A man who had his spleen removed at Seattle Grace has a huge infection because the surgery was old school and poorly done. Cristina whines that it’s because he was operated on by Dr. Campbell, a dinosaur who Cristina thinks should just retire already. Naturally, Campbell overhears this, and she’s played by Faye Dunaway.

My co-workers tell me Dunaway is a famous movie actress from movies like Bonnie and Clyde and Network. However, I prefer to remember her as Ian Somerhalder’s pill-popping mom in the wonderfully underrated The Rules of Attraction. It could be the best movie ever where James van der Beek pleasures himself while smelling love letters.

Campbell puts a mini smackdown on Yang and Owen Hunt sides with the dinosaur. The balance of power shifts once Cristina discovers a major surgical mistake during a CT. She runs to the Chief to blab, but Owen chickens out and doesn’t have her back.

At lunch, Yang reads more of Ellis’ diary and goes on a rant about how Campbell doesn’t know when to quit, but at least Meredith’s mom wasn’t performing surgeries while she was “all Alzheimer-y.”

The Chief explains the situation to the patient, but he still wants Campbell to perform his surgery. The Chief thinks that’s the end of that, but Cristina won’t let it go. In the surgery, Campbell is a total passive aggressive bitch to Cristina. After being lectured about needing to know how to do procedures without modern technology, Cristina loses it and says that modern techniques would have prevented the careless mistake Campbell made. The dinosaur blows up and tosses Cristina from her OR.

After the surgery, Owen tries to give Campbell a gentle nudge towards retiring because her time is up. Cristina returns to pseudo-apologize, and Campbell says she’s retiring because she used to be a surgery god, but now she isn’t.


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