- A couple of Syrian doctors arrive at Grey Sloan Memorial to learn field techniques for war zones. Then, when a series of patients return with post-op infections, one doctor's work falls under suspicion.
- A couple of Syrian doctors arrive at Grey Sloan Memorial to learn field techniques for war zones. Meredith learns the results of her genome sequencing and Owen continues to watch over Ethan. Then, when a series of patients return with post-op infections, one doctor's work falls under suspicion.—Nadia Nassar
- Previously on 'Grey's Anatomy': An oil tanker explosion brought a bunch of victims to the hospital, including April's boyfriend Matthew and the parents of a by named Ethan, whose mother didn't recognize him after suffering some head trauma. Intern Heather worked with Derek and impressed him with her surgical skills, prompting Shane to get a but jealous and competitive. Meredith asked Bailey to map her genome sequence because she's worried she's going to Alzheimer's.
'She's Killing Me':Bailey stammers and delays before telling Meredith the results of her genome mapping. After some pressure from Meredith, she reveals that Meredith tested positive for more than one of the genetic markers for Alzheimer's.
Ethan's parents are both still unconscious and Hunt is getting worried. Hunt hasn't been home for a while because he's been concerned about Ethan and his parents. Hunt wants Cristina to talk to Dr. Russell about what she should do with Ethan's dad.
Leah is trying to get off of Bailey's service, and Bailey is upset that Leah left a pizza crumb on her laptop. Bailey just seems kind of agitated.
The doctors are preparing for two Syrian doctors to arrive for a crash course in basic surgical skills. Arizona is in the group because the Syrians must be losing a lot of kids. Stephanie comes in to give Hunt some info on a patient and April asks about Matthew. His mom is coming to pick him up and April is concerned that Matthew can't walk. Stephanie tells her to ask Jackson about it.
Bailey and Leah meet a patient named Joyce, a middle-aged woman who had a dialysis graft a couple of weeks earlier and now has an infection.
Derek talks to Meredith in the stairwell and she says they need an updated will. Derek doesn't like it, but says he'll contact their lawyer.
Hunt begins the training of the Syrian doctors. Hunt shows them the limited supplies they'll be learning to use. Most of the supplies that Hunt presents are unavailable to the doctors back in Syria. They make some changes so that the training is more useful and aligned with their circumstances back in the field. One of the doctors removes more than half of the instruments Hunt had brought and the other turns off the lights and simply holds a flashlight above their heads simulating the conditions the doctors have to work in back home. Arizona, April and Hunt are shocked.
Shane chases down Derek and brings him coffee. Heather also comes up to Derek and asks if she can help with anything. Shane reports Ethan's mom is awake.
Hunt and Arizona bring the Syrian doctors to a supply closet and tell them to collect supplies they know they have access to back in the Syrian field hospital.
Hunt and Ethan are just outside Ethan's mom room while Derek checks on her. Ethan is worried his mom still won't recognize him, but Hunt encourages him to go in. He does and she calls him over and gives him a big hug, and tells him she loves him.
Derek comes to Meredith and says they need two names a guardian and a backup. Before, it was Lexie first, then Cristina and Hunt. Meredith says now it'll be Cristina and one of Derek's sisters, but Derek says Cristina doesn't want children. Meredith insists Cristina will love Zola and "fetus," but Derek wants her to ask Cristina to make sure.
Callie comes to Jackson to talk up cartilage regeneration lab idea she wants funded. Alex and Webber overhear this and wonder if this is how the funding process works. Alex wants to take his orphan project global. Hunt, Arizona and April come to update the group on the Syrian doctors. They present the box of supplies the Syrian doctors know they have back home, and a list of the procedures they need to be able to teach them to do by using those supplies.
Leah brings Joyce's lab results to Bailey, who says Joyce should be admitted. Leah also tells Bailey that another post-op infection has come in from the same day as Joyce's original procedure and Leah scrubbed in on both. Bailey tells Leah she needs to go through the notes and figure out what went wrong, then tells Stephanie to replace Leah on her service. She says Leah is "having a timeout." Leah is stunned.
Leah admits to Stephanie that she was sick the day those patients came in.
The surgeons are getting creative using the supplies available for complicated procedures.
Arizona reports to Hunt that Ethan's grandmother's flight was canceled so he'll need social services to take him for the night.
