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'Grey's Anatomy': Lexie goes rogue surgeon in the basement
The Grey's Anatomy Meredith Grey Voiceover this week is about adult monsters: self-doubt, regret, etc. It leads us into Denny and Izzie getting to do something they never got to do in real life. And the clothes come off! Bomp-chicka-wah-wah.
Christina arrives at the hospital to wait for a trauma coming in and Dr. Hunt tries to engage her in conversation. He's nervous as a schoolboy.
Sadie finds Meredith reading her mother's journals, saying if she weren't Ellis Grey's daughter, she probably would've liked her because she was funny, intense and a lot like Christina. Out in the hall, everyone hears Izzie moaning in ecstasy and Alex knocks on the door. She begs off, saying she's sick with the flu.
Seattle Grace. Meredith, Christina, George and Alex all jump at the appendectomy. Bailey sends George with Hunt and a trauma victim, Alex off with another doctor, and tells Mere and Christina to jump in on the surgery. Down in the basement, the interns are practicing on each other some more. This time it involves an epideral and the Crazy-Ass Interns decide they should do an appendectomy themselves. Sadie and Lexie are spearheading this jaunt into Crazyville, with Sadie volunteering to be the patient.
The trauma victim suddenly wakes up and starts yelling about saving his daughter Ivy. He thrashes about and finally ends up hitting Callie so hard that she flies back from the table and crashes to the floor with a bloody nose and loses consciousness.
Alex's stomach pain patient. She looks familiar and OHMYGODITSWILLBAILEYILOVEHIM! Sorry, I am just a big Joshua Malina fan and I'm STILL not over the West Wing being off the air. When John Spencer died, I cried like I was related to him. Ahem. Anyway. Malina is playing Seth, the husband of the stomach pain woman. She thinks it's stomach cancer because of what she read on the internet. Yes, self-diagnosis is always the way to go.
Sloan works on Callie's broken nose. I like these two together, I was sad they briefly turned her into a lesbian. Callie is in quite the place of self-pity and asks Sloan if he'll still be her friend and have sex with her whenever she wants. Awesome. I need one of those. And if he looks like McSteamy... all the better.
Trauma victim is informed that he was having a bad dream and jumped out a window. He's on drugs for his episodes that started a few years ago when his wife passed away, but he says he must've forgotten the latest one. His daughter looks haunted.
Derek comes upon Sloan and Lil Grey in the medical supply closet (both getting medical supplies. Not a euphemism.) and Eric Dane's delivery is priceless. "I needed some medical supplies and found the intern in the supply closet. I did not invite the intern into the supply closet."
Interns OR of Crazy. Sadie is numbed up and ready for her appendectomy. Lexie is wielding the scapel and I cannot wait until she kills her sister's BFF from med school. That oughta add some much-needed drama to the lives of the Sisters Grey. Lexie balks at the surgery, so Sadie the BadAss (we get it!) grabs the scapel and opens herself up so that they have to do the surgery.
The interns comment that her appendix looks inflamed and one nervous intern says that they need to call a resident because this surgery is no longer routine if the appendix is inflamed. Nervous Intern leaves.
Sloan talks to trauma victim's daughter. She blames herself for not being able to talk him back into bed. He's worried about her not sleeping and she says she's fine, with circles under her eyes the size of saucers.
Will Bailey and his wife. Alex informs her that by self-treating with antibiotics, she's killed her healthy bacteria and now they have to give her a fecal transplant. They want her husband to poop into a bowl so that they can feed it to her via a tube. Oh wow.
Mere and Christina come upon Nervous Intern and wonder where have all the interns gone? Aw, just like Paula Cole used to sing! Alex wanders up and Mere remembers Sadie said something about the skills lab. Christina heads off to the skills lab and Epideral Intern is sitting there in bed. He still can't get up due to the drugs and has to ashamedly admit to Christina what they did. Meanwhile, Lexie has sought out Meredith for help with Sadie.
Bedroom of Tumors and Delusions and Sex. Izzie cuddles with Denny, convinced this is like that moment in the morning between sleeping and waking, so she's just going to lie there with her eyes closed. All the Izzie/Denny scenes have thus far been accompanied by ominous rumbles of thunder and crashes of lightning. I enjoy that.
