"Mmmm, I LOVE threeways with you and your ego"

Over at Meredith's, she and Shepherd are in bed doing crossword puzzles and having nonsex, which leaves Shepherd charmingly exasperated. Cristina barges in wearing a hideous Stanford track suit and demands that Shepherd leave. She then JUMPS UNDER MEREDITH'S COVERS WITH HER SHOES ON and if I were Meredith I'd kick the bitch out then and there, but Meredith doesn't, so Cristina asks Meredith what she would do if, hypothetically, Shepherd robbed a bank and she were the getaway driver—would she turn herself in or no? Meredith asks whose idea it was to rob the bank—his or hers—and says she can't really help unless Cristina tells her what's going on. Cristina ducks the question and leaves to go jogging. On the way out of the house, she bumps into George and asks how his dad's doing, what with his surgery scheduled today. Cryptically, George says he isn't worried anymore. OH REALLY.

"Where did we get these ludicrous faux-ethnic wall hangings?
THE BOMBAY COMPANY??!?"

When Cristina arrives at the hospital, she plunges into full-on panic over Mr. O'Malley's operation. But Burke dismisses her concerns, boasting that he did a 14-hour surgery the previous day and is SUCH A STALLION that he had no hand tremors whatsoever. He complains that Cristina is too intense, which just pisses her off even more, since she's been covering his ass during all his surgeries. Burke says they're a team. A strong team. Hmm what could we name them? Team Creston? Team Burktina? NO! TEAM PRISTINA!! Anyway, the conversation ends up going nowhere because both of them suddenly get paged.

Turns out pretty much everybody gets paged, since a new patient has arrived—an elderly man who lost control of his car at the big Pike Place fish market in Seattle and plowed through a ton of pedestrians. Ooh, so Grey's Anatomy is now doing ripped-from-the-headlines stories? I can't wait for the Dick Cheney atrial fibrillation episode, or maybe the Ted Haggard fecal impaction episode. Anyway, Bailey calls all hands except Izzie, whom she assigns to take over as intern on Mr. O'Malley's case. At this, Cristina panics, whining that Burke requested her on the O'Malley case. Hey Cristina, SHUT UP.

The elderly driver of the car is a mess of broken bones and glass shards. His frantic wife claims that her husband lost control of the car because the brake pedals stopped responding. Bailey advises her that she'll probably need to give a statement to the police since so many people were hurt. As if on cue, some dazed young woman who was hit at the fish market staggers into the E.R. reception area, covered in blood. It's like the cheerleader abortion scene from one of those evangelical Hell Houses!

Sorry sweetie, I think you're looking for the
Wheel of Fortune taping down the hall

Afterward, Cristina observes worriedly as a patient of Burke's suddenly crashes and dies during surgery. And who should arrive just in time to witness this misstep but the devil-surgeon Dr. Hahn, who as you'll recall was Burke's nemesis in med school and the one he stole Denny's transplant heart from. Due to staff cutbacks at ABC's continuity department, Dr. Hahn now magically works at Seattle Presbyterian instead of last season's Mercy West. Anyway, Hahn tells Burke that she's at the hospital for a consult—presumably on Mr. O'Malley's case.