Even though it wasn't a real position before, George O'Malley is taking his new job as Chief Intern very seriously. He's running through the halls, squeeky shoes and all, trying to get everything done for Chief Webber. He even finds time to help out Miranda Bailey with her son several times through the day, but will it mean anything. An unusually harsh Cristina Yang has emerged this episode to crash everyones hopes and tell everyone what she thinks they need to hear. She even turns down the awesome cardio surgery. She seriously has problems right now. She mockingly tells George, "Yay, yay for Georgy, Georgy saves the day. You think if you kiss Chief's a** enough by taking care of Tapley, something magical's going to happen. Like what? You'll earn your magical resident wings, ah well, no, no, not going to happen, George. You're stuck. You are where you are. You know the only way you get out of your miserable situation is if Burke were here because you were Burke's guy. For some reason, he pitied your pathetic a**, but he's gone now. No wings for Georgy." Now it sounds to me that she isn't really talking about George but he can't help at least thinking a little about what she says.

Meanwhile, Bailey's son is hitting other kids in daycare, and she's starting in a new fight with her husband, Tucker over it. He's mad that she spends so much time at the hospital. She tells him, "No, I spend my time here because I'm building a life for us. I spend my time here because I don't have the luxury of being able to take a year off and spend it with our child and knowing that my career is going to be there waiting for me when I'm ready to go back." When their voices raise, George steps in to take little Tuck out of the room for a bit. The argument continues about how she misses out on being home, he feels stuck at home, he's not appreciating the time he gets, she's being unreasonable, you know. Later, wehn George finds Bailey working late with Tuck sitting with her, he offers to take Tuck for a couple hours. "Go talk with him go fight with him. You're not gonna fix anything in one day, but you can keep trying." So she does.

George, feeling a little prompted by Cristina's earlier remarks, asks the cardio "god" Dr. Tapley to put in a good word with the Chief because he was held back as an intern due to hard circumstances. Dr. Tapley assures him that Chief Webber would never take it lightly. "Learning is like healing," he tells George, "it happens over time. . . Listen, keep running, but not because you want to cut corners, because it makes you a better doctor." George leaves with his head a little higher and even gets a good word from Chief at the end of the day. Looks like his goo luck may have changed.

(Side note: My favorite line tonight was when Chief questions George as to why he has Tuck and George says, "Dr. Bailey and I are in love and I'll be heading back to Vegas with her as soon as my divorce with Dr. Torres is final." I got a good laugh from that one)

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