Grey's Anatomy episodes (Season 3)

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This article contains summaries for the third season of the American medical drama television series Grey's Anatomy; the season began airing on September 21, 2006.

The original U.S. airdates are listed here for each episode.

No. Episode title Original airdate
1 "Time Has Come Today" September 21, 2006
2 "I Am a Tree" September 28, 2006
3 "Sometimes a Fantasy" October 5, 2006
4 "What I Am" October 12, 2006
5 "Oh, the Guilt" October 19, 2006
6 "Let the Angels Commit" November 2, 2006
7 "Where The Boys Are" November 9, 2006
8 "Staring at the Sun" November 16, 2006
9 "From a Whisper to a Scream" November 23, 2006
10 "Don't Stand So Close to Me" November 30, 2006
11 "Six Days" January 11, 2007
12 "Always Something There to Remind Me" January 18, 2007

[edit] Time Has Come Today

Original U.S. air date: September 21, 2006

Season three premiere of Grey's Anatomy.

Izzie grieves for her loss
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Izzie grieves for her loss

The doctors of Seattle Grace help Izzie cope with the loss of her fiancé, Denny, and her decision to quit the internship program. Meredith must decide what the future holds after her liaison with Derek. The chief is confronted by his wife and given a very difficult decision that he must soon make. George and Derek get stuck in the hospital after a plague scare. Derek gives George relationship advice. Meredith and Cristina sit shiv'ah for Denny. After speaking with Izzie, Cristina realizes maybe she has taken her relationship with Burke for granted. Flashbacks happen including when Derek meets Meredith, when Addison is caught cheating, the mixer the night before the interns begin their first shifts, and when the Chief ends his affair with Ellis Grey.

  • Guest Stars: Chris O'Donnell (Dr. Finn Dandridge); Kate Burton (Ellis Grey); Loretta Devine (Adele Webber); Steven W. Bailey (Joe); Jessica Tuck (Shannon's Mom); Sarah Utterback (Nurse Olivia Harper); Joanie Fox (Sara's Mom); Mia Wesley (Karen's Mom); Pepper Sweeney (Lisa's Dad); Alexandra Brandl (Karen); Nicolette Collier (Young Meredith); Matt Crabtree (IDC Dude); Elizabeth Goldstein (Giselle Toussant); Hallee Hirsh (Claire); Kelli King (Sara); Wayne Lopez (Paramedic); Frank Merino (Funeral Home Guy); Paulina Olszyinski (Lisa); Jeremy Rabb (Resident); Haley Ramm (Shannon); Damon Standifer (Hazmat Guy); Tamika Wheeler (Burke's Date); Steve Harris (Omar Toussant).
  • Title reference: The episode's title refers to a song by The Chambers Brothers.
  • Trivia: While the episode was shown correctly on its originating network, ABC, the Canadian network CTV aired the second episode instead of the premiere.

[edit] I Am a Tree

Original U.S. air date: September 28, 2006

Burke's parents walk in on Cristina as she straddles Burke wearing only her lingerie. Cristina then has coffee with Burke's mother, who first suggests that once Burke and Cristina marry she should change her specialty to OB/GYN . She also states that Cristina is selfish. Bailey starts being much harder on her interns, as she feels she could have stopped Izzie from cutting the LVAD wire had she not "gone soft". In the end, Bailey tells Izzie she can come back to the hospital. In order to save the interns from Bailey's wrath, Callie claims the panties on the noticeboard as her own, leading to George being jealous having never seen Callie wear them before. Izzie bakes dozens of muffins to deal with her grief and lack of work. After being discovered by the Chief living in the hospital, Callie moves in with George.

The doctors must deal with a boy who while street luging was thrown into a pile of tree clippings, and is left with a large branch protruding through his abdomen. Derek operates on a man who, due to a brain tumor, vocalizes all his thoughts and does not realize when he offends people. A lung cancer patient lives what may be her last day to the fullest, which includes having sex with Alex in the toilet of Joe's bar.

At first Meredith decides to choose Derek over Finn, but then finds that Finn brought Izzie food. This forces Meredith to flip a coin to choose, but in the end she decides to try dating both of them. Addison, after finding Meredith's panties in Derek's tuxedo has turned to alcohol and takes a break from her hospital duties. Derek comes to the conclusion that his marriage is over and tells Addison this, after meeting her in a hotel room. The episode ends with Mark, with whom Addison originally cheated on Derek with, appearing from the bathroom of the hotel room.

[edit] Sometimes a Fantasy

Original U.S. air date: October 5, 2006

Meredith dreams about a threesome with Finn and Derek before being awoken by George complaining about Callie's belongings are blocking the hallway. George is becoming frustrated that a week-long temporary stay by Callie has become longer, and she is using his stuff. When he complains that Callie is wearing his towel, she removes it, standing naked in the hallway and hands it to George. At the hospital, Callie requests George to perform surgery on an athlete who has had repeated orthopedic surgeries already. George convinces the patient to not have the surgery. When Callie learns what George did, she confronts him, and he admits he doesn't want to live with her anymore. She storms off and at the end of the episode is seen booking into a hotel.

First Derek and then Finn arrange dates with Meredith on the same day. The first date is lunch with Finn at the hospital, but Derek interrupts saying that he would like Meredith to help perform a corpus callosotomy. Then on the date with Derek, as they approach Meredith's door at the end, Finn appears with strawberry ice-cream. Meredith complains that neither seem to be noticing her, instead the two men are just competing with each other.

