During the cardiac testing on Band Geek Beth, Alex, Major McHottie and Arizona discover an irregularity in her heart beat that is causing her to have seizures. Alex was right all along! He stands at the ready with the paddles, just in case he was wrong, and he gets really emotional when Major McHottie says that he saved her life.
In the surgery of the second Sibling of Cancer, Richard continues his adult tanty, yelling at Bailey and everyone else in the room that this is his hospital and everyone has to listen to what he says, God damnit! Afterwards, Bailey wants to talk to him about what his deal is, but he just gives her the cold shoulder. Yet another reason why Seattle Grace is falling in the national rankings: their chief of surgery has the emotional maturity of a kindergartener.
The interns, thanks to Lexipedia (
Chyler Leigh), correctly diagnose Patient X with cancer in the brain, liver and skin. The prognosis is five months at best with chemo. She has a five percent survival rate and is pretty much toast. Like a bunch of annoying ninnies, the interns want to know what their prize is for finding the correct answer, and Izzie yells that they don't get a prize every time they do something right. Being doctors is their prize. You know, these interns are dumber than a bag of rocks if they can't figure out that Izzie is Patient X. They also have the emotional maturity of a chief of surgery.
As the third act begins, Adele walks into the hospital and demands to speak to Richard and Bailey. Apparently, Bailey tattled on Richard to her, so she came down in rush hour traffic to make him apologize to her. She sits them both down in a room and lays down the law: they will start acting like grown ups or else!
Alex tells Band Geek Beth that she will be getting a pacemaker that will regulate her irregular heart beat, which will stop her seizures forever. She is overjoyed because even though she still has a serious heart condition, she can now lead a normal life and she won't be known as the sick kid at school. Once they see you as sick, she explains, that's all they see in you. The Seizure Patrol come in and bitchily suggest that maybe she should join another extracurricular activity since her seizure cost them the band competition. Alex sticks up for her, saying she is completely fixed, and that they are all band losers, anyway. Great scene.
Lexie thanks Izzie for the big learning experience, diagnosing a patient from beginning to end. Izzie asks her how she would break the news to Patient X. She doesn't know. Lexie eventually says that she would tell the patient to screw the odds of survival and just live life. It's hard to tell what is meta-going on here because it seems nobody is actually talking about what they are really talking about, if you get what I'm saying. Izzie, I think, is actually talking about herself, but Lexie's "screw the odds" speech, I think is really about Mark.
Arizona and McHottie compliment Alex on his good work. Arizona is duly impressed that he is rising to his potential, and she says that she can see him as the future of this hospital. He excitedly runs to Izzie to brag. It's very cute. He says that he doesn't want to be the future of this hospital if she's not there with him, so he tells her to get her ass in gear and start practicing surgery. Aww. She says she will, and gives him a kiss, but it's more of a good-bye kiss.
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