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The full squad tries to figure out what would require 18 doctors as they enter a large surgical room. They are introduced to the "Domino effect." If you are thinking that is a room where people in physical therapy are in a tight line and you push one and see how long it takes them all to fall down, you are wrong, and mean. Actually it is 6 kidney transplants in one day. All donors are somehow related to a recipient, however the recipient didn't match their loved one. So it's a 6 way-cross relationship-match-donorship.

It has the domino effect name, because all 6 surgeries have to happen at the same time so that nobody backs out. If one person backs out, everyone will. Because who wants to donate to someone they don't know, if their loved one isn't getting an organ. Make sense? (It will, when the obvious house of cards begins to fall later in the episode).

Meanwhile as all hands are on deck for the six surgeries, McD is tied up all day with press interviews to discuss the Shepherd Method. Meredith is still annoyed by this, and I STILL agree with her. McD is officially becoming a McDouchebag today.

We begin to meet the donors and the recipients. One cute girl is donating, just because. Darlin' if you read that article about how losing organs that you don't really need is the new Atkins, I should tell you it is NOT true. The next donor/recipient duo is a father/son combo. Sweet. Cue "Cat's in the Cradle" now because you know it's coming into effect at some point. The son casually mentions how he's just waiting for his $10k for donating and Izzie and Alex look concerned. Ok, seriously? $10K. Even if the Atkins thing isn't true, I would part with an unnecessary organ for $10K.

Izzie casually mentions the money talk to Bailey, who reminds Izzie that as someone who recently STOLE an organ, selling organs is just as big of a no-no. So unless Alex and Izzie want to be the ones who knock down the stack of cards, they better just keep quiet.

Back to the saint donor who says she is donating purely out of the goodness of her heart, we find out that she is having an affair with one of the recipients. She is convinced that by giving her internal organ to the man, he'll finally leave his wife. I have a feeling she is the same girl who gave her virginity away in high school right before prom, only to end up going stag or the girl who decorated a guy's locker in hopes of getting him to realize how wonderful she is and finally ask her out.

Oh...awkward.

Not surprisingly, the wife finds out, drops out of the donor 6-way, and thus sets off the domino effect.

During this house of cards collapse, a bromance is brewing between Sloan and McDouche. McDouche is trying to figure out why Meredith ever expected to be included in his victory. So, it was her idea, so she talked him into doing it, so what? HE is the Man!

With that full morning behind us, it's now lunch time. The interns are lined up like cattle as the residents are sizing them up to decide which shitty interns are given to George. The interns all stand there, trays in hand as the lunchroom bullies verbally tear them limb from limb. The scene gets even better when an overly disturbed Lexie stage whispers: "We can hear you!" The scene kind of rocks as they tell each intern to their face why they don't like them and the interns die a little inside.

In a not-so-fun lineup, the dominos are all falling and the donors and recipients are frantically trying to figure out the status of their impending surgery. The overall consensus is, nobody is going to donate unless their loved one is getting an organ. Bailey is fully prepared to go lay a hurtin' on the lady who, while backing out of the surgery ran into the house of cards, but Chief issues a stern warning against this.

Across the hall, the cat's in the cradle and a silver spoon, little boy blue and the man on the moon, the son donating the organ has no sympathy for his dying dad and Izzie is pissed. Alex tries to relay to Izzie what their job actually is, and it doesn't involve becoming emotionally involved with every patient or boning them in prom dresses.

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Last Comment: Wisable on Oct 31, 2008 11:44 PM.