Last week I was in Miami for the start of my little sister's wedding weekend so I didn't get to watch Grey's. As a result, this week you get a double dose of recap.
Off to Seattle we go!
Last week:
The episode opens with Meredith and Cristina waiting for calls about the Harper Avery Award at 5:00am. I love that they still have slumber parties.
Cristina gets the call that she is a finalist and later that day the entire hospital staff raises a glass in her honor.
At the close of the episode, she and Owen share a bottle of champagne in their old happy place - over the vent. It reminded me of the beginning of their relationship. I got a little misty!
Also on the couple front, Callie and Arizona both decide they want to have another baby.
We resumed the previous episode's two main patient story lines, starting with Brayden, the young man with no immune system. He is basically stuck in isolation because there is, "No treatment for your disease." That is until Dr. Bailey has an epiphany and starts working away on a solution.
This hour the family with three heart sick children is also back, this time with their son needing a transplant.
This episode felt like a set up for bigger plot twists to come, am I right?
Tonight:
It's Harper Avery Awards ceremony day and Cristina is giddy. She teases Meredith, "Tomorrow I won't have time to talk to you. I'll be too busy being better than you."
While she is still at the hospital, Cristina is monitoring her heart transplant patients, two siblings. Ivy, the oldest daughter, begins to reject her transplant. Cristina checks on her and her leg seems a bit off. It's so messed up Cristina can poke a visible dent in her leg. Ewwww!
Later in the hour, the family's third child, Frankie, is found passed out on the floor. Turns out she needs a transplant too. All three children have weak, failing hearts.
Derek spends most of this episode trying to teach the residents a complicated neurosurgery. After they complete that procedure, they have to remove a pair of scissors from a man's head. Derek says, "We'll do this with one very careful, very precise yank." Ouch!
On the relationship front, Kepner and Jackson are arguing like crazy. First over their spending, then their hypothetical child and then religion. The fight turns very ugly and Kepner leaves, asking to stay with Callie and Arizona.
The closing scene of the show has Cristina all alone at the awards gala. Clearly she was getting dressed alone because any decent friend would have told her that her hair do was insane. She looked like a bird!
I loved when she panicked and called Meredith, "I made a mistake. I don't want to be here alone. You should be here. We should be drunk. Why aren't we drunk? And I want Owen here. He could hold my purse and tell me things. And tell me to wear deodorant! I forgot to wear deodorant and now I stink!"
Sure enough, when she goes to take her seat, who is there? Meredith and Owen, waiting for her at the table.
In the final seconds of the episode, we learn Cristina did not win the Harper Avery. I thought if she won, that is how she would exit the show. I assumed the award win would mean she got a new opportunity to lure her away.
Next week's episode will be Cristina's last in the series. I can't believe it. I am positive I will cry.
Did anyone else notice that this season's trend of strange cover songs continued tonight with not one, but two, covers? The Police "Every little thing she does is magic" and Tears for Fears "Everybody wants to rule the world."
Anyone want to take a guess on how Cristina's character will exit the show? New job? Fatal accident?
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