The Heart of the Matter – Season 4 Episode 4
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
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