'Grey's Anatomy' recap: Coming to Terms With Things

Things grew more fraught between Callie and her dad as well, as he demanded she come back home to Miami to get herself straightened (literally, I'm guessing) out. He threatened to cut off her trust fund if she didn't. (Did we know she was loaded? Wasn't she living in the basement of the hospital for a time?) She told Mark she couldn't defy Daddy because he'd supported her entire career. ''Supporting someone and respecting someone aren't the same thing,'' he told her. Love it when he's all wise and stuff.

He was less mature, of course, in dealing with his own problems: He and Derek were still sniping as they headed into surgery, and poor Lexie, apparently a stress eater, was caught in the middle of it. Meredith finally stepped in to help her sister out and give them a talking to. ''Look at her,'' Meredith chided them, pointing to Lexie. ''Her ass is humongous.'' Lexie agreed: ''It's true. I had to get the scrubs with the elastic waistband.'' (Way to work in Chyler Leigh's pregnancy, writers!) But Meredith ultimately just got sucked into the fray, freaking out when Derek said the Chief would be his best man instead of Mark. Something about the dude who broke up her parents' marriage standing up at her wedding didn't sit well with her; though I could understand if Derek didn't want the dude who broke up his last marriage there by his side, either. Maybe they make some new friends? Maybe they could go out on some couples double dates, or he could do an I Love You, Man sort of thing and....

Whoa, did that suicidal guy just repeatedly ram into an upper-floor hospital window until it broke, then jump through it and land on a car? Yes. Yes, he did. Props for a hardly run-of-the-mill suicide scene — if we'd had to watch George and Alex talk him down from a roof, I'd have thrown my remote. George jumped right on the situation and handled it with a lot of medical jargon, and Alex froze — thus Hunt declared George a trauma surgeon and wrote Alex off for good. I feel a renewed sense of purpose and a possible shipping off to war coming on for George. Just a hunch. Or a longterm effect of reading Ausiello spoilers.

Teary moments just kept hitting after that. Bailey talked little Jessica's dad into accepting her impending death and holding her through it: ''This next part, she needs her daddy for this part.'' And Daddy acted his butt off, incidentally, as Jessica asked if they were still going to Mexico, and Mexico became something else entirely. ''Just relax and we'll be there soon,'' he whispered. Callie officially chose Arizona (and, you know, adulthood) over her dad. And Owen had a breakthrough in therapy (with the best hospital therapist ever, Amy Madigan) when he said he felt shameful for having knowingly drawn Cristina into a relationship when he knew he'd wreck her. (Don't we all do that to each other repeatedly?)

And, oh, that last dress Meredith tried on fit perfectly — elegant, pretty, gorgeous. Meredith finally made Lexie her sister by making her a bridesmaid, and Derek and Mark finally made up. ''You can stop eating now,'' Meredith said. Because she's funny like that.

What did you think? Did you enjoy Izzie's wedding-planning efforts? Do you like seeing more pediatrics cases? What about hilarious Meredith? Should the bridesmaids wear pink taffeta?

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