Dissecting Grey's Anatomy: Black Monday Edition

Meanwhile, Wednesday Adams shows up as a newbie paramedic who happens to have her hand jammed into a patient's chest. She explains it was the only way she could stop the bleeding from the dude's gaping wound. His wife's there, too, but hysterical. Way, way hysterical. Like, next plateau of hysterical. She can't stop screaming over and over at the top of her lungs, and Alex finally fights fire with fire, gets all up in her bidness and hollers right back. She finally tells him that her hubby and his moron friend were recreating a WWII bazooka and he accidentally shot himself. Then Alex asks her if there was an explosion, she says no, and as they say, it was on.

Alex takes off through the hospital, racing like a mad man, and enters the O.R. where Burke, Meredith, a slew of nurses and Wednesday Adams—hand still firmly implanted in chest cavity—are about to cut open the man. He tells Burke that the dude shot himself with a bazooka and that there was no explosion. Burke turns white—well, relatively—and asks Wednesday what her hand is touching. She says something metal.

Now, let us take this opportunity to say that Seattlest's knowledge of bazookas in particular and WWII weaponry in general is lacking. We ask, is it common knowledge that bazookas, once shot, explode inside their victims? Apparently medical school now includes a course on 1940s armaments.

Burke tells Wednesday not to move an inch, clears the O.R. and sends Meredith off to tell the charge nurse that there's a Code Black, that he's sure, and to call the bomb squad. Boo-yah! So that's what a Code Black is!

So everyone gets paged and goes home, except for our fearless fivesome, of course, and a select few docs.

The bomb squad comes and clears out the remaining O.R.s, though McDreamy refuses to leave. He says he's more scared of Nazi than the Chief, so he's staying put. He will not leave Mr. Nazi on the table with an open brain to die! Not on his watch! So he sticks around. Burke and the bomb squad, meanwhile, are consulting X-rays and trying to determine just how in the world they can get that device out of the man when all hell breaks loose.

The anesthesiologist who had been the only other person in the room with Wednesday to keep the man alive takes off. Talks some smack about how when you perish in an explosion, the bomb squad refers to you as pink mist. And how he's got kids. Gee, comforting. Way to showcase that bedside manner, doc. So the littlest Adams is left to work the breathing device on her own while at the same time not move an inch.

Cristina and Meredith happen to peek in and see her shaking and move in to help her and convince the now-near-hysterics gal not to move her hand. They call for backup, Burke rushes in. They yell at her not to move, she says she's gotta. Aaaah! For the love of God, somebody hold that girl's arm down! And then....just like that....she pulls out and runs out of the surgical room.

Everybody ducks and covers and surprisingly, there's no explosion. Did the backyard recreators build a dud? Nope. Turns out, Meredith had somehow—through the magic of television, no doubt—managed to stick her hand in the man's chest at the exact moment Wednesday Adams pulled hers out, thus keeping the device secured in the man's chest. Oh, Meredith. What have you done?! Burke and Cristina look on in horror.

Mrs. McDreamy finally cops to Nazi that her husband has been in an accident and that her husband is performing the operation. That's it for the preggers resident. She wants to go home and refuses to have the baby until her husband is okay. Fat chance. Looks like she's going into labor.

Izzie and Georgie are jealous that they didn't happen to get assigned to the floor with the bomb like Cristina and Meredith. They surmise that they are watchers, not doers, and that they need to start getting busy and start doing. So Izzie starts doing it with Alex. Looks like she can forgive and forget after all.

And that, folks, is it. Will Meredith perish? Well, probably not unless they want to change the name of the show. Will Nazi's husband make it out alright? You better hope so. Will Izzie and Alex's reunification stick? Seems like it.

Can't take the wait til next week? The Grey's Anatomy website has kicked off a new feature and joins the rest of the modern world with weekly podcasts from the cast. Check out the premiere edition from Mrs. McDreamy here.