Dissecting Grey's Anatomy Episode Three: And then she woke up
Episode Three finds Meredith in the morning, musing on fantasy. Most surgeons fantasize about performing heroic operations, but Meredith imagines being the filling in a Finn/Mcdreamy sandwich.
Instead, it's a rude awakening at Chez Grey, as George whines about Callie, whose temporary stay has stretched into a week.
When George complains that Callie is wrapped in his towel, she drops it, giving both Meredith and George a nudie wakeup call. Passive aggressive? Exhibitionist? Bi-curious? What is up with this chick?
Meanwhile, Izzy or isn't she a surgeon? Bailey went to bat with the chief for Izzy, but said former intern freezes outside the hospital. Remember, this girl was on the floor for the whole hiatus, so we can't expect her to spring into the OR tout de suite.
Speaking of suite, in the no-tell hotel, Addison attempts to bid adieu to her "transatlantic booty call" McSteamy, but he he tries to mcseduce her all over again.
We're treated to a nice skyline shot of Seattle via helicopter, then over in Burke's minimalist condo, we see the recuperating doctor taking post-op recovery slump to the max. Cristina is peeved by Burke's moody attitude. She wants him to recover already, and go back to being the badass surgeon she was so hot for in the first place.
While Cristina plays nursemaid, Dreamweaver Meredith extolls the virtues of dating. She scores a dinner date with McDreamy, but, not to be outdone, Vet steps up, to claim dibs on lunch.
But it was Derek who brought her coffee (in a Tully's product placement--yay Tully's! How very Seattle that it wasn't SBUX, but could we maybe get some Caffe Vita love?).
It also appeared that Derek dropped off a pastry of some sort, as Meredith said that dating came with "snacks." Score one for McDreamy. He's smug as hell, but he got game.
There is some real doctoring going on, and it's done by Karev, who intuits that all is not well with a girl who closed a wound in her own arm with staples. Brillant work, doc. Is she abused by her foster parents, or does she just "play really hard"? All signs seem to point to the former, but li'l Megan insists she's actually a superhero.
Derek interrupts Meredith and Finn's lunch to get Meredith to scrub in on a brain surgery. Point, Derek.
Burke returns to the hospital, but it turns out he was arranging his leave of absence. His presence doesn't move Izzy, who is still idling outside SGH, as if stalking her old job.
George questions orthopedic surgeon Callie's constant ministrations to an aging Ironman, but is he really trying to wrest control of their relationship in that oh-so-Georgelike underhanded way? Uh, yes.
Superhero foster girl insists a random orderly punch her in the stomache, and she beats Karev in the cold water test. She's not bionic, she's chromosonally challenged so she doesn't feel pain. Addison extricates herself from McSteamy McStalker long enough to deliver this news.
Too bad Addison doesn't suffer from this condition, as her emotional pain prompts her to cry in a random closet, to be found by none other than Meredith. She tells Meredith to pick a floor so they stop running into each other. "I get it," Meredith replies, frostily. Oh yeah, it's on bitches. It is so very onnnn...
While Karev exhibits a soft touch with the superhero patient, and later, Izzy, Meredith returns from a date with Derek to find that Finn has dropped by with dessert.
The two men sniff each other out, but Meredith blows up, sounding like Sally of the Peanuts gang. She wants candy! She wants flowers! She wants to be felt up, not ignored while her suitors throw down with each other. She wants romance, dammit, she wants to be treated like a lady.
And all she got was this lousy strawberry ice cream, which she shares with the hollow-eyed Izzy and the Callie-free George.
(SIGH) Maybe some fantasies were meant to stay that way.