Bailey reports to Joyce's husband about Joyce's infection and he feels bad he didn't bring her in sooner.
Jackson and Callie start walking the Syrian doctors through their procedures. One of the Syrians tells Callie he's "trying to figure out how to hold down the patient" while screwing into a leg. She says the patient would be sedated and the doctor says, "Not when you don't have anesthesia." Callie and Jackson are both surprised and realize they have to take a different approach.
April pays a quick visit to Matthew, who tells her he can walk. He tells her that his mother is coming not to take him home but to meet April. She's surprised.
Leah admits her illness to Bailey, who walks out before Leah can even finish her explanation.
Cristina tells Meredith she would "of course" take Zola before having her shipped off to Ohio, "or wherever it is Derek's sisters are from." Meredith quickly realizes that Cristina wouldn't actually want to be Zola's mom, despite how much she loves her. Cristina tells Meredith to write into the will that she'll take Zola and the baby three weeks every year to travel and do fun things. She also reminds Meredith that they "have a mom" her. "You're not dying right now, you know that, right?" Cristina says.
Shane asks for Webber's help with a patient. Shane is supposed to be covering the pit but is also trying to work on Derek's cases. Webber shakes his head as Shane runs off to check on Derek's patient. Webber finds the patient Shane was asking about. The man said he's been dizzy for a couple of days. It's another post-op infection from the day Bailey operated on him.
April is nervous about meeting Matthew's mother. She says she can't lie to her. Cristina and Meredith try to talk April through her mini-crisis while teaching one of the Syrian doctors a procedure. Callie is also showing the other Syrian doctor how to use duct tape in place of a clamp. Callie turns and tells Jackson about how much interest there in her cartilage research. April, meanwhile, is showing the Syrian who'd overheard her relationship crisis conversation a process for blood transfusions in the field and he asks whether she's going to tell Matthew the truth. She's embarrassed that he's had to hear about her silly relationship problems and he says courtship struggles are universal. He tells her how he wooed his wife with a romantic picnic, but then admits they actually went to see "Terminator 3" and makes April laugh.
Meredith tells Derek he was right about Cristina only wanting to be a cool aunt. They talk about other options and then Derek tells her about the lawyer wanting health care directives. Meredith tells her she wants no extraordinary measures taken to keep her alive, and she wants a lethal dose of morphine the moment she forgets where she put her keys. She says when her mother couldn't remember things Meredith had said to her, Meredith thought it was because she didn't care about her and Meredith doesn't want to do that to her kids. Derek says they'll cross that bridge when they come to it.
Bailey and Meredith are operating together and Bailey wants to make sure Meredith is OK after learning about her genome map. Bailey is telling Meredith about how sloppy the interns are especially Leah, who she thinks is the reason they're getting post-op infections. Webber comes in and tells her about the third post-op infection.
Webber tells Bailey she needs to tell Hunt about the third patient, and Meredith then confirms to Webber that Leah was the intern on the third case, too.
April finds one of the Syrian doctors staring silently at a medical supply closet. He tells her "it's quiet we don't have a lot of quiet anymore."
Hunt tells Ethan that he needs to go with the social services woman and Ethan doesn't want to go. He starts to breathe heavily and Hunt tries to assure him he'll be fine.
Meredith comes to Cristina and makes her promise to kill her with a lethal injection of morphine before she starts showing real signs of Alzheimer's.
April comes to see Matthew and tells her about the training they've been doing with the Syrian doctors. She's decided to use this as an analogy and tells Matthew that they can get by without a lot of things they think they need. She then admits that her virginity is what they're getting by without. She tells him she wanted to wait for someone like him but she "screwed up." She says that seeing the Syrian doctors going on despite not having everything made her realize she was being stupid to worry about whether he could get over "this one little thing." He says he's more upset about "the lying" than about the virginity.
Hunt checks with Cristina on Ethan's dad and presses her about why she didn't come to him about Ethan's dad's treatment. Cristina says she hasn't had time for "group think" on the treatment of one patient.
Bailey comes to Hunt and tells her about the post-op infections. He says they need to talk to infection control and track down every patient Bailey and Leah touched that day. He says it's "going to be a nightmare." Leah is worried she's going to be fired.