Cristina is becoming frustrated that Preston is depressed after his surgery. She is even more angry when he gets an open-ended leave of absence from the hospital without telling her first. In the end, she sees that she must help him, so gets him chicken carcasses to practice his surgery skills on and to get back his dexterity.

Alex treats a young girl, who has a long history of injuries. She claims to be a superhero and to feel no pain, proving this by beating Alex at a ice-water pain test. When she says that she got another child to hit her in the stomach with a baseball bat, Alex is concerned, and a MRI scan confirms she has a large amount of internal bleeding. The lack of pain is diagnozed as congenital insensitivity to pain.

Addison returns to work, but then receives a phone call from Mark, whom she meets at Joe's bar. She thought he was returning to New York, but he missed his flight on purpose, and the professes his love for her. She tries to tell him that she can't have a relationship with him. He ignores what she says, and moves into kiss her. Addison does the same, but then slaps him and leaves.

Izzie attempts to return to the hospital, but can get no further than standing outside. Several people try to convince her to come inside, but she cannot bring herself to.

  • Guest Stars: Chris O’Donnell (Dr. Finn Dandridge); Abigail Breslin (Megan Clover); Gabriel Casseus (Taylor Tressel); Jack Conley (Jasper Hovey); Lanei Chapman {as Lanai Chapman} (Lianne Tressel); Stephanie Erb (Mrs. Gantry); Kevin Will (Len Gantry); Linda Eve Miller (E.R. Nurse); Daniel Tatar (Hotel Clerk #1); Julie Granata (Hotel Clerk #2)
  • Title reference: This episode's title refers to a song by Billy Joel

[edit] What I Am

Original Air Date: October 12, 2006

Dr. Mark Sloan joins the staff of the hospital, causing Addison to be preoccupied and doubting her abilities to make proper medical judgements. She is delivering the baby of a woman who wants a natural childbirth but the baby doesn't descend far enough. She has several failed attempts at convincing the woman to have a caesarean section, but the woman yells at her to leave the room, which she does. Dr. Bailey talks to her and says that no man, neither Derek nor Mark, defines Addison.

Burke is cleared for surgery by Derek, who is distracted by the presence of Mark in the hospital. Cristina is pushing Burke and hasn't realised that his hand is still shaking. When Burke practices on a cadaver she finally sees this, but comes up with a plan where Burke will get someone to hold items for him so that he can use his good left hand to steady his right hand.

A man who has just had a heart operation lights a cigarette while still using a nasal cannula for oxygen. He suffers severe burns to his face, which Mark treats after initially clashing with Derek over whether they should wait before proceeding with the surgery. Alex is assigned as Mark's intern but finds that it isn't as he expected, with Mark requesting a coffee. Mark also ignores Dr. Bailey, who was the man's original doctor.

Meredith has stomach pain, nausea and vomiting which, after Cristina bellowed her suspicion, leads the staff to believe she may be pregnant with Derek's child. Cristina nicknamed the supposed child "McBaby" after finally learning that Meredith has never had sex with Finn before. It turns out that she has appendicitis and needs surgery. While on morphine, she makes several inappropriate statements, including telling people that George is a good kisser, that Bailey is really pretty, telling Mark that his nickname is "McSteamy" and that she is now known as the "adulterous whore" instead of "dirty mistress". Addison talks to her and informs Meredith that she does not hate her. Meredith wonders when Addison knew that Derek was "the one". Addison replies that she never knew this, but did know that Derek would never intentionally hurt someone. Meredith notes that he did hurt Meredith, when he chose Addison over her.

Izzie meets with Dennison "Denny" Duquette, Sr., who wants to know about his son's death. Concerned that Izzie might have been after his son's money, he is very suspicious that his son had survived for so long, only to die as a result of her medical decisions, shortly after proposing to her. He also tells Izzie that the reason Denny's parents never visited was that after Denny got sick, his prognosis had gotten worse and worse. In the end, Denny had left saying he didn't want them to have to watch him die. After Denny Duquette, Sr.'s fears are about Izzie are put to rest, he hands Izzie an envelope. Later that night, she used the code Denny Sr. gave her to access the last voice mail Denny Jr. left his parents right after his successful transplant surgery, inviting them down to Seattle to meet Izzie, the "beautiful, stubborn doctor", his new fiancee.

George admits to Callie he should have told her that he was not ready to move in together. In response she invites him to her hotel room that evening. But he stands her up to go to Izzie who wants someone to be there when she listens to Denny Jr's last message and opens the envelope. He ends up opening the envelope out of curiosity while Izzie was transfixed on the voice message (or the voice) and finds a check from Denny Jr. to Izzie for $8.7 million. Callie breaks up with him, as she is sick of George always choosing to spend time with Izzie or Meredith over her. At the bar, Callie invites Mark up to her hotel room instead.

After Addison cautioned him not to hurt Meredith again, Derek took it the wrong way and thought that she meant he should be the bigger person and not let himself hurt her again. He seek Richard's advice, asking him why he left Ellis. He then spoke to Finn and realised Meredith told Finn a great many things about him, but he didn't even know Finn's a widower. He willingly walks away from Meredith in order to spare her from his further complicating her life, but his leaving finally gives Meredith the clarity and courage to take a leap of faith and choose Derek over Finn, even though, as Finn said, "He's going to hurt you, and when he does, I won't be here."

[edit] Oh, the Guilt

Original Air Date: October 19, 2006

  • Directed by: Jeff Melman
  • Written by: Zoanne Clack and Tony Phelan & Joan Rater
Izzie's check.
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Izzie's check.

