As Arizona examines Maddie, she sees a cut on her face and asks how she got it. Maddie's mom, Kate, jumps in and says that the cut was from the kick-back from the gun going off. She explains that her father does target practice in the backyard sometimes, and he put the gun down for a second which is when Maddie got her hands on it. This is suspicious because Arizona says that the cut doesn't look like it was from the gun. It gets even more suspicious when, after Meredith says that they're all trying to save the girl's father's life, but Maddie asks, "How come he won't die? I shot him lots of times." This kid's delivery is creepy, in that precocious child-actor kind of way. When the police show up, the mom explains tearfully that Maddie wasn't trying to kill her father; she was only trying to stop him from hurting them. Kate, who herself has her arm in a sling, speaks fluent battered-wife-ese.

A bit later, Richard tells Kate that they are taking her husband into surgery right away. But she doesn't want them to take him into the OR before Maddie apologizes to him and tells him she loves him. Meredith steps in, yelling at Kate that she will not allow Maddie to apologize to her father. She berates Kate for not protecting Maddie and for not being as strong as Maddie is enough to stand up to an abusive husband and father. Richard tries to talk to Meredith about her behavior, alluding to the resentment she harbors for himself and her mother, but Meredith wants him to treat her like any other resident. So he gets angry and says that she is not allowed anywhere near Kate or Maddie, and if she disobeys him, then she will be suspended from the hospital.

Outside, Derek talks to Meredith and tries to get her to calm down. Meredith says that Richard is not his Cristina, and she does not want Richard at her wedding.

Tonight's Grey's Anatomy is not only about saying sorry, but it apparently is also all about family. Izzie's mother, Robbie, played in white trash glory by Sharon Lawrence, pays Izzie a visit. Interestingly, Sharon Lawrence plays practically the same character as the one she played on Privileged. She runs into Alex and flirts with him shamelessly before learning that he is Izzie's beau. Oh, the dramatic irony. Izzie isn't terribly happy to see her, and it's clear why not. Much to Izzie's disappointment, Robbie gets on the phone with her psychic and is relieved to hear that skin cancer is treatable if found early. Nobody has the heart to tell her yet that Izzie is dying.

Willow's sister Julie (played by Kellie Martin) is a non-hippie type who insists on calling her by her real name, Karen. She wants Willow to make a deal with the company who bulldozed her in order to avoid a lawsuit, but Willow is all, "Hell to the naw!" Callie interrupts Julie berating Willow and says that even though trees may not be her thing, she does concede that Willow was really frickin' brave to stand up for what she believes in, despite the risk of bodily harm that she incurred. Instead of appreciating the understanding, all Willow says is, "How can trees not be your thing?" Suddenly she starts coding.

In the wife-beating gunshot wound victim, Hunt continues pushing Cristina to the periphery, but allows George to practice all of the procedures. There are too many bleeders than they can handle, so Cristina offers to do something. Hunt tells her to run to his truck and go and fetch a green bag in the glove box. She indignantly says, "Dude, I'm a surgeon, not a gopher!" but she goes and gets the bag anyway.


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