Meredith comes to Ethan's dad's room and tells Cristina that they might be losing Leah. Cristina doesn't really care. Cristina is more worried about why Hunt has been so hung up on Russell not supervising her. Meredith says Hunt might be right. Cristina wants Meredith to be on her side.
Webber tells Derek about how Shane was abandoning his responsibilities in the pit so he could tend to Derek's patients. Just then, Shane comes up with more info for Derek on one of his patients. Webber walks away and Derek has a quick heart to heart with Shane, telling him that he needs to stop pushing so hard. Derek tells Shane that Heather is working on his cases now and goes on to note that she has an instinct that Shane just doesn't have, but makes up for with a ton of work. Shane asks why it matters how he makes up for it. Derek encourages Shane to find a speciality where he can shine. Shane insists that being passionate about it should be enough, but Derek says it isn't and he has to focus on teaching Heather now. That's when Heather walks up and Shane gives her a glare before walking away.
"Guy can't take a hint, huh?" Heather asks. Derek nods and they go off to check in on Ethan's mom.
Hunt comes to Arizona and asks her to admit Ethan for the night. She thinks he should go with social services, but Hunt wants to avoid that. Arizona insists but Alex jumps in and says Ethan is sick. Hunt goes along with this but Arizona insists Ethan won't be admitted for the night.
Derek brings Meredith his own genome map and his future has a bunch of not-so-great "maybes," which is to say who knows what's going to happen?
Matthew packs to leave the hospital and sees April. He gives her a slight wave and April sees Matthew's mom helping him gather this things.
Webber comes to Jackson and offers to buy him dinner so he can talk to him about a project he wants to work on. Jackson reminds Webber that he, like everyone else, can submit his proposal in writing to the board and then he'll vote like everyone else. Jackson says he might even submit a project of his own. Webber tells Jackson that the hospital is his project, Webber also gives Jackson some sage advice from his days as chief: When someone offers to buy you dinner to talk about something you don't want to hear, you say yes. Jackson finishes the thought for him and Webber says he's "a natural."
One of the Syrian doctors thanks Arizona for all they've taught them, saying that even if they can save just one child, it will all be worth it.
Ethan has been admitted with "short limb syndrome." A nurse is incredulous, but Arizona says they're going to have to do it and Hunt mouths a "thank you" to Arizona as she leaves Ethan's room. Ethan still looks a little bummed because Hunt told the nurse that he (Ethan) is sick. Hunt assures him he's only "fake sick" and Ethan asks if it's real with his parents. Hunt says they are really sick and he's not sure if Ethan's dad is going to wake up.
Cristina sees Hunt in Ethan's room trying to cheer him up and realizes that's why he's been "acting crazy." Meredith tells Cristina that "kids make you crazy." Cristina nods and keeps watching Hunt. Meredith says, "It's kind of cute, though."
Leah pulls Meredith aside and tells her she's not going to get fired, but "it's worse than that." She hands Meredith one of the fancy tablets the doctors are now always carrying around and Meredith looks shocked.
Stephanie comes to Bailey and tells her Joyce is crashing.
Meanwhile, April is sneaking some expensive equipment into bags for one of the Syrian doctors to take. He asks if it's really OK that they're going this, and suggests she talk to Hunt. She tells him, "Don't worry about it. Honesty isn't all it's cracked up to be."
Bailey works to revive Joyce, who flatlines.
The Syrian doctors leave and April hugs one of them goodbye.
Hunt and the other surgeons compare notes about the post-op infections, and discuss how they're going to handle it. Bailey comes in and shakily reveals that Joyce didn't make it. Leah comes in and Bailey gets in her face, angrily telling her they just lost the first post-op infection patient. Meredith, who is standing with Leah, tries to calm Bailey. Meredith tells Bailey that they just checked all the charts and Leah only worked on two of the patients, never having touched the third. Meredith says, "It couldn't have been Leah. The only doctor who touched all three patients was you."
Jackson says they're going to have to get legal involved. Bailey starts to get defensive. Webber says he'll go check on the other patients and Hunt asks Bailey to stay in the conference room. Bailey says she hasn't even told Joyce's husband that she didn't make it, and Hunt nods to Meredith to deliver the news. Hunt insists that Bailey sit down.
Bailey sits down and sees Hunt, Derek, Jackson, Arizona and Callie looking at her as Voiceover Meredith, who has been talking about the importance of "the truth" all night, says, "when you find out what's really going on, you may never recover."
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