The action picks up right where it left off, with Burke lying shot on the sidewalk and Izzie having just cut the cord on Denny's LVAD. Shocked at what Izzie has done, George says they have to call a code—please just let it not be a code black, cause that would mean a guest appearance by Christina Ricci. But Izzie, still in Mommie Dearest mode, screams that if George uses the code button to call somebody she'll hurt him.

God, he even BLEEDS neatly

Webber doesn't want Cristina to learn that Burke's been shot. So he assigns her to run an entire trauma room by herself, which makes her giddier than Kathie Lee Gifford at a sweatshop-child swap meet. Webber diverts Burke to the other trauma room, where Burke, delirious and not adapting well to the "patient" role, keeps trying to get off his stretcher.

Despite Webber's efforts, Cristina glimpses Burke from afar. She runs over, but the others assure her that things are under control and send her back to her own patient in the other trauma room. This patient of Cristina's turns out to be the gunman, who turned the gun on himself after shooting Burke and the restaurant manager. Cristina resolves to save this guy so he doesn't just to take the easy way out and just die on the spot. I wonder what happened to this guy, cause they dropped this plot thread faster than Emily's Reasons Why Not.

Burke's bullet wound is serious and may have caused nerve damage to his arm. Cristina runs back over to his room, and Burke asks the other doctors to give them a moment in private. As he starts to speak, Cristina interrupts. But rather than say something even remotely appropriate to the moment, she blurts out that she knows he's sorry for not letting her go pick up the transplant heart—but she forgives him. Are you kidding? I mean she says it all nicely, but BITCH THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE IN THE WORLD BESIDES YOU. Burke lets her finish—apparently he's just as condescending even after massive blood loss—and says what was going to say was that he needs somebody to check Denny Duquette's lab results. HA.