'Grey's Anatomy' recap: The Dying Game

Jackson was still crashing, and Izzie stepped out of yet another backroom confrontation with Denny to comfort Jackson's mom. She echoed Denny's words that Jackson would always be there for her, or she'd always be there for Jackson, or something like that — and for a minute I thought we'd endured weeks of resurrected Denny just to learn that dead people never leave us in spirit. But the chief stepped in just in time with organs that he'd pushed a not-quite-yet widow to part with, so that wasn't the lesson after all...or at least that wasn't the lesson we'd learn from Jackson. He was whisked into the operating room while Izzie stepped outside to finally figure out what Denny was getting at: He was there for her, as in there to get her, and take her to heaven. There was something wrong with her. We were still not clear on what was wrong with her, since she'd had zero symptoms besides the fact she was hallucinating her dead fiancé. But she did say she was sick. And he did seem to disappear. (Strangely I felt more relieved to see him go than worried about a major character possibly having a life-threatening ailment.)

After all of that intensity, it was tough to muster a whole lot of sympathy for the injured Sloan. But while he was under the competent medical care of Dr. Hunt, the interns wouldn't stop speculating about who'd injured him ...until Sadie took the blame so Lexie wouldn't be found out. Awww. Sadie also sweetly volunteered to stand watch outside Mark's recovery room while Lexie went in to comfort him and stroke his hair. Awww x 2. Hunt and Cristina finally got a brief sweet moment as well, when he told her he'd like another chance to take her on a proper date — he'd planned to take her to a lighthouse to watch the Northern Lights except that he'd gotten all plastered and stuff. She wisely deduced, ''You've got some problems. You've got some big problems.'' She said yes. And normally I would strongly advise any real-life girlfriend against dating recently discharged military doctors who've just come from war and are now drinking heavily, but for the purposes of television, I beg her to go for it. And I think she will.

The drama went over the top even by Grey's Anatomy standards, though, when Meredith went to witness Eric Stoltz's execution. I mean, really? I was relieved, however, to see Derek waiting for her outside afterwards — I could not bear to watch this thing tear them apart, especially when he's yet to give her the ring. He even persuaded Cristina to comfort Meredith when she couldn't stop crying post-execution — resulting in at least a momentary truce of sorts.

Kinda like the one I'm calling with Grey's for now.

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