Grey’s Anatomy: Where the Wild Things Are
May 9th 2008 16:22
Meredith sits on a couch staring at the hospital’s counselor…and staring…and not talking…The counselor points out that it might be better if she talked, and Meredith thinks that the act of going to counseling itself is therapeutic. She admits she hasn’t slept since her breakup with Derek, but that’s so not the reason that she’s there…Derek that is.
Meanwhile, George and Lexie are moving into their new apartment and George can’t stand the cockroaches! They’re everywhere! Furious, George swaps at them at any chance, and Lexie just stands back. What to do, what to do…? How about steal stuff from the hospital? Great idea! She spends the rest of the day snatching freebies from the hospital storage room (even grabbing a painting off the wall at one point) for their new apartment.
Over at the hospital, the residents are deep into “the contest”. They’re even sleeping at the hospital because every little procedure, surgery, and “medical mystery” gets them points.
As Izzie is 26 points behind everyone else, she immediately decides that a man who comes in with a sprained ankle, something else HAS to be wrong right? Solving a medical mystery is worth 80 points after all…
Mark decides he and Derek should start their own contest. With women as the scoring system. He’s trying to get Derek to leave Nurse Rose (he still can’t figure out why he’s with her), and Derek refuses the contest after admitting he hasn’t slept with Rose. He insists that she’s waiting until they’re more serious. Mark just smirks at him. Okay then…
Meanwhile, Cristina is still trying to get on Hahn’s good side, and is shocked to find out that her roommate Callie is suddenly one of Hahn’s best friends! She’s even on a first name basis with her! What is the world coming to?
A car arrives at the hospital and the people start calling out for help. The driver say they were just out camping when he tried to pet a bear cub, which of course, turned out horrible for his brother who was then mauled by the mom!
Everyone rushes in (points!) and Cristina starts to help the injured brother out when, “intestines in the hand!”
“Did you just say—“
“INTESTINES IN THE HAND!”
They rush the guy into the hospital.
Aside from a bitten hand, the driver is not hurt. High on pain medication, he grins and tells Meredith that he married his “rebound girl”. The wife sort of grins awkwardly and tells Meredith she doesn’t know how she got so lucky to have someone like him marry a girl like her.
As everyone is searching for a medical mystery, Meredith starts to wonder if maybe the guy who pet the bear cub wasn’t quite right in the head…literally. She suspects a brain tumor. When she walks out with the man’s wife to ask how she’s doing, the woman tells her she’s fine, takes off her hat, and pulls a little of her scalp off in the process. What? She hadn’t even felt it! Meredith takes her to visit Sloan, who tells the woman it should be an easy fix. She won’t even need surgery, just some stitching.
Later, during the surgery on the bear-attack victim, Alex and Christina argue over who’s going to stitch him up. That’s a lot of sutures going on there and it’s a point a one! Bailey and the Chief look at each other knowingly, and Bailey tells them they can both do it. The Chief enjoys teasing Alex throughout the stitching as he’s way behind Christina. He feels for the underdog. Alex insists that he's not the underdog.
Meanwhile, Izzie’s taking the poor man with the sprained ankle through every test she can think about. It can’t possibly just be a swollen ankle! He has a swollen knee so…Callie suggests a spinal tap. The man is convinced now that he’s dying. Izzie assures him she’s going to do everything in her power to save him though. Because that’s what good doctors do.
Despite the many points she could get for the scalp suture, Meredith hands it over to George in favor of the injured-hand man. She explains that his sudden irrational marriage and bear cub-petting might mean he has a brain tumor. George is frustrated that, like Izzie, she’s blowing things way out of proportion just to get points. He wants to play! He also accuses Meredith of using the possibility of a brain tumor as an excuse to talk to Derek. She insists it’s not.
Lexie sneaks in and around the hospital assessing and stealing anything and everything she can take to home to her new apartment. She’s eyeing the bouquet of flowers Rose brings in, when she overhears Rose and Derek flirting. Once Derek leaves, Lexie steps up to get a closer look at the flowers, and Rose suddenly confesses, “I love him!”