Izzie makes breakfast for her roommates, and worried that she is starting her obsessive muffin baking again, they ask her if she is fine. She insists that she is fine, but is being very cavalier towards her 8.7 million dollar check from Denny, even spilling juice all over it. Unable to decide what to do with the money, she decides to go the the hospital to clear out her locker first.

The interns are excited to attend the Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) conference but their excitement evaporates quickly after finding out Denny Duquette is first on the agenda. Bailey is slammed and raked over the coals for letting her interns run unsupervised about the hospital for long durations. A Dr. Savoy, in particular, questions her authority as a surgeon, especially after her new commitments as a mother. While wondering around the hospital, Izzie stumbles into the conference and also witness the Bailey-bashing.

After the conference, the interns refuse to let Izzie be alone and insists she stays in the hospital. George offers to keep her company. Alex becomes very defensive and says that he was not involved in any part of the Denny débâcle. Cristina and Meredith are very apologetic to Bailey, but she brushes them off as they do not get to feel better about the whole thing.

Bailey, Alex and Mark treat a young mother, Rebecca, battling stage 2B breast cancer, who is wondering if it is even worth considering a mastectomy when she feels as if she will die soon anyway. Feeling guilty over blaming the baby for not discovering the cancer earlier, forcing her to undergo the mastectomy, she decides aganst the surgery. Bailey keeps herself for being emotionally involved in the case for fear of damaging her reputation any further, despite Rebecca's husband numerous desperate pleads to Bailey to urge his wife to do the surgery. Noticing Bailey's uncharacteristic coldness, the Chief tells her that being a parent makes her a better doctor because compassion and empathy are large parts of being a doctor. Bailey decides to re-embrace her old warm self, she talks to Rebecca usng her own experiences as a new mother herself. She tells her that mothers are only human and blaming the baby is a normal reaction. Rebecca is encouraged to fight the cancer so that she doesn't miss out on the joys of motherhood. Bailey is looking after the baby while the couple have some alone time, and Dr. Savoy approaches her. She rebukes him for undermining her authority and he leaves. The conversation is overheard by Alex, who tells Bailey that he didn't do anything. Misunderstanding him, she tells him that she knows he was not involved in the matter. He clarifies, telling her that he knew about Izzie's plan to cut the LVAD wire and he didn't do anything. Therefore, he was partly to blame as well. Bailey thanks him, calling him "Alex".

Derek and Addison finalize their divorce with Derek giving up most of their property to Addison. He feels she deserves it because he had an affair while she only had a one night stand with Mark. Also, Derek happily decides that they are mature and civilised, and wants to remain friends with her. Addison tries to clarify the truth, but cannot bring herself to say it.

Meanwhile, Burke cannot bring himself to tell the Chief about his shaky hand, especially after the Chief heaps praise onto him. He decides to bury himself in paperwork and abstain from surgeries. Izzie wanders into his office and tells him that she is fine. He castigates her, saying that she is not fine because Denny died, and neither is he because he got shot while returning to the hospital because she told him to. Feeling extremely guilty for causing Burke harm, she leaves his office.

Meredith contemplates telling Derek about her breaking up with Finn and her fellow interns urge her to do it quickly. She meets Callie, who unexpectedly confesses that she slept with another guy and asks if she should tell George. Feeling like she should share, Meredith tells Callie that she broke up wth Finn and asks if she should tell Derek. She decides not to tell Derek while Callie resolves to tell George. Over the course of the day, she bumps into Derek many times but decides against telling him about Finn.

Meredith and Addison examine a couple, Sonja and Adam, who have become stuck together in mid-coitus. Adam's piercing hooked onto Sonya's dislodged IUD and is embedded in her vaginal wall. Guilty about having sex with her ex-husband even though she has re-married, she begs Addison to separate them quickly. Addison, Meredith, Cristina and the Chief manage to separate the couple but Adam suffers a heart attack in the process and Burke is called onto the case.

Burke and Cristina work out an arrangement for the surgery. In the midst of performing cardiac surgery, Burke's right hand begins to tremble again, so Cristina covers for him by asking to practice her running whipstitch. Burke talks her through the delicate procedure and this gets the other interns jealous. Izzie, however, is inspired watching Cristina in the operating theatre. This makes Izzie realise that despite all the things she could do now that she is rich, she still wants to be a surgeon. She speaks with the Chief and asks to return to work. The Chief tells her of his own past, when he made a mistake and lost a patient due to a collapsed lung. He tells her that she is only human and therefore capable of making mistakes, and that the important thing is to learn from your mistakes and move on.

Sonya tells Addison that she will tell her current husband about her affair because she stopped feeling guilty after repeatedly meeting her ex-husband for sex. She feels that the truth has to come out eventually. This makes Addison confess to Derek that she had a relationship with Mark for two months after he left. She only left for Seattle after finding him in bed with someone else. Derek tells her to get out of his life. Meanwhile, Meredith walks into the elevator and meets Derek. She tells him about Finn but still reeling from Addison's confession, he mutters an unenthused "okay". A confused Meredith looks on as he leaves the elevator. Mark approaches him and tells him that he felt like he should know the truth because they are friends, to which Derek coldly replies that Mark is not his friend.

George goes to see Callie in her hotel room, bringing food and entertainment. However, she is still guilty from sleeping with Mark and tells him that they have broken up. Addison and Mark sleep together again, post-coital, he tells her that she need not feel guilty anymore, prompting her to say shut up. Back at Meredith's place, Izzie decides not to cash her multimillion dollar check until she knows what good can come of it, to George's and Meredith's disbelief. Izzie places her battered check on the refrigerator and leaves. Meredith reaches out for it, only to have George playfully slap her hand away.

