Owen has a present for Cristina. That being Teddy Atlman. Teddy is a cardio god. Or goddess. Yang is not Yang if she is easily pleased, so she wants to know things about Teddy and why she hasn’t heard of her.

At first, Teddy is just adjusting a bit from spending so much time in Iraq, but Cristina takes that to mean she doesn’t know what she’s doing at all.

Eventually, Cristina ends up liking Teddy a lot because she let her do some highly risky and difficult procedure. She’s a really good teacher, too.

Don’t judge a book by its cover.

However, her relationship with Owen is intriguing. She’s not an ex, but she has a thing for Owen, she reveals. It’s interesting to see where this goes.

Elsewhere, Adele sort of accuses Bailey of having an affair with the Chief simply because the latter didn’t go home. She’s not, but something is up with Richard.

In the end, Bailey conceded that the Chief can indeed be her work-husband. After the Chief decided to take a break from his surgical duties, Bailey takes over for him.

But what is wrong with this guy? He botched a surgery and Bailey had to redo it. Later, we find out.

Oh yeah, Izzie is back at Seattle Grace. She was living with her mom in Chehalis, and only showed up because her high school teacher and mentor, Dr. Singer, had a problem remembering … anything.

That case was great to watch - they figured out that he had fluid blocking his brain from receiving … well, something. You gotta love Derek, though, and Izzie telling the Chief to do the surgery or else.

The first time Alex saw her, it was heartbreaking, his expression saying, “What the hell, Izzie,” a combination of sad and mad.

They weren’t talking at first, and when they finally did, Izzie started blaming Karev for getting her fired, which is did not sit well with him.

Alex says she didn’t give him the benefit of the doubt, made a conclusion, and just went away. He can’t forgive her either, he says.

The Chief, finally, concedes that he’s exhausted, hands over all his surgeries to Bailey, after botching an otherwise routine surgery.

There’s a Chief montage while he’s drinking, and he really does appear under the influence. Poor guy.

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Tomorrow’s Grey’s Anatomy was all about Derek, and finding your peace.

However you can do it, that’s how you do it.

Derek narrates the episode and opens by talking about what drew him to surgery: the quiet, the shutting out of everything else in the world.

He’s studying some scans when Isaac, a lab tech, come in and shows him an amazing MRI of a giant, very dangerous tumor on his spine. Isaac’s the patient, and he talks Derek into taking on his surgery.

It’s regarded as impossible but McDreamy thinks he can do it.

One by one, Cristina, Mark, Callie, Lexie, Hunt, and Arizona all come in and offer support while Derek’s trying to figure out whether to take the case.

Even Bailey’s blown away, calling the tumor dangerous, complicated, smart and beautiful - the reason she got into medicine. But the Chief won’t go near it - it’s just too dangerous, and too expensive.

After all, they might need to cut the spinal cord to get it all out.

Even after Derek tells him that the patient is an employee, the Chief says the hospital’s not a charity, and they don’t have the pro bono budget to cover higher surgeries for every employee.

They butt heads. In the end, Derek defies the chief and his new computer generated schedule and books Isaac for surgery. He’s gone rogue.

First, a contest among the residents will determine see who’s got the skills to handle microsurgery, and Jackson Avery gets to scrub in after Cristina blows it. So does Lexie, who’ll keep an eye on Derek.

Avery brags about how he never has to take breaks and that Lexie is just a bitch. So Lexie decides to wear a diaper so she can stay in surgery for longer than Jackson. Cristina finds out and is impressed.

Before he goes under, Isaac tells Derek that he needs to be inspired in this surgery - and if need be, he should cut the spinal cord. He says he’s survived war and tragedy, and he can do without his legs if needed.

It doesn’t go well.

Derek gets in there and finds that the tumor is much more involved than it looked on the scan. He stands there for 10 hours trying to come up with a plan to attack the thing, before the Chief comes in and boots him out.

He later explains to Isaac that it was too risky, and since he still has use of his legs he couldn’t bear to cut the cord.

He’ll do better tomorrow, Isaac tells him. Derek is dumbfounded.

Derek goes home and talks it through with Meredith and comes up with a new strategy. He’s gone all zen, an knows he needs to just go in and cut.

The next day, Derek cajoles Richard into allowing him to the surgery, but just to cut the cord, which should only take an hour. Of course, he has absolutely no intention of doing that.

He’s going all in, and will be there 26 hours if needed. Of course, that is physically demanding, and a tense, dehydrated Derek throws up in the middle of it.

The real trick is when he’s down to the last set of blood vessels that connects the tumor to the spine, and he has to pick the one to cut.

The wrong decision could kill or paralyze Isaac.

In the end, he makes the right call. Derek not only saves Isaac, but also doesn’t paralyze him. When he wakes, Isaac’s convinced that the surgery didn’t go well, because he can move his feet.

But when he learns what really happened, it’s with such relief and joy.

