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“Grey’s Anatomy” recap (12.5): Get a Leg Up

I love a good Dream Team episode, and that’s what we get this week on Grey’s Anatomy. Well, I mean a Dream Team episode when no one is crushed by a falling piano, or nearly decapitated in a plane crash, etc. Callie is leading the way in this episode, which is also a bonus. So grab a bone saw and let’s get to it!

The Dreamy Teamy

Callie, Meredith, Bailey and Jackson are practicing a complicated surgery on a cadaver, like you do, and it’s going pretty well. Callie wants to run through it a few more times before they head over to a Military hospital to perform the groundbreaking (and admittedly super weird) surgery on a veteran. Because this is Grey’s, there’s no time for that since the soldier just broke his good hip and has to have the surgery now. Get ready to pull an all-nighter, Dream Team and start chugging that famous Seattle coffee.

Everyone is jealous that Jo gets to tag along for the surgery, including Penny. Callie is like, ha, remember when you yelled at me for interfering with your career and Bailey jumps in to confirm that there is no special treatment for residents, even when you are schtuping them. Sorry, Penny.

Once the Dream Team is in the car, Bailey brings up a potential suitor for Meredith. Mer is far from interested in this type of conversation especially when Callie jumps on the bandwagon. Let her McMourn for a little while longer, people.

The team meets up with the military docs, and all is cordial until Major Thorpe, who is definitely approaching the role as “sexily angry,” interrupts to throw his weight around. He doesn’t like these hot shot civilian docs one bit. Grumble grumble. He’s been Sgt. Carson’s surgeon from the get go and is worried that they are just using him as a guinea pig. Bailey steps in and tries to call his fears, but when you are sexily angry, it’s hard to relax.

The docs meet up with Sgt. Carson to explain the surgery. Major Thorpe wants Carson to stick with chemo and radiation so he can have a few more years, but Carson wants to go with the more radical and riskier surgery. Did I mention the surgery would remove one of his legs and put the remaining one in the center of his body? Yeah, it’s super weird.

Jackson gets to work setting up for his part of the surgery, and gets flirted with hardcore by one of the military docs. Of course, he doesn’t realize this, but Jo sees it and razzes him good.

Before the surgery, Bailey gathers the team and starts praying a silent prayer. Well, mostly silent except for Meredith and Callie chatting throughout.

Once they get into surgery, which requires taking all of Sgt. Carson’s guts out to get to his pelvis, Callie starts to freak out a little. In another room, the military doc Dr. Vaughn flirts even more heavily with Jackson, and he doesn’t hate it. After all the pain he’s been through, let the guy have a little flirt fun.

As Callie gets further into the surgery, she finds that the bone she needs to attach Sgt. Carson’s leg is completely unviable. She excuses herself and Meredith to talk in the hallway, where she reveals that they are truly screwed. The rest of the team gather and Callie explains the situation. She sends them back to buy her time while she Callies out.

Eventually, Meredith comes back out to talk to Callie, who has just been pacing back and forth. Meredith thinks her friend could use a little push, and she’s right. She talks Callie through it, and Callie gets a spark of an idea. She’s back, people.

They nail the operation, and Major Thorpe is so impressed that he tries to ask an oblivious Meredith for her number. It’s not until Jackson points it out that she gives it a thought. She runs back and gives Thorpe her digits, and is all coy when she gets back in the car with her tickled colleagues. If you want it Mer, get it.

Cheertatorship

Back at the hospital, Maggie and DeLuca are still stealing moments in the on-call room. DeLuca wants to shout their love from the rooftops, but Maggie likes that it’s their little secret. This makes even DeLuca’s hair look sad.

In a scene out of my nerdy middle school nightmares, the ER is filling up with cheerleaders who had some sort of Pyramid disaster. One of the cheerleaders, Maxine, has a nasty head injury and is shaking in her white Keds because she’s worried the captain will blame her and her bestie for the accident. She works herself into such a tizzy that she nearly passes out. Alex orders a bunch of tests on her because her blood pressure is super high. Give me a B! Give me a P! Screw it, give me some Hydrochlorothiazide.

