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| Telling Off Chief Webber |
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Chief Richard Webber posts an article on the board that he's sure will make Cristina Yang upset. We soon see that it is an article about Preston Burke. He's received the Harper Avery Award for his heart surgeries. Cristina is silent. When Dr. Hahn is dangling a heart surgery in front of her, she's distracted. She actually turns down the chance at the surgery to go and harvest hearts in the morgue. An unknowing Erica Hahn commends Cristina for not being afraid to do a little grunt work. Cristina is not looking good. Lexie Grey is with her, as her intern, and tries to talk with no answer. Cristina breaks out singing, "Like a Virgin" and when Lexie starts to join in, she gets a look that could kill. Lexie excuses herself to leave Cristina alone. Later, when Meredith Grey questions Lexie about Cristina to see how she's doing, she asks if she's not talking, or staring off into space. When Lexie says that she's singing, Meredith gets up immediately to go to her - this is worse than she thought. She joins Cristina in the morgue and tells her (while Cristina's still singing), "You're gonna win you own Harper Avery Award.(still singing) . . Burke wouldn't have a career if it wasn't for you . . (still singing) . . the Harper Avery committee may not have known it, but he does. . (no change). . I'm in therapy!" She blurts and Cristina finally raises her head from the cadaver. . ."Cause he's with Rose, I'm way more screwed up that you." Cristina finally speaks, "Thank you. That makes me feel a little better." After Alex Karev is pulled off the surgery, Cristina is called into the heart surgery with Hahn, who is also quite jealous of Burke's award because she was also being considered. She tries to get Cristina to bash him with her, but gets the silent treatment. Hahn actually commends her for her "rising above" and says she should follow Cristina's example. Later, when Cristina is being forced to fill out the "Date and Tell" worksheet for Chief Richard Webber, even though Burke doesn't work there anymore, and she finally loses it. Chief tells her he knows it "must be difficult" and Cristina lets him have it. "No! It's not difficult. It's simple. Burke is not here, he's gone and he's the better for it. He's winning and I'm here where everything is the same. I still live in his apartment, I walk the same halls of this hospital, I wear the same scrubs and even that is not difficult. This is where I am. This is where I choose to be, but, sir, when his hand was shaking, I performed his surgeries. I kept his secrets. I nursed his pride. You know it and I know it. He knows it and yet nowhere in that newspaper article does my name appear. I am the unseen hand to his brilliance and yet while everything's the same, it's very, very different. Now I'm lucky if I get to hold a clamp. Hahn treats me like I was his hand and now I'm a ghost. That's not difficult. It's unbearable! I know everyone is happy for him, but I'm not and I do not wish him well." Couldn't be said any better than that. Cristina's not the only one, though. Miranda Bailey was actually the only one in the hospital given an "exemption" from filling out the sex history and she is not happy about it, either. "Just wanted to drop off the form myself. Any questions you might have?" A shocked Richard, says, "The interns are listed on this form." "I require the energy of youth. Dr. Shepard was just a moment of weakness for both of us." she retorts. "Dr Sloan?" Richard asks reading her form further. "Oh, that was many moments: on call rooms, very HOT!!" "Okay, Dr. Bailey," says Richard, "I get the joke." ( Now you've done it, watch out) Bailey is fuming, "See, this is a joke to you. . . I am a single woman. I've been a single woman for some time now, but the very idea that I could have a sexual encounter, a consentual sexual encounter, is a joke to you. So much so that you would single me out in this entire hospital as the one person who couldn't interest a member of the opposite sex. It's just. . ." "It's harrassment," chimes in a patiently listening Adele. "Shame on you!" Bailey blurts as she walks out the door. Later Bailey admits that her husband, now separated, is on a date tonight. I feel so bad for Miranda Bailey. I hope someone comes around for her. Even George O'Malley takes a jab at the Chief when he realizes that the position of "chief intern" was just to get back with his wife, Adele. George is always every one else's means to an ends that he doesn't get anything out of. I was glad to see him stand up to the chief. It turns out the chief really is on board with him being "Chief's Intern" and hopefully it will help George more than playing "hall monitor" like he seemed to be doing tonight with the forms. And all of Chief's hard work to show that he's changed and is delegating and with the awkward forms actually pays off to Adele. They go home together and get a little action for themselves. Chief is quite pleased with himself and it looks like Adele is quite pleased as well. "It's good to know that not everything's changed" she giggles from under the sheets at the end of the show. |

