Time Has Come Today
Updated 2006-09-27 17:00:00
Izzie has been lying on her bathroom floor in her prom dress all night, mourning Denny. When Meredith decides to start cooking food (okay, "making sandwiches") to help Izzie cope, Cristina decides that what they're actually doing is sitting shiva. This offers a fine opportunity for flashbacks, including the intern mixer where Izzie meets Alex and Cristina meets Burke, and the bar where McDreamy picks up Mere for the first time.
Addison has discovered Meredith's forgotten panties from her prom tryst with McDreamy. She doesn't have time to do anything with them yet, because two things happen in the E.R. First, there's an outbreak of the plague. No, really. Derek and George are quarantined in the locker room, while the infected woman they performed surgery on dies, and her husband -- Eugene (!), also sick, also quarantined -- is freaking out, more than a little bit. Bailey, feeling guilty and shaken by Denny's death, attempts to tend to Eugene through the sealed door. The second thing is a baby that's found in a high school trash can, and Addison and Alex have to figure out who the mother is from a line-up of four fourteen-year-old prep school girls and their "not my daughter" parents.
Adele shows up and tells Richard he has to retire or he'll lose her. Callie and Finn show up (separately) at Mere's house and have a lovely conversation about how doctors are just arrested adolescents, while Meredith proves Callie's point by hiding from Finn in Izzie's bathroom. Derek's time in quarantine convinces him that he wants Meredith, for real, and he tells her so. Now it's her turn to be feckless and indecisive! Addison eventually sniffs out the baby's mother, which gives her another opportunity to be completely *****ing awesome, and then she takes Meredith's whore panties and pins them to a bulletin board at the hospital, under "Lost and Found." And, when she finally gets sick of all the flashbacks, Izzie decides to get up off the floor and into some clean clothes.