Penny and Steph work on the cheer captain and squad leader, Lisa, and another high-level cheerleader as they plan to ruin Maxine when they get out of the hospital. It’s scary and makes me so glad I’m not a teenage girl anymore. Penny is on the same wavelength and remembers how girls like that made her life hell in high school. Steph has a different experience, though. She was a squad leader herself. Well well well, this is a fun little tidbit about Steph.

They get a call from the Psych ward, but Ben beats them to the punch. When Ben and Squeamish Intern arrive, they find a non-communicative patient in distress. The man is bleeding in his abdomen, and Ben decides they have to operate on the poor guy right then and there. Since it’s the Psych ward, sharp objects are banned, so Ben takes the metal off a clip board and carves into the man’s chest. That’s very DIY of you, Ben.

Like BFFs, Arizona and April spend some time walking the halls, eating chips and talking about pregnant lady smells.

When Richard overhears them talking, Arizona stuffs her face full of chips, so she doesn’t have to reveal their secrets. I love Richard being such a gossip hound. They are spared when Squeamish runs by, desperate to find an attending to help them in the Psych ward. Richard arrives just in time to find Ben with his hands wrist deep in a patient. Richard is horrified, but also a little impressed.

Amelia and Maggie give Maxine a CT while Amelia goes off to Owen-land and Maggie nervously eats yogurt. Amelia doesn’t see the problem with Maggie and DeLuca going public. I mean, doesn’t pretty much everyone know already? Alex knows, but Alex knows all anyway.

When Maxine is cleared from her head CT, she sees Lisa yelling at her best friend, Danielle. Dani’s been thrown off the team like a half-hearted basket-toss, and Maxine gets so worked up that her damn heart stops beating. 2-4-6-8-We will have to operate. When she comes to Maggie reveals that she has a heart condition and needs surgery. Maxine begs the docs not to let the other members of the squad know what happened, or else they will kick her off for sure.

As Maggie and Alex work on Maxine in the OR, Maggie can’t believe how awful teen girls can be to each other. She was proudly a nerd in high school, but Alex interjects that she isn’t that kid anymore. At this hospital, she’s a major player. She’s a popular girl. He also thinks that’s why she’s not being open about DeLuca-because she’s embarrassed that she has power and position and he doesn’t.

DeLuca, Penny and Steph watch from Richard and Ben from the theatre and complain about the special treatment that residents who are dating attendings get. DeLuca brings up Penny’s relationship with Callie, but Penny reminds him that Callie doesn’t give her special surgeries. DeLuca gets all squirrely thinking he’s going to be judged for dating Maggie. When Penny and Steph realize that their bitching sounds a lot like the cheerleaders, Steph gets an idea.

Man, is Richard pissed at Ben. He tosses around words like “suspension” and “criminal assault” and Ben tries to stand up for himself. He’s not just some newb. He’s been a doctor for a long time; he’s just a surgical resident. Richard doesn’t care one bit.

Steph makes her way to the cheerleaders and in her best cheer captain voice, gets their attention. At first, they try to blow her off, but when she breaks out her cheer stats, they are all ears. Steph points out a lot of their pettiness is coming out of genuine hurt feelings, and she rallies the team to come together. They even quietly show up outside of Maxine’s recovery room to show their support.

Bailey arrives as Richard is yelling at Ben some more, and has the awkward pleasure of having to discipline her husband. Ben gets a three-day suspension, which he’s not pleased about. However, when all is said and done, Bailey wants to know how the hell Ben saved a man’s life with office supplies and his bare hands.

With all the emergencies past them, Maggie decides to come out about DeLuca to everyone. It’s only totally embarrassing, which Arizona points out.

DeLuca, who only hours before had wanted this, is not so sure he wants to be known as an attending’s boyfriend. Careful what you wish for, buddy.

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