Private Practice – Recap & Review – Triangles

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Private Practice
Triangles

Original Air Date: Mar 11, 2010

Farrah Kaye – Associate Editor
farrah@thetwocentscorp.com

All of our doctors are a mess. Addison is with Pete but wants to be with Sam but he shacked up with Addison v.2.0 (aka Vanessa) and Pete wants Violet but she’s MIA so he’s “getting through it” by playing house with Addison. Charlotte is “making martinis” with Sheldon (yah, huh?) while Cooper is now finally alone. Dell…well he just flat out disappeared and Naomi likes two men and is just going with the “comfortable” one. I don’t feel sorry for any of these people! But it sure makes for good drama.

Addison is at the park with Lucas and Pete and is mistaken for Lucas’ mother … which freaks her out. I particularly think it’s cute, but who am I to judge? Sheldon, Coop and Charlotte awkwardly take an elevator trip together after the whole Charlotte/Sheldon sex-on-the-couch that Cooper walked in on. Addison checks on a patient, Kayla, who is carrying triplets for a couple. Kayla has a blood clot and the triplets are putting too much strain on her body – so Addison suggests aborting two of the fetuses. Addison says if they don’t do the procedure, Kayla will die. The couple is against it though. Naomi, Fife and William are going over a protocol for ALS when William drops a mug of coffee on the floor as Pete watches on. Fife has an idea for a protocol and suggests going to dinner with Naomi to talk about it and William agrees to cancel his date with Naomi in order for her to do so. Coop is stitching up a little girl’s head who has an imaginary friend and he goes to Sheldon for the consult. Cooper tells Sheldon that Charlotte is using him to get back at him and Sheldon doesn’t buy it. Naomi goes to Addison so they can both complain about why they hate their lives. Naomi:“My current lover wants me to go to dinner with the man who wants me to be my future lover.” Addison just doesn’t want to be Lucas’ mother, but really she’s not over Sam (but Naomi doesn’t know that part). Vanessa is in the office visiting Addison as a second opinion on the Kayla case (she was called by the soon-to-be parents).

Vanessa says keeping the triplets inside Kayla is safe and Addison says it’s not. Kayla’s husband is 100% against it and the couple obviously want to keep the triplets alive as long as possible. Sheldon finishes his visit with the little girl, Maggie, and says it’s worse than isolation but rather she’s schizophrenic and they need to address the problem as soon as possible before it gets worse. Cooper is against the medication (and the idea as a whole) but Sheldon fights him on it. Is Cooper really fighting Sheldon the doctor or Sheldon Charlotte’s new man? (I think we all know the answer…) The hopeful mother begs Addison to let the babies stay alive and gives a speech about it being her last option and how she’s bonded with the babies and Addison says it’s not about any of that but keeping Kayla alive. Cooper and Sheldon sit with Maggie’s parents to tell them about the schizophrenia and they don’t want to accept the diagnosis, mainly her father (he’s afraid of her being locked up somewhere). Her mother, on the other hand, seems more concerned and welcome to the idea of treatment. William visits Pete who is trying to open a jar and it’s not working. William asks Pete about alternative treatments for ALS to go against Fife’s work. Pete has figured out that William has ALS and asks him how long he has had it. He’s been sick for 8 years and was in remission until the previous year. He also tells Pete that Naomi doesn’t know and expects him not to tell her and asks him to do the study. Addison goes to Sam and tells him, professionally, that his girlfriend “sucks.” Addison asks Sam to back off and he says he can’t – he’s performing the surgery for Vanessa. Oh snap!

Sam is doing the surgery as Addison and Vanessa look on – and argue. Sam is trying to get rid of the blood clot and tells them both to shut up or get out. He gets rid of the blood clot, but this is Private Practice, do you really think it’s gonna end there? Doubt it. In the breakroom, Cooper is being childish and mean to Sheldon and finally elbows him the face and then they fight like they’re in high school until Charlotte walks in and tells them “ENOUGH!” Over dinner, Fife isn’t spending any of the time talking about ALS and wants to get drunk and have a date. Naomi says it’s a business dinner instead of a date. Oh Naomi, get with the program! Addison is at Pete’s and whining about Sam and Vanessa and Pete wants to tell her about William but Addison tells him she would tell Naomi. When Lucas is awake, Addison says she is going to go home and Pete thinks she is leaving because she is freaked out by the woman who thought she was Lucas’ mother. Pete throws out the “where do we stand?” question, tells her he could fall in love with her and she pretty much avoids it and leaves. Addison says they “shouldn’t do it…” whatever “it” now means. Sheldon goes to Charlotte to ask him if she slept with him to get back at Cooper and she says no and lists off the reason swhy she did sleep with him – and then slams the door in his face. Addison knocks on Sam’s door in the middle of the night about the surgery being wrong and that if she gloats about being right that means something goes wrong. And then tells Sam about what Pete said and asks him about his relationship with Vanessa. Then leaves. And comes back … to ramble about her not being able to have kids and Pete having Lucas and how it scares her. It makes sense to Sam but Pete doesn’t get it. Sam gets her, Pete doesn’t. Then she leaves, for real. Oy, my head hurts.

