At Christina's lair, the Major sleeps shirtless as I put on sunglasses so I'm not blinded by the whiteness of his chest. No wonder homeboy showers with his clothes on. He wakes up to find Christina has just left, and makes the face everyone makes at some point. The face when you wake up after a night of massive boozing and slowly start to remember what you did the night before. The F-Me, I can't believe I did that face, or what I like to call, my Sunday morning face.
As a reminder from last week, Jackson only has 24 hours to live after the failed organ transplant. At the 16 hour countdown, Bailey enlists Alex and Izzie to his care. Since he has no organs, there is a lot that can go wrong. As she is giving them his update, Denny urges Izzie that she doesn't have time for anybody else but herself. Bailey notices that Izzie is distracted and asks for some sign of life. It only took someone 2 months to realize Izzie is on another planet.
Bailey is stressed beyond belief due to Jackson's dire situation. At this point she just wants off the case and Arizona tells Bailey she needs to get some sleep. I'd also recommend checking in with your family once or twice a week.
Dr. Shepherd arrives at the hospital and rushes Grey into an empty room. He excitedly makes out with her and tells her that his mom likes her and thinks she's good for him. Well, that is until she hears that Meredith killed your patient without letting you know. Derek leaves the room smiling, followed by Grey who looks terrified because she knows it's only a matter of time before Derek knows what she did. Bailey sees them both walk out, and knows the cat is still in the bag.
Lexie pages Torres 911 and explains that the emergency is Sloan. She hurriedly tells Torres that the injury is severe, but especially for someone like Sloan. He broke a....bone. Lexie further explains by saying she broke his bone. Torres is initially confused, since she hasn't experience bones in awhile. She slowly realizes what Lexie is saying, and they take off to find Sloan.
The Major finds Christina in a supply closet and joins her to apologize for the night before. Ugh, the day after apology....the worst. He assures her that normally if he showers with a woman, he does it sans clothing, and he makes it a habit to not pass out when sharing a bed with a woman. Basically he feels like complete jackass. Christina shows him her favorite broom to sweep things under the rug with, tells him they don't have to talk about it and leaves. Good call, the Major seems like somebody who doesn't have any issues that might be boiling to the surface about to overflow. Just sweep those right on under.
Grey checks up on prisoner Dunn who is getting closer and closer to death's door. Grey tells him that she will page Shepherd if he wants. Dunn has picked up on the fact that Derek is Grey's boyfriend and comments that Derek has very good taste. Proof that you begin to hallucinate when you die. He also tells Grey that all he can think of is lemons. Not because Grey's face looks like she just drank lemon juice at all times, but because his grandfather smelled lemons the prior to his death.
The Chief finds a random extra, wait...no that's George! Forgot about you buddy. He tells George to check if any of the patients on life support have organs that will work for Jackson. He asks for some discretion, so the families don't realize the doctors are pressuring them to pull the cord so someone else can live. George speaks four words in this scene "Okay" "of" "course" and "sir." This is the first time we've heard him speak in about a month. Might want to check out COBRA T.R. just in case SAG revokes your insurance!
So, let me get this straight...George is going to look for someone on life support to convince their family to let them die so they can take their organs. While in another room, someone on death row....who will die in 5 days, who has no family and nobody who cares if he dies, including himself, and they won't just take his organs. Damn you Grey's Anatomy for making me agree with Meredith again!
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Comments (15)
I thought it was a good episode with the exception of Izzie/Denny. And what the hell did she mean when she finally got what he was saying and she said "I choose life?"
1 of 15 | Posted by blazergirl | Posted on January 28, 2009 1:41 PM
Yeah what a downer about Izzie. It's exactly what everyone thought. Thanks for dragging that shit out more than half the season.
I thought it was a pretty good episode otherwise, but it cracks me up about how little George is given. Seriously like 6 lines an episode, if that. What a joke.
And I also didn't get how Lexie breaking Sloan's dick meant she was awesome in bed. I don't buy for a second that that bumbling hoe is a rockstar in the sack, sorry.
2 of 15 | Posted by DP Hooker | Posted on January 28, 2009 2:28 PM
I cried like a baby too.
