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It’s Halloween at Seattle Grace, Callie and Miranda instruct the residents to watch out for weirdos, and especially injuries related to the annual chainsaw pumpkin-carving contest. Izzie goes to ask a question and Callie tells Izzie to address her questions to Miranda. Christina and Meredith ask if they direct their questions to Dr. Baily as well and Callie tells them no just Izzie and when Izzie asks why only her Callie tells them all it’s it’s because Izzie’s been sleeping with her husband.

Meredith is surprised but supportive while Cristina goes off in disgust when they say they’re waiting to be together “out of respect for Callie.” When Mark hears that Callie is free, he offers to comfort her, day or night, especially night, but she just turns away and leaves.

Alex looks behind the drapes and finds Ava, she is disappointed that Alex didn’t come for her, so she shows up at the hospital, for him and they fall into bed together. He ignores a page from his intern, Norman, to stay with her.

A well-dressed man comes in, claiming that his left foot doesn’t belong to him, and asks Miranda to amputate it. Instead, she gets him a psych evaluation and some anti-anxiety medicine. She leaves to help another patient, who cut off his finger carving a pumpkin, he starts telling her how he cut off his finger and it’s still stuck in the chainsaw, and when he goes to look for it he starts screaming that someone took it. Miranda says Oh no and they hear the chainsaw start they find the man with the foot problem cutting off his own foot. When they finally sedate him, Callie has no choice but to cut off his foot.

Another patient has to face weather or not to take his own daughters heart. He was in the hospital for a heart transplant when his daughter comes in from an accident. She is a vegitable and they tell him that she is also a donor and he should take her heart. He doesn’t want to. He says he rather die then live every day with her heart. Dr. Hahn comes in to do the transplant and try to convince him but doesn’t have much words with him. She chooses Izzie to go into the operating room if they do the transplant over Christina. Telling Christina that she may have slept her way to the top before but she can’t this time. After Dr. Hahn leaves the room, George tells the man he doesn’t know how it feels to loose a child, but he does know how it feels to loose a parent. And he met his daughter earlier that day and he knows that she wanted him to live, and he knows that if he could have saved his father and given him his heart he would have. The man finally agrees to take his daughters heart.

Izzie later confronts Cristina for judging her for sleeping with a married man, accusing her of doing the exact same thing by sleeping with Burke. Cristina says it’s different because George was married, Burk was her boyfriend. Izzie points out that Meredith also slept with a married man but Cristina doesn’t care about that, because they have there little circle. She claims she would have defended Cristina to Dr. Hahn, if asked and tells Cristina to cut her some slack. Christina just walks away.

Derek pays a boy to tell Mark he’s his father. After the joke is over, the boy reveals why he’s really looking for Mark: He was born without ears and he wants the plastic surgeon to construct them for him, pro bono. Mark says he can volunteer his services, but he can’t ask any of the doctors or nurses to help as he’s got no “social capital” at the hospital. The nurses have even formed an anti-Mark club once they realized he was using the same pick-up lines on all of them! Meredith tells Mark that she may not be popular but her mother was and she is sure she can get an OR together. He says if she can do that, then he’ll do the surgery. Meredith goes around with the boy and convinces everyone to help out, by “trick or treating” with the boy, to show that every day is Halloween for a boy with no ears, until he gets the surgery. Miranda even blows off her first Halloween with her son to perform the surgery, which doesn’t go over well with her husband.

Mark is impressed that Meredith was able to round up all the necessary surgeons and a free OR and when she confesses that it was her first time trick-or-treating since her mother never made time for it, Mark looks at her in amazement and says, “The apple fell far from the tree, didn’t it?”

Adele is divorcing Richard, so he asks Cristina if Burke’s apartment is free and she tells him it is.

Cristina chews out Dr. Hahn for her “inappropriate” and “unprofessional” comments and insists she did not sleep her way to the top. Dr. Hahn laughs and says, “This is going to be so much fun.” Richard walks up at this point and announces that she has just agreed to be the new head of thoracic surgery. Cristina tells Richard that she’s taking back the apartment. Richard just stares confused at what just happened.

