Private Practice – Recap & Review – Love and Lies

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Private Practice
Love and Lies

Original Air Date: Mar 17, 2011

Farrah Kaye – Sr. Editor
farrah@thetwocentscorp.com

Remember that time when Naomi and Sam kissed passionately while Addison was off grieving for her mother? Yah, I barely do either, but it happened a few weeks ago and we’ve been waiting a while to see the consequences of that kiss.

Elsewhere, Fife is back (eep!), Violet is putting the final touches on her book, Amelia needs to make a big decision regarding a friend’s life (she has friends?) and a slew of the doctors go at each other over a controversial case.

Amelia: Amelia and her friend are at a bar (first off, hello hottie walking by! Second of all, who knew Amelia had friends outside of the practice?) and her friend is telling her the woes of watching her mother die of complications from Huntington’s Disease. The gene can be passed down but her friend doesn’t know. Amelia forces the issue and she decides to get tested. If she’s negative – a trip to Italy. If she’s positive – suicide. Woah. That’s intense. The test comes back positive but Amelia keeps it a secret and lies. She uses Pete as a sounding board who tells her it’s a bad idea. Eventually, Amelia decides to tell her friend the truth, promising to be there along the way – and when the symptoms become too much, she’ll kill her herself.

Violet: As if her book wasn’t annoying enough, this week Violet has to pick the picture for the back of her book. There are dozens of sexy pictures but Pete says they’re too much. She eventually decides to go with honest and vulnerable by showing her scars from when she was attacked.

Sheldon: He’s sick of being everyone’s “non-boyfriend boyfriend.” What does that mean? The man needs a woman – stat.

Naomi, Sam and FIFE: Fife (Gabriel if you prefer) is back and wants Naomi. He tries to woo her but Naomi is about as stable as a coffee shop table. She still has William on her mind, had a brief romp with Archer and recently “got nostalgic” with Sam (yes, that is what they’re referring to their kiss as). Ultimately, Naomi decides it’s time to move on from the people and the practice. Not before pointing out all the bad things they have all done, though. Fife offers to go with Naomi but she turns him down, despite his beyond sweet gesture (um, ridiculously sweet – borderline creepy). Peace out, Audra.

Naomi: Just coming back here, I’m just not sure anymore. How far is too far for everyone? I’m sorry…I just – nothing feels right here anymore. I wish it did, but it just doesn’t. I can’t. I just can’t be here.
Gabriel: Then, come with me then. I was over you…over you. Back at the NIH doing the kind of work I love, and they were happy to have me back…excited about the cutting edge research I was doing for them. They threw money at me. Research grants, post docs, unlimited lab resources – It was a dream job and I had it all. I had everything, almost everything. I quit my job and walked out on them. Sold my place and sold everything I owned. I came out here to be with you.
Naomi: You’re my past, Gabriel. You’re all my past.
(Naomi leaves…)

Addison: Still grieving over her mother’s death, Addison is thrown into to the case of a woman whose baby won’t survive when it’s born. The parents want to use the little girl’s eggs to have a baby of their own. Charlotte, Cooper, Naomi and Addison all go back and forth about what to do. The woman goes into labor and doesn’t want to see the baby but Cooper does. He reflects on what the little girl could have grown up to be. This clicks in Addison’s head and she brings the baby to the couple and they hold their baby. Instead of possibly getting a chance at a baby, they need to spend time with the one they have now. No surgery on the baby. Score for Addison (and Cooper). Watching the couple deal with their grief for their dying child helps Addison move on from her grief for Bizzy (which caused random bursts of crying throughout the episode). Oh and she sorta knows something went on with Sam and Naomi but they were “just being nostalgic” (and Naomi and Sam “trump” Addison and Sam..). She doesn’t find out about the kiss specifically because Naomi goes on this wild speech about how she needs to leave.

Next week … Addison wants a baby. She has pregnancy symptoms. She takes a pregnancy test. Has a miracle occurred?

So … Naomi is gone. Cooper loves kids. Sheldon wants a woman. Amelia is a good friend. Fife is ridiculously sweet. Addison is done grieving. That pretty much sums it up. (Other than come on, do we really think Addison is pregnant? Um, no.) What are your thoughts? Leave your two cents below.

Line of the night goes to Naomi, for telling Addison how it will always be:
Naomi: You know what. Your boyfriend was my husband for 17 years. He married me. I had his child. So, unless you ever hit those milestones, my relationship with Sam will always trump yours.