Like usual, instead of making an appointment, Addison meets Sheldon in the elevator and asks for advice on Sam/Vanessa and Pete/Lucas. Sheldon just lets her speak (and we find out she likes Vanessa as a person but not as a doctor) and that she likes being with Pete and Lucas and Sam. Sheldon starts talking about her mother and how she kept secrets from her and all the deep-rooted feelings she harbors … she has “mommy issues” and Sam, Pete and Lucas all represent a different part of the mommy issue. The problem is, Sheldon can’t fix it, he can’t choose … only she can and she has to do it by growing up. Maggie’s mother comes to visit Cooper and tells him of a time when she first noticed the schizophrenia signs but that she can’t tell her husband. Pete goes to Naomi to talk about Addison and tells him to give her the benefit of the doubt. Pete starts grilling Naomi about William and how well she knows him but doesn’t tell her about his ALS. Addison sees Sam in the breakroom and before they can say anything Naomi interrupts them but before they can talk, they get paged about Kayla – she has another clot. Addison now has to go in and reduce the number of babies before she dies. Sheldon is meeting with Maggie, asking her questions about her imaginary friend as her parents look on. Her father is not happy at all. Maggie tells Sheldon about the time she killed her cat because her imaginary friend (Eli) told her to. Her father, Joe, doesn’t want to believe what’s going on and demands Sheldon stop the questioning.

Addison is scrubbing in to the surgery when Vanessa comes in and says she thought she was right and Addison tells her when she gets in the OR to shut up and observe. Vanessa asks if it is about Sam and Addison says maybe it was about Sam at first but now it’s about her. Pete goes to Fife about the ALS study and William having his own agenda and tells Fife that William’s “agenda” is having ALS and whatever Fife’s “agenda” is he should do the right thing. He also tells Fife that Naomi doesn’t know. Sheldon and Joe are arguing about Maggie and Joe assumes they are going to lock her up and they’ve never once mentioned that so Sheldon digs deeper and it winds up that Joe’s sister was schizophrenic, like Maggie, and was locked up and she killed herself. Sheldon and Cooper remind him that treatments have changed and have advanced since then and it doesn’t have to end that way for Maggie. In the operating room, Kayla has formed another clot and begins to crash while Addison is operating. Naomi says that Fife’s protocol is good and she is on board with it. He says her protocol might have been the way to go. She calls him by his first name (man, when was the last time we heard him called Gabriel?) and tells him to raise his chair – higher and higher – and finally … she kisses him! FINALLY! My only question is if Naomi’s protocol really is the better one or if Fife is telling her that so William won’t get better? Hmm. Addison and Vanessa go to the waiting room to visit with Kayla’s husband and the hopeful parents. Kayla is brain dead but all three babies survived. She is now a human vessel for the babies. Kayla’s husband yells at Vanessa and the couple that they killed Kayla. Well, yah, they did. And Addison was right – she can gloat, but it doesn’t feel good. Wonder how Sam is gonna feel?

Maggie and her parents are at the hospital meeting with the psychiatrists and her parents go with her for her treatment, just as Sheldon and Cooper promised. Sheldon and Cooper apologize for hitting each other. Addison looks on at Kayla and it makes her think of Pete and Lucas. She tells him she wants to make the right choice – she tells him maybe she can be in love with him too (are they gonna give it a go? Yay!). Sheldon goes to Charlotte and apologizes for fighting over her with Cooper and she tells him to shut up and kisses him. Okay, that’s kind of cute! Sam goes to Addison’s office while she’s crying over Kayla and he says he’s sorry. They have a talk about “bad calls” … Vanessa made a bad call with the surgery, Addison being with Sam would have been a bad call … and then Addison tells Sam she is going to be with Pete, although he doesn’t seem happy. They take each other’s hands and they lay on each other when Naomi walks in and assumes, well, ya know. Addison admits to Naomi there was one kiss and Naomi says “shame on you” and walks out. So, all of that drama for Naomi getting hurt in the end any way? Oh geez!

Next week’s preview is preview of a repeat, which confuses me. Maybe my local station messed up? Who knows.

This week bothered me beyond belief. Did we really have to show that Sam made the wrong choice by having a woman go into a coma? However, I loved the Sheldon/Cooper storyline. Not only because it made them have to get over their Charlotte issue, but because the patient they were helping had such a strong storyline and I love when they have child actors go so deep. And not only did the child have an issue but they helped the father as well. I’m not happy about the Sam/Addison/Naomi drama because we went through so much because of Addison wanting to protect Naomi and it still ended up hurting her anyway … and right when she figured out she wanted to be with Pete! So now what? Will that all change because Naomi thinks they’re together and Sam is obviously not into Vanessa? Okay, I obviously have a lot to say but I want to hear from you! Leave YOUR two cents below!

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