Last week, Grey’s Anatomy’s Simone was named “the one to watch.” This Thursday, Grey Sloan’s top intern was made “the one who’d better watch out,” because who should pay a visit to the hospital but the pompous ass who got her kicked out of her first residency program? Making matters worse — and yes, they could get worse — Bailey was a superfan of the guy! Read on, and we’ll discuss how Griffith fared as well as how Owen handled the truth about his night with Nora.
BAILEY’S HERO FELL SHORT… WAY SHORT | As “Love In the Ice Age” began, Simone was chagrined to discover that the star surgeon with whom she and Bailey would be scrubbing in to save pancreatic cancer patient Gaby was Joseph Chase (guest star Craig Bierko), the former “mentor”/nemesis whose neglect of a previous Black patient she’d clocked. (Cut to: Griffith getting the chop.) In surgery, Simone’s — and, it turned out, Richard’s — impressions of the arrogant doc were proven to be well-warranted. Chase’s groundbreaking study only appeared to be groundbreaking because he threw up his hands and quit — even with a patient lying open on the table — if he wasn’t going to get a positive outcome.
More livid than even disillusioned, Bailey told Chase, “There’s the door. Use it!” Then, she and Simone called in reinforcements — Richard and Lucas — to pull off the miracle that Gaby needed. Afterward, Webber comforted Bailey, who was intent on beating herself up for believing in Chase’s “snake oil.” There was, in fact, reason to believe — and she, not Chase, had proven it. As for Simone, she tried to confront the d-bag as he left Grey Sloan, but his ego was so huge, it deflected all criticism. He even turned around and dissed not only Griffith but Bailey. (The nerve!) Needless to say, Simone shed no tears over what might’ve been in Baltimore. “I ended up in the right place.” Amen!
TEDDY FACED FACTS | As Teddy and Owen treated an ill-fated fella who’d fallen on an icepick, she admitted that she didn’t want an open marriage after all. Cool, her husband said. “Me, too.” But hey, “change was worth a try.” Ruh-roh. That was all that Altman needed to hear to deduce that Hunt had, ya know, tried. After the couple’s patient died, the last thing that Teddy wanted to do was discuss the fact that Owen had slept with someone else. But at the end of the episode, he assured her that it was going to be OK. Was it, though? Was it really?
In other developments, Link and Winston realigned a patient’s leg that had been bent so far that it resembled a comma. Blue, inspired by said patient’s desire to honor his late brother, realized that it would take time to heal from the pain of losing Molly (again). And Richard agreed to plead Lucas’ case to Catherine, lest the resident have to repeat his first year. What good it would do, I couldn’t imagine; Catherine is a pretty immovable object. But we’ll see. What did you think of the episode? It zipped along, no? And I got why Teddy would be upset by the thought of Owen being with someone else, but… um… it had been her idea.
