Episode 2:
I Am a Tree
Air Date: 09/28/2006
Izzie is coping with her grief by baking muffins nonstop.
George tries to appeal to Miranda to talk to Izzie, but she
won't listen.
Cristina surprises Burke in his hospital bed by stripping
down to her lacy red underwear -- just as his parents arrive
for a visit.
Cristina agrees to meet the mother in the cafeteria for a
chat, but first begs Burke to get her out of it. Mrs. Burke
says she assumes that Cristina intends to follow a less time-consuming
career path if she expects to marry her son. While Burke is
getting coffee, Mrs. Burke tells Cristina she's selfish for
getting him out of bed and that's why their relationship won't
last long. Stung by the criticism, Cristina stops by that
night on her way home, and asks them both if they need anything.
When Miranda sees Meredith's panties pinned to the lost and
found board, she's furious -- and sure they belong to either
Meredith or Cristina. Callie comes to their rescue by pretending
they are hers, which causes George to become insanely jealous.
Meredith offers to tell George the truth, but Callie says
she loves him being jealous.
Addison tells Richard -- who's been sleeping in his office since
Adele's ultimatum -- that she needs the day off to go drinking,
because she knows her marriage is over.
After hours, Richard finds Callie rocking out in the basement
in just her underwear. He tells her he knows why she lives
here, to get all the best cases, but that she has to leave.
And that means he'll have to stop living at the hospital too.
George arrives with flowers, finally telling her he's jealous,
and finds her in her underwear, sitting on the bed with Richard.
She runs after George to explain and ends moving in with him.
A middle-aged woman with aggressive lung cancer who's never
smoked a day in her life decides against surgery in favor
of going out and "living life." She ends up at Joe's,
where she flirts with Alex, and asks him to join her in the
bathroom to help a possibly dying woman live a little. She
emerges with a smile on her face and goes right back to the
hospital, ready for her surgery now.
A teenage boy is brought to Seattle Grace with a tree trunk
piercing his body from a luge accident. His frantic father
is blocking the stretcher so Alex shoves him out of the way
and into a wall. Miranda snaps at him for that and for helping
Izzie; he tells her she's confusing him with Izzie.
The father of the boy tells Miranda that the accident is
his fault for being too soft after his divorce. Miranda has
a revelation and goes to tell Izzie that part of Denny's death
is her fault, and that she wasn't around when Izzie needed
her. And then she tells her she should come back to the hospital.
Derek decides that today is the day he's going to end it
with Addison, but he can't find her. Richard tells him that
he knows something about affairs himself, and to give Addison
some time. Derek tells him he can't wait, and that "Meredith
is not an affair."
Another surgical patient, Benjamin, says everything that
pops into his head because of a tumor that's pressing on his
frontal lobe. He tells Cristina that she always seems annoyed
and he asks Derek if he's sleeping with Meredith.
Meredith, taking a cue from Benjamin, is determined to follow
her gut and pick Derek. Until she goes home to check on Izzie
and finds Finn instead. He came with lunch for Izzie, because
he says bringing food was the only thing that helped when
his wife died. She's so impressed that she thinks maybe she
should choose him instead.
At Joe's, she tells Cristina that she's going to flip a coin
to decide between them and be spontaneous like Benjamin. Cristina
tells her that Benjamin isn't spontaneous, he's mentally ill,
and that he just died on the operating table.
Finn and Derek both show up and Izzie tells them she's not
choosing: she wants to date them both, if they're up for it.
Neither man follows her out of the bar.
Derek finds Addison at a hotel room, in a robe, drinking
champagne. He apologizes for sleeping with Meredith at the
prom, but adds, "Our marriage is over," and that
he's very sad about it. And then the bathroom door opens and
Mark steps out in just a towel. "I feel much better now,"
says Derek, finishing off the champagne.
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