It was a dark and stormy night on the last episode of Grey’s that aired before the “mid-Winter break.” (BTW – how do you get a job where there’s a mid-Winter break? The couple of days the rest of us get off at Thanksgiving and Christmas don’t nearly measure up to the length of these “breaks.” ) The next new epi won’t air until January 5, 2012.
The last episode aired was titled “Dark was The Night” and there’s a good summary here and here to tickle your memory cells – if they need tickling. Personally, I’m up for a good tickle most any time. But that’s for another blog post entirely. For this one, I’m doing one of my most favorite things – I’m donning my Swami Cap and guessin’ Grey’s. Keep in mind, my POV is from way over the top and Sunshine Shonda Rhimes is as likely to have written things the way I see ‘em as I am to win the powerball lottery. Okay – it’s more likely that I’ll win the powerball.
The whole thing was dark and stormy. Lots of bad things happened to the characters, with one of the worst undoubtedly being the death of Henry on the OR table during a fairly routine procedure while his wife, Teddy, was operating on an emergency patient. So Teddy wasn’t there when her hubby died and new-Chief Owen didn’t tell her. By epi’s end she still didn’t know. And Cristina didn’t know the patient she was called to do a heart procedure on was Teddy’s hubby. She was rushing through becausec she’d been practicing for a procedure on her “dream list.” And Owen didn’t tell Cristina that the patient was Henry. She found out after he died.
There was lots of trauma to go around. Mer and Karev were called out to pick up a newborn infant who is having trouble breathing and must be transported to Seattle Grace. On the way back the ambulance stalls on a narrow mountain road and a paramedic goes off to get help after warning Mer and Alex that if anything hits the ambulance it’ll explode b/c of all the oxygen tanks. The paramedic tells the pair to get out but neither will leave the baby. They’re connected to the hospital for advice from Arizona who is in the middle of a procedure with Derek and Mark. Mark tells one of ‘em to leave. Alex tells Mer to go but she refuses to leave the baby. While they argue, something hits the ambulance, they’re thrown around and the OR loses the connection to the phone.
Der is finally struck by how much his wife means to him and he gets all jittery and teary and Jackson has to take over the surgery. (Maybe now he’ll even stop trying to destroy Mer’s career – you think?) In the closing scene Alex and Mer crawl out of the ambulance – apparently okay – and see a car tipped over and dead bodies thrown around. It’s a tough scene and yeah – I wonder what it portends. Maybe I’ll blog about those guesses later. The Duck Lady’s over the top thoughts on that scene would likely be far more horrific than whatever Sunshine’s crack writers dreamed up.
But that’s not what this blog is about. This is about the call Mer/Der got from the social worker indicating that she didn’t think they’d get Zola. She basically told ‘em to move on. Der tells Mer that it’s not over – they’ll fight for Zola or get another baby. But Mer refuses and says Zola was their baby and she’s gone. Mer says she doesn’t want another one and for now McDreamy is feeling a little guilty that he pushed Mer towards motherhood before she was ready.
But one way or another, the pitter patter of little McDreamy feet seems inevitable, doesn’t it? So – what route will the stork take to deliver a McDreamy bundle?
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