  • Guest Star: Faith Prince (Sonya Cowlman); Arye Gross (Adam Morris); Justina Machado (Diane Niles); Chris Conner (Mr. Niles); Margo Harshman (Jennifer Morris); Todd Babcock (Dr. Matthew Savoy); Moe Irvin (Nurse Tyler); Kate Anthony (Nurse Kate); Karl T. Wright (Mediator); Libby Barnes (Dr. #1); Tom Ormeny (Dr. #2); Dennis Depew (Intern)
  • Title reference: This episode's title refers to a song by Aberdeen, Washington grunge band Nirvana.

[edit] Let the Angels Commit

Original Air Date: November 2, 2006

Meredith visits Derek at his trailer when he does not call her for a week after she tells him about breaking up with Finn. She finds him only clad in a towel, with a tall beautiful woman on his bed. Shocked, Meredith flees the trailer while Derek tries in vain to chase her. It turns out the woman is his sister, Nancy, who does not seem to approve of him dating Meredith and proceeds to label her a slutty intern.

In the elevator, George decides to channel Cristina for Meredith if she channels Izzie for him, as their respective confidants had been very preoccupied lately. Meredith spills on Derek's infidelity, prompting George while channelling Cristina to say "McDreamy was doing the McNasty with McHottie? That McBastard." They then both decide to swear off relationships.

She later finds out that McHottie is actually Derek's sister. Nancy deliberately picks on Meredith, leading Izzie to call her McBitchy. Derek is unhappy that Nancy gets along very well with Addison and Mark. She later advises him that maybe he needs a little time alone, to sort things out on his own. He subsequently tells Meredith that he does need a little time to himself and she agrees.

Izzie returns to the hospital and is once again assigned to Bailey. Bailey feels that Izzie should start afresh under another resident, but the Chief tells her that the other doctors doubt her judgements and abilities as a doctor and she should prove them wrong through Izzie. Izzie is ordered by Bailey to shadow Meredith, but not before telling her that she should not have any contact with any patients whatsoever and basically, be seen and not heard.

Izzie has difficulties re-integrating into hospital life as she realises that many things have changed. When tending to a woman who severely burnt her hand a few days before taking her Bar exam, she brings Meredith the wrong gauze, not knowing that hospital protocols have changed. During lunch, she is stood up in the cafeteria, not knowing that the other interns have taken to having lunch in a sedated patient's room. There, she realises that her friends have changed too. Cristina has become more distant and she is left out of Meredith and George's conversation.

Against Bailey's and Meredith's instructions, she confronts the burn patient, who she suspects deliberately burnt her hand to get out of taking her exam. Her hunch is right and she manages to convince the patient to undergo psychiatric evaluation by relating her own experience with failure. While leaving the hospital, she meets the Chief who tells her that Meredith gave her a good evaluation. He also welcomes her back to the hospital.

George and Addison have a patient with two uteruses, Noelle. She is also pregnant with one baby in each uterus and the babies have different due dates. Meanwhile, Alex is sent to run errands for Mark but is distracted by Addison's patient. He finds out that Greg, Noelle's fiancé, likes to talk sports to the babies.

Addison unwittingly exposes Noelle's infidelity to Greg, leading him to leave her. She goes into premature labor and requires an emergency C-section. George is unable to hold the second baby still while Addison delivers the first, putting mother and child in danger. Alex coaxes the baby to stop moving by commentating a boxing match to her. Later, Mark tells him that his future in plastics is over because he did not run Mark's errand for him.

Greg eventually reconciles with Noelle. George becomes motivated by Greg's commitment to Noelle and decides that he wants to commit to Callie. She tells him that she is tired of him chasing her unless he is ready to catch her.

Cristina takes it upon herself to protect Burke's secret by writing all his operations on the OR board. She deliberately schedules his operations in theatres without galleries and prevents other residents from scrubbing in. George and Alex feel that she is abusing her power.

Cristina schedules Burke to do a rare and highly complicated 'humpty dumpty' surgery, where the patient's heart is removed and the cardiac tumor is scraped out before putting it back in. Burke is unhappy that Cristina scheduled the operation that very day before telling him, but she allays his fears of not being able to pull it off. Bailey wants in on the surgery and writes her name on the OR board. Fearful that Bailey might expose Burke, Cristina erases Bailey's name off. This causes a hurt Bailey to think that Burke, like some of the doctors in the hospital, doubt her abilities as well. However, she later chances upon Cristina writing Burke's surgeries on the board and realises that Cristina was the one who erased her name.

  • Guest Star: Embeth Davidtz (Nancy Shepherd)
  • Title reference: This episode's title refers to a song by Danielle Howle and the Tantrums.

[edit] Where The Boys Are

Original Air Date: November 9, 2006

Derek decides to go on a camping trip in the mountains for some peace and space to himself, and invites Burke along. He in turn invites George and so on, and the Chief, Alex, Joe and his boyfriend Walter end up tagging along. Derek is irritated when his plan for a peaceful camping trip falls to pieces because Burke invited "half the hospital" along.

Alex is irritated when George picks on his inappriopriate camping attire and inaccurate fishing techniques. In tit-for-tat fashion, he tells George that Callie had been sleeping with Mark. This culminates in a fight between the two, which only adds to Derek's displeasure. The Chief does not want either intern to damage their prized possessions - their hands, and sets up ground rules for their brawl and officiates their match. However, they knock into Walter, causing him to dash his head on a rock. Joe insists on having an attending to stitch Walter's head up and Burke successfully pulls off the makeshift surgery under the intense scrutiny of George, who earlier witnessed one of Burke's hand tremors.

