"Grey's Anatomy" Recap: 5.3 "Here Comes the Flood"

Making rounds — In an O.R., Bailey and Meredith are on a tumor hunt in Shelly's body cavity. Everything is going along smoothly until Bailey sees something disturbing, and it isn't an image of the Virgin Mary on her pancreas.

The Chief tosses his new "No Personal Favors" rule out the window and enlists George's help with a cover-up of the water leak problem and some patient paperwork he doesn't feel like doing. And by the way, there's a porn site on his computer that won't close. Maybe George could take a look at that, too?

In headache guy's room, Sloan finds the source of the patient's 7-year-old pain. There's a nerve going haywire in his nose. Lexie was right. But more importantly, Derek was wrong. Cristina eyes Lexie with disdain because nobody likes a know-it-all. Besides, that's her job.

The elusive Callica — Callie is in a break room, reading An Idiot's Guide to Lesbian Sex, hidden inside a book about emergency orthopedics when Erica walks in. They exchange warm glances.

Erica: Look. We don't even know what we are yet. So, how does Mark Sloan know? Why are you talking to him, instead of me?

Right on cue, Sloan walks into the room, and nonchalantly starting pouring himself a cup of coffee.

Sloan: Ladies… am I interrupting?
Erica: Your timing is perfect.
Sloan: Really? Were you about to feel her up?

There was nothing prohibiting sex during work hours in the Chief's new agenda. I say go for it because I'm all for occasional, wildly inappropriate public displays of affection.

Erica's mood is soured. Damn Sloan's perfect timing. She gives Callie a meaningful glance and leaves. Alone with her buddy, Callie tries to get Sloan to lay off her new girlfriend.

Callie: Stop. You have to stop.
Sloan: I can't.
Callie: Seriously, she hates it.
Sloan: That's why I can't.

Callie picks up a grape and hurls it at Mark. Nice arm since going gay, Torres. Does Seattle Grace have a softball team?

It's been brought to my attention that Callie might be getting more butch, now that she's kissing girls. I don't know if I see it. Thoughts?

Lunch — During lunch, Meredith confronts Cristina for taking Derek's side. Cristina admits she said she would want Izzie and Alex out of the house, and besides, she only did it to shut him up. That, and for the chance to drill into a guy's cranium. There's not much I wouldn't say to be allowed to do that.

Cristina wants to know what Meredith's shrink has to say about all this. Too bad we won't ever know, as Meredith has abandoned therapy in favor of wishing.

Lexie and George sit down. Lexie joins the conversation by marveling at her patient's seven year endurance of level-eight pain and starts forking feeding George his lunch. Straight people are weird.

Ever compassionate Cristina says the patient should suck it up.

Cristina: There is no way that that guy has been living at an eight. He's a wimp. His eight? My three. I can take pain.
Meredith: You can't talk to my boyfriend for 10 minutes.
Cristina: Well, there's pain, and then there's torture.

I heart Cristina.

Cristina: I mean, I can take pain. Seriously. Test me.

Alex grabs Cristina's hand and gives her a hard man-smack.

The Asian robot does not flinch. We're a stoic bunch.