Nov 07 2008
Grey’s Anatomy Episode 5-7
TV.com: Rise Up - The Chief tells the residents that one of them will get a solo surgery, and a competitive frenzy ensues; Derek asks Bailey for advice when he feels that Cristina is coming between him and Meredith; Erica discovers a shocking connection between one of her residents and a longtime patient.
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Recap & Review: This week was a hectic week behind the scenes of Grey’s Anatomy. As was reported earlier this week, the actress behind Erica Hahn was let go from Grey’s Anatomy this week, and this episode would be her last. Grey’s Anatomy is reworking some things, including removing the lesbian storyline and changing the sexual orientation of their new cast addition of Melissa George. She will make her entrance sometime during this month’s sweeps period.
This week’s episode focuses on Izzie and the events that happened at the end of season two. They have come back to haunt her. Hahn is working on a case that is important to her. A man who lost out on a heart, and as soon as Meredith reads the chart, Izzie knows this is the same man she stole the heart from for Denny. He is still alive, and he still needs a heart. Izzie and Meredith have been put on Hahn’s detail, just as everyone starts to work their best to get noticed for the first solo surgery by the interns.
While Izzie is moving forward with this case, she even sees Denny walk by the hospital room. She sees him once again in the operating room. When this happens, she leaves the room, and Erica Hahn finds out why Izzie is connected to this patient of hers. Once Hahn learns about the history of Denny and Izzie, she wants someone to pay for the heart that was stolen from her patient. She goes to Weber, but he isn’t willing to drag up the past. He tells Hahn her responsibility is to save her patient. Alex can’t even cheer Izzie up with the prospect of real cadavers to work on to prepare for their solo surgeries. She walks out on him because there are just too many dead people for her.
Somehow they get the patient to go through the procedure a second time. Izzie convinces him, and she takes the lead when they go in again. Throughout the procedure, she sees Denny there watching. They don’t talk, but she does see him repeatedly. The patient is saved, and Izzie continues to see Denny. She eventually sees him at the end of her day in the locker room, and she tells him she needs to move on. We think he is gone after this, but she sees him again and this time he talks to her. A sad and touching moment. Another moment in this episode that stands out to me is one shared between Hunt and Yang. These two are moving forward towards something.
Meredith is in the process of reading her mother’s diaries full of medical cases. This is causing Derek problems because she and Yang call each other to talk about their findings. Derek even asks Mark Sloan to sleep with Yang to distract her. Sloan can’t get Cristina to bite though. She is too focused on her case, while Derek is focused on his as well. He operates on an elderly woman with Bailey. A woman that ends up dying. However, her husband isn’t ready to let her die. He starts CPR himself until Bailey takes over for him. Then Derek takes over until they can let her go.
By the end of the episode, we see Hahn ready to turn in Seattle Grace for the incident over her patient and Denny. However, Callie stands up to Erica, and this causes Hahn to walk off into the night. This will be the last we see of her character, and even though it was said by one Grey’s Anatomy actor this week, it was not an organic end for this character. It felt very open ended, and abrupt to me. The relationship between her and Callie was ended, but we will always have a what if factor. What did you think of this week’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy? Was the exit of Erica Hahn dealt with properly for you? For your daily tv listings, check here .
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