The ***** Hits the Fan
Updated 2006-11-29 16:00:00
The secret is out, folks. Well, actually a lot of secrets are out, but the big one is that Burke has been hiding a tremor ever since he came back to work. George calls in Dr. Hahn of the Denny-LVAD-two transplant patients-Burke shooting day to consult on his dad's surgery and decides to have her do the operation. Izzie is assigned to watch Mr. O'Malley, and manages to spill the beans about nearly every major detail of George's life to his parents, and then to make the gravest mistake of telling them that Burke is the best heart surgeon they could have. They decide, then, to switch the surgery back to Burke, so George retaliates by telling them about Izzie's probation. The reason Izzie was there in the first place is that all of the other surgeons were busy taking care of a ton of extra-bloody patients from a giant car accident. Cristina is separated from Burke, and between that and the arrival of Dr. Hahn, she is freaking out that George told the Chief all that has been going on. As it turns out, this wasn't the case at all: the Chief wants to retire, hire Dr. Hahn in Burke's place, and recommend Burke to the board to become the new Chief of Surgery. Unfortunately, Burke feels guilty, and he and Cristina do a lot of yelling that they're sure to regret, each blaming the other for the surgery situation. By the time they are performing a surgery later that day, he sends her to the other side of the table and eventually dismisses her. That's all she can handle and, covered in her bloody surgical scrubs, she goes to meet with the Chief and spill all the beans. Although Burke shows up later himself to talk to the Chief, it's too late: Burke seems to be in a lot of hot water, and Cristina is out a place to live. Thank goodness, then, that we get some Thanksgiving happiness when Meredith and Derek make it through a blame fight about who knew what with Burke and Cristina and make up by finally having sex again.