Lets all do the time warp- Grey's Anatomy style

Ever since the casting of Sarah Paulson and J August Richards (Whedon alums) were announced for this episode, I was excited to see them portray the young lovers. I'm happy to say this episode more than pulled off the flashback stunt. It was a more simple episode than most Grey's episodes. In a series of lectures watched by the residents, Arizona and Derek, Callie, Bailey and Richard gave a lecture about a defining moment in their surgical careers.

Callie was the most humorous one, she could barely tell the story through her nervousness, but it was a sweet tale about how she and Alex fixed a man's badly disfigured legs. They ended the story showing them ending up in the call room together which led to an awkward scene with Arizona realising they've slept together!! Ooops!


Bailey's was another fairly funny story about how she stood up to her bitch of a resident, by diagnosing a patient with chronic pain and impressed Richard in the process. This was a nice story and I liked hose Bailey used the chocolates to get the audience (namely the residents) involved. Her girlishness with the Jason George character at the beginning and end of the episode was very sweet as well.


The strongest story was obviously Richard's. 45 days sober and offered a general surgery job back in the hospital, he told the story of when he and Ellis Grey dealt with an early case of AIDS. This case was sensitively dealt with; there was a lot of prejudice back in the early 80's about the disease and little research had been done on the nature of it. Richard and Ellis showed the wonderful doctors they would turn into in their handling of the case. Their burgeoning relationship was also shown; its a little wonder that they bonded over their minority status in the white, male dominated hospital. The end was especially strong showing how Ellis led Richard down the road to his alcoholism, persuading him to drink.

The highlight however was ending the lectures with Richard reciting with physicians code. Simple but oh-so effective.
It was a stellar episode and a nice change from the usual disasters that Seattle Grace endures.