Love makes fools of us all; Grey’s Anatomy has been the master of that lesson for the last eleven years. Occasionally though, love just makes you dumb and desperate, which is what the patients have to teach the doctors at Grey Sloan Memorial this week.
Derek and Meredith are proving to be the embodiment of the “absence makes the heart grow fonder” saying. Before Derek can get on his flight back to Washington, D.C. to officially turn in his resignation, he and Meredith are interrupted by Amelia doing the walk of shame (baby Bailey’s openly-gaped expression says it all). Meredith puts Amelia through the wringer questioning her sister-in-law’s new relationship with Owen. Meredith gets in Amelia’s head, making her crabby and disagreeable with Callie’s plan of action regarding a spinal surgery on a teenage golf player. Since they can’t agree, Owen makes the final call and sides with Amelia’s plan so that the girl can have a better chance of playing golf again with a full range of motion.
When Amelia gets trapped in the surgery, she calls Callie for help but it is too late. Callie and Amelia have to inform the patient’s mother that her daughter will never play again, and Amelia attributes her failure to mixing her personal and professional life with Owen. Since she can’t run away again as she just did that six months ago, she does the next bad thing and pushes Owen away. Now, it’s Amelia’s custom to run, but given all that she’s been through it’s not surprising. I, like Amelia, would like very much for Meredith to back off and mind her own business. Owen is not Cristina’s property, and he and Amelia can make their own decisions and their own mistakes. Unfortunately, I might get my wish as it looks like Meredith is going to be distracted by her missing husband next week.
While Owen and Amelia are struggling through this part of their relationship, others can’t even get a relationship off the ground. I had such high hopes for Callie and the cop she met last week, until she says that the relationship is over before it began because the cop is insanely boring. Maggie on the other hand has been so used to being on her own that she no longer knows how to be on a date. More specifically Maggie let her nerves get the best of her and didn’t let her date talk. Alex, who apparently is now the love guru, helps Maggie overcome her nerves. I’m coming to the realization that Alex has no guy friends, and never really has. Huh.
In the case of art imitating real life, a man comes in with a particularly painful severed appendage (I’ll give you a hint, it’s the little one). Cheating husbands everywhere, beware, especially since all of the surgeons get to talking about the relationships they’ve been cheated on in. Being that this is Catherine Avery’s specialty, April thinks it’s a good idea to call her in to help. Still stinging from rejection, Webber tries to shut down this idea, but April persists and calls her mother-in-law. Catherine is brilliant as usual, allowing Stephanie to assist in the surgery and refusing to let Webber walk around wounded. April doesn’t pull any punches with Webber either, flat out telling him that he can’t let his bruised ego interfere in a patient’s care, and that she’ll call her mother-in-law whenever she wants. So Webber steps up and tells Catherine that they are so alike that it is almost a guarantee they will hurt each other again, but it’s worth the risk.
Elsewhere Stephanie is trying to figure out where her specialty lies after Amelia kicks her off her service. Webber tells her that her specialty will find her, and after a day in the OR with Catherine, she believes she may have a future in urology. The mistress of their patient comes back to re-sever his little appendage after he takes his wife back, forcing Stephanie to chase her through the hospital to get it back. While her fellow residents and Catherine are impressed, Stephanie is now sure that urology is not the specialty she wants to go into.
Do Owen and Amelia have a future together? If so, will Meredith mind her own business when it comes to those two?
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