OR of Craziness. Mere and Christina jump into the surgery and instruct the interns to get Bailey and the Chief. They manage not to throttle the interns.
Poop Girl. She won't admit to her husband that all her self-diagnoses are wrong. She genuinely believes that there are scary things that could happen to her and she doesn't understand how her husband doesn't understand.
Trauma victim. The doctors believe it could be epilepsy, asking Ivy how often he sleepwalks. She confesses that he took his meds like usual and still woke up screaming like always. She tearfully says she tried to stay up so she could talk him back into bed. He takes such good care of her during the day, she thinks the least she can do is take care of him at night. Awww, what a good little good (and actress). But the sleepwalking is caused by epilepsy, not the stress of raising a 13 year-old daughter.
House of the Rising Delusions. Izzie wakes to find Denny gone and when he comes out of the bathroom, she flips out on him because when he died he left her all alone and now she's probably going crazy. She screams about blaming herself for his death because she convinced him to cut the LVAD wire. I hate this storyline, but I like Katherine Heigl, I must say. Denny says he loves her.
Bailey joins the appendectomy, which now means Sadie will be fine because Bailey is a kick-ass awesome hero lady. She immediately starts instructing Christina and Meredith, ever the consummate teacher. I heart Bailey so much. Lexie hangs her head in shame and relief.
Interns. George cannot believe Lexie would do that without him and she says that for once she did soemthing that didn't involve getting him to notice her. After she walks away, Nervous Intern cannot believe George didn't know Lexie was in love him. But we all know George DID know and just pretends that he didn't.
Crazy House. Izzie gets a 911 page and has to leave. She is scared Denny is going back to Heaven or wherever he goes, now that she's had her night of closure. He reassures her that he isn't going anywhere. Hmmm.
Trauma victim surgery. The male surgeons have a thin-veiled conversation about not being able to talk to someone in their lives. George/Lexie and Hunt/Christina, obviously. Sloan talks to the daughter, sympathizing in not being able to sleep because you don't feel safe in your own house. He takes her coffee cup and says she needs to sleep, patting his shoulder. She leans over and it's very cute.
The Chief's office. Mere and Christina are lauded for handling the crisis, performing the surgery, and calling for help immediately instead of hiding it. Lexie bursts in and tries to keep them from getting in trouble, blurting out that Christina tried to stop them YESTERDAY. The Chief is furious that Christina knew for a whole day, though it was just sutures and not an appendectomy.
Christina and Meredith have it out in an empty room. Christina cannot believe Meredith didn't defend her in there, saying Meredith has a relationship with the Chief and she stood by and did nothing for Christina while he basically took her out of the running for solo surgery.
Bailey tells her group of interns (Christina, Mere, George, Alex and I'm assuming Izzie, if she can drag herself away from the sex ghost) have to talk to the interns themselves. They make the interns present Sadie as a patient like they do on rounds. Meredith puts every intern on probation from this day forward and they won't see the inside of the OR until further notice.
Alex says they have lost his respect and one snotty intern points out that he still respects Izzie Stevens. Alex shoves him up against the wall (yeah, Iowa wrestler!) and tells him saving a man's life and cutting up your friend for fun are two ENTIRELY different things. Izzie has, of course, arrived and overhears Alex defending her.
Bailey checks on Callie, all drugged up and in a nose brace. Callie cannot believe what the interns did, but Bailey sympathizes with being so excited about surgery and wanting to operate so badly. She's sad that surgery doesn't excite her that way anymore. Callie and Bailey commiserate over being exhausted and wanting more. Nice scene by those actresses.
Meredith Grey Voiceover time. Sloan lays Ivy down in a bed, Meredith checks on Sadie and reams her out, Sloan tells Derek that Lexie is all alone and needs a family, so either Derek brings her home or Sloan will, and Christina finds Hunt sitting on her doorstep. He's so awkward it's adorable. They sit on the stoop and he tells her she's beautiful. Awww. My heart just grew 3 sizes.