During surgery, Callie and Cristina bond over their doomed love lives, Callie starts off by saying her husband cheated on her and Christina follows saying she was left at the alter, they start laughing and all of a sudden Norman collapses. He’d been feeling bad all day and wanted to go home but Alex shamed him into staying and now he’s had a stroke. Alex finally answers his page and promises Ava he’ll be right back. When Norman comes to, he tells Alex that there was a little voice in his head urging him to choose surgery, even though he’s over 60 and blood makes him squeamish. He decides that voice was his late wife, who wanted to make sure he’d be surrounded by world-class surgeons when he had his stroke. He says he’s giving up surgery and switching to psychiatry and declares that all the surgeons could use a good shrink! When Alex goes looking for Ava, he finds just her shirt.

All the nurses start flirting with Derek and Mark confesses that he spread the word he was “looking” as payback for the stunt with the boy. Derek confides to Richard, who’s depressed over his divorce, that he’s depressed because he’s also going to have to start dating.

Spooked by a dream in which she finds herself talking to her own body in the morgue, Meredith blames the fact that she hasn’t put her mother’s ashes to rest. She takes the urn out of the back of her closet and puts the ashes in a baggie and takes them to work, which everyone else finds strange. Lexie tells Meredith that when her mother died, she decided to dig up the family cat and bury it with her, since her mother loved it so much, she tells her this story to try and get closer to Meredith and Meredith is touched by the story. Post-surgery the little boy, who saw Meredith with the ashes, tells her how he flushed his goldfish down the toilet, so it would go back to the ocean. Richard finds Meredith rinsing her mother’s ashes down the sink in an OR prep room. He tells her this is a sanitary place and she tells him that this is where she thinks her mother would want to be and Richard helps her, saying “Ashes to ashes.”

George admits to Callie that he slept with Izzie, Callie tells George that she forgives him, they married for better or worse, they made vows to stay together forever, so she forgives him. George runs off to tell Izzie the bad news, bumping into carts and falling until finally being told she was on the 3rd floor. But before he can get to her, he sees Callie talking to her first. Callie tells Izzie in front of the interns to meet her in the cafeteria at noon.

Word quickly spreads through out the hospital that Callie is going to fight Izzie in the cafeteria . Alex asks Izzie what she did to piss Callie off. Izzie tells Alex he has to swear not to tell anyone what she is about to tell him. She finally tells him it’s because she slept with George. Alex goes off on her, asking how she can sleep with O’malley and walks out on her.

A woman comes in for a foot injury, her foot is swollen and she tells them she slipped off her treadmill. She explains that she was trying to loose weight for her fiance, so they can move in together. The women keeps asking when she’ll be able to go because she has to meet her trainer. Baily tells her she won’t be leaving any time soon, her injuries are very bad. She tries to get Callie involved but Callie’s mind is else where. Callie finally tells them that she needs to stop starving herself that is why her bones are so weak and that is why her ankle gave out. The fiance and the girl continue to argue that she is not going to stop dieting, Callie stays quiet and walks away. Bailey knows there is something wrong with Callie.

Derek asks Meredith to go away with him for 48 hours and she agrees if it’s only for sex. Meredith starts to get second thoughts about going away with Derek when she sees him getting friendly with Lexie. Christina doesn’t like Lexie and calls her intern number, “Three” Lexie tells her my name is Lexie but Christina just ignores her. She tells her to stay away from the patients and to stay by the wall. During a procedure where Derek is placing weights on an injured teenage boy to stabilize him, Lexie touches his hand to comfort him. Christina tells her to get out, that this is very critical and the slightest touch can permanently paralyze him.Derek then snaps at Cristina for being “selfish” and says she won’t be welcome in his surgeries anymore unless she starts actually teaching her interns. On her next surgery, Derek tells Lexie to help but she freezes and he looks at Christina, she then helps talk Lexie through a difficult procedure. Lexie later thanks her and Christina still calls her “Three,” but now Lexie doesn’t object.

