A little background info. Meredith, a commitment phobe, slept with her attending the night before she started work, not knowing who he was. They have been sleeping together and having a rather dysfunctional relationship since then. He refuses to show her his house and was attempting to hide from her roommates, Izzy and George, until he got caught. He finally showed his trailer of a house to Meredith at the end of the last episode. Meredith’s roommate George is in love with her but doesn’t have the balls to say anything. He is upset that she is seeing Dr. McDreamy (Derek) and feels he could never measure up to him. He is constantly trying to convince his roommates and other interns that he is not gay, or a “sister. His demeanor make it hard for him to convince this. Izzy, the other roommate, had been a lingerie model in the past. Her ads are just now coming out in magazines and she is having problems with patients and other interns taking her seriously, specifically Alex. Alex is a cocky asshole who no body likes. Meredith’s best friend is Christina. She is the stereotypical Asian, she is a doctor and she knows it all, she also doesn’t show feeling. Christina is also sleeping with an attending, Burke, and he got her pregnant (but she hasn’t told him).
The episode starts out with Meredith saying, “Secrets can’t hide in science. Whatever we are trying to hide, we are never ready for that moment when the truth gets naked.”
The first image is George in bathroom, naked, with book of skin rashes and diseases. Izzy knocks on door and believes he is masturbating. George tries unsuccessfully to tell her that it is not what he is doing. To no avail Izzy teases him about how she knows it’s a typical man thing to do and its human nature.
Screen change to Derek in Meredith’s bed, naked. Meredith answers a phone call. The nursing home is calling about her mother, a once highly renowned surgeon who has gotten Alzheimer’s, Meredith asks if it is urgent and says she will call back. Meredith doesn’t want to slander her mother’s name by allowing anyone to know about her mother’s illness. She refuses to tell anyone and often insists that she is traveling or writing a book about her adventures as a surgeon. The one person she told was her mother’s scrub nurse, who she knew was dying anyways and wouldn’t be able to tell anyone. The scrub nurse was the one person that her mother could remember. Must stuck to know that your mother can remember a scrub nurse and not you. It makes the viewer realize that her mother and her never had the best relationship. The hospital was her mother’s life, as it has become Meredith’s.
Back to the bathroom. George steps out of the bathroom to Izzy standing right there to support his decision to do “what’s normal”. George tells Izzy he doesn’t need to do that because he has a girlfriend, who Izzy believes is imaginary. If I were a character in the show I wouldn’t believe this for a second either. It is hard to see George as a straight man, even though he is working so hard to convince people he is.
Meredith emerges from his room only to hear that George was supposedly masturbating.
Derek receives a call he won’t answer, he knows for sure it is not the hospital but won’t say who. A voice over of Meredith says, “That’s the problem with secrets, just like misery they love company.” Derek is definitely hiding something, more so he is hiding someone.
At the hospital Christina is shown fighting with abortion clinic about coming in for a counseling session. She knows her options. She doesn’t need to talk. Talking is the problem. Her decision is clear to abort the baby. Christina is one who refuses to let her emotions allow her decisions of any sort, no matter how bit the situation is. She refuses to talk to anyone about anything, except a little blurt of truth here and there to Meredith.
Burke comes up to Christina and says that he paged her last night, because she won’t give him her home number. She rushes away because she hasn’t told him she is pregnant. Christina can’t handle problems like a normal human being, simply because she isn’t normal. She hides from her problems instead of facing them head on.
George is at a nurse’s station, talking to his actual girlfriend, Olivia. He asks her if she is feeling oaky and if she is sick at all. She responds “Well I’m okay now that I’ve seen you,” very seductively. He responds that he is itchy. Great job George. You’re doing well with the ladies. Izzy walks up, he explains that it is his girlfriend. Izzy then asks what he did in the bathroom for so long if he wasn’t masturbating. Izzy, you’re too much in other people business, step off.
Alex a.k.a Dickhead is in the locker room plucking his nose hairs in the mirror. George scopes it out and approaches Alex apprehensively. Alex responds to Georges lurking with “I know I’m pretty to look at and all but back up.” George talks about how he has a rash on his penis and needs someone to look at it because he can’t get close enough. He then becomes scared to show Alex it, though Alex has no problem. Awkwardly, George pulls down his pants. After a long silence Alex tells him that he has syphilis. George looks at it in the mirror and groans.
The intro music and montage comes in. The song sings, “no body knows where they might end up. No body knows.” For some reason I find it creepy as shit, you don’t know if you’ll end up in the hospital and die. It could happen any moment.
Burke has a friend on the table with a camera snake up his “mojo” His friend worries if there is something to be nervous about. Burke finds something abnormal and tells George to take a biopsy and Alex to get a CT.
Chief and Bailey are in surgery. The chief is a level headed and very wise man. Bailey is hot tempered and called “the nazi” by her interns. Bailey explains “There is too much damage, we must pull out and resection.” Meanwhile the chief is having a hard time with closing the patient up with stitches, claiming it on light.
