Grey's Anatomy – Recap – Episode 2-21

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Meredith had sex with George and she tells Derek as a friend. He has an initial reaction that is not so friendly looking.

George tells Meredith that they are done as friends and whatever else.

So George has to move in with Burke and Cristina, which makes Burke and George become buddies. Cristina doesn’t like that.

Meredith tells George that he has to talk to her sometime, but not yet.

George’s new lady friend, Callie, knows that he has issues from his past “relationship”. He tried to call her, but hung before he could complete it.

Dr. Webber visits Meredith’s mom often, which she likes.

Izzie worries about Denny and his upcoming surgery.

On with the show!

Grey’s Anatomy – Season Two (Episode 21) – “Superstition”

Meredith begins her “speech voice” by saying that her college had a magic statue that was supposed to bring good luck. Her roommate at the time wanted them to ALWAYS rub it for good luck before each exam. That didn’t work so well as her roommate flunked out in her 2nd year. She should have studied.

Now we get a look at Burke and some of his superstitions. His goes through his motions of checking his little cap and cracking his neck. Cristina and Izzie look on in awe. Derek and Bailey do the same as George looks on in awe.

Meredith continues to talk about certain infamous superstitions such as not stepping on any sidewalk cracks and knocking on wood. None of this works today, however, as we see four different operations go wrong and all of patients die to start off the day.

George tells us it was four surgeries and four fatalities to start off. Izzie informs us that another doctor told her that fatalities during surgery happens on 3’s and 7’s during a day. So that means there will be 3 more before the day is out. Oh..it’s the guy who runs the morgue, so he knows what he’s talking about. George still refuses to talk to Meredith. He walks away from her. Meredith tells Izzie and Cristina what Derek said. They are shocked! Not from what he said, but because Meredith says it was “friendly” advice from him. Alex comes in to talk to Izzie. They seem to still be sleeping with each other. She snuck out last night. Bailey comes in and tells them all to come with her. Time to save a life.

They all go to the ER. They run into Addison, who has her own superstitions of a certain beverage. Some special “juju”, which she gives to Bailey and Meredith. Addison then thanks Meredith for her help this morning, which shocks Meredith a little. Derek overhears this. She walks off and Derek goes over to talk to Addison. Derek says that she and Meredith are friends. Addison says that she and Derek are married, so that results in her and Meredith being friends. Derek says she doesn’t have to do that. He’s not friends with Mark and Addison says she is not either.

Meanwhile, we see Meredith throw the “friendly juju” that Addison gave her in the garbage. Webber and Burke look at the board, while Burke talks on the phone to someone. Some surgeons have been canceling some surgeries for no good reasons. No more of that says Webber.

Back to the ER and Cristina says there is no blood involved, so no life to save. It’s a little quiet around here, which everyone jumps on her for saying. Why? It’s a superstition and here we go! Izzie and Alex get pages. A woman runs in who is coughing up blood. Here comes an ambulance. Bailey looks at Cristina sternly. Bailey tells Meredith and Cristina to take one of each of the patients. It was a car accident. A guy hit his head on the windshield. That’s Cristina’s guy. He has OCD as he sits and counts the siren noises from the ambulance. Here comes Meredith’s patient and she got struck by lightning! She looks at Cristina with the evil eye and Cristina says it’s all a coincidence and yes I CAN spell that!

Roll opening theme!!

We come back with the “lightning lady”. She said her horoscope told her to stay close at home. She didn’t listen. Bailey says she has no signs of being struck by lightning, though. The lady insists that it was a sign. Getting struck by lightning is clearly a sign says the lady. Meredith says there were no wounds on here where the lightning would enter and exit the person. Now she says that a tree was struck by lightning and the tree fell on her. Okay..now a branch fell on her. Big difference.

George informs Webber that an old friend of his is in the hospital now. George wants to help, but Webber says he has this alone. He goes to greet her.

Izzie and Alex check on Denny. He’s having a lot of pain, but doesn’t want to operate today because he heard that three more people were going to die today. Stupid superstition. Izzie says it doesn’t look good. She will have to talk to Dr. Burke.

Meredith and Cristina are in the elevator with their patients. Meredith tells Cristina that she didn’t drink Addison’s special “juju” drink. Cristina doesn’t like that word, which causes her patient to say that word over and over again as part of his OCD. Meredith wonders if she has to be friends with Addison as well.

