Episode 9:
From a Whisper to a Scream
Air Date: 01/04/2007
Meredith and Derek are still sticking to their "no sex"
policy so Cristina isn't interrupting anything when she barges
into Meredith's bedroom early in the morning and demands to
talk to Meredith alone. She asks Meredith a hypothetical question:
What if Derek robbed a bank and Meredith drove the getaway
car? Would she turn herself in too? Before Meredith can figure
out what she's really asking, Cristina leaves.
Cristina voices her fears to Burke that George will reveal
their secret to the Chief. Burke tells her it'll be fine,
because he hasn't had a tremor in a week and that they're
still a strong team.
All the interns are paged to the emergency room: a driver
plowed into a fish market and there are at least a dozen victims.
Izzie hopes she'll get to help at last, but she's assigned
to watch George's dad.
The elderly Mr. Dickerson was driving but his wife says that
the accident wasn't his fault because he just couldn't stop
the car. Police are waiting to take her statement, but she
insists on staying with her husband and talking to them later.
Cristina watches nervously as Burke works on a patient without
her, especially since his med school rival, Dr. Hahn, the
one who had first dibs on the heart that went to Denny instead,
is on site.
A woman covered in blood walks into the ER and collapses
in Addison's arms. Her name is Janelle, and she was thrown
through a plate glass window in the fish market accident.
As Mark and Alex work to suture her many cuts and remove the
glass, Addison checks to make sure her baby is okay, since
Janelle is 10 weeks pregnant.
Mrs. Dickerson, who is one of Janelle's best customers at
the market, asks how she's doing. Just then, Janelle starts
coughing up blood. A scan reveals that she has a shard of
glass in her heart and needs to be operated on immediately.
Izzie is singing Burke's praises to Mr. and Mrs. O'Malley
but George is markedly less enthusiastic. Izzie asks what's
going on and he tells her to stay out of it. He asks Dr. Hahn,
who is at Seattle Grace for a consult, to do the operation
on his father instead. Cristina sees Dr. Hahn and Richard
in Mr. O'Malley's room. When Richard tells Cristina that he
needs to take to Burke immediately, she assumes the worst
and that Richard may be asking Hahn to replace Burke entirely.
Meanwhile, George's parents reschedule the operation so Burke
can do it after all, since Izzie has been telling them he's
the absolute best. George loses it and informs them why Izzie
is there: she's on probation because the last time she treated
a patient, he died.
Callie tries to inquire about George's dad, but he reminds
her they broke up and that he knows about her sleeping with
Mark. She assumes that Meredith told George, so she finds
her and slams her against a locker. Meredith says she didn't
even know who the other guy was until George told her. Callie
finds George to try to explain that she slept with Mark only
after they broke up, but he tells her he can't deal with this
right now.
Mr. Dickerson's scan reveals a subdural hematoma and an advanced
case of spinal stenosis, which means he probably couldn't
feel his feet and definitely should not have been driving.
Derek wonders why Cristina is acting oddly, such as disappearing
since she's supposed to be his intern today. Burke and Meredith
both feign ignorance.
Cristina tells Burke the Chief is looking for him, and that
they need to get their stories straight. Burke says he's just
going to tell the truth. But it turns out Richard is retiring,
and he wants Burke to replace him as Chief of Surgery. Burke
tells Cristina that he's wanted this whole life, but now it
has blood on it. He says he crossed a line, and that Cristina
is the one who dragged him over it.
Mrs. Dickerson insists there was nothing wrong with her husband
before the accident, but when she sees Janelle being wheeled
into surgery, she confides to Miranda that she did know. Their
daughter took away his car keys, but not giving them back
would have felt like a betrayal. Miranda tells her she needs
to inform the police.
Derek invites Burke to scrub in with him on Mr. Dickerson.
Burke is on the verge of telling him the truth when Alex says
they need him right now to operate on Janelle. Burke tells
Derek to get Dr. Hahn to assist him, and he'll take the other
operation. He instructs Alex to make sure Cristina scrubs
in with him.
After removing the glass shard, Janelle's heart is on bypass
when Meredith comes in to say they need Burke to work on Mr.
Dickerson's heart, which has a tear in it. Burke tells Cristina
to stay with Janelle, but she follows him out anyway and Meredith
realizes Cristina thinks Burke can't operate without her.
Cristina reluctantly goes back to Janelle. Meredith spends
the rest of the Dickerson surgery watching Burke operate,
not Derek. Burke returns to Janelle but there's a complication
and his hand seems to be cramping up. When Cristina starts
to question him, he orders her out. After the surgery, he
goes to tell Richard that they need to talk and he agrees,
because Cristina is already sitting there.
In the elevator, Derek asks Burke why he didn't tell him,
since he thought they were friends. Derek realizes Meredith
knew before he did, since she was watching Burke operate and
not him, but she says Cristina is her best friend and she
couldn't tell him.
That night, when Cristina finally goes home, Burke closes
the bedroom door when he sees her.
- description by ABC.com
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