Meredith asks Alex to swap shifts with her so she can go away with Derek. He agrees, but only if she takes the oldest intern, Norman, for the day. Meredith hands Norman the job of informing a woman she’s dying. She tells him that he can’t get emotional but when she goes into the room she finds the women crying out of control. Norman admits he might have done it wrong, and he asks what to do now. She tells him to apologize again and when he does the women starts crying louder. He asks again what to do and Meredith says to walk away slowly. Mark tells Meredith that she really messed up and he’s going to have to report them. Norman later brings the women back and she tells them how she quite her job, and broke up with her boyfriend and she is getting rid of her house and moving to Iceland, they then tell her she isn’t dying and she breaks down crying about all the things she did. Mark later tells her she is lucky the women didn’t sue, but the hospital is buying her a four bedroom house in Iceland.

Richards niece comes into the hospital unable to breath. She has cancerous masses blocking her throat. She tells them that she just wants to die, she wants to hang out with her friends and sleep in her own bed. Adele tells her she doesn’t have a choice but she says she does because she is 18 now. Richard later talks to her alone and tells her as her Doctor he can tell her all the different treatments she can have and as her Uncle he wants her to do the treatments because he doesn’t know what to do with out her, but as her doctor he’ll do what she wants. She says she wants to go home, and he says ok. Adele tells him that once again he has failed her and walks out.

Izzie prepares herself for the fight with Callie taking her earings and shoes off and everything. When Callie walks in she looks around and asks what is going on. Izzie says she is ready to fight and Callie tells her she just wanted to talk and walks away. George comes rushing in when he finds out they are going to fight and asks Alex what happened. He says I guess it was over “Nothing”.

The woman with the ankle injury starts spitting up blood and they rush her into surgery: She has a bleeding ulcer from constantly popping ibuprofen. Because she was underweight and malnourished, her heart can’t take it and she dies on the operating table. Callie finds the boyfriend outside and tells him that he’s to blame for her death and that he couldn’t have really loved her. Miranda and George stop her from actually hitting the man. George realizes she’s talking about their marriage and Miranda tells Callie that the “nothing” going on with her has almost cost her her career.

Izzie and Callie and tries to apologize. Callie tells her it’s bad enough that she humiliated her by sleeping with George, now she’s humiliated her at work too. When Izzie tries to say that she “feels terrible,” Callie replies, “Don’t you dare come to me for forgiveness, you traitorous bitch.”

George tells Callie that she can’t forgive him for what he did and she finally admits that she hasn’t forgiven him at all. She goes home to the hotel alone.

Alex tells Izzie that it’s her fault for falling for a married man, but she reminds him about Ava/Jane Doe and how she was married too. He finally admits that he is upset because she told him that after Denny she wasn’t ready to move on and then she slept with O’Malley and then she tells him like he’s one of her chick friends. He walks away. Later at home Izzie is crying and she gets a knock on her door, Alex brings in a tissue box and tells her to keep it down.

Meredith tells Derek she is ready but he changes his mind. He doesn’t want just 48 hours with her, he wants to marry her, he wants to spend his life with her and grow up to 109 years old but every time he tells her things like that she pushes him away. She says she will get there one day. He tells her he will wait but if someone comes along that wants what he wants he can’t guarantee he’ll be there.

Next week Previews:

“Haunt You Everyday”
Thursday, Oct. 25

It’s Halloween, and the day is full of surprises for the doctors of Seattle Grace - Alex receives an unexpected and welcome visit from his former patient, Ava/Rebecca, Meredith is convinced that her mother’s ashes are haunting her, Cristina is snubbed by a surgeon she admires, and Callie announces George and Izzie’s affair to their fellow doctors

Derek goes to Mark and complains to him about Meridith keeping them a secret from Christina. Mark is surprised that Derek didn’t break up with her like he had said he would. He tells Derek that he’s fookish for hoping they’ll officially get back together that Meridith isn’t just going to grow up and want to be in a relationship. Derek says he isn’t expecting that.

