Grey's Anatomy: Blood Diamond Edition

The rings, please. Yes, This issue of Grey's is all about worst-case scenarios. LIke um, getting married? Or opening an $8 million free clinic that attracts zero patients?
Or learning that your bitchy-but-incapacitated mother has "woken up" from Alzheimer's?

We had our loupes out for this eppie, because we wanted to see what kinda bling surgeons can bring. But when George and Callie return from a Vegas quickie she's Callie O'Malley with a simple sliver band.

"At least no one will want to steal it," Izzy says. Beeyotch.

By contrast, Burke hit Yang with a 3-carat platinum-set flasher, which would clearly burst a surgical glove. So it's a good thing Cristina doesn't do rings. (huh? a surgeon and stanford grad unmoved by a status symbol?)

Enough with the jewelry, we've got a toxic patient that's making the staff sick. George gets hit with it, and has to assure Callie the patient is toxic, "not our marriage."

Nice save, Georgie. You're gonna make a swell hubbie!

Addison is making oxygen-deprived faces at Karev, but fortunately she works out her sexual frustration with Mcsteamy, which is what the guy is there for.

Meredith avoids her suddenly lucid mom, who tells off McDreamy, who, she sez, only wants someone to admire him, and doesn't care about the cost. Wow, out of commission for 5 years and she comes back to nail it.

The free clinic gets all after-school special-y, with Bailey lecturing a sexually active teen. Apparently this episode was sponsored by the right wing.

Mere's mom then tells yang that it is possible to be a surgeon and a wife. Oh, what a relief! There's at least one potential wedding special in the works.
As our Mere-rator concludes: "when the worst case scenario comes true, clinging to hope is all we've got."

Let's hope Burke and Yang elope.

Look forward to a two-parter focusing on our ferry boats in the near future.