Christina and Izzy receive a male patient with his abdomen enlarged. The mans wife and daughter are with him. Daughter only worried about cost, not about her father at all. She seems like a total bitch.
George arrives at the Hemotology lab, hoping to get his test results. He receives his blood test and was sur that he didn’t tell the person it was his blood. Izzy comes around and gets a biopsy for a patient. She once again is in his business and reads Georges blood work and finds out he has std. He doesn’t know how he got it because Olivia “isn’t like that.” Izzy responds with” George it’s the millennium, everybody’s like that or Amish.” George once again tries to prove his masculinity and says, “Maybe I’m the one who got it first. Maybe I’ve been sleeping around, maybe I got ladies.” Izzy laughs and doesn’t believe it. George is scared to tell Olivia. He sarcastically pretends to tell her. “Hi Olivia, I got the syph how about you” George is hilarious, especially when he is trying to be a man or when he’s nervous.
Back to surgery. Chief knocks surgical equipment off and walks off the case. Derek is watching in the gallery and looks worried.
Alex and George are in their break room. Alex explains to George, “I didn’t know you had it in you.” Meaning, “George I didn’t know you had sex with women” George asks Alex if he ever had an STD before and Alex responds with, “I never talk about my penis with other men.” Alex has to prove his is more masculine than George by not talking about things.
Mr. Franklin, the abdomen patient finds out that there is fluid in the abdomen, a common symptom of liver disease. The daughter, Alice, says in a bitchy tone, “And it all comes together” It is explained that the father drinks a bit. The daughter is only here for mom to make sure that her dad doesn’t try to pull anything, “again.”
Burke, Alex and George are looking at the pictures of the growth in the penis. Alex explains that it looks like an ovary. Burke, being the more serious one in the room, says, “is that how you will explain it to your patient.” George confirms that Bill, the patient, has an ovary. It says it on the labs. Burke looks dumbfounded. His best friend is a man and a woman at the same time. What. The. Hell.
Izzy and Christina are talking to Bailey telling her that their patient is a heavy drinker; he has about 8 drinks a day. Bailey uninterested as usual as the interns what the protocol- reason- and action will be. She then tells the interns to do their own procedure.
Alex comes in with his smart ass remarks again saying, “God an ovary, gives a new meaning to the word bisexual,” to George. This is rather ironic because George is between sexualities for many people. He likes girls, and many people know that, but they can’t help but think that he is actually gay.
Olivia makes out with George in stairwell. George strops and tells he needs to tell her something. She thinks he is breaking up with her. No NO! Awkwardly he tells her that he hasn’t been with other women. He then almost calls her a prostitute. Smooth move genius. He recovers with, “I really like you Olivia. I like you a lot.” She responds with, “I like you too”- push on wall – intense make out session. In that order. George blurts out, “I have syphilis” Olivia runs away looking disgusted. In the stairway by himself, George says, “That could have gone better.” We couldn’t have said it any better George.
Derek walks into chief office, “you dropped a retractor.” The chief says his eyes are getting blurry and its not the first time this has happened. Derek says that he’ll set up some tests and the chief asks to keep it to himself. The chief having problems operating is a big deal, keeping it a secret is a big responsibility Derek just put on himself.
At lunch Christina calls out to George, “Hey syph boy.” Alex repeats, “Syph boy. has a nice ring to it.” Everyone knows George has it. Alex explains, “Everybody has secrets, just be glad yours is out in the open.” Meredith absent-mindedly responds with, “Every body has something to hide.” I wonder what Alex is hiding? He seems like a big sketchball.
Blake explains to Bill that what is in his penis is in fact not a tumor. “The chromosomes tests proves that the mass in your penis is an ovary.” Bill “You’re telling me I’m a guy with an ovary? What am I going to tell Holly? I’m still a man right? I’ll be okay right? I mean well, you know I mean my sex life?”
Large needle in font of George’s face, he is on a patient table. Alex is administering penicillin for him into his ass. Meredith opens the curtain and says she is there for moral support. With her moral support she adds, “You have a cute butt.” She explains that Alex is doing tt wrong so she does it herself. Izzy comes in, followed closely by Christina. Izzy tells her, “We are saving g’s future of sores and insanity”.
Nursing home calls back, reminding Meredith that there is a family dinner and she has not been at a family function. The nurse says that residents respond well to these functions that that she suggests Meredith comes. Meredith responds with, “Ill deff try to be there.”
Walking down the hallway, Derek whispers to the chief that his mri’s are set up.
Meeting with all the staff on their floor. The chief says that 3 interns, 4 nurses 6 residents have been diagnosed with syphilis. He talks about the complications. He tells everyone that if they are sleeping with another member of the staff that they must get tested, it was not a request. Someone gives a safe sex demonstration with a banana. Come on Grey’s, are we back in high school? These people are doctors. They know the risks and they know the complications. Let the mess up if they want.
