Grey’s Anatomy – I Saw What I Saw – Recap

Thursday, October 22, 2009, 10:58 PM | TV
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(Here’s Desi’s recap of tonight’s episode of Gray’s Anatomy “I Saw What I Saw”)

The previews for this week’s Grey’s Anatomy show us that there’s a casualty in the hospital and that the Chief and his Board of Directors will spend the episode sorting through the interviews with each doctor to find out who is at fault. Still overstaffed from the merger with Mercy West, the Seattle Grace staff are still fighting to get the good cases in the hospital. The story is told this week through interviews and different points of view, and it’s one of the better episodes they’ve staged in awhile (especially since the merger.)

Several of the doctors are giving blood at a drive for the hospital when they get a mass casualty page. Alex is able to rush off the table before the nurse can start his draw, but Dr. Avery has to pull his needle out to rush off, and Charles has already given his pint.

Reed and April, Mercy West doctors, are already in the ER with patients when a trauma comes in: a man with an axe in his chest. They continue with their exams on a mother and son suffering from burns in the crash. Charles rushes over to help Bailey with the trauma while other staff members stand and watch. Not realizing the toll giving blood would take on him, he’s assigned to hold the axe steady but passes out, pulling the axe out with him.

Danny, the little boy Reed had been working on, gets passed off from doctor to doctor while his mom is still under treatment. He runs into Yang’s patient’s room and picks up a fully-charged defibrillator. Cristina yells at him to stop, which distracts Lexie in the next room. She finds the boy’s mother, Cathy, having a pneumothorax and has to place a chest tube, but the yelling messes up her concentration and delays the placement.

Until Dr. Avery comes sneaking up from behind and stabs the patient in the chest.

ACT BREAK!

Apparently Dr. Avery has great aim, because the chest tube is right where it needs to be. They’re finally able to set Danny in the waiting room to get him out of the way while as many as eleven doctors work on him. (In his interview, Owen says that “Yang, Grey, Karev, Kefner, Avery, a big kid I don’t know, and Torres” were all on duty at the time, and we also see Owen, Arizona, Bailey and Derek working.) Alex is off his game as he’s been trying to find Izzie for a week, and finally gets a call from her this week. However, he has to hang up on her to perform a tracheotomy on Cathy because the other doctors can’t intubate.

In the interviews, the doctors fight about whose responsibility Cathy was. Yang admits to giving pain meds, but says she was never the doctor in charge. Karev might be the primary doctor because he performed a tracheotomy on her. Finally, Reed opens her mouth: “Oh, my God,” she says, “I know what happened.”

We cut to commercial and when we return, the Chief is calling April in for an interview. In my notes for this section I wrote “Chief is scary!!!” with three exclamation points. Because he is. He shouts at her, asking why the patient’s lung would collapse or why she’d need a trach and finally, he asks her what Cathy’s throat looks like.

There’s another flashback to the initial exam of Danny and Cathy. As April is going to inspect Cathy’s throat, the trauma with the axe rolls in. Both April and Cathy turn to look, and she never finishes the exam. She would have found the abnormality if she would have looked, and the patient’s death is her fault. April gets fired.

Derek gets mad at Richard, saying that since the merger the system at the hospital is chaos, and that it needs to be fixed. The doctors find some unity in making fun of April’s termination (except Reed, who defends her fiercely.) Bailey discharges Meredith and Derek takes her home as she asks what happened that day.

I thought this episode was great for modern Grey’s, and I didn’t notice that Derek and Bailey were missing until the end. When I did, though, I got really angry because to me they are the show as much as the interns, and these stupid Mercy West residents are just getting in the way. (And how did Meredith survive that hospital stay without a Snuggie to keep warm? )

2 Comments for Grey’s Anatomy – I Saw What I Saw – Recap

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Only you would bring a Snuggie into this equation

After saying last week that I thought Shonda had jumped the shark, I think this week showed a glimmer of hope. It’s not up-to-par with the Grey’s of the past, but time will tell.

If the rumor of adding Kim Raver as a cardio surgeon is true, I think she will add some depth to Cristina’s character, as long as it doesn’t revisit the Cristina/Hahn she-won’t-teach-me mess of the past.

Love McDreamy, can’t wait for next week! And speaking of things Mc, why can’t someone get a pet around here so McVet can come out of whatever script Shonda left him in?

Moe007 on October 22, 2009 at 11:14 pm
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after my stay in the hospital with my snuggie, i had to bring it up.

for modern Grey’s, this was a pretty good episode. Ausiello said that Raver was coming on board, and i don’t know anything about her, but i’m definitely ready for another cardio god to come on.

man i also miss McVet. #comebacktomemcvet

desi on October 23, 2009 at 1:47 am