Derek, Yang and Grey are all in Dunn's room and Derek is finally catching up on Grey's deceit. He is beyond pissed. He tells Grey that Dunn has been manipulating her all along and she will scrub in on the surgery and watch Shepherd fix the mistakes that she made. So, just to count....we are now on the third surgery of someone who is going to die in 5 days, who doesn't want to be saved. You're welcome Washington tax payers.
As Dunn is wheeled into surgery, they pass Bailey. Bailey watches in horror as Dunn goes by because she knows this means they are saving him, and his organs won't be available to Jackson. Meanwhile, Jackson is beginning to crash.
The Major and Torres check in on Sloan and confirm that he has a penile fracture and it will require surgery. Sloan argues that he doesn't want the Major to perform the surgery, but he's already seen it....isn't that the worst part. Hmm, I wonder which intern they could get to shave the area in question. In discussing surgery, the Major says they need to get in there quickly to avoid permanent damage. I'm thinking that "getting in there quickly" created this situation to begin with.
The Chief finds George looking over the unemployment pages in the Hollywood Reporter and asks about his secret project. Turns out George was successful and they are about to unplug someone who isn't a donor. I don't get people who aren't donors. Haven't you seen the blue bumper sticker? They don't need your organs in heaven....although if you're like Denny you do use your 'organs' after you die. Do the Grey's writers have penis on the brain, or do I?
In Dunn's surgery, Bailey stands outside barely holding on to the last strand of her sanity. She throws the strand to the floor and walks in. She tells Shepherd she needs him to let this man die. Bailey seems absolutely on the edge. She asks Shepherd to stop what he is doing and let the man die. Shepherd looks at her in shock and they begin to debate the man's life. Shepherd asks Bailey if she's ready for him to kill this man, completely blowing off the oath they took and pretty much guaranteeing that Seattle Grace will fall out of the top 20. Bailey says yes.
Meanwhile, the Chief is trying to kill a different patient for their organs. He talks to the wife of a man about to die and expresses his sympathy, but also expresses the severity of the situation. As he begins to explain the specific organs that he wants, the wife tells him to get the hell out of there. Her husband died two days ago. Way to be compassionate Chief! She is not ready to let go, and who could blame her.
When Izzie returns from her freak out, Alex asks her what the hell is going on. It's one thing to be a freak and talk to dead people at home, but maybe while a kid is dying in front of us, lay off the crazy pills.
In Dunn's OR, the Shepherd/Bailey face off continues. Shepherd puts the future of the surgery in Bailey's hands. Shepherd puts down his surgical tools and tells Bailey it's up to her how he proceeds. Bailey wants so desperately to tell him to kill Dunn, but in the end she can't do it. She tells him to pick up the scalpel and finish. She looks thoroughly disgusted with herself for what she almost did.
The Chief approaches the mourning woman one more time. For real Chief? This is why you are number 12. If my husband was dying and somebody kept coming to discuss why they need his organs, whether they were right or not, I would be ready to kill somebody. The Chief reminds her that he can't take his organs with him and none of them are working and they never will again.
Izzie brings Denny into a private room and asks the questions that every Grey's viewer has asked this season. She tells Denny that she can see, feel, taste and smell him. She wonders if maybe he didn't die, maybe she was going crazy when she thought he died. She asks if he's a ghost? A Dream? WTF are you Denny and why have you been polluting this entire season? Denny reminds her that she is a doctor, a scientist, and she needs to pull up her pants and start acting and thinking like one.
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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