“My mother always used to say that you could tell the difference between an intern and a second-year resident by their sutures. One of the more common mistakes an intern makes is tying their sutures too tightly, which causes tension. The more tension, the longer it takes the wound to heal. It decreases blood flow, increases scar formation, and even necroses the skin. So even though they may have technically closed the wound, they may have opened the door to even more problems.”
In this episode, Simone and Jules have to face a mysterious case, where the patient is having short breath and a rash on his whole body, and consult both Chief Grey and Richard to help them. I think those two make a really great team.
Same as I don’t like Owen and Teddy’s storyline, I’m not liking Maggie and Winston’s AT ALL. I really hope they would give them a decent storyline – as a couple – but they spent the episode fighting? About patients? And ORs? What was the reason?
In the next scene, we see Meredith, Richard, and Teddy talking about the mysterious case Jules and Simone are working on, and come to a conclusion it is, in fact, a mysterious diagnosis, because the symptoms don’t fit into anything they think about. So Meredith tells them to call all the other interns and start researching to find answers (another call-back to the past, in episode 1.01, Meredith and Cristina try to solve a case together)
Later we see Teddy discussing with Richard her relationship with Owen, thinking he sent Richard to her because she’s starting drinking every night, and explaining to him how her relationship with Owen went in the past few months…honestly, as I’ve said before.
Anyway, they get interrupted by Jules, asking her for help for the patient she’s been treating, we learn they have to amputate the kid and Link says Jules has to do it. Can I just say I loved Adelaide Kane here?…she’s so good as Jules, she makes me feel all the feels, and in this scene, I felt the fear of a new doctor who for the first time in their life has no choice but to take a drastic measure to save someone’s life.
In another scene we see Maggie and Winston fighting again because there are not enough senior residents and Winston has to postpone another surgery for the third time because Schmidt is assisting Maggie. And, as I’ve said before, I get that they want to create angst or whatever but…I don’t see a real reason to do it. I don’t agree with this at all.
Later we see Richard asking Nick for information about the way he’s changing the residency program, and Richard apologized to him for the way he acted when Mer told him she was going to Minnesota, and he also expressed his support for him and Meredith’s relationship AND the way he’s running the program. I think it was very kind of him to apologize, and considering he has been Meredith’s real father all these years, hearing him say he approves of them was a really sweet thing.
All this situation with Owen and Teddy finally got us something “good”: Mika learned how to intubate a patient. It’s nice to see them learn stuff and to see all the interns’ paths, and it’s something they didn’t focus on enough in later seasons (except for maybe some selected people). Talking about learning and solving, we switch to Simone running to Link’s OR to see Jules operating on the patient, and we see her learning how to operate following Link’s indications, while Simone tells them said patient hasn’t been vaccinated. Case solved…and I’m glad it was Jules and Simone (with Mika on another case) the focus of this episode. As I said before, I think they’re the ones with more potential than others.
Jo and Miranda meet each other for a moms-date at the park, with Prue and Luna, and we learn Miranda wrote a sex education program with a community clinic and she contributes to a women’s organization. I love the path they’re taking for her because she’s clearly back to her roots and I can see her a little bit more relaxed than she was as Chief. She says she’s not ready to go back to the hospital. I mean… we all know she’s gonna come back once Meredith goes away, but I think she deserves to do what she wanted all along: help the community.
Almost at the end of the episode, we see Maggie and Winston reprise their discussion about her leaning on him to make everything and the fact she pulls him away from cases her to have him close (as a professional). Thankfully they made peace, and he explained to her she has to consider the residents and teach stuff to them too, and she can’t lean on him forever.
Simone and Jules are definitely (or at least I hope so) the best friends of this new era, and Meredith is clearly pushing for it, asking Simone to help Jules get over the day she’s been through. And Simone brought her to the tiny souvenir store of the hospital to buy a stuffed animal to give Jules comfort since she’s not the “comforting type.”
What did you think of this episode? Did you like it? Let me know in the comments!