Just the same, Derek runs into the chief, who all of the attendings have blocked from his OR during Isaac’s surgery.

We can’t keep fighting, Derek tells him. Let’s try to put this behind us and move on. And then the Chief fires him. Right. Derek adopts a little bit of Isaac’s Zen by telling the chief to sleep on it, and they’ll talk tomorrow.

He walks away. Awesome.

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The episode opens with Alex going outside the trailer in the morning and being nearly accosted by a giant bear. He freaks. And wants to move.

Izzie’s not having it, though, because she doesn’t want to move backwards in life, only forward from now on. Going back to Mer’s would be too tough.

The chief has a meeting with the Seattle Grace docs, and it turns into a firestorm. Not one doc is happy about the merger, to say the least.

Cristina is freaking out because she feels like she’s not getting enough surgeries. She really can’t figure out how to handle the situation.

Lexie comes in with her ailing dad and Meredith immediately assumes he’s drunk. He turns out to not be drunk – but is vomiting blood, and is very disoriented.

He may not have been drunk, but he was a lot in the past, as Meredith says - correctly - that she bets he’s in need of a liver transplant, or he’s done for.

Seattle Grace’s policy is that an alcoholic has to be sober for one year to qualify for a transplant. Lexie jumps right up and offers a piece of her liver.

Mark is upset because they are an item now and he wanted to be consulted. Lexie’s not a match, though, so that leaves … yeah. Meredith doesn’t want to.

Lexie ultimately persuades her with a great speech about no matter how bad a dad Thatcher was to her, he was so great to Lexie. So give her her dad back!

She finally agrees, but Thatcher won’t have it. He’s put her through enough. Kind of true, and a very bold move for him to step up and say that.

The Chief even tries to change his mind, to no avail. Meredith finally says to him he isn’t anything to her, but she loves Lexie, so she’s going to do it for her.

That touches Thatcher’s heart, and he allows it. He makes it through, and Mer even says the door is open for them to heal their own relationship.

Mark has an elderly patient who needs a mole removed from his back, but then becomes a handful when he tells him he’s decided to get a penile implant.

His son and daughter-in-law are not happy, as they don’t want him to waste his money on it. He puts his foot down, and goes ahead with the testing.

His son decides to manipulate him, but Mark sticks up for him after the man tells him about how his wife died 20 years ago and he just now met another woman he wants to make love to. At his age, there are a whole lot of yesterdays and so few tomorrows. Maureen is his tomorrow.

They go through it and Mark has Cristina “test the apparatus.” LOL.

Back to the world of Alex, his disdain for the woods reaches new heights as a tick on his neck pushes him over the edge. Cristina removes it, natch.

He lays down the law that he and Izzie have to move back to civilization, yeah, but as usual he caves because Izzie’s happy in the trailer.

Speaking of Izzie, she is occupied with a young man with cancer similar to hers. He and his girlfriend have been together eight years, and he’s afraid to propose.

Turns out he’s just waiting for remission.

Owen wants to skip the surgery and tell him he’s pretty much a goner, but Izzie fights hard for him to have a chance to fight.

They go ahead with surgery, but he doesn’t make it.

Owen is overcome with grief at the fact that he could have had a few more months, but they basically took that from him. He is upset that Izzie let his emotions take over - a familiar theme - and chastises her that she cannot be a cancer patient and a surgeon at Seattle Grace.

Is her future up in the air?

Cristina finally can’t take it anymore and tells the Chief that she wants surgeries, and she wants to learn, and if Seattle Grace can’t provide her what she needs, she wants to be cut.

Callie, who herself was given a position as an attending at the new Seattle Grace (awesome scene) talks to the Chief and gets her job back.

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Mer and Derek are cuddling on the floor on the morning after the wedding of Izzie that was meant to be theirs. Derek figured out a way to get Izzie’s tumor, he says.

Izzie is walking with Alex because she doesn’t want to spend their honeymoon in bed. She tells Alex she wants her to meet all her patient friends, as opposed to her doctor friends. She comes into the room and announces, “I’m a bride!” and shows off the wedding ring. She introduces him to the cancer patients. Owen tells Cristina that he had a good session with his shrink, and she asks him about his mom, who doesn’t know that Hunt’s back in the US.

He then asks George to follow him. They meet a patient, Charlie, who obviously has heard of Hunt. Callie says she doesn’t find anything functionally wrong with his leg, other than the fact that he can’t walk or run. Callie says there’s nothing she can do. Charlie has a suggestion: cut it off and replace it with a prosthetic leg so he can get back to Iraq. Callie is aghast at the suggestion, as Owen tries to defend his request. Callie says if the leg is healthy, she is not cutting it. Arizona asks Bailey if she’s busy, and she gets all defensive. All those dying kids must be getting through to her, somehow. Arizona wants her to scrub in, until the Chief comes in and borrows Bailey. The Chief asks her some questions about Santa, and opens the door to what appears to be top of the line nice surgical equipment. Bailey is like a kid on Christmas day. Mark tells Lexie his plans of getting a condo. He sort of hints that she move in with him, but she didn’t take the hint or shot him down.
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Meredith Grey

Doctor: Showed a steady hand and calming leadership during that whole upside-down ambulance crash episode.