Snap! Meredith’s girl gets her leg snapped back in place. She has a lot of bruises. Callie does this. George comes in and wants to help. But Callie says he blew her off, so he blew his chance. The girl tells Callie not to give up on George if she really likes him. George runs away now. Why? Meredith is here to take the patient upstairs. Hint..hint. Callie thinks the woman’s boyfriend might have hit her. No way says the girl. Now she says she was in the tree when the lightning struck. She fell. She keeps changing her story involving her boyfriend and psycho dogs. Can you say..crazy?!

Burke comes down and Cristina tells him sorry about him losing his patient earlier. He didn’t have his right cap on. Cristina says the guy didn’t die because of that. He knows that. And now it looks like Cristina is going to bribe Burke. She has one of his caps in her locker. She will give it to him..IF he kicks George out of their apartment. Burke says he doesn’t like ultimatums. She walks away and George comes in. Burke tells him that he needs for George to get something from Cristina.

Dr. Webber’s old friend, Ollie, is having problems with her liver because of alcohol. It’s serious. She needs a new liver. Webber is scared a little. Hmm..it appears Webber is a recovering alcohol as well. They were in AA together. Ollie wants to know how he is? He tells her about Meredith’s mom, which shocks Ollie. She thinks she is having an emotional affair with Meredith’s mom. That isn’t good, since Meredith’s mom was the one that drove him to drink. Ollie was also Webber’s sponsor in the past. He’s been sober 17 years now thanks to her. Now it’s Webber’s turn to help her. We take a break!

We come back with George going through Cristina’s locker. He can’t find Burke’s cap. He does find some panties among other things. Cristina catches him. George tries to bribe Cristina now. But she won’t budge. George thinks that Cristina is always trying to compete with him for Burke’s attention. Cristina says no cap unless he moves out. He’s not doing that and he’s not going to clean up her locker either.

Bailey and Meredith look at the “lightning lady”. Meredith tells Bailey what happened and she believes that this girl is a stalker. But a gentle one. She needs her spleen removed. She then asks Bailey if she believes in the “7 fatalities” rule. She tells her to get back to the business at hand!

Izzie, Alex, and Burke look at Denny. Izzie and Denny talk about horses. Izzie likes horses. Alex chimes in with…

Alex: “I’ve got an uncle that was a rodeo cowboy!”

Izzie looks at him with that look that women give. Burke breaks the news that Denny has to have surgery. Izzie doesn’t like that at all.

Cristina’s OCD guy was in the accident because of his OCD. He was counting the car signal clicks until it reached 333. The light was green, though. Now a psychologist doctor comes in and talks to him about his OCD. He says it’s ruining his life. Everything he does has to be in 3’s. “Find a penny..pick it up..all day long you’ll have good luck!” He says this over and over again in multiples of 3’s. This begins to drive Cristina crazy.

Now we get an awkward moment as Derek, Addison, and Meredith all run into each other. They say hi and all of that friendly stuff. But not much else. A little weird, so they all go their separate ways.

Dr. Webber tells Ollie that surgery is needed. Webber has been successful with this surgery only 4/9 of the time. Ollie is positive that this one will be successful, though.

The “lightning lady” says she won’t have surgery today. Not until tomorrow. Superstitions. She had a flat tire this morning and a wreck on the freeway. She should had stayed home. If they operate today, she will die. That’s what she says. Now she tells them to call her boyfriend. They insist that surgery is needed today!

Back to Denny now. Alex tells Denny that Izzie is “painting a pretty picture” for him because she likes him. Denny wants to know the truth and asks Alex to tell him straight. He says it’s serious. Alex says Izzie likes Denny, but she “won’t be the one to pull away”. Basically telling Denny to pull away first so he doesn’t hurt him if he dies in surgery. Break time!

Meredith and Cristina are eating. George comes in, which shocks Cristina as it’s Meredith. George is just trying to get Burke’s cap. He begins to annoy her. Izzie comes in now. She asks if they all believe in the 7 thing. Meredith thinks that Izzie is overly concerned with Denny. Izzie says she is sleeping with Alex, though. Denny is just a patient. Sure..sure.

OCD guy has to have surgery as well. “Is it clean, clean, clean?” Yes..it is says Derek. The guy flicks the light on and off. He tells George and Cristina that Cristina is annoyed by him, because she is like him. She was a straight ‘A’ student. She turned her compulsions into something productive, though. He continues to turn the light on and off.

It appears that the AA group that Ollie is involved with is here to check on her. That want Dr. Webber to join them. Ollie tells Webber “to not protect his anonymity over his sobriety.” He joins them in a circle prayer.

Denny tells Izzie to make sure his will gets into the right hands. She wonders why he talking about his will. And he calls her Dr. Stevens. Denny says they have to be realistic and if she can’t, then he will. Izzie says he is not going to die and he can’t go into surgery thinking that. But here he goes and Izzie looks worried.