A patient comes in by the name of Cathy, she is told that the cancer she is has spread and that she may lose up to 60 percent of her tounge due to cancer. She’s devastated to hear that the reconstructive surgery planned will leave her nearly unable to talk. Richard (The Chief) decides to try an innovative new surgery that would reactivate the nerve in her tongue. Mark is convinced they can handle this, although George worries that neither of them have ever done this. George makes a comment under his breath about them being a little old and not knowing too much about the new surgeries. They both look at George and tell them how they are not old and they are going to do this surgery. (This part is really funny, with the facial expressions they make towards George.)

Izzie anxiously waits for George to see if he’s told Callie, when she bumps into him he explains that he wasn’t able to tell her last night. She pulls him into a room where the semi-comatose “Really Old Guy” is, to ask him why not, but they’re interrupted by her interns. She tells her interns to get out and all of a sudden the “Really Old Guy” wakes up.

Everyone is in shock because the “The Really Old Guy” has been in a coma for a year, he wakes up and objects to being referred to as “Really Old Guy”. He tells Izzie that his name is Charlie and that he’s only woken up because he’s plans to die today. Christina and Meridith come to see Charlie and he tells them that he knows who they are. He goes on to tell Meridith about how she is with that Doctor. While Izzie examines him, he reveals that he knows everything about all the residents, after the year they spent lunching and gossiping in his room. He insists that George isn’t going to leave his wife for Izzie because men never do. She is naive if she thinks he will. He also tells Izzie to bring him Lobster it’s his last wish before he dies, Izzie tells him he’s not going to die and she’s not going to get him lobster, Izzie then freaks out and goes to see George to insist that he tell Callie tonight. He tells her he’s busy, and she starts to worry that maybe Charlie is right. Maybe he isn’t going to leave Callie. George tells Izzie that she can’t get upset, they are not in this together. Before she says anything he says because he has to tell his Wife that he married her for the wrong reasons.

Charlie starts pulling his tubes and wires out to help make the process of his death a little faster and Izzie is so annoyed with him, she helps him, she tells him oh look your still breathing, then she pulls a plug and says oh no that didn’t work, oh wait that was because it’s part of the lamp, the intern interrupts her and points out that he’s stopped breathing. They manage to bring him back, when Charlie wakes up he tells Izzie to stop saving his life. Izzie later goes to see Charlie and they tell her he is leaving the hospital today. She tells them he can’t she just brought him lobster. Izzie tells Charlie he’s probably right about George and then she realizes that Charlie has died, just like he said he would. She calls the residents and George to say some nice things about him in tribute. Izzie declares that he was a bastard, but one who knew what he wanted. And that gives her hope that you can get what you want, eventually.

Alex is given middle-aged intern named Norman and wants to dump him on the clinic. Miranda insists that she first needs a favor from him: He has to treat a teenage boy whose mother has brought him in because she suspects he’s on drugs. Alex tries to explain that his altered behavior can have a variety of causes, but Norman sides with the mother, praising her intuition and insists on the drug test. The drug test comes back negative and it looks like the boy is just going through normal teenage moodiness, until he starts spouting gibberish. Alex orders a neural exam. The boy has hydrocephalis, which is impacting his speech.

During the tongue surgery, Mark isn’t sure what to do next and says he’s never done this before. They realize they need an extra set of hands and send George to fetch Derek. The teenage boy collapses and Alex runs to get Derek, who’s busy with the tongue surgery. He tells Alex what to do: He needs to stick a needle behind the patient’s eye into his brain, which saves his life.

