Anyways, the show begins with the usual Meredith voice-over. This one is about how we're not much more than animals... blah de blah de blah. I really do hate those Meredith voice-overs. Apparently, it has been five weeks since in TV land since the faith healer and baby Tuck's unfortunate tangle with the bookcase. The residents are living in the hospital due to a surgery contest with a point system (you see, living in their own homes might result in them missing out on an awesome surgery worth lots of points). The resident with the most points gets some kind of fancy prize. Meredith is in therapy, which obviously made me almost giddy. But she's not there for McDreamy, oh no. The fact that he is all lovey dovey with Nurse McSlutty has nothing to do with it. Although, I must say this, McDreamy seems more indifferent to this relationship than Nurse McSlutty, who proudly proclaims to Lexie at the nurse's station that she loves him. Yeah, ok... A bit over the top, don't you think?
Callie and Dr. Hahn are like BFF now. I must say though, that there are some pretty strong lesbian undertones going on in their friendship. Maybe they're just close, but I don't know. I sense something juicy.
McSteamy just doesn't know what to do with himself now that Dr. Hahn and Callie are off doing their thing and completely ignoring him. And on top of that, he's a little jealous of McDreamy's new relationship with Nurse McSlutty, who he doesn't like at all. He was under the impression that after the Addison/Meredith triangular cluster[bleep] of love, that McDreamy and he were going to hang out and be single men together. And now he's lonely. I have two things to say about this plot-line. One, McSteamy is quickly becoming one of my favorite characters. Because he looks out for his buddy and he doesn't like Rose. Now, if he out-right hated her for no good reason, well, I might not feel the same. However, he just doesn't feel right about her and wasn't shy about vocalizing this to McDreamy. My hero! And two, McDreamy certainly does move from one relationship to the next, doesn't he? And I'm not talking about ending one relationship only to start a new one. That considerate, albeit disjointed way of dating just isn't for him. He'd like to sail from one relationship right into the next without all that being-single-for-five-minutes business. Think about it, he was still technically married when he started that stuff with Meredith. And he was still with Meredith [technically] when he tongue wrestled Nurse McSlutty. Damn boy, take a minute to breathe between women. Good god!
Moving on, there is still a little bit of unexpected tension between George and Izzie now that the Gizzie affair is over. And thank God for that (the end of the relationship, not the tension). Several different times Izzie makes some passive aggressive comments about her instincts being all wrong (what with her deciding to sleep with a married man and all) and George is now living in one of the grossest apartments I have ever seen, with Lexie. Lexie and Meredith have this almost sisterly bond over Lexie's sticky fingers, but as soon as Lexie tries to get personal, Meredith becomes all business and distant. I have faith that they'll work it out eventually. Not that I expect them to giggle over boys while braiding each other's hair or anything, but I hope one day, they will be able to communicate in a sisterly way.
I suppose it's time to actually talk about the patients. I mean, this is a medical drama, after all. The meat of the medicine is directed at this one group of campers who have been attacked by a bear. Two brothers and a wife. To make this a little easier to understand, since I have no idea what their names were, I'll name the brothers Brother A and Brother B. Ok now, Brother A is married to the girl there. He married this chick after 10 days of knowing her. She's a middle-class waitress, and I guess he's supposed to be loaded or something. Brother B is just there to be a wicked cool patient. We don't really know anything about his personal life. Anyways, Brother A, Brother B and wife decide to go out into the wilderness to camp. Brother A decides it would be a good idea to reach out and touch a baby cub, which prompts Mama Bear to come and tear the everloving crap out of everybody. Brother A has a hole in his hand, meaning you can actually see through it. Wife is missing part of her head, meaning her skull flap is just kind of hanging out on the side of her head. And Brother B's intestines are on the outside of his body rather than on the inside. And what's really weird is, Brother A drove all of them to the hospital instead of waiting for an ambulance. The other patient is just an old man with an ankle injury.
Now, keep in mind there is a surgical contest going on. So not only are the residents trying to pick the grossest cases, but they are also trying for a point system. The points I caught were 1 point per stitch (Brother B needs about a hundred of them) and 80 points for solving a medical mystery (Izzie thinks ankle man probably has a serious disease no one will catch because they're all focused on the ankle). Cristina is ahead in points when the patients roll up. She picks Brother B because all those stitches will seal the game for her. However, Bailey (who is officiating the contest) decides Alex and Cristina will share him. Alex has a chance to catch up to Cristina if he can do more stitches than her, which seems likely since she has to leave every hour to give Dr. Hahn an update about Brother B. Meredith gets Brother A, who seems to be a pretty straight forward case. However, as she learns more about his erratic behavior (like touching a baby cub when he knew better, marrying a woman he only knew for 10 days and driving everyone to the hospital rather than wait for an ambulance), she starts to suspect that Brother A has a tumor that is affecting his judgment. And guess what, if she's right, she's solved a medical mystery and she wins. Izzie spends her day trying to find some kind of life threatening disease in the man with the ankle injury. She orders tons of unnecessary and rather painful tests (including a spinal tap) and leads this man to believe he's dying from some unheard of disease all so she can solve a medical mystery and win the contest. Turns out, the guy only has the flu. He's appropriately unhappy about this.
Brother B dies because, well, his insides became his outsides and not many people can handle that kind of stress to the body. Brother A actually does have a tumor, which can't be operated on, and wife just gets her head sewn up and everything is fine. Meredith wins the surgical contest because of Brother A's tumor, although she doesn't seem very excited about it. Her prize is a red and white striped sparkly pager. A magic pager it seems, because it gives her the power to decide which surgeries she wants in on. Basically, this pager gives her the power to take someone else's patient if she wants it. Oh, and obviously, she'll be the first resident paged. The other residents are obviously unhappy about this, but I'm sure they'll all get over it.
All in all, this was a really good episode. Gross, bloody and appropriately sentimental what with all the freeze frame shots of McDreamy and Nurse McSlutty engaging in PDA right in front of Meredith. Meredith is handling this break-up with McDreamy much more maturely than she did the others. When Izzie and Cristina try to console her, as best friends are likely to do after a breakup, by calling her mean and awful, Meredith tells them to stop. Because Nurse McSlutty isn't an awful person (I beg to differ) and she has accepted that she and McDreamy are over. She's in therapy to deal with her many many issues and she even brings herself to consult him about a possible treatment for Brother A's tumor, even though it is painfully obvious that she would rather talk to anyone else. I'm pretty proud of my little Meredith. Being all adult and mature and actually trying to get healthier. I could just pinch her little cheek.
Essentially, I loved it. I loved all of it. And it was nice to have a quick Grey's fix after such a long withdrawal period. All is right with the world. Grey's Anatomy, we welcome you back with open arms.
The loveliest thing I have seen in a long time.
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