Burke tells George that his expectations of other people are too high and that he attacks when he sees flaws in them. Meanwhile, Alex tells the Chief that he only went on this trip because he wanted to have some fun with the guys, to make up for the lack of a father figure when he was young. On the trip, the Chief learns that Joe and Walter are a couple and that Joe is willing to do anything, including giving up his bar for Walter. Upon seeing how happy the two men are together, he realises how much he misses Adele.

Addison and Callie work together on a pregnant woman who broke her wrist after falling in the shower. Addison breaks down after realises that the baby died in the fall. Both doctors can relate to how a happy relationship can be destroyed so easily. The unlikely pair bond over their sleeping with Mark.

Cristina is assigned to a kid who swallowed several Monopoly pieces by Bailey. She is banned from all surgeries until she tells Bailey why she erased her name off Burke's humpty-dumpty surgery. She is forced to sift through his stool and make sure all the pieces have been passed out. After a game piece perforates the boy's intestine, Bailey performs surgery to remove the piece and bars Cristina from the OR until she tells her why she erased her name. Cristina decides to keep quiet to protect Burke's secret.

Izzie is given a peer counsellor and is shocked when it turns out to be Sydney, the perpetually perky resident, who had substituted for Bailey temporarily during her maternity leave. She seeks refuge from her by helping Cristina with her patient, but fails when Sydney decides to wait for her. She blows up at Sydney telling her that she would rather sift through feces than talk to Sydney about Denny. Sydney tells her that she once suffered a nervous breakdown after losing a kid through her fault, and since then she put on a perky exterior to show people that she's fine. Izzie confesses to missing Denny constantly and it scares her that she doesn't know whether she wants to be a surgeon.

Meredith is assigned to work with Mark on a gender-reassignment surgery on a man, Daniel, intent on becoming a woman, Donna. Donna insists on the surgery even though her hormone replacement therapy is causing her breast cancer to grow. Meredith realises that Mark is not as callous as he appears to be through his interactions with Donna. Mark tells her that Derek has too much emotional baggage even though he does not show it. He also seizes every opportunity to flirt with Meredith and urges her to start afresh, preferably with him. She rejects his multiple advances.

George returns to the hospital, and decides to talk to Callie. She shows him his father, who has been warded. Meanwhile, Derek back from his camping trip, decides to start on a fresh slate with Meredith. She hesitates, fearing that it might be too late for that. But after seeing Mark in the background, she decides to give it a shot and kisses Derek.

[edit] Staring at the Sun

Original Air Date: November 16, 2006

  • Directed by: Jeff Melman
  • Written by: Gabrielle Stanton & Harry Werksman

Derek and Meredith make out in a bathtub, and Meredith stops Derek from getting too intense, telling him that they are taking things slow. She decides that she wants to be fun and they both resolve to be "bright and shiny" people.

The next morning, a "bright and shiny" Derek decides to be cordial and friendly to Addison. She is surprised at his unprecedented exuberance and he is surprised that she is still wearing their wedding rings. The rings are stuck and Derek advises her to use soap.

Meredith strides in happily into the locker-room and announces that she is leaving "dark and twisty Meredith" for "bright and shiny". After noticing that no one is really paying any attention, she finds out that George's father has been warded after losing consciousness and breaking his clavicle. George reinforces that everything will be fine but he is clearly shaken. Bailey assigns George to scut duty as "family members don't treat family members". Cristina says that she is scrubbing in on Burke's surgery and Bailey reluctantly lets her go. Meredith is sent to the pit, while Alex is assigned to Mark with Izzie shadowing him. Bailey reminds her not to interact with her patients.

Callie has fixed George's father's clavicle and is getting along very well with his brothers. George thanks her but reminds her that they have broken up and leaves. Callie is dejected at what he says.

Bailey lets George pick an intern he wants to be assigned to his father. After witnessing Burke letting Cristina decanulate a heart by herself, he chooses her. By now, he is highly suspicious of Burke's hand and confronts Cristina several times about it. She brushes him off everytime, saying that Burke is fine. However, one of these confrontations is witnessed by Bailey, which reinforces her own suspicions as well.

The Chief and Cristina perform the endoscopy on George's father and the biopsy results return abnormal. He has stage III metastatic cancer of the esophagus and the cancer has also spread to the stomach. Overwhelmed by his father's medical condition, Callie sleeping with Mark and Burke's hand tremor, he confides in Izzie and Meredith, but they are unable to provide much comfort.

His father's health takes another turn for the worse when Cristina discovers a leaking aortic valve and will need to undergo valve replacement before the cancer can be treated. He insists that Burke does the surgery and the prospect of George's father's life in the hands of Burke has Cristina worried.

Meanwhile, George is unable to communicate with his family when they cannot understand his medical jargon and he cannot simplify it for them. His brothers' constant teasing of him makes the situation worse and he blows up at them. Only Callie is able to make them understand their father's medical condition better using car analogies.

Meredith, Bailey and Derek work on Mia Hanson, a girl who was backed up by her mom's SUV in the driveway. She suffers from crush injury to her abdomen, as well as blunt trauma to her head. Her parents, being corporate high-fliers, are unable to connect and comfort the girl. She constantly cries out for Anna, her nanny, even though Anna was the one who knocked her down. Anna, however, was fired by Mia's parents. The poor parenting strikes a chord in Meredith, who did not have the most attentive of mothers in Ellis Grey. Bailey is also reminded of how much she is neglecting her son by working. The nanny is eventually re-hired and both parents resolve to bond with their daughter.