Meredith comes home to find Lexie in the kitchen. Derek tells her they've taken her in as a stray too. Alex and Izzie come home and she confesses that she's a mess right now and that he deserves better. He tells her that if this is too much for her, she can break up with him but that he isn't going anywhere because he can handle the mess. From a nearby doorway, Denny looks sad and Izzie tells him she's sorry. He says he'll still be right here for her.
Okay, guys. This Denny ghost thing is so freaking weird. Are they going to give Heigl a brain tumor and kill her off? I mean, that would certainly garner some ratings for February sweeps and probably provide some amazing scenes for Heigl and Justin Chambers. But I just find this so weird. Also, I always liked Alex and Izzie, ever since the show started. I'd like to see the writers get past this Denny thing and keep Alex and Izzie together. One of my favorite images of the entire show is still him picking her up in his arms in her beautiful pink dress and cradling her while she cries over Denny. They're great together.
If Sloan sleeps with Lexie... ew.
I think you mean Dr. Hunt at the beginning or your recap.
Celeste | Nov 21, 2008 11:26:37 AM | #Don't you think an intern or group of interns that did something so stupid would be kicked out?
Thomas | Nov 21, 2008 11:32:21 AM | #Celeste, you are correct. Awkward redheaded doctor and off-the-show lesbian are two completely different people. Fixing right now. : )
Andrea | Nov 21, 2008 11:33:06 AM | #Sandra(the creator of Grey's) has said that her favorite storyline this season is Izzie's and there is more than meets the eye. So before anyone says they hate the storyline let it play out first please. I loved this episode, but i have loved about 98% of all the Grey's Anatomy episodes. To me this season could be the best ever. I also hope Dr.Hunt and Christina end up together for good, I didn't really like her and Burke together, but I think her and Hunt could be an amazing couple.
Ryan | Nov 21, 2008 11:40:24 AM | #This show suddenly got really weird.
David | Nov 21, 2008 11:40:48 AM | #Yeah, substitute "Hunt" for "Hahn" throughout!
Best scenes: Callie & Bailey and Sloan & the little girl.
If it weren't for Bailey I would stop watching the show. I fastforward the parts with the Ghost and the blonde one. The show could have been done without that part. I look forward to reading other takes.
LT | Nov 21, 2008 11:45:51 AM | #LT have you ever watched the show before? You don't even know Izzie and Denny.
Ryan | Nov 21, 2008 11:47:03 AM | #Andrea, I too loved the scene where Alex comforted Izzy after Denny died. Through all his a**ed-ness, deep down, he loved Izzy even then.
Ryan, I keep trying not to outguess the writers, but I can't help but wonder how the Denny issue is going to be resolved! LOL.
alia | Nov 21, 2008 12:17:34 PM | #For the first time ever since Grey's first aired, I turned the channel as soon as the whole Izzie / Denny thing started. I just can't take it, it's so stupid to me. And believe me, I am the easiest of "easily entertained". It's just stupid (IMHO), even if she does have a brain tumor or whatever weird road they're taking us down. I'll watch it on line where I can skip past those parts.
Oh, another one of my fave Alex / Izzie moments was the first time he kissed her at the bar. Aaahh, what a kiss!
Andrea, I heart your recaps!
Cathy | Nov 21, 2008 12:35:56 PM | #You people are DUMB. Alex and Izzie?? NO CHEMISTERY. NONE. Izzie and George did. Izzie and Denny did. Alex and Izzie have NONE. They are not even respecting the FRIENDSHIP that George & Izzie had. Sandra (The Creator) has lost sight of this show. Creators get too close to the show they create to know what the heck to do with it. The actors you hire to fill the show you created have a HUGE part in were the show should go. You need to, as a creator, let go of were you thought you'd take the show and let the chemistery of the actors tell you wear to go.
Izzie and Alex?? Are you people kidding. Can you not see?? Oh, wait a minute you are seeing what's NOT there.
Sigh. If it wasn't for the Chief (Who they SHOULD make be Merediths' father), Bailey and George, I would no longer be watching this show.
