Recap: Grey's Anatomy: Siamese Dream - 
by m_ruv
After a great Thanksgiving episode, Grey's Anatomy was back in good form again this week. Moreover, George Dzundza fans the world over were delighted at the spectacular amount of screen time he was given. It was like Basic Instinct all over again! Anyway, on we go...
The episode opens with an ominous aerial pan over Seattle. Drama! Indeed, the first scene is at the nursing home, where Ellis Grey is freaking out about Dr. Webber going back to his wife. As she rants frantically, Meredith looks miserable. She tries to get Ellis to understand that all the events she's worried about happened a long time ago... back when men were men and Shelley Long was a bankable star. At first it looks like Ellis is finally understanding Meredith's words, but then she snaps back into dementia, exclaiming that Webber left her because she had a daughter, so she should never have had kids in the first place. Ooh, this would've made a great Mother's Day episode.

"How's my puffy Renée Zellweger look? I've been practicing."
At the hospital, a whole crowd of doctors is in Dr. Webber's office. And may I just say Webber is wearing a GREAT sweater. Love that cranberry, chief. Bailey is royally pissed, demanding to know what punishment Webber has in store for Burke and Cristina. Webber claims there's "no definition of justice within the four walls of a hospital"—please let's not overwrite, WRITERS—and technically and legally Burke and Cristina did nothing wrong, and besides nobody died. He orders Cristina back on rounds with Bailey, which prompts all manner of protest from our favorite Nazi. She finally assents sassily and leaves with Cristina. Webber then pressures Shepherd to do another surgery to fix Burke's $2 million hand. Burke says he doesn't want Shepherd's help.

"And yes, my first solo album will be titled Cranberry Playa"
George goes to visit his dad in his hospital room. Mr. O'Malley laments that his other boys aren't very responsible, so he tells George that his life insurance papers are in his nightstand and his "magazines" are hidden out in the garage. Initially George has no idea what his dad means, since when George thinks magazines he reflexively thinks of CosmoGIRL and Ladies' Home Journal. But then he FINALLY gets it just in time for Callie to walk in and overhear everything. George makes his way out, refusing to say hi to Callie even though his dad asks him to be nice to her. Mature!
On one of those spectacular floating walkways at the hospital—who designed this place, Richard Meier?—Shepherd laments that he could've done some tests on Burke's hand had he only known that Burke had a tremor. Burke says he doesn't want another surgery, since Shepherd caused enough damage with the first one. Great, now he's officially blaming Shepherd for the tremor—what a douchebag.
In the locker room, the interns backstab Cristina and drool over her seemingly imminent downfall. Meredith tries to defend her by saying Cristina merely made a mistake. Cristina finally arrives, and the others shun her, particularly George. After they all leave, Meredith asks Cristina how things are with her and Burke. Cristina says the two of them are existing in total silence. She rebuffs Meredith's other attempts to be nice and caring, since she hates people fawning over her. Bailey comes in and angrily collects them to go on rounds.
Dr. Montgomery asks whether Meredith might be interested in her case—it's Meredith's long-lost half-sister Molly, who's in for an emergency C-section. Meredith tries to distance herself, saying Molly isn't really family, but then Meredith's stepmother comes over and tries to make nice. My word, Mare Winningham AND George Dzundza in one episode? It's simply too much.
Back in Mr. O'Malley's room, George's mom lays out breakfast for the interns. Unfortunately, George's brothers arrive suddenly and devour the food like hyenas, leaving only the bones, which Dr. Torres crunches with glee. Dr. Hahn asks for an intern, so Bailey assigns her Cristina. The other interns are shocked, since they figured Cristina was firmly on the punishment track.
But Bailey leads them out in the hall, smacks them all silly with her bejeweled handbag, and says if they don't stop whining she won't show them what's behind the door to patient room #2. When she opens the door, it turns out to contain a pair of adult conjoined twins. The interns now understand that Cristina certainly got the most boring case of the day.
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