Richard reminds the residents that they can no
longer specialize. Cristina is upset about being assigned to the
clinic, but shares her best cardio tips with Meredith, including how to
perform a complicated procedure she's never done before. Erica lets
Meredith do the procedure but advises her, "If you lie to me again, the
next heart you'll see will be your own as I cut it out of your chest
with a steak knife!"
Callie is nervous about her first date with Erica, and confides her
nerves to Miranda, who suggests she regard it as a trip to a foreign
country. At dinner, Erica promises Callie there's "lots of undiscovered
territory above the belt."
Izzie is mad at Alex for stealing a case that she diagnosed, but Mark
tells her, "Surgery is like the Wild West. Karev's a cowboy, you're
not," and that she's out of luck. Derek won't help either, so Izzie
goes back to her patient and tells him that Alex has been "off his
game." The ploy works: the patient asks for her to be reassigned to his
case. When Alex protests, she tells him she's done "wiping up your snot
and covering your ass." Derek reminds them both that he's not their
roommate when they're at work. "You two ever pull that crap again on
one of my cases, I will have you thrown out of the program," he warns.
A patient with a rash brings Cristina to the dermatology department.
When she sees the special privileges that the department gets,
including massages, she can't believe it's the same hospital. Meredith,
Izzie and George all marvel at how relaxed and civil the department is,
with no fighting over surgeries. At the end of the day, however, they
admit how bored they'd be without life and death cases.
George passes his intern exam -- and Lexie is anxious to celebrate but
is crushed when he goes to tell Izzie and Meredith first. At Joes,
instead of sitting at George's table, Lexie drinks at the bar by
herself.
Derek starts clearing out the home office that used to belong to
Meredith's mother and comes across an old diary of hers. Meredith is
not happy that he's been "snooping" and Derek offers to move out. After
thinking it over, Meredith insists he should stay. "I may not always be
so graceful about it, but I want you here." Meredith takes the diary
and reads it aloud with Cristina.
Alex finally apologizes to Izzie for how he's treated her since his
breakup with Ava. "I know I'm being an ass. But you can't be pissed off
at a chick for losing her mind, so there's nobody else to be pissed at
but you," and all her resentment seems to melt away.