The next scene shows a line of up workers going to get tested
Christina and Burke run into each other. Burke tells her that he notices she is ignoring him. He tells her she doesn’t need to be in the syph line because there is no one else. She happily tells if she has not slept with anyone else either
Izzy, clueless, walks up to Christina and says, “Good thing we aren’t standing in this line. Neither one of us is getting any.” Little does she know Christina has gotten more than a STD, she has a baby growing inside her.
Izzy and Christina are talking out the fluid, though neither one of them has done this procedure before. Christina is the only one out of the two who has actually seen the procedure. The fluid comes out, but it is bloody. Christina doesn’t seem worried and explains, “All we have to do is wait.”
Derek finds that there is a tumor on the chief’s optic nerve. It is operable but it has its risks, just like all procedures. The chief’s response is, “Okay Derek we will see how good you are. We are doing this tonight.” He wants to get this over with before any one else can have the chance to notice his mess-ups.
Mr. Franklin is putting out a lot of fluid. How much fluid can one guy hold? Izzy realizes that he stopped responding. He has no pulse, he died. Izzy freaks out explaining that the blood in the tube when it first went in was to blame. Bailey explains that they did everything by the books. The family doesn’t want an autopsy.
Meredith, Derek and Bailey are on the secret team for chief’s surgery. Meredith asks Derek if he is nervous about operating on the chief. His response, “Ooh no I’m not nervous… Mer just for the record you’d tell me if I needed to get tested right? We never made rules.” She says, “We’re practically a condom add. And no more glow in the dark ones okay! Maybe we should make some rules.” Derek knows how to play it smooth. No wonder George is upset.
Another phone call goes unanswered by Derek after the surgery is over with.
In the penis surgery it is found that it is sterile, but the wife is pregnant. Hmmm well this is getting interesting now isn’t it?
Iz and Christina try to convince Mr. Franklin’s family to get an autopsy. Alice says, “Mom he’s dead this is finally over. Can we just get out of this with whatever shred of dignity this family has left?” Iz and Christina want to find out if they were the ones who killed him and how.
Mer, Christina, and I are talking and the two want to perform an unauthorized autopsy because they want their names cleared. Mer is not in for this game. Christina says, “Mer this is fight club, no one talks about it.” I love Fight Club, so I just about fell in love with Christina when she said this.
The chiefs surgery is happening. He asks if the gallery is locked. Derek say, “Doctors make the worst patients,” because chief is asking too many questions. “I got you covered, now breathe in the happy gas.” The chief goes under.
Iz and Christina are in the morgue. Iz says, “We stole a body, we’re body snatchers.” It’s the middle of the night, neither of them know how to do an autopsy so Christina brought a text book. Christina tries to get Izzy to grow some balls so she says, “Its not like we can kill him twice.”
Derek exclaims that the procedure was done nicely. He asks bailey to wrap up the chief. If the optic nerve is damaged he will be blind forever. Meredith is to stay and monitor the chief. Bailey wants Christina and Iz to cover their patients. Mer told her they are swamped with patients but Bailey knew they were lying and knew exactly where they were.
Burke tells the Holly that the whole relationship is a lie and Bill has a right to know this is not his child. “Maybe a best friend wouldn’t tell him the truth, but I’m his doctor and as a doctor I wont lie.”
Mer didn’t go to the dinner, but the nurse explains that her mother finally remembered her. Derek comes and she hangs up. He says, “Another secret phone call huh?” She tells him the truth about her mother.
Chief wakes up and see’s Derek and Mer. Derek is kissing her forehead.
Bailey comes into the morgue and is very angry with this do you know what you are doing?!! Attitude. “Did you think of anything before you did this? Do you have anything to say” Izzy dumbly says, “Look at his heart…It’s huge!”
Meredith comes into chief’s room. He says, “Mer he’s an attending and you’re an intern. I’m going to tell you something your mother would tell you. It’s a mistake.” Meredith assures him that it is not a mistake.
Bailey is talking to Mr. Franklin’s family. They had specifically said no autopsy. The daughter is upset because he didn’t die just because of the alcohol, but what he died of is genetic. Izzy and Christina may have saved the daughters life. The daughters attitude changes drastically and the family signs for the autopsy.
Meredith’s voice over, “The thing people forget is how good it can feel when you finally set secrets free. Whether it is good or bad, at least they are out in the open. Like it or not.”
Olivia comes into locker room. “I want you to understand when we started dating I was already seeing someone. I didn’t knowhow much I would see you, but when I realized it I broke it off with he other guy”, she points to Alex. “Alex you gave my syph.” George attacks.
Meredith voice over “Once your secrets are out you don’t have to hide from them anymore.”
Derek tells Meredith they have to talk. Mer’s response was, “wine first talk later. I think I like this rules thing.” They turn to leave and a woman is standing there.
Meredith voiceover, “The problems with secrets is even when you think you’re in control, you’re not.”
Derek: “Addison, what are you doing here.” She turns to Meredith, “Hi I’m Addison Sheppard. And you must be the girl who has been screwing my husband.”
End of episode.
