As things with Derek were finally in a happy place, Meredith tried to quit therapy but Dr. Wyatt tries to tell Mer that she wasn’t done yet. Derek, eager to start “their life” together wants Meredith to have Alex and Izzie to move out.
Richard, still in an obvious tizzy about Seattle Grace’s falling in the rankings of teaching hospitals, wants to implement a new teaching protocol at SGH. Under these new rules, residents will no longer be allowed to specialize, attendings will be required to spread their information equally among all residents. Teaching should be done with enthusiasm. He tells his audience, “We are surgeons. We cut out malignancies. Let’s start at home, please.”
Meanwhile, George was due to finally re-take his internship exam when a drop of water falls on his test booklet. Elsewhere in the hospital, water is dripping. Alex’s patient, refusing to ride in the wheelchair Alex was pushing, insists on getting up to walk – and falls after slipping into yet another puddle of leaked water.
Sloan lets loose with some inappropriate, Sloan-type comments about the Torres/Hahn smoochie situation, which is upsetting to Erica. She’s upset that Sloan knows about the two of them.
Derek is working with a patient named Mr. Patmore, a gentleman who has been experiencing pain, all day every day for the past seven years. Lexi, however, recalls reading an article while helping George study and figures that rather than brain surgery, Patmore needs an ENT and recruits Sloan to check the patient out. By the way, Lexi’s photographic memory? Would you love that or hate it? It has definite obvious advantages – but I think it’d annoy me.
Water continues to drip throughout Seattle Grace… right onto the MRI machine that Mr. O’Brien is in, shorting out while he’s in it. Meredith joins Bailey in an operation on Shelley, a patient with liver cancer who would rather gossip with the doctors about their lives than think about her cancer. In the surgery, Bailey discovers that the mets were more extensive than they had believed – Shelley will need to start a new round of chemo. With water creating chaos in the hospital, Richard asks George for his help – but George hasn’t taken his exam yet. George opts to postpone his test in order to help the Chief get things under control. Sloan arrives to check on Lexie’s patient and finds that she is indeed correct in his diagnosis.
After a tension filled elevator ride with discussion about whether or not Alex and Izzie should move out, the elevator car is flooded with water when the doors open. This is definitely a mess of “Grey’s Anatomy” proportion (poor Chief – can the guy catch a break?). They start sending patients to other hospitals, but Richard doesn’t want to transfer the patients – he wants only to send them to dry ground, believing the flood was contained. Unfortunately, he was wrong. Water started dripping in the OR while Mr. O’Brien’s stomach was open for his surgery, and then finally the ceiling collapsed dumping water into his open surgical site.
Oddly enough, this turns out to be a good thing. The collapse caused the docs to look more thoroughly internally, where they discover early stage pancreatic cancer that they were able to remove in its entirety. Alex tells the patient – you may think you’ve had bad luck, but I’m telling you, your luck is changing.
Callie sits down with Erica at the bar that evening and tells her that she understands her need for privacy, however Callie lives out loud and she doesn’t want to give up pieces of herself anymore. Erica responds that she thinks she’s just jealous that Sloan has seen Callie naked.
Back at the house, Izzie is feeling alone – she has no one there, no one she’s close to. She’s feeling sad. Meredith tells Derek that Alex and Izzie are her family and she’s not going to kick them out. Happily, Derek says that it’s fine, and that they’ll address it again when she’s ready.
Do you like where season five is headed? What are your thoughts so far?
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