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SECRETS & LIVES Cristina has become Izzie's unlikely confidante, as the first person she told about her cancer and
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WHAT WILL BECOME OF GEORGE, GIVEN RUMORS THAT T.R. KNIGHT IS LEAVING THE SHOW?
Phew. This is a big one.
So Matt Saracen-as-soldier convinced Callie to take his leg off even though it was still technically healthy — because it was the only way for him to get back to fighting in Iraq. He said his fellow soldiers in the trenches were his ''real family'': ''Whatever we got into, we got in it together. I've tried fitting in here, I've tried being a regular person. I tried getting a job but there aren't any.'' It worked on Callie, and it worked on George, apparently, too.
Because George decided to enlist in the Army. He told Bailey first: ''I think eventually you're gonna be proud,'' he said, ''but before that you're gonna be like, 'What did you do?''' (The line was funnier with him doing the Bailey voice.) He was right, she was like that — and as news spread among Seattle Gracers, reaction was mixed. Some were proud of him, but many — mostly his closest friends — were like, ''What did you do?'' (Arizona and Callie even fought over it for a bit before Arizona revealed that her brother was killed in Iraq ''because there weren't enough doctors.'') An ''intervention'' was organized for 6 p.m. when he'd scrub out of his last surgery and leave for the night. ''He's the guy who gets killed cleaning his own gun,'' Cristina said. With love. I think.
AND HOW DID THIS ALL TURN OUT?
The doctors got distracted from pretty much everything when an unidentified guy came in basically in bloody pulp form after being dragged by a bus for half a block. He'd jumped out in front of it to save a girl played by Shannon Lucio (Lindsay from The O.C.!) from being hit. His skull was smashed in so badly that somehow drilling into it was a good thing, though I couldn't really watch that. Shannon lingered whenever she could, convinced ''that is my prince in that bed.''
Clearly it was not becoming any easier for Derek and Meredith to end their day with a wedding. ''I wanna check on Izzie,'' Derek told Meredith in the locker room. ''Maybe we can do that first and then go get married after.'' Meredith replied, ''We can't because we have the George intervention after that.'' But she still wanted to do the wedding. ''There is no other day,'' she said. ''Every day is like this.'' Then they decided to write their vows to each other right there. On the Post-Its, with the pen that Cristina gave her. They vowed to love each other even when they hate each other, not to run away from each other no matter what, to take care of each other when they're ''old and smelly and senile.'' I'm about as sappy as Cristina and Meredith, but even I found it absolutely adorable. They signed their vows. I cried.
But, really, that was just the beginning of the waterworks. Once Izzie seemed to be remembering things again, Cristina remembered what Owen had said to her in the propeller room place, and she ran off to find him and say ''yes.''
Before we could be too happy about that, though, Izzie coded. Which was particularly bad because she'd signed the DNR. But Alex demanded a crash cart, and eventually the Chief broke the DNR to try to revive her. That was the last we'd know of her for this episode.
When the docs started looking for George for the ''intervention,'' the Chief said George had never scrubbed in — he'd left to spend the day with his mom. So Meredith went back to check on the bus accident victim, who'd been trying to tell her something by spelling it out on her hand with his finger. He couldn't quite do it earlier, but he finally did this time: ''007.'' George's nickname.
Meredith ran to tell everyone. But that was the last we'd see of him until next season (except for a shot of him and Izzie in a Grey's version of the afterlife, with him in an Army uniform and her in her "prom" dress).
Cliffhangers are a bitch.
What did you think, Grey's watchers? Was this the most emotionally loaded finale ever? Were you happy to see Cristina and Owen moving forward? Did Bailey do the right thing by leaving her husband? Did Mer-Der's ''wedding'' live up to your expectations? Did you like Derek's haircut?
Oh, right, one other thing: Will Izzie and George live or die? How did you feel about the George twist? What did you think of leaving it unresolved?
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