Into You Like A Train
Updated 2005-11-04 16:00:00
We pick up where we left off last week, with Meredith et al. sitting in Joe's bar waiting for McDreamy to sign his divorce papers and show up already. Before he can, though, two things happen: Meredith gets wasted; and all the doctors' pagers go off because there's been a train wreck. McDreamy, of course, walks into the bar (not a joke!) just after Meredith has left for the hospital. Oh, who will McDreamy choose? Bailey deems Mere too drunk to practice medicine and orders her to stand around with an IV in her arm until she sobers up. Cristina is assigned to assist with re-attaching a severed leg to its rightful owner. Alas, she's brought in someone else's leg, and goes off on a frantic search for the correct appendage, at one point insisting that Burke help her because he's her boyfriend, and that's what boyfriends do. Burke disagrees. In the end it's Alex who finds the leg, thereby making himself out to be the big hero, and giving him back some of his lost mojo. Izzie and Dr. Mrs. Dr. McDreamy work on two women who have gone into labor as a result of the crash; Izzie's performance prompts DMD McDreamy to offer her a mentor relationship, but only if Izzie can get over the fact that she is McDreamy's wife, and therefore evil. Meanwhile, a man and a woman, incredibly upbeat for having been impaled by the same pole and stuck together this way, are brought in. One of them has to be moved off the pole first, with the unfortunate side effect of probably dying. It's the girl, and she does die, and it is heartbreaking. Meredith makes kind of a scene in the OR about not just abandoning the girl to work on the other guy, in a clear parallel to her own sad life. Oh, and McDreamy chooses...his wife.