Mark sends Alex and Izzie to run his errands for him and Addison chides him for treating them like slaves instead of teaching them. She tries to let the Chief know, but realises that he is distracted and depressed from his marriage woes. Derek is roped in to counsel the Chief, however it ends in disaster after both of them start arguing over their marriage. The Chief decides to make his marriage work and tells Meredith that he is going to stop visiting Ellis Grey. Ellis is upset that he is leaving her for Adele and frets over raising Meredith by herself. Meredith tells her she did the best she could.

Alex and Izzie are to monitor Frank, who underwent pectoral enhancement surgery for his girlfriend to prevent her from leaving him. Frank has a tendency to speak about himself in the third person. Alex is sceptical at his extravagant measures for love, but he tells him that sometimes "grand gestures" are necessary to impress a girl. An inspired Alex lets Izzie remove the tube that drains the saroma from Frank, despite her probation rules. She is extremely happy to be able to do something medical and in the heat of the moment, Alex pulls her in for a kiss. She pulls away, saying that she can't. Later in Joe's bar, Izzie expresses surprise at Alex's feelings for her and he apologises for his actions ("Alex is sorry he's such an idiot"). She offers to buy him a drink and he accepts.

At the end of the day, Bailey calls her son and sings to him. Addison is on a ferry boat, where she tosses her rings into the water. Cristina tells Burke that George knows about his hand. Elsewhere, Meredith and Derek soak in a tub, and decide that although they are not cut out to be "bright and shiny", they are still happy to have each other in the bath tub.

  • Guest Star: Matt Winston (Frank, the Pec Implant Guy), Kate Burton (Dr. Ellis Grey)
  • Title reference: This episode's title refers to songs by U2, Wendy and Lisa, TV on the Radio and The Offspring
  • Trivia: This is the third episode not to include a closing voiceover at all (the first being "It's the end of the world" and the second being "Loosing a Religion"). Instead, the sound of Dr. Bailey singing Billie Holiday's song, God Bless the Child over a cell phone to her son is heard.
  • Trivia: This episode featured the song Where We Gonna Go from Here by Mat Kearney, which was also featured at the first season finale of Kyle XY.

[edit] From a Whisper to a Scream

Original Air Date: November 23, 2006

  • Directed by: Julie Anne Robinson
  • Written by: Kip Koenig
Burke receives a grilling with Christina onlooking.
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Burke receives a grilling with Christina onlooking.

Meredith still refuses to have sex with Derek because they are taking things slow. Cristina barges into Meredith's bedroom early in the morning and kicks Derek out. She needs advice and asks Meredith a hypothetical question. She needs to know whether Meredith would turn herself in if Derek was caught for robbing a bank and she was his accomplice. Naturally, Meredith sees through this and tries to get Cristina to open up but fails as Cristina leaves.

Cristina is worried that her covert teamwork with Burke will be exposed as George has caught on to the truth. At the hospital, she confides this to Burke, who assuages her fears by telling her that his hand tremors have not resurfaced in a week. He also reinforces that they are a strong team, but she is not all that convinced.

When an elderly driver, Mr. Dickerson, crashes into a fish market, all the doctors are called to tend to the several victims. However, Izzie was mistakenly paged and Bailey sends her to watch George's father. Izzie is not entirely pleased when she is asked to candy stripe once again and not do anything medical.

Mr. Dickerson suffered trauma to his head and chest because there was no airbag to cushion the impact. Callie examines his broken leg and decides that to pass him to Derk and Cristina, so that they can tend to his more severe head injuries. Mrs. Dickerson insists that the car, not her husband, was responsible for the accident. She also refuses to talk to the police just yet and stays by her husband's side.

Burke and Meredith work on one of the victims with Cristina worriedly watching from afar, as she is not by his side to assist him. The victim succumbs to the massive injuries, which is witnessed by Dr. Erica Hahn from Seattle Presbyterian. She was called to Seattle Grace on a consult by George for his father.

Janelle, a woman covered in blood, walks into the emergency room and collapses into Addison's arms. Mark and Alex remove the glass pieces from her and stiches her up, but when she reveals that she is 10 weeks pregnant, Addison is brought on her case as well. A worried Mrs. Dickerson, who is one of Janelle's best customers, ask about her and Janelle starts coughing up blood. She needs heart surgery because a large glass shard has punctured her heart. Janelle also reveals that her baby's father does not know about the baby because he cheated on her and she did not want him in the baby's life. Alex tells her that the baby's father may be a jerk, she doesn't have to be one since the baby will grow up and ask about his father.

George's parents ask Izzie about his love life, and she unintentionally shares details about George's life that he did not want his parents to know. On top of that, Izzie is full of praise for Burke but George decides to ask Dr. Hahn to replace Burke on his father's surgery. This is witnessed by Cristina, who thinks that Dr. Hahn is replacing Burke entirely. Her fears increase when the Chief asks to talk to Burke urgently.

Cristina tells Burke that the Chief asked for him. She wants to align their stories to hide the truth but Burke is sick of lying. He wants to tell the Chief the truth about his hand and leaves angrily. However, the Chief decides to retire and wants Burke to take over his position of Chief of Surgery instead. Cristina is pleased as George did not tell the Chief about Burke's hand, and Burke gets the position he worked so hard for. But Burke does not want it because there is blood on it, blaming Cristina for making him cross the line with her. They argue heatedly over whose fault this is.

Mr. and Mrs. O'Malley decide to let Burke operate instead because of Izzie's compliments for him. George gets upset and tells them that Izzie is on probation and it is because she easily gets too emotionally involved with her patients and one of them died because of it. This betrayal hurts Izzie and she leaves.