Meredith has to supervise Lexie and when the paramedics bring in a man who’s not breathing, Meredith has Lexie perform her first intubation on him. The man dies and Lexie is horrified that Meredith didn’t do more for him. Meredith explains that the man was already dead when he came in and that her responsibility is to teach Lexie. Since Lexie seems unwilling to learn from Meredith, she orders her to go to the clinic. Miranda is upset that the clinic is being treated as a dumping ground and orders her to go back, but Lexie begs her to stay since Meredith obviously hates her.Miranda tells Meredith that Lexie thinks she hates her and her mother, Susan — who died under Meredith’s care. Miranda insists that Meredith’s job is to help Lexie be a better doctor. Meredith tells Lexie that she was very fond of Susan and then explains every detail of what went wrong on the day she died.

Richard frets that he’s left Adele waiting because of the surgery. Derek advises him to tell her the truth about how much he’s missed her.

Christina the whole time has being faking being sad so she can get surgeries from Meridith, she is upset that Meridith hasn’t told her about her and Derek. Thinking she is weak and can’t handle it. Later Meredith overhears Cristina boasting about the cool tongue surgery and realizes she’s been faking her sadness. She confronts her and Cristina says she’s dealing. And that she doesn’t need to be “protected” from the news that Meredith’s back with Derek.

While in the elevator he new batch of interns, who have no idea that George is repeating his internship, consider him “the best intern ever,” until Alex points out that George is a repeater and that if they really want to learn from someone, they should learn from a resident. George says yes don’t learn from me. Norman looks at him shocked and Alex says what are you looking at. Then turns to Lexie and says Interns…But Lexie looks at him with disgust.

Miranda updates Callie, who’s been doing paperwork all day, on all the residents’ dumping of interns, but Callie couldn’t care less. Callie says she knows Miranda better at her job but she doesn’t want to fight her, or anyone, so she’s just going to do paperwork. Miranda admits she’s having trouble with being #2 when she used to be #1, but she’s going to help Callie since she obviously needs it. Callie accepts, with relief.

That night, George walks into the house. Callie looks at George and says “Just say it”, George looks at her and tells her he slept with Izzie.

“The Heart of the Matter”
Thursday, Oct. 18

EPISODE PREVIEW
The Chief’s wife, Adele, rushes their niece to Seattle Grace, the hospital where she once had her prom, Izzie reveals her feelings for George to a mutual friend, and the reaction is not what she expects, Derek teaches Cristina how to be a better teaching resident, and the world’s oldest living intern, Norman, misdiagnoses one of Meredith’s patients

George comes to Izzie to tell her how much he loves her. He knows he made a mistake marrying Callie, and admits to just jumping in the moment because of his Dad’s situation. He leaves determined to tell Callie. Unfortunately that night Callie never went home, and the next day George finds her to tell her that they need to talk. Callie feels that George may be cheating on her and doesn’t want to have that talk with him. But agrees to talk to him later. Izzie soon shows up to tell George to please not tell Callie about them. He says he has to, but she says he can’t because Callie is her boss and if she finds out it will be a nightmare. Maybe they can wait a week or so to see if her mood will change or maybe they’ll just ”drift apart”. George finally just agrees to wait.

Derek spends the night with Meredith, which is okay if it’s just sex, but not if it’s a “sleepover.” He invites her to lunch but he turns him down for lunch, insisting they agreed only to “sex and mockery,” and asks him to meet her after work for more of the same.

Cristina doesn’t want to return her wedding presents so instead she is handing them out in exchange for professional favors at the hospital, like scrubbing in on a high-profile surgery with Mark. Mama Burke arrives unexpectedly, looking for her and Cristina sends Meredith to get her to leave. Mama reprimands Meredith for the way she announced that the marriage was off, She tells Meredith either she was just being rude or she was being selfish having that moment to break up with her boyfriend. So which one is it? Meredith apologizes being speechless and finally walks off to tell Cristina she tried but Mama’s too scary.

