Private Practice: Nothing to Talk About
October 23rd 2008 04:43
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After hurting her knee running at the gym, Addison makes a quick stop at the hospital, where she finds Dell working and enjoying it. Charlotte catches her to offer her a good ol’ surgery, she’ll even give her her own OR for the day, but Addison turns her down. She already has a job.
Addison arrives at work to find no one is talking to anyone else. Mostly they’re all too stressed and busy, but Naomi is still mad at her, and after everyone blows her off because they’ve got their own problems, Addison decides she might just take Charlotte up on the surgery offer after all. She pulls her trusty old scrub cap out of her desk and heads out.
Violet deals with a woman who is terrified of her son, who she thinks is a sociopath because he killed their family dog by snapping it’s neck and leaving it in the garage. Even though she didn’t see him do it, he loved that dog and didn’t shed a tear! She just wants sleeping pills so she can forget about her son and force herself to go to sleep at night, but Violet won’t let her. She tells her to bring in her son so she can talk to him and try and get to the root of the problem.
Sam is in over his head with Naomi’s old job, and is using her as a sounding board for ideas to help save The Practice. She’s not happy, but seeing as how she’s sleeping with the enemy, she can’t seem to tell him that she can’t help him. This frustrates Violet, who in turn doesn’t want to talk to Naomi about all of Naomi’s problems just because she’s not talking to Addison now and has suddenly decided to come crawling back to Violet.
Naomi finds out Dell is at the hospital and goes to see him. He too doesn’t have time to talk. He walks off to go help his patients.
Addison is still at the hospital, doing surgeries for Charlotte since 1. Charlotte has no one else to do them, and 2. Surgery helps calm Addison and make her forget about all her other problems. Unfortunately, she doesn’t get to talk to a single one of her patients, and doesn’t even know their name—a fact one of the husbands blatantly points out to her. She thanks Charlotte for the job offer, but realizes that she doesn’t want to be just a machine, she wants to be a good doctor. She goes back to work (as in The Practice), where Pete sits down and they decide it’s nice to be past that awkward stage.
Speaking of Pete, his problem this week is that his patient, a respected fire fighter chief, desperately needs help with his problem of only being able to cope with the stress of his job by wearing women’s underwear. He’s afraid that if any of his men find out, they won’t be able to trust him anymore and he’ll have to leave his job. Pete tries to convince him to talk to a therapist. After all, the women’s underwear thing is probably just a coping technique, but it could mean something deeper. The Chief just wants Pete to help because he trusts him.
When Pete gets called to the hospital with the chief refusing to let anyone work on his burns of a recent fire, Pete quickly gets to work cutting off his clothes. Once he stabilizes the Chief and gets him breathing like normal again, they both suddenly realize that they’re not alone. The Chief gives his men a pained look. “I’m done.” Later on, Pete convinces him that if it were him trapped in a burning building, he couldn’t care less what the Chief was wearing as long as he got him out of the fire. And he’s probably gone in after almost all his men right? Right, maybe things won’t be so bad after all.
Meanwhile, Cooper has a new patient. Yay! Who just so happens to be a baby with the biggest head he or the baby’s mother has ever seen. We’re talking “Ginormous! Or huge, which one’s bigger?” After running ever test imaginable, Cooper determines that the baby is perfectly fine. Both he and the mother are worried that the kid will be teased mercilessly for his huge head when he grows up, but like Violet said, some great people in history have had huge heads. Abraham Lincoln, Einstein…right. He’ll be fine.
Kevin shows up at the hospital to woo Addison with donuts. When that doesn't work, he catches lunch with her, telling her that the reason he didn't call was because he was deep into a case where a few people died. She understands that kind of stress, but that doesn't make this park bench lunch a date. Okay fine, what about going out with him tomorrow for dinner? Like a real date? Right. Okay.
Violet decides that since her patient’s son won’t talk and the sociopath test was inconclusive, she’s going to go talk to his teachers. When she shows up at his school, the kid demand to know what she said to make his mom cry. She tells him that she’s only here to get the answers that he won’t tell her, that she wants to help them , but can’t if he won’t talk to her. He finally gives in and tells her that he did kill the dog, but only because his dad told him to be the man of the house before he died, and he knew his mom couldn’t afford the medical bills for the attention their dog would need. He finally breaks down and cries. He had to kill the dog he’s loved for ten years because he’s the man of the house now. Violet feels for him. Later on, mother and son finally talk and Violet watches outside her office as they hug and cry together.
Realizing the importance of talking, Violet confronts Naomi about the fact that she used to talk to her because she wanted to talk to HER. Now she just comes to her because she wants her to be “your Addison”. Naomi really hurt her feelings when she abandoned Violet once Addison got here, and Violet tells her she really just needs to go talk to Addison again. Once she’s got that figured out, then she’ll gladly like to talk to her, but she wants Naomi to want to talk to HER, not her being an Addison fill-in.
Addison leaves the hospital, spotting Dell on the way out. He tells her that Naomi wants him to come back, but not for him, for her. Addison tells him that Naomi misses him and that she’s a friend asking for help. She reminds him that he’s part of the family (which he scoffs at) and tells him that when a friend asks for help, you just have to step up and help sometimes.
Dell approaches Sam since he’s heard he’s in charge now. He slaps down a piece of paper with all his demands (like his own patients so that he can get his hours for his midwife license). Sam tells him that they can’t afford him, plus he’s the one who walked out in the first place, and Naomi walks in. She asks to speak to Sam alone, and finally tells him that she won’t be his sounding board for a job that he stole from her. She tells him he needs to hire Dell back because they’re obviously not getting much done without him. At least she was smart enough to hire him in the first place.
Sam finally gives in and tells Dell that he can come back, but he’ll only see patients when supervised by Naomi, Addison, or Pete, and he still has to do his administrative work. Okay fine, but Dell demands new scrubs. Ones that aren’t pink. Welcome back Dell.
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