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State of love and trust



Episode Guide

As Derek begins his role as interim chief, he faces a potential lawsuit when Bailey and Meredith's patient awakens from anesthesia mid-surgery. Meanwhile, Teddy refuses to place Cristina on her service, as Arizona tests Alex out in Pediatrics, and Mark refuses to speak to a heartbroken Lexie.

Full recap to come soon!

Episode Guide

In part one of a Grey's Anatomy / Private Practice crossover, Derek's working on Tom Kates, Seattle's star pro quarterback who suffered head and neck trauma after an ugly hit he took on the field.

It turns out he's got a concussion and needs to have his spleen removed, which will bench him until next season. He lights up when he sees his wife and baby son.

Then he has a panic attack when Derek talks about him playing again. He confesses he doesn't want to play any more. He used to be able to fight through his fear, but now that he's a father he realizes what the game can do to him.

But he's two years into his pro career - he can't quit now.

Derek and Callie take a look at Tom's knees, which are legitimately shot, and Derek realizes that they've found a way out for him - a knee replacement surgery that would effectively end his career and would not make it look like he walked away.

Alex and Reed (who's messing with Alex and seems to have led him and others to believe she'd trade sex for surgeries) assist, and Callie reminds them that it's not a game, it's the man's career.

In the midst of this, Derek sniffs out a problem with the Chief. He's helping Bailey with the follow-up on the gall bladder patient whose surgery the Chief messed up a couple of months ago, and Derek picks up on the fact that a mistake was made.

The Chief hasn't been in surgery since.

He basically bullies the Chief into taking Tom's spleen surgery, then confronts Bailey with his suspicions when he doesn't show up. Meanwhile, the Chief, in his role as mentor to Meredith, has been watching old films of her mother's surgeries with her.

Meredith ultimately confesses to Derek that the Chief's drinking again.

Elsewhere, Teddy hands Cristina a solo cardiac surgery - replacing a patient's valve with a mechanical one.

Cristina spends all day preparing for it, and Teddy steps aside to let her learn on her own. The patient can't decide what valve she wants, so Cristina brings them both for her to try to get a feel for.

She finally decides on the porcine (pig) valve, and Cristina's rocking the house in surgery with Teddy looking on. Then things go incredibly bad. The patient is out of control, Cristina doesn't know what to do, and Teddy won't step in.

A worried Owen runs in to the OR to try to get Teddy to help, until Cristina throws him out. Then she figures out what to do, and she's fine. It worked!

After the surgery, Owen confronts Teddy, who swears she wouldn't have let the patient die, but correctly says that Cristina needs to be pushed.

Owen asks if Teddy didn't step in because of the situation between them. Owen goes to find Cristina, who's abolutely thrilled that she got to learn and fly on her own in the surgery.

And he crushes her a little by telling her Teddy's leaving Seattle. Cristina chases after Teddy and offered her anything she wanted to get her to stay - and agreed without hesitation to give up Owen to make it happen.

Finally, Mark's daughter, Sloan, is still living with him and Lexie, and he's embraced his role as a father, which is driving Lexie crazy.

More importantly, there's also a problem with her baby - a couple of pieces of amniotic tissue are threatening the tiny boy's limbs as they develop.

Get me Addison Montgomery, he says!

Understandably, younger Sloan knows she's ill-equipped to deal with raising a special-needs baby. But when Addison operates, she discovers an AVM (a tangle of blood vessels) that she's confident she can work around, but Mark shuts down the surgery, saying it's too dangerous.

His interference leads directly to two developments: First, he tells Sloan, without asking Lexie first, that he wants her to live with them and they'll help her raise the baby. Second, he takes Sloan to Los Angeles so Addison can operate.

Lexie tells Mark their relationship just ended, and goes back to Meredith's house, where she hooks up with Alex, who's there because he had to get out of the trailer.

Continued on the ensuing Private Practice episode "Another Second Chance" ...

Episode Guide
Mark

Dr. Sloan has no idea his life's about to be turned upside down by the arrival of a young blonde who turns out to be his 18-year-old daughter.

Her name? Sloane!

He has absolutely no idea to how to cope with it or how to talk to her, even when she stays with him and Lexie through the holidays.

Everyone thinks the daughter is a totally out-of-the-blue surprise, but Mark confesses to Derek that he knew his girlfriend 18 years ago was pregnant.

He gave her some money, skipped town, and assumed that was the end of it. Now the guilt is killing him.

Finally Lexie forces him out of his cowardice and he learns that the girl is pregnant, dropped out of school, was kicked out of her mother's house and has nowhere else to go.

We'll be interested to see where this goes.

Mer and Richard

Meredith knows the Chief knows that she knows he was drinking at Joe's. But what's interesting is how he handles it: he offers to become her mentor in the skills lab.

His alcoholism was "misdiagnosed" years ago, he tells her - what he really had was situational depression. Astonishingly, she believes him.

By Christmas, Meredith and the Chief are practicing skills on cadavers, and she's urging him to make up with Derek. He eventually does, but mostly because of the case Derek's working on with Mark and Arizona.

More on that later. At Christmas dinner, the Chief's drinking egg nog - which doesn't go unnoticed by Thatcher, an alcoholic himself.

She puts Thatcher in his place, but he's made her think.

By New Year's, the Chief's explaining his shaking hands by telling Meredith that he recently had his last drink, and it'll stop soon.

Then Joe pages her to the bar, where the Chief is pretty drunk, and we get to see Meredith uncomfortably realize she has to do ... something.

Miranda

Bailey's worried father arrives on her doorstep at Christmas, hoping to find out what's up with her.

He's appalled that she has no Christmas tree and that Tuck's away visiting relatives with his father.

He's even more appalled that she's fixing some guy's hernia on Christmas rather than being with her family.

Bailey invites herself to Christmas dinner at Derek and Meredith's, because if her father doesn't see evidence of some kind of life he'll never leave.

At dinner, she has it out with him over her life being happy and Tuck's life being happy too.

Later, Bailey's dad gets to see Tuck for himself, and realizes his daughter was right, the kid's doing just fine.

He and her mother are just worried about her, he says. They make up.

Cristina, Teddy and Owen

Cristina is thrilled to be working with a cardio god, who takes out a woman's heart to outfit her with two devices that keep her circulation going.

That's right, no heart.

The patient, Kelsey, is being attended to by her not-quite boyfriend, who went on four dates with her. Turns out he's an amazing guy.

Kelsey needs to hang on until New Year's Eve, Cristina says, when the drunk driving accidents will surely make more organs available.

She finally manages to get a heart - and a proposal from her man.

Teddy and Owen, meanwhile, have been alternately awkward and smitten and Cristina notices the way Owen's been looking at her.

Owen confronts Teddy, admitting he had feelings for him and forcing her to admit she's in love with him. Then he says he's in love with Cristina.

Cristina confronts Owen, telling him he shouldn't be with her because he feels like he owes her. He plants a kiss on her and assures her he loves her.

Arizona and Derek

Der and Arizona treat Nicholas, a little boy with terrible nosebleeds caused by AVM, a cluster of malformed blood vessels in his brain.

They convince his nervous parents that he needs surgery, but when he gets in there Derek finds he can't reach the vessels.

They don't have instruments small and nimble enough to allow them to go in through his sinuses.

But, Nicholas' mother points out, the tools need to be developed by someone, so why not them?

Arizona and Derek work with Mark to develop the tool, but they go over budget and their funding gets cut off.

They offer to put their bonuses toward finishing the research, but there are no bonuses this year. So they end up splitting the costs between them.

On New Year's Eve, the tools are done and they get the job done.