Episode 4:
What I Am
Air Date: 10/12/2006
Addison and Derek are both horrified to see Mark shaking
hands with the Chief, who's just hired him.
They're distracted by Meredith, who keeps throwing up after
complaining of a stomachache. She collapses and Cristina asks
her if she's pregnant, in earshot of everyone. Meredith says
she can't be pregnant, but if she is, it could only be Derek's.
She thinks she has an ulcer from trying to juggle Derek and
Finn; it turns out she has appendicitis.
When Derek complains about his having hired Mark, Richard reminds
him that Mark is one of the best plastic surgeons in the country
and will bring in a lot of money for the hospital. And Richard
points out that the two were best friends for years, maybe there's
something there they can salvage. Mark tells Derek he's not
the bad guy since they both cheated on Addison.
Miranda orders a man who's just had bypass surgery to eat
better and quit smoking. He swears he won't smoke when he
goes home -- so instead he lights up in his hospital room
and lights his oxygen mask on fire, causing serious facial
burns. Mark is called in to operate. Alex is eager to brush
up to the arrogant Mark, who immediately sends him out for
coffee.
One of Addison's patients is due to give birth any minute,
but refuses to consider a C-section. Alex is less than sympathetic
to the patient's wishes, but Addison just tells him to monitor
her and to keep their options open as long as they can. A
C-section ends up being inevitable and Alex misses his opportunity
to scrub in with Mark, but he's still leaving the ob-gyn department.
Cristina declares Burke as good as new after he's successfully
stitched up several raw chickens. He doesn't tell her how
much his hand shakes after each "surgery." Derek,
who's distracted by the whole Mark situtation, gives him a
cursory examination and pronounces him ready to work, and
Burke doesn't reveal he's still having problems. Burke practices
operating on a cadaver and finally shows Cristina how his
hand trembles. She figures out that if she helps him, they
can hide his weakness.
A still-high-on-morphine Meredith decides she finally needs
to choose between Derek and Finn. Addison, who's walking by,
is relieved to find that Meredith is not pregnant. When Meredith
asks how she knew Derek was the one, Addison says she knew
he wouldn't hurt her. Meredith says Derek hurt her when he
chose Addison over her. Addison is surprised to find that
she doesn't hate Meredith anymore. When she bumps into Derek,
she tells him, "Don't hurt her again." Addison also
tells Mark there's no hope of getting back together.
Derek finds Finn waiting for Meredith to come out of surgery.
Finn seems to know all about him, but Derek doesn't even know
that Finn's wife died. When he's alone with Meredith, Derek
tells her he's walking away and she should be with someone
who won't hurt her. But when she sees Finn, Meredith tells
him she can't help it, Derek's the one. Finn responds, "He's
going to hurt you again and when he does I won't be there."
Izzie shows up at Joe's bar to meet Denny's father. At first,
he's hostile, saying how suspicious it is that she got engaged
to Denny right before he died. He says she must have enormous
med school loans and that she was just after Denny's money.
She chews him out for not being there for his son. He explains
that Denny didn't want his parents to watch him die, so he
left and they had no idea where he was.
Izzie tells him the whole story -- and that she's debt-free
-- and he softens. He hands her an envelope. Inside is a check
for $8.7 million. And he lets her hear the message Denny left
for them the day he died, about Izzie and how she's the love
of his life and he can't wait for them to meet her.
Callie asks George to dinner. But he says he has to go home
to be there for Izzie. She complains that Meredith and Izzie
always come first and asks what she is to him. When he doesn't
answer she tells him he won't have to worry about deciding
anymore.
At Joe's, Mark and Callie are still smarting from their break-ups,
so Callie invites him back to her hotel.
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