Episode 16:
Drowning on Dry Land
Air Date: 02/15/2007
At the disaster scene, other rescue workers find the man
with the injured leg at the edge of the dock. He's got Meredith's
tag on him, but she's nowhere to be found. Derek assumes she
finished with him and moved on.
George lies to the mother whose son is missing that he's
found him so that she'll consent to go into surgery. Miranda
insists he really find the boy by the time the mother wakes
up.
Izzie is running out of options in dealing with the man who's
pinned under a car on the ferry, so she calls the Chief and
asks him what to do. He and Mark talk her through drilling holes
in the man's skull to relieve cranial pressure. She does such
a good job of it that not only does the man survive, the Chief
tells her she's officially off probation and invites her in
on the surgery.
Alex is busy dealing with the frantic families who are anxious
to know the fate of their loved ones who were on the ferry.
There's no identification on most of the accident victims
in the hospital, so no way of knowing who's who. Alex comes
up with an idea: he takes Polaroids of all the patients and
posts their photos on the board so their families can identify
them.
A man asks Alex if he's seen his pregnant wife and Alex assumes
it must be the woman he rescued. But Addison insists he can't
be sure until he's checked the morgue. An introspective Addison
says that Jane Doe could easily be her, because if she went
missing, she'd have no one looking for her. Alex says he would
notice if she disappeared.
George tells Alex he's looked everywhere for the missing
boy and Alex suggests one place he hasn't yet looked: The
morgue. They go together and there's no small boy but there
is a pregnant woman. Alex takes her photo, but first he shows
the photo of the woman in surgery to the man in the waiting
room. Her face is grossly swollen, so he can't recognize her.
But her hair and eyes are the wrong color, so Alex reluctantly
shows him the photo of the woman in the morgue. The man collapses
in tears and identifies her as his wife.
George checks the O.R. boards and sees that Callie has a
7-year-old boy in surgery. He brings in the photo and asks
if it's him, and Callie confirms that it is. He, inappropriate
as always, announces he's going to kiss her silly when they
get home that night.
Cristina, who's been stuck monitoring Burke's cases and suturing
wounds all day, is getting antsy for Meredith to come back
so she call tell her about the engagement. She sees all the
other interns return from the accident scene, but none of
them can tell her where Meredith is.
Derek finds the little girl whom he saw with Meredith earlier
and asks her where Meredith is. The girl silently points out
into the cold waters.
Derek dives in and comes up with Meredith, who's pale and
cold and not breathing. He works on her feverishly in the
ambulance until they arrive at the hospital and the Chief
orders him out of the room.
All the interns are paged about Meredith's condition and
rush to the trauma room where Miranda and the Chief are working
on her. Outside, Derek sits on the floor, grief-stricken and
Mark sits next to him in wordless support.
Izzie stops a distraught Cristina from going in, telling
her she's certain Meredith will survive this. George is more
pessimistic, saying "People die." Izzie makes a
speech about how she knows people die, but she believes in
the good, including believing that Denny is with her always.
And she tells George that she thinks his marrying Callie was
a huge mistake.
Meredith is severely hypothermic and isn't responding to
efforts to revive her. The Chief announces, "We're losing
her." Just then we see Meredith sit up and gasp. She's
alone in the room, except for the demolition expert who was
blown up at the hospital. "Am I dead?" she asks
him. But it's someone else who answers. "Damn right you
are," says Denny, who's smiling at her.
- description by ABC.com
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Grey's Anatomy Music
TITLE: A Bitter Song
PERFORMER: Butterfly Boucher |
The song plays as the episode opens and
Meredith struggles in the water. The song later plays
at the end of the episode as the doctors work on Meredith.
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TITLE: Timeless
PERFORMER: Kate Havnevik |
Song plays as Izzie drills into a patients
head. The little girl stares at the water as Derek finally
emerges with Meredith. |
TITLE: The Great Escape
PERFORMER: Patrick Watson |
The song plays as Izzie is in surgery with
her patient. Alex posts pictures from the morgue. |
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