Dave
Dave | Nov 21, 2008 12:43:01 PM | #Jeez Dave... judgmental much?
Cathy | Nov 21, 2008 12:45:15 PM | #I love Mark Sloan - Goodness, I'd lay my head on his shoulder anytime!! Get this man a decent storyline!!
Ryan, i think LT was just saying it that way to be funny!
Dave, I have to respectfully disagree. The George/Izzie storyline made me stop watching for awhile. They were great as friends, but I did not believe them as a couple at all.
I've always liked Alex and Izzie.
Andrea | Nov 21, 2008 12:53:36 PM | #I'm sorry, but I'm pretty sure that all those interns would be fired right away. Atleast half of them. Little odd for Sloan to bond with the little girl seems like more of a George storyline.
I also didn't get the whole Christine pissed at Meredith thing. What was Mer suppose to do, stand up upon hearing the news for the first time. "actually Chief I knew all about it and scolded Christina for wanting to tell you and urged her to keep it secret". Christinia should have defended herself, about what happened, its not up to Meredith to make something up. Also I'm looking forward to whether or not Mer, Chris,Izzie & Alex get in any trouble for not teaching their interns. Of course I don't recall Bailey looking over their shoulder and teaching them a bunch of crap either.
| Nov 21, 2008 12:59:34 PM | #most viewers (myself included) didn't think there was any chemistry between George/Izzie.
that relationship was pure YUCK as soon as it crossed over the friendship line.
oh Andrea, i hadn't seen your comment before i posted. guess we were on the same wavelength!
I never thought George and Izzie had chemistry either. But, I've also always disliked Alex so I could care less about him and Izzie.
Meee | Nov 21, 2008 1:20:52 PM | #George & Izzie were great as friends, icky as anything else. Izzie & Alex are great together. I HATE the Izzie/GhostDenny storyline - I think it cheapens everything that went before. And the creator is Shonda, not Sandra, for pete's sake.
Morgan | Nov 21, 2008 1:25:50 PM | #I agree - why does everyone dump on Meredith? I don't remember Christina willingly standing up for Izzie during the whole LVAD thing. And the Chief has gone out of his way to not have a relationship with Meredith -too many memories. And Christina has always been out for herself - there is no way she would have covered for Meredith.
Jade | Nov 21, 2008 1:38:21 PM | #I cringed every time Izzie and Denny were on- there is no sensible way to end this storyline. I'm glad that the interns got caught, because it was quite unbelievable. I like Sloan and Bailey, and appreciate the addition of Hunt, but this show is a pale imitation of what it used to be.
| Nov 21, 2008 1:40:30 PM | #Great show last night! The less I see of Meredith and Derek the happier I am. Funny thing is they are my least favorite characters.
I don't care why Denny is back. All I know is I'm one happy viewer. I adore Denny and Izzy together!
Christina is my favorite character and I never liked her with Burke. It was like they tried to make a sex thing into a relationship. I loved last night when Christina asked Hunt if he wanted to come upstairs and he said something about that not being a good idea. I'm so loving these two together.
Jocephus | Nov 21, 2008 2:58:18 PM | #
As much as I love having Denny back I don't understand where this story line is going. I am giving Shonda the benefit of the doubt but it better start to make sense soon.
Also I love Mark, he really does need a story line. The I needed some medical supplies and found the intern in the supply closet. I did not invite the intern into the supply closet" was my favorite line of the night.
Dave's always gonna be a gizzie shipper, so you can't blame his disdain towards alex.
the only thing i miss between izzie and george is their friendship. lexie seems to be the substitute for izzie now. when was the last time we saw george and izzie having a conversation with each other?
like denny, hate the romance. period.
sloan and lexie? a big EWW...
shonda said izzie doesn't have a brain tumor. so cancel that theory out.
i believe that this episode was poorly written, yet SUPERBLY acted. from callie's instant facial reaction to the "i'll have sex with you, once youre face gets better" to meredith and cristina's argument to izzie's fight with denny!
you gotta admit, aside from the weird storylines, grey's anatomy has one of the most talented casts on television now.
john t. | Nov 21, 2008 5:52:56 PM | #
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