By Dianne Brooks
Fancast.com
The writers of Grey's Anatomy describe this latest episode as relationships at work and “becoming” who we really want to be. We open as we did last week with Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and her therapist (Amy Madigan). This time Meredith is asking for some “tools” so that she can stop thinking about kissing Derek (Patrick Dempsey) when she’s injecting a virus into her patients’ heads to kill their inoperable brain tumors. The latest doomed guinea pig is a gay Afghan war Vet, who thought he could keep his private life and his work life separate. Then he fell in love with someone at work.
In the meantime naked Mark Sloan (Eric Dane) and naked Callie Torres (Sara Ramirez) are fooling around in his office when he gets the word that no nurses will work with him. Big problem since he’s a surgeon. It’s because he’s a “whore” and “nasty” as Dr. Bailey (Chandra Wilson) puts it in her oh so sassy way. When a lawsuit by the nurses seems imminent, who should show up to negotiate but the Chief’s (James Pickens, Jr.) ex. The fix: every employee who is or has had relations with another employee must regis-ter said event. George gets tapped as the enforcer since the Chief wants to prove he’s delegating. Although the registration causes all sorts of embarrassment (Alex forgets he slept with Lexie; Rose and Derek haven’t done it “yet”; Dr. Bailey is purposely NOT given any paperwork) the Chief winds up in bed with his ex-wife.
Christine (Sandra Oh) stops talking until the very end of the episode. Instead she goes down to the morgue and starts singing “Like A Virgin.” She finally let’s it fly when the Chief forces her to register her relationship with Preston Burke who has recently won some award that no one, including Erica Hahn (Brooke Smith) thinks he deserves.
Alex (Justin Chambers) who thinks he’s a dad tries to relate to a heart patient who can’t touch her own kids while she waits for a transplant. Izzy (Katherine Heigl) spends the whole episode trying not to tell him the truth: that his lady friend is not pregnant. She succeeds, she’s “becoming” a good doctor.
Erica wants to know why Callie won’t be her friend anymore and when Callie admits to fear of lesbianism, they laugh, very uncomfortably.
It all comes full circle with Meredith, trying to convince herself, in the presence of the therapist, that she had a really “good” day. If a good day is watching your patient die and your McDreamboat walk off with Rose, you really are nuts the therapist blasts. Guess who storms out?