'Dancing With The Stars' Season 14 Dream Casting
MTV Sets Premiere Date For Pauly D's 'Jersey Shore' Spinoff
Grey's Anatomy: Freedom (season finale)
by Jane Boursaw, posted May 23rd 2008 1:47AM
"The pager is sacred. Sacred sparkle." -- IzzieA sparkly pager, some quick-drying cement, and a field of candles all play into tonight's 2-hour episode -- the Season Four finale of Grey's Anatomy. Has it really been only four seasons? Because it seems like so much more.
Anyway, tonight we learn a little more about some of the interns' history. For one thing, via a therapy session (and why can't I have Amy Madigan as my therapist?), we learn that young Meredith saw her mom slit her wrists, then had to wait for her to pass out before calling 911.
Meredith says her mom wanted to die, but by the end of the episode, she figures out that she really didn't want to die. Being a brilliant surgeon, her mom would have known the faster road to death entailed slitting her carotid artery.
Meredith decides she's not mad at her mom, but rather at the Chief, because his leaving was the cause of her mom's troubles (somehow, I think she had a few other issues). Anyway, Meredith and the Chief make peace by the end of the ep, and Meredith decides to take her mom's advice and "be extraordinary." Whatever.
A depressed Cristina perks up when Meredith tosses her the Sparkly Pager -- you know, the one with the fast-track to all the good surgeries. Her first Sparkly Pager task: save the life of a guy who arrived at the hospital encased in cement. Apparently, some moron kids dared him to lie down in fresh quick-drying cement. He did it to impress one of the morons -- a girl.
After much discussion, the docs decide to chip the cement off him (Really? Wow, I wish I'd thought of that!). But the cement does some wonky things to his body, so he ends up in surgery with Cristina and a half-dozen other docs saving his life. Cement Boy survives.
Rebecca's a mess, practically a vegetable as Alex feeds her, changes her (yes, you know what I mean), and everything else. Then she slits her wrist with a kitchen knife (Alex! How dumb can you be, leaving the room with a knife on the counter?!).
At the hospital, Izzie wants Rebecca evaluated by a psych doc, but Alex lashes out, calling Izzie a "stupid bitch!" That's harsh. Apparently, he has some experience with his own crazy mom. In the end, Izzie's right and Alex knows it. So he has Rebecca admitted to a psych facility, then goes home and has sex with Izzie. All better.
Callie decides she really is gay, and plants a wet one on Erica. Not right away, of course. First Callie has to make like she wants Sloan, but his gaydar is working at full capacity, and he ends up pushing her into Erica's arms.
Derek and Meredith are doing clinical trials on tumors, but their record sucks. I'm pretty sure the Chief told Meredith that nine of her clinical trial patients have died, and if she doesn't get the next one right, the board will shut her down. Thank God she and Derek end up with not one, but TWO trial patients -- a boy and girl who fell in love while doing chemo together at Mayo.
But before the kids go into surgery, they want to get down and dirty at least once. So Derek and Meredith put them in a room together, then guard the door while they go at it inside. Somehow, I'm sure the neurosurgeon at a big hospital would have more important things to do than guard a door for kids he's pimped out to each other. Then again, maybe not. And it's a good thing they had that time together, because the boy doesn't make it.
Lexie gets hold of the interns' files (I guess they jumped out of the Chief's file cabinet into her hands) and memorizes them with her super-photographic mind. She tells George he only failed the intern test by one measly point. He'd rather not know this, because it just confirms that he's "the almost guy."
But he comes around, talks to the Chief, and gets a second chance at the test. Oh, and Lexie knows that Alex lied about having cancer and losing a testicle. Because she's seen his testicles, and there's two there. That intel could come in handy at some point.
Bailey decides she can't be super-woman after all and hands the clinic keys over to Izzie. Makes sense to me, since Izzie built the clinic with money Denny left her. Plus, she's got the kind-hearted, people-person thing going. "You make me proud," Bailey tells her. Sheesh, are the writers on strike again?
The Chief ends up going home to his wife -- just because he's decided that's the thing to do. "It's about time!" says his wife, kissing him at the door. What, do these people never talk about this stuff?
Having no Meredith in his future, Derek decides to sell his prime real estate. (You know, the land that's had an Airstream sitting on it for years. What, he can't build a house unless he has a wife to put in it? That's so 1950.) Anyway, his plans to sell it are stopped in their tracks when he heads home and finds Meredith there, in the middle of a giant blueprint made out of candles next to the trailer. (I'd like to know where she got all those candles in the 60 minutes it must have taken him to get there.)
Could there be some happiness in the future for this dysfunctional couple? Time will tell. Derek does the honorable thing and leaves Meredith amidst the candles while he goes to find Rose -- right then and there! -- and tell her he won't be trailering up with her anymore. I guess we'll find out how that meeting went when next season rolls around.
| storm Jane's house with torches tonight | |
|---|---|
| stop at the end of her street, since she's just filling in for Jonathan | |
| keep the torches in the garage for now |
59 Comments