Did he say meth baby?

It’s very rare that a patient on Grey’s Anatomy steals the show entirely from the tangled plotlines of the characters. However, this week, the only thing that really caught my attention was the meth baby. That’s right, I said meth baby. His parents had a meth lab right there in the apartment, and the baby was crawling around in the residue left on the floor, the walls and basically everything in the apartment. And the reason he was even in the hospital was because that very same meth lab blew up an entire apartment building. Wow. Alex is the first one to detect that something is amiss with this baby; first because he won’t stop crying and second, Alex’s super smelling powers detected the scent of crystal meth on his skin and in his hair. After a tox-screen confirmed his suspicions, Alex, being Alex, confronts the father about his obviously poor parenting skills. The father, currently high and skittish about being sent to jail, punches Alex out, steals the baby and disappears. The chief of surgery blames Callie, new chief resident, for this oversight. As if she doesn’t have enough problems. George decides he needs to tell Callie that their marriage is over, since he’s now in love with Izzie. But when Izzie is assigned to work with Callie all day, she convinces him to delay the admission for a while. How long is a while, exactly? In the meantime, Izzie and George refuse to be physical with each other until Callie is aware that she and George are headed for divorce. There's an awesomely sultry scene in which they essentially torture/tease each other before Izzie finally walks away, agreeing that its only right to tell Callie before they start racking up the adulterous interludes. But when Izzie acts nervously and continues to drop surgical tools when Callie is the room, Callie puts two and two together and comes to the conclusion that Izzie and George are having an affair. She’s right, but I find it difficult to believe that a few clumsy maneuvers automatically add up to being “the other woman”. As predicted, Meredith and McDreamy are not really broken up. They’re just having emotionless sex. Well, emotionless on Meredith’s end. And even though it kills McDreamy to be with a closed off, emotionally stunted woman, it hurts him even more to walk away. Apparently, McDreamy and McSteamy are buds now. All the hostility is gone and they casually talk about the issues in McDreamy’s relationship with Meredith. McSteamy is even sent on a wingman mission to blow Meredith off for McDreamy. I'm sorry, but what happened to the fist fights? Didn't he still sleep with your wife and then try to hit on your mistress? Forgive and forget, i guess... Cristina spends the entire episode hiding from Mama Burke, who came to the hospital to get her key so she could pick up some of Burke’s things. And by that, she meant everything except the furniture. When Cristina returns home, it’s to a completely barren apartment. Mama Burke is such a sweet lady (note the sarcasm). Now Cristina really does have nothing, when just a few episodes ago, she was about to have everything. And just to really drive home the point, Mama Burke emphasises the point that Cristina could have been one of the greatest heart surgeons in the world if Burke hadn't left her, since he was her teacher as well as her fiancee. Nice lady. Lexie continues to try for a relationship with Meredith. (Have I mentioned yet that Lexie bugs the crap out of me?) But yet again, Meredith refuses to have anything to do with her. Lexie points out that they have the same father. Meredith counters with the fact that her father left when she was five, and that was not the kind of father Lexie had to grow up with. She blames her inability to have a functional and healthy relationship with McDreamy on her father’s abandonment, and since Lexie was a factor in that abandonment, Meredith resolves never to talk to her. The conversation brings Lexie to tears. Poor baby. But the meth baby overshadows all of this. In fact, his treatment is about half the show. I found myself caring more about what would happen to the baby than who was sleeping with whom this week. And in case you were wondering, the baby was treated and sent to live with his grandmother while his parents were carted off to jail. What a great way to start you're life, huh?