Meredith uses Anatomy Jane to explain the procedure to the 10-year-old tumor girl. (Every time Richard sees Meredith with the doll in this episode – which is a lot – he gets all angsty.) The tumor is wrapped around her aorta and four other major arteries, deep underneath her organs, which is why many other hospitals have refused to treat her. The girl's family wants Hahn to be on the surgical team or else they will be going to San Francisco to get the operation. Unfortunately, Hahn doesn't want to operate, but she's just being bitchy because Callie walked out on her this morning.

Cristina is having a hard time in the skills lab o' pigs. Major McHottie pretends to forget her name and berates her in front of everyone. Eventually, he dismisses everyone except for Cristina and her interns to treat some new trauma patients who have come in from the ER. He instructs Cristina to save all of the pigs' lives.

Alex gets one of these new trauma patients and pages Derek and Mark because his patient has a head injury and burns, but Major McHottie tells them both to shoo because he's got it covered. He then instructs Alex to use skin glue to fix the patient's head wound, something that Mark and Derek later say could potentially maim him for the rest of his life.

Bailey, Richard, Meredith and Hahn all discuss the 10-year-old's surgery. Meredith comes up with an idea, thanks to her Anatomy Jane doll, and that is to take out all of the girl's organs one by one to take out the tumor. Huh. OK, I'm just going to go with it. Meredith also confronts Richard because he snaps at her about her doll. He continues to act all huffy, but we know that it is some long-repressed Ellis-related dysfunction at work here. And it's true: at the end of this episode, Richard confesses that Meredith and her Anatomy Jane doll are reminders of every failure in his life. He doesn't blame her, but he is very sorry.



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