Bailey pulls herself together after her run in with Shepherd and begins to start fresh as the doctor she knows she can be. She returns to treat Jackson and tries to leave her emotional involvement at the door. Jackson's mom begins to freak out and begs him stay alive. This scene began to break my heart and my anger towards Grey over the past few months began to fade a little.
Jackson's mom cries to Izzie that she is not ready to be without him, she says that she needs to be with him and he can't be alone. As Izzie tries to comfort the mom, she begins to realize the sentence that Denny has repeated since he returned to the show, "I'm here for you" and realization crosses her face. Alex interrupts them and says that Bailey needs them to return to the room. Bailey starts to cry and tells Jackson's mom that it's time to hold him. He is starting to go, and she needs to let him. Maybe I'm the only one, but I kind of lost it at this point. Jackson's mom holds Jackson and assures him that she won't be mad if he lets go.
As Jackson flat lines, the Chief bursts in and tells them they have organs. Well halleluiah, at the rate I was crying I was afraid the neighbors were going to come over and make sure everything was alright. As the doctors begin to conduct the transplant, Jackson's mom paces and George sits with the wife of the organ donor.
Izzie runs outside and takes in the full comprehension of what Denny's constant presence means. This is when things get a little confusing. Izzie realizes that all the times Denny said "I'm here for you" he was putting the emphasis on the wrong word. She asks if she is sick, and Denny says, when he was told to come back for her, he thought maybe she was his heaven, but now he thinks maybe he is her hell. (Well, he's certainly been ours) She then gets super pissed because this whole time he's been banging her, he could have been warning her that she is sick and could been treated. (Damnit Greys...I really hoped you weren't going there) You really should have just read the message boards. One of a hundred people could have told you, you were sick. Izzie furiously tells Denny to leave and after one final kiss, he finally does.
Dunn wakes up to learn he is still alive. Grey looks at him as if to say, yeah I'm pissed your still alive too dick. Dunn begins to tell Grey that he was playing her all along. He wanted to destroy her career and her relationship with Derek. This whole conversation started to seriously annoy me and I'm ready to pull this guys plug myself. Grey calls him out on his bullshit and says, she knows he's scared shitless of dying and that's why he changed his mind and threw her under the bus when dying became real. And she knows that now he's trying to save face and she's pretty much done with Dunn. Dunn ends the conversation by telling Grey that he'd like a friendly face in the room when he dies.
As the day comes to a close, the Major approaches Yang and tells her about the romantic date he had planned for her, and asks for a second chance. Yang answers by telling him that he has serious issues, but she'll give him another chance. Because at the end of the day, girls want to fix someone and who can say no to his blindingly white chest.
Lexie enters Sloan's room and despite him repeatedly asking her to leave she stays. She closes the curtains and says she wants to lay with him and stroke his head. Not the broken one, the other one. Outside, Sadie stands guard looking very proud that somebody is finally her friend.
Bailey and the Chief look over Jackson and discuss his future. They were so late to get his organs in, and there are any number of things that could still go wrong. They don't know what his brain will be like, or if he'll even wake up, all they can do is hope. Bailey then admits to the Chief that she crossed a line today, and the Chief confirms that he did too. He tries to comfort Bailey, but she finally lets go of the pain and fear she has been clutching all day. She looks like she is internally begging for forgiveness from a higher power.
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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