"Grey`s Anatomy" Season 7 continues to account the payoff to "rule" for the surgeons at Seattle Grace, none with more hard than Cristina (Sandra Oh). With her release from the program, and afterwards a disastrous evening of bartending at Joe`s, Cristina continues to be adrift. The drama ensues, only in episode 10 it is highlighted by festive holiday dcor at Seattle Grace and numerous Christmas melodies on the soundtrack.
This week`s episode began with Meredith (Ellen Pompeo)`s shock that Derek (Patrick Dempsey) and Cristina had made plans to go fishing. "She doesn`t do the wilderness-there aren`t even any bathrooms in the wilderness," Meredith protested. "If fishing is your big plan to get her support to work," she warned, much to Derek`s protests. "She needs to work." When Cristina and Owen (Kevin McKidd) arrived, Meredith and Cristina shared an embarrassing moment. "There are no bathrooms out there, you know," Meredith offered, and Cristina said she knew that and walked out.
Derek and Cristina`s fishing trip provided an alternate setting for the show, the mate of them only in a boat in the centre of the lake. As distinctive of over-achieving Cristina, she had researched fishing techniques, lures and equipment the dark before, and argued with Derek about the better position to fish. He told her to be quiet, quiet her head and just fish-she struggled with it, and eventually managed to simply be smooth and silent. When she suddenly had a bite, Derek calmly talked her through reeling in an impressive catch. At the fisherman`s dock, she posed with her fish while an employee took a photo. For the start time, she allowed her emotions to express and started to cry. The employee hesitated, and Derek told him to acquire the picture-they would want to remember that moment. At the end of "Grey`s Anatomy" episode 10, Cristina put the Polaroid of her keeping the angle and weeping on the refrigerator.
Callie (Sara Ramirez) and Mark (Eric Dane) shared a cascade in their first scene, after continuing their account as lovers following Arizona`s (Jessica Capshaw) departure-and subsequent break-up-for Africa. Callie confessed that the sex was great, but that it makes her miss Arizona; Mark, with all his usual grace and charm, confessed that he`d been thought about Lexie (Chyler Leigh) while they`d been in bed the dark before. Naturally, Callie kicked him out of the shower for this truth, declaring that she`s too "awful" in bed for that. "Now I miss Lexie even more," he muttered, grabbing a towel.
Bailey (Chandra Wilson) had the first mandatory medical cause of "Grey`s Anatomy" episode 10, when she removed the patient`s gallbladder through his mouth using zero incisions. "You need to do one of these?" she asked Lexie and the early residents. "Each of you is researching a different protocol at trying to eliminate fistulas," she explained, "the individual whose protocol leads to the fewest amount of post-operative complications gets to draw a gallbladder out of a mouth." Avery (Jesse Williams), April (Sarah Drew) and Lexie all fled the operating room to begin their attempts, pitting themselves against each other for the length of the show. Ultimately, a difficult male nurse named Eli`s refusal to follow Lexie`s instructions, and Bailey`s review of his methods and a breakthrough that his patients had fewer instances of fistulas after day three, ended the competition. Eli asked Bailey out on a date, and she was so thrilled with the progress towards finding a remedy that she agreed.
Lexie had convinced Mark to lobby against Eli the harbor for her, in substitution for having drinks after work. Although Mark leveled with Eli, and the pair faked a confrontation, his efforts paid off; at Joe`s bar later in the episode, he and Lexie indulged in a heated kiss for the start time since their bitter break-up. Needless to say, it will be interesting to see what happens when she learns of his fling with Callie-oh, how a pregnancy between Set and Callie could ruin everyone`s Christmas, but that`s one of three "Grey`s Anatomy" storylines we`re unlikely to see during Season 7; read around the others here.
Teddy (Kim Raver) had the instant type of episode 10, when guest star Scott Foley entered into her living as a dying patient without insurance. The man proposed to his girlfriend, but she refused, and he confessed to Shift that what he truly loved about her was her great insurance. Teddy went to bat for him, campaigning for the hospital board to do something to assist him despite his lack of money and help; he had been hospitalized over 200 years in the preceding year. In the end, they opted to place him home with a medical alert bracelet, and Teddy said it was sending him base to die. Instead of allowing that, she asked him to wed her and said she had wonderful insurance. We can but hope this way a lengthy guest starring role by Foley, who has been delicious but absent from weekly TV sitcoms since the end of "Felicity" years ago.
Alex (Justin Chambers)`s hatred for the new pediatric surgeon, Dr. Stark, led him into Callie`s care. With a suit involving a cutting-edge hip replacement technique, she tried to tempt him into Ortho from Peds as her protg. The last event of episode 10 involved a duet on their honeymoon, with the match having suffered a bad light with the wife landing on top of her groom. Her injuries were minimal, but he wasn`t so lucky; while in the operating room, Owen concluded that his internal injuries were lethal. Meredith challenged him, insisting that he rectify the damage; Owen resented her behavior. Towards the end of the surgery, Meredith insisted she could get another stay in the patient`s liver and Owen refused, only for her to go ahead-and so he kicked her out of the O.R. but they had managed to keep the patient's life irrespective of the conflict.
Later in the episode, the two had a confrontation about how Cristina should be handled, with Owen accusing Meredith of being rash and "fearless," but not in a right way. "I don`t need that around my wife who is struggling to simply keep on," Owen yelled, and Meredith met him toe-to-toe, asking him where Cristina would be a class from now. "Most people don`t say the guy with the gun to shoot them. Most people are like Cristina, most people are afraid," he went on. "She isn`t you, Meredith." She seemed to consider this to heart, and viewers may have eventually seen Owen`s claim as the biggest supporter of Cristina instead of the go-to twosome of she and Mer.
The biggest show-down of "Grey`s Anatomy" Season 7 episode 10 happened when Callie opened her apartment door to find Arizona standing in the hallway. "So picture this, I`m in Africa," she begins to explain rapidly, "and everything is great, and the masses are so nice, and the clinic is amazing, and I`m doing work that actually feels important _ but I`m crying." Callie said nothing as she continued, saying that they asked her if she cherished to go home. "I open my talk to say no, but what came out was yes." Without a word, with but a touch of sympathy or disappointment, Callie closed her door in Arizona`s face-ouch.
With an appointment for Teddy, a see for Bailey, a reunited affair between Lexie and Mark, plus the fall of a regretful ex for Callie, "Grey`s Anatomy" Season 7 promises to be full of heartbreak, hope and latin long before Valentine`s Day arrives.