High Schooler: Slept with her Attending before her first day on the job, spent the better part of the season ignoring a fellow doctor simply because she was her sister, and enjoyed a truly heroic habit of making each and every case that crossed her path into a metaphor for her own emotional mess of a life.

Diagnosis: High Schooler.

Derek Shepherd

Doctor: Seemingly performs heretofore impossible brain surgeries on a weekly basis. Fixed Dr. Burke’s hand, despite some later tremors.

High Schooler: Slept with one of his interns before her first day on the job. Allowed his disintegrating marriage to spill out all over Seattle Grace for the better part of a year. Used surgeries as mere excuses for making eyes at once-anonymous nurses.

Diagnosis: It’s a close call, but all that neuro expertise can’t outweigh the amount of duh-rama he brings into the O.R.: High Schooler.

George O’Malley

Doctor: Performed solo heart surgery on a man in an elevator, making him something of a star among interns. Helped deliver Bailey’s baby with minimal staring at her vajayjay.

High Schooler: Allowed his disintegrating marriage to spill out all over Seattle Grace for the better part of a year, ultimately resulting in him failing his intern exam. Gave Meredith the silent treatment after their tragic one-night stand.

Diagnosis: George’s commitment to doing his intern year over again tips the scales for him: Doctor.

Izzie Stevens

Doctor: HA!

High Schooler: Okay, come on, though. If the entire Denny escapade where she threw her medical career away for a boy wasn’t enough, she also engaged in a rivalry with Cristina to be Hahn’s teacher’s pet, and even challenged Callie to a fight in the cafeteria.

Diagnosis: This one’s not even fair: High Schooler.

Cristina Yang

Doctor: We’re always hearing how Cristina is the most hardcore of the Seattle Grace interns-cum-residents, but doesn’t it seem like she’s always getting crowded out of the big surgeries so the other ones can prove themselves?

High Schooler: Cristina may not have wasted much time hopping on top of Preston Burke, but she’s the only one who has managed to learn anything close to a lesson about workplace dalliances.

Diagnosis: Doctor, though she could use a few more shining moments.

Callie Torres

Doctor: No-bull orthopedic surgeon who was the kind of rock star doctor that the likes of Cristina always aspired to…at first. The last year has seen Callie lose all her confidence as her marriage and career have circled the drain.

High Schooler: She got sucked into the vortex of George and Izzie’s suckage, yes, but she set herself up for a rivalry with the pretty blonde cheerleader enough on her own.

Diagnosis: So long as she rebounds as a hardcore ortho-divorcee, she’ll be a Doctor again.

Dr. Richard Webber

Doctor: He’s the Chief of Surgery at a major metropolitan hospital, so he’s got to have the skills, right?

High Schooler: Crashed on the couch in his office for a while after his wife left him; experimented with ill-advised hairstyles; consistently tries to suck up to cool kids Derek and Mark.

Diagnosis: Sorry, Chief. That hair thing was a dead giveaway: High Schooler.

Alex Karev

Doctor: Alex tries very hard to be all about business, and he kind of kicked ass as Addison’s gyno intern.

High Schooler: More than almost anybody else, Alex is prone to getting his feelings hurt and letting it affect the job, and he’s second only to Meredith in making every case about him and his emotional pain.

Diagnosis: We walks a fine, fine line, but he retains Doctor status for now.

Miranda Bailey

Doctor: Perhaps the most medicine-focused doctor at Seattle Grace; aside from her numerous surgical triumphs, she also opened a free clinic and managed to instruct, guide, and discipline her residents rather than have sex with them.

High Schooler: She let her competition with Callie for Chief Resident get petty and squabbly. Brought her marriage troubles into the office, though that’s kind of on her husband.

Diagnosis: It’s going to take a lot more than that to wrest the mantle of World’s Best Doctor from Bailey’s hands.

Mark Sloan

Doctor:For all his sleaze and womanizing and arrogance, Mark’s pretty on-point as a surgeon. Among other things, he fixed Jane Doe/Ava’s face after it was smashed to pieces.

High Schooler: Nobody acts like is a big man on an actual campus more than Mark.

Diagnosis: Surprisingly, he’s a Doctor.

Lexie Grey

Doctor: She’s merely an intern, but she managed to soldier through her reticence to care for Seth Green and his neck hemorrhage.

High Schooler: Lots of sisterly drama with Meredith, but in Lexie’s defense, her end of that was mostly an effort to have Meredith actually speak to her at work.

Diagnosis: Doctor. In training.