Dissecting Grey's Anatomy: Season Finale Edition, Part Two

Denny is practically flatlining, which is bad, but Izzie's backed a bit off the manic, which is good. She won't let George call for help, but he has paged Meredith, who arrives with Cristina. Cristina rains all over Izzie's parade, telling her Burke won't be coming to save Denny since Burke himself might be dying (he's not). They all catch up on how effed up Izzie is but vow to help her, not only cause they're a team and a family, but because it would be a shame to see her lose her job and, you know, go to jail on murder charges.

Even Alex is helping out, doing his best to stall the doctor who's fighting for the transplant heart.

In the meantime, Burke suffers a collapsed lung and McDreamy is gonna have to operate on an aneurysm. Problem is, it's a tricky, tricky procedure and Burke is one a very, very skilled doctor and McDreamy doesn't want to be responsible for possibly paralyzing one of his industry's best. And his friend. He doesn't know if he can.

He confides this to Chief, who happens to have found refuge in the same storage closet after discovering that his 17-year-old niece's ovarian cancer has returned and she is dying. Not to mention that he just found out his wife knew all along that he was having an affair with Ellis Grey.

Burke in the mean time is being doted on by Nazi and asks her to go fetch Cristina, at which time she gets suspicious about where the suck-up squad is and why they're not doing the requisite doting. She goes off to find them.

Meanwhile, the four interns are doing their best to multitask the difficult duties of panicking, yelling and keeping Denny alive. They inject him with, well, something, and make his heart stop for six seconds. Right before he goes out, he asks Izzie to marry him. And when he comes back to, Nazi comes in. Nazi is not pleased. Nazi is scary.

She tells everyone to step away from Denny and asks Olivia (yes, syphilis Olivia) to take over for Izzie who gets all manic again and refuses to leave. She tells them not to speak to anyone, especially not her, cause she doesn't want to have to testify against them in a court of law when they're inevitably all tried for being dumbasses. Okay, she didn't say that last part. She does tell George to get her the charts so she can try and fix their damage with minimal carnage.

Cristina is back with Burke and does not deal well with his infirm condition. He asks her what she thinks he should do, he needs help and he needs someone to make the decision for him. Well, her supportive girlfriend routine was apparently just for one act, cause she hightails it out of the room, abandoning Burke and offering zippo advice.

Later, she returns to help keep him focused during surgery, after McDreamy and Chief tell her they have to wake him up to make sure they haven't accidentally paralyzed his arm. And it's gonna be painful. She of course fails, simply turning away when he wakes up screaming, forcing McDreamy to jump on top of him and calm him down. That's strike two.

After Denny's vitals have sufficiently dropped, Nazi poses a thinly-veiled hypothetical to Chief about the moral dilemma of taking a heart in the given circumstances. He says go ahead, but when all is said and done he wants names.

Denny gets the heart, Izzie gets thrown off his case and the rest of the suck ups get put in time out. After a close call in the O.R., Denny starts on the road to rapid recovery, at which time a no longer hesitant Izzie accepts his proposal of marriage.

George also takes advantage of his time out to tell Meredith he's sorry about their romp gone awry, and that it's his fault, not hers. He knew better. He knew she didn't like him, but let her go through with it anyway. So he's sorry.

The good times don't last so long, though, as Chief speaks one on one with the interns to get to the bottom of the tube cutting, heart-prob faking fiasco. Each of the interns employs their own brand of Jedi mind magic, with Alex up first.

He won't spill the beans and uses the sports analogy of maybe being drafted into a team you don't like, but you go to bat and you're a team and you don't spout off to the press.

Cristina's up next and appears to be breaking down from losing her edge and tearfully wants to know Chief's trick. He dismisses her, saying he doesn't want her to tell him who cut the cord, not her, and he won't tell her his trick to not letting everything get to him cause he doesn't want to be responsible for making her less human.

Izzie talks about what a pretty girl she is and how that's all anyone sees in her, but not Denny. She felt like herself with him.

George seems the likeliest to crack and Chief knows it. He simply tries to freak him out into talking by staring at him. Which seems like it would work, but George starts talking about love instead. He's dismissed.

And as for Meredith? She takes her golden opportunity to confront Chief on the affair she knows he had with her mom.

As none of them fessed up, Chief takes them all of surgical duty and orders them to cater to the whims of his niece via throwing her a prom at the hospital, which they are all forced to attend. Meredith, of course, asks McVet, who has stopped by the hospital to tell her that it looks like they need to put her dog to sleep.

She and McDreamy go over to the vet to do the tear-inducing deed which only seems to bring them closer together. They say what a good dog it was even though they didn't have him very long. Clearly, they're talking about their relationship.

Everyone's gearing up for the Prom, and George comes across Callie in the hallway, who still hasn't received a reciprocation on her declaration of love. George says he doesn't want to say it now cause it'll just be a reply and not something he really means and that when he does finally say it to her, he wants to mean it. Then they start making out.

Back on the dancefloor, Meredith is cutting a rug with McVet, only to exchange some hard-core intense eye contact with McDreamy. Like, seriously intense. Freaked us out a little bit. Meredith, too, cause she takes off to hide in the ever-popular storage closet. McDreamy follows her. She tells him to stop looking at her, stop watching her, she can feel it and she doesn't like it. Uh, Meredith? We never thought we'd say this, but, you go girl! Anyone could feel that soul-penetrating gaze. Unfortunately, McDreamy shoots back, asking if she thinks he wants to look her, that he'd much rather look at his wife and how he'd give anything to be able to not look at her.

And then he kisses her. No, really kisses. Uh, more than that. Their tongue baths quickly turn to making out which quickly turns to making sweet, sweet love, right there in the storage room. When they finish up and are redressing themselves, McDreamy asks what this means for them at which point Callie bursts in. She's been looking for Meredith because Izzie needs her. And then she notices the various states of undress and tidies Meredith up before sending her out. And then looks at McDreamy in disbelief.

Meredith heads up to Denny's room, where Izzie's all decked out. Denny has died. Denny died alone of a blood clot, something Izzie says she should have been watching for and had she not spent so much time getting ready for the prom, she would have been there and might've been able to save him. As she says this, she's bawling and curled up on the bed next to a very past his prime Denny. The gang is telling her it's okay and that she shouldn't be there, but Alex is the one who finally steps up.

He tells her Denny loved her and she loved him and he wouldn't want this for her. Then he picks her up all Prince Charming-like (except for the charming part) and holds her while she cries.

Which seems to be all it takes for Cristina to hightail it, finally, over to Burke's room. Earlier in the day they talked about her reaction and he said it was okay, he wouldn't hold a grudge. She doesn't have to be able to take care of him but he has to take care of himself. Sounded like things were going kaput. When she gets to his room, he's trying to flex his hand, something he's been trying to do all day, worried that he won't be able to perform surgery ever again. So Cristina comes over and holds it.

Back at the prom, Nazi again is wondering where her suck ups are, when they suddenly all walk in, gloomy-faced. They tell everyone that Denny's died, and then Izzie turns to Chief and cops to her deed. She says she thought she could be a surgeon but she can't. She's not. And she quits. Alex and George follow her out amid protests not to do it, but she's resolute. Chief and Nazi say that that pretty much ends the night's festivities.

McVet is there and he tells Meredith he'll take her home. Of course, McDreamy is also there, staring. McVet turns around after realizing Meredith isn't following and calls her name. So does McDreamy. The men eye each other. The men eye Meredith. The credits roll.

Who will she choose? We'll find out next season, though what does McDreamy think? He's just gonna ditch his wife right there? Don't do it, Meredith. Don't do it.