George once again reminds Callie that she does not have to be concerned about him and his family because they have broken up. He also reveals that he knows that Callie slept with Mark. Furious at the assumed betrayal, she confronts Meredth in the lockerroom, slamming her repeatedly into the lockers for good measure. Meredith tells her that Callie only told her she slept with someone, and it was George who told her that that someone was Mark. Shocked at the sudden turn of events, Callie leaves and looks for George. She tells him that she did not betray him because she only slept with Mark to get over him after their break-up, but it did not work. Overwhelmed by everything going on, he tells her that he cannot deal with her for the moment, which causes her to flee.

Derek finds out that Mr. Dickerson has advanced spinal stenosis, the narrowing of the spine due to ageing. The intense numbness of his legs and feet meant that he should not have been driving. On top of that, he has a subdural hematoma and a hole in his trachea. He would require a cardio-thoracic surgeon to repair the trachea while Derek works on his brain. He calls Burke to help and Burke starts to tell Derek the truth about his hand. However, Alex interrupts and tells Burke he is needed to work on Janelle. Burke decides to take Janelle and asks Derek to call Dr. Hahn to work on Mr. Dickerson. He tells Alex he wants Cristina to scrub in with him, and Alex quietly remarks that everyone else gets a surgery but him.

Mrs. Dickerson is filled with guilt when she sees Janelle being wheeled in for surgery and tells Bailey that she knew her husband should not have been driving. She did not want to make him feel betrayed by siding with their daughter when she took away Mr. Dickerson's car keys. She breaks down and Bailey leads her to the police to record her statement.

The glass shard is successfully removed from Janelle's heart and the heart is on bypass. Meredith enters and asks Burke to assist Dr. Hahn with Mr. Dickerson. He tells Cristina to stay and watch Janelle but she follows him anyway. Meredith is shocked at her defiance and realises that something is up between Cristina and Burke. Cristina warns her not to breathe a word about it as she returns to Janelle.

During Mr. Dickerson's surgery, Meredith observes Burke intensely even though she is working on his brain with Derek. Mr. Dickerson's surgery is a success and Burke returns to Janelle's operation. Cristina sees Burke having difficulties with his hand and asks to help, but he rebuffs her. He asks Bailey to scrub in and assist him and feeling betrayed, Cristina leaves the OR. When the surgery is over, he heads to the Chief's office to talk to him, but realises Cristina is already there.

Alex and Addison talk about Janelle and whether she would tell her baby's father about the baby. Addison tells him that he is a decent guy and it would be a sad thing if Mark diminishes that quality in him. They share a very meaningful look and after a while, feel embarrassed about staring at each other for so long. Alex sheepishly thanks Addison as she leaves.

Running into each other in the elevator, Derek asks Preston why he did not tell about his hand, since they are friends. He brushes him off, saying that Derek is only his surgeon. Meanwhile, Meredith and George leaves the hospital together and see Cristina sitting outside by herself. George strides past her angrily, while Meredith sits down next to her. Cristina tells her that the bank robbery was both Burke's and her idea, and Meredith replies saying that she did the right thing. Cristina sadly realises that she cannot go home and asks Meredith where is she suppose to go.

Back at Meredith's place, Derek asks Meredith why she did not tell him about Burke and Cristina when she knew. She tells him that Cristina is her best friend and she couldn't betray that friendship. After all, she was there for her when he was not. Then, they fall out of scene and have sex. Meanwhile, George tries to apologise to Izzie for his inappriopriate outburst but she tells him she is not ready to forgive him yet and to try again tomorrow.

Cristina finally sums up the courage to return home and takes tentative steps into Burke's house. He looks at her with an unreadable expression, and closes the bedroom door in her face.

  • Guest Stars: George Dzundza (Harold O'Malley); Brooke Smith (Erica Hahn); Debra Monk (Louise O'Malley); Lois Smith (Mrs. Dickenson); Emy Coligado (Janelle Duco); Kate Anthony (Nurse Kate); Linda Klein (Nurse Linda).
  • Title reference: This episode's title refers to songs by Elvis Costello, Robert Palmer, Starsailor, and Icicle Works.
  • Trivia: The episode is in Cristina's point of view rather than the usual narration provided by Meredith. This also occurred in What Have I Done to Deserve This? and Deterioration of the Fight or Flight Response.
    • The extended episode features only 3 songs, which is lesser than the average of 5 songs per episode. The writers felt that while everyone has a soundtrack playing in their head, Cristina is so focused all the time that she does not have one, hence the decision to reduce the number of songs played during the episode.

[edit] Don't Stand So Close to Me

Original Air Date: November 30, 2006

  • Directed by: Seith Mann
  • Written by: Carolina Paiz

This episode opens with Ellis Grey fretting over Richard Webber leaving her, and Meredith tries to tell her that this had happened a long time ago but cannot get through to her mother. Meredth is hurt when Ellis cries that she should not have had a child so that Richard will stay with her.

Back at the hospital, Bailey insists that the Chief punish Burke and Cristina for their severe lapse in judgement but the Chief refuses, saying that no one was killed because of their cover-up. However, the Chief orders Burke to get his hand fixed by Derek immediately. Derek tries to help Burke fix his hand, but Burke coldly brushes him off and refuses his help because he feels that Derek is responsible for his hand tremors.

All the interns avoid Cristina and treat her shabbily except for Meredith, who comes to her best friend's defense. George is particularly miffed because Cristina was willing to let Burke operate on his father despite his shaky hand. However, Cristina refuses to let Meredith defend her or her past actions.

