Sunday 22nd April
20.00–22.00Continuing tonight is the second season of the award-winning hospital drama. Currently the toprated show in the US, Grey’s Anatomy charts the personal and professional lives of a group of young surgical interns.In the first episode of tonight’s double bill, the tension between George and Meredith continues; Derek treats a woman who is living on borrowed time; Alex is bothered when Izzie turns her attentions to Denny and Cristina’s initiative is tested when Bailey asks her to look after her baby.Since their mortifying night together, things between George and Meredith have only got worse. Meredith has been trying desperately to apologise to her friend, but he refuses to listen to her. He even hacks off his hair – which he grew longer to please Meredith –much to the puzzlement of the others. “He looks like a hobbit,” declares Alex as rounds begin and Meredith and George are forced to put their issues aside.An unusual case has come in for Derek: a woman with a fork stuck in her neck. Accompanied by her husband, Sylvia Booker tells the slightly embarrassing story of how the fork came to be there, and admits that an inoperable brain aneurysm she has may have been partly to blame.When Derek tells her that a rare and risky surgery is available that could add years to her life, she demurs. She says that her prognosis woke her up: her marriage has been revitalised and she feels alive for the first time in years. “Fight for your life,” urges Derek. “Fight for your marriage.” Will Sylvia play it safe and make the most of the time she has left or will she seize the chance and agree to the surgery? Another patient whose life is on the line is Denny, who is running out of time as he waits for a new heart. Noticing how much attention Izzie is paying to the charming Denny, Alex decides to tell him that Izzie is spoken for.
Izzie is furious when she finds out that Alex talked to Denny, and breaks up with him – but her feelings for Denny threaten the way that he thinks about his future. Also in this episode, Cristina is baffled and unimpressed when Bailey dumps her baby on her and orders her to use her initiative; Addison is flattered when a patient’s husband pays her some attention; and George gets to know orthopaedic doctor Callie better.
In tonight’s second episode, a series of deaths at the hospital brings out the superstitious side of the doctors and makes Izzie nervous about Denny's surgery, while Webber treats an old friend. After four patients die in surgery, the doctors get nervous: is there any truth to the old superstition that deaths come in threes and sevens?
If so, three more patients are due to die before midnight – which means that surgeries are getting postponed by skittish doctors. Some patients can’t wait for their operations, however. One of them is a man with obsessive compulsive disorder, whose condition caused him to have a car accident; another is a girl who fell out of a tree and needs her spleen removing; and a third is Denny, who urgently needs surgery on a pulmonary embolism.
Izzie is worried that Denny might be the next to die. “There’s no such thing as a death cluster,” she says, unconvincingly. “That’s stupid, right?” Also in this episode, Webber is forced to confront his past when his old Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor is brought in, and George decides to put the past behind him and move on.
Creator Shonda Rhimes Executive Producers Shonda Rhimes, Mark Gordon, Betsy Beers, Jim Parriott Directors Julie Anne Robinson (‘Band-Aid Covers the Bullet Hole’) Tricia Brock (‘Superstition’)
A Touchstone Television Production