Episode 3:
Sometimes a Fantasy
Air Date: 10/05/2006
Meredith likes this dating thing: She's juggling Finn and
Derek and dreaming about them both. In the same dream.
Finn shows up at the hospital to have lunch with her and
Derek pulls her away for an operation. So Finn just happens
to show up at Meredith's house when Derek and Meredith come
back from their dinner date. Meredith chews them out for not
giving her a real date and goes inside the house without either
of them.
George avoids the subject of getting Callie a key to the house,
because he's more than a little freaked about her having moved
in.
Callie requests George assist her with a 55-year-old triathlon
junkie who's having his fourth bone replacement surgery in
a year. George is appalled that Callie is aiding in the man's
self-destructive behavior and talks him out of it. Callie
is furious when she finds out. As they argue, George blurts
out that he's not ready to live together. Callie responds
that she was planning on moving out within a week, but upgrades
that to within the hour.
Megan, a little girl with a leg gash, is brought in. It's
her fourth accident in a month and her foster parents say
they know it looks bad but she just "plays rough."
While the parents are meeting with social services to see
if they've been abusing her, Megan tells Alex that she has
super powers. He tests her reflexes by having her put her
hand in a bucket of ice and take it out when it starts to
hurt. He puts his hand in too and has to take it out before
she does; she says she felt nothing.
They determine that she has a genetic condition that won't
let her feel pain. It's usually diagnosed in infancy but since
she was in foster care, it went unnoticed. And now she's bleeding
internally -- because she asked another kid to hit her in
the stomach with a baseball bat -- and that they need to operate
right away. But she hides because she's worried that her foster
parents will think she's "defective" and send her
back. Comic-book geek George has been educating Alex on various
superheroes, so Alex persuades her she's still special even
without superpowers, just like the Green Lantern is still
a hero without his ring.
Mark purposely misses his flight back to New York so he can
spend more time with Addison. He asks her to come back to
New York with him. When she refuses, he goes to the Chief
and tells him he "has a thing for ferries," and
that, presumably, he's staying in Seattle.
Burke is avoiding doing his exercises and stops by the hospital
to work out the details of his leave of absence, which is
news to Cristina.
Derek operates on a patient whose epilepsy means he can't
be trusted to hold his own baby. After the operation, he has
trouble remembering the name of things, including the baby's
name, which he'd picked out. As Derek tells his wife she needs
to be patient and help him, Cristina takes the message to
heart.
She comes home with two raw chickens and chops them in half
-- and tells Burke he's going to get his strength and dexterity
back. Starting with sewing the chickens back together.
Miranda demands that Richard give Izzie a second chance,
asking him to think of all the medical interns who've ever
made a mistake, including him.
Izzie decides to go back to the hospital, but she can't make
it inside the building. She tells George that she needs to
make sure when she talks to the Chief, she's not thinking
about her wedding dress. She ends up standing outside all
day. "Maybe tomorrow," says Meredith.
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