Episode 8:
Forever Young Air Date: 11/08/2007
An accident brings a busload of high school students into the hospital. The driver,
Marcus, happens to be someone Miranda knew -- and still has a crush on -- from
high school. George is amazed to see her stitch up the man's arm himself. Erica
diagnoses a slight heart condition and tells Miranda that if she weren't busy
flirting, she could have made the diagnosis herself. George asks if they were
high school sweethearts and, as Miranda is filling out Marcus's insurance forms,
she admits that she was only his tutor. Richard instructs Miranda to let Marcus
fill out his own paperwork and just then Marcus goes into cardiac arrest. Cristina
is jubilant that she's back on rotation with Erica in cardiology, but can't find
a way to impress her. Callie tells her to back off or she'll blow her chance.
The hospital staff relives its own high school cliques in tending
to the students: Lexie admits she never knew how to relate to unpopular teens
-- like the patient with the pencil stuck in his eye -- since she was prom queen
and class valedictorian. Izzie advises her not to broadcast that fact. Derek is
able to remove the pencil but the boy, Danny, goes into a coma. His best friend
waits to hear if he'll be okay and Derek doesn't know how to tell her he's not
going to ever wake up. Both Izzie and George confide in Meredith about their
rotten sex life and how they can't talk to each other anymore. Callie is pleased
to hear that Izzie and George aren't even getting along. Word is soon all over
the hospital, to Izzie's dismay. She demands her key back from George since he's
apparently been telling everyone that they broke up. George pleads ignorance,
saying he only talked to Meredith. Derek finally has no choice but to tell
the friend that Danny is never waking up. Izzie tries to console the girl, but
she says Izzie couldn't understand, since she's one of "them." Izzie
assures her she wasn't a prom queen, and with Lexie listening, tells the student
that she was "the girl in cheap clothes from the trailer park who got pregnant."
She assures her that she'll get through it and she knows what it's like to lose
a best friend. George is waiting for Izzie when she gets home. He says
he only talked to Meredith because he can't talk to her anymore. They agree they
miss being each other's best friend. Cristina skips the cardio surgery
on Marcus, which she desperately wants to be in on, because she doesn't want to
be labeled as a brown noser. She's excited when Erica finally pages her, even
if it's to chew her out for not bringing her all the scans she needed. A
nurse tells Derek she's touched he took Danny's condition so hard. "You don't
even know who I am," she says and he remembers that she's the nurse in the
OR who talked about how there are just as many cliques in the hospital as there
were in high school. Derek is intrigued as he watches her walk away. Callie
consoles an injured cheerleader that her life is not over, just because she won't
be captain of the squad anymore. She says that because of her own demotion, she
gets to go back to what she loves, which is surgery. After his surgery,
Miranda is moved when Marcus thanks her for always taking care of him... and then
asks if she finished his paperwork. George, who overheard, tells her that Marcus
deserves a tongue-lashing for the way he's treated her and Miranda just walks
away. She ends up taking her anger out on Derek, because "guys like him"
don't understand "girls like her," saying that even though she's a successful
surgeon, she might as well still be the awkward teenager in a band uniform who
tutored the track star but never got asked to the prom. Derek tells her he was
a scrawny little band geek himself and that he would have been honored to take
a girl like her to homecoming. Meredith is dismayed to see Derek on a date
with Sydney. Then Thatcher shows up drunk at the ER. Alex had first tried to find
Lexie but turned to Meredith when she blew him off. Thatcher apologizes to Meredith
for what he said the last time he saw her and that no longer blames her for Susan's
death. He admits his drinking is out of control because today was Susan's birthday.
While Meredith patches him up, he tells her he how proud he is of her. Lexie
is angry with Alex for letting Meredith treat Thatcher, because he had promised
not to tell her about their father's drinking. Alex tells Lexie he doesn't "do
secrets" and that he was cleaning up after his own drunk of a father since
he was 7. Meredith tells Lexie how tough it must have been for her and
Thatcher today, it being Susan's birthday, and that he was actually rather charming.
She advises Lexie to keep a better eye on her father and Lexie bitterly tells
her, "Every day is my mother's birthday. He's a drunk," she says, adding
how he always goes on about how proud he is of Lexie, when he's not calling her
an "ungrateful bitch." Meredith is devastated to find out everything
her father said was a lie. Derek finds the nurse -- after finding out her
name is Rose -- and tells her he should have known her name. She agrees, especially
since she's worked on 36 of his surgeries! Sydney dumps Derek: She doesn't
think he's ready to date! So he joins Meredith at the bar and they leave together,
but he catches Rose's eye as they walk out. - description by ABC.com Next Grey's
Anatomy Music
TITLE: What Would Jay-Z Do?
PERFORMER: Ben Lee
| The
song plays at the beginning of the episode with a view of the Seattle skyline.
Derek has a drink with Sydney, Meredith and Cristina watch from a distance, and
Mark offers him an escape plan. In the hospital, Bailey puts up an announcement
and does a dance. Meredith and George see Izzie and Derek in the elevator and
decide to take the stairs. | TITLE:
The Last One
PERFORMER: Cary Brothers
| The song plays
as Mark, Hahn, and the Chief sit in the cafeteria. Mark's ego gets injured by
two high school girls. Cristina and Callie sit and gossip about Izzie and George,
Tricia's fellow cheerleaders visit her in the hospital, and Marissa says goodbye
to Danny before his surgery to remove the pencil. |
TITLE: Call It Off
PERFORMER: Tegan and Sara | The
song plays as Izzie throws Emma and Janie out of Danny's room. Rose approaches
Derek after the surgery, Callie tells Tricia that her injury could be a gift,
and Hahn asks Cristina to get the entire CT scan. |
TITLE: Black and Blue
PERFORMER: Chris Garneau
| The
song plays as Bailey visits Marcus after the surgery, but can't give him "the
speech." Alex sees Lexie in the elevator and welcomes her to the club. Bailey
vents to Derek in the waiting room. | TITLE:
Breakin' Up
PERFORMER: Rilo Kiley | The song plays as the
episode comes to an end. Derek and Mark go off to the bar. Sydney tells Derek
what she brings to the table. Derek spots Rose as he leaves the bar. |
| 