Miranda (Dr. Bailey) asks Callie to take some residents to the clinic to help out but Callie because the hospital is busy, so Miranda gets stuck with two interns, including Lexie. She doesn’t have the authority to give Meredith orders anymore, but Bailey tells Meredith that she can do her this favor, you know like she did for her that time she saved her life. Meredith walks into the clinic to find Lexie there and soon egrets helping out. Lexie immediately pounces on her for more sisterly bonding and Meredith just keeps trying to avoid her and tells her that she is an only child she doesn’t have a sister. She says did you have a dad in your life? Lexie says yes! She says I didn’t so we don’t have the same dad and we aren’t sisters. You aren’t making it easy to not know you exist. Callie later finds out that Bailey undermined her over the clinic assignment and is very upset with Bailey.

Victims come in from an explosion flood, An older man, a man in his 20s a mother and father with there baby. The baby won’t stop crying and the father doesn’t know what to do. Alex orders a tox scan of the baby’s blood because he is suspicious that it might have to do with crystal meth. They find out that the parents were cooking the drug in their kitchen when it exploded. Callie has Alex call the police and social services. Before they arrive Alex gets upset with the father and tells him why his son can’t stop crying. He tells him the police will be here any minute to pick you up the guy rushes up and knocks Alex out and takes the baby and runs.

Richard is trying to delegate work to make more time to be with his wife, but soon just ends up having to do more work. He regrets delegating the meth lab situation to Callie.He even goes as far as interrupting a surgery to tell her how badly she’s messed up. When Izzie tells her she thinks she’s doing a good job as chief resident , Callie looks suspicious and orders out of the O.R.

While Mama waits to see Cristina, George sees her sitting there and tells her that he was Burks Guy. He tells her to tell him that he dodged a bullet by not getting married, because once you’re in, you’re in. She asks if he is married, and he says he is. Shet tells him he shouldn’t stay in a marriage out of obligation. Derek then sees Mama and stops in to say hello. She tells him that he and Burk are a line, honorable men, and he wouldn’t just wait around for someone or settle. Derek tells her they are both very different men, Burk is stronger then he is. She tell shim that she knows he is an honorable man and to walk away from less than he deserves.

Callie desperately searches for the baby and bumps into Mark he asks if she’s okay, and she confides that she thinks that George is having an affair. He says if it’s true, George is an idiot. He advises her to talk to George, instead of destroying her career.

Derek overhears the meth-dealing father, who’s hiding in a bathroom, begging his baby to wake up. Derek tells him to let him take the baby or the baby may die, he gives Derek the baby and he runs off to save him. The baby had a stroke. Mean while Alex is telling Bailey to yell at him, she starts telling him that isn’t her job, but goes into what an idiot he is for not waiting for the police to show up first. He thanks her for her lecture and she thanks him for letting her give it.

Cristina finally goes to find out what Mama wants. She asks for the key to the apartment to get some of Burke’s things. And she says she’s sorry, not just that Cristina lost the man she loves, but that she lost her teacher, since Cristina loves being a surgeon more than she loved her son. She says she admires Cristina and that if she’d been born at a different time, she might have been more like her. As she’s preparing to leave, Cristina asks if she’ll take the wedding gifts. Cristina asks, “He’s never coming back, is he? Not even to say goodbye,” and Mama reminds her, “You’re a strong woman.”

Callie offers to help the Chief fill out the paperwork on the kidnapped baby, but he tells she’s already done enough for one day. George finds her and is about to tell her about him and Izzie, but she tearfully begs him, “Not tonight.” He says okay and they walk off together.

Derek asks Mark to meet Meredith in his place and tell her he’s stuck with a patient, Mark tells Meridith and asks her to have a drink with him, but she turns him down and says she is going home. As Meredith begins to walk out Derek stops her and decides to join her after all. They walk out together smiling.

Letting the Truth Sting”

Next week on Grey’s Anatomy:

The new interns are dazzled by the skill level of fellow intern George, while Lexie helps keep his “repeater” status a secret; Meredith half-heartedly helps Lexie with her first emergency patient; Sloan and Richard attempt a radical, new surgery to save a woman’s ability to speak; and George is compelled to tell Callie of his past indiscretion with Izzie.