George and Cristina fight over the cap. It appears to be in her shirt as they go into the women’s restroom. They do a bit of grappling until Callie walks in on them. George stops immediately THAT doesn’t look good.

George now bumps into Izzie. He needs to find Burke. Cristina won’t give up the cap.

George: “Cristina won’t give hers back..unless I’m ready to hit a woman..and eventhough it’s Cristina..I’m not ready to cross that line!”

The lightbulb goes off in Izzie’s head. Burke needs his cap to operate. See where we’re going?

Izzie does and she goes to find Cristina. She tells her to give Burke his cap so he can operate on Denny. Superstition! Izzie threatens Cristina with violence, if she doesn’t give up the cap. She’s from the trailer park..bitch! Break time!

We come back and Cristina gives Burke his cap. Izzie drags her along, of course. The reason she had the cap was because it reminds her on why she is here. To become a great surgeon like Burke. He doesn’t need the cap to be good. He knows this, but it’s a superstition. So off he goes!

Meredith talks to the “lighting lady”. She called her boyfriend and he said he hasn’t been her boyfriend for awhile now.

Izzie talks to Alex and wants to know what Alex said to Denny. He thinks he’s dying. Alex says there is a good chance he is. Izzie is pissed! She says they are done! Alex says she is breaking up with him over a corpse.

Izzie: “No..NO! I’m breaking up with you, because on your very best day..that corpse is twice the man you’ll ever be. You’re not good enough for me Alex..you’re not good enough for anyone!”

Burke comes in to tell both of them that neither is going to help him in this operation. And they can’t watch either. No bad energy around him.

Cristina is about to begin the operation on OCD guy. He’s not done counting, though. But they have to begin. Off to sleep he goes. You know there are four surgeries going on here and if the “7 rule” is true, then only 1 will survive. Just saying.

“It’s a beautiful afternoon to save lives people. Lets have some fun!” Derek says this before every surgery as part of his superstitions. And he begins on OCD guy. Burke does the same on Denny. Webber is going to work on his friend, Ollie. Bailey is helping, but Meredith comes in and the “lightning lady” named Nikki is bleeding out. Bailey goes to help her. She still doesn’t want to operate. So Meredith tells her that her “boyfriend” wants her to stay alive. That excites Nikki. Uh..oh..code blue. Her heart stops. They pull out the shock paddles as we go to a last break! How will it all turn out?

We come back with Izzie looking at the board. The surgeries continue. Webber is first. Now to Nikki. Now to OCD guy. And finally to Denny. Doesn’t look good for any of them.

Izzie and Alex are joined by two other interns. Some more people have died or so they say. The “7 rule” is in effect. Izzie wants to know who died? Here comes Meredith and Bailey. Nikki has died. That’s #5. Meredith says there is another one, but doesn’t know who it is. Meredith goes to notify her family.

Dr. Webber now walks out to inform everyone that his friend, Ollie, survived. So in theory the OCD guy and Denny should die. We take a look at the OCD guy and it doesn’t look good. He’s dead. Meredith talks for a bit. “Superstition lies between the space of what he can control and what he can’t.” We see Izzie with a worried look on her face. She’s crying. But wait..we see Denny talking now and he’s alive! Only 6 died! Izzie is happy. Denny wonders why she is crying. She’s happy or something. She kisses Denny now.

Alex calls George a “sad excuse of a man”. Then calls him a “whiny, little girl”. Meredith doesn’t like that and Alex tells Meredith that the reason George won’t talk to her is because he is not over her. A man would move on after getting laid says Alex. George makes Alex sick. Says he’s like a dog that likes to get kicked and he would smash his face into the locker, if it wouldn’t get him kicked out of the program. Alex is pissed! He storms out.

Meredith’s voice says “no one wants to pass up a chance for good luck. But does saying it 33 times really help? Is anyone really listening?” We see Burke give Cristina his cap back. She feels sorry for George and doesn’t want to kick him out tonight.

“If no one is listening, why do we bother doing these strange things at all”. We see George now trying to talk to Callie, but she won’t listen. So he calls her. HA! He says he should have called sooner, but he’s calling now. He asks her out now. She says yes.

“We rely on our superstitions, because we’re smart enough to know that we don’t have all the answers.” Addison comes in with two cups of her “juju”. She gives one to Meredith and one to Derek. He drinks some and she drinks some. She finishes by saying..”don’t diss the juju..no matter where it comes from!”

And we are out until next week!

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