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Grey’s Anatomy
This Is How We Do It
Original Air Date: Mar 24, 2011
Angelique – Associate Staff Writer
Angelique@thetwocentscorp.com
I was convinced that the first new episode after the hiatus would be the musical episode, so I was happily surprised with this episode. After another long hiatus, Shonda Rhymes and her team of writers threw us another curve ball.
The race for Chief Resident is still on as long as Chief Webber doesn’t make a decision. So all of the Residents are running around trying to impress everyone and anyone they can but most of all the Chief. Alex is living in a trailer parked in the parking lot in front of the hospital. Webber is preoccupied with his trial and of course with Adele, who’s still in denial about the Alzheimer’s.
Webber wants Adele on Derek’s trial but he can’t put her on it because his trial is full and so is his waiting list. However Webber is not taking no for an answer and he even goes as far as telling Derek that he is sure that he’s going to do the right thing, obviously implying that Derek should move her up the waiting list. When one of Derek’s patients leaves the trial, he goes to Webber and tells him that Adele is in if she meets the requirements. But upon running more tests, they find out that Adele doesn’t meet them. During the tests when Meredith is asking the questions all I could think was that I am probably never able to count backwards from hundred by seven. So I kind of wonder how accurate that test is!
The scene were Adele finally realizes that she is indeed sick is heartbreaking, especially since Meredith and Derek are both there with the Chief and Adele when she does. And knowing that it might be in their own future must be hard but especially since this time it was about people that they both know personally.
Meanwhile Bailey has a patient who would be perfect for Webber’s trial but since he doesn’t have FDA approval yet he can’t help her. Miranda requests that her patient be put on the waiting list as the first patient because the patient could use the positivity. Webber promises to see if he can get the FDA to rush his request. However the patient deteriorates quickly and the trial operation is the only thing that could possibly save her. Webber has to make a choice: if the surgery fails he will lose everything in regards to the trial but if he doesn’t operate the woman will die. Webber goes ahead with the surgery before he actually gets the approval. Luckily for him the surgery goes well and the FDA approves Webber’s trial.
Mark and Arizona are in charge of Callie’s baby shower, something which Arizona is totally not into while Mark is going all out making sure that it is the best baby shower Callie has ever seen. Surprisingly, Callie and Mark seem to be on the exact same page while Arizona is the odd one out. In fact, Arizona seems to be ready to punch him at any moment and in true Mark fashion, he keeps pushing her buttons every chance he gets. Callie knows that Arizona is having a hard time and as an olive branch she asks Arizona to go to a Bed & Breakfast for a weekend away, a weekend for just the two of them.
While they are driving to the B&B the two of them get into a fight once again because of Mark when Callie wants to call him and Arizona throws her phone into the backseat. Callie unbuckles and retrieves the phone. Arizona, who has been struggling to find her place in their relationship in regards to the whole Mark being the baby’s daddy thing, asks Callie to marry her. But before Callie can answer the question, they crash into a truck.
First of all, I don’t think that next week’s episode will be Sara Ramirez’ last episode (I really hope not – fingers crossed). The show is a drama, it needs drama and we want it that way or we wouldn’t be watching it. Of course something had to happen – it was a given from the start! Sure it’s excruciating to watch that last scene knowing that next week’s episode is still days away. But at least it’s not the season finale!
Seriously though, for someone who has had to untangle so many bones and bodies for a living you would think that she would at least keep her seat belt on especially because she’s pregnant! And was Mark freaking out about Lexie really important enough to dive between the seats to retrieve her phone? I think that Arizona had a good point – that weekend was supposed to be about them not about mister baby daddy. They needed their alone time and with Mark around they were not really getting it. And Mark on his turn should have accepted the fact that they needed their time alone as well.
Callie’s twenty three and a half weeks pregnant, that is right on the border of premies who survive and that is without the trauma of a car crash. So with the baby it could go either way, but I think/hope that it will survive all the trauma and add to the drama in the following episodes.
I am looking forward to next weeks episode with anticipation and dread at the same time.
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