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Grey’s Anatomy
P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing)
Original Air Date: Feb 10, 2011
Angelique – Associate Staff Writer
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Meredith has to make a choice. Webber – who has been reading her mother’s diaries and in one of them he found something that might be a start to finding a cure to diabetes – believes that it is her legacy which Meredith’s mother left for her. He wants Meredith’s blessing and help to continue in the research and do a clinical trial. Meredith tells him that she’s already doing a trial – since she’s working with Derek on the Alzheimer’s trial – and that she can’t do two at the same time.
Webber asks her to choose between the two trials and tells her that he believes that it is what her mother would have wanted. Meredith is really struggling with the choice but in the end she chooses to stay with the Alzheimer’s trial and gives Webber his research back.
Lexie’s has her own struggles with the whole Mark becoming a father to Callie’s baby thing. She’s mad because Mark made this huge life changing decision without even considering her feelings or asking her opinion about anything. And then on top of all of that Thatcher Grey appears in the hospital with abdominal pains. Since he received a liver transplant (with Meredith’s liver) the immediate concern goes to rejection. When Lexie and Meredith hear from Bailey about their father – she thought they knew he was there – Lexie runs off to find him while Meredith runs in the other direction per usual.
When Lexie finds her father, she’s confronted with his new girlfriend – a twenty-something tattooed girl. Lexie’s having none of it, in fact she’s downright rude to the girl. She even goes as far as asking Meredith for help. But Meredith isn’t really interested in her father or his girlfriend for that matter. It turns out that Thatcher has a kidney stone and that his liver is okay. Danielle, his girlfriend, has been taking care of him and has been able to provide Bailey with some real clues as to what might be the problem. Thanks to Avery’s help Lexie sees that she might have been wrong all along and that her anger towards the whole situation with Mark might have been clouding her judgment.
Alex Karev has never been the most sensitive person at SGMW but overall he is a great surgeon who is insightful and who cares deeply for his patients. But every now and again the insensitive behavior clashes with another person. This time it is Dr. Fields who falls over a comment he makes when he runs into the NICU. He asks her where the cabbage patch is (he’s talking about a baby who after a forty hour labor ended up being brain dead). The baby’s heart is a perfect match to another baby who, without it, will not survive.
Dr. Fields, who was the mothers’ OB GYN and the one who delivered the baby, gets very mad at the disrespectful way he talks about the kid and tells Alex to get out of the NICU before she bans him. Fields talks to Arizona about Alex’s behavior and she takes over his case. Alex is very annoyed because he spent a long time on the case and he’s convinced that he deserves to be in the OR despite the comment he made.
Arizona, Teddy and Cristina work on the baby while Alex watches the operation from the gallery. Dr. Fields joins him and together they watch the operation. Alex tries to apologize but he also mentions that he thinks that she overreacted. Dr. Fields tells him that while his patient is being saved in the OR, her patient died. The mother of her patient went through a horrendous forty hour labor only to have the baby she was promised die.
Owen and Callie work together on a guy who thought that it would be fun to catapult himself over a house to land into a pool. Instead he slammed into a wall fracturing several bones in his body and dislocating both of his hips. They filmed what happened and wanted to post it online. His friend came with him to the hospital and continues to film everything that happened.
Callie’s pregnant and she has both Arizona and Mark watching her every step of the way, but sometimes the two of them take it a little too far. Arizona doesn’t want Callie to drink coffee – instead she’s prepared a goo for Callie to drink because it is good for her. It looks really gross and had chunks in it. The perky blond gets Mark to gang up on Callie and they take votes. Of course it is two against one.
Callie reluctantly drinks the goo but during the day while she’s working and after Arizona effectively gets her away from another coffee, Callie decides that it is enough. When she arrives home she tells Mark and Arizona – who are making her a healthy meal – that the voting which Arizona introduced into their co-parenting triangle can still remain but that the baby should get a vote as well. And since the baby is inside of Callie she gets to choose what the baby votes and because she’s the one who’s going to have to push the baby out of her vagina, her vagina gets another vote. So whatever Arizona and Mark come up with Callie is always one vote ahead.
This was a pretty regular episode. Don’t get me wrong it was good but nothing major happened, no big developments in story lines or anything. I guess I’m looking forward to the next episode and hope for some more exciting story lines. Maybe they could give Avery a decent story line, or April for that matter because they could both use one. What are your thoughts? Leave your two cents below.
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