The third season of the Emmy- and Golden Globe winning medical drama continues, following the trials and tribulations of Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) and her fellow interns at Seattle Grace Hospital. In this week's episode, Meredith realises that dating two men at the same time is not going to be easy, while Alex deals with a young patient (guest star Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine) who believes that she has superpowers.
Tired of being unable to decide between Finn and Derek, Meredith has hit on a solution: date both of them and see which one acquits himself best in the romance game. This plan starts off promisingly: Derek tries to woo her with coffee and asks her out to dinner, while Finn brings in some cake and arranges a lunch date. Smugly believing that she has the best of both worlds, Meredith is pleased with how her idea is turning out - until Derek crashes her lunch date. When Finn repays the favour by showing up after Meredith's dinner with Derek, Meredith has had enough of the two competing against one another and blasts them both with a rant about how this was not what she had in mind. "I want heat! I want romance!" she yells. Can either suitor let his rival enjoy an uninterrupted date, or is Meredith's plan doomed?
While Meredith tries to untangle her endlessly complicated love life, Alex has a difficult surgical case on his hands. Young patient Megan (Abigail Breslin, pictured) has been brought in with a serious leg injury. When Alex examines her, he is shocked to spot a deep laceration on her arm that has been stapled closed. Suspicion initially falls on Abigail's foster parents, but the child insists that she stapled her own arm - and says that she cannot feel pain because she has superpowers. When Megan adds that she tries to prove this by letting people punch her in the stomach, the doctors discover that this has caused massive internal bleeding. But when Megan learns that she needs surgery, she disappears. Can the doctors find Megan before she bleeds to death?
Elsewhere, Cristina finds it difficult to deal with the recuperating Burke, who is now home after his surgery and on the long road to recovery. Unamused by Burke's constant demands, Cristina is looking forward to the day he returns to work - but Burke has decided to extend his leave of absence, as he believes it will take months to regain his old dexterity and skill. Frustrated at what she believes to be procrastination, Cristina is eventually forced to reconsider when she encounters a patient in a similar situation to Burke.
Izzie is also having a difficult time facing the future. Everyone is delighted when she announces that she wants to go into the hospital to talk through her options with Webber, but finding the strength to walk through the front doors proves difficult for her. "Everybody wants you back in that building," says George, but Izzie tells him that she needs a few moments to work out what she is going to say. But when Bailey looks out of the window at the end of the day and sees Izzie still standing in the same spot, it looks like the troubled intern needs more than just time to step back inside the hospital.
Also this week, Addison has difficulty extricating herself from the arms of rebound lover Mark, finding his attention extremely tempting in the face of the painful demise of her marriage. And George tries to find a way of telling Callie that he is not ready to move in with her.
(4 Star)
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