Startled, Lexie finally looks at her…just in time to see Meredith has overheard Rose’s sudden exclamation of her love for Derek. Rose laughs, suddenly embarrassed that she just blurted that out to someone she didn’t even know, and walks off. Lexie steps up to Meredith hesitantly, and Meredith just insists she’s fine. She also tells Lexie to “stop stealing stuff from the hospital.” As a sister she’s okay with it, but as a resident who just found out Rose is in love with Derek, she’s not.
Meredith examines her patient, finds out that he’s lost most of his peripheral vision, then jumps back excitedly yelling, “Tumor!” The man and his wife just look at her. Oh, sorry about that…Meredith explains how the guy’s symptoms made her suspect a tumor, and his new wife suddenly gets angry. So I’m just a symptom huh? She doesn’t need an MRI to prove her husband loves her, but they’re going to get one anyway just to prove Meredith wrong.
Back in the operating room, Cristina and Alex are still at it with the suturing contest. To get on Hahn’s good side, Cristina offered to update her every hour on the surgery, and now has to run back and forth between operating rooms. Hahn stops her, wondering what’s so important that she has to keep rushing back to suture. She knows about the contest and offhandedly remarks how she was going to let Cristina stay to watch an important cardiac procedure, but if winning the competition is more important to her…Cristina struggles with herself, then finally puts her mask back on. “I’ll watch.”
Izzie is getting more and more upset that she can’t find anything wrong with her patient . The mystery is there, she just can’t find it! Argh! George tries to get her to realize what she’s doing to the poor guy just to win, but Izzie just argues that that’s what good doctors do. They have an instinct about these sort of things. She points out that she has to have her medical instincts because lately her personal ones have been downright awful. She glares at George bitterly and he leaves her to figure out her “medical mystery”.
Meanwhile, the bear-attack victim codes and despite all attempts to save him, he dies. The Chief gets the horrible job of informing the brother, who is devastated that his stupid judgment killed his brother. When Meredith informs him and his wife that he does, in fact, have a tumor, the guy lets out a bitter laugh. “Good. I killed my brother.”
Shocked and horrified that Meredith was right, the man’s wife asks if she really was just another symptom. I mean, why would a guy like him marry a girl like her? Meredith tells her that she’s only one who can really know the answer to that.
Izzie can’t find her medical mystery. Looks like it was just a swollen ankle after all. And maybe a mild case of the flu, but even that’s reaching. The patient is furious! She put him through all those painful tests for the flu?! Izzie tries to apologize, but the man is still outraged. Finally he just asks her to give him his medicine so he can go home. She mumbles that it’s, um, actually a virus so it doesn’t respond to antibiotics…She runs before he can rip out his own IV and throttle her.
The residents all convene to find out who has won the contest. They huddle around Bailey excitedly, and groan as she reveals that the winner is…Meredith. She solved the medical mystery, she wins the sparkly pager! Oooooo! The sparkly pager has been passed down from generation to generation of residents. It means that when anyone gets a surgery, they have to page Meredith. If it’s one Meredith wants it, she has the right to steal it. There are groans and “give it to me!”s all around.
Meredith is too depressed about her brain tumor patient (the medical mystery wasn’t so fun after all) to be excited about winning.
Cristina goes home to find Callie and Hahn laughing and bonding over wine in her living room. They stop and stare at her a second, then continue. Sadly realizing that she’s not welcome, Cristina quickly heads for her own room. She peeks around to watch them laugh and drink. Poor Cristina.
George goes home to his new apartment to find it totally redone…with hospital supplies! She tells him that she knows how much he hates it there, but this is the only home she has now and she wants him to want to come home to it too. George looks around, realizes how much work she went to, and decides he’s going to start embracing what he has. No more sulking George!
They sit down at the couch and stare at the coffee table.
George: You should have stolen a TV.
Lexie: I tried, they’re bolted down.
George: Still…
The Chief comforts a sulking Izzie, letting her know that in his year he lost the contest by two points. When she looks up at him in surprise, he reminds her that they didn't invent the contest.
In the mean time, Meredith has done a huge amount of research on her brain tumor patient. She wants to do a clinical trial, but she’s going to need a neurosurgeon to oversee it…So she goes to Derek, insisting that this isn’t about them it’s about saving lives. She thinks she’s found a way to do it. Derek stares at her a moment, then smiles and starts to look over the research…
Meredith visits her therapist again, sighs, and finally decides that maybe it’s time to start talking.
*Pics from Grey's Anatomy Insider
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