Addison calls Meredith and tells her that her step-sister Molly has been warded for an emergency C-section. Meredith tells her that Molly is not her family, but offers to be assigned to the case anyway. When Bailey assigns Cristina to George's father's valve replacement case, the interns are shocked because her mistake did not result in any repercussions. Bailey warns them not to jump to conclusions and shows the remaining interns their case for the day - adult conjoined twins Jake and Pete seeking to be separated. Jake wants to be separated from Pete so that he can pursue a real relationship with his girlfriend, Elena. The interns fight over who gets in on the case but because of the massiveness of the surgery, Bailey reluctantly allows George, Alex and Izzie to all be in on the surgery. The Chief, Derek and Mark are also performing the surgery. Mark whisks Izzie away to be his intern, to both Izzie's and Alex's disdain, albeit for different reasons.

In typical fashion, Izzie is delegated to get coffee for Mark. She is unfazed and refuses to get him any coffee, telling him where to find it himself. When he threatens her with the surgery, Izzie reluctantly gets him the coffee but tells him that he does not deserve any respect until he does something worth respecting.

The Chief lambasts Burke for blaming Derek for his hand when Burke was fully responsible for himself. He is also upset because he was ready to retire and pass on the torch to Burke but he "blew it out", so now he cannot mend his relationship with Adele. The Chief tells Burke that if he does not let Derek treat his hand, he is letting himself down.

George gets himself involved in his father's case and disregards Dr. Hahn's authority in the process. He is pulled aside by Bailey, who gives him strict orders to stay 50 feet away from his father because of her past experience with emotionally involved interns. But George nevertheless disobeys orders and finds Callie in his father's ward. Mr. O'Malley wants to know why George has been so angry at Callie and everyone else lately when the real person he is angry at is his father. George denies this but his father tells him that it is okay because he is angry at himself as well for contracting cancer. At this moment, his brothers return and tease him about how he is forbidden in his father's ward. He blows up at them once again, causing his father's heart to beat too fast. Callie pages the available cardio-thoracic surgeon and Burke comes in to assist. George reluctantly lets Burke help his father.

Meanwhile, Derek suffers his own crisis of confidence because of Burke blaming him for his hand. He is not confident of pulling off the separation surgery and does not see why the surgery should go ahead because of the complexity and risks involved. The Chief insists that he proceeds with the surgery because it can be done and a successful separation will generate immense publicity for the hospital. Bailey shares with Derek about her own crisis of confidence after the fall-out of the M&M conference. She tells him that he was not responsible for Burke and it was Burke's own fault for keeping his hand tremors a secret.

During the separation surgery, Mark asks Bailey if Izzie can observe the surgery in the operating theatre instead of up in the gallery. Bailey approves despite the Chief warning her about Izzie's probation status. She counters saying that Cristina made a mistake too, but she is performing the valve replacement surgery with Dr. Hahn. Derek gets his confidence back after Bailey's pep talk and the surgery is a success.

George goes to observe his father's operation but is unable to bring himself to see his father go under the knife. At this moment, Burke walks in and allays his fears, convincing him of Cristina's stellar cardio-thoracic capabilities. Burke gives George a blow-by-blow account of his father's procedure when he is unable to look. His father's operation is also a success and George thanks Burke for his kind gesture.

During Molly's C-section, the baby is found not breathing and requires follow-up surgery for its jejunal atresia. Meredith tries to be emotionally distant, but fails when she is unable to tell Susan and Molly about the baby's medical complication. Addison refuses to let her in on the follow-up surgery because it was a mistake letting family treat family, so she sends Meredith to give hourly updates to Susan and Molly about the baby's condition during the surgery. When Meredith informs her step-mother and half-sister about the baby, she sees how other mothers provide comfort and care to their children. The baby manages to get through her procedure and Meredith informs a grateful Susan. Susan invites Meredith to be part of their family but Meredith coldly declines.

At the end of the day, Meredith castigates the other interns for being cold to Cristina. She reminds them that Cristina was there in their time of need, when Izzie cut Denny's LVAD wire, when Alex needed to study for his boards and when George was being called 007. She insists that they should return the favor now that she needs their support. George coldly replies that Cristina was calling him 007 and leaves, but Alex and Izzie apologise for their actions. Cristina asks Meredith why she cannot just mind her own business and is told that she is Meredith's sister and the only family she's got.

Meredith and Cristina see Derek and Burke going up in the elevator, so that Derek can take a look at Burke's hand. Cristina decides to follow and steps into the elevator as well. Back at home, Ellis is still ranting about how she should not have had Meredith and Meredith reaches forward and gives a hug, calling her Mommy. Ellis regains a moment of lucidity, calls her Meredith and returns the hug.

[edit] Six Days

Original Air Date: January 11, 2007

After a successful operation on his heart, George's father undergoes surgery for his cancer, Thatcher Grey visits Seattle Grace in order to see his new granddaughter, and Meredith discovers that Derek has trouble sleeping soundly.

  • Guest Stars: George Dzundza (Harold O'Malley); Jeff Perry {Thatcher Grey); Debra Monk (Louise O'Malley); Greg Pitts (Jerry O'Malley); Tim Griffin (Ronnie O'Malley); Mae Whitman (Heather Douglas); Judith Hoag (Rhada Douglas); Steven W. Bailey (Bartender Joe); Sarah Utterback (Nurse Olivia); Moe Irvin (Nurse Tyler); Rhomeyn Johnson (manager); Jake Mailey (Uncle Jim); Michael James Thompson (Cousin Joe).
  • Title reference: This episode's title refers to a song by DJ Shadow.

[edit] Always Something There to Remind Me

Original Air Date: January 18, 2007

  • Directed by: TBA
  • Written by: TBA


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