3 of 15 | Posted by Clair | Posted on January 28, 2009 2:46 PM
TWSS, it was a good episode! I didn't even delete it from the DVR, thinking I might watch it again.
So, is Izzie leaving the show or what? I am so over the Denny crap I could scream.
The execution scene was gruesome and the whole ending was just sad.
I liked it! Great recap!
4 of 15 | Posted by scottywrangler | Posted on January 28, 2009 5:29 PM
To me, it seems like there would be two ways to break a man's dick (during sex). First, if the woman is on top and falls off (backward, especially) or leans too far back. Second, if the man is not completely hard and the woman (on top, again) pushes down too hard trying to get him inside her. I'm sure there are others. Those just popped into my mind. I can't think of a GOOD way to break a man's dick! Of course those interns are idiots.
You know, interns are doctors. They are first year residents who have graduated medical school. Scary, huh?
Yes, this was a good episode, maybe because there really wasn't all that much of Izzie and Denny. I can't help but think this will have an impact on his career. I hate him now. I don't even think he's that good looking. I never want to see him again.
It seems that Sloan and Lexie are going to be a couple, which sucks. She sure got over George fast. Even moved into a different apartment without anybody knowing about it. I don't dislike her, I just don't see her with him. That man needs a REAL woman, not a little juice box girl.
5 of 15 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on January 28, 2009 7:00 PM
I thought this episode was really well done. It reminded me, after sooooooo long, why I started watching in the first place. My husband, on the other hand, refuses to forgive the show for all the crap episodes in the last couple seasons.
So...Izzie is gone? I had to rewind and watch that last scene with her and Denny a couple times and I still don't completely get it. Is Denny her hell because he represented her demise? Why was he kept from 'dying all the way'? Because he needed to bring Izzie with him first? I don't get it...
Would have been nice if they had come to this conclusion with Izzie and Denny 10 episodes ago!
6 of 15 | Posted by dani2526 | Posted on January 28, 2009 8:47 PM
It's my theory that Grey's writers hate Katherine Heigl and wanted us to hate her (even more) by dragging this completely predictable storyline out to forever long. Jeffrey Dean Morgan was collateral damage. I was more affected by Dunn's death than Izzie's bad news. All I felt was joy that she will finally be gone from the show (*crossing fingers*). And take George with you. I will hate those two forever for pressuring GA to get rid of Isaiah W.
Now just get rid of Major Issues and I'll be even happier.
This was the best episode of the season so far because of the Izzie death news, Bailey, and Eric Stolz' great acting. He creeped me the freak out. I agree about the Emmy nomination.
Thanks for the awesome recap. I thought ya'll forgot about this show...
7 of 15 | Posted by BlahBlah | Posted on January 29, 2009 3:37 AM
Ok, so i'm glad it was not just me about the bending the cock issue. I was afraid there was some amazing sexual maneuver that I didn't know, and was outing myself for not knowing in this recap. Pixie, I love your explanation of it. Because that was my thought too, there is no good way to break a cock.
So here are my thoughts about the Denny/Izzie conversation. I think Denny was saying that in the beginning, he thought his opportunity to "go back" to Izzie was his heaven. But he was supposed to go back to let her know she was dying. Once he was "back" he was unable to tell her that she was dying, because he was so happy seeing and banging her. So, him not telling her until it was potentially too late makes him now think that he is her hell. Because he didn't tell her sooner.
Does that make sense? Of course not. The whole thing is completely ridiculous. When did Grey's get so soap-operaish?
I don't know if Katherine or T.R. are leaving. I know they have both expressed that they wanted too in the past...but i'm not sure. I know people leave shows all the time, and they get replaced, and the show keeps going, but what do you guys think? With Isaiah, T.R, Katherine H and Kate Walsh gone, would the show ever be able to find the magic it once had again? On one hand, they were all so key, on the other hand, what made this episode great had nothing to do with any of them.
8 of 15 | Posted by TWSS | Posted on January 29, 2009 7:45 AM
WOW TWSS...you gave George more play in one recap than he has had all freakin' season. Thanks for that! Yeah, maybe he wasn't my favorite character ever but they are stringing the poor guy along. That doctor with Asperger's got more screen time than him and she was only in two episodes!
Despite that, I am back with Grey's too. I was so going to break up with it but these past few eps have pulled me back in. Bailey and Dunn were going for Emmy's in this last ep. Great recap as always! Thanks.
9 of 15 | Posted by Yanksfan24 | Posted on January 29, 2009 8:40 AM
"The whole thing is completely ridiculous. When did Grey's get so soap-operaish?"
Uhm...from the very first episode when Merideth jumped into bed with a stranger, and then discovered the stranger is essentially her new boss.
This show has always been a soap opera with the occasional outrageous medical story thrown in...people just don't like to admit it.
I won't miss George (as far as I know, he IS leaving.) Don't know if I'd miss Izzie at this point. But with those two gone, maybe they can bring Isaiah W. back and give Christina a dilemma: Major Issues or Dr. Ego (although why any man would want that moon-faced bitch is a mystery to me.)
As for Sloan, he should be with Torres. Wasting him on Light Grey is just wrong.
10 of 15 | Posted by cattyfan | Posted on January 29, 2009 9:18 AM
FYI - A penile fracture is an extremely rare injury caused by the rupture of the tunica albuginea, which envelops the corpus cavernosum penis. It is an uncommon injury, most often caused by a blunt trauma to an erect penis.
Penile fracture is a medical emergency, and emergency surgical repair is the usual treatment.
(from Wikipedia)
11 of 15 | Posted by fire@will | Posted on January 29, 2009 9:55 AM
Pixielated: I agree, I never want to see Denny ever again, anywhere. They ruined him for tv by making him the most annoying ghost everrrr.
I miss Izzie as the rags-to-riches story of the trailer park girl that became a doctor and wanted to be badass. Now she's just annoying. I wish instead of bringing Denny back they did more with her and Alex and their on and off relationship.
12 of 15 | Posted by cherin | Posted on January 29, 2009 1:41 PM
As I remember, there was bad blood between Isaiah and Patrick Dempsey. They were the ones who had the big fight over the f-word on set. (They were ready to shoot a scene and T.R. Knight was late, so Isaiah let fly with the epithet and he and Patrick Dempsey got in a fight.)
Anyhow, that's how I remember it. But what Isaiah really did wrong (in addition to being stupid and/or homophobic), was that he ticked off Shonda Rimes and that is the kiss of death.
For some reason, I have the idea that Izzie is going to survive. (Read it somewhere?)
13 of 15 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on January 29, 2009 8:21 PM
I'm so glad I have a place to vent my frustration about this show! (great recap - btw!)
I agree with everyone, I do think this particular epi was a vast improvement over the past few seasons. But, I remember thinking during the Izzie/Denny scenes, "you know, this entire story could've been done in one episode - with an awesome cliffhanger" But now, its like, we all know what is coming and now we don't give a shit. I think I'm in the minority here, but I actually like K. Heigl a lot, and Izzie used to have depth to her character. I guess it's not easy to keep a show relevant in its 5th season - but sex with ghosts? Broken penises? Interns operating on each other? Are you fucking kidding me?!?!
You know Isiah W. and Brooke Smith are like sitting at home grinning ear to ear - all, "F U bitches, that's what you get for shit-canning my ass!"
Not that I'll stop watching, but I'm not gonna like it!
14 of 15 | Posted by carmelicious | Posted on January 30, 2009 7:37 AM
pixielated said, "As I remember, there was bad blood between Isaiah and Patrick Dempsey. They were the ones who had the big fight over the f-word on set. (They were ready to shoot a scene and T.R. Knight was late, so Isaiah let fly with the epithet and he and Patrick Dempsey got in a fight."
That's how I remember it, too...and I always thought it was interesting Patrick Dempsey was more upset about a stupid word uttered in frustration than he was about T.R.'s repeated lack of professionalism and lousy work ethic (as he was/is often late to the set.)
Difficult stars are nothing new (see David Caruso.) TPTB could have worked something out with Dempsey and Washington. Instead they got rid of one of the best actors on the show. Big mistake.
15 of 15 | Posted by cattyfan | Posted on January 31, 2009 9:21 AM