things in black and white and Meredith doesn’t. You need a spoonful of that. You need her. She’s the one.”
Mother Knows Best: McSteamy (Eric Dane) and Lil Grey (Chyler Leigh) are still going strong — although Lexie was becoming much more wanton about their secret. Feeling guilty, Mark avoided McMama until she caught him in the cafeteria and asked why he had the same look as he did “when he put Derek’s favorite frog in the microwave.” He came clean about his bed buddy just as Lexie put a juice box to her lips, furthering his pervert complex. McMama confronted Lexie on her sexual partner tally and criminal record and reported back that he was doing the right thing because he “has the emotional maturity of a horny 15 year old.”
On the Hunt: Hunt (Kevin McKidd) finally asked Yang out on a date, but showed up late and drunk, claiming he was trying to take the edge off because he hadn’t had a date in five years. “I will make this up to you,” he told her. “This is not what you deserve.” She demanded Dr. Good Times take a shower before they discuss further and he ran for her bathroom. The fully-clothed cold shower was apparently what he needed to open up. He told a war story about a man whose life he saved by laying on him so that he wouldn’t bleed out, but who later shot himself and Yang got in to comfort him.
Dizzy Up The Girl: Izzie had overheard the invite and tried to chat with Yang about her date. Her excitement made her painfully aware that she couldn’t do those things with Denny and dumped the dead guy. “I want to meet your mother. I want to go on a date. I want to eat dinner at a restaurant and not look like a crazy person … I want you alive,” she told him. Alex came home, affected by the organ pickup experience, and suggested that he and Izzie road trip to Iowa to see corn and meet his mom. Denny appeared and sat down on the bed next to Alex saying they needed to talk. Thankfully, Alex didn’t talk back, eliminating the possibility of joint hallucinations or a phantasmal threesome!
Tell us: Did Mer do the right thing in telling the convict how to kill himself? What did Denny wanted to tell Alex? What do you